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black lives matter

FUNERAL FOR STREET CULTURE - A Critical Celebration and Mourning of Counter Culture A group project by Metro54 and Rita Ouédraogo and hosted by Framer Framed

by one of our members
2 July 202129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

Over the past year, the global pandemic and reignited Black Lives Matter protests have had a huge impact on our daily reality. A Funeral for Street Culture seeks to explore and make visible the sense of loss and other consequences of these events within art and culture. The group project, curated and initiated by Metro54 and curator Rita Ouédraogo,...

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Theatrical installation looking at current events from the Maroons' perspective, this summer at Plein Theatre

by one of our members
7 June 202130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

Swart Gat/ Golden Age (Dunguu olo - katibo-ten) is a theatrical installation about Amsterdam's slavery past and Maroon culture from Suriname. The concept is by Tolin Erwin Alexander, Berith Danse and designer Bartel Meyburg. The theatrical installation, which has lost none of its urgency, has been further finished and will start again in summer 2021! From 17 June (19 June...

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Representation counts!

by Siela Ardjosemito-Jethoe
2 March 2021
6 min read
Column, MEDIA, TELEVISION, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

A good friend calls me, sounding like he wants to share and check something important. He was talking to his sister this week about the Nieuwsuur headline: Black Lives Matter: Was it a turning point or a hype? His sister stumbles over the title and notices that important parties are left out of this item and that stings. On the...

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Sender Boulevard pauses to remember the Dutch East Indies

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 August 202029 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, Boulevard, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

'For Indonesian Dutch, 15 August is definitely not liberation day,' explains playwright Bo Tarenskeen. The last day of the alternative Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch, Sender Boulevard, coincides with the commemoration of Japan's surrender on 15 May 1945. The Dutch East Indies, the colony exploited by our country for centuries, had also been liberated from the Japanese, but the end...

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Bright Richards remains combative in times of Corona: 'Why don't we use art to bring about inclusion?'

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 July 202030 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER, Utrecht, BECOME A MEMBER

'Of course Corona has an impact on me, but the impact of Black Lives Matter is much bigger. I want to get to work activating young people. They need to feel that this is our country. I think it's important to always use every stage to make that clear.' Bright Richards is twenty years after graduating from the Arnhem...

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NPO brings a debate about a debate. Let that sink in.

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 July 202030 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MEDIA, TELEVISION, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

I have long put myself on the 'listen first, talk later' mode when it came to how we all deal with the festering sore of racism in the Netherlands. There's so much we don't know about each other, and there's especially so much I can't know about my fellow Black people, because for a long time I felt too little...

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Festival Annecy 2020 - Are animated films too white?

by Leo Bankersen
19 June 202030 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Animation Festival Annecy 2020 is online. The Black Women in Animation panel addresses the paucity of black role models for young viewers in animation.

MAAS makes performance at Keti Koti

by one of our members
12 June 202029 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, PRESS, PODIUM ART, THEATER

On Tuesday 30 June and Wednesday 1 July 2020, Aan tafel can be seen at the Maaspodium, Rotterdam, a performance on the history of slavery as part of Keti Koti. It is the third year in a row that Maas is trying to make this painful part of history palpable through theatre. The performance will be made (coronaproof) and performed by Sue-Ann...

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Of course, when it comes to institutional racism, discrimination and exclusion, these are not feelings, as you claimed this week, but facts, Mr Rutte.

by Siela Ardjosemito-Jethoe
8 June 20208 June 2020
4 min read
ACTUAL, BECOME A MEMBER

Dear Prime Minister Rutte, Dear Mark, We have met before. For you one meeting out of many, so you probably won't remember. After all, we have nothing in common, not in terms of political colour or skin colour, not in terms of our socio-economic class, not in terms of our nest, not our gender, height and possibly other distinguishing characteristics: many NOT...

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True Detective makes up for season 2's flop in third season (we saw the first episodes).

by Annika Hoogeveen
4 January 20194 January 2019
7 min read
MEDIA, TELEVISION

The 2014 first season of True Detective was a huge success. A Southern murder mystery with an occult twist. Besides the 'who did it' storyline, the season was mostly about the complicated characters of Martin Hart and Rust Cole (played convincingly by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey). There was a raw and palpable chemistry between the two. The...

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'Black' is unique collection of 'Afropean' literature: 'African-Dutch authors are directly compared to black American writers.'

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 February 201829 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, LITERARY, SPECIALS, SPONSORED

The book may be called 'Black', but the stories collected in it make it clear that there are as many shades of black, as white and everything in between. We, and by that I mean myself and my largely white network, just need to look more closely. And listen. Take Olave Nduwanje's story, titled Imana Ikurinde (God save you), in the middle of the book. The...

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On aliens, being alone and (too) much feeling: 9 life questions to rapper Typhoon

by A Quattro Mani
3 August 201730 March 2022
10 min read
For members only, MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

When he was given a car to play with as a child, you wouldn't hear or see him all day. Because he does love people and likes to perform, but off-stage rapper Glenn de Randamie (32), aka Typhoon, prefers to be by himself. Then he has peace, humour and creativity for ten. 'The more alone I...

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YouTube is bursting at the seams!

by Red Press
6 January 201729 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, INTERNET, MEDIA, SPECIALS

It is easier than ever to produce and distribute your own videos. Every minute, more than 300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. Is this gigantic amount still manageable? No. The video platform has become too big to continue to exist smoothly. By Nuno Blijboom There is no better source for cat videos, bullying vloggers and gaming youngsters

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