In het Gemaal op Zuid vinden verschillende activiteiten plaats. Van presentaties en vergaderingen tot culturele activiteiten en kookworkshops. De locatie is soms verhuurd voor besloten bijeenkomsten, maar veel van onze activiteiten zijn voor iedereen (gratis) toegankelijk. Bekijk hieronder wat er komende tijd in het Gemaal te doen is.
do 08 dec
18:30 - 21:30'Strategies on Care - full Land Usership'
De filmavond 'Strategies on Care - full Land Usership' is een filmavond samengesteld door iLiana Fokianaki, voor het Gemaal. En is te bezoeken op donderdag 8 december van 18:30 - 21:30u. We zullen bij aanvang gezamenlijk een hapje eten. Ben je erbij? Na de film gaat Iliana (pre-rec, EN) in gesprek met de filmmakers. Eten zal verzorgd worden door studenten van de WDKA i.s.m. het Grondstoffenstation en de Wijkkeuken van Zuid! Gratis toegang, welkom!
18:30 open doors / dinner served
19:00 start films
20:15 recorded discussion between iLiana and the filmmakers + open conversation
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What are the common threads between North European activists trying to protect an ancient forest,
with cultural activists from the Global South, trying to de-privitize land through the use of old legislation? Questions arise in relation to land and property that bring to the fore the binary of ownership versus usership, in this film night with a (pre-rec) discussion (EN) and screenings of the works of Marwa Arsanios and Oliver Ressler, curated by iLiana Fokianaki. How can we care for using land? And is caring for nature enough to overcome the destruction of it by privatization?
Arsanios is presenting her fourth film of the series ‘Who is Afraid of Ideology” and Ressler “The Path is Never the Same” both films finished in 2022.
Arsanios film departs from a collaborative project that is attempting to shift the status of a private land in the North of Lebanon to a common or a social waqf. The aim would be to advance the right of usership over ownership. The land would only be used by people who do not own land for agricultural purposes. The film follows this process and adds to it a reflection on the way land as a living object inherently resists property. Matter and land become a witness to a certain history of non-ownership. The interconnectedness of the geological, the historical, the legal and the agricultural brings forward a kind of ecology of thought whose purpose is communalisation and rehabilitation.
Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 4 is a project in collaboration with Maya Dghaidi (legal research), Wissam Saade (historical research), Amany Dagher and Wael Yammine from Soils Permaculture Association Lebanon.
Ressler’s film focuses on two complex, self-organizing systems: a forest and an occupation. Long shots show the Hambacher Forest near Cologne, one of Germany’s last old-growth forests. The forest has become the scene of Europe’s longest tree-top occupation. Since 2012, about 200 people have been living in this forest to prevent its clearing by the energy company RWE, which wants to extract the lignite beneath the forest floor. In January 2020, after much of Hambacher Forest was already destroyed, pressure maintained for years by climate activists forced German
politicians to order the preservation of what remained. Meanwhile, lignite extraction continues in an open-air pit that comes ever closer and is now only a few meters from the edge of the forest. The mine fuels climate breakdown and damages the forest’s ecosystem by pumping out ground water. So the occupation also continues: currently there are ten permanently inhabited barrios, each consisting of a camp and several tree houses. The film reflects on the forest as a living space and on the need to confront the climate vandalism perpetrated in the name of “economic activity”. The people here organize non-hierarchically, standing – as one activist puts it in the film – “just like the trees, next to each other, on the same level”.
za 10 dec
20:00 - 22:00uOpening: Wider Perspectives #3 - Chewing With Political Teeth
“Chewing With Political Teeth”
Exhibition by Diana Al-Halabi
Artwork co-produced by Veronika Babayan
Curated by Leana Boven
“Chewing With Political Teeth” is an exhibition by Diana Al-Halabi showcasing her ongoing research on famine and hunger strikes. Constituting two sides of the same coin, famine and hunger strikes render the digestive system as another political site of struggle. While famines are a top-down force often engineered by governments to subordinate its people, hunger strikes are a bottom-up form of individual resistance often undertaken by political prisoners as a last resort for claiming their rights.
For the exhibition's main piece, Diana Al-Halabi has invited artist Veronika Babayan, whose main medium is fruit leather, to co-produce “The Digestive is Political.” The question of preservation is foregrounded in this piece, feeding into the notion of food security, the domestic, the public, and the political. Who is able to preserve food beyond its season? Why do we preserve food? Is preservation a result of a surplus or is preservation a fear-taming method?"
With live music by Samah Boulmona
Join us!
zo 11 dec
16:00-18:30uZuidtopia Muziekmatinee #4 Cammy Breeveld
Zuidtopia muziekmatinee vertelt het verhaal van een bewoner of ondernemer uit Rotterdam-Zuid. En op zondag 11 december vindt alweer de laatste editie van 2022 plaats!
In deze editie zullen we kennismaken met Cammy Breeveld, bewoonster van voormalig Nelson Mandela school in de Afrikaanderwijk en oprichter van Movemento, van diverse salsa evenementen.
Wat hebben Rotterdam Zuid, dansen en ondernemen met elkaar te maken? "De basis van mijn leven" aldus Cammy. Op haar zeventiende ging ze naar het Albeda aan de Rosestraat, waardoor achteraf gezien Rotterdam Zuid een belangrijke rode draad in haar leven is geworden. Ze zal vertellen over deze start in haar jeugd tot aan nu: als bewoonster, moeder en initiatiefneemster van het aankomende salsa festival in het Afrikaanderpark.
Als gast van Zuidtopia Muziek Matinee brengt ze tijdens deze koudere dagen een zomers muzikale invulling mee met DJ Virgil El Gigante en saxofonist Denis Divers.
Gratis entree, welkom!
zo 18 dec
12:00-18:00uAfrikaanse (kerst)markt
Afrikaanse markt georganiseerd door buurtbewoonster Maria Barros bij het Gemaal op Zuid.
Met verschillende workshops, en een afsluitend concert van Joany Muskiet.
Gratis entree, welkom!