2 October 2025, 15:00 - 20:00
Open Kitchen : Dismantling Assimilation
an apron making workshop, VOKU and freeshop
organized by Lu Lin and Yuewen Dang
hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
We together cook a delicious and accessible plant-based meal; organize program and hold a space for the extended network of community kitchens, food activists, friends, comrades, creatives and Basecamp inhabitants to gather, share, learn, un-learn and enjoy a meal together. Each week tastes like a different #Kitchen Takeover#
This week we are joined by artists Lu Lin and Yuewen Dang for an apron making workshop. Dismantling Assimilation is part of Out of the Blue Dinner, a socially engaged art project shaped by a series of ongoing food-related activities. During the workshop, participants are invited to take apart the project's central installation—a tent made of typical Dutch tea towels—and repurpose the fabric into aprons.
This act of transformation serves as a starting point for a discussion on the critical topic of assimilation and the expectations Dutch society places on migrants. The workshop will explore multicultural experiences of cooking, framing the apron as a medium to unlearn internalized assimilation and map the pluralistic journeys of migrants living in the Netherlands. Following the discussion, participants will redesign and sew aprons together.
15:00 – 18:00
Workshop
18:00 – 20:00
VOKU by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
Please sign up via joining@bakonline.org
Suggested donation for your participation is €5-15
About the organizers
Lu Lin (1992) is a self-publisher and socially engaged artist born in China, currently living and working in Arnhem (NL). As a self-publisher in the field, she utilizes artistic approaches to deconstruct the complexity of safe spaces and explore their socio-political and cultural factors in relation to marginalization, drawing on intersectionality, feminism, and queerness. Through the involvement of social practices, her works are motivated by the alienation experienced in this era of fluidity, showcasing how different aspects of everyday life contribute to identity formation and discrimination.
Yuewen Dang (b. 1997, China; preferred name: Dawn Dang) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. Her practice spans installation, participatory projects, photography, and material experimentation, exploring themes of cross-cultural identity, feminism, and collective experience. She has engaged in collaborative and public art projects in the Netherlands, gaining experience in socially engaged and community-focused practices. Through ongoing projects, she continues to investigate how art can create spaces for dialogue, reflection, and interaction across diverse social and cultural contexts.
About the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
The b.a.k. is a fugitive kitchen network. It is run by a group of Utrecht based activists, artists and researchers with backgrounds in theatre, art, squatting, community Kitchens, organizing, anthropology, history and gender studies. What we buy, what we cook, what we eat, for whom we cook and why—these are political actions. It co-uses the building, funding, and network of an institution to connect people and their politics through cooking together, redistributing abundance and ensuring nothing goes to waste. It is NOT a catering infrastructure. It sees the kitchen as a site of study and a place to nourish solidarities.
