Simone Zeefuik
lazeefuik.bsky.social
Simone Zeefuik
@lazeefuik.bsky.social
Writer, reader, tea critic.
Website: lazeefuik.com
Dancehall airhorns for Romana Vrede who won the 2024 Playwright Prize. With this annual prize -which rotates between the Netherlands and Belgium- a jury picks the best, fresh-fresh written script. Language: Dutch. Romana Vrede won with 'Tijd zal ons leren'. A masterpiece indeed. So proud of her!
April 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
For 10+ years @readmyworld.bsky.social -festival has blessed me with so much. There, I attended some of my favourite programs and had the most precious encounters. It's always been home, always been fam. Out of all of that goodness, crossing paths with Maboula Soumahoro is one of the top-top joys.
April 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Perfect for the purples: Mary Sibande. I don't recall where I first saw Sibande's work online. What I vividly remember is seeing her work at "Re(as)sisting Narratives: Exploring The Past To Write The Future", the 2016-exhibition at Amsterdam's Framer Framed curated by Chandra Frank. Complete awe...
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Went to see Barbara Walker's "Being Here" at both the Whitworth in Manchester (early January) and Arnolfini in Bristol (early March), UK. Our traditional custom of calling yourself from certain spaces when you're leaving? Had to do that in Manchester. Walker's work completely drew me in. Fantastic.
March 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Guaranteed joy: Discussing exhibitions with photographer and Kunsthal (Rotterdam) curator Shehera Grot. Excited to have her as our guest for the upcoming GembertheeSessies.

Date, time: Thu. April 10, 19.30h.
Location: Bijlmer Parktheater (Amsterdam, NL)
Language: Dutch.
Illustration: Grant Jurius.
March 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Romana Vrede invited me to write the next play she'll direct for Theater Rotterdam. Some of the images on my moodboards:
1. Manyaku Mashilo's "Grandmothers Teachings-the Night of the Red Moons",
2. Still from Michaela Coel's "I May Destroy You" &
3. Still from Blitz Bazawule's "The Burial of Kojo".
March 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"And the maps of spring always have to be redrawn again, in undared forms." - Sylvia Wynter in her essay “The Pope Must Have Been Drunk, The King Of Castile A Madman: Culture as actuality, and the Caribbean Rethinking Modernity".

Wynter, very much with us. Great company while writing This Script.
March 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM