De Meibloem is er niet meer, de verhalen en anekdotes wel.
Wederik De Backer trok de wijk en de archieven in, op zoek naar de mooiste anekdotes over de Brugse Poort en zijn bewoners. Aan de hand van die anekdotes maakte hij ‘Almanak’, een luisterspel over De Meibloem.
‘Almanak’ is een kruising tussen feit en fictie, verteld door buurtbewoners, gespeeld door acteurs. Oral history met een hoek af. Over het eerste verdiep van Cinema Rio, de T-Klub en De Internationale.
Een Gents hoorspel, met Gentse acteurs, over de mooiste wijk van Gent.
Met de stemmen van Simon De Winne, Brenda Bertin, Guido Lauwagie, Aziz Boukhzar, Margriet Bruggeman, Marthe Schneider, Yousef Zayyani en Luk De Bruyker.
‘Almanak’ werd gemaakt in opdracht van de residentenwerking van DeKoer.
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Is het Gentse dialect iets te moeilijk te begrijpen?
In deze link vind je een transcript naar gewoon, ordinair Nederlands:
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English Transcript:
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Lit.: anonym: ALMANAK. In web Suttonelms, b. d. (článek). – Cit.: By Wederik De Backer, who also took care of the sound design and acted as producer. There are very few details online about this drama. However it was entered for the 2017 Prix Italia, and the judges said: “ The best radio fiction creates great characters. We recognise them from our own lives, but they can still surprise us“. The jury then praised this radio play as a heart-warming and amusing portrait of a working class community, and they commended the production’s sound design. Production company: De Zieke Steur (which apparently translates as ‚The Sick Sturgeon). The details are summarised from several online sources including the web page „http://hoerspielkritik.de/tag/wederik-de-backer/“.
For more than a hundred years, De Meibloem (The Mayflower) was a special place for the inhabitants of the Brugse Poort, a working class neighbourhood in the city of Ghent. The Mayflower was a socialist party hall; it was also a youth club and at one time a cinema. It provided entertainment for the poor youth of the area. When it fell into decline it remained meaningful to the people who had used it. One recalled how he met the love of his life at the cinema. The building is a place with a long tradition. Last year, it re-opened as a social and cultural centre, where a new generation of brugse Poort could spend their time. To preserve the history of this special place, Wederik De Backer explored the neighbourhood and the archives. He talked to those who spent part of their lives there, and anyone who had special memories about it. This is how „Almanak“ arose: a radio play about the buuilding and its role in the lives of the inhabitants of the Brugse Poort.