{"id":756,"date":"2026-04-01T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=756"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:57:38","slug":"merlijn-twaalfhoven-nld","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/poet\/merlijn-twaalfhoven-nld\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlijn Twaalfhoven (NLD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Merlijn Twaalfhoven (NLD) is a composer and writer and is known for his large-scale, interdisciplinary music projects, often staged in unconventional locations. He explores how imagination, play, and art can help address societal challenges such as democracy, inequality, and the transition to a sustainable society. He creates unconventional music and theater projects, and has worked in cities, conflict zones, and refugee camps. In his book <em>Het is aan ons<\/em> (It\u2019s on us) (2020), he shows how anyone can activate the artist within themselves to solve small and big global issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where you may know this artist from<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unconventional music and theater projects in Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Brazil, and the USA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaborations with the Kronos Quartet, Holland Festival, and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recipient of a UNESCO award; nominated for the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":565,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-756","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":756,"nl":754},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/756","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\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/756\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}