Forbidden Voices
- Date
- 8 May 2025
- Time
- 20:00
- Location
- SPUI25
PEN Belarus was banned by a Supreme Court decision on August 9, 2021, but reorganized itself in Warsaw. The organisation counts Nobel laureate in Literature Svetlana Alexievich and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aleś Bialacki (currently a political prisoner) among its members. In this program, PEN Belarus president Taciana Niadbaj will tell about the ongoing fight for freedom of expression in Belarus. She is joined by Peter Vermeersch, scholar and writer of non-fiction, whose most recent book Polsslag (May 2025), deals with the role of music in the 2020 protests in Minsk again the Lukashenko regime.
SPUI25 is the academic-cultural podium of Amsterdam. Since 2007, we have been giving scientists, authors, artists and other thinkers the opportunity to shine a light on issues that occupy, inspire or concern them. In cooperation with a large number of academic and cultural partners, we organize between 250 and 300 freely accessible programs per year. These are enriching, often interdisciplinary programs that move between science and culture, fact and fiction.
SPUI25 is one of the UvA podia in the University Quarter.
