BASECAMP


21 May 2025
Canary in the Coalmine

This public lecture and discussion with Laura Raicovich will address the urgencies affecting and faced in cultural spaces today.

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23 May 2025
Consent Lab Series with Joy Mariama Smith

Series of 4 Consent Labs using art and action to create discourse around consent and agency led by Joy Mariama Smith, an artist, activist, facilitator, curator and architectural designer.

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1 January 2025
FieldMealNetwork

January-June: A series of Online/Offline gatherings. Ongoing research.

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22 February 2025
Study session ‘Shit & Exhaustion’

Garage School of Medicine is happy to announce upcoming events at BAK / BASECAMP for Tactical Imaginaries. We invite you to join us as we explore Metabolic Literacies and Transformations of Matter in the context of an institution in transformation.

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8 March 2025
Let’s talk about justice! BIPOC Queer Movie Night

BIPOC Queer Movie Night

“Nobody is free, until everybody‘s free.” — Fannie Lou Hamer

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9 March 2025
PROPAGANDA TRAINING

As we face the devastating forces of the warmongering neoliberals on one hand and the neofascists on the other, we have to ask: how did they propagate a world suited to their interests? This is a training about using and hijacking infrastructure.

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15 March 2025
Zapatismo Study Group

You are warmly invited to the Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries for a collective reading session with the Zapatismo Study Group.

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20 March 2025
b.ASIC a.CTIVIST K.ITCHEN

Every Thursday the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST K.ITCHEN is open with Vegan Voku on donation and program

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27 March 2025
Young Future Food Movement and b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU

The Young Future Food Movement, a student group dedicated to improving our food system while building community and changing institutions, joins the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN to cook this week's VOKU.

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27 March 2025
NEH x BAK READING SERIES

You are more than welcome to join the BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries on a monthly workshop / reading series across 2025 in collaboration with the UU’s Network for Environmental Humanities, which will feature workshops followed by public readings

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Illustration by Irene Pozzi for the Kitchen Almanac of the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
10 April 2025
We’re Simmering Collective and b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU#5

We’re Simmering Collective discusses the politics of food sourcing, sharing and distributing, in collaboration with our weekly b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU.

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12 April 2025
Colored Qollective - Know Your Rights, Open Resource for Asylum Seekers

Know Your Rights – Open Resource for Asylum Seekers

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12 April 2025
Situated Institutions, Relational Practices, Liminal Studios

Join us at the Jan van Eyck Academie to hear more about Basecamp, from the perspective of situated institutions and relational practices.

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17 April 2025
Garage School of Medicine and b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU#6

Garage School of Medicineruns their second session of “Metabolic Literacies”: a workshop on Distilling Memory, foraging and the alchemy of matter and words, followed by our weekly b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU.

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22 April 2025
Reading Counterpower Amsterdam

How do we build together? How do we work towards collective liberation? We will collectively eat and collectively read two texts related to liberation movements at the Basecamp.

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22 April 2025
New Women Connectors - Storytelling Basecamp

call for participants - info session

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24 April 2025
Weaving Labs and b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU#7

Come to Weaving Labs, a participatory space exploring identity, heritage, and resistance through weaving and embroidery, and then join us for our weekly b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU.

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2 May 2025
Academy of Democratic Modernity educational session

72 hour seminar organised by the Academy of Democratic Modernity

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7 May 2025
Palestine Lab met Conflicts Studies Universiteit Utrecht

Reclaiming the Digital: Stories from Palestine

Storytelling Basecamp: Reclaiming Narrat
Storytelling Basecamp: Reclaiming Narratives, Building Connections
9 May 2025
Storytelling Basecamp session 1

In partnership with Basecamp, and made possible by VAHA, this project offers a group of 12 people with a migration background, selected by open call, a transformative space to develop storytelling skills that counter harmful narratives and foster connecti

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10 May 2025
Sculpting Our Stories: Queer Clay Circle

Join us for a queer clay workshop and conversation among BIPOC trans and queer fellows!

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13 May 2025
Traction

TRACTION is an offering, a creative gathering, and a soft experiment with materials and embodied thinking about trauma.

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15 May 2025
Networking Situated Kitchens: Slow Cooked Dining and Culinary Co-Learning

FieldMealResearch with b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN at BAK-basecamp, SAVVY Contemporary, Wilde 24 at MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

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16 May 2025
Werkconferentie Exploding Practices

Hoe kunnen kunstenaars onderdeel zijn van maatschappelijke processen, zonder daarin te worden geïnstrumentaliseerd?

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17 May 2025
Rehearsal of Justice: series

Rehearsal of Justice is a series of participatory gatherings in May and June where communities and individuals come together to rehearse and enact justice. Concept, dramaturgy and host Ehsan Fardjadniya.

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17 May 2025
Rehearsal of Justice: gathering 1

The first of three Rehearsal of Justice gatherings with Ehsan Fardjadniya, Souleyman, Joset van de Hoeven, Shadows United, Larrisa Vlieger, Julien Ignacio

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17 May 2025
Flor-es-ser; visions on motherings

In this gathering, we wish to explore visions of nurturing that expand beyond the everyday, from the mother-child dynamic; to our personal relationships, to our intimate connection with the land itself.

ArtTable Symposium 2025 poster
ArtTable Symposium 2025 poster
20 May 2025
ArtTable symposium 2025: What do we bring to the table?

ArtTable x Amsterdam Art Week symposium about strengthening the cultural sector. Two of our Basecampers will contribute insights to this conversation.

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Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Verso, 2021)
21 May 2025
Canary in the Coalmine

This public lecture and discussion with Laura Raicovich will address the urgencies affecting and faced in cultural spaces today.