season finale Perdu Summer Party

Perdu’s season finale will be celebrated in style with three fantastic poets and an open mic, with an end-of-season party with DJs and signature cocktails until late at night.

Please note: You can buy separate tickets for the Avond and the party. But if you would like to go to both, you can buy a combination ticket for the same price as an Avond ticket, which will also give you access to the party. In other words: for those attending our Avond, the party is free!

The Avond
from 20:00 (doors open 19:30) until 22:00

Michael Tedja will read from his latest collection Lift (IJzer, Utrecht, 2025), which was published just under three months ago, among others. Last year, Nele Buyst published her second collection CORPS, poreus (het balanseer, Gent, 2024), which was nominated for the Grote Poëzieprijs 2025. We hope that Dean Bowen will give us a taster of his highly anticipated second collection Masc:r (after Bokman, Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas 2018) which will be published by Pluim in January.

After their performances, we will open up the stage for members of the audience. Everyone, from widely celebrated to unpublished poets, can apply to perform on the evening itself, preferably with a work that has not been read on stage before.

Tickets: student €10; regular €12,50. No livestream.

The party
from 22:30

After the Open Mic, the seats will be moved out of the way and the party begins. DJ line-up: MEETSYSTEEM, CHINNAMASTA, SLIMFIT, POLYMITA. We will be serving signature cocktails (!) and the bookshop will be open until deep into the night. Close off this season with Perdu, in company of inspiring poetry and perhaps bring your own work to life too.

Tickets: €4,50 for everyone. Entry included with combination tickets for Avond+party (€10 total for students; €12,50 for everyone else).

bio‘s

Chinnamasta (live). Raziyah Heath is a curious cat, lover girl, hater, curator, DJ and artist working with sound as a site of memory, expression and (self)exploration.

Meetsysteem (live). Meetsysteem is the pseudonym for Amsterdam based singer/songwriter Ricky Cherim. Born and raised in the Dutch capital, Ricky is a composer, producer, and songwriter who emerged out of nowhere on to the Dutch popscene with his lauded debut album Geen Signaal in 2019. He has since then built a reputation as being an eclectic musical artist that doesn’t shy away from showing his most vulnerable, raw side. After the release of his first two albums on Rotterdam label Nous’klaer Audio, he collaborated with Victor De Roo on EP Was het maar eens niet zo’n feest (2022) for Kontakt Group, and in recent years, he has been recording and playing as part of indie dance group comforter2. Cherim’s synthy ambient pop is distinguished by its krauty undertones and heartfelt atmospheres and brings a woozy and charming kind of Nederpop for the modern era. This year he will finally land back into the Meetsysteem moniker with a third full length on Nous’klaer titled Gekleed In Donker, Ze Vroegen Niks.

Slimfit (dj). Slimfit is a queer Chinese, Surinamese and Dutch multidisciplinary artist, currently residing in Amsterdam. Their practice is focused on artistic and philosophical research, sonic performance and (moving) digital imagery. In their deejay-sets they seam differing genres together into a collage of resonating and energetic sounds. From rhythmic harddrum to emotional techno and hardcore, from post-club and GQOM to contemporary reggaeton and Neo Perreo. Their sets transgress cultural boundaries – just like their origin transcends colonially defined borders and nations. Expect a refreshing musical ride that will most definitely allow you to listen more actively and move in collectivity.

Polymita (dj). Polymita is Lorenzo, an editor at Perdu where he develops, alongside Alec Mateo, a through line named Voice as Landscape. Aside from his work here, Lorenzo develops artistic projects about places, people and their interrelations that take diverse forms. Polymita deejays music for others in two moments each year, in Perdu’s eindfeest and during the first morning of every new year. Lorenzo was born in Madrid and raised in Havana, where he developed his relationship with music and dance, which remains the guiding emotion of those two moments of musical selection.