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6:00 PM-8:30 PM

Living Archive: Freedom Dinner

Liberation Day|Bevrijdingsdag

  • Goethe-Institut Niederlande, Amsterdam

  • Free of Charge, registration required
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Living Archive: Freedom Dinner © Ipek Sur

On Liberation Day, we are once again organising a Freedom Meal accompanied by a cultural programme. The Freedom Meals are made possible by the Amsterdam Committee for 4 and 5 May. The programme is a collaboration with the 7 Hills Foundation and has been curated by Ipek M. Sur.

Living Archive: Freedom is a shared space where stories are not only told, but also listened to attentively and transformed together. Through encounters with artists and musicians, listening sessions and moments of collective creativity, the evening unfolds into a living archive shaped by everyone present – an ever-expanding tapestry of memories, voices and experiences.

From ‚I‘ to ‚we‘: over a shared meal, in conversations and through performances, we reflect on freedom whilst simultaneously creating a polyphonic documentation of our present. The programme is predominantly in English, but the language remains fluid and welcoming, allowing everyone to express themselves in the way that feels most natural.

Information about the accompanying daytime programme and the participating artists will be available here shortly.
 

Freedom Dinner Living Archive © Ipek Sur

Künstler*innen und Partner

  • Ipek M. Sur is an Amsterdam-based curator, researcher and cultural mediator whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses visual art, performance, film and socially engaged projects. Grounded in care, reciprocity and attentive listening, her work explores migration, collective memory and the transformative power of shared stories. Through curatorial formats that prioritise participation and relational exchange, she creates spaces in which art becomes a place for reflection, dialogue and collective authorship. As founder and artistic director of the 7 Hills Foundation, she develops interdisciplinary platforms that connect artistic practice with social engagement, healing and social imagination.

  • The 7 Hills Foundation is an Amsterdam-based cultural foundation that develops interdisciplinary art projects and international collaborations on themes such as identity, migration and collective memory. Taking a nomadic and intercultural approach, the foundation works across disciplines ranging from visual arts and film to performance and design, creating contexts in which artists and audiences can meet, engage in critical dialogue and jointly shape new visions of society. The projects are shaped by the urgency of the present and the complexity of shared visions of the future, with dialogue, connection and care always at the forefront.

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