De Facto's co-founder Jorie Horsthuis wrote a feature about the Serbs in #Kosovo, who started to live a new country without moving. The war ended exactly 25 years ago. 'People are afraid that the conflict will flare up again.' De Groene Amsterdammer

'Zij willen hun eilanden niet zomaar opgeven, en terecht. Nederland leveren we toch ook niet over aan de zee?' Mijn stuk over zinkend #Tuvalu, deze zomer in het prachtige eilandnummer van De Groene Amsterdammer

Ze droegen er nauwelijks aan bij en toch staan ze in de frontlinie van de klimaatverandering: de inwoners van Tuvalu. 'We are sinking'. Moeten ze hun eilanden opgeven? Mijn artikel De Groene Amsterdammer is vandaag open access 👇

Great news! De Facto will be back at Mimik, Deventer, on October 16th. With music from the amazing choir Slavuj, writer Adwin de Kluyver who will talk about islands and Nelis, a young boy who designed his own country! Secure your tickets here: mimik.nl/agenda/de-fact…

De Facto Live komt weer naar Deventer! Op 16/10 trappen we af met een nieuwe serie MIMIK Film + Theater + Café. Te gast is schrijver Adwin de Kluyver, er is muziek van het koor Slavuj en we hebben onze jongste gast ooit: Nelis Smouter, die zijn eigen land ontwierp. mimik.nl/agenda/de-fact…

Goed en belangrijk verhaal over Nagorno-Karabach, een jaar na de exodus, van Eva Cukier

The songs by Slavic choir Slavuj will take you to far away lands and borders, which are the scars of history. Come and listen to Slavuj on October 16th at Mimik, Deventer: ​​mimik.nl/agenda/de-fact… (photocredit Hester den Boer).

De Facto's place of the week: in October 2010, Gerard Beukeveld founded EuroStaete, a filled ditch in NL. It has a flag, a currency and claims to have zero inhabitants, but 6 billion ‘outhabitants’. Read all about this curious #micronation: defactoborders.org/places/eurosta…

Who designed their own country as a child? De Facto's evening at Mimik, Deventer, will showcase the land of Tinelië, created by a young boy from Deventer. Come and have a look! ​​mimik.nl/agenda/de-fact… #geofiction #fantasycartography #cartography

Kom woensdag naar De Facto Live in Deventer! Toffe gasten, mooie muziek, goede verhalen. #grenzen

De Facto Live in Deventer is recommended by In de buurt Deventer. Join us! More info and tickets: mimik.nl/agenda/de-fact…

Looking forward👇

So cool!!

In Isle of Seven Cities, visual artist and filmmaker Stéphanie Roland explores geographical fictions: islands which have been mentioned on maps, but never existed in reality. A book review by Jorie Horsthuis defactoborders.org/homepage/phant… TheEriskayConnection

Geen kaas gegeten van geopolitiek, maar wel interesse in de wereld? Of volg je juist alle ontwikkelingen op de voet? Reis op 29 januari met De Facto de wereld rond! Met schrijver Eva Vriend en Oekraïense muzikant Alex Tugushin MIMIK Film + Theater + Café mimik.nl/agenda/de-fact…

Lots of cool stuff coming up this month in MIMIK Film + Theater + Café, including our own De Facto evening on January 29th, recommended by programmer Sanne!

Kosovo declared itself independent from Serbia in 2008. Journalist Jorie Horsthuis visited the area many times and will tell about her experiences tomorrow at De Facto's fifth evening at @mimikdeventer.

Interested in #borders and geographical curiosities? Come to our live shows! De Facto will be in The Hague on March 12 and May 7th hnt.nl/voorstellingen…. Hope to see you there!

We had a lovely night in Deventer! Thanks to Mimik Eva Vriend and Alex Tugushin. We're already looking forward to our next OFF THE MAP evening.

Join us on 27 June in Mimik, Deventer, for 'Across the Border', a series of film nights on #borders. We will screen Home Game by Lidija Zelovic, whom Jorie Horsthuis will interview after the show.