We The People Poetry Night - Poetry in Motion

Elten Kiene is a spoken word artist, presenter, organizer and workshop teacher. He's co-founder of the platform Woorden Worden Zinnen, a performance event for word artists with a positive state of mind. Running like a thread through all his activities, is the uniting of different worlds with word art. With words like apples in settings of silver, it feels like he dances as he speaks. Elten will always leave something that touches, surprises, amazes, and that is valuable. In 2020, he received the Cultuurprijs
Zuid-Holland for his literary events. And in 2022, Elten performed his own play ‘Ik ben nog nooit op dit punt geweest’ (I've never been at this point in time) at Oerol Festival. He loves sharing his knowledge and experience with others, and, not unimportantly: this ‘professional hobbyist’ is always open for a new challenge in one of his many roles.

Gita Buhari is a Dutch-Ghanaian singer songwriter who explores and processes her own emotions through her music influenced by many genres such as hip-hop, neo-soul, uk (electronic) music and shoe-gaze. She aims to vulnerably share personal experiences through her music with her soothing low voice and honest lyrics. Her songs touch upon identity, love and the human psyche. In the midst of the pandemic she released her debut EP ‘Queen of Nothing’. In 2022 she released her second EP called ‘Blood Lily’ where she and her musical partner Arjuna Vlasblom mixed trip-hop, shoe-gaze sounds into electronic soul very elegantly.

J.J Scoop is an expressionist/performance artist who aims to transmute the findings of his inner landscape into his craft as a means for catharsis and communal healing by honoring the traditions of oral storytelling & sonic vibrations through the use of his horn as a saxophonist. Though his sound resonates with the Spiritual/Ambient Jazz and avant garde movement, he encourages people to be perceptive to his artistic integrations of Past Present and Future.

Lin An Phoa is a poet & performer who uses the body as a source of information and inspiration. In physical and critical poetry, she touches on the experiences of existing that leave traces in our bodies and our bloodlines. Her work is an invitation to connect, soften, reflect and feel human. For this performance, she invited dance artist Jiaxin Chen to join the journey. Together, they continuously reach for a shared language and energetic exchange, to tell stories that move.

SIEM's lifelong passion for music began in his childhood home, a houseboat surrounded by lush greenery. It was his father's eclectic record collection that exposed him to a wide range of rhythms and harmonies that nurtured his love for music. SIEM started creating and deejaying at a young age, but his musical vision went beyond simply making people dance physically. He believed that music
had the power to move listeners in profound emotional and spiritual ways too. Ultimately, SIEM's goal is to share his passion for music and move listeners on deeper levels, allowing physical, emotional, and spiritual expression to rise together into an unifying experience