{"id":2473,"date":"2021-04-02T07:32:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature-staging.netlify.app?p=2473"},"modified":"2021-04-02T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:07:43","slug":"lc-leeuwarden-city-of-literature-keep-the-spirit-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature.nl\/en\/lc-leeuwarden-city-of-literature-keep-the-spirit-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"LC: Leeuwarden City of Literature &#8211; Keep the spirit alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journalist Joep van Ruiten spoke with Ernst Bruinsma (business manager) and Berber van Oyen (marketing coordinator) of Leeuwarden City of Literature for the Leeuwarder Courant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNESCO City of Literature Leeuwarden is a legacy of the year that Leeuwarden and Friesland could call themselves European Capital of Culture, say Van Oyen and Bruinsma. \u201cThere was a discussion. How do you keep people here? How can you keep the high level? It was also said: the literature in Friesland must become more visible. We hardly see things. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four goals of Leeuwarden as a City of Literature are discussed: professionalization, internationalization, reading promotion and innovation. \u201cThe most important thing we do is connect and inform,\u201d says Bruinsma. \u201cWe are not a project office, nor a subsidy desk. We are a network organization. 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