Two people. Two different worlds. He is a hermit and a reindeer herder. His home is mountains and taiga covered with snow. He depends only on himself, because his life is absolute freedom. She is a resident of Rome, devotes almost all of her time to work and travels around Italy only for a short time of rest. Their worlds are so different that it seems that there can be nothing in common between them. But they both know how quickly life changes.

The Parelsnoer Festival in Laaktheater was a closing event for the project 'Een Snoer van Parels' (“a string of pearls”) that took place in the libraries of Transvaal, Escamp, Schilderswijk, Segbroek and Laakkwartier.

This project mainly focused on resonating stone sound to a space, and also recorded various soundscapes on the island. Besides, finding "something" on the island by chance and exploring improvisation. Picking up ubiquitous sound particles in space, which is waiting to be found. And then, responding to it or just simply listening.  As a musician, Shoichi Iwamoto tried to capture the island's current condition. At one time, Toru Takemitsu asked us "Can we actually hear?"  Do we have flexible ears to listen actively when confronting "the world"?  This is an attitude to life.

Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879 – 1904) was een begaafde Javaanse jonge vrouw. Haar brieven hebben heden ten dage niets aan kracht ingeboet en ze leggen haarscherp en op aangrijpende wijze de verhoudingen bloot  in het toenmalige Nederlands-Indië.
In Indonesië is ze beroemd en wordt ze vereerd. Haar verjaardag 21 april is een nationale feestdag: Hari Kartini, de Nationale Dag van de Vrouw.