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SUMMARY:Off the Page
DTSTAMP:20260520T213830Z
DTSTART:20260908T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Have you ever been to a public reading by a renowned author\, a
	nd watched them\nhide behind their own words\, avoiding the eyes of their 
	fans? Then they sign\ntheir books\, often without even glancing inside. Fo
	r all they know\, they could\nbe autographing copies of ‘Rich Dad\, Poor D
	ad’. We storytellers are different.\nWe immerse ourselves in our audience\
	, aiming our stories to each and every one\nof them. We don’t just share s
	tories\; we embody them\, using our very presence as\na signature. Yet\, w
	hile our craft is every bit as vital as novelists and poets\,\nthey’re the
	 ones basking in accolades\, media spotlights\, honorary degrees\, and\nHB
	O deals.\n\nTo level the playing field\, storytellers have united to shake
	 up literature.\nImagine Proust’s magnum opus summarized in mere minutes\,
	 Don Quixote sent on a\nwild adventure aboard the Pequod\, or Mary Shelley
	’s Frankenstein with a happy\nending.\n\nThose ‘writer-writers’ might figh
	t back\, but our voices will be louder than\ntheir cease-and-desist letter
	s. Join our rebellion!\n\nDoors open at 19.00\, event starts at 20.00.\nDa
	d is making soup.\nEntrance: Donations.\nLanguage: English
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/off-the-page-9
GEO:52.3759775;4.9275458
LOCATION:Mezrab - Veemkade 576\, 1019 BL Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:amsterdam-oost,books,eastern docklands,stories
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Have you ever been to a public reading by a
	 renowned author, and watched them hide behind their own words, avoiding t
	he eyes of their fans? Then they sign their books, often without even glan
	cing inside. For all they know, they could be autographing copies of ‘Rich
	 Dad, Poor Dad’. We storytellers are different. We immerse ourselves in ou
	r audience, aiming our stories to each and every one of them. We don’t jus
	t share stories; we embody them, using our very presence as a signature. Y
	et, while our craft is every bit as vital as novelists and poets, they’re 
	the ones basking in accolades, media spotlights, honorary degrees, and HBO
	 deals.</p> <p>To level the playing field, storytellers have united to sha
	ke up literature. Imagine Proust’s magnum opus summarized in mere minutes,
	 Don Quixote sent on a wild adventure aboard the Pequod, or Mary Shelley’s
	 Frankenstein with a happy ending.</p> <p>Those ‘writer-writers’ might fig
	ht back, but our voices will be louder than their cease-and-desist letters
	. Join our rebellion!</p> <p>Doors open at 19.00, event starts at 20.00.<b
	r> Dad is making soup.<br> Entrance: Donations.<br> Language: English</p>
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