Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.

Basecamp

agenda

4 June 2026 18:00 - 20:00

Countertime

reading and listening session
with Lama El Khatib
hosted by Remove the Dot (Saja Amro & Wassila Abboud)

4 June 2026 18:00 - 21:00

Open Kitchen Take-Over : Digesting Together 一起消消食

kitchen-ing based project series
with Xu Yixin
organized by While Kitchen-ing
hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN

9 June 2026 14:00 - 18:00

Culturele Boycot Israël

No Business As Usual
closed gathering (invitation only)
organized by Lerend Netwerk Culturele Boycot

10 June 2026 18:00 - 20:00

exhibition on the resonances of anti-fascism and anti-colonialism in Utrecht
exhibition opening
co-curated by Sophie Mak-Schram and Ndèye-Anne Pouye for the Anti-Fascist Congress
in close cooperation with Nancy Jouwe and Jeanne van He

11 June 2026 18:00 -20:00

Open Kitchen

VOKU & FreeShop
hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
*last one before our summer break!

12 June 2026 19:00 - 23:00

Young Revolt : On Sudan - Voices of the Mineral Rich

discussion and music performance by Razeen, and DJ-set by DJ $oul$ucka
curated by Kai Ibrahim and Raidan Baqi

13 June 2026 13:30 - 17:00

Basecamp Theories: Gloria Wekker

seminar & deepdive
hosted by Nancy Jouwe, Mikki Stelder and Chandra Frank
As part of Black Presence in Utrecht

14 June 2026 11:00 - 17:30

Anti-Fascist Congress

an inspired embodiment of the 1933 anti-fascist congress in Utrecht
assembly & exhibition
an initiative of Basecamp Builder Nancy Jouwe
in close cooperation with the Basecamp Core Building Domain

16 June 2026 17:00 - 19:00

Living in Genocide

with Jasbir K. Puar
Still Called Palestine lecture series
organized by Layal Ftouni

17 June 2026 18:00 - 20:00

Play with me? @ Dewaniya

hosted by Mosaic Collective in collaboration with Colored Qollective
(Fatemeh Asiri, Athina Koutsiou and Victoria de la Torre)

20 June 2026 14:00 - 16:00

Life After Capitalism

The world's on fire and capitalism's the culprit
lecture
organized by Marxisme School

20 June 2026 18:00 - 22:00

Summer Solstice: celebrating queer joy

Food Autonomy Festival #10
community gathering, sharing, food and celebration
by and for queer and trans people of colour, open to all, organized by ASEED and Colored Qollective

24 June 2026 12:00 - 18:00

Graduation show Master of Fine Art HKU

Part of HKU Exposure
24 June — 5 July, 2026
Wed — Sun, 12.00—18.00 (Mon & Tue closed)

26 June 2026 15:00 - 17:00

POCQunity Group Care Gathering

monthly gathering for community care, collective support, and bodily embodiment
exclusively for queer and trans people of colour
sign-up required
hosted by Colored Qollective

27 June 2026 11:00 - 15:00

MOOKORE #5

Self Acceptance through Embodied Exploration
a workshop by Deren and Nina

27 June 2026 12:00 - 14:00

Trans Healthcare Study Collective #8

monthly study group

27 June 2026 14:00 – 17:00

Queer Cartographies

mapping workshop for queer migrants
organized by Ilya Genov

27 June 2026 15:00 - 20:00

Palestine Queer Cinema

film festival
organized by Palestine Café
in collaboration with Colored Qollective, De Voorkamer, and PERRX

blog

9 April 2026

News regarding our Supervisory Board

13 March 2026

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

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 composti

1 December 2025

December Basecamp Bulletin

monthly calendar

30 October 2025

November Basecamp Bulletin

monthly calendar

24 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 Israël

12 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 bro

3 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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