{"id":1339,"date":"2025-06-16T13:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10068\/project\/strange-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:53:36","slug":"strange-news","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/neue.nl\/en\/project\/strange-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"my-32 lg:my-60\"  name=\"text\">\n    <div class=\"container grid grid-cols-12 gap-5 relative\">\n\n        <div class=\"col-span-12 lg:col-span-8 lg:col-start-4 grid gap-5 lg:gap-10\">\n\n            \n                            <div class=\"prose\">\n                    <p><strong>The New European Ensemble presented <em data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"90\">Strange News<\/em>. <em data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"106\">Strange News<\/em> is a moving interdisciplinary work focusing on the lives and fates of child soldiers in our time. Ugandan actor Arthur Kisenyi told the story of a young child soldier, what he experiences, and his eventual return to a peaceful society.<\/strong><\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"my-32 lg:my-60\"  name=\"text\">\n    <div class=\"container grid grid-cols-12 gap-5 relative\">\n\n        <div class=\"col-span-12 lg:col-span-8 lg:col-start-4 grid gap-5 lg:gap-10\">\n\n            \n                            <div class=\"prose\">\n                    <p>This story is brought to life with poignant and multifaceted music by Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin. Film footage illustrates the African context of the narrative. Alongside <em data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"229\">Strange News<\/em>, NEuE presents new work by The Hague-based composer Florentijn Boddendijk, inspired by the importance of international criminal law.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"my-32 lg:my-60\"  name=\"video\">\n    <div class=\"container grid gap-5 lg:gap-10\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"relative w-full aspect-video\">\n            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"absolute inset-0 w-full h-full\" title=\"Strange News | New European Ensemble\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zaIBeZ4UQiI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premiere November 2021.\n\nFor this project, the ensemble collaborated with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to highlight connections between the piece and the work of the court \u2014 particularly timely in light of the recent case against Ugandan warlord Dominic Ongwen. Strange News is a moving interdisciplinary work focusing on the lives and fates of child soldiers in our time. Ugandan actor Arthur Kisenyi tells the story of a young child soldier, what he experiences, and his eventual return to a peaceful society.\n\nThis story is illuminated with poignant and multifaceted music by Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin. Film images illustrate the African context of the story. Alongside Strange News, NEuE presents a new work by The Hague-based composer Florentijn Boddendijk, inspired by the importance of international criminal law.","protected":false},"featured_media":1338,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neue.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neue.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neue.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neue.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neue.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neue.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}