Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.
Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.
Basecamp
2 April 2026 18:00 - 21:00
VOKU, FreeShop, workshop & performative lecture by Wang Xue Sophia
Hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
Organized by While Kitchen-ing
Open Kitchen TakeOver: Multilingual Recipes #1
kitchen-ing based project seriesVOKU, FreeShop, workshop & performative lecture by Wang Xue Sophia
Hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
Organized by While Kitchen-ing
8 April 2026
performances, exhibitions, films and conversations
organized by IMPAKT
hosted by BAK Basecamp, Theater Utrecht & IMPAKT centre
Techno-Ancestrality
IMPAKT festival 2026 | 8-11 Aprilperformances, exhibitions, films and conversations
organized by IMPAKT
hosted by BAK Basecamp, Theater Utrecht & IMPAKT centre
8 April 2026 17:00 - 21:30
dinner, collective reading & film screening
hosted by Iliada Charalambous in collaboration with het Rode Keukentje
as part of Assembling in Resistance
This Jungo Life
a film by David Fedele and the Jungo of Rabatdinner, collective reading & film screening
hosted by Iliada Charalambous in collaboration with het Rode Keukentje
as part of Assembling in Resistance
9 April 2026 16:00 - 21:00
hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
organized by While Kitchen-ing
Open Kitchen TakeOver : Multilingual Recipes
VOKU, FreeShop & workshop with Anapofasisto (Athina Koutsiou)hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
organized by While Kitchen-ing
10 April 2026 17:00 - 22:00
introduction, screening and discussion with Yonri Revolt
hosted by Nancy Jouwe
as part of Black Presence in Utrecht : Papua in the Picture
Muman Minggil
a film by Mahardika Yudha and Yonri Revoltintroduction, screening and discussion with Yonri Revolt
hosted by Nancy Jouwe
as part of Black Presence in Utrecht : Papua in the Picture
15 April 2026 17:00 - 21:30
with Nicole Immloer, Hasan & Nasiha Nuhanović, Hope Rikkelman & Liesbeth Zegveld
organized by the University of Humanistic Studies and the NWO
hosted by BAK Basecamp
How to Repair Historical Injustice?
Kick Off Night of the Dialogics of Justice Conferencewith Nicole Immloer, Hasan & Nasiha Nuhanović, Hope Rikkelman & Liesbeth Zegveld
organized by the University of Humanistic Studies and the NWO
hosted by BAK Basecamp
16 April 2026 19:30 - 21:00
film screening and conversation with Aida Fernandes and Diana Vela Almeido
organized and facilitated by Salomé Lopes Coelho
hosted by BAK Basecamp in collaboration with the 11th Biennal EASLCE Conference 2026, the Ne
Savanna and the Mountain
a film by Paula Carneirofilm screening and conversation with Aida Fernandes and Diana Vela Almeido
organized and facilitated by Salomé Lopes Coelho
hosted by BAK Basecamp in collaboration with the 11th Biennal EASLCE Conference 2026, the Ne
16 April 2026 18:00 - 20:00
hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
Open Kitchen 1604
VOKU & FreeShophosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
17 April 2026
as part of Pièce the Resístance
You See What We See?
Presented by 030 Netwerk & UC Crewas part of Pièce the Resístance
24 April 2026 18:30 - 22:30
organized by Sasha Pak
as part of Young Revolt
FE in MALE
open dance jam, exhibition battle & film screeningorganized by Sasha Pak
as part of Young Revolt
13 March 2026
Werk collectief, organiseer events en bouw community
Voor jongeren tussen de 15-20 jaar
Young Revolt : OPEN CALL
Word een Jonge Basisbewerker bij BAK Basecamp!Werk collectief, organiseer events en bouw community
Voor jongeren tussen de 15-20 jaar
23 February 2026
Fermenting Antifascism is a cohort-based learning series that explores modes of resisting the present through fermentation, microbial life, and other ecological playgrounds.
Open Call: Fermenting Antifascism Continues
Join the Cohort!Fermenting Antifascism is a cohort-based learning series that explores modes of resisting the present through fermentation, microbial life, and other ecological playgrounds.
22 December 2025
1 year of BAK Basecamp : we are alive, kicking and here to stay!
We will close for the public to turn inwards, recharge and reflect - Happy Solstice and see you in February!17 December 2025
Fermenting
For some people it’s a very busy period and for other living beings—like the trees and bees—it’s a time for shedding and resting. For me, this moment feels rather nostalgic, as I will be covering the themes of fermentation, reflection and composti1 December 2025
December Basecamp Bulletin
monthly calendar30 October 2025
November Basecamp Bulletin
monthly calendar24 October 2025
GESLOTEN: vacature leden voor de Raad van Toezicht
De Raad van Toezicht (RvT) staat BAK Basecamp met raad en daad terzijde en baseert zijn werkzaamheden op de inhoudelijke missie en visie van de organisatie. Kom jij ons versterken?8 October 2025
The Basecamp Rolls On
Welcome back everyone to the Basecamp, which has been in full swing lately and I’m here to bring you some fantastical updates and insights.3 October 2025
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL: Culturele Boycot van Israël
Nederlandse en Belgische kunstenaars en culturele instellingen gaan over tot boycot Israël12 June 2025
Storytelling Workshop (Part 2)
Storytelling is a tool of advocacy. By telling your story in your own words you make people aware of your journey and history.29 May 2025
Storytelling: Hi-Story
The stories that are told and shared are the ones that we remember in history, so it’s important to question whose stories are being told and who is telling the story?8 May 2025
Reading Counter Power
We need core shared values. Open spaces where we can practice enacting what it means to live in a different kind of world that we envision.24 April 2025
Memory & Hospicing
This week I was pleasantly surprised to hear that medicine was being explored at the Basecamp. Garage School of Medicine, led by Kari Robertson and Santiago Pinyol. A sweet couple with their 5-year-old daughter.17 April 2025
Glossary of Soup Making
“It is quite a good metaphor and practice to initiate conversations about commoning and in general about politicising food. Because soup is something that everyone relates too since the dawn of time. Some people say that we even come from primordial bro3 April 2025
All things great and small
This day and meal has given me a refreshing glimpse into potential prospects for the future. Especially, when we work together to make space and place for regenerative ways of being where non-human life is fostered daily.31 March 2025
Welcome to the Basecamp
In this blog I, Angelina Kumar, artist and fellow pioneer for positive change, will attempt, bi-weekly, to capture and share glimpses and insights of the brave and ever evolving journey that is unfolding at the Basecamp for tactical Imaginaries.Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.
To meet this moment, in which political, social, economic, and climate crises overlap and amplify each other, requires direct action and intervention. Basecamp radically embodies cultural infrastructure in order to leverage the imagining possible for it. Imagining is central to life in which we convene for resilience, survival, renewal and repair. Basecamp offers itself as site and structure towards intimacy, critique, exploration, possibility, and action.
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Program
Message from BAK Supervisory Board: Maria Hlavajova bids farewell to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
On 30 June 2025, after 25 years of service, BAK’s founding director Maria Hlavajova will step down from her position as general director.
1 April 2025
30 June 2025
Program
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
Marking the beginning of a new phase, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht embarks upon a six-month period of thinking and planning.
1 January 2025
30 June 2025
Program
The Open Kitchen FreeShop
The FreeShop is a place where nothing is for sale, and everything is free.
1 January 2025
31 December 2025
Program
Climate Propagandas Congregation
A new two-day congregation to study climate propagandas to propagate alternative presents and futures.
14 December 2024
15 December 2024
Program
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
A symposium that centers on a table reading of Marival (1996) by Felix de Rooy, a landmark play about Caribbean queer experience in the shadow of Dutch postcolonialism.
1 December 2024
1 December 2024
