Lumen and Studium Generale are joining forces and are starting a new monthly collaboration showcasing the best and freshest voices from cinema. Tickets are only €7,50 with a student card and include a free drink!

Building from the previous two sessions on stillness and listening, we’ll now find our voice. Playing with the acoustics in the Oude Kerk, we’ll explore how speaking is always a dance of attunement between our bodies and our surroundings.

Thawing out hurts. Birth requires pushing. Sprouting means rupture. This session tends to the growing pains of the upcoming spring season, offering a chance to think about what’s to come.

Join Katarina Petrović and library curators for an artist talk and conversation about ArtScience, algorithms, and what the negation of seminal texts like the Bible and Darwin offers us.

By using certain language we inevitably deny other truths. What if we uncover the unsaid, in texts like the Bible, the Origin of Species, political speeches, etc? What will the stories behind the words show us about our collective implicit biases and inherited cultural beliefs?

Even if it’s happened only once, we all know the profound feeling of being listened to deeply. In this session we’ll experiment with listening skills by attending to the space around us, to one another, and to ourselves.

In this documentary, the famed mind behind V For Vendetta and Watchmen articulates his knowledge of creativity, language, and occult magick. Sound weird? You bet it is.

To what extent can we trust our own minds?

Philosophically speaking, everything we know could be a lie. How do skepticism and knowledge add up to a life in which things actually kind of make sense?

What is the role of the real-life conversations we still have? Have they changed over the years, both in shape and purpose? What skills does one need to be a good conversationalist?