A book launch with love: a presentation, a night of conversation, performances and an abundance of presence, hosted by Simon(e) van Saarloos and W139, Amsterdam<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cocktails & books available! Admission is free. W139 is wheelchair accessible but does not have a wheelchair accessible toilet. For this event, we have arranged that our guests can use the wheelchair accessible toilet at Hotel Krasnapolsky until 22:00 hrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conversations with Margarita Osipian (curator, writer) and Simon(e) van Saarloos
Music by J\u00f6rgen Gario Unom (Sites of Memory, Poetry Circle Now) and Mira Thompson (singer & activist).
Reflection by Manoj Kamps (queer conductor & theatre maker)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About the book: Who determines what is remembered and commemorated, and why? Slavery happened long ago, too long ago for apologies by the Dutch government, according to prime minister Mark Rutte. Neuroscientists investigate how past events influence lives today and call it \u2018intergenerational trauma\u2019. How can we commemorate something that is both in the past and a daily reality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\u00a0Take \u2018Em Down<\/em>,\u00a0Simon(e) van Saarloos is inspired by the historically invisibilized lives of LGBT people and queers. They demonstrate the power of forgetting and wonder if and how it\u2019s possible to live without a past. At the same time, Van Saarloos criticizes the way that a \u2018white memory\u2019 \u2013 including their own \u2013 treats some stories as self-evident while other histories are erased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take \u2018Em Down <\/em>questions the normative architectures of commemoration: if a minute of silence signals respect during a vigil, how do loud bodies perform proximity to the past? What if toppled statues become barriers for able-bodied folks, disrupting capitalist rhythms? Take \u2018Em Down<\/em> is not about reconciliation through guilt but about living messy lives with pain and grief.<\/p>\n\n\n A book launch with love: a presentation, a night of conversation, performances and an abundance of presence, hosted by Simon(e) van Saarloos and W139, Amsterdam Cocktails & books available! Admission is free. W139 is wheelchair accessible but does not have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":23463,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"Europe\/Amsterdam","_EventStartDate":"2022-05-19 19:30:00","_EventEndDate":"2022-05-19 22:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2022-05-19 17:30:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2022-05-19 20:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"\u20ac","_EventCurrencyCode":"EUR","_EventCurrencyPosition":"suffix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":" @ ","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":" - ","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[1211],"artist":[1468],"group":[1464],"class_list":["post-23474","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-talk-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/23474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/23474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26090,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/23474\/revisions\/26090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w139.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Take \u2018Em Down. Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n