“Under Foreign Skies” is a series of portraits of Dutch people abroad doing remarkable things. Two Dutchman who settled in Haiti over a quarter of a century ago are still […]
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“Under Foreign Skies” is a series of portraits of Dutch people abroad doing remarkable things. For the past 15 years, Dutchman Wouter van Oosterhout has lived in Recife, a city […]
“Under Foreign Skies” is a series of portraits of Dutch people abroad doing remarkable things. Nanko van Buuren (1952-2015) was the co-founder of the Brazilian Institute for Innovations in Public […]
In early October 1957, American poet Allen Ginsberg was hanging out in Amsterdam jazz cafes. At the same time in San Francisco, a Federal Court judge ruled that his poem […]
Gary Goldschneider (1939-2019) is a concert pianist and an astrologer and to him the stars and music are intrinsically connected. In this programme, he discusses the music inspired by great […]
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It’s gone through several decades of dictatorial rule followed by civil conflict. Haiti is also considered a classic example of state […]
Pulitzer Prize author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his collection of novellas “Specimen Days.” It is considered part of a wave of post-9/11 fiction. Cunningham talks […]
When Dutch filmmaker Hans Fels first traveled to Haiti a quarter of a century ago, he heard about an opera that had never been staged, and he decided to produce […]