Poetry Circle Nowhere
Poetry Circle Nowhere is the first Dutch performance poetry company. The collective came forth out of a regular workshop spoken word and since the group was so rich with poetic and other talents it was decided to form a company. We started making performances based on spoken word because there was no such thing in the Netherlands. We also felt the need to create more artistic opportunities for young poetic performers outside of the more institutionalised ways. The main talent of the young performing artists is writing, next to other talents as dance, theatre and visual arts. People can join the Poetry Circle Nowhere by auditioning.
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The Poetry Circle Nowhere met up with South African storyteller and musician Jitsvinger for a workshop storytelling. The young artist from Cape Town underlined the cultural and historic worth of stories for South-Africans and linked this to the use of mythology, numerology and symbolism. He draws comparisons by using old Afrikaner poems and his own poems and showed the importance of these three phenomena for storytellers, rappers and poets of his generation.
