Name: Stoute Schoenen - an evening with Bart van Loo
Start: 2024-10-23T20:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-10-23T22:00:00+00:00
Location: New Vest

New Vest

After a self-chosen exile to work quietly on the successor to ‘De Bourgondiërs', Bart van Loo storms the stage of Nieuwe Veste this autumn. This time with an exploration of his Francophile passion that led to his first bestseller. Get ready for an evening of music, poetry and literature in one verbal whirlwind of a performance as we can expect from Van Loo.Perhaps he will fervently recite a poem by Baudelaire from memory. Or will he treat us to the spiciest sex scene from French literature? And who knows, he might even sing a snippet of Aznavour! In any case, he serves highlights from his latest book ‘Stoute Schoenen’, in which he embarks on a never-before-attempted time travel to the setting of our Burgundian origin story. Searching for ancient ruins and castles, objects and artworks, travel routes and battlefields, he weaves through the Low Countries.&nbsp;Between Bruges and Bergen op Zoom, Ghent and Gouda, Namur and Nijmegen, Van Loo composes an alternative primal history of our regions, which is more than just the story of Holland and Flanders alone. Organised by the Vrije boekhandel, in collaboration with Nieuwe Veste Photo: Geert van de Velde

After a self-imposed exile to work quietly on the successor to ‘De Bourgondiërs', Bart van Loo storms the stage of Nieuwe Veste this autumn. This time with an exploration of his Francophile passion that led to his first bestseller. Get ready for an evening of music, poetry, and literature in one verbal whirlwind of a performance as we can expect from Van Loo.