Woorden Hotel #1

HMK hosts Amber Alma’s Woorden Hotel initiative Voor een mooie stad

Practical:

Date May 13th, 2026

Time 19.00-21.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Credits: Inez Piso

This is Ambers idea

Do you enjoy writing, poetry, poems, or do you your creative outlet in spoken word? Then, the Woorden Hotel is a place for you. This initiative originated from teens with similar interest, searching for a place to get together.

Join the community and write anything you want. Woorden Hotel is here to welcome anyone, from life-long writers as newcomers.

Putting emotions into words

Woorden Hotel is more than a place to write; it is essential for speaking and listening skills for youth. Create new social contacts and express your emotions and feelings within a safe environment. Often, these are emotions that prove to be difficult to express into words, such as loneliness, gender and negative thoughts.

Writing sessions

During the writing sessions, you can either decide to write for an assignment, or entirely free. The assignments try to be surprising, new and are meant to stimulate you to perceive the world differently. Everyone is challenged to retrieve something from the art of language.

Open mic

At the end of the evening you will be offered to share your work - or any work that you brought - during the open mic. Words are the base of language, which is why the Woorden Hotel is welcoming all languages.

Woord Art on the facade

Woorden Hotel wants to inspire the city of Hoorn with a poem originating from these sessions, which will presented on the facade of Hotel Maria Kapel. After each session the poem will be selected. This way, the young writers and practitioners of poetry in Hoorn are offered the change to be exposed in the city for as long as a season .