Every age has its contemporary troubadours, its griots, poets, noisemakers, shouters, declamationists with their social and poetic commentary on life, love, death and everything in between. Spoken word is a new variant that is capturing the hearts of many. Babs Gons says about this in her Abraham Kuyper Lecture: "For me, spoken word is a way to connect. With art, but above all with a company, a congregation, a community of like-minded people, of other noisy people."
It is love. It is passion.
It is accessing somewhere where
recognition and acknowledgement
through language
through story
come about.
The lecture is the opening programme of the Déjà VU festival.
Rector Magnificus Jeroen Geurts will present the first copy of the publication Ik draag mijn tong in mijn borst that Writer in Residence Babs Gons wrote especially for VU Amsterdam. Attendees of the lecture will receive the extended version of the lecture as a paper booklet.
