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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

‘Daybreak in Gaza’, brilliant collection of stories of life and culture in Gaza, with the voices if great poets and artists next to business keepers, cooks and students 🍉 #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

“There are rivers in the sky” by Elif Shafak 💙 Brilliant interweaving of stories; ancients stories, stories about water, stories about how the ancient stories came to us and devastating stories about Mesopotamia in the 21st century 💙 #booksky 💙📚 @elifshafak.bsky.social

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

“The world after Gaza” by Pankaj Mishra! Brilliant analysis and very clarifying perspectives on our recent (violent) histories and how they have been distorted to enable new forms of oppression. 🍉 #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

All the disillusions and disenchantments of the last 22 months channeled in one book. @sinancankaya.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Women, art and the spirit world 💫 #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“After resistance comes (r)evolution”, beautiful writing by Clarice Gargard ✨ On the importance of hope, love and grief in activism. Filled with poetic ideas, like this one “Grief is just a form of love that doesn’t know where it belongs”. #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

“How to disappear” Meditations on presence and invisibility by Akiko Busch, much needed thinking on our time! #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Very proud to be one of the faces of this years Holland Festival! #hollandfestival

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

‘Ring of our Time’ - a new opera about the global extraction of natural resources, international solidarity and cultural heritage as a way of healing. Worldpremiere 24June - Holland Festival - A World Opera Lab production #greensky www.hollandfestival.nl/nl/ring-of-o...

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Bookclub 📚 Next week on Sunday the 18th of May at 15:00. OBA Amsterdam with the Holland Festival. I will be reading and talking about some of my favorite stories of Eduardo Galeano from this brilliant book 📚 #booksky 📚💙

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Oroppa by Safae el Khannoussi ❤️ Stories of entangled lives at the fringes of Amsterdam ❤️ 💙📚 #booksky

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Tokio Ueno Station By Yu Miri - saddest book I read in a very long time 🌫️ #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto; gentle read about grief, community and the love for one’s neighborhood 🌺 #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Deep-dive into the colonial origins of the ecological crisis with Shivant Jhagroe; towards a society rooted in eco justice 🌱 💙📚 #booksky #greensky #shivantjhagroe #ecojustice

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Ring of our Time 〰️ a new opera about the global extraction of natural resources 〰️ with artists from Iraq, Nigeria, Indonesia and Mexico 〰️ world-premiere 24 June at Holland Festival 〰️ a World Opera Lab production #greensky 💚 #worldoperalab #hollandfestival

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Ring of our Time - voices from a world in danger - official trailer

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Amitav’s Ghosh looks at our “time of monsters” with ruthless yet compassionate eyes. #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A slow apocalypse in ‘The black window’ by Micha Hamel ⬛️ #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Binge-read this and now I have a rom-com hangover 💙📚 #booksky

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Dreaming of transformative justice with “We will not cancel us” by Adrienne Maree Brown. #booksky 💙📚 @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social 💕

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The word is out! ‘Ring of our Time’ will have its worldpremiere at the Holland Festival on the 24th of June. Forty artists from four continents work together in a new opera that gives voice to a world in danger. #greensky #worldoperalab 🌱

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Binge-reading Octavia Butler’s ‘Lilith’s Brood’ trilogy - she glues you to the story and shake you to the core, and before you know it you are somehow rooting for aliens that want to take human genes. Miraculous writing! #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Octavia Butler - Adulthood Rites - the second part of the Liliths Brood trilogy. Butler is a master in constantly shifting the moral frame of her stories, keeping the readers questioning their own beliefs 💙 #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Sujuy Ja’ - Agua Sagrada performance last month in the Mayan village Maní with the amazing Socorro Loeza Flores. In 1562 the Spanish burned Mayan books in the convent of Maní, destroying a lot of indigenous knowledge. In 2009, finally, the Franciscan brothers of the convent apologized.

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

bell hooks ❤️ “I looked for love and I found freedom (..) I realized that the proper place for a love in a women’s life was not relational love as the source but love generated in the quest for self-realization” #booksky 💙📚 #feminism

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“Children of the days” No one writes like Eduardo Galeano. Every story is filled to the brim with violence and injustice, yet he continues to look at history, and how we humans move inside it, with kind and tender eyes. #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

‘Anat’ our cover of the beautiful song by Palestinian artist-activist Rim Banna, just released. Anat is the ancient goddess of justice and harmony. May her spirit return to the world. Recorded live in Sulaymaniyeh, sung by Sabra El Bahri Khatri #worldoperalab youtu.be/NQU-q67j7_c?...

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Sujuy Ja’ - Agua Sagrada in Xocen, performed under sacred ceiba-trees. There is a Maya story of a sacred thread that holds the world together, with its cultures and people. The thread was broken in colonial times, but the pieces are still kept, waiting for us to re-unite them 🪡 #greensky

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Visionary words on the meat-industry from 1998: “We live in a perpetual state of repressed panic, paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes proactive, a political statement.” #booksky 💙📚

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Ancient stories for modern times. The cenote of Mani in the Yucatán. According to Mayan prophecies the last water of the world will be kept here, guarded by a goddess. To receive a cup of water, those guilty of the water-shortage will need to sacrifice their children 💧 #greensky

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Only science-fiction makes sense these days.. Brilliant visions of the future from Octavia Butler in ‘Dawn’ 💛 #booksky 📚💙

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Moving my reading challenge to @thestorygraph.com 📚 It’s very easy to import your book-lists and challenges from Goodreads! Hope to see you there 💛 you can find me on lamiramira #booksky

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

“The pursuit of art, then, by artist or audience, is the pursuit of liberty. If you accept that, you see at once why truly serious people reject and mistrust the arts, labelling them as 'escapism” Ursula le Guin - The word for world is forest. #booksky

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Breathtaking book: Metazoa by Peter Godfried Smith on animal minds and the birth of consciousness. “We need to continually avoid falling into the habit of thinking that all forms of experience must be human-like in various ways” #booksky

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Workshop last week ‘El arte escénica de la ópera’ at Teatro La Rendija in Merida last week. The newspaper @diariodeyucatan.bsky.social wrote a beautiful article - you can read it here www.yucatan.com.mx/imagen/2025/...

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Karla Cornell Villavicencio wrote this beautiful book during the first Trump presidency, documenting the lives of ordinary undocumented Americans, who do vital work in the American society #booksky

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

‘The art of Noise’ - Peter Brook insightful essay on opera.

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Tomorrow! El arte escénico de la ópera - workshop in Merida at Teatro La Rendija!

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Beautiful evening with Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social in Amsterdam!

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Miranda Lakerveld @mirandalakerveld.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Very insightful - Filterworld by Kyle Chayka 💛 “The outcome of algorithmic gatekeeping is the pervasive flattening that has been happening across culture” I wonder if this has had an effect on theatre as well?

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