Five authors, a photographer and a video artist created a city portrait of Utrecht upon the invitation of deBuren. The residencies were made possible with the collaboration of the Stichting de Vrede van Utrecht (VvU) and the Stichting Literaire Activiteiten Utrecht (SLAU).
citybooks Utrecht started on the 1st of April 2010 when South-African author and dramaturge Brink Scholtz took up residence in this city. Jeroen Olyslaegers stayed in Utrecht as of the end of May. Poet Astrid Lampe, a citizen of Utrecht, and poet and translator Onno Kosters who works at the University of Utrecht, poetically explored Utrecht. Davide Longo spend part of the summer in The Netherlands. He stayed from the 15th till the 30th of July in Utrecht and travelled subsequently to Amsterdam to stay there in residence on invitation of the Nederlands Letterenfonds.
Photographer Lisa van Damme joined up with bus drivers which resulted in an extraordinary photo series.
Ronald Giebel made the City One Minutes: twenty-four short films of one minute each, illustrating the 24 hours in a day.
