Poetry, Flamenco, Improvisation, Creativity - Eventalk with Wiljan van den Akker

Wiljan van den Akker, faculty professor in modern poetry and vice-rector for research at Utrecht University, was the sixth guest of the Eventalks series on the 3rd of September 2015. The initiative was organized by the Organisatie Oudemuziek, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University and the Residenties in Utrecht programme. The series of talks took place during the Early Music Festival 2015 at TivoliVredenburg. The Eventalks consisted of a short (15 minute) spoken intervention by a thinker, scholar or teacher, accompanied by music that strives to guide us, ever so gently, towards the coming of the darkness.
"Wiljan will talk about creativity, starting with the assemblage of the most simple nightstand from Ikea and ending with the many misunderstandings about improvisation in music, by the example of flamenco. Is there a free will? To lift any suspense: his answer is 'no'."