A book gift during Nederland Leest
Aalsmeer – November is dominated by the Netherlands Reads campaign. New and existing members receive the book ‘De Wandelaar’ by Adriaan van Dis as a gift and there are activities in the theme ‘Across the border’.
Pushing boundaries with a book
With a book you can travel from Jakarta to New York in no time and you are only a few pages away from 1924. With a book you can also push your own boundaries and enlarge your world with new stories and. With the campaign Nederland Leest, the library wants to invite each other to discuss the gift book and the theme.
Meetings across the border
During Nederland Leest, the library organizes an evening with Adriaan van Dis, the writer of the gift book ‘De Wandelaar’, Marc Roth talks about how politics and art are inextricably linked in North Korea, Marion Bloem takes you into her personal story as an Indian woman and you can tell your own story in poetry during the PoeziecafĂ©. View the program and book tickets on libraryamstelland.nl/NederlandLeest2021.
Membership Campaign
If you become a member in November or December, you will receive the book and pay no registration fee. Since the reopening in May, the number of members of Amstelland with more than 600 capacity in the Library. The library wants to continue with this action and invite Aalsmeerders and Kudelstaarters to get acquainted (again) with the library. Opening hours have been extended with Open+: library visits are also possible early in the morning, late at night and on Sundays.