The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival: Talk Divine Eyes - Talk: Divine Eyes

About the speaker

Emilie van Opstall is a classicist specializing in the art of storytelling from Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In addition to her teaching position at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, she is also a writer and documentary filmmaker.

Every year, ASF organizes engaging lectures with festival artists, scientists, and experts from various fields. This year, the topics are inspired by the theme of the seer: the dark side of the human psyche, foreseeing the future, and the question of what lies behind the veil of death.

About the Amsterdam Storytelling Festival

When the days grow darker and colder, it is time to come together and warm our hearts with stories. This year, The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival invites you to meet the Seer - not as a fortune teller, but as someone who hears truth. Blind to appearances and distractions, the Seer notices what others overlook and sees what remains invisible to ordinary eyes.

Through performances, lectures, and workshops, the festival offers space for stories that dare to explore the uncomfortable, the invisible, and the unknown. From inner worlds to the boundaries of life and death, from visions to imagination... unspoken truths, looming disasters, secrets behind masks. The Seer knows. Who dares to listen?