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SUMMARY:flour\, water\, soil
DESCRIPTION:What is held in the ground is never singular. The soil holds what has been built and what has been undone. It carries gestures of care sedimented within violent histories. To approach the ground\, here\, is to approach a field of entanglement—a temporal convergence of soil\, labour\, and memory. Shaped by particular landscapes and micro-topographies\, ingredients\, gestures\, and tastes become a living archive carried within and through practice.  \n\n\n\nflour\, water\, soil\, initiated by maria khatchadourian\, takes shape through new and adapted site-specific works by Areej Ashhab\, the duo Common Ground (Anna Celda and Saja Amro)\, Ola Hassanain\, maria khatchadourian\, Ai Ozaki and belit sağ. Together\, the works in the exhibition attend to soil\, seed\, water\, fermentation\, and ruin as sites where care and violence are entangled—holding stories of repair\, dispossession\, and continuity. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition reflects on food\, land\, and agricultural practice as the infrastructures through which geographies of displacement\, colonial rupture\, and kinship are carried and contested—fragile geographies that resist erasure through dialect\, embodied knowledge\, and ancestral recipes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo gather is to remain with others\, to share what is available\, to sustain forms of relation under pressure. With an extended community programme\, the exhibition unfolds through acts of gathering: conversations\, reading sessions\, workshops\, shared meals\, foraging\, and collective actions. Emerging as an exhibition continually in flux\, flour\, water\, soil will expand through gestures that activate the space as a lived\, living\, and sustaining environment. \n\n\n\nVisual identity by Farah Fayyad. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Mondriaan Fund. \n\n\n\nPress release (pdf)Press kit (zip)
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/flour-water-soil/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260430T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260523T235959
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SUMMARY:Para-siting: Cripping Warmoesstraat
DESCRIPTION:Cripping Warmoesstraat is an inquiry into crip* embodiment in Amsterdam through herbalist practices and solidarity networks. Working with the seasonality and cartography of plants\, fungi\, and bacteria that persist in the city\, they aim to create a space where being crip* can coexist with healing. Through foraging\, cooking\, fermenting\, tasting\, and smelling\, they will engage the immediate bindings between bodies and environments—playing with the contradictions in what it means to be “healthy.” \n\n\n\nAt W139\, they will build a makeshift lab-kitchen\, (role)play with herbalist traditions\, trickster histories\, and para-sitic relations. Situated in the gritty consumerism of Warmoesstraat\, we explore healing as messy\, collective\, and ongoing by inviting publics\, plants\, and microorganisms into shared processes of critical play. In the lab-kitchen at W139\, they will question and twist the notion of healing through shared practices\, paying homage to the witches that were put on trial at the Dam square\, and search for new entry points into healing through shared practices. \n\n\n\nIlja Schamlé and Pırıltı Onukar met during their studies at the Artistic Research masters programme at the University of Amsterdam. As two people living with metabolic and autoimmune chronic conditions\, they move through the city attentive to the entangled metabolics of health\, food\, and urban life itself. \n\n\n\nPırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work\, film\, participatory performances\, translation\, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp. \n\n\n\nIlja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice\, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely\, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia. 
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/cripping-warmoesstraat/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260510T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260510T160000
DTSTAMP:20260509T175721
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SUMMARY:Urban Healing Fabulation: Participatory Performance
DESCRIPTION:So\, we have the herbs. We have the salves\, the tinctures\, the macerations and the fermentations. We have been asking questions about the witches put on trial just around the corner at the Dam square\, finding out that we might not be too far away. But what does a modern day crip healer do? How and what do they heal? What is health anyway? Join us for a Healing Fabulation where we carefully listen to your problems and offer health to your late stage capitalism induced chronic conditions (!).  \n\n\n\nOur Para-siting space is located on the first floor which can only be reached via a set of stairs. If you are visiting any of our public programme and you have any access needs\, please let us know so we may try to accommodate best within our capacity. For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit. \n\n\n\nReserve your spot here! \n\n\n\nPırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work\, film\, participatory performances\, translation\, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp. \n\n\n\nIlja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice\, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely\, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/urban-healing-fabulation-interactieve-performance/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260516T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260516T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T175722
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SUMMARY:Crip Healers Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:In these sessions we will read together texts that are guiding Ilja’s and Pırıltı’s  research on herbalism\, urbanism\, witchcraft\, politics of health and crip theory. Together we will try to find how these connect\, forming solidarity between our bodies\, plants and the city. Guided by the metabolics of Warmoesstraat we will ask what healing means and what makes us sick. No preparatory readings required as we will read and discuss together. \n\n\n\nThe first session on 2 May will juxtapose theory with speculative fiction. We will read an introductory text to crip theory followed by a selection of passages on the healer character Anyanwu in Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed.   \n\n\n\nIn the second session on 16 May\, we focus on inflammation by moving between different theoretical texts on health and politics alongside close readings of herbal recipes by The Solidarity Apothecary.  \n\n\n\nThe reading groups will be held in the main exhibition space which is wheelchair accessible. For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit. \n\n\n\nOur Para-siting space is located on the first floor which can only be reached via a set of stairs. If you are visiting any of our public programme and you have any access needs\, please let us know so we may try to accommodate best within our capacity. \n\n\n\nReserve your spot here! \n\n\n\nPırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work\, film\, participatory performances\, translation\, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp. \n\n\n\nIlja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice\, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely\, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/crip-healers-reading-group-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260520T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260520T150000
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SUMMARY:Tasting Warmoesstraat
DESCRIPTION:What does Warmoesstraat taste like? In one of the grittiest and most frequented streets of the touristic city of Amsterdam\, many things are alive. What can thrive alongside the bodily fluids\, trash\, food waste and other substances can also thrive in our own bellies! Come taste what grows in\, on and around Warmoesstraat. \n\n\n\nOur Para-siting space is located on the first floor which can only be reached via a set of stairs. If you are visiting any of our public programme and you have any access needs\, please let us know so we may try to accommodate best within our capacity. For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit. \n\n\n\nReserve your spot here! \n\n\n\nPırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work\, film\, participatory performances\, translation\, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp. \n\n\n\nIlja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice\, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely\, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/tasting-warmoesstraat/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260523T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260523T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T175722
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SUMMARY:Crippissage: A Healthy Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Ilja and Pırıltı close their Para-siting period with a mini-symposium where we gather\, converse\, taste and heal with inspiring figures we have been Para-siting with. Guided by the questions that emerge from within their time at W139\, they will brew and concoct recipes to help us metabolize the city\, there will be small bites and drinks.  \n\n\n\nOur Para-siting space is located on the first floor which can only be reached via a set of stairs. If you are visiting any of our public programme and you have any access needs\, please let us know so we may try to accommodate best within our capacity. For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit. \n\n\n\nReserve your spot here! \n\n\n\nPırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work\, film\, participatory performances\, translation\, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp. \n\n\n\nIlja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice\, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely\, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/crippissage-een-gezonde-samenkomst/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260524T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260524T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T175722
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SUMMARY:flour must be… — learning session 1
DESCRIPTION:Common Ground welcomes you to the first activation of Flour Must Be Cheap\, an installation that becomes a learning space\, and a work site. We begin with a question: must flour be cheap? From there\, we let it unfold through stories\, bodies\, knowings\, and speculations— these become the curriculum. \n\n\n\nAbove us\, a constellation of collected flour bags. Beneath us\, sacks holding the weight of hunger\, of resistance\, of distance traveled from field to mill to bakery to hand. We’ll lie with that weight\, carry it\, rearrange it\, and feel what it does to the body\, how pressure grounds us\, how heaviness speaks through us. \n\n\n\nTogether we’ll move through conversations about food systems\, mills and grain\, food autonomy\, aid\, and famine\, and the quiet violence of a price that was never really just about the mere cost of flour. Bring your stories\, questions\, and hands\, and join this learning session with Common Ground to experience the contrast of lightness and heaviness of the work Flour Must Be Cheap.  \n\n\n\nFor this event our normal entry ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit. \n\n\n\nSpots are limited\, reserve your spot via Eventbrite.Common Ground is a collaborative artistic project by Anna Celda and Saja Amro. Using the dining table and kitchen as learning environments\, their projects delve into topics such as female labour\, inherited knowledge\, and food/famine as a tool for control through different research objects. Their work often materialises in spaces of shared labour\, such as workshops or moments spent cooking together\, where the conversations and sensory experiences are at the center\, sparking reflection and connection with one another.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/flour-must-be-leersessies/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260527T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260527T220000
DTSTAMP:20260509T175722
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SUMMARY:after afterlives: film screening and talk programme
DESCRIPTION:What does the ground unleash when it is denied keeping what it holds? How does soil get implicated in the carrying of catastrophe? And how does continuous excavation for artefacts reveal an obsession to erase history in order to create a new one? Against this erasure\, how have material knowledges of burning\, plastering\, and burying offered different approaches to the ground—one where land and flesh are bound together in a rhythm of constant transformation? These are some of the questions we’ll be engaging with during this program\, which will expand on the works of Areej Ashhab and Ola Hassanain\, in the flour\, water\, soil exhibition\, and bring in the work of Dina Mimi\, to open up a conversation about the artefact as witness\, the erasure of history through excavation\, the objects and topologies of repair\, and the relationship of people to their material environments.  \n\n\n\nAreej will be sharing excerpts from her film Lime Through the Elements\, and connecting them to her new installation\, The Ground Keeps What it Holds\, commissioned for this exhibition.  The work engages ancient burial practices in Palestine and the aftermath of their settler-colonial excavation. Through field research\, experimentation\, and collective labor\, the film revisits the lost practice of lime making in Palestine and its elemental journey back to limestone as a reflection on return—what survives erasure and elimination. \n\n\n\nWe will also be screening Dina Mimi’s short film The Eyes That Never See\, which narrates the story of Ram(z)i\, a lonely working class man who died twice. Ram(z)i was renamed as soon as his first body died\, to die again in Jerusalem\, under the dusty ground while digging for artefacts from a 6\,000 year-old ancient city. Just like in Areej’s work\, Dina’s film exposes the obsessions of a settler state that continuously excavates\, digging deep into the ground\, to find artefacts in order to create new histories.   \n\n\n\nOla will present her spatial installation for the exhibition\, Water Collection Points\, and contextualise it within her ongoing project Tell The Water What The Clay Kept Secret. The work uses water collection points across the exhibition space to make visible the efforts to repair the environment that emerge at the onset of catastrophes. Framed as a site for the ‘ecology of repair’\, Ola examines this collective effort to deal with crisis by highlighting roles within communities—especially those living near water—where watching and listening emerge as spatial practices shaped by environmental and political rupture.  \n\n\n\nThe films and talks will be followed by a conversation between Ola\, Dina\, and Areej\, moderated by Margarita Osipian—interweaving their individual works and the stories that unfold through them. \n\n\n\nTicket: €7\,50Student and solidarity ticket: €5 \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nAreej Ashhab is an artist and researcher whose work addresses material heritage loss\, more-than-human ecologies\, and land politics. Areej’s practice spans material experimentation\, writing\, and film\, and often unfolds collectively through walks\, workshops\, and shared meals. She is the co-founder of Al-Block\, documenting lost narratives of the Palestinian landscape through collective walking\, and Al-Wah’at\, a translocal collective countering anthropocentric and colonial narratives around arid lands and futures. In her recent project A Hand of Fire and Stone\, she traced abandoned lime pits in Palestine\, built a lime kiln prototype in Bethlehem\, and activated this lost architecture through fire\, songs\, and meals; following the elemental cycle of lime from stone\, to paste\, and back to stone. \n\n\n\nOla Hassanain is an artist whose work moves through architecture\, film\, and spatial strategies to reflect on how power becomes visible—and felt—through built environments. Her practice engages with places shaped by climate instability\, postcolonial legacies\, and displacement\, thinking through the politics of inhabiting and how ecological and social systems shape one another across time. As she notes\, “observation summons a form of power”. \n\n\n\nDina Mimi is an artist working in experimental film and moving image\, exploring how\, and when\, bodies become sites of resistance. Often using found footage to explore themes including smuggling and tactics of movement\, her work adopts non-linear forms of narration. She approaches editing as an open and exploratory process\, experimenting with the opacity of footage—images that are in the act of vanishing.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/after-afterlives-film-screening-and-talk-programme/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260613T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260613T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T175722
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SUMMARY:kiln as kin: a day of gathering\, firing\, cooking
DESCRIPTION:“What flavors place\, what place flavors?” Posed by Christina Sharpe in her book Ordinary Notes\, this question lingers in the space between land and taste. How does place\, how does land\, persist even when territory fractures? What stories\, histories\, and rituals do we carry with us through food? Ingredients\, gestures\, and tastes become a living archive carried within and through our daily practices of making—kneading\, fermenting\, grinding\, storing\, carrying. \n\n\n\nUsing food as a way to hold and transmit knowledge\, during this day of gathering we will come together to activate a newly created tonir-style clay oven and a small stove at Four Siblings. The oven was built during an earlier workshop in May with transdisciplinary artist Tatiana M. Mélo. We will prepare food\, cook\, and eat together as a way to share knowledge about food systems\, forgotten recipes\, and lost rituals. We will be joined by Martina Manterola and Carmen Serra\, cofounders of colectivo amasijo\, an intergenerational feminist collective who work across art\, cooking\, and land-based pedagogy. They will join us in activating the ovens through their own rituals\, practices\, and foods. Together with Tatiana we will also be creating small clay structures and sculptures to bake bread inside of. \n\n\n\nThe residency of colectivo amasijo is part of the Exchanges programme by the Prince Claus Fund\, with the support of the Amsterdam City Council. \n\n\n\nTicket: €10Student and solidarity ticket: €7\,50 \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets via Eventbrite \n\n\n\nLocation: Four Siblings\, President Allendelaan 1\, 1064 GW Amsterdam \n\n\n\ncolectivo amasijo is a feminist collective composed of women from various disciplines and generations\, working across art\, cooking\, and land-based pedagogy. amasijo’s approach centers on collaborative cooking and agriculture as forms of resistance and land regeneration. They are united in their desire to actively reflect on the origin and diversity of our food. Since their formation in 2019 they have been providing a platform for non–dominant voices: the narratives of women close to the land\, stories that tell us the real cost of climate change and show us the way towards the regeneration of the land. Through their projects\, that can take the form of gatherings\, dinners\, research\, actions\, ceremonies\, exhibitions\, markets\, seminars\, film\, or talks\, the collective builds the needed structures to form a community in which taking care of ourselves and taking care of the territory we inhabit is priority. Their practice insists on care\, circular knowledge\, and embodied time — challenging extractive logics through feminist\, decolonial methodologies. \n\n\n\nInstagram colectivo amasijo \n\n\n\nTatiana M. Melo is a transdisciplinary artist from Barcelona\, living in the countryside of La Garrotxa. She works with clay and ceramics—activating the memory of territory through ritual objects made with stones\, ashes\, and words gathered from the community. Her practice centers on the transformation of soil into kilns\, understood not only as firing tools\, but as spaces of encounter\, transformation\, and ritual. She explores clay as an ancestral material\, applying sustainable practices to construction and everyday objects. She has organized workshops and gatherings on collective building\, ceramics\, and community\, collaborating with artists and researchers to rethink the relationship between humans\, materials\, and the environment. \n\n\n\nInstagram Tatiana M. Melo \n\n\n\nFour Siblings is a land based art and research project. They come together to create an edible labyrinth in the shape of an artwork in the threshold of the city of Amsterdam. They want to create a sense of belonging to the earth we live on\, to the food we eat. They investigate collective ways of generating knowledge and make it as open source as possible.They want to do so in a mutually supportive way—care for our bodies while we care for the land\, bring back biodiversity and seed resources\, generate new local networks between artists\, farmers\, permaculturists\, and residents\, while learning by doing. \n\n\n\nWebsite Four Siblings
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/kiln-as-kin-a-day-of-gathering-firing-cooking/
LOCATION:Four Siblings\, President Allendelaan 1\, Amsterdam\, 1064 GW\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260626T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260626T220000
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SUMMARY:earthly suns: workshop\, gathering\, and performance programme
DESCRIPTION:A two-part program that centers the plant-ally Saint-John’s-Wort and the queer poetics it offers. Join artists Sasa Ghanem-Chaney\, Jules Davis-Dufayard\, and A.E.Z Pinay for an afternoon of queer collective care. In the evening there will be a special gathering with plant offerings\, a sonic mediation\, and a concert by Queer Choir Amsterdam. \n\n\n\nearthly suns is a multidisciplinary research project\, developed by Jules Davis-Dufayard and Sasa Ghanem-Chaney\, that departs from a shared love towards the plant Saint-John’s-Wort\, and a shared love for communal singing. Together they have embarked on a long-term research around this plant-ally since summer 2025\, inspired by the queer poetics it offers as it grows powerful and unnoticed between Amsterdam’s pavements. They hope to develop land and body based seasonal practices which are relevant to the current context of late-stage racial capitalism\, and which can contribute to the physical\, emotional and spiritual nourishment of current social change movements. This research takes form through herbalism\, storytelling\, trauma-informed care practices\, and vocal somatics (Deep Listening). The earthly suns workshop and gathering emerge from their research and collective practices.  \n\n\n\nProgrammeWorkshop: 14:00 – 18:00Gathering and performance programme: 20:00 – 22:00 \n\n\n\nWorkshopJules Davis-Dufayard and Sasa Ghanem-Chaney invite you for an afternoon of queer collective care centering the plant-ally Saint-John’s-Wort (SJW). During this workshop they will share knowledge around what SJW has to offer in terms of physical and mental healing\, as well as take inspiration from its resilient growth through Amsterdam’s urban landscape. They will share tools from herbalism\, plant symbolism\, somatics\, collective singing\, and vocal meditation working towards community healing and care strategies. Special guest A.E.Z. Pinay will also intervene and invite the group into his grieving practice in the form of choral mourning. In his work he explores the rhythmicality of sobs and sighs\, and the melody of moans and laments\, as well as the seemingly impossible task to establish a framework that properly allows sorrow to flow. \n\n\n\nThe workshop is followed by a simple dinner\, between 18:00 and 19:00\, prepared by maria khatchadourian (only for workshop participants). After the dinner an event will follow with a large scale collective sonic meditation\, and a concert by Queer Choir Amsterdam. Separate tickets are available for the evening programme. \n\n\n\nThe workshop ticket includes the possibility to stay for the evening programme. You can note your participation when you purchase your ticket.  \n\n\n\nEvening programmeJoin us for an evening of queer joy centering the plant-ally Saint-John’s-Wort (SJW). Sasa and Jules will open the evening with an introduction to their research\, offering Saint-John’s-Wort tea and oil for hand massage. The audience will be invited into a collective sonic meditation\, followed by a concert by Queer Choir Amsterdam.  \n\n\n\nTicket workshop: €20 Student/solidarity ticket: €15 \n\n\n\nTicket evening programme: €7\,50 Student/solidarity ticket: €5 \n\n\n\nBuy your ticket via the Eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nSasa Ghanem-Chaney (French-Algerian\, 1993) is an artist\, performer\, director and facilitator based in Amsterdam since 2017. They work with worldbuilding\, interactive installations\, collective processes\, sound\, performance and herbalism. Their practice questions the politics of history-making. What are the invisible frameworks at play in the decision of archiving? Which lores subsist to shape our contemporary perspectives? How can we slow down and listen to the unsung echoes of voices past? Through speculative storytelling\, performance\, immersive spaces and collective practices\, Sasa Ghanem-Chaney questions the making of stories and our political role in the remembrance of minoritized voices. \n\n\n\nWebsite Sasa Ghanem-Chaney \n\n\n\nJules Davis-Dufayard (France\, 1991) is an artist/facilitator\, and an apprentice of somatics and transformative justice\, currently living in a white trans crip/disabled body. They facilitate experiences with/in nature to create internal and collective space for growth and transformation\, nurturing healing ways to relate to ourselves\, each other\, and the webs of relations we are embedded in. At the moment\, Jules is fascinated by crip and gut wisdoms\, and by practices of herbalism\, foraging and eating as everyday and embodied portals to remembering that “the earth isn’t an extension of our bodies\, it’s the other way around” (GTDF). \n\n\n\nWebsite Jules Davis-Dufayard \n\n\n\nThe Queer Choir of Amsterdam is an artistic initiative that promises the creation of a brave space to celebrate unique identities and voices. Through rehearsals and performances\, they express their ideas for the futures they desire and the narratives they want to share. In the unification of their voices\, they create harmonies\, but also distinctively recognize the varied nature of the human voice and hone agency over their voices. Queer Choir also works a lot with soundscapes\, improvisation and audience engagement. QC has performed in many venues and events\, such as the Oude Kerk\, Holland Festival\, Buro Stedelijk\, Vrankrijk\, and the Antwerp Queer Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nWebsite Queer Choir of Amsterdam \n\n\n\nA.E.Z. Pinay (he/they) is a queer afropean artist\, a film maker\, and a performer. A part of his work and research revolves around the black ethos in France and the Afrodiasporic experience in its poetic\, political and spiritual expression. Mourning\, melancholy\, and absurdity are elements that inhabit his creations. Another part of his practice is to cultivate his ability to exist outside of marketing values and learn from forest ecologies. This translates as activities such as resting\, doing nothing\, lying down in the grass\, pray\, mourn\, cry\, observe the living and to open oneself to the possibilities of different worldings. He currently studies and works in Amsterdam and prepares the publication of his first essay with Editions Face cachées. \n\n\n\nInstagram A.E.Z. Pinay \n\n\n\nAccessibility infoHerbal safety: Consumption of Saint-John’s Wort tea or massage oils during the evening is entirely optional. Saint-John’s Wort is a powerful plant\, and can weaken the effect of certain medications. Please read this one-page document before consuming Saint-John’s Wort: side effects and contraindications. \n\n\n\nWheelchair access: W139 is spread over two floors. The workshop\, dinner\, and evening events will all happen on the ground floor\, which is wheelchair accessible. Our toilets are located on the first floor\, which can only be reached via stairs. The nearest wheelchair accessible public toilets can be found at Krasnapolsky Hotel\, 150m away\, at the start of the road (Dam Square). For other questions regarding the accessibility of the building\, please contact info@w139.nl. \n\n\n\nSeating: There will be chairs\, benches\, or cushions available for everyone\, as well as blankets. Feel free to bring your own blanket\, stand\, move around\, and come in and out as your body needs. \n\n\n\nSound: The event will be held in English. There will be no sound amplification for the workshop nor the concert. Audience members will be invited to join in on the singing for some parts of the concert\, this is entirely optional.  \n\n\n\nCovid/infection safety: We ask everyone to do a covid self-test before entering the event space. There will be self-tests and face-masks available for free/on donation at the entrance of W139. Make sure not to consume food or drinks for 30min before testing\, and to allow 15min for your test result to show. Mask wearing is encouraged. \n\n\n\nNegative results for such self-tests are unfortunately only ~75% reliable (whilst positive results are ~95% reliable)\, and all viruses are a risk for immunocompromised folks. Therefore\, if you are experiencing any covid/cold/flu symptoms on the day of the event\, we will be sorry to miss you\, but ask that you stay home and join us at a later public event of the series. Please email margarita@w139.nl to cancel your booking so we can offer your spot to someone else. \n\n\n\nUnfortunately\, the budget for this event doesn’t allow for translation\, sign language interpretation\, or live image description.  \n\n\n\nThis event is part of a series of three programs\, which will each have slightly different accessibility. We hope you can join us again in the future. Please email julesdavisdufayard@gmail.com with ‘SJW mail list’ in the email title to be kept informed about future events. \n\n\n\nThe ticket sales will go towards covid tests\, masks\, and materials. If the cost is a barrier\, please email julesdavisdufayard@gmail.com  
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SUMMARY:flour must be… — learning session 2
DESCRIPTION:Artists and researchers Anna Celda and Saja Amro (Common Ground) will activate their installation in the exhibition with a series of learning sessions. These sessions will use the flour bag as a pedagogical tool for reading\, cooking\, learning\, and reflection. \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\nFor this event our normal entry ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit. \n\n\n\nReserve your spot via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nCommon Ground is a collaborative artistic project by Anna Celda and Saja Amro. Using the dining table and kitchen as learning environments\, their projects delve into topics such as female labour\, inherited knowledge\, and food/famine as a tool for control through different research objects. Their work often materialises in spaces of shared labour\, such as workshops or moments spent cooking together\, where the conversations and sensory experiences are at the center\, sparking reflection and connection with one another.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/flour-must-be-leersessie-2/
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SUMMARY:gathering grounds: a festive market day
DESCRIPTION:flour\, water\, soil\, unfolds through acts of gathering: conversations\, reading sessions\, workshops\, shared meals\, foraging\, and collective actions that extend beyond the works themselves. These moments and gestures activate the space as a lived\, living\, and sustaining environment. \n\n\n\nTo continue these gestures\, we invite you to join us for a festive market day\, where we will gather to celebrate the final day of flour\, water\, soil. The exhibition will transform into a freely accessible market where we can all come together to eat\, talk\, buy seeds\, engage in learning sessions\, and collectively activate the works one last time. \n\n\n\nMore information and the lineup coming soon. \n\n\n\nFree entry.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/gathering-grounds-a-festive-market-day/
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