BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:24345@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Twenty Minutes of Silence DTSTAMP:20260629T220746Z DTSTART:20260710T163000Z DESCRIPTION:Join us on the evening of the 10th July at Boekhandel Perdu for an intimate\nreading with Kate Briggs. In the bookshop we will gather to celebrate the\npublication of Hélène Besette’s Twenty Minutes of Silence\, a second translation\nfrom the French to appear in Fitzcarraldo blue. To mark the occasion\, Kate will\nread from her translation before engaging i n conversation with Mia You. The\ndoors will open at 18.00 for a 18.30 sta rt\, and tickets are available via\nperdu.nl [http://perdu.nl] for 5€.\n\n Kate Briggs is a writer\, editor & translator based in Rotterdam\, where s he\nfounded and co-runs Short Pieces That Move\, a micro-press & pedagogic al project.\nIn 2025\, she published the first English-language translatio n of Hélène\nBessette’s debut novel\, Lili is Crying (Fitzcarraldo Edition s & New Directions)\,\na finalist for the 2026 French-American translation prize. Editorial projects\ninclude A Social Practice of Unknowing Yoursel f in Real Time: Work on\nConversation (co-edited with Laura Haynes followi ng a residency at Glasgow\nSchool of Art (2025)) & Verbs for Practicing To getherness\, with graduates from\nthe Masters in Artistic Research in & th rough Cinema at The Netherlands Film\nAcademy (2026). She is most recently the author of I am not ready\, a pamphlet of\npoems (SPTM\, 2026). She te aches at the Piet Zwart Institute.\n\nMia You is the author of the poetry collections Festival (Belladonna\, 2025) and\nI\, Too\, Dislike It (1913 P ress\, 2016)\, and the chapbooks Rouse the Ruse and the\nRush (Nion Editio ns\, 2023) and Objective Practice (Achiote Press\, 2007). Her\npoems have appeared in Poetry magazine\, the Boston Review\, nY\, De Gids\, Nioques\n and the PEN Poetry Series. She teaches Anglophone literature at the Univer siteit\nUtrecht and in the Critical Studies program at the Sandberg Instit ute. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/twenty-minutes-of-silence GEO:52.3689174;4.896321 LOCATION:Perdu - Kloveniersburgwal 86\, 1012 CZ Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,blues,burgwallen,festivals,film,intimate readi ngs,poetry,poetry reading X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us on the evening of the 10th July at Boekhandel Perdu for an intimate reading with Kate Briggs. In the bookshop we will gather to celebrate the publication of Hélène Besette’s Twent y Minutes of Silence, a second translation from the French to appear in Fitzcarraldo blue. To mark the occasion, Kate will read from her transl ation before engaging in conversation with Mia You. The doors will open at 18.00 for a 18.30 start, and tickets are available via perdu.nl for 5€.

Kate Briggs is a write r, editor & translator based in Rotterdam, where she founded and co-ru ns Short Pieces That Move, a micro-press & pedagogical projec t. In 2025, she published the first English-language translation of Hélène Bessette’s debut novel, Lili is Crying (Fitzcarraldo Editions &a mp; New Directions), a finalist for the 2026 French-American translation p rize. Editorial projects include A Social Practice of Unknowing Yourse lf in Real Time: Work on Conversation (co-edited with Laura Haynes fo llowing a residency at Glasgow School of Art (2025)) & Verbs for P racticing Togetherness, with graduates from the Masters in Artistic R esearch in & through Cinema at The Netherlands Film Academy (2026). Sh e is most recently the author of I am not ready, a pamphlet of po ems (SPTM, 2026). She teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute.

Mia You is the author of the poetry collections Festival (Belladonna, 202 5) and I, Too, Dislike It (1913 Press, 2016), and the chapbooks < em>Rouse the Ruse and the Rush (Nion Editions, 2023) and Objectiv e Practice (Achiote Press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in Poetry m agazine, the Boston Review, nY, De Gids, Nioques and the PEN Poetry Series . She teaches Anglophone literature at the Universiteit Utrecht and in the Critical Studies program at the Sandberg Institute.

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