damdam Harvest Festival is a public programme spanning 8 days convened by damdam, an interconnected web of collectives emerging from de Appel’s Curatorial Programme, the Lumbung Practice Temporary Master Programme at Sandberg Instituut and Gudskul’s Collective Study Programme in Indonesia. Between 28 May and 6 June 2025 at de Appel and several other locations in and outside of Amsterdam, damdam will host a public living space to introduce their ecosystem. It's a celebration — a first exercise in the unfolding of coalition-building through contradiction, starting from a belief in the possibility of constructing a platform where we can work from our struggles, expand collectivities, and find more examples and inspirations in the work of allied collectives. Below is an invitation from damdam:

Building on the 25 years of Lumbung kindred experiments leading to lumbung - documenta fifteen, for the first time this year we will gather with collectives to practice sustainable economies, to think about our collective infrastructures, shared practices, common resources and values. One of our values is caring about the process, rather than focusing on the production of artworks or exhibitions as isolated outputs. We turn toward each other and the relations that bind us. Our curatorial approach is embedded in the politics of friendship, interdependence, trust, collective joy as well as engagement with Amsterdam and our localities.

Alongside mapping our resources and needs in our ecosystem, we build a common ground and think about potential seeds to plant. Out of this process, several self-organised working groups emerged around common urgencies: community, land, economy, printing, publishing, pedagogy, documenting and archiving. In the Harvest Festival 2025 we share our understanding of lumbung practice and ongoing processes through nongkrongs (gatherings), workshops, screenings, discussions, dinners and parties. What kind of future can we envision if we reorient our work around sharing, communal rhythms, and solidarity?

Meanwhile, the Gudskul Collective Studies programme organises their Harvest Festival in Jakarta from 15 June to 22 June 2025. The sixth edition of this programme has created another collective of collectives called Sixpack, which brings together the five participating art collectives from different parts of Indonesia: Makmur Djaja (Jakarta), Pasir Putih (Lombok), Ruang SimpaSio (Larantuka), Riwanua (Makassar), and Indonesia Art Movement (Jayapura). We encourage you to follow the online programme of the Sixpack Harvest Festival (see the full programme below).

The installations at de Appel are on view during regular opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 2-8pm. The installation at GROND is on view between 30 May and 1 June, from 2-8pm.

dampack Resource Map
Installation at de Appel (Exhibition space)
Convened by Dam€ Dam€ Working Group
28 May – 6 June

This installation offers a collective overview of the spatial, social, theoretical and practical knowledge resources within damdam and Sixpack, the collectives of collectives. It helps us reflect on what we have, what we need, and how we can share with care.

Harvest TV: Rough Cuts, Loops of a Process
Installation at de Appel (Exhibition space)
Convened by Archive and Documentary Working Group
28 May - 6 June

This screen flickers with memory — not linear, not whole, but a draft in the process. What you see here are video harvests: traces gathered from moments in our collective process in the Netherlands and Indonesia. These are not finished films, but living reflections, all are part of an ongoing process of making meaning together and building our narrative. This screen does not present a single narrative. It cycles through fragments, dispersed and partial, offering a space to sit with the unfinished, and to witness how stories move, stretch, and transform within collective work.

Sharing the Harvest
Installation at de Appel (Exhibition space)
Convened by RE-PEAT/Khamoosh/Soundcamp
28 May - 6 June

Together with Voedselpark, damdam will be hosting a dinner for the collectives, friends, farmers, cooks, and other people working with the land and food sovereignty. Together we will enjoy a meal, created from the harvests of small scale farmers across Amsterdam, connecting over our love and labour for the land. To inspire, listen, archive, and capture the conversations during this dinner, we will provide a tablecloth screen printed with various drawings and fabric pens, bringing both forms of harvesting to the table. “Harvesters listen, reflect, and depict this process from their own perspectives, forms, and artistic practices. Harvests can be humorous, poetic, or candid.” (Documenta 2022). The tablecloth will be displayed in de Appel as raw print for the first half of the Harvest Festival, halfway through it will be taken down for the dinner and put back up afterwards with harvests, including drawings, text and food stains.

Collaboration Guidelines
Installation at de Appel (Library)
Convened by Level Five
28 May - 6 June

Communities, however you put it, are in need of some sort of agreement on how they relate to each other and how to go about things. In our artist community, Level Five, we have been finding out how to practice self-governance for several years now. In these years, we have levitated between the wish to describe all procedures and the feeling of getting stuck in our own prescriptions. How can we guide ourselves in our collaborations without getting constricted by our own rules? This is a proposal for collectives to have a seasonal practice for collaborative community governance. On the one side, a growing collection of collaboration guidelines from many different collectives and activist groups can be browsed through. On the other side, a platform in which to collaboratively work on documents. The collection can serve as examples, like recipes that can be copied and adjusted to serve different contexts. The collaborative platform serves as something to gather around twice a year to meet, discuss, and edit the guidelines that we shaped ourselves along the way.

Everywhere is War Animation
Installation at GROND
Convened by We Sell Reality and SSMG
30 May - 1 June

Collectives We Sell Reality (NL) and SSMG (Sudanese Stop Motion Group, UG) will take you along their processes to visualise the impact of war. Both collectives experienced that fleeing your country may create physical safety, but that nevertheless you take the war with you. Through the making of stop motion animations they gave shape to the feelings of guilt that they are facing because of leaving their beloved land and relationships behind. Everywhere is War is a process-oriented presentation that shows how both collectives have been experimenting with the animation techniques and exploring the battlefields under their skin. The exhibition is open on 31 May and 1 June from 12 to 9pm. The festive opening will be on 30 May from 6 to 9pm with food and performances.

BWookshop
Installation at Tetterode (M4)
Convened by Printing and Publishing Working Group
Accessible during programmes at M4

The printing and publishing DIY station at M4 also contains a library of publications contributed by members of damdam and their broader ecosystem.This includes DIY material manuals from SPIN, publications by Papaya Kuir, material and immaterial merch by Biquini Wax, The Print Bike by Kasi Graphic, and more.

All programmes are free to attend, however, some have limited capacity and require reservations in advance. Reservation links are added below. The programmes take place in English.

Isolation in Formal Education and the Struggle to Make University a Shared Home
Monday 26 May, 16.00 - 21.00 at Sandberg Institute
Talk at convened by dash, no registration necessary

This gathering brings together voices from across the Sandberg Institute and HKU Master of Fine Arts departments to examine the individualistic frameworks embedded in formal education, and to ask: how can we move toward more collective, connected, and caring ways of learning together? How can we cultivate belonging in education and make the university our home? We hope this can be a starting point to link existing initiatives and individuals into longer-term networks of mutual support and shared vision. To learn from past generations’ initiatives and recognise their legacy.

damdam invites students, tutors, and initiatives who care about these questions to come together, reflect, discuss, and connect. This is a pre-event of the Harvest Festival, intended as a public moment in our ongoing process of working through shared struggles, an invitation to think, speak, and imagine collectively.

Opening Ceremony
Wednesday 28 May, 16.00 - 20.00 at de Appel
Talk and game, no registration necessary

We are excited to invite you to the damdam Harvest Festival Opening Ceremony at de Appel. Join us as we unbox our terminology and structure, open up about our process, unwrap the upcoming programme, and unveil our resource map. Inspired by one of our many check-in rounds at Sandberg, we’ve invited a few members of damdam who have been more active in their local contexts, to introduce the festival from their perspective. It is an occasion to reflect on what this programme has meant to them and how it has resonated with and influenced the collectives in our localities. We’ll host a surprise 3-in-1 performance by the amateur-research collective llllllllll9 aka. Lilia (Anna Garcia, Daniela Fazylova, and Ilya Grishaev). Afterwards, we’ll host a round of our notorious Lotería Lumbung, a traditional Mexican bingo game, followed by micheladas and drinks and and a DJ set by Cempaka (Marishka Soekarna), a visual artist and music selector from Indonesia. One half of the duo Iramamama, Cempaka is known for curating eclectic sets that move from Indonesian gems of the 1950s–70s to Asia’s quirky classics and Western post-punk treasures.

Postering workshop, walk and talk with notshitprint
Thursday 29 May, 17.00 - 19.30 at Tetterode (M4)
Workshop
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Join us at the DIY printing station at M4 for a postering workshop, walk and talk about the underground postering scene with notshitprint, a social justice print shop based in Amsterdam. They work with risograph printing, sticker printing, non-commercial and non-profit printing for campaigns that help make things not shit. Come with your slogans and ideas!

Print Open Space + BWookshop
Thursday 29 May, 14.00 - 20.00 at Tetterode (M4)
Open workspace
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During the print open space, the DIY printing station at M4 can be used to experiment with different printing methods such as riso, lino and silkscreen, while hanging out and building community. Come and join us for print and beers!

Polyamory as the Cat Out of the Bag
Thursday 29 May, 17.00 - 20.00 at de Appel (Exhibition space)
Workshop convened by Typography
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A conversation-based game exploring the multitudes of affective relationships characteristic of cultural work. Featuring stories from fellow cultural workers, artists, and friends, this game invites participants to reflect on their experiences of physical and mental distance, contradictory affiliations, and romantic lives that often become inseparable from professional ones. Hosted by Evgeniia Skvortsova, a member of Typography Collective and coordinator of the self-organised media project Gasp Magazine, and initially conceived by Scottish socially-oriented artist Andrew Paterson, this game unfolds like a collective pillow talk.

Mubadele
Friday 30 May, 10.00 - 17.00
Workshop and talk hosted by GROND
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Through the idea of Mubadele, a Farsi and Arabic word for exchange, we aim to create a system where knowledge, skills, and materials circulate beyond the constraints of money. By mapping our existing resources, and by organising discussions on funding, this gathering is part of a longer-term vision: to develop strategies for economic resilience that are rooted in solidarity, not scarcity. From fundraising strategies to reimagining resource-sharing, this is an invitation to connect, question, and co-create.

We’re excited to be joined by guests who will share their practices and knowledges around economy: Elke Uitentuis, a visual artist, educator, human rights activist, mother, founder and coordinator of art collective We Sell Reality, which produces and presents work with the aim of providing insight into the lives of undocumented refugees, Colin Roustan representing Gilbard.es, a Brussels-based practitioner developing coordination strategies that link artistic, social, and societal issues while teaching collective practices at erg, a transdisciplinary art-research school, and Alina Lupu, a post-conceptual artist, writer, photographer, and activist working to build up or reimagine institutions, always in agonistic dialogue.

Festive Opening - Everywhere is War Animation
Friday 30 May, 17.00 - 21.00
Screening + dinner organised by GROND
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Collectives We Sell Reality (NL) and SSMG (Sudanese Stop Motion Group, UG) will take you along their processes to visualise the impact of war. Both collectives experienced that fleeing your country may create physical safety, but that nevertheless you take the war with you. Through the making of stop motion animations they gave shape to the feelings of guilt that they are facing because of leaving their beloved land and relationships behind. Everywhere is War is a process-oriented presentation that shows how both collectives have been experimenting with the animation techniques and exploring the battlefields under their skin.

During the opening there will be dinner from 5 to 7pm cooked by Mohamed Alnoor Hedjaab Ahmed, and radio performances by Marc Nukoop, Ivo Bol and Wytze Minne de Swart from 9pm. The exhibition is also open on 31 May and 1 June from 12 to 9pm.

Film Pot: A Simmering Brew of Narratives, Localities, Collective Visions
Unclaimed Territories: Spaces not Held by Locks
Friday 30 May, 18.00 - 20.00 at Tetterode (Tetlokaal, Bilderdijkstraat 165)
Screening
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In this edition, we drift through the cracks — into spaces taken, shared, and made anew. Through films that trace acts of inhabiting and imagining otherwise, we explore how walls become proposals, floors become commons, and roofs hold not just shelter, but possibility. The screening includes a mid-length docudrama — a fever dream about and by the (Rotterdam) squatting scene of its era. We’ll also feature a film by Taring Padi, a collective of underground artists from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, formed in 1998 amid the political upheaval following the fall of Suharto. The films will also be made available after the harvest festival through the lumbung.space digital platform, extending their reach beyond the screening and into wider, shared spaces of reflection.

Biquini Wookshop :0 (Where we sell everything except books :) !!! + Print Open Space
Saturday 31 May, 13.00 - 22.00 at Tetterode (M4,Da Costakade 158)
Performances, happenings and workshops
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During the first edition of the Harvest Festival, Biquini Wax launches its first pop-up: Biquini Wookshop. With “books” by Zyan Arellano, Irak Morales, Gerardo Contreras, Mili Herrera, Adolfo Cisneros Medina, dianx cantarey, Gustavo A. Cruz Cerna, denisse vega de santiago, Odeth Sofía, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba and Urmeer.

As an economic and community experiment, aligned with our interest in studying Lumbung Practices through the cross-eyed gaze of baroque economies, what better way than to propose a homemade, baroque, informal, and overflowing book business model? Biquini Wookshop rethinks books as merchandise, publication as a form of exhibition, performance and the book-commodity as a sub-critical fetish. The BWookshop hosts, converges, stages, and spatially engages with the printing station of the Printing and Publishing working group from damdam at M4, our shared home in Amsterdam with damdam collective dash. Join us for performance, collective writing, zine making, face painting, drawing happenings, surprise events and artists, immaterial and material merch, and more.

The Printing and Publishing working group will activate the M4 residency space at Tetterode into a DIY printing station, hosting guests and friends for independent and collective self-publishing. The Printing and Publishing station contains a library with contributions by members of damdam and their broader ecosystem. This includes DIY publications by SPIN, Papaya Kuir, material and immaterial merch by Biquini Wax, and The Print Bike by Kasi Graphic.

My Little Pony - School of Friendship
Saturday 31 May, 14.00 - 17.00 at de Appel (Library)
Fanfiction writing workshop convened by repelsteeltje
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Learning in groups can bring far more knowledge than just what is presented in books, thanks to everypony bringing their personal perspectives. Group dynamics greatly influence both what and how you learn. The Lumbung Practice studies is ultimately about learning from each other and making friends, just like the My Little Pony School of Friendship.

After a short introduction on the My Little Pony universe and the ‘school of friendship’ TV episodes, we will write fanfiction inspired by dynamics or situations we have experienced while studying in a group. This way, we will reflect on (and archive) group dynamics in a playful way. Everypony with experience of learning in groups is welcome in this workshop.

Somatic Laboratory - Trans*latinx Memories
Saturday 31 May, 13.00 - 17.00 at Tetterode (Tetlokaal)
Workshop convened by Papaya Kuir
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Somatic Lab is a method and form of working and connecting with the body, a way to understand the memories our bodies carry. It investigates how stories become embedded in our bodies, our voices and our memories, through post-extractivist archival methodologies and experimental documentation practices.

Somatic Laboratory: Living Archives delves into the affordances of expanded publishing to preserve the subtleties of community processes. By offering an alternative mode of dissemination that defies the assumptions of transparency in documentation, this initiative seeks to create a multisensory sonic archive, merging the haptic qualities of storytelling to document and honour the experiences of Latinx migrants and LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, while promoting anti-racist and trans*feminist practices to the wider community of artists, educators, and researchers. This workshop is facilitated by Flavia Pinheiros, Paula Montecinos and Alejandra Ortiz.

Don’t Stop Talking About Exile: The Voice of Women TV Show + Congo Solidarity Dinner
Saturday 31 May, 18.00 - 21.00, organised by Grond
Screening/discussion + Dinner convened by We Sell Reality & Parole de Femmes
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Join us for a special night with a screening of the Parole de Femmes TV Show (The Voice of Women TV Show), a collaborative short-film led by women from the Emmaüs community, and a solidarity dinner for Congo organised by We Sell Reality. The screening will be followed by a talk with the creators of the movie and dinner. Speakers will then share about the current situation in Congo, where people are losing their lives and being displaced from their homes by an ethnic war. An issue that needs urgent attention. In return for a donation of €15, visitors can eat and drink. A third of the sum will go to a grassroots organisation in Congo.

For 70 years, Emmaüs communities in France have been places for life and solidarity activities where each person welcomed (called a companion) is both helped and helps to offer the possibility of communal living, creating social bonds and solidarity-based activities. Since 2018, the ‘asylum and immigration’ law states that after 3 years in an Emmaüs community, companions can apply for a residence permit. This concerns many people in the community, since two thirds of those welcomed today are exiled from their home country.

Parole de Femmes TV Show is a collaborative short-film that offers a generous, joyful and locally anchored collective narrative that amplifies the voices of women from these Emmaüs communities in Brittany. This film is the result of a collaborative effort between the group Parole de Femmes de Bretagne (self-led discussion group in chosen non-mixity), and the team at the Observatoire d’Emmaüs France. It is part of an action-research project led by sociologist Alix Douillet, with the support of artist-designer Jado Herbert, which is part of the Club Sauvage de Création Communautaire (Wild Club of Community Creation) that aims to recognise, archive and activate the histories and communal forms of knowledge from these communities.

Can the Archive Be Held in Common? Forms of Recording within Collective Projects
Sunday 1 and Monday 2 June, 10.00 - 17.00 at de Appel
Archive workshop
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In this workshop we will approach the archive as a space of negotiation. We aim to investigate practices of recording and archiving that are open, responsive, and dynamic within collective processes. Over two days, participants will engage with a constellation of materials from damdam collective of collectives, to experiment with building an archive for a collective project. Sketches, texts, traces of conversations and symbolic objects that came from damdam’s archive will serve as raw material to be rearranged and interpreted through the participants’ sensibilities and their engagement with questions of archival accountability. Collecting, mapping, and composing a collaborative history or manual of the archive will be among the activities undertaken during the workshop. What emerges will remain in the space as part of the Harvest Festival: an evolving landscape of how we hold, share, and make sense of collective archive and memory — together. The archive created during this time is not fixed; it is open to change, interpretation, and contribution, and is meant to shift alongside the collaborative process itself.

This workshop is facilitated by the damdam Archive and Documentary working group, and Arash Dehghani, an artist-researcher whose work explores creative approaches to the archives and the social lives of extracted materials.

Sonic Grounds: Exploring our Cultural and Political Relationship to Land
Tuesday 3 June, 10.00 - 17.00 at de Appel (Exhibition space)
Radio broadcast convened by SPIN & Makmur Djaja, no registration necessary

SPIN invites you to a live radio broadcast from the Learning Grounds Garden in Rotterdam, where we ask: What land-based culture are we trying to build together for the future? This broadcast is a collaboration and will feature initiatives in the Netherlands and Indonesia, including members of Sixpack. It will include stories, guided activities, music and conversation, exploring how the narratives we tell about land shape our cultural relationship to it. You’re invited to join us in person at the Learning Grounds Garden, where a space will be set up for people to gather, listen, and connect during the live broadcast. At the same time, a listening space at de Appel will offer a place to tune in and interact with the guided activities of the programme.

Film Pot: A Simmering Brew of Narratives, Localities, Collective Visions
Maps We Refuse, Routes We Share
Tuesday 3 June, 17.30 - 20.30 at de Appel (Exhibition space)
Screening, no registration necessary

In this edition, we will screen films shaped by contexts, politics, and the urgencies of collective existence. From migrant precarity to queer resistance, from paralegal limbos to cultural remainings, these works are situated in contexts where borders — of nations, identities, and systems — mark the body and shape the possible.

Rather than attempt to resolve or universalise these realities, the films speak from within them. Together, they form a conversation across distance — each one a fragment, a pulse, a declaration from the edge. The films include works from Papaya Kuir, a collective by and for Latin American migrants and refugees residing in the Netherlands, and Cut and Rescue, a collective of young experimental artists from Indonesia. Each brings forth stories grounded in local urgencies but resonant far beyond. The films will also be made available after the harvest festival through the lumbung.space digital platform, extending their reach beyond the screening and into wider, shared spaces of reflection.

The Court of Apples: Reflections on Collaborative Practice
Wednesday 4 June, 10.00 - 17.00 at de Appel (Exhibition space)
Workshop convened by Millemains
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Through a juicy role-play game, participants will explore the limits and possibilities of collective authorship in artistic creation. By experimenting with various collaborative protocols, participants will confront the following questions through a court case: How does a collaborative creation process influence the created object? What types of power dynamics does it create? How far can we push the collaborative cursors? What status do co-created objects acquire? There will be two slots for participating in the role-play game: 10.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 16.00. A meal will be shared at lunch time.

Disobedient Bodies & Fugitive Aesthetics
Wednesday 4 June, 16.00 - 19.00 at Tetterode (M4,Da Costakade 158)
Workshop convened by Papaya Kuir
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Disobedient Bodies & Fugitive Aesthetics is a workshop exploring the intersection between performance, social justice and somatics. We will explore and play through the lenses of somatic abolitionism, speculative fiction and disobedient performance practices. We will experience different relationships to time and space as a way to imagine alternative ways of relating to the world, being in the world and reproducing the world. Based on non-Western concepts like trans-corporeality and travelling worlds we will practise decentring our human gaze, give agency to more-than-human bodies, and practise our capacity for merging or existing in two or more realities at the same time.

The sessions will be playgrounds where our capacity for radical imagination and speculative fiction is expanded. From looking into legacies of decolonial and anti-colonial Art-making, to embodied practices with the potential to transform our sense of normality into absurd, magic, protest or mythical landscapes where objects/elements can serve as liminal spaces, the session will give us renewed narratives of how we can perceive and exist in the world. It is an invitation to re-storying and re-worlding while decentring the human extractivist and individualist oriented gaze. This workshop is facilitated by Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla a.k.a La ChicaScratch.

Print Open Space + BWookshop
Wednesday 4 June, 14.00 - 20.00 at Tetterode (M4,Da Costakade 158)
Workspace and shop
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Radio Fantasia
Wednesday 4 June, 17.00 - 20.00 at de Appel (Exhibition space) and online
Radio broadcast, no registration necessary

A translocal listening session and shared sonic space unfolding across cities, time zones and contexts. Simultaneously hosted at de Appel and partner locations in Yerevan, and Cologne, the event bridges distance through curated DJ sets and live audio transmissions. This gathering explores listening as a way of archiving, connecting, and resisting — not only through what is heard, but how, and with whom. Rather than a conventional party, this is a drifting, echoing encounter between scenes and communities, stitched together through frequencies and mutual attention.

Nongkrong Picnic - Zonder Betalen Picknick
Thursday 5 June, 10.00 - 14.00, starting at Amsterdam Central Station
Trip convened by Serrum
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Through findings from daily mobility in the Netherlands, the NS Train has a loophole that allows it to remain in its original or zero position. As long as the tap-in and tap-out at the same point is less than 6 hours, we can travel free of charge. Nongkrong Picnic will travel free of charge at rural stations close to parks. Inspired by Arisan*, this Nongkrong will be very special in addition to free snacks and discussions about how problems in this collective occur and what solutions can be pursued. Further details will be shared with participants after registration.

*Arisan: A lottery activity (savings and loan) of money collected from participants and held with a rotating host-location.

Lumbung Land - Teach-In
Thursday 5 June, 15.00 - 18.00 at de Appel
Lectures, readings and conversation
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Various collectives and individuals are invited to share their reflections and practices related to collective ownership of land and space: Karin Christof explores the importance of autonomous urban spaces for living, working, and socialising, and the evolving role of citizens in providing these (semi) public services; Natasha Hulst on community land trust, transforming our relationship to land and each other; the Zapatismo Study Group brings texts to read collectively from the revolutionary Zapatista through which we can (re)imagine in and around the possibility of the Commons/El Común; and Mathijs van de Sande on communalism as a democratic repertoire in the Situationist movements of the 1960s, the European squatters’ movements in the 1970s and 1980s and contemporary municipalism. We will share a (vegan) soup afterwards.

Lumbung Land - Screening
Thursday 5 June, 18.00 - 21.00 at de Appel
Screening
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We will be screening Direct Action (2024) by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell, on the life rhythm of the farmers and activist community in ZAD Notre-Dame-des-Landes. This is the place where they successfully opposed the building of an airfield by building collective life on and with the land — a revolution that they put into practice every day. It is possible to reclaim the power to act.

Print Open Space + BWookshop
Friday 6 June, 14.00 - 20.00 at Tetterode (M4, Da Costakade 158)
Workspace and shop
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Film Pot: A Simmering Brew of Narratives, Localities, Collective Visions
Echoes of the Process, Open-Ended: Seeds for the Future
Friday 6 June, 17.00 - 20.00 at de Appel
Screening
Invite only

In this edition, we gather as part of the intimate closing moment of the Harvest Festival at de Appel — an evening of film, reflection, and shared presence. The programme brings together visions shaped by our collective process: glimpses into what has been lived, questioned, and imagined along the way. Together, we’ll watch, listen, and hold space for dialogue — letting the films stir what words alone cannot. we open space to reflect on the process of working collectively — and to plant seeds for future forms of learning, making, and being together.

de Appel - Tolstraat 160, Amsterdam
Tetterode - Da Costakade 158, Amsterdam
GROND - Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam
Voedselpark - Lutkemeerweg 262, Amsterdam
Sandberg Instituut - Fred. Roeskestraat 96, Amsterdam

The Harvest Festival is a celebration of collective work, artistic exploration, and solidarity across islands. Hosted in Jayapura (Indonesia) by Indonesian Art Movement and co-organised with the Sixpack collective, it reflects a journey of collaboration through the Gudskul Collective Study Programme. Rooted in the values of lumbung (communal granary), the festival gathers artists and communities from across Indonesia in a vibrant week of exhibitions, performances, workshops, and communal feasts, centring on shared knowledge, sustainability, and connection.

The presentation of the participants of Gudskul Studi Kolektif batch #6, this time named Sixpack, carries the title Teh Ta Ambas Mino Sibawa di Mari. The title is a combination of 5 regional languages that reflect our togetherness. “Teh Ta” comes from Sasak Lombok meaning “let’s go,” “Ambas” from Asmat meaning “eat,” “Mino” from Larantuka meaning “drink,” “Sibawa” from Bugis meaning “together” and “di mari” from Betawi meaning “here.” The title is an invitation to gather, eat and drink together, representing the Sixpack habit of spending time together at GudKitchen.

See the full programme here!

Signature support for the Curatorial Programme is provided by Ammodo