African Book Festival 2021 –
Music to my Ears

21. July 2021Sandra van LenteFestival#ABF2021, African Book Festival, Angola, Berlin, InterKontinental, music, nextread, storytelling

For the first time in a loooong time, I’ve attended a literature event: the African Book Festival in Berlin, run by InterKontinental and curated by Kalaf Epalanga. This year’s festival highlighted the craft of authors and artists from Angola, but the programme also included, among others, authors from Nigeria, South […] Read more

Nikesh Shukla reading from his short story

Talking Music, Social Media and Racism: Nikesh Shukla and Musa Okwonga in Berlin

17. November 2017Sandra van LenteEventsCentre for British Studies, food, memory, Musa Okwonga, music, Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

Sophie Thiele, student of English Literatures at Humboldt University Berlin, gives us a very personal account of this week’s public reading, a cooperation between the Literary Field Kaleidoscope and the Centre for British Studies in Berlin. This Tuesday, the Literary Field Kaleidoscope together with the Centre for British Studies hosted […] Read more

Literary Field Adventskalender:
24 December

24. December 2016Sandra van LenteAdventskalenderAnglo-German exchange, Christmas carols, music

Christmas Carols! For this last post of our Literary Field Adventskalender we chose to share a very special concert: The British Parliamentary Choir and the choir of the Deutsche Bundestag gave a concert in Berlin on 12 December 2016. The first joint concert was held in July 2014 in Westminster […] Read more