Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
FILM: Migration Diaries (film premiere + discussion) - 14 Path
“Migration Diaries” Produced by Path14 directed by Mahmoud Elenani, edited by Osama Elsayyad, this Documentary delves into the lives of five asylum seekers in the Netherlands as they navigate restrictive…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Whoring Utopia: Queer Erotic Arts & SW Liberation in de Wallen - Mercy St. J, Freyja, M. Alberto
Amsterdam’s sex worker movement faces mounting challenges: skyrocketing window rents, the Erotic Center proposal, displacement from de Wallen, restrictive policies on working from home, and increasing barriers to brothel licensing.…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Screen printing workshop - PaperJam
Want to learn how to screen print a T-shirt? Come to this workshop where we teach you how to put an awesome radical print on a shirt. We will bring…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Nonbinary Yarns: Weaving the Future of Storytelling - Mara Facon, Doppelpunkt Collective
Nonbinary Yarns: Weaving the Future of Storytelling is an open discussion session around the theme of writing beyond the gender binary. We aim to initiate conversations about the experience and…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Arts and Crafts Corner - All Crafts Are Beautiful
There is a time to go on the barricades together and there is a time to come together for the sake of coming together. Come and bring your own craft…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Dinner + Evening plenary + Joke Kaviaar + House of Extinction - Le Sabot, The House of Extinction, Joke Kaviaar
When we get to the end of the day, we’ll all get together to reflect on the sessions and thread our individual thoughts to form a collective fabric of collective…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
A short history of anarchist music - Hessel
This talk with musical examples is a short journey through the breadth and depth of anarchist music through time and space. From Finland to Zimbabwe and Japan to Spain, from…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
“To resist is to create”: Radical Publishing with Spookstad - Uitgeverij Spookstad/Spookstad Editions
In this session, we will talk about the meaning and the potential of radical publishing. To what extent do artistic practices – like, among others, making books – further the…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Image theater and theater of the oppressed - Aisha Tusa
In this workshop we will engage in a conversation about a topic that we’ll decide together by using image theater. This is a method that allows us to have a…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Arts and Crafts Corner - All Crafts Are Beautiful
There is a time to go on the barricades together and there is a time to come together for the sake of coming together. Come and bring your own craft…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Free fashion (anarcho-fashionable accessory making) - Dandi from DHZ Rotterdam
The workshop is mainly focused on learning how to repair bicycles, but you are also welcome to work on other projects. In this crafting session we will make wearable accessories…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Whoring Utopia: Queer Erotic Arts & SW Liberation in de Wallen - HXSSY: Queer SW Arts & Culture
Amsterdam’s sex worker movement faces mounting challenges: skyrocketing window rents, the Erotic Center proposal, displacement from de Wallen, restrictive policies on working from home, and increasing barriers to brothel licensing.…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
The Soft Spot: Weaving as Resistance & Collective Care - Julina Vanille Bezold
The Soft Spot is a travelling weaving initiative that explores textiles as a political tool, a site of resistance, and a practice of collective care. This drop-in weaving session invites…
Weaving resistance - Amsterdam 2025
Arts and Crafts Corner - All Crafts Are Beautiful
There is a time to go on the barricades together and there is a time to come together for the sake of coming together. Come and bring your own craft…
Sci-fi writing workshop: building alliances - Max Urai
In this writing workshop, we'll use a sci-fi framework to think about fighting back and the stories we tell ourselves about it. We will write and discuss possible resistance movements on distant planets and see what alliances between these movements could look like. There is also a distinct possibility that we will talk about jetpacks.
Tactics and approaches for solidarity through cultural work - Potpurri Collective, Hamja Ahsan, Jamil Fiorino-Habib
A variety of tactics is necessary for a struggle to survive and overcome in the face of oppression. This session is aimed at examining and discussing one of their inseparable parts: supporting and participating in resistance through cultural work.
A community-governed digital platform? - lumbung.space
lumbung.space experiments with a digital platform for a transnational artists network. One which is used, built and maintained by the community thinking through lumbung (commons) values.
Now is the Time of Monsters - Amsterdam 2023
Social struggle in stories and song – Radical traditions in a Divided Kingdom - Peter Storm
Peter Storm presents resistance stories and songs out of Britain’s riotous past. We will encounter all kinds of mischief-makers fighting against the forces of oppression and exploitation.
Now is the Time of Monsters - Amsterdam 2023
Dragtivist Workshop with the House of Extinction - Fabric, Mannish Pixel, Kaotica
Drag monsters already reign the scene & bring the capitalist monsters to the light (looking at you Fracking Queen). To fuel this potential and spread like a sustainably-produced olive oil stain, world's first explicitly climate activist drag house will host a safe learning space for queer people and allies to come together, find their freedom in this art form and provoke the capitalist cistem in drag. Bring everything you'd like to experiment with! (double length time-slot).
Now is the Time of Monsters - Amsterdam 2023
Cultural work in resistance movements - Cultural Workers Unite, Jun Saturay, Zhanel Shakhan, Tomi Hilsee
Cultural work has been a part in leftist movements as long as they have existed. However, its many roles within the wider strategies and tactics of resistance is frequently overlooked. We have invited several long-time actvisits and cultural workers from many geographical, social, and otherwise contexts, to talk about their experience, share approaches, discuss difficulties, and search together for a deeper understanding of its many roles.
Changing the Game - Amsterdam 2022
The Time of Monsters: Visionary fiction co(i)nspiration against the capitalist Hydra - Diana Cantarey
They say that there is a monster that has multiple heads, that has many ways to dominate and that bites everywhere. Let's summon the monsters that are going to rip out the heart of this Capitalist Hydra.
Defeating Dystopia? - Utrecht 2020
Fossil Free Culture: Disobedient Art How To - Fossil Free Culture NL
In this workshop, we will explore ‘Disobedient Art’ - merging art and activism into new forms of resistance - as a strategy to generate affect and effect.