with pascal verbeken through molenbeek - extra walk
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Departure at 14:00 at the Ninoofsepoort. End foreseen at 15:30 at metro station Graaf van Vlaanderen.
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In Brutopia, Pascal Verbeken travels to the Canal Zone and the former working-class municipality of Molenbeek, where militant socialism took root in Brussels and where more recently the utopian dream of Salafism was hatched.
a walk with writers
On three Saturday mornings in July and August, we will walk through the city with writers and discover a number of Brussels neighbourhoods through their perspective. The selected authors have each recently published a book in which the city plays a prominent role. During the hour and a half walk, they will take you to places they have written about, reading out short fragments, comparing past and present, fiction and reality. They will also tell you about the challenges of capturing such a superdiverse city as Brussels on paper.
A rare opportunity to get to know, on foot, a book, an author and a corner of Brussels from a new perspective! Don’t forget your umbrella!
Pascal Verbeken, one of Belgium’s very best literary non-fiction writers, produced in Brutopia a particularly topical, moving and instructive book about the ‘grandiose plans’ that once surfaced in Brussels – and what has come of them today. In one of the chapters, he travels to the Canal Zone and the former working-class municipality of Molenbeek, where militant socialism took root in Brussels and where more recently the utopian dream of Salafism was hatched.
In collaboration with Muntpunt – 1 Stad, 19 Boeken
about the author
Pascal Verbeken (b. 1965) is a writer and scriptwriter. He is the author of, among others, Arm Wallonië, Grand Central Belge, Tranzyt Antwerpia and the script for the TV documentary ‘100 jaar Vooruit’. His books have been shortlisted for the AKO Literature Prize, the ABN Amro Prize for Non-fiction and the VPRO Bon den Uyl Prize for Best Travel Book. Arm Wallonië earned him the M.J. Brusse Prize for Best Journalistic Book. Verbeken’s Brutopia. De dromen van Brussel is an impressive journey through the past and present of Brussels.
in collaboration with the muntpunt – 1 stad, 19boeken
picture pascal verbeken © michiel hendryckx
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