300 Years Ostend Company - Public lectures
Ostend, Belgium
Programme
- 19:00 - Welcome
- Moderator: Wim De Winter (KU Leuven)
- Bart Tommelein (Mayor of Ostend)
- 19:15 - Oostendse Compagnie in globaal perspectief - Jan Parmentier (MAS)
- 19:35 - Oostendse Companie in lokaal perspectief - Michael-W. Serruys (KBMA & VUB)
- 19:55 Land en Zeeman - Giedo Vanhoecke and André Libin (Choir ‘Ier en gunter’) will be singing the only known Flemish eighteenth-century song about the East-India trade. Accompanied on guitar by Patrick Gyselen.
- 20:05 - Oostendse Compagnie vandaag in fictieliteratuur - A conversation with authors Doris Klausing (De smaak van thee published in October 2023) and Katrien Van Hecke (Oostende is niet ver meer published in 2022)
- 20:35 - Find out more about the Ostend Company
- Book launch De Bibliografie van Oostende en de Middenkust (Fons Verheyde, VLIZ)
- Book launch Reisjournaal van Michel de Febure (Jan Parmentier & Kristin Van Damme)
- Exhibition ‘300 Years Ostend Company’ in the City Museum of Ostend (Nadia Stubbe, Heemkring De Plate)
- Guided tours ‘Ostend and the Ostend Company’ (Dirk Beirens, Circle of city guides ‘Lange Nelle’)
- 21:00 - Reception
- Book sale about the Ostend Company
- 22:00 - End