I present the evenings, hold the tone, and help make the room feel welcoming and ambitious, especially for younger voices stepping onto a stage.
Het Hooge Woord
Recurring spoken-word platform in Hoogeveen with hosting, continuity, and practical upkeep.
Community platform
Het Hooge Woord
Host and steward. Since 2023.
Het Hooge Woord is a recurring spoken-word evening in Hoogeveen, with room for younger voices too.
I host the evenings and help keep the surrounding work in shape: invitations, recaps, the site, the look and feel, photos, and practical upkeep.
Continuity matters more than polish. People need a welcoming room, the team needs rhythm, and the platform only needs enough structure to keep going.
I host the evenings myself and help the room, the team, and the platform feel coherent from invitation to recap.
Scope
Recurring community work still needs structure.
A lot of the work is straightforward but recurring: keep the tone right, keep the team connected, and give the format enough structure to last.
The evenings work because the room, the platform, and the people around it reinforce each other instead of drifting apart.
I help keep the team aligned, supported, and moving so the evening feels calm, welcoming, and well run for everyone who shows up.
I designed the logo, website, brand language, and tone of voice so people know what the platform is and feel invited in before they enter the room.
I write the announcements and lookbacks, take photographs, built the site, and keep the practical platform layer running.
Platform
Give the evening enough structure to keep going.
The evening itself is only part of the work. People need a reason to come, the team needs enough structure to make it land, and the platform needs memory and continuity underneath it.
Room and team rhythm
Give the evening continuity outside the room.
Hosting is only part of it. A lot of the work is getting people to come, helping the team stay connected, and making sure the evening itself feels generous, alive, and worth returning to.
The announcements beforehand and the lookbacks afterwards matter as much as the stage itself. They give the format a rhythm and keep each evening part of something ongoing.
Hosting, team rhythm, announcements, lookbacks, photos, and the public memory of the format.
Site and infrastructure
Keep the platform coherent and maintainable.
I built the site, shaped the brand language around it, and kept the public surface coherent with the room itself.
The technical layer is not the point. It just needs to stay dependable enough that the platform can keep going.
Ghost site, brand system, photography assets, and practical upkeep.
Public record
Public record over time.
Mission page, agenda, recurring posts, and regional coverage leave a public trail. The byline archive sits in the middle of it.
Primary reference
The byline archive shows that I keep turning up.
The strongest single source is the Floris byline archive on Het Hooge Woord itself. It shows recurring invitations, reflections, and public framing around the format.
That is the main point: this is recurring work, not a one-off evening.
Open the author archive →Mission
Over Het Hooge Woord
The public mission page makes the intent explicit: a stage for words, performance, and encouragement in Hoogeveen, with space for people to step in rather than stand back.
Read the mission page →Continuity
Agenda
The agenda page shows that this is a recurring format with themes, dates, and a public rhythm rather than a one-off cultural evening.
Open the agenda →Editorial footprint
Author archive
My byline archive shows the recurring editorial work around the platform: announcements, reflections, and the written memory of the evenings.
Open the author archive →External coverage
Regionieuws Hoogeveen
Regional coverage of the first evening is useful because it confirms the platform publicly, outside my own site and outside my own words.
Read the regional coverage →Next
Elsewhere on this site.
Smaller community stewardship alongside the main role at Oegema.