(Musée Dunkerque 1940, 32 Rue des Chantiers de France)
09.00 – 10.00 (Museum) Operation Dynamo
Opening and guided tour through the museum.
- signing Anti-Bombing Treaty
(…., ….)
11.00 – 12.00 (Lecture) Je suis infirmière p.21
‘I am a nurse’ focus on the many heroic British and French nurses who helped countless wounded soldiers while facing the same dangers as the soldiers they served—bombings, strafing runs, and the constant threat of capture.
12.00 – 14.00 (Bus) Battle Tour
We travel by bus from Dunkirk to Ypres.
(In Flanders Fields Museum, Grote Markt 34, Ypers)
14.00 – 16.00 (Talkshow) In Flanders Fields
In Ypres, we visit “In Flanders Fields”,named after the iconic poem by Canadian army physician John McCrae. After the tour we talk with a musician and a poet about poetry in war and remembrance.
(House of the Resistance, ….., Antwerp)
20.00 – 21.00 (Lecture) Fight For Freedom
Frank Seberecht will tell about the pivotal role of women within the Belgian resistance
- signing Anti-Bombing Treaty
(…., Antwerp)
21.00 – 22.00 (Reading) Poets Don’t Kill III
At ….., we conclude our day in France and Belgium with Poets Don’t Kill III. Curated poets will remember the fallen with selected peace and anti-war poems.