Scherpdenkers: Rasit Elibol

Sharp Thinkers: stories and music that make you think. Today with Rasit Elibol, writer and editor of De Groene Amsterdammer, and Het Muziek. They present an evening about opportunities and how decisive your cradle is for your future life. If Geography Is Your Fate is about what matters where you are born, in which city you grow up, in which neighborhood, on which street, and in which house on that street.

Scherpdenkers: Rasit Elibol

Dates

Thu 8 Apr20:15 - 21:35

Location

Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Concertgebouwplein 10, 1071 LN Amsterdam

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Rasit Elibol

Rasit Elibol (1984) is a writer and editor at De Groene Amsterdammer . He has received various awards for his work, including the prestigious European Press Prize (runner-up), the VPRO Bagagedrager, and the Haagse Persprijs. Following his essay on growing up in poverty, he was named a Master Storyteller by the Foundation for Narrative Journalism. Elibol is the compiler of De nieuwe kolonie leeslijst .

If geography is your destiny

If geography is your destiny, this is an evening about opportunities and how decisive your cradle is for your future life. About what difference it makes where you are born, in which city you grow up, in which neighborhood, on which street, and in which house on that street. It determines not only your view, but also your way out. Whether you grow up in poverty or have to migrate. Roads run differently, walls stand higher, distances feel greater or smaller, depending on where you start.