{"id":674,"date":"2026-04-01T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=674"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:00:41","slug":"yahmani-blackman-nld","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/poet\/yahmani-blackman-nld\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahmani Blackman (NLD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yahmani Blackman (1989, NLD) is a director, theatre maker, dramaturg, presenter and teacher. Her work emerges from imagination, personal storytelling and a drive to challenge existing norms. Through humor and unapologetic curiosity, she invites audiences of all ages into worlds that exist both within our minds and beyond. Her background in theatre forms the foundation of her multidisciplinary practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How you may know this maker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Performed and created work at institutions including Jeugdtheaterschool Zuidoost and De Engelenbak.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Presented and performed at festivals such as Afrovibes Festival, Black Magic Woman Festival, Bijlmer Boekt and GoGoGo Festival.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Graduated in 2018 from the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, where she developed her distinctive storytelling style pushing against the frameworks of Western theatre studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":567,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-674","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":674,"nl":665},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poet"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/674\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}