Read My World Festival 2025

With The Beat of Belonging, Read My World is exploring the sensory experience of the language and the harmonious rhythm of connectedness this year. In a dynamic world in which many navigate through multiple identities beyond new horizons, we place our ear on the sounds and the heartbeats of belonging and we offer the stage to the creative expression of jazzification: the free spirits and voices of joy and resistance, which surprise, move and connect the Mixsten's Mixsten. Plus co-curators Maboula Soumahoro and Lou Mensah form the line-up from 11-13 September 2025, consists of writers, speakers and performers. A number of the lectures, panel discussions, workshops and performances takes place in both the Tolhuistuin and online.