Queer
Currents

This exhibition will last until 21.07.2022

“PERSONAL STATEMENT ALEJANDRA ORTIZ - ‘PINK LIMBO’
“What is it like to be an undocumented refugee in the Netherlands?

For a period of seven days, I want to—on my own initiative—live between two glass partitions in Melkweg Expo. Each of the seven days represents a year since my arrival in the Netherlands. The inconveniences and compromises that have to be made while incarcerated represent the events I have experienced during my journey, and which I still struggle with.

The Dutch government has been anything but friendly to me and has told me time and again that they believe my story—full of pain and trauma—but that they do not believe that I will be in danger, despite Mexico being one of the most violent and deadly places for a trans person. On the other hand, the Dutch people, and in particular the BIPOC, trans and lesbian community and the sex worker community have been there for me, making me feel loved, embraced and protected. This duality has created a paradox in my life, where on the one hand access to the rights and benefits of legality has cornered me, while the protection of my chosen family has helped me heal and grow.

In recent years, this duality has made me realise and feel like I live in a crystal box in this country. I’m not officially accepted and so I can’t be myself completely, and yet I’m not completely outside of society either. I can stroll along the beautiful canals of Amsterdam, the city can feel mine, and at the same time I have no house, no right to own one, nor the right to work, study and develop myself. I’m here, but I’m not here either.”

ABOUT ALEJANDRA ORTIZ

Alejandra Ortiz (Salitral de Carrera, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 1983) is a writer, researcher and grassroots activist living in the Netherlands since 2015. She is a Mexican trans woman with a history of marginalisation and violence. Her story includes sex work, drug use, and a first-hand experience as a refugee and undocumented migrant, among other intersections. Alejandra devotes her activism to the visibility of empowerment of marginalised communities, through her collective Papaya Kuir and other projects. Alejandra Ortiz’s autobiographical book ‘The Truth Will Set Me Free’ will be published in October 2022 by Lebowski Publishers.”

Bart Julius Peters. Palm Kissing Hydrangea. 2009.
Gerben Mulder. Flowers on a Kitchen Table. 2022. Oil on Canvas. 120 x120 cm.

“A Perspective on Colour”, a duo show curated by Bart Julius Peters with his photographs and Gerben Mulder’s paintings. The title refers to a dialogue between Mulders colourful flower Bouquets that contain a painterly struggle of his unique depiction of 20th century painting styles and Peters’ photography, where the narratives simultaneously are depicted in portrait, still life, and landscape. Together, they narrate the contemporary struggle of the middle aged white man in a perspective on colour.

We warmly invite you to join us at the opening:

Saturday 16th July from 16:00 - 19:00.
At Josilda da Conceicao Gallery
Pieter Aertszstraat 70
Amsterdam

You are welcome to visit the gallery from Wednesday till Saturday from 1-6 pm

This exhibition will last until 10.08.2022

“Art invites you to think, and offers space for your own interpretations. It asks questions to which there are several possible answers. There is always freedom of thought. Through alienation, distortion and abstraction you push one thing after another, or blur your boundaries.

In addition, there are always multiple perspectives within the way one looks. This has to do with the following aspect: that a feeling is the result of a sensory perception or experience, but at the same time it also determines the way in which one perceives. It’s fascinating, and it’s exactly what makes a person, a person. Today people look at something one way, but tomorrow it might be different. The desire to categorize and label things is both a need and a limitation.

After a period of abstract work, I recently decided to focus more on the human body. This should highlight a second topic, which unfortunately is still the order of the day in our society: gender inequality. This phenomenon has everything to do with the above-mentioned desire. As an example of an attached work to explain how I incorporate symbolism for this in my paintings: the balloon stands for freedom, but is also intended as a synonym. It appeals to us, for example, about sexualization. Other more abstract work only allows the material to speak.

Another accompanying work broaches the “Nipple-free” discussion again. A nipple painted openly evokes something different than when you portray it as covered in cloth. Why? And why would there be a difference between a woman’s nipple and a man’s nipple?

And so we come back to an endless source of inspiration: nature. Its patterns are organic and abstract at the same time. I’m looking for the boundary between these two aspects. There are many similar patterns between nature and man. When is something what it is, when does it become something else?

- Ruby Jane Fu 2022

“My work is a re-creation of a bygone and forgotten time. Images from my archive of weeklies, books and photos from the last century are given a new lease of life. By removing the images from their original context and placing them in a new environment, an estranged image is created that borders the uncanny.

The forgotten past is a fascinating subject for me. Photos from these old weeklies depicting everyday life from the 1940s to the 1960s, images that show the everyday life at the time, are far removed from what we consider ‘normal’ in our present. This is already where the estrangement of the image begins. With my transfer collages I play into this estrangement by creating an environment in which the deconstructed images are placed. Additions of scribbles, halos and lines further enhance the overall mystery and gives the image a sanctified, ritualistic and inexplicable feeling.

In my paintings I zoom in on these images, creating a crop where the overall context is lost. By removing backgrounds and focusing on the small gestures and details, you lose the greater picture, creating space to fill in the story yourself. These zoom-ins and decontextualizations create scenes in a fictional reality, silent moments in a self-made past.”

- Timothy Voges, 2022”

Bas and Wibo Kosters’ father passed away in 2015, the unexpected death left a great void. Both brothers dealt with this grief differently. Bas made a large tapestry from his father’s wardrobe. Wibo told about his father and his grief in a collection of poems called “Inwoner”.

The tapestry “Love is All Alone” can be seen for an evening in “ASCENDING” combined with a reading by Wibo Kosters. There is also the opportunity to work together on personal craft projects, or to ask Bas Kosters for advice about a destination for personal textiles with a special meaning.

RSVP: info@ascending-ndsm.nl

This exhibition will last until 12.08.2022

This year’s open-air photo exhibition is themed ‘Celebrating the Unseen’, with which Pride Photo wants to highlight the most unseen groups and stories from the LGBTQIA+ community. The foundation wants to use photos to make visitors think about sexual and gender diversity.

Featuring the works of our ’21 winners and further images that have been specially selected by our Curators Simomo Bouj & Jan Hoek , the open-air, outdoor exhibitions are free to visit anytime.

See the winning photos by Haneem Christian, yoppy pieter, and the curated photos by Jean-Paul Paula, Kami Dubel, Robert Andy Coombs, Carlos Saavedra, Robert Siegelman, crazinisT artisT, Paul Koncewicz, David Těšínský, Prins de Vos, June Watsamon, Guangbo Li, Omar Braika and Luiz Maximiano .

Special thanks to Samira Damato , Yuki Kho , Lynnee Denise, Marjolijn Bronkhuyzen , Ayra “Kippy” Kip, Gijs Stork, Angelo Tromp, Zindzi Zwietering, Roeland Bosch, Hein-Jan Keijzer, Carsten Klein, Carsten Lund Thomsen and Jeroen Overweg.

In this performative talk, Lynnée Denise will share her journey as a DJ and multi-decade independent scholar of dance music.

In 2013 Lynnée Denise coined the term DJ scholarship to explore the Black queer roots of house music. In this talk she will use music, sound, and images to walk audiences through an evolution of dance music from 1976-2022 and connect it to larger sexual liberation movements. The title of her talk “Deep Inside” is inspired by a classic house song produced by Lil Louis Vega. It’s a quintessential queer dance floor call to action.

This exhibition will last until 10.08.2022

“Art invites you to think, and offers space for your own interpretations. It asks questions to which there are several possible answers. There is always freedom of thought. Through alienation, distortion and abstraction you push one thing after another, or blur your boundaries.

In addition, there are always multiple perspectives within the way one looks. This has to do with the following aspect: that a feeling is the result of a sensory perception or experience, but at the same time it also determines the way in which one perceives. It’s fascinating, and it’s exactly what makes a person, a person. Today people look at something one way, but tomorrow it might be different. The desire to categorize and label things is both a need and a limitation.

After a period of abstract work, I recently decided to focus more on the human body. This should highlight a second topic, which unfortunately is still the order of the day in our society: gender inequality. This phenomenon has everything to do with the above-mentioned desire. As an example of an attached work to explain how I incorporate symbolism for this in my paintings: the balloon stands for freedom, but is also intended as a synonym. It appeals to us, for example, about sexualization. Other more abstract work only allows the material to speak.

Another accompanying work broaches the “Nipple-free” discussion again. A nipple painted openly evokes something different than when you portray it as covered in cloth. Why? And why would there be a difference between a woman’s nipple and a man’s nipple?

And so we come back to an endless source of inspiration: nature. Its patterns are organic and abstract at the same time. I’m looking for the boundary between these two aspects. There are many similar patterns between nature and man. When is something what it is, when does it become something else?

- Ruby Jane Fu 2022

“My work is a re-creation of a bygone and forgotten time. Images from my archive of weeklies, books and photos from the last century are given a new lease of life. By removing the images from their original context and placing them in a new environment, an estranged image is created that borders the uncanny.

The forgotten past is a fascinating subject for me. Photos from these old weeklies depicting everyday life from the 1940s to the 1960s, images that show the everyday life at the time, are far removed from what we consider ‘normal’ in our present. This is already where the estrangement of the image begins. With my transfer collages I play into this estrangement by creating an environment in which the deconstructed images are placed. Additions of scribbles, halos and lines further enhance the overall mystery and gives the image a sanctified, ritualistic and inexplicable feeling.

In my paintings I zoom in on these images, creating a crop where the overall context is lost. By removing backgrounds and focusing on the small gestures and details, you lose the greater picture, creating space to fill in the story yourself. These zoom-ins and decontextualizations create scenes in a fictional reality, silent moments in a self-made past.”

- Timothy Voges, 2022”

Students present first Virtual Reality museum about LGBTQI+ culture

Festival Queer Currents and Pride Amsterdam have the scoop

Reliable and positive information about LGBTIQ+ culture appears to be difficult to find online. That is why students of the master Digital Design (AUAS) have built an LGBTQI+ museum in Virtual Reality. This summer, the Queer Currents festival and Pride Amsterdam have the scoop; The world’s first VR museum of queer culture will be open there from July 22 to August 7. The museum includes stories from experience, an exhibition of Pride Photo 2022 and a virtual canal parade. “We want to offer every visitor a moment of ‘aha, I didn’t know this yet.”

Watch the trailer here

Students Casper Sterrenburg, Anastasia Maimescu, Damir Ćatibović and Olico Matsjitadze of the HvA Master’s in Digital Design created the digital museum about LGBTIQA+ culture, commissioned by VR researcher Mirjam Vosmeer.

Prior to this, the students spoke with members of the LGBTIQA+ community of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA Pride), to hear from them where the biggest frustrations lie, and what virtual reality could mean in that regard. The main point turned out to be that it is difficult to find reliable and fun information about queer culture online. The students therefore designed this museum to provide that digital space; a surprising combination of personal experiences, media and art.

EUREKA MOMENT

The theme of the museum is ‘Celebrating Diversity’. “It is not the intention to force people to learn something,” says Casper Sterrenburg, one of the master’s students who conceived and developed the idea. “We especially wanted this to be a surprising, interactive experience about the LGBTIQ+ culture, where you also learn something new. Our goal is that everyone here eventually experiences such a eureka moment. This also became apparent during the user tests: we often heard: ‘Oh, I didn’t know this!’”

EXPERIENCES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

In the museum, visitors move virtually through a space with various exhibitions, wearing a VR headset. Upon entering, there is a wall with flags of the different LGBTIQ+ communities, and further on is a place where you can view and listen to personal experiences. These are stories that members of HvA Pride have previously shared.

The museum visitor also learns more gay rights worldwide, and about gender through the virtual ‘genderbread person’. The museum also has an exhibition with work from the Pride Photo Exhibition 2022.

In addition, the museum contains a so-called ‘Pride Experience Room’. Here you will find yourself in an imitation of the Pride in Amsterdam. You can look around you in 360 degrees, at canal houses, boats and people dancing on the quays. “Thanks to this innovative technology, we can bring experiences like Pride wherever you are in the world,” said Casper.

TRAVELING MUSEUM

Queer Currents organizer Gijs Stork was so enthusiastic about the students’ VR museum that he decided to show it during this festival, which takes place at several locations in the city before and during Amsterdam Pride. “I think this project is important because it gives substance to something that was missing, but which is needed: a queer museum, and especially a digital place. That’s why we like to show it during Queer Currents, because it shows the diversity within the queer community.”“

ABOUT COUNTRY BORDERS

The students are currently working on the final step: making the museum downloadable worldwide. Casper: “The software we use has enabled us to create a super realistic museum that looks very fine. The next step is to convert this to a version that people can install on their headset themselves. If the experience will soon become available in this way, this means that the museum will cross national borders. You will soon be able to experience the stories, art and virtual Amsterdam Pride anywhere in the world where there is access to VR.”

RESEARCH PROJECT VR FOR DIVERSITY

The students of the Master’s in Digital Design developed this museum on the basis of an assignment from AUAS researcher Mirjam Vosmeer, for her project VR for Diversity, and were coached by researcher Sky Leslie. Vosmeer (lectorate in Civic Interaction Design) asked them to develop a VR experience for her research into how users respond to interaction and storytelling. The insights that emerge from Vosmeer’s research can be used by the creative industry and cultural sector.

Practical information

The VR museum can be seen from July 22 at the Queer Currents festival (July 22 - August 7; varying locations) and at Pride University (part of Amsterdam Pride)

* Friday 22 July, student Casper Sterrenburg will present the museum on the opening day of Queer Currents at location Raamgracht 5-7.
* Saturday 23 July, the VR museum can be seen in the Tolhuistuin, at the launch of Queer Network Amsterdam).
* Between Monday 25 and Thursday 28 July the museum can be visited at location Rozenstraat 59 of Queer Currents
* From August 2 - 5, the museum can be found in the Student Hotel, where both Queer Currents and Pride University are held (part of Amsterdam Pride).

Queer Network Amsterdam will be officially launched on 23 July. All partners in the alliance contribute to the program through film, performance and/or presentation.

2 pm - 7 pm | Tolhuistuin, IJpromenade 2, A’dam | Free Admission

Program will follow soon!

Confirm your presence HERE.

Students present first Virtual Reality museum about LGBTQI+ culture

Festival Queer Currents and Pride Amsterdam have the scoop

Reliable and positive information about LGBTIQ+ culture appears to be difficult to find online. That is why students of the master Digital Design (AUAS) have built an LGBTQI+ museum in Virtual Reality. This summer, the Queer Currents festival and Pride Amsterdam have the scoop; The world’s first VR museum of queer culture will be open there from July 22 to August 7. The museum includes stories from experience, an exhibition of Pride Photo 2022 and a virtual canal parade. “We want to offer every visitor a moment of ‘aha, I didn’t know this yet.”

Watch the trailer here

Students Casper Sterrenburg, Anastasia Maimescu, Damir Ćatibović and Olico Matsjitadze of the HvA Master’s in Digital Design created the digital museum about LGBTIQA+ culture, commissioned by VR researcher Mirjam Vosmeer.

Prior to this, the students spoke with members of the LGBTIQA+ community of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA Pride), to hear from them where the biggest frustrations lie, and what virtual reality could mean in that regard. The main point turned out to be that it is difficult to find reliable and fun information about queer culture online. The students therefore designed this museum to provide that digital space; a surprising combination of personal experiences, media and art.

EUREKA MOMENT

The theme of the museum is ‘Celebrating Diversity’. “It is not the intention to force people to learn something,” says Casper Sterrenburg, one of the master’s students who conceived and developed the idea. “We especially wanted this to be a surprising, interactive experience about the LGBTIQ+ culture, where you also learn something new. Our goal is that everyone here eventually experiences such a eureka moment. This also became apparent during the user tests: we often heard: ‘Oh, I didn’t know this!’”

EXPERIENCES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

In the museum, visitors move virtually through a space with various exhibitions, wearing a VR headset. Upon entering, there is a wall with flags of the different LGBTIQ+ communities, and further on is a place where you can view and listen to personal experiences. These are stories that members of HvA Pride have previously shared.

The museum visitor also learns more gay rights worldwide, and about gender through the virtual ‘genderbread person’. The museum also has an exhibition with work from the Pride Photo Exhibition 2022.

In addition, the museum contains a so-called ‘Pride Experience Room’. Here you will find yourself in an imitation of the Pride in Amsterdam. You can look around you in 360 degrees, at canal houses, boats and people dancing on the quays. “Thanks to this innovative technology, we can bring experiences like Pride wherever you are in the world,” said Casper.

TRAVELING MUSEUM

Queer Currents organizer Gijs Stork was so enthusiastic about the students’ VR museum that he decided to show it during this festival, which takes place at several locations in the city before and during Amsterdam Pride. “I think this project is important because it gives substance to something that was missing, but which is needed: a queer museum, and especially a digital place. That’s why we like to show it during Queer Currents, because it shows the diversity within the queer community.”“

ABOUT COUNTRY BORDERS

The students are currently working on the final step: making the museum downloadable worldwide. Casper: “The software we use has enabled us to create a super realistic museum that looks very fine. The next step is to convert this to a version that people can install on their headset themselves. If the experience will soon become available in this way, this means that the museum will cross national borders. You will soon be able to experience the stories, art and virtual Amsterdam Pride anywhere in the world where there is access to VR.”

RESEARCH PROJECT VR FOR DIVERSITY

The students of the Master’s in Digital Design developed this museum on the basis of an assignment from AUAS researcher Mirjam Vosmeer, for her project VR for Diversity, and were coached by researcher Sky Leslie. Vosmeer (lectorate in Civic Interaction Design) asked them to develop a VR experience for her research into how users respond to interaction and storytelling. The insights that emerge from Vosmeer’s research can be used by the creative industry and cultural sector.

Practical information

The VR museum can be seen from July 22 at the Queer Currents festival (July 22 - August 7; varying locations) and at Pride University (part of Amsterdam Pride)

* Friday 22 July, student Casper Sterrenburg will present the museum on the opening day of Queer Currents at location Raamgracht 5-7.
* Saturday 23 July, the VR museum can be seen in the Tolhuistuin, at the launch of Queer Network Amsterdam).
* Between Monday 25 and Thursday 28 July the museum can be visited at location Rozenstraat 59 of Queer Currents
* From August 2 - 5, the museum can be found in the Student Hotel, where both Queer Currents and Pride University are held (part of Amsterdam Pride).

This exhbition will last until 24.07.2022

Specially for Queer Currents fans, Gallery Ron Mandos will offer drinks and bites on Saturday 23 July from 3-5 pm. Please send an RSVP to benine@ronmandos.nl under indication of Queer Currents Drinks.

This year, the grand master of Dutch dance Hans van Manen will turn ninety years old. To honor him, The Dutch National Ballet will present an extensive and diverse program of his work. Alongside, the exhibition Dance in Close-Up at Galerie Ron Mandos celebrates a forty-year friendship between Hans van Manen and Erwin Olaf. The project includes a series of photographs and videos in which Hans van Manen directs moments from thirteen different choreographies, captured in detail by Erwin Olaf himself.

Olaf was only 24 years old when he first met Van Manen working on a photoshoot for the Dutch magazine Sek – the official publication of LGBTQ+ activist organization COC. At the time, Van Manen was not only one of the world’s leading choreographers, but also a celebrated photographer. Taking Olaf by the hand, Van Manen introduced him to the world of fine art. The American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was one of their biggest inspirations. This influence reappears in the series, exemplified in the square photographs shot with a Hasselblad camera – the same camera Olaf brought with him when first photographing Van Manen in 1983.

As the title suggests, Dance in Close-Up is a detailed series of dance poses captured on film – each of them exuding the singular language of Van Manen’s oeuvre. The photos show fragments of bodies, athletic motions, sculpted torsos, outstretched limbs and searching hands. Olaf brings us closer to the performers than any theatre. Yet, his photographs are not merely capsules – capturing dance’s inherent fluidity and motion: a perfectly balanced pirouette or dramatic leap through the air. Instead, Olaf captures dance’s kinetic opposite: stillness. In freezing these bodies we are drawn away from an expected dynamism – towards the rich subtleties in the gestures and emotions of the dancers themselves.

For the exhibition, designers Tom Postma and Mihaela Radescu have translated elements of Van Manen’s choreography into space. Here, curved walls represent bodies in pose, like the arched backs or angled limbs of the dancers. This new architecture performs as a delicate guide to the visitors’ experience. Postma and Radescu have composed a new atmosphere, shaped to bear all the intimacy and vulnerability that unfurled during Van Manen and Olaf’s lifelong friendship – a friendship that now informs this new collaboration, birthing Dance in Close-Up.

Partners

For this project, we work closely together with the Dutch National Ballet, Holland Festival, NTR, and Hannibal Books.

The Dutch National Ballet celebrates the birthday of Hans van Manen lavishly with a Hans van Manen Festival. From June 8 to June 29, the international dance world gathers at the Dutch National Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam to perform a selection of ballets from Van Manen’s extensive oeuvre. The festival is part of the Holland Festival program. More information and tickets: operaballet.nl

Joost van Krieken and cameraman Thomas Kist of NTR followed Hans van Manen and Erwin Olaf during the making of Dance in Close-Up. The five-part documentary series Erwin Olaf eert Hans van Manen is broadcasted every Sunday from June 5 to July 3 on Dutch television NPO 2. An excerpt from the documentary series is included in the exhibition. It shows us the artists’ friendship and makes us marvel at the beauty of dance. Read more about the documentary here.

Hannibal Books published the catalogue of Dance in Close-Up, which contains the photographs by Erwin Olaf, and essays by Michael James Gardner and Nina Siegal. The book can be purchased via the website of Hannibal Books or at Galerie Ron Mandos.

The annual presentation of the Mikel Haman Award during Kwaku’s Pink Sunday

More info coming soon

Welcome to “The Hidden Pearls”

At The Hidden Pearls there is beautiful artwork to admire and for sale from the hidden Pearls from the art world.

Artists of color exhibiting and sharing beautiful works with the world. Be welcome and be one of the first to bring hidden gems home. At one of the next editions in 2021, we were able to admire beautiful paintings and other works by Allhuon Stomp and Moyca Gort, and at the upcoming Hidden ae rls edition, beautiful and ongoing works will once again be on display.

Follow us on instagram: @thehiddenpearls_exhibition

This screening is in collaboration with the TransPride & CinemAsia.

Graham Kolbeins | Japan | 2019 | 100 min | Japanese spoken | English subtitles | Documentary

We’re hosting a pre-pride film party to celebrate the upcoming Amsterdam Pride!
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From shiny pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, Queer Japan pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between.

Watch the trailer here

Tickets will go on sale via Kriterion

This museum will last until 28.07.2022

Students present first Virtual Reality museum about LGBTQI+ culture
Festival Queer Currents and Pride Amsterdam have the scoop

Reliable and positive information about LGBTIQ+ culture appears to be difficult to find online. That is why students of the master Digital Design (AUAS) have built an LGBTQI+ museum in Virtual Reality. This summer, the Queer Currents festival and Pride Amsterdam have the scoop; The world’s first VR museum of queer culture will be open there from July 22 to August 7. The museum includes stories from experience, an exhibition of Pride Photo 2022 and a virtual canal parade. “We want to offer every visitor a moment of ‘aha, I didn’t know this yet.”

Watch the trailer here

Students Casper Sterrenburg, Anastasia Maimescu, Damir Ćatibović and Olico Matsjitadze of the HvA Master’s in Digital Design created the digital museum about LGBTIQA+ culture, commissioned by VR researcher Mirjam Vosmeer.

Prior to this, the students spoke with members of the LGBTIQA+ community of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA Pride), to hear from them where the biggest frustrations lie, and what virtual reality could mean in that regard. The main point turned out to be that it is difficult to find reliable and fun information about queer culture online. The students therefore designed this museum to provide that digital space; a surprising combination of personal experiences, media and art.

EUREKA MOMENT

The theme of the museum is ‘Celebrating Diversity’. “It is not the intention to force people to learn something,” says Casper Sterrenburg, one of the master’s students who conceived and developed the idea. “We especially wanted this to be a surprising, interactive experience about the LGBTIQ+ culture, where you also learn something new. Our goal is that everyone here eventually experiences such a eureka moment. This also became apparent during the user tests: we often heard: ‘Oh, I didn’t know this!’”

EXPERIENCES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

In the museum, visitors move virtually through a space with various exhibitions, wearing a VR headset. Upon entering, there is a wall with flags of the different LGBTIQ+ communities, and further on is a place where you can view and listen to personal experiences. These are stories that members of HvA Pride have previously shared.

The museum visitor also learns more gay rights worldwide, and about gender through the virtual ‘genderbread person’. The museum also has an exhibition with work from the Pride Photo Exhibition 2022.

In addition, the museum contains a so-called ‘Pride Experience Room’. Here you will find yourself in an imitation of the Pride in Amsterdam. You can look around you in 360 degrees, at canal houses, boats and people dancing on the quays. “Thanks to this innovative technology, we can bring experiences like Pride wherever you are in the world,” said Casper.

TRAVELING MUSEUM

Queer Currents organizer Gijs Stork was so enthusiastic about the students’ VR museum that he decided to show it during this festival, which takes place at several locations in the city before and during Amsterdam Pride. “I think this project is important because it gives substance to something that was missing, but which is needed: a queer museum, and especially a digital place. That’s why we like to show it during Queer Currents, because it shows the diversity within the queer community.”“

ABOUT COUNTRY BORDERS

The students are currently working on the final step: making the museum downloadable worldwide. Casper: “The software we use has enabled us to create a super realistic museum that looks very fine. The next step is to convert this to a version that people can install on their headset themselves. If the experience will soon become available in this way, this means that the museum will cross national borders. You will soon be able to experience the stories, art and virtual Amsterdam Pride anywhere in the world where there is access to VR.”

RESEARCH PROJECT VR FOR DIVERSITY

The students of the Master’s in Digital Design developed this museum on the basis of an assignment from AUAS researcher Mirjam Vosmeer, for her project VR for Diversity, and were coached by researcher Sky Leslie. Vosmeer (lectorate in Civic Interaction Design) asked them to develop a VR experience for her research into how users respond to interaction and storytelling. The insights that emerge from Vosmeer’s research can be used by the creative industry and cultural sector.

Practical information

The VR museum can be seen from July 22 at the Queer Currents festival (July 22 - August 7; varying locations) and at Pride University (part of Amsterdam Pride)

* Friday 22 July, student Casper Sterrenburg will present the museum on the opening day of Queer Currents at location Raamgracht 5-7.
* Saturday 23 July, the VR museum can be seen in the Tolhuistuin, at the launch of Queer Network Amsterdam).
* Between Monday 25 and Thursday 28 July the museum can be visited at location Rozenstraat 59 of Queer Currents
* From August 2 - 5, the museum can be found in the Student Hotel, where both Queer Currents and Pride University are held (part of Amsterdam Pride).

RSVP HERE

More information coming soon

Program:

“The Art of Sin (61’)
Director: Ibrahim Mursal
Production: Sudan,Norway
Duration: 61’
Language: Arabic, English
Subtitles: English

Synopsis :

After coming to Norway as a refugee, Ahmed Umar has become a renowned artist. Proud of his roots, his art mixes Sudanese and western influences.

In 2015, he came out as gay on Facebook, making him the first openly gay man from Sudan, this causes a massive outrage in the Sudanese community.

Although the 30-year dictatorship fell by revolution in 2019, homosexuality is still punishable by death in Sudan. Still, Ahmed takes a chance and goes back to Sudan to see his mother
again.

Norway isn’t without dangers for openly gay immigrants either. During a Pride parade,Ahmed is badly beaten up because of his flamboyant attitude.

In “The Art of Sin”, director Ibrahim Mursal has to face his own deeply ingrained prejudice while following Ahmed’s journey. With a deeply religious background, he struggles with his own cultural concept of masculinity.

“The Art of Sin” is a journey spanning worlds and cultures, art and religion, national
identities, genders and love.

RSVP HERE

This exhibition will last until 31.07.2022

With the series The Resurrection, designer and artist Inderjeet Sandhu reflects on the discrepancies between the religions practiced in- and outside his childhood home, specifically the contradictory position of nudity and sexuality in the cultures they bring forth.

Despite its seemingly accepting attitude towards sexual diversity and freedom, Western culture carries the traces of the much-valued Christian virtue of chastity up until today. The tension between Christianity and sexuality has been palpable on many occasions in the past, most notably during the so-called Fig Leaf Campaign (Council of Trent, 1563), when every artefact portraying nudity and eroticism was censored by literally hiding genitalia with leaves. Still, in today’s Western society, modesty, shame and penance persist in determining who is deemed a saint or sinner. Placed at the intersection with Inderjeet’s own bi-cultural Dutch-Indian background, these histories seem to be even more confusing. In many non-Western religions, nudity causes less controversy but the topic of eroticism is avoided in society. Here, sexuality has been carefully defused as a non-topic. How can these conflicting rules and interests be resolved when you find yourself between religions, cultures and homes?

With The Resurrection, Inderjeet aims to rewrite archaic views regarding sexuality and religion by literally setting them in stone. He subverts the object’s specific history by infusing them with sexual symbols and iconography and displaying them in places where they are not welcome. Here, he envisions new places where the forces at work that persist in making one feel less at home might be resolved.

RSVP HERE

This walk is in Dutch

Weekly walks in het Parool by Floor van Spaendonck and Gijs Stork. Theme: My Gender My Pride

Pride Amsterdam 2022 has started and the Queer Community shows its versatility, fight, and pride in all its colours. Culture, safe harbors and reflection form a walk.

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Theory U: self-reflection research on the core question: how can I let others learn from what I have learned in my coming out process.

So think about what that was like in which period of your life, what were important influences and reflections at the time. What were key moments that you realized: I have to come out, what kept you in it and what drove you out of that closet. And how can those insights help other young LGBT people in their coming out?

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Whole system: how to involve your family in your homosexuality.

So to what extent do you involve your parents in your life as a gay person? Within this session you involve the entire system around yourself as a gay or rainbow person in what it takes to be that way. To include the entire system and to discuss it with pears from pears. So parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and children of those from the rainbow community. With the aim of developing a more inclusive family and family.

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PRIDE CHANTANT 2022: Een Potje Zingen Met De Poten

Artiesten en kleinkunstenaars zingen ontroerende, mooie, humoristische, kritische, schrijnende en vrolijke liedjes over het seksueel anders zijn en de kleinburgerlijke normen. Zij brengen een eerbetoon aan de pioniers van toen en de artiesten en de tv-persoonlijkheden van nu die een weg hebben gebaand. Het is ook een hommage aan iedereen die zijn nek uitsteekt voor de acceptatie en emancipatie van homoseksualiteit in al haar vormen.

Laat je in deze avondvullende kleinkunstshow meeslepen op de regenboogklanken van de liedkunst! Beleef dit heerlijke theaterprogramma vol trots, hoop en vertrouwen!

Bedenker, zanger en presentator Evert de Vries: “Met Pride Chantant dienen we een tweeledig doel: amuseren én een statement maken. Bewust is gekozen voor een speelse titel: ‘Een potje zingen met de poten’. “Een titel met een knipoog. En daarmee ontnemen we mensen meteen een scheldwoord.”

Cabaretier en presentator Frans Mulder: “Diverse pioniers die een lans hebben gebroken voor de acceptatie van homoseksualiteit worden geëerd. Zoals Robert Long, Leen Jongewaard en Jaap van de Merwe, die met ‘Mensen zonder gladde ringen’ het eerste liedje over homoseksualiteit schreef. En de immers goedlachse Albert Mol. Hij was de eerste die op de televisie openlijk voor zijn homoseksualiteit uitkwam.

Theater Het Zonnehuis - Amsterdam-Noord
Woensdag 27 t/m zondag 31 juli 2022

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We Are Queer, the first gym for the LGBTQIA+ community in Amsterdam, opens its doors! On 28-07 there will be a festive opening from 5 pm to 7 pm at the 336 Wagenaarstraat to celebrate the opening of the gym.

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PRIDE CHANTANT 2022: Een Potje Zingen Met De Poten

Artiesten en kleinkunstenaars zingen ontroerende, mooie, humoristische, kritische, schrijnende en vrolijke liedjes over het seksueel anders zijn en de kleinburgerlijke normen. Zij brengen een eerbetoon aan de pioniers van toen en de artiesten en de tv-persoonlijkheden van nu die een weg hebben gebaand. Het is ook een hommage aan iedereen die zijn nek uitsteekt voor de acceptatie en emancipatie van homoseksualiteit in al haar vormen.

Laat je in deze avondvullende kleinkunstshow meeslepen op de regenboogklanken van de liedkunst! Beleef dit heerlijke theaterprogramma vol trots, hoop en vertrouwen!

Bedenker, zanger en presentator Evert de Vries: “Met Pride Chantant dienen we een tweeledig doel: amuseren én een statement maken. Bewust is gekozen voor een speelse titel: ‘Een potje zingen met de poten’. “Een titel met een knipoog. En daarmee ontnemen we mensen meteen een scheldwoord.”

Cabaretier en presentator Frans Mulder: “Diverse pioniers die een lans hebben gebroken voor de acceptatie van homoseksualiteit worden geëerd. Zoals Robert Long, Leen Jongewaard en Jaap van de Merwe, die met ‘Mensen zonder gladde ringen’ het eerste liedje over homoseksualiteit schreef. En de immers goedlachse Albert Mol. Hij was de eerste die op de televisie openlijk voor zijn homoseksualiteit uitkwam.

Theater Het Zonnehuis - Amsterdam-Noord
Woensdag 27 t/m zondag 31 juli 2022

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About the Storkie series of children’s books:

Storkie likes to ask questions. One day he wants to know what his life will be like when he grows up. His parents send him on a journey to meet all kinds of animals that differ in how they live, love and express themselves. This makes Storkie’s journey a varied delivery - for everyone to enjoy.

About Natural Foundation:

With your help, children can be raised safely, equally and freely no matter who they love, what they wear, or what pronouns they use - we should love others for their differences, not in spite of them. Attend the Storkie launch and hear directly from the writer why it is even more important to educate about gender and sexual diversity today! For more info visit:: www.naturalfoundation.earth

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Cycle tour along – including - Berlages’ architecture, Greek gods and a Rainbow Sky.

Vincent on Friday and Cineville join forces for a new museum evening on 29 July. This edition is all about color, color and color! The program is an ode to Etel Adnan. Her work can now be seen in the museum, in the exhibition Color as Language (Kleur als Taal).

Films from the International Queer & Migrant Film Festival

Movie: The Art of Sin
Auditorium: 8 - 8.45 pm & 10 - 10.45 pm

The IQMF organizes an annual film festival with the aim of highlighting films with queer and migration themes. In addition, the organization provides performances, talks and events.

On Vincent op Friday, IQMF curates a number of short films, offers live performances and you can look forward to other surprises.

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PRIDE CHANTANT 2022: Een Potje Zingen Met De Poten

Artiesten en kleinkunstenaars zingen ontroerende, mooie, humoristische, kritische, schrijnende en vrolijke liedjes over het seksueel anders zijn en de kleinburgerlijke normen. Zij brengen een eerbetoon aan de pioniers van toen en de artiesten en de tv-persoonlijkheden van nu die een weg hebben gebaand. Het is ook een hommage aan iedereen die zijn nek uitsteekt voor de acceptatie en emancipatie van homoseksualiteit in al haar vormen.

Laat je in deze avondvullende kleinkunstshow meeslepen op de regenboogklanken van de liedkunst! Beleef dit heerlijke theaterprogramma vol trots, hoop en vertrouwen!

Bedenker, zanger en presentator Evert de Vries: “Met Pride Chantant dienen we een tweeledig doel: amuseren én een statement maken. Bewust is gekozen voor een speelse titel: ‘Een potje zingen met de poten’. “Een titel met een knipoog. En daarmee ontnemen we mensen meteen een scheldwoord.”

Cabaretier en presentator Frans Mulder: “Diverse pioniers die een lans hebben gebroken voor de acceptatie van homoseksualiteit worden geëerd. Zoals Robert Long, Leen Jongewaard en Jaap van de Merwe, die met ‘Mensen zonder gladde ringen’ het eerste liedje over homoseksualiteit schreef. En de immers goedlachse Albert Mol. Hij was de eerste die op de televisie openlijk voor zijn homoseksualiteit uitkwam.

Theater Het Zonnehuis - Amsterdam-Noord
Woensdag 27 t/m zondag 31 juli 2022

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Thamon Ihsan van Blokland, Dre Urhahn, Marije Lytske Hester, Ebrima, Zalla & Asu

Born out of the Favela Painting project in Rio de Janeiro, United Painting is a collective of artists, writers and designers with a shared passion for creating huge works of art in unexpected places around the world.

From refugee camps to public squares, United Painting is a growing movement of creative activism, embracing all who love to participate - because we believe that: united we paint, divided we fail…

This exibition will last until 08.08.2022

I started shooting Drag Kings more than 2 years ago, when they were not so visible and the will was to create a space where they are seen. I photographed the ‘Kings’ with Richard Avedon in mind. I created a sterile environment in which the viewers are forced to look at the characters outside of their natural environment.

This exhibition will last until 07.08.2022

Pride Amsterdam presents “Better Together”, a photography project about the LGBTQ+ community in China by Chinese photographer Shawn Zhang.

His collection of photos and stories provides a glimpse into the lives of queer people in China. We hope you will be inspired by their personal stories, and enjoy the beauty and diversity of the Chinese LGBTQ+ community.

The annual Pride Walk returns on Saturday, July 30th 2022 at Damsquare!

The Pride Walk returns on Saturday, July 30th 2022. With the Pride Walk we want to draw attention to the situation of LGBTIs in countries where homosexuality is included in the penal code, by carrying the flags of those countries.

Program:

11:00 – 12:00 Demonstration Damsquare
12:00 – 13:00 Pride Walk

Route:

TBA.

House rules:

– Give each other enough space!
– Have respect for each other!
– Make enough noise!
– Show yourself in all colours!”

‘The Last Mile First’ exhibition will be shown from 30.07.2022 until 07.08.2022 at The Student Hotel Amsterdam City

This year’s open-air photo exhibition is themed ‘Celebrating the Unseen’, with which Pride Photo wants to highlight the most unseen groups and stories from the LGBTQIA+ community. The foundation wants to use photos to make visitors think about sexual and gender diversity.

Featuring the works of our ’21 winners and further images that have been specially selected by our Curators Simomo Bouj & Jan Hoek , the open-air, outdoor exhibitions are free to visit anytime.

See the winning photos by Haneem Christian, yoppy pieter, and the curated photos by Jean-Paul Paula, Kami Dubel, Robert Andy Coombs, Carlos Saavedra, Robert Siegelman, crazinisT artisT, Paul Koncewicz, David Těšínský, Prins de Vos, June Watsamon, Guangbo Li, Omar Braika and Luiz Maximiano .

Special thanks to Samira Damato , Yuki Kho , Lynnee Denise, Marjolijn Bronkhuyzen , Ayra “Kippy” Kip, Gijs Stork, Angelo Tromp, Zindzi Zwietering, Roeland Bosch, Hein-Jan Keijzer, Carsten Klein, Carsten Lund Thomsen and Jeroen Overweg.

The Female Photographers exhibition will be shown from 30.07.2022 until 07.08.2022 at The Student Hotel Amsterdam City

This year’s open-air photo exhibition is themed ‘Celebrating the Unseen’, with which Pride Photo wants to highlight the most unseen groups and stories from the LGBTQIA+ community. The foundation wants to use photos to make visitors think about sexual and gender diversity.

Featuring the works of our ’21 winners and further images that have been specially selected by our Curators Simomo Bouj & Jan Hoek , the open-air, outdoor exhibitions are free to visit anytime.

See the winning photos by Haneem Christian, yoppy pieter, and the curated photos by Jean-Paul Paula, Kami Dubel, Robert Andy Coombs, Carlos Saavedra, Robert Siegelman, crazinisT artisT, Paul Koncewicz, David Těšínský, Prins de Vos, June Watsamon, Guangbo Li, Omar Braika and Luiz Maximiano .

Special thanks to Samira Damato , Yuki Kho , Lynnee Denise, Marjolijn Bronkhuyzen , Ayra “Kippy” Kip, Gijs Stork, Angelo Tromp, Zindzi Zwietering, Roeland Bosch, Hein-Jan Keijzer, Carsten Klein, Carsten Lund Thomsen and Jeroen Overweg.

After the Pride Walk you can go to the Asian Pride stand in the Pride Park for a nice snack (gone = gone) and at 3:00 pm a Tai Chi session with Jessie Yingying Gong starts.

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PRIDE CHANTANT 2022: Een Potje Zingen Met De Poten

Artiesten en kleinkunstenaars zingen ontroerende, mooie, humoristische, kritische, schrijnende en vrolijke liedjes over het seksueel anders zijn en de kleinburgerlijke normen. Zij brengen een eerbetoon aan de pioniers van toen en de artiesten en de tv-persoonlijkheden van nu die een weg hebben gebaand. Het is ook een hommage aan iedereen die zijn nek uitsteekt voor de acceptatie en emancipatie van homoseksualiteit in al haar vormen.

Laat je in deze avondvullende kleinkunstshow meeslepen op de regenboogklanken van de liedkunst! Beleef dit heerlijke theaterprogramma vol trots, hoop en vertrouwen!

Bedenker, zanger en presentator Evert de Vries: “Met Pride Chantant dienen we een tweeledig doel: amuseren én een statement maken. Bewust is gekozen voor een speelse titel: ‘Een potje zingen met de poten’. “Een titel met een knipoog. En daarmee ontnemen we mensen meteen een scheldwoord.”

Cabaretier en presentator Frans Mulder: “Diverse pioniers die een lans hebben gebroken voor de acceptatie van homoseksualiteit worden geëerd. Zoals Robert Long, Leen Jongewaard en Jaap van de Merwe, die met ‘Mensen zonder gladde ringen’ het eerste liedje over homoseksualiteit schreef. En de immers goedlachse Albert Mol. Hij was de eerste die op de televisie openlijk voor zijn homoseksualiteit uitkwam.

Theater Het Zonnehuis - Amsterdam-Noord
Woensdag 27 t/m zondag 31 juli 2022

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Cycle tour along - among other things – “monuments” of two queer literati, a “queer” church and two “old hunker bunkers”.

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Making images of each other, of ourselves, of the world, of the future, of God. Can we leave it? Can we shake off the images of our existence? It’s a biblical theme. Don’t make a picture of me! Images of God and man are of all times. The church has been particularly involved. According to Essemie van Dunné, pastor of Mennonite Amsterdam, this is unbiblical. Can we let go of the images and believe in ourselves, the other and life again?

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The Pride period is the kick-off moment for the Queer Gaze Tour, which subsequently contributes to the representation of LGBTIQ+-communities throughout the year. There are two tours, in which they share their own perspective and experience as a queer individual, discuss artworks and objects in the exhibition Panorama Amsterdam.

Mala and Alejandra take you into the rich past and present of Amsterdam’s LGBTIQ+-communities. They share stories of inequality, injustice and oppression as well as stories of pride, collectivity and activism. By means of various artworks and objects, they go through Amsterdam’s LGBTIQ+-history and reflect on our collection with you. Which queer-related stories do you think should not be missing in the Amsterdam Museum?

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July 31st - Guided tour in dialogue form

Alejandra Ortiz (she/her) is a writer and grassroots activist. She is a trans woman with a history of marginalization and violence. Her history includes sex work, use of drugs, and a refugee and undocumented migrant experience among other intersections. She has been living in the Netherlands since 2015. Via her collective Papaya Kuir and other projects, Alejandra devotes her activism to the visibility and empowerment of marginalized communities. Her book The truth will set me free will be published coming October by Lebowski Publishers.

Practical information:

Date: July 31st
Time: 14.00 - 15.00 uur
Location: Amsterdam Museum, Amstel 51
Price: admission is free with the purchase of a museum ticket
Language of the tour: English

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August 7th - Mala Badi

Kenza Mala Badi (she/her), born in 1992, in Casablanca, Morocco currently lives, works, and studies in Amsterdam. Her performances and installations are a manifestation of her position on violence, collective trauma, and separation, and the possibilities of collective healing and imagining liberation. Ancestrality and intersectionality are central to their work and their artistic practice.

Practical information:

Date: August 7th
Time: 14.00 - 15.00 hrs
Location: Amsterdam Museum, Amstel 51
Price: admission is free with the purchase of a museum ticket
Language of the tour: English

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Join I.T Molaudzi a South African visual artist, designer, photographer and founder of Open Closet LBGTQ
Netherlands

Creativity is my thing and would love to share my work with the world since Im not sure how much time I have left. But with the spirit in me, life continues with a
positive energy.

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Queer Currents x Nuditae organize Let’s talk about sex (and representation), baby! A panel about queer representation in online sexual content.

People look to online sexual content as an educator for natural questions and curiosities. This is especially true for queers, as they deal with more stigma around their sexuality, due to societal heteronormative views. Is there enough queer representation in sexual content though? And are queers accurately represented? Or is it based on stereotypes? What’s the effect of no or inaccurate representation? How do we create a safe space for online sexual expression by queers? What’s needed for that?

Loes Jaber, moderator of the panel, discusses these issues with Sharmila Vooren, Laura van der Heide & Tijn de Jong. A 4th panel member will be announced soon.

Loes Jaber (moderator)

Loes is a Dutch-Palestinian woman with a passion for intersectional feminism and empowering the marginalized. She likes breaking through barriers that are being upheld to prevent equality. With that in mind she quit her comfortable and unchallenging government job to build Nuditae, an online content-sharing platform for sexual content, a space to feed sexual curiosity and normalize sexual pleasure. Nuditae is one of the organizing partners of this event.

Sharmila Vooren

Sharmila Vooren (she/her) is the founder of VAIN Beauty, as well as a gender expression coach and adult content creator. In her daily work, she commits her time to bringing out the best in people and creating safe spaces for queer, trans, and non-binary people. In her experience as a trans woman, she quickly became aware of how trans women are objectified and how this has an impact on her daily life. So she decided to become an adult content creator, emphasizing her sensuality and sharing the journey intimacy with herself. In the panel, she discusses the effects of porn on the transgender community, what sensuality means to her how she is utilizing her experience as a dominatrix into her daily life.

Laura van der Heide

Laura, the founder of feminist platform ‘FMNST’ and ‘FMNST Talks’, is an intersectional feminist at heart. Both online and offline she is involved in making information accessible about important social themes such as sexuality, gender, mental health and more. With in mind: “”you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”“, Laura knows how to communicate an important message in an accessible way with her sense of humor and without pointing fingers. Their mission is to offer people the words and safe space that Laura herself missed in the past and to educate people and create more understanding and empathy to bring people together.

Tijn de Jong

If there is one thing that’s important to Tijn de Jong, it’s staying soft. In an increasingly hardening world, he wants to actively believe in the power of empathy and kindness. Talking from one human to another, having conversations where we are standing next to each other instead of opposite one another.

Tijn is a theater maker, actor, public speaker and activist. On his Instagram he shares his own experiences and talks with others about social issues. Its goal is to break through taboos and reduce prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination.

As a transgender and non-binary person, Tijn is an expert in the field of sexual and gender diversity. The common link in his work is his own experience, both around his gender identity and sexuality and around his experiences with sexual violence and trauma.

In this way Tijn hopes to offer some representation, which he himself has missed enormously. He is actively advocating for the emancipation and inclusion of the LGBTQIA+ community. Working towards an open-minded, but above all, a softer world. (Source: Studio Stoofpot)

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PRIDE CHANTANT 2022: Een Potje Zingen Met De Poten

Artiesten en kleinkunstenaars zingen ontroerende, mooie, humoristische, kritische, schrijnende en vrolijke liedjes over het seksueel anders zijn en de kleinburgerlijke normen. Zij brengen een eerbetoon aan de pioniers van toen en de artiesten en de tv-persoonlijkheden van nu die een weg hebben gebaand. Het is ook een hommage aan iedereen die zijn nek uitsteekt voor de acceptatie en emancipatie van homoseksualiteit in al haar vormen.

Laat je in deze avondvullende kleinkunstshow meeslepen op de regenboogklanken van de liedkunst! Beleef dit heerlijke theaterprogramma vol trots, hoop en vertrouwen!

Bedenker, zanger en presentator Evert de Vries: “Met Pride Chantant dienen we een tweeledig doel: amuseren én een statement maken. Bewust is gekozen voor een speelse titel: ‘Een potje zingen met de poten’. “Een titel met een knipoog. En daarmee ontnemen we mensen meteen een scheldwoord.”

Cabaretier en presentator Frans Mulder: “Diverse pioniers die een lans hebben gebroken voor de acceptatie van homoseksualiteit worden geëerd. Zoals Robert Long, Leen Jongewaard en Jaap van de Merwe, die met ‘Mensen zonder gladde ringen’ het eerste liedje over homoseksualiteit schreef. En de immers goedlachse Albert Mol. Hij was de eerste die op de televisie openlijk voor zijn homoseksualiteit uitkwam.

Theater Het Zonnehuis - Amsterdam-Noord
Woensdag 27 t/m zondag 31 juli 2022

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A workshop organization and planning to make your dream come true, by Eus van der Grift, author of Tour de Trans.

“Beautiful report of a unique double journey: on foot and by bike from Groningen to Istanbul and from woman to gender nomad.”

Maximum 10 people! Please register by email to: alejandra@transgendernetwerk.nl
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Eus will sign his new book after the workshop (and he will take a stack of books with him so you can buy it immediately).

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PRIDE CHANTANT 2022: Een Potje Zingen Met De Poten

Artiesten en kleinkunstenaars zingen ontroerende, mooie, humoristische, kritische, schrijnende en vrolijke liedjes over het seksueel anders zijn en de kleinburgerlijke normen. Zij brengen een eerbetoon aan de pioniers van toen en de artiesten en de tv-persoonlijkheden van nu die een weg hebben gebaand. Het is ook een hommage aan iedereen die zijn nek uitsteekt voor de acceptatie en emancipatie van homoseksualiteit in al haar vormen.

Laat je in deze avondvullende kleinkunstshow meeslepen op de regenboogklanken van de liedkunst! Beleef dit heerlijke theaterprogramma vol trots, hoop en vertrouwen!

Bedenker, zanger en presentator Evert de Vries: “Met Pride Chantant dienen we een tweeledig doel: amuseren én een statement maken. Bewust is gekozen voor een speelse titel: ‘Een potje zingen met de poten’. “Een titel met een knipoog. En daarmee ontnemen we mensen meteen een scheldwoord.”

Cabaretier en presentator Frans Mulder: “Diverse pioniers die een lans hebben gebroken voor de acceptatie van homoseksualiteit worden geëerd. Zoals Robert Long, Leen Jongewaard en Jaap van de Merwe, die met ‘Mensen zonder gladde ringen’ het eerste liedje over homoseksualiteit schreef. En de immers goedlachse Albert Mol. Hij was de eerste die op de televisie openlijk voor zijn homoseksualiteit uitkwam.

Theater Het Zonnehuis - Amsterdam-Noord
Woensdag 27 t/m zondag 31 juli 2022

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On August 1 and 2, 2022, Stichting OndersteBoven will organize the first edition of Polderheuvel Pride.

Polderheuvel Pride is a new small festival where fellow citizens can get together. With a picnic, music and open air cinema.

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This museum will stay until 05.08.2022

Students present first Virtual Reality museum about LGBTQI+ culture
Festival Queer Currents and Pride Amsterdam have the scoop

Reliable and positive information about LGBTIQ+ culture appears to be difficult to find online. That is why students of the master Digital Design (AUAS) have built an LGBTQI+ museum in Virtual Reality. This summer, the Queer Currents festival and Pride Amsterdam have the scoop; The world’s first VR museum of queer culture will be open there from July 22 to August 7. The museum includes stories from experience, an exhibition of Pride Photo 2022 and a virtual canal parade. “We want to offer every visitor a moment of ‘aha, I didn’t know this yet.”

Watch the trailer here

Students Casper Sterrenburg, Anastasia Maimescu, Damir Ćatibović and Olico Matsjitadze of the HvA Master’s in Digital Design created the digital museum about LGBTIQA+ culture, commissioned by VR researcher Mirjam Vosmeer.

Prior to this, the students spoke with members of the LGBTIQA+ community of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA Pride), to hear from them where the biggest frustrations lie, and what virtual reality could mean in that regard. The main point turned out to be that it is difficult to find reliable and fun information about queer culture online. The students therefore designed this museum to provide that digital space; a surprising combination of personal experiences, media and art.

EUREKA MOMENT

The theme of the museum is ‘Celebrating Diversity’. “It is not the intention to force people to learn something,” says Casper Sterrenburg, one of the master’s students who conceived and developed the idea. “We especially wanted this to be a surprising, interactive experience about the LGBTIQ+ culture, where you also learn something new. Our goal is that everyone here eventually experiences such a eureka moment. This also became apparent during the user tests: we often heard: ‘Oh, I didn’t know this!’”

EXPERIENCES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

In the museum, visitors move virtually through a space with various exhibitions, wearing a VR headset. Upon entering, there is a wall with flags of the different LGBTIQ+ communities, and further on is a place where you can view and listen to personal experiences. These are stories that members of HvA Pride have previously shared.

The museum visitor also learns more gay rights worldwide, and about gender through the virtual ‘genderbread person’. The museum also has an exhibition with work from the Pride Photo Exhibition 2022.

In addition, the museum contains a so-called ‘Pride Experience Room’. Here you will find yourself in an imitation of the Pride in Amsterdam. You can look around you in 360 degrees, at canal houses, boats and people dancing on the quays. “Thanks to this innovative technology, we can bring experiences like Pride wherever you are in the world,” said Casper.

TRAVELING MUSEUM

Queer Currents organizer Gijs Stork was so enthusiastic about the students’ VR museum that he decided to show it during this festival, which takes place at several locations in the city before and during Amsterdam Pride. “I think this project is important because it gives substance to something that was missing, but which is needed: a queer museum, and especially a digital place. That’s why we like to show it during Queer Currents, because it shows the diversity within the queer community.”“

ABOUT COUNTRY BORDERS

The students are currently working on the final step: making the museum downloadable worldwide. Casper: “The software we use has enabled us to create a super realistic museum that looks very fine. The next step is to convert this to a version that people can install on their headset themselves. If the experience will soon become available in this way, this means that the museum will cross national borders. You will soon be able to experience the stories, art and virtual Amsterdam Pride anywhere in the world where there is access to VR.”

RESEARCH PROJECT VR FOR DIVERSITY

The students of the Master’s in Digital Design developed this museum on the basis of an assignment from AUAS researcher Mirjam Vosmeer, for her project VR for Diversity, and were coached by researcher Sky Leslie. Vosmeer (lectorate in Civic Interaction Design) asked them to develop a VR experience for her research into how users respond to interaction and storytelling. The insights that emerge from Vosmeer’s research can be used by the creative industry and cultural sector.

Practical information

The VR museum can be seen from July 22 at the Queer Currents festival (July 22 - August 7; varying locations) and at Pride University (part of Amsterdam Pride)

* Friday 22 July, student Casper Sterrenburg will present the museum on the opening day of Queer Currents at location Raamgracht 5-7.
* Saturday 23 July, the VR museum can be seen in the Tolhuistuin, at the launch of Queer Network Amsterdam).
* Between Monday 25 and Thursday 28 July the museum can be visited at location Rozenstraat 59 of Queer Currents
* From August 2 - 5, the museum can be found in the Student Hotel, where both Queer Currents and Pride University are held (part of Amsterdam Pride).

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Alternative swear word gay: gay is the number 1 swear word in the schoolyard among young people. Gay is not only used as a term of abuse in schoolyards, but also on the street, in sports clubs and in football stadiums.

So I like to organize a brainstorming session about what we can do about it: different or alternative swear words that are good. Or invent or involve influencers to stop insulting gay or gay. Invite speakers to learn from best practices of how Zwarte Piet changed to Piet during the Sinterklaas tradition in the Netherlands. And then draw conclusions together about what we can do about it.

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Alternatief scheldwoord homo: homo is nummer 1 scheldwoord op het schoolplein oner jongeren. Niet alleen wordt homo als scheldwoord gebruikt op schoolpleinen maar ook gewoon op straat, in sportclubs en in voetbalstadions. Dus organiseer ik graag een brainstorm wat we ertegen kunnen doen: andere of alternatieve scheldwoorden die lekker bekken. Of influencers verzinnen of betrekken erbij om schelden met homo of Gay te stoppen. Sprekers uitnodigen om van best practices te leren van hoe zwarte piet verandert is naar Piet tijdens de Sinterklaas traditie in Nederland. En dan samen conclusies trekken wat we eraan kunnen doen.

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This event is in Dutch

Over the past year, we have created visibility for the Amsterdam LGBTQI+ community, because our audiovisual installation toured four Public Libraries in different districts of Amsterdam. The pavilion has already gathered a lot of moving reactions from our fellow citizens.

Due to Corona vicissitudes, we were unable to bring the pavilion to life as a performance installation before.
That is why we are organizing a festive gathering in OBA Oosterdok, for the time being the last location in Amsterdam, during the upcoming Pride 2022.

Iconic*Stories cordially invites you to come and visit the pavilion in her new living room in the Amsterdam Public Library, Oosterdoks kade 143 location.
During Pride on Tuesday 2 August between 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm.

In the main hall, we perform a First Dance | performance at the installation that refers to the opening dance as we know it from the western heterosexual wedding party.
Afterwards, in the city bar on the 7th floor, there is the possibility to have a drink with the makers of Iconic*Stories, after which the audience can continue to the hit show CHMSX by Theater van de Heelheid in OBA Theater 20.00 - 21.15.

We would like to hear in RSVP if you plan to come?
Email: info@iconic-stories.nl

August 2, 2022:
walk-in at entrance: 18:30 – 19:30
OBA Oosterdok
Oosterdokskade 143
Amsterdam

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Het afgelopen jaar hebben we zichtbaarheid gecreëerd voor de Amsterdamse LGBTQI+ gemeenschap, doordat onze audiovisuele installatie een tour maakte langs vier Openbare Bibliotheken in verschillende stadsdelen van Amsterdam. Inmiddels heeft het paviljoen al heel wat ontroerende reacties verzameld van onze stadgenoten.

Vanwege Corona-perikelen waren we niet eerder in staat het paviljoen als performance installatie tot leven te laten komen.
Vandaar dat we een feestelijke bijeenkomst organiseren in OBA Oosterdok, voorlopig de laatste locatie in Amsterdam, tijdens de komende Pride 2022.

Iconic*Stories nodigt je van harte uit om het paviljoen te komen bezoeken in haar nieuwe huiskamer in de Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, vestiging Oosterdoks kade 143
Tijdens Pride op dinsdag 2 augustus tussen 18.30 en 19.30.

In de centrale hal, voeren we een First Dance | performance uit bij de installatie die verwijst naar de openingsdans zoals we die kennen uit het westers heteroseksueel huwelijksfeest.

Aansluitend is er in de stadsbar op de 7-de verdieping de mogelijkheid om een borrel te drinken met de makers van Iconic*Stories, waarna het publiek eventueel door kan gaan naar de hit-voorstelling CHMSX door Theater van de Heelheid in OBA Theater 20.00 - 21.15.

Graag horen we in RSVP of je van plan bent te komen?
Email: info@iconic-stories.nl

2 augustus 2022:
inloop bij ingang: 18:30 – 19.30
OBA Oosterdok
Oosterdokskade 143
Amsterdam

This event is in Dutch

CHMSX Stories, the hit performance of Amsterdam Pride 2021: raw, pumping
musical theater about sex with drugs can be seen again this summer.

“Thanks to the great live music and energetic playing, CHMSX Stories is a great piece
which can certainly also be an eye-opener.”
- Volkskrant ★★★★

Chemsex is hot! More and more we hear and read about chemsex, sex under the influence of
drugs.

What deeper desires lie beneath it? Are there dangers lurking or is it
just fun? When does lust become a burden and what about love?

In recent years we spoke to all kinds of stakeholders: beginners, users, bystanders, icons, emergency workers and party goers, across all ages. The true, honest, exciting, raw, lonely and also hilarious stories come together, whipped up by a phenomenal soundscape: CHMSX Stories. Beforehand: a CHMSX crash course. Afterwards: a conversation with a care worker. Although CHMSX Stories is LGBTQI+ oriented, the topic is universal. We all recognize the search for love. That is why everyone (16+) is very welcome.

More info and tickets www.chmsxstories.nl

WHERE AND WHEN

Tuesday 02 Aug 20.00 Queer Theater Festival Amsterdam OBA Oosterdokskade 143
Wednesday 03 Aug 20.00 Queer Theater Festival Amsterdam OBA Oosterdokskade 143

CREDITS

Text: Kes Blans Thomas de Bres Thomas Schoots | Directed by: Thomas
Shots | Game: Kes Blans, Thomas de Bres, Manuel Groothuysen | Music: Marc
Alberto | Writing supervisor: Rob de Graaf | Sound design: Marc Alberto | Technic:
Vincent Romijn | Theater producer: Thomas de Bres | Executive producer: Karlijn
Mofers | Business management: Leander van Splunter | Campaign image: Burobraak |
www.theatervandeheelheid.nl”

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CHMSX Stories, de hitvoorstelling van Amsterdam Pride 2021: rauw, pompend
muziektheater over sex met drugs, is deze zomer weer te zien.

“Dankzij de geweldige livemuziek en het energieke spel is CHMSX Stories een fijn stuk
dat zeker ook een eye-opener kan zijn.”
- Volkskrant ★★★★

Chemsex is hot! Steeds vaker horen en lezen we over chemsex, sex onder invloed van
drugs.

Welke diepere verlangens schuilen eronder? Liggen er gevaren op de loer of is het alleen maar leuk? Wanneer wordt lust een last en hoe zit het met de liefde?

Afgelopen jaren spraken wij alle soorten van betrokkenen: beginners, gebruikers, omstanders, icons, hulpverleners en partygangers, dwars door alle leeftijden heen. De waargebeurde, eerlijke, spannende, rauwe , eenzame en ook hilarische verhalen vormen samen, opgezweept door een fenomenale soundscape: CHMSX Stories. Vooraf: een snelcursus CHMSX. Erna: een gesprek met een zorgmedewerker. Hoewel CHMSX Stories LHBTQI+ georienteerd is, is het onderwerp universeel. De zoektocht naar liefde herkennen we allemaal. Daarom is iedereen (16+) heel
welkom.

Meer info en tickets RSVP HERE

WAAR EN WANNEER

Dinsdag 02 aug 20.00 Queer Theater Festival Amsterdam OBA Oosterdokskade 143
Woensdag 03 aug 20.00 Queer Theater Festival Amsterdam OBA Oosterdokskade 143

CREDITS

Tekst: Kes Blans Thomas de Bres Thomas Schoots | Regie: Thomas Schoots | Spel: Kes Blans, Thomas de Bres, Manuel Groothuysen | Muziek: Marc Alberto | Schrijfbegeleider: Rob de Graaf | Geluidsontwerp: Marc Alberto | Techniek: Vincent Romijn | Producent theater: Thomas de Bres | Uitvoerend producent: Karlijn Mofers | Zakelijke leiding: Leander van Splunter | Campagnebeeld: Burobraak | www.theatervandeheelheid.nl

Join our panel discussion to talk about access to healthcare for trans people.

We will be speaking about both; transition related healthcare and general healthcare for trans people. Which biases, gatekeepers and other problems do we face and how can we tackle them?

With: Brand Berghouwer
Moderated by: Alejandra Ortiz

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This workshop is in Dutch

Familygays: organizing a meeting for gays who later, after they had already married and started a family - came out.

Talking with peers about the experiences, what was it like for the ex-wife, the children, the new partner, in short, a pear to pear coaching in everything that comes with having a family and later coming out as a gay. being of yourself as gay.

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Familygays: bijeenkomst organiseren voor homo’s die later, nadat ze al getrouwd waren en een gezin hadden gesticht - uit de kast zijn gekomen.

Samen met pears praten over de ervaringen, hoe was het voor de ex vrouw, de kinderen, de nieuwe partner, kortom een pear to pear coaching bij alles wat komt kijken bij een gezin hebben en later uit de kast te zijn gekomen als homo. Doel: is je niet meer alleen voelen in deze positie en de rijkdom voelen van en het hebben van een gezin en het zijn van jezelf als homo.

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On the occasion of the Amsterdam Pride, Transgenders Amsterdam will hold its monthly Transgender evening on Wednesday 3 August in The Student Hotel.

During the Transgender evening, conviviality, meeting each other and exchanging experiences are central. Eating out together is an important part.

We will meet in the bar of the Student Hotel from 17:45 and we have reserved a table in the restaurant from 18:30.

After dinner we stay in the bar of the Student Hotel. The evening lasts until the last participants have left. (Usually around 11.)

All drinks and meals are at your own expense.

Due to the limited capacity you have to register in advance no later than Friday 30 July via e-mail to info@transgendersamsterdam.nl

How to fight straight normativity in public space?

A talk about the damages of queer pictures in public space with Prins de Vos and Levi Jacobs, moderated by Linda Duits.

Wie beweert dat zo’n foto niet bijdraagt aan meer tolerantie , weet niet wat tolerantie inhoudt’
- Prins de Vos in het Parool

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This event is in Dutch

CHMSX Stories, the hit performance of Amsterdam Pride 2021: raw, pumping
musical theater about sex with drugs can be seen again this summer.

“Thanks to the great live music and energetic playing, CHMSX Stories is a great piece
which can certainly also be an eye-opener.”
- Volkskrant ★★★★

Chemsex is hot! More and more we hear and read about chemsex, sex under the influence of
drugs.

What deeper desires lie beneath it? Are there dangers lurking or is it
just fun? When does lust become a burden and what about love?

In recent years we spoke to all kinds of stakeholders: beginners, users, bystanders, icons, emergency workers and party goers, across all ages. The true, honest, exciting, raw, lonely and also hilarious stories come together, whipped up by a phenomenal soundscape: CHMSX Stories. Beforehand: a CHMSX crash course. Afterwards: a conversation with a care worker. Although CHMSX Stories is LGBTQI+ oriented, the topic is universal. We all recognize the search for love. That is why everyone (16+) is very welcome.

More info and tickets www.chmsxstories.nl

WHERE AND WHEN

Tuesday 02 Aug 20.00 Queer Theater Festival Amsterdam OBA Oosterdokskade 143
Wednesday 03 Aug 20.00 Queer Theater Festival Amsterdam OBA Oosterdokskade 143

CREDITS

Text: Kes Blans Thomas de Bres Thomas Schoots | Directed by: Thomas
Shots | Game: Kes Blans, Thomas de Bres, Manuel Groothuysen | Music: Marc
Alberto | Writing supervisor: Rob de Graaf | Sound design: Marc Alberto | Technic:
Vincent Romijn | Theater producer: Thomas de Bres | Executive producer: Karlijn
Mofers | Business management: Leander van Splunter | Campaign image: Burobraak |
www.theatervandeheelheid.nl”

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DUTCH

CHMSX Stories, de hitvoorstelling van Amsterdam Pride 2021: rauw, pompend
muziektheater over sex met drugs, is deze zomer weer te zien.

“Dankzij de geweldige livemuziek en het energieke spel is CHMSX Stories een fijn stuk
dat zeker ook een eye-opener kan zijn.”
- Volkskrant ★★★★

Chemsex is hot! Steeds vaker horen en lezen we over chemsex, sex onder invloed van
drugs.

Welke diepere verlangens schuilen eronder? Liggen er gevaren op de loer of is het alleen maar leuk? Wanneer wordt lust een last en hoe zit het met de liefde?

Afgelopen jaren spraken wij alle soorten van betrokkenen: beginners, gebruikers, omstanders, icons, hulpverleners en partygangers, dwars door alle leeftijden heen. De waargebeurde, eerlijke, spannende, rauwe , eenzame en ook hilarische verhalen vormen samen, opgezweept door een fenomenale soundscape: CHMSX Stories. Vooraf: een snelcursus CHMSX. Erna: een gesprek met een zorgmedewerker. Hoewel CHMSX Stories LHBTQI+ georienteerd is, is het onderwerp universeel. De zoektocht naar liefde herkennen we allemaal. Daarom is iedereen (16+) heel
welkom.

Meer info en tickets RSVP HERE

WAAR EN WANNEER

Dinsdag 02 aug 20.00 Queer Theater Festival Amsterdam OBA Oosterdokskade 143
Woensdag 03 aug 20.00 Queer Theater Festival Amsterdam OBA Oosterdokskade 143

CREDITS

Tekst: Kes Blans Thomas de Bres Thomas Schoots | Regie: Thomas Schoots | Spel: Kes Blans, Thomas de Bres, Manuel Groothuysen | Muziek: Marc Alberto | Schrijfbegeleider: Rob de Graaf | Geluidsontwerp: Marc Alberto | Techniek: Vincent Romijn | Producent theater: Thomas de Bres | Uitvoerend producent: Karlijn Mofers | Zakelijke leiding: Leander van Splunter | Campagnebeeld: Burobraak | www.theatervandeheelheid.nl

This screening has Dutch subtitles

Queer cinema classic LAN YU by acclaimed director Stanley Kwan attracted sold-out audiences at the CinemAsia Film Festival last May and touched the visitors intensely.

The story is about an unexpected relationship between two men that is filled with passion, deceit, desire and regret, set against the backdrop of Beijing in the 1980s. Winner of five Golden Horse Awards.

The program is complemented by two short films:
I DIDN’T DARE TO SPEAK (NL, 2021) and SOY SAUCE (Germany, 2020).

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Queer cinema klassieker LAN YU van de veelgeprezen regisseur Stanley Kwan trok afgelopen mei uitverkochte zalen op het CinemAsia Film Festival en wist de bezoekers intens te raken.

Het verhaal gaat over een onverwachte relatie tussen twee mannen die gevuld is met passie, bedrog, verlangen en spijt, tegen de achtergrond van Beijing in de jaren ’80. Winnaar van vijf Golden Horse Awards.

Het programma wordt aangevuld met twee korte films:
I DIDN’T DARE TO SPEAK (NL, 2021) en SOY SAUCE (Duitsland, 2020).

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Shevan will arrive at The Student Hotel on 06.08.2022, This tour is mainly in Dutch.

Ik ben Shevan van der Lugt, LGBT activist Ik kom oorspronkelijk uit Syrië, en is 7 jaar geleden naar Nederland gekomen (zie: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/05/11/belaagde-migrant-shevan-de-conducteur-zei-dat-ik-geen-keppeltje-had-moeten-dragen-a4043326 ).

Vorig jaar, toen door de maatregelen omtrent corona de Pride niet door kon gaan, heb ik een fietstocht van Utrecht naar Amsterdam georganiseerd (zie: https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/270797/shevan-organiseert-alternatieve-pride-samen-staan-we-sterk ). Dit jaar wil ik hetzelfde organiseren, maar het groter maken.

Waarom Fietsen?
Fietsen in typisch Nederlands. Het is duurzaam en geeft een gevoel van vrijheid.

Het plan

Een fietstocht organiseren van Utrecht naar Rotterdam, Den Haag en dan Amsterdam), geleid door mij, Shevan. Uit verschillende steden een prominente persoon die een stuk van de inclusieve regenboogvlag meeneemt. Deze worden samengebracht in Amsterdam tijdens de Canal Pride.

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This event is in Dutch

About the Storkie series of children’s books:

Storkie likes to ask questions. One day he wants to know what his life will be like when he grows up. His parents send him on a journey to meet all kinds of animals that differ in how they live, love and express themselves. This makes Storkie’s journey a varied delivery - for everyone to enjoy.

About Natural Foundation:

With your help, children can be raised safely, equally and freely no matter who they love, what they wear, or what pronouns they use - we should love others for their differences, not in spite of them. Attend the Storkie launch and hear directly from the writer why it is even more important to educate about gender and sexual diversity today! For more info visit:: www.naturalfoundation.earth

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Over de serie kinderboeken Storkie:

Storkie stelt graag vragen. Op een dag wil hij weten hoe zijn leven eruit zal zien als hij groot is. Zijn ouders sturen hem op reis om allerlei dieren te ontmoeten die verschillen in hoe ze leven, van wie ze houden en hoe ze zich uiten. Dit maakt de reis van Storkie tot een gevarieerde bezorging - voor iedereen om van te genieten.

Over Natural Foundation:

Met jouw hulp kunnen kinderen veilig, gelijk en vrij worden opgevoed, ongeacht van wie ze houden, wat ze dragen of welke voornaamwoorden ze gebruiken - we moeten van anderen houden vanwege hun verschillen, niet ondanks hen. Woon de lancering van Storkie bij en hoor rechtstreeks van de schrijver waarom het vandaag de dag nog belangrijker is om voorlichting te geven over gender en seksuele diversiteit! Voor meer info bezoek:: www.naturalfoundation.earth

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Come and test the new VR experience! Starting next school year, it will be touring the GSAs in schools. Now a one-time experience for everyone!

Do you live in the world of a trans boy or trans girl. Be sure to bring all your (cis) friends!

Furthermore, a chat (Dutch spoken) with Loena Maas (Pride Ambassador) and Freya Terpstra (coordinator gender talk)

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Driven by the mantra that beauty has no boundaries, makeup artist Timothy Paul made it his mission to make everyone look and feel beautiful.

On the 4th of August, he will give a live makeup tutorial session at Framer Framed, particularly for people who identify as trans/nonbinary. In the session, he will go through skincare and grooming tips for all genders. Learn all the tips to help put your best face forward with Timothy!

The workshop is free and in English.

For registration please email timothy.aarons876@gmail.com

Timothy Paul’s signature look is the image of a bold, strong, and assertive individual prepared for any challenge — each in their own way. Which is the focus of the workshop on the 29th of May. His driving force is the belief that beauty should be crafted and accessible to everyone. With this in mind, he has always strived to make everyone feel beautiful. He is carefully carving out spaces for people who traditionally have been left out of the beauty conversation.

Clients are diverse and include Linda Magazine, King Kong Magazine, Fucking Young Magazine, Coeval Magazine, and Sky writings Magazine. Key collaborators include Jan Hoek Studio, Fleur Feringa and Cathelijne Blok.”

QUEER TABLE TALK with King Faisel & Chris Rijksen (Transketeers)

Thursday Augsust 4, 18:30u
Equals Amsterdam, Raamgracht 6

In collaboration with Queer Currents, Youtube is hosting a table talk on the 4th of august at 18.30hr. During this table talk Chris Rijksen, founder of the film producing collective the Transketeers and King Faisel, the first openly gay Dutch rapper and Youtube creator, will take you on their personal queer community journey.

Expect open and honest conversations about how Faisel utilizes rap and Chris uses film as a way of creating a more inclusive and representative media landscape. Join the conversation during the Q&A followed by a performance by Queer is not a Manifesto.

In short

Hosts: Chris Rijksen & King Faisel
Location: Equals Amsterdam, Raamgracht 6
Time: 18:30 - 22:00

Free RSVP HERE

QUEER IS NOT A MANIFESTO | Fuck You Square, I’m a Circle!

Fuck You Square, I’m a Circle! On the 4th of August exciting extraordinary extravaganza program with talks, performances, percussions, poems, rap, drag king, lip sync @equals.amsterdam ????????????⚡️Join us from 20.30u. ????????????‍♀️????????‍????⚡️????????????????‍????????????‍♂️????????‍♀️????‍♀️

@sharanbala @baqueflamingo @maviveloso @vives @sillydickk @queercurrents @gijsstork

About Queer is not a Manifesto

QUEER IS NOT A MANIFESTO is an organization that centers (BIPOC) queer and fluid Identities through activist practices. We do artistic direction, (event) production, coördination, communication and PR in order to push the queer agenda on queer terms. We use tools like a radical access plan and safe(r) spaces policies to actively counter colonial narratives as well as sexism, racism, ableism, gender classification, transfobia and othering. QUEER IS NOT A MANIFESTO is founded by Aynouk Tan and Mini Maxwell.

Free RSVP HERE

Join our amazing conversation about sex work with Ceyenne Doroshow founder of GLITS, Sabrina Sanchez from Sex Work Europe and Dinah Bons from Trans United Europe.

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This event is in Dutch

Cycle tour along – among others – Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), the Holocaust Monument and canal houses of two queer art popes.

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Fietstocht langs – onder meer – Stolpersteine (struikelstenen), het Holocaust Monument en grachtenhuizen van twee queer kunstpausen.

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This webseries is in Dutch

Caro Ilias de Feijter is neither man nor woman, but non-binary. Sometimes they felt it would be better to keep their identity hidden.

Caro Ilias underwent breast removal surgery and from that moment decided not to hide any longer. Hen makes the web series ‘without breasts’ about this, in which Caro Ilias talks with his environment and other non-binary people. Through these conversations, they explore how to live as an openly non-binary person.

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Caro Ilias de Feijter is geen man en geen vrouw, maar non-binair. Soms had hen het gevoel dat het beter zou zijn om diens identiteit verborgen te houden.

Caro Ilias onderging een borst verwijderende operatie en besloot vanaf dat moment zich niet langer te verbergen. Hen maakt hierover de webserie ‘zonder borsten’, waarin Caro Ilias in gesprek gaat met diens omgeving en andere non-binaire mensen. Aan de hand van deze gesprekken onderzoekt hen hoe te leven als openlijk non-binair persoon.

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Come and enjoy a beautiful afternoon surrounded by community.

At this event you will be able to get trans-related information, meet others, play table-top games and have a cozy time.

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Say hi to your tour guide (fully booked)

I am Sanne, your queer city guide and professional storyteller. As a queer local & local queer, I can show you the hidden gems, pink spots and stories that you won’t find in ‘the books’. Through my coming out experiences I started sharing my personal stories - in schools, theaters, and workplaces, which was a tremendous success. Not only personally but also award-winning. Being able to meet queers and allies from all over the world, still gives me after more than 5 years (2022), a natural high. ​

How it all started? Cliché but true: I moved to Amsterdam and fell in love with a girl for the very first time. And, underneath the rainbow flag… we kissed. And I never looked back.

I’d love to tell you more about it - and other stories.

You are most welcome: the rainbow is for everyone.

xoxo

Sanne
(she/her)

More information to come

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This event is in Dutch

Led by zinester Chetana Pai, we’ll get to work on creating a guide that shows you what makes you feel loved and what doesn’t, regardless of expectations and standards. If you know what you want, you can talk about it with your friends, family and partner(s) for more equal and authentic relationships.

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Onder leiding van zinester Chetana Pai gaan we aan de slag met het maken van een gids waarin je laat zien wat jou geliefd doet voelen en wat niet, ongeacht verwachtingen en normen. Als jij weet wat je wil, kun je daarover in gesprek met je vrienden, familie en partner(s) voor meer gelijkwaardige en authentieke relaties.

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Join the pre-presentation of the book De Waarheid zal mij bevrijden (The Truth Will Set Me Free), by author Alejandra Ortiz.

Presented by Brand Berghouwer

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19:00 : SHALL I COMPARE YOU TO A SUMMER’S DAY? (2022) | IQMF TAKEOVER

At the beginning of August it is PRIDE in Amsterdam. As part of our PRIDE programme, IQMF (International Queer & Migrant Film Festival) takes over the programming of our Cinema for a day. They will also show their festival favorite and hit from the last Berlinale: Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?

Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day? is a contemporary queer musical that draws inspiration from Arabic folktales as a formal reference, and Egyptian pop music as its primary sound material. It is based on the personal love diary of filmmaker Mohammad Shawky Hassan. The film is told in the form of a ‘Thousand and One Nights’ story, in which stories playfully unfold through conversations between Scheherazade, a narrator who never appears on screen, and ghosts of former lovers.

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Lately, life for LGBTQ+ individuals in China has become a lot more challenging due to increased state control and censorship of queer activities.

In Popo FAN’s documentary NEW BEIJING, NEW MARRIAGE, gay couples take to the streets in 2009 to ‘get married’.Ten years later, in 2019, drag queen Jessica performs live and online in front of thousands of fans - this is captured in Xiaogang WEI’s documentary CHINA PK QUEEN. Both situations are now unthinkable in China. After the film, we will talk to both directors and queer organizers Jo and Maoyi about how the LGBTQ+ situation has changed dramatically in China in a short space of time and how it affects their lives as activists and filmmakers and the lives of queer people.

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De laatste tijd is het leven voor LHBTQ+ personen in China een stuk uitdagender geworden door de toegenomen staatscontrole en censuur op queer activiteiten.

In de documentaire NEW BEIJING, NEW MARRIAGE van Popo FAN gaan homoseksuele koppels in 2009 de straat op om te ‘trouwen’. Tien jaar later, in 2019, treedt drag queen Jessica live en online op voor duizenden fans - dit wordt vastgelegd in de documentaire CHINA PK QUEEN van Xiaogang WEI. Beide situaties zijn nu ondenkbaar in China. Na de film gaan we met beide regisseurs en queer organisatoren Jo en Maoyi in gesprek over hoe de LHBTQ+ situatie op korte tijd enorm is veranderd in China en hoe het hun leven als activisten en filmmakers en de levens van queer personen beïnvloedt.

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A dazzling party with an Asian touch where everyone can feel welcome. Come celebrate the first edition of Asian Pride with us until the small hours.

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Een spetterende party met een Asian touch waar iedereen zich welkom kan voelen. Kom tot in de kleine uurtjes de eerste editie van Asian Pride met ons vieren.

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The famous Canal Parade returns on Saturday, August 6th 2022. Start: 12:00 at Oosterdok.

Route

Oosterdok – Nieuwe Herengracht – Amstel – Prinsengracht – Westerdok

Participants

Participants who had managed to secure a place in the 25th boat parade remain assured for participation in 2022. Our participants submitted a detailed concept and the 80 best concepts are awarded a spot in the world-famous parade on August 6th!

See here Canal Parade participants 2022

Regulations Canal Parade 2022

Categories

Because in recent years there has been a discussion about the orientation and social involvement of different participants, a new classification of the participant categories has been made. The new classification does more justice to everybody’s part in the struggle for the emancipation of LGBTIs and the support for our Pride.

Boats along the route

Due to the increasing number of visitors who want to join the Pride with their boat and the limited space available, all boats along the route need a Pride Vignette. If you want to take your boat to the Pride to spend time with family or friends, you can do so with a boat up to <10 meters. This ‘new’ regulation prevents parties who do not contribute to the organization from celebrating their own party at our event and thereby also causing the most inconvenience. The sale of the Pride vignettes will start on July 1st 2022 via www.botenparade.nl.

In all its glory, the “Phoenix Rising” boat shows the diversity of Asian LGBTQ+ in the Netherlands.

The very first Pan-Asian Pride Boat is an initiative of CinemAsia and Yip.com. Specially designed for Pride Amsterdam, a broad Asian base sails along the Amsterdam canals in the midst of the other boats.

The famous Canal Parade returns on Saturday, August 6th 2022. Start: 12:00 at Oosterdok.

Route

Oosterdok – Nieuwe Herengracht – Amstel – Prinsengracht – Westerdok

Participants

Participants who had managed to secure a place in the 25th boat parade remain assured for participation in 2022. Our participants submitted a detailed concept and the 80 best concepts are awarded a spot in the world-famous parade on August 6th!

See here Canal Parade participants 2022

Regulations Canal Parade 2022

Categories

Because in recent years there has been a discussion about the orientation and social involvement of different participants, a new classification of the participant categories has been made. The new classification does more justice to everybody’s part in the struggle for the emancipation of LGBTIs and the support for our Pride.

Boats along the route

Due to the increasing number of visitors who want to join the Pride with their boat and the limited space available, all boats along the route need a Pride Vignette. If you want to take your boat to the Pride to spend time with family or friends, you can do so with a boat up to <10 meters. This ‘new’ regulation prevents parties who do not contribute to the organization from celebrating their own party at our event and thereby also causing the most inconvenience. The sale of the Pride vignettes will start on July 1st 2022 via www.botenparade.nl.

Join us for an evening of queer stories and interactions during the Queer Poetry Night at Framer Framed on the 6th of August. In commemoration of Pride, Unwanted Words and LIMBO present a stage for community engagement and a safer space for queer expression.

Admission free, reservation is required via Eventbrite.
Please register to perform during the Open Mic from the link.

As a collective, Unwanted Words take a stance against racism, xenophobia, ableism and other forms of structural and direct discrimination. As a collective, they organise a series of poetry nights for queer expressions and encourage all queer voices to take to the stage their literary works.

The event in Framer Framed will be part of this ongoing series of Queer Poetry Nights by Unwanted Words. The collaboration was inspired by the Framer Framed collaboration with the LIMBO collective. LIMBO started as a project that welcomes all queer individuals with a refugee background to create meaningful interactions, knowledge and skill acquisition.

During the Queer Poetry Night, all queer voices are encouraged to take the mic and share their literary work. Most forms of literary expression are allowed, such as spoken word, poetry, op-eds, drama, and performances, as long as the speakers commit to comply with the 5-minute maximum allocated time per person. It is important to mention that we encourage freedom of speech. However, we want to keep a safe space where both the speakers and the audience feel at home and we feel nurtured and safe. So any forms of hate speech or targeted attacks on a community, group, or individual are not allowed.

This event is part of the 4th edition of Queer Currents festival. Queer Currents is an events platform that brings more content and culture to Queerness. Their goal is to bring more diverse and inclusive, relevant content, culture and art to the Pride Amsterdam weeks.

About

Unwanted Words is the first platform for up & coming LGBTQ+ poets and Spoken Word artists in Rotterdam & around. We seek to offer opportunities for queer connection and growth such as Queer Poetry Nights series, spoken word workshops and digital content that promote and amplify queer voices from an intersectional approach. The goal of the collective as a platform is to create spaces for LGBTQ+ talent to thrive and connect with like-minded communities.

The event will be photographed and filmed. Please let us know in advance if you don’t prefer your picture or video taken.

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MINA RWINA party will be mixing clubbing, art and rest to the sound of WANA tunes and prioritising poc/queer communities.

For this first edition, August 6th at Sexyland_World, the Ya Yemma crew is joining the production for a market, screening/installation and performance, before we dive into the club night program with 3 different ROOOOOMMMMSSSs and an OUTSIDE AREA!!!!

Come to lay and chill that body horizontally, vertically or diagonally! Your wish is your command, any way you like.
What we bring to you is sun/food/art/space to relax and hardcore dancing. Have A dance off with yourself and other queeraties to amazing WANA tunes, with cozy comforts and delicious snacks! The perfect spot for the eclectic gangs!
U find somewhat for everyone all in one spot located 5 min from Amsterdam- central station in Sexyland_world.

SOOOOO!

Chill spot
Outdoors
Performance
Screening
Another performance
DJ sets
Market
Another club
Fooooddddd
Drinks
Sweat
Etc.

Come connect, watch a show, take a breath and get sweating!

Screening:

Ya Yemma : Clueless Captain
Sichuan Amsterdam : Be spicy Be you

Market:

@da_leylaa
@tsunximsobaby
@dinisvvreden
@ms.kiwi_ink007

Performances:

@simomo_bouj
@snowblackmimi
@Jonathan_de_regt

DJ’s:

@amritasvenomjuice
@brofen2000
@retro_cassetta
@cheb.runner
moreTBA

Tickets :
https://sexylandworld.stager.nl/​web/​tickets/​111212442

Community Tickets (incl. €3 membership)
€8.00
Full Price Tickets (incl. €3 membership)
€14.00

On Saturday August 6th we celebrate the second edition of the Colourful Pride Garden Fest in the lovely Garden of the Tolhuistuin.

We start the evening at 18:00h with Queer Stand Up Comedy and we end the night at the Colourful Pride After Party in Club Tolhuistuin from 22:00h till late. A day on which we come together, listen to each other, laugh together, find and celebrate love. A day on which we celebrate BIPoC Queer Joy! You are very welcome to enjoy this beautiful day with us.

A day full of entertainment, dancers, a live Caribbean surprise, delicious snacks and a lovely welcome drink for the first 50 people.

Tickets

Colourful Pride Garden Fest @ Tolhuistuin tuin

18.00 - 22.00 uur
€10,50 (inclusief lidmaatschap & servicekosten)
Colourful Pride Afterparty
Tolhuistuin clubzaal:
22.00 - 04.00 uur
€17,- (inclusief lidmaatschap & servicekosten)
Colourful Pride combikaart (voor tuin & club)
18.00 - 04.00 uur
€25,- (inclusief lidmaatschap & servicekosten)

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This tour is in Dutch

Cycle tour along - among others - the “”Rainbow Passerel”“, a former ballet school for the “Billy Elliots” from New West, an “old hunkerbunker” and street signs of queer resistance heroes.

Fietstocht langs - onder meer – de “Regenboog Passerel”, een voormalige balletschool voor de “Billy Elliots” uit Nieuw-West, een “oude hunkerbunker” en straatnaamborden van queer verzetshelden.

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The Pride period is the kick-off moment for the Queer Gaze Tour, which subsequently contributes to the representation of LGBTIQ+-communities throughout the year. There are two tours, in which they share their own perspective and experience as a queer individual, discuss artworks and objects in the exhibition Panorama Amsterdam.

Mala and Alejandra take you into the rich past and present of Amsterdam’s LGBTIQ+-communities. They share stories of inequality, injustice and oppression as well as stories of pride, collectivity and activism. By means of various artworks and objects, they go through Amsterdam’s LGBTIQ+-history and reflect on our collection with you. Which queer-related stories do you think should not be missing in the Amsterdam Museum?

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August 7th - Guided tour in dialogue form

Kenza Mala Badi (she/her), born in 1992, in Casablanca, Morocco currently lives, works, and studies in Amsterdam. Her performances and installations are a manifestation of her position on violence, collective trauma, and separation, and the possibilities of collective healing and imagining liberation. Ancestrality and intersectionality are central to their work and their artistic practice.

Practical information:

Date: August 7th
Time: 14.00 - 15.00 hrs
Location: Amsterdam Museum, Amstel 51
Price: admission is free with the purchase of a museum ticket
Language of the tour: English

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July 31st - Alejandra Ortiz

Alejandra Ortiz (she/her) is a writer and grassroots activist. She is a trans woman with a history of marginalization and violence. Her history includes sex work, use of drugs, and a refugee and undocumented migrant experience among other intersections. She has been living in the Netherlands since 2015. Via her collective Papaya Kuir and other projects, Alejandra devotes her activism to the visibility and empowerment of marginalized communities. Her book The truth will set me free will be published coming October by Lebowski Publishers.

Practical information:

Date: July 31st
Time: 14.00 - 15.00 uur
Location: Amsterdam Museum, Amstel 51
Price: admission is free with the purchase of a museum ticket
Language of the tour: English

RSVP HERE

The In-Between is a short documentary that tells the story of Mr. Moxie, a transmasculine Black teenager coming of age in Amsterdam. The film archives Moxie’s evolution as an artist and his creation of “hope allows for joy in The In-Between”, a 4 meter wide mural located at Tolhuistuin in the Noord section of Amsterdam.

Noleca Radway, Moxie’s mother, will share an excerpt from her essay Out & Open, part of upcoming anthology, Trust Kids published by AK Press.

The screening will be followed by a circle practice reflection that will allow participants to deepen the understanding and acutability around transgender liberataion. Circle practice is an ancient form of meeting that has gathered human beings into respectful conversations for thousands of years. It is a chance for people to truly stop, sit down, and listen to each other. Circle practice comes from a number of indigenous traditions and has been used by many non-native people for generations to facilitate meaningful interaction. This session will be facilitated by Noleca Radway.

About Noleca Radway

Noleca Radway is the founder of Queer Media, a family production company specializing in audio and visual arts through a Black Queer lens. Their work includes Raising Rebels, HBO’s Between the World and Me Podcast, and POV/American Documentary’s Otherly Series. Noleca specializes in amplifying multiple voices and mediums to tell a story and create impact. She considers the ability to make connections between people, philosophies and dimensions as her personal superpower. She attributes this to being a Bronx-raised, first-generation Black Jamaican wife, mother, teacher, educator, and Octavia Butler fan. Noleca graduated from Howard University and attended the Bank Street College of Education. She lives in Amsterdam with her partner and their three children.

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This event is in Dutch

In 2021 was in het Joods Museum het spraakmakende Zijn joden wit? te zien, een tentoonstelling gecureerd door Gideon Querido van Frank, Lievnath Faber en Anousha Nzume. Centraal stond de vraag waarom antisemitisme vaak het vergeten kind is in intersectioneel activisme. Onderdeel van de tentoonstelling was een video waarin een diversiteit aan mensen (van kleur en wit, joods en niet-joods, trans en cis en non-binair), zoals Gloria Wekker en Stephan Sanders, zich bogen over deze vraag.

Op 7 augustus zal Gideon Querido van Frank een inleiding geven op de tentoonstelling en zal de video (20 minuten) integraal getoond worden, gevolgd door de QA met de zaal.

Watch the trailer HERE

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English

In 2021, the Jewish Museum hosted the exhibition Are Jews white? on display, curated by Gideon Querido van Frank, Lievnath Faber and Anousha Nzume. On why anti-Semitism is often the forgotten child in intersectional activism. Part of the exhibition was a video in which various speakers, such as Gloria Wekker and Stefan Sanders.

Watch the trailer HERE

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Bewitched Clothing

The “Clothing Hospital” is a symbolic, nomadic space. The project involves three creative duos consisting of individuals from different generations who share a history in terms of how they went about constructing their own rebellious identities. This collaborative work is meant to embody memory and to recognize trans women and gender non-conforming individuals who have died of AIDS in Mexico since the 1980s.

The “Clothing Hospital” aims to further the work begun in 1987 by the “NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt” in San Francisco, and by Colectivo Sol in Mexico City as of 1990. The goal is to keep compiling a visual trans/queer history, using autobiographical storytelling, embroidery and patchwork as characteristic tools of artivism and transfeminism.

Curator: César González-Aquirre Artists: Brandy Basurto Emma Yesica Duvali Erick Molina Samuel Nicolle Terry Holiday María Ponce

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