A season of Encounters

How can béarnaise sauce teach us something about sexual desires? Berlin-based performer and creator Sophie Guisset seeks to find out for us. With 'Vanilla,' she explores the relationship between pleasure, sexual desire, and food.

Together with performers Enis Turan and Cee Füllemann, Guisset navigates through different rooms filled with sensual experiences. Personal and imaginary stories come to life with proteins - or is it lubricant? - apple pies, and sauces that arouse the performers. Along with a range of fetishes and stories, they ignite the imagination.

'Vanilla' looks beyond the boundaries of what we consider "normal" sexual behavior. With remarkable openness and playfulness, sexuality and fetishism are brought out of the shadows.

An upbeat spectacle which is slowly breaking apart, 'Signal to Noise' summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations, scenery changes and unexpected weather reports. AI voices are enlisted to perform the text – their unreal chatter and patter mixing interior monologues, unfinished jokes and off-topic interviews. It all sounds right, more or less human, more or less real. What could go wrong?

The six performers lip-sync all the voices, sometimes carefully, sometimes with unhelpful abandon, bringing life to these disembodied, never-bodied speakers. In the process they summon a strange and compelling world where the question of what’s human and what’s not, what’s real life and what’s just pretending is never far away.

Etchells' musical score mixes everything from filmic atmospheres to noise, xylophones to slowed classical strings, beats, trumpets, grunge guitars, and birdsong, but as ever with the company, the performers are the heart of the work - animating it with the energy and inventiveness that Forced Entertainment have made their calling card.

Created as the group celebrate their 40th Birthday, the show is a powerful mix of performance magic and off-hand deconstruction, a simple idea unfolded to open a unique space for the thoughts, laughter and reflections of spectators.

In 'Nomadics', eight dancers explore how to lend a voice to nature. It is the place par excellence to unwind, but what do we give back? The performers depict how nature looks back at man and suffers their footsteps. They embody how she reclaims her place and retaliates. This is done from an inadequate - because human - but also infectious and whimsical imagination. 

'Nomadics' allows dancers to become a (passing) raging landscape. Sometimes they are tree, sometimes they are grass. Sometimes they are rock or human. This constant transformation results in beauty as well as friction: there is tension in the air. But as physics shows us: friction eventually leads to warmth, deceleration or change. Or again: through the struggle, the dancers in Nomadics seek connection, both with nature and with each other.    

In the process, music is in strong symbiosis with dance, as always at Voetvolk. Maarten Van Cauwenberghe has recorded sounds during walks - footsteps, water, wind in the trees, highways... – and has turned them into environmental techno.

In the solo performance 'Mémé,' performer Sarah Vanhee summons the spirits of her two deceased grandmothers. Through their life stories and with guest appearances by puppets, spirits, and a child, she paints a picture of a society that drastically changed over a hundred years in terms of women's emancipation.

Like many women of their time, Vanhee's grandmothers worked for the majority of their lives. They had to both bear and raise children while working in the fields. They were always in service to others. How does today's world relate to these forgotten women of the past and to the earth they cultivated? And how do we see them reflected in today's forgotten women, whose labor is still exploited?

Mémé is an ode to these 'invisible' women and to life itself. Vanhee brings her grandmothers back to life to reconnect, restore, and then bid farewell again, in a time without boundaries.

After having spent a lifetime being an inspiration to others, Dan Daw is finally seizing the moment to inspire himself.

Taking ownership of the beautiful mess that encompasses all that he is, Dan lets go of who he once was to make room for who he wants to be.

Dan is joined in an intimate evening of play by performer and collaborator Christopher Owen (Joe Moran, Scottish Dance Theatre) where Dan takes back the power by being dominated on his own terms.

In 2018, Meg Stuart was honored with the Golden Lion for 'Lifetime Achievement' at the Venice Biennale. She was recognized for her innovative work in dance and theater, weaving together various disciplines. With 'GLITCH WITCH,' she explores new boundaries, this time with Dance On Ensemble dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi and Japanese sound artist Mieko Suzuki.

In this show, the three of them meet in a sparklingly desolate, enigmatically burned-out landscape. Moving within and beyond the personal histories imprinted on their bodies, they glide and glitch between different possible worlds—between above and below, between the before and after of every passing moment.

While trying to break the spell of personal and ancestral memories that keep them apart, they search for a not-yet-existent shared language. In their quest, a pulsating progression of shimmering, mutable dances unfolds. Within this series of overlapping movement patterns, the three women gradually uncover a shared (witch)craft: a resonant force of mutual transformations and a vulnerable ritual of solidarity that elevates them above their differences.

Glitches emerge at the volatile points of their encounters, becoming a growing vocabulary of resistance and surrender, a collective chant that disrupts all enchantments.

This performance was created as part of a collaboration between Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods and the Berlin-based Dance On Ensemble, which works with dancers over the age of 40. Within their Encounters series, the company is launching new performances where the choreographer is visible as a dancer, engaging with a dancer from the Ensemble.

In 'O amor natural', choreographer Andrew Graham explores the complexity of touch in human relationships where care, romance, and desire come together. For people with disabilities, touch is often linked to medical care, with other needs frequently ignored.

The concept of consent raises many questions. How do we know what we do and do not want? And how do we communicate this? On what basis can we consent to something we do not yet know? Graham delves into the depth of connection and consent, moving beyond a simple yes or no. Consent is explored in all its non-verbal richness. Whispers, body temperature, breathing, gaze, and speed of movement weave a web of intimacy.

Graham describes 'O amor natural' as "a choreography of non-verbal haikus, where touch is the key to exploring trust between bodies, like the tango that connects two hearts." It invites a deeper understanding of human connection.

In 'MadDoG,' dancer and choreographer Lydia McGlinchey pays homage to the aesthetics of the knot, Gothic, horror, and heavy metal. Inspired by centuries-old lace techniques, she transforms the theater into an impressive artwork where the scenography forms the core, like a 'knot' connecting various elements and issues.

'MadDoG' does not label darkness as evil but rather superficiality and challenges us to think further. The title of the performance refers to the madness of contemporary images of mass murders, advertisements from electronics stores, and photos of photoshopped women on yachts. High and low culture are intertwined. In this experience of closely connected disturbing contradictions, McGlinchey sees knotting as a relevant aesthetic concern. In 'MadDoG,' the knot symbolizes the impossibility of purity.

Three performers and a musician take center stage, combining spoken word, dance, and music.

Mette Ingvartsen, resident artist at VIERNULVIER, has been collaborating with dancer Manon Santkin for 20 years. Especially for her, Ingvartsen wrote the solo 'RUSH,' a tribute to their long, intense collaboration and to performance itself.

Manon Santkin presents a retelling of previous performances she created with Ingvartsen. In a tumultuous 'rush,' highlights are brought back to life, and new forms emerge. Within the framework of a larger body of work, Santkin tells her own story, and her body undergoes a chameleon-like transformation. A tidal wave of energy emerges, with the joy of performing radiating from it.

Theatre maker and performer Simon Baetens was a co-founder of the Ghent drag collective House Of Lux. With 'I'm Not Done,' he presents an intense, playful performance about self-projection, loneliness, and being on the road. For the first time, his drag alter ego 'Electra' leaves the club and appears on stage.

Electra takes the audience on a musical journey through transformative virtual and emotional landscapes. Through a combination of drag, music, video, and text, a dream-like world is created where the boundaries between technology and reality are no longer distinguishable.

'I'm Not Done' is a performance like a doomscroll, where pop music guides you through the labyrinth of the internet. It pays homage to the shameless theatricality of pop concerts and the poetry of song lyrics. Can exuberance and depth go hand in hand?

Ze verdwijnen en verschijnen door deuren die op de een of andere manier van muren zijn gescheiden. Ze haasten zich om deel uit te maken van een toneelstuk dat ofwel nog niet is begonnen ofwel al decennia geleden is afgelopen. Ze zijgen neer op de sofa en huilen. Ze veren woedend recht uit hun leunstoel en zakken vervolgens als amnesielijders weer in elkaar. De piano speelt hetzelfde deuntje steeds opnieuw, de melodie vermalend en verwringend.

Met Tim Etchells voegt NTGent een grote naam toe aan de lijst (inter)nationale makers die een productie creëren voor de reeks Histoire(s) du Théâtre. Als titel van zijn bijdrage kiest Etchells, artistiek leider van het vermaarde collectief Forced Entertainment, een zinsnede uit Shakespeares Macbeth: ‘How goes the world’.

The ancient Greeks saw an art in predicting and recognizing omens such as the flight of birds, the position of trees, the wandering of bees. They called this Mantikê tékhnê. Just like back then, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe's performance 'Mantike Bloom Boom' seeks the signs necessary for restoration and urgent renewal of our thinking about the world.

'Mantike Bloom Boom' starts from the electrically charged atmosphere of an abandoned landscape. The moment when everything seems to be going to ruin - Boom! - and suddenly light appears on the horizon - Bloom! Like the prelude to a storm, when the cows gather under a tree, the sky darkens, and the first breeze picks up. What can a person still undertake in such a landscape?

Like a whirlwind, actress Marjan De Schutter storms onto the stage in various forms. There is only one last link between dying bees and our fate. 'Mantike Bloom Boom' is a hopeful warning with predictions and vivid explosions. The end time is narrowly avoided.

Moor Mother

Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother is a poet, artist, musician and activist operating out of Philadelphia. Her music is an atmospheric patchwork of spoken word, electronics and instrumentation, which Sun Ra enjoys in the afro-futuristic afterlife. Her lyrics are activist and philosophical commentaries on history, consciousness, identity and politics. 

Moor Mother has been active since 2012 and is has recently released her ninth full-length album, 'The Great Bailout'. A record on which she sketches some uncomfortable historical scenes. The title refers to the astronomical amount Britain paid to slave owners in 1835 is compensation of slavery being abolished. A sum that punched such a hole in the British treasury that it wasn't fully paid back until 2015. With tax money, of course.

Sun Ra Arkestra

He was one of the key figures in the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s, along with artists such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Albert Ayler. From the mid-1950s, Sun Ra led The Arkestra (an intentional re-spelling of ‘orchestra’), an ensemble with an ever-changing line-up and name. His music touched on almost the entire history of jazz, from ragtime to swing music, from bebop to free jazz. He also pioneered electronic music, space music and free improvisation, and was one of the first musicians, regardless of genre, to make extensive use of electronic keyboards.

After his death, the Akrestra was led by tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and then alto saxophonist Marshall Allen and saxophonist Knoel Scott.

During this tour, they will be joined by percussionist Tlacael Esparza, who has joined as a permanent member. Fans can look forward to new work. Tickets go on sale starting Friday, May 17 at 10 a.m.

In the summer of 2011, American guitarist Dave Harrington was part of Nicolás Jaar's live band that toured Europe and Australia in support of his breakthrough debut album "Space Is Only Noise. During that tour, both experimented every spare moment to create a new palette of sounds. The result? A dark and stealthy mix of electronica and psychedelic-tinged rock on a bed of Jaar's haunting vocals from which their self-titled EP sprouted in 2011. They also miraculously remixed Daft Punk's full-length album 'Random Access Memories' which was listened to millions of times: "The project transcends the standard remix record and the duo is widely praised for their ability to balance originality and playfulness" (Focus Knack).

Then in 2013 they released their debut album "Psychic," preceded by the single "Golden Arrow. The record received a 9.0 from Pitchfork and the New York Times called it "the soundtrack to a lost David Lynch sci-fi movie."

The long-awaited second album, "Spiral," followed in 2021, preceded by singles "Liberty Bell," "The Limit" and "Lawmaker. After eight years, DARKSIDE announced their return to European stages, with headlining shows in Paris, Toulouse, Manchester and London.

These days, Berre sells out big venues, but two years ago, Berre's live music was still mainly heard in public. He started as a street musician and shared his covers on TikTok, including from his parents' garage. These videos quickly went viral, making his distinctive voice literally go around the world. His debut single "Say My Name" became an instant success, making it to full-fledged artist overnight. Streams for his subsequent singles, including "Better Off Alone", "Thrill Of It All" and "Kissing Strangers" also ran into the millions.

Those who came too late for tickets to the sold-out shows at AB and Pukkelpop know what done: tickets go on sale on Wednesday 24 April at 11am....

Lander & Adriaan is a Belgian duo with drummer Lander Gyselinck (Stuff.,Beraadgeslagen,LABtrio) and Adriaan Van de Velde (Pomrad, Mauro Pawlowski, J. Bernardt). Their common fondness for slick digital synths and 90s underground dance music genres brought them together to submerge in symbiotic jams during the very first lockdown in 2020. After a bunch of very successful under-the-radar concerts, they recorded an album in the summer of 2021 that was released in the spring of 2022. Their gently disturbed mashup of 90s dance music genres like Chicago juke, Detroit techno, UK-Funky, Classic rave with corny jazz fusion and mundane jazz improv brings you to a pleasantly disturbed realm of unguilty pleasures, sheer weirdness and pure excitement. 

‘Post Nudism Rave’ they call it. Others call it ‘free rave’, ’confusi-trance’ and ’sophisti-rave’. A  shiny 3D pixie fantasyland juxtaposed with a gritty dark smokey underworld of slimy aliens and smelly trolls. You’ll be experiencing the quantum thrills of interplanetary ambient drones, sweet drumming frenzy, pulpy saccharine melodies, mushy basslines, all gently weaved into raw sweat-drippy dance music. Get (half) nude and dance!

For this show we put this inimitable duo on a stage in the middle of our round club, surrounded by audience and the sound system. And if that's not enough, tickets for Lander & Adriaan also give access to the nighlife event back-to-back with the show... You know what to do!

With over 800 concerts around the world and appearances at the most prestigious extreme music festivals (Hellfest, Roskilde, Copenhell, Roadburn,...) 1 EP and 5 albums, CELESTE can be considered one of the most important bands of the famous French Avant Garde black metal scene.

CELESTE brings a mix of Sludge / Post-hardcore with hints of Black Metal and doom. 

Total darkness in atmosphere, and you can take that quite literally. CELESTE's live shows are unique because the band plays in total darkness, with only a few red headlights (and once troboscope).

Heavy in all aspects...

Formed in the late 90s by Poia and Urlo, UFOMAMMUT blends heavy riffs with psychedelic nuances, crafting a cosmic sound. Their latest album, Fenice, symbolizes rebirth, featuring new drummer Levre. Departing from cosmic themes, Fenice offers an introspective journey through six interconnected facets. Synths and experimental vocals play a central role, showcasing the band's evolution. Each track on Fenice feels inevitable, reflecting UFOMAMMUT's mastery of sonic exploration. Poia and Urlo, also founders of Malleus and Supernatural Cat label, infuse Fenice with a rejuvenated essence, delivering gargantuan riffs and immersive sonic landscapes.

Scottish with Pakistani-Norwegian roots Nadine Shah is often described - both in voice and mystique - as a mix of PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. She debuted in 2012 with two EPs featuring her brooding, atmospheric blend of midnight loner pop and indie rock, followed by the album "Love Your Dum and Mad" in 2013.

On her third (Mercury Prize-nominated) 2017 album, 'Holiday Destination,' she confronted right-wing nationalism and the conservative government around the ongoing plight of refugees. Shah is no stranger to speaking out for causes she strongly believes in, be it promoting mental health awareness or women's rights.

Her latest album is called "Filthy Underneath" and chronicles a period of unprecedented turbulence in Nadine Shah's life and has a decidedly vibrant and powerful drive. She lets the demons she has conquered during her thirty-seven years of life pass before her with a balletic beauty. Nadine co-wrote the music with partner in crime and producer Ben Hillier, focusing on melody and movement.

MERIDIAN BROTHERS, hailing from Bogotá - Colombia, is a contemporary “neotropicalist” group formed in 1998 from the interests of Eblis Álvarez (composer and multi-instrumentalist) as a musical laboratory for a small audience and at the time distributed in cassette format. From 2007 the project became a live act formed by María Valencia (wind instruments, percussion and keyboards), Eblis Álvarez (vocals, guitar and direction), Mauricio Ramírez who joined the band in 2016, replacing Damián Ponce (Drums), Alejandro Forero (keyboards), César Quevedo (bass) and in sound engineering, Alejandro Araujo (replacing Juan Camilo Montañéz). 

Maan is one of the biggest stars in the Dutch pop firmament. Since 2016, she has appeared on the billboards of major festivals such as Pinkpop, Paaspop and Zwarte Cross. She played sold-out club tours and, as icing on the cake, she performed her own show in a sold-out Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam.

Her latest album, 2022's 'Leven' (Dutch for 'life') features a lot of very personal songs that demonstrate musical and personal growth over her early work. It also features collaborations with such big names as De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig, Fresku and Goldband. Singles 'Blijven Slapen' and 'Stiekem' each count more than 70 million(!) streams on Spotify, the latter even becoming the most streamed song in the Netherlands in 2023. 

From the opening seconds of 'Life Is', it’s clear that 'Here in the Pitch' is a very different kind of album from Jessica Pratt. The respected Los Angeles artist has become one of the most singular and distinctive songwriters of her generation, largely through the bewitching sound of her acoustic guitar and vocals: a mystical, elusive blend that conjures deep emotional responses from her audience.

The New York-based band DIIV is undoubtedly one of the most iconic indie rock bands of the past decade. Led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Zachary Cole Smith, the band expertly blends shoegaze, dreampop, and noise rock into delightful, timeless tracks.

Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar is considered one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Tuareg music. His work is a furious combination of desert blues, hard guitars, field recordings, drum rhythms, and poetic meditations on love, religion, and women's rights, along with engaged statements on inequality and political themes in turbulent West Africa. Moctar is known for his virtuosic guitar playing and innovative sound, pushing the boundaries of Tuareg music. This has earned him the status of one of the most respected guitarists in the world.

Compact Disk Dummies had from their very beginning the intention to get their audience on the dance floor, and that remains a mantra set in stone even with new album "The Signal." Forward singles "There's No Sex Without You" and "fomo" already suggested the best and struck a chord with radio and audiences alike, who came out in droves to cheer the band on the festival fields of Werchter and Pukkelpop during the summer of 2023.

"The Signal" is the third full-length album after "Silver Souls" (2016) and "Neon Fever Dream" (2020), which appeared during a Corona-short-lived period that the brothers were still able to bend a bit to their will thanks to inventive online campaigns. There was no sitting still in the meantime. In February 2023, they gave another crazy party at Vooruit, dropped a docu on VRTMAX, followed later that year by another sold-out concert in the main hall of Ancienne Belgique. But looking backwards for long is not for the Dummies. As one of Belgium's most compelling live bands, they are ready to play two sold-out Roma's in Antwerp, a series of Dutch clubs and your festival summer in 2024 ́to introduce their brand new album. The signal cannot be ignored: time to bang!

The albums of The Bony King of Nowhere always emerge from an urgent "now" in Bram Vanparys' life. He then pours these into a collection of songs, just as his great examples Nick Cave, Mark Hollis and PJ Harvey do.

In 2018, he released 'Silent Days,' an album that was showered with starred reviews and awarded an MIA. This success was followed by the corona period and a creative drought that would last two years, resulting in persistent self-doubt. A difficult point in the career of an artist who never wants to repeat himself. The need to reinvent himself after the success of 'Silent Days' was greater than ever, but the road to a new sound was long and at times grueling. The result: 'Everybody Knows,' still the sixth album from The Bony King of Nowhere.

Corruption. Paranoia. Blackmail. A circle of violence and retaliation. A tangle of deceit and fear. The inescapable tentacles of the underworld. Bloody debts settled. Traitors betrayed. Revenge calls, when the law isn't enough....

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats are one of the most eccentric bands of the post-Sabbathian realm. With a sound variously borrowed from classic doom, psychedelia, garage rock, underground, and occult heavyness. Proof of this is their latest record NELL' ORA BLU. A particularly cinematic record, inspired in part by the dark magic of the Italian Giallo film movement, but also drawn directly from Kevin Starrs' own grimy and fearless imagination. An entirely unique listening experience that thumps and screams with gruesome intentions.

Op dinsdag 29 oktober vergezellen Ibe Rossel, Angelo Tijssens en Arno Van Vlierberghe presentator Ruth Joos. Samen bespreken ze drie boeken, zorgvuldig geselecteerd door onze redactie.

Als Vooruitlezer mogen we deze maand Lize Spit verwelkomen, die een fragment zal lezen uit haar langverwachte nieuwe boek: 'Autobiografie van mijn lichaam'. Verder wordt de avond muzikaal opgeluisterd en tijdens de tombola maak je bovendien kans om één van de besproken titels te winnen.

In haar nieuwe boek 'Klassenjustitie. Hoe blind is Vrouwe Justitia?' houdt vast panellid Yasmien Naciri ons juridisch systeem tegen het licht. In haar zoektocht naar rechtszekerheid en gelijke rechten behandelt ze misconcepties, mythes en reële uitdagingen in ons Belgisch rechtssysteem.

Hoe groot zijn de blinde vlekken van rechters en advocaten? In hoeverre is er sprake van een gebrek aan gelijke kansen en toegang tot het recht? Gedragen media zich steeds vaker als rechter? Hoe beïnvloeden zij het oordeel en de perceptie rond rechtszaken? Het zijn slechts enkele thema’s die in dit boek worden besproken. Complex, uitdagend en vooral een aanzet tot kritische reflecties over de fundamenten van onze liberale democratie. Het boek werpt een blik op de onbewuste vooroordelen, systematische ongelijkheid en het gevoel van (on)rechtvaardigheid in onze samenleving. Geen enkel taboe blijft onbesproken en dat doet Naciri door in gesprek te gaan met mensen die burgers verdedigen, oordelen vellen en straffen bepalen.

Naar aanleiding van het boek gaan we in De Arena in gesprek met ons vaste panel, deze keer bijgestaan door Vlaams minister van Onderwijs, Justitie en Werk Zuhal Demir (tbc) en afdelingsvoorzitter van de rechtbank van eerste aanleg Oost-Vlaanderen – afdeling Gent Hans De Waele. 

Het vast panel zijn internationaal strafpleiter Walter Van Steenbrugge en ondernemer Yasmien Naciri. De gesprekken worden gemodereerd door Lisbeth Imbo, het publiek mag (be)oordelen.

Welkom in DE ARENA!

‘Battle of the Titans’ promises an epic evening of friendly battles between Belgian spoken word artists. We give a stage to both the big names of the genre and a new generation that is getting louder and sharper. 

With artists such as Esohe Weyden, Hind Eljadid, Bekvegter, Lisette Ma Neza, Samira Saleh, Soukaïna Bennani, Mon, Seckou Ouologem, Manu Moreau, Siebranding, Giovanni Baudonck, Droge P and Yannick Moyson, the most polished voices of the moment will be on stage.

Uitgelezen, het boekenprogramma van Behoud de Begeerte en VIERNULVIER, is klaar voor een nieuw seizoen. Presentator Ruth Joos wordt vergezeld door bekende gezichten als Ibe Rossel, Melissa Giardina en Angelo Tijssens. En we verwelkomen nieuwe panelleden, allemaal verbonden door een gedeelde liefde voor boeken.

De vertrouwde rubrieken blijven behouden: drie boeken op tafel zorgvuldig geselecteerd door onze redactie, gevolgd door een persoonlijke tip van elke gast aan tafel. Elke avond wordt opgeluisterd met een muzikaal intermezzo. En we krijgen telkens bezoek van de Vooruitlezer, een auteur die een voorproefje geeft uit een nog niet gepubliceerd boek. Allemaal ingrediënten die van Uitgelezen een waar genot maken voor lezers en boekenliefhebbers, met aandacht voor fictie, non-fictie en andere genres. Tijdens de tombola maak je bovendien kans om één van de besproken titels te winnen.

Heb je al een kijkje genomen op de website uitgelezen.live? Daar vind je niet alleen meer informatie over de komende edities van het programma, maar ook geluidsopnames van de signalementen en fragmenten van de ‘Vooruitlezers’

The country's best slammers will compete in the Belgian Poetry Slam 2024 Championship!

On Saturday 7 December, poets, rappers and spoken-word artists deal each other merciless verbal uppercuts. Each slammer will get three minutes to knock out the expert jury with his/her/their word art. A Dutch-speaking and a French-speaking host lead the competition in the right direction. In between rounds, the DJ chases solid beats through the hall. Come and enjoy this verbal joust live!

Uitgelezen, het boekenprogramma van Behoud de Begeerte en VIERNULVIER, is klaar voor een nieuw seizoen. Presentator Ruth Joos wordt vergezeld door bekende gezichten als Ibe Rossel, Melissa Giardina en Angelo Tijssens. En we verwelkomen nieuwe panelleden, allemaal verbonden door een gedeelde liefde voor boeken.

De vertrouwde rubrieken blijven behouden: drie boeken op tafel zorgvuldig geselecteerd door onze redactie, gevolgd door een persoonlijke tip van elke gast aan tafel. Elke avond wordt opgeluisterd met een muzikaal intermezzo. En we krijgen telkens bezoek van de Vooruitlezer, een auteur die een voorproefje geeft uit een nog niet gepubliceerd boek. Allemaal ingrediënten die van Uitgelezen een waar genot maken voor lezers en boekenliefhebbers, met aandacht voor fictie, non-fictie en andere genres. Tijdens de tombola maak je bovendien kans om één van de besproken titels te winnen.

Heb je al een kijkje genomen op de website uitgelezen.live? Daar vind je niet alleen meer informatie over de komende edities van het programma, maar ook geluidsopnames van de signalementen en fragmenten van de ‘Vooruitlezers’