Michaël Vandebril will perform on stage in The Hague with the Boest collective and will also take care of presenting The Chronicles in both Antwerp and The Hague. Vandebril debuted in 1998 as a poet with Poetry & straight jazz, a programme in the tradition of the beat poets. In 2002 he was appointed coordinator of Antwerp Book City and only two years later he saw to it that the city successfully managed to claim the UNESCO-title of World Book Capital.