Kitchen’s Lights past performers

Boaz Blume Boaz Blume is a member of the deaf collective of poets Kitchen’s Light and performs his work in Dutch Sign Language. His performances were shown at Bijlmer Boekt (Bijlmerparktheater Amsterdam), the opening of the cultural season 2021 Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg), PoetryInternational 2022 (Lantaren-HetWindows, Rotterdam) and in the short film Imaginings.   Marie van…

Hadas Neuman

Hadas Neuman (Israel/Netherlands, 1984) is (mostly) a Filmmaker who enjoy mixing genres and forms. This is her first performance as a storyteller not hiding behind the camera and she is both thrilled and trephined to find herself standing on stage. She’s a BA graduate majoring in script-writing and directing at Sapir College, school of Audio…

Kitchen’s Light

Ellen van der Werff Ellen grew up in the village of Voorhout. 2,5 years ago, she moved to the nice city of Groningen. After graduating, she started working in healthcare. In addition, this woman enjoys life! She discovered through Kitchen’s Light that she wants to tell much more about deaf as an identity and deaf…

Petra Stienen

Petra Stienen   Petra Stienen is an Arabist, author, strategic advisor, leadership coach and moderator. She works as the delegation leader of the Netherlands to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and senator for the social-liberal party D66.  Petra Stienen studied Arabic and Middle East studies at the universities of Leiden, Cairo…