Compose a poem, then hunt through magazines to bring your words to life!

Recently, Dutch news has been full of heartbreaking stories of violence against women. What changes, if any, are we willing to make in our lifestyles to help make women safer at home and outside?

Bring your works in progress – your sketchbook, colored pencils, pastels, fiber art, poetry book, and more!

What, to you, are the underlying reasons for (let’s be honest, mostly male) violence in society? How would you go about engineering and designing a safer society?

Liberalism. Conservatism. Marxism. Fascism. Populism. Learn how scholars define various political “-isms” and their many incarnations.

Can we have an equitable, democratic society if only some of us can claim their space? And is a society where everyone is heard equally necessarily better?

Kites have something innocent, something that reminds of childhood and endless summers. Our relationship with the wind made visible in a fun way. Can we give it a voice too? During this writing huddle, we claim space for childhood joy, while drafting our energy vows to the next generation.

Does love need to be liberated? If so, from what? The phrase ‘free love’ may be associated with mid to late 20th century hippies, but has its origins as a philosophy in religious movements which are thousands of years old. Since then, thinkers have come and gone asking how love can be made more free, and what we need to do to make it so.

Horrible people have made wonderful art. Or is it? Do the failings of an artist in their life, whether personal or professional, have anything to do with how we should relate to their art? If so, how should we treat art made by those who have done vile, even unspeakable things?

It’s easy to say that water is important, the earth is covered in it, we’re made of it, and so on. But how should water’s importance be managed? Their significance is not just historical and political but also conceptual and cultural.