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 Education Program

24 May, 12.00–26 May, 18.00 2023

 

Making Culturally Relevant Books Accessible with Speed and Elegance

Hopscotch Reading Room

Hopscotch Reading Room (Erin Honeycutt and Siddhartha Lokanandi) plans and builds a collective bootleg through both serendipitous and intended encounters. It is open to the general public and also counts on specially invited guests from the independent publishing scene in the Netherlands and other places. Bring your own culturally relevant publication for bootlegging. Expect chance operations to determine an unexpected course. Trust that the copy machine will match our temperament and speed. Any (machine) errors to troubleshoot are a message the book itself sends us regarding concrete wishes for its afterlife. 

Wednesday 24 MAY –Friday 26 MAY 2023

12:00–18:00 hrs

Hospitality

Collective vegan lunch from 12:00–13:00 hrs.

The meal is included in the enrollment fee. The abundance and variety of the menu depend on the luck of the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN’s dumpster dive.

Notes

Registration on individual days is welcome. You can register your attendance here.

Trainer’s Notes

Bring an essay (max. 30 pages) that you think is “culturally relevant.” The essay can be in print or as a digital file.

Suggestions from the archive

Learning

10 May, 12.00–12 May, 18.00 2023

Complaint Making: Setting Up Conflict-Positive Spaces for Community Building Praxis

Vishnu would like to share feminist governance tools (FGT) focused on three of many tiers in community building praxis. FGT is based on the values of equity with an emphasis on creating psychologically safe environments, drawing on the use of consent. Decision-making processes, setting up conflict-positive spaces, and complaint-making as diversity work will form the body of this three-day training. Rooted in Vishnu’s autho-ethnographic practice, this work will explore the power dynamics that impact decision-making processes.

Performative

10 May, 12.00–12 May, 18.00 2023

The Diamond Mind II

In this dance training, the people will use a one-minute film of their own movement as material for a booklet—a sixteen page signature—that distributes their presence, their gesture, as an act of EQ. 

Learning

3 May, 12.00–4 May, 18.00 2023

Too Late To Say Sorry? 

A bad apology can ruin a friendship, destroy a community, or end a career. In this workshop, we will investigate the impact of apologies on our relationships and our worlds. Why and how do we make apologies? What can giving and receiving apologies teach us about values and integrity? Should you apologize for something you don’t really feel sorry for? We will explore conflict and how we like to be in conflict with others. We will dive into our own boundaries. We will seek to understand how honoring limits becomes an act of building (or freeing) better worlds capable of holding so many, many more of us.

Learning

28 April, 12.00–29 April, 18.00 2023

Huisje, Boompje, Beestje (D.A.F.O.N.T.)

In this rare masterclass, retired teacher and artist Glenda Martinus teaches participants a thing or two about painting with Microsoft Word. Martinus shares tips, tricks, and secrets on how to use this software to its unexpected potential as a drawing tool. Participants learn how to draw three basic objects—a house, a tree, and an animal—in a seemingly innocent exercise that perhaps contains more layered social commentary. Drawing the worlds we desire does not require expensive tools or education, simply a curiosity to understand how the monster’s tools can topple the house of the master.