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The Hague – Roughly 60% of the 2000 available tickets have already been sold for the Afrikaans Language Festival which will be taking place on 17, 18 and 19 June at the Tropenteater in Amsterdam.
This will be the first Afrikaans language festival ever to be held in the Netherlands.
The festival's principal organiser, Joris Cornelissen told Die Burger that the early surge in ticket sales is surprising.
He expects that the last of the tickets will be scooped up a few days before the festival is set to take place.
Cornelissen plans to kick off another advertising campaign in Amsterdam during the last two weeks prior to the festival to spark interest in this new cultural event.
He has also arranged interviews for Afrikaans writers Breyten Breytenbach and Etienne van Heerden with reputed Dutch news publications such as De Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad and Het Parool.
South African Sounds
KykNET who is one of the festival's sponsors, will be sending a camera crew to Amsterdam in order to report on the festival.
Cornelissen expects that most of the audience will be Dutch, but there is also much interest from South African residents in the UK, Belgium, and Germany. The SA Times, a South African news website published in the UK will act as the festival's media partner.
The festival will be opened on June 17 at 20:00 by Peter Goosen, the South African ambassador to the Netherlands, followed by performances by Gert Vlok Nel and Chris Chameleon.
Naspers, Dagbreek-trust and Wines of South Africa are also sponsors.
This will be the first Afrikaans language festival ever to be held in the Netherlands.
The festival's principal organiser, Joris Cornelissen told Die Burger that the early surge in ticket sales is surprising.
He expects that the last of the tickets will be scooped up a few days before the festival is set to take place.
Cornelissen plans to kick off another advertising campaign in Amsterdam during the last two weeks prior to the festival to spark interest in this new cultural event.
He has also arranged interviews for Afrikaans writers Breyten Breytenbach and Etienne van Heerden with reputed Dutch news publications such as De Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad and Het Parool.
South African Sounds
KykNET who is one of the festival's sponsors, will be sending a camera crew to Amsterdam in order to report on the festival.
Cornelissen expects that most of the audience will be Dutch, but there is also much interest from South African residents in the UK, Belgium, and Germany. The SA Times, a South African news website published in the UK will act as the festival's media partner.
The festival will be opened on June 17 at 20:00 by Peter Goosen, the South African ambassador to the Netherlands, followed by performances by Gert Vlok Nel and Chris Chameleon.
Naspers, Dagbreek-trust and Wines of South Africa are also sponsors.
