Museum Night 2011 in de Appel
Opening: Sat 5 November, 7 pm
de Appel, Jongensschool, Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59
Experience “Revolutionary Playground”
A happening of performances, workshops and activities.
At Amsterdam’s Museum Night 2011 de Appel will be a Revolutionary Playground created by The Living Room(s) collective, a collective of artists and cultural mediators from different disciplines engaging with social change, collective action and the practice of everyday life.
Make your own protest banner! Skype live with activists all over the world!
De Appel exhibition space serves as a performance and workshop platform. The site is also an info-centre. You’ll be invited to participate in, experience and react to all activities concerning protest, activism and social change. The event brings you together with the artists, performers and musicians. It refers to the tremendous global civil awakening that is now taking place in cities around the world.
The event also links to de Appel's current exhibition: “Spectres” by Sven Augustijnen. “Spectres” focuses on one of the darkest pages in the colonial history of the Belgian Congo: the murder of Congo's first democratic elected prime minister Patrice Lumumba in 1961. His election was the outcome of Congo's first wave of civil awakening and an expression of the Congo's citizens' will.
The various activities will take place throughout de Appel arts centre:
Read more for programme and actvities
Main Tent
Speakers, performers, poets, musicians and theater makers will take the stage to argue for and play with the notions of change and freedom.
Participants: Markha Valenta, Rune Peitersen, CroissantsTerribles and Alexander Karschnia (andcompany&Co)
Creative tents
E.H.B.M - ( Eerste Hulp Bij Machteloosheid) - One on one sessions with facilitator Yonathan Keren and artist Yuri Veerman to regain your power as an active citizen.
The people's street wall - take part in covering de Appel outside wall with protest slogans from all over the world with graphic designer Hugo Herrera Tobón.
Global tents
Live skype with activists from Madrid, Cairo, New York, Tel Aviv and Santiago; get lost inside a revolutionary audio library, watch images of hope and rage from all over the globe, become a resistance DJ and play your favorite protest song; exchange knowledge and experience with others.
With a special visual contribution by Roni Levit Studio and Roei Alter.
Time line of the night:
19:00 –Global tent activities start
20:00 - Creative tent workshops start
20:30-22:00 – Main Tent performance (1st round)
23:00-24:30 - Main Tent performance (2nd round)
Revolutionary Playground was created by The Living Room(s) collective. It is inspired by and coincides with the current global tendency of civil awakening. It is a contribution to the on-going protests. At the same time it asks how art, artists and art institutions can create a common and inspiring space to act locally in a global context.
Biographies:
Markha Valenta – She is a historian (University of Amsterdam), who specializes in the relationship between religion and politics. In recent years she has carried out research on the Dutch and American political and public reactions to Muslims. She is now beginning a project on the relationship between democracy, religion and ethnic diversity in three “global cities” (Amsterdam - Mumbai - New York).
Yuri Veerman - Yuri Veerman translates the Wilhelmus (Dutch national anthem) into Arabic at www.trotsopnederland.ma, shows what happens when you slash art on www.slashart.nl and collects together more than 300 'FREE' T-shirts op www.free-tshirts.info. For other projects, go to www.yuriveerman.nl.
Yonathan Keren -Yonathan trained as a singer at the conservatory of Amsterdam. Since then he has worked as a teacher in the educational system and as a corporate trainer. He currently teaches at the AHK (the arts academy of Amsterdam), coaches voice professionals and works as a group facilitator, specializing in conflict resolution. Yonathan is an accredited Deep Democracy instructor and teaches facilitation of decision making processes, group dynamics and conflict resolution.
CroissantsTerribles - Les Croissants Terribles a.k.a. Los Tortillas Terribolos is a three-man, six-armed and legged Waitsian freakfolk orchestra. Sound is their thing, as is other stuff. Dutch, English or French? No problem! All of the above! Still looking for a choir though!
Hugo Herrera Tobón - Hugo Herrera Tobón is an Amsterdam-based multi-disciplinary art director and designer. Since 2006 he has been art-directing graphic identities and developing printed, 3D and web material for a number of musicians, performers, artists and organizations, creating artistic concepts for exhibitions and visual communication strategies. His work reflects his passion for displacement, typography, iconography, conceptual contemporary art, Latin American literature and photography.
Rune Peitersen is a Danish artist, who lives and works in Amsterdam, and a founding member of artists’ groups Clacite Revolt and Platform Re-Set. Peitersen interested in “the voice of the artist” and developing ways to make it heard.
The Living Room(s) is a collective of artists and cultural mediators from different disciplines engaging with social change, collective action and the practice of everyday life. We are parasites, hosting and being hosted by different venues in our neighborhood and beyond, creating event-driven interventions in collaboration with performers, theoreticians and artists. Visit the Living Room(s) website