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do 15 mei

18:00-21:00 @ Social Practice Library and Archive

READING ROOM OF THE FUTURE #01: staining the archive queer

READING ROOM OF THE FUTURE #01: staining the archive queer
#CampusStudioProgramme

Hosted by Senka Milutinović and Katayun Taraporevala,
together with Chaeyoung Kim, Masha Zotova

Social Practice Library & Archive, Sint Andriesstraat 194
Participant limit: 11, [www.eventbrite.nl/e/reading-room-of-the-future-01-staining-the-archive-queer-tickets-1354830086259?aff=oddtdtcreator please RSVP ]

This is an invitation to explore the intimacy within knowledge often passed between bodies, within recipes, glances, moments of care. It’s about archiving what’s always been here, even if it hasn’t always been seen.

We'll share food, scattered stories, traces of queer knowledges that often go unrecognized, loosely practicing Jack Halberstam's scavenger methodology to peer into queer archiving approaches. This approach refuses neat categories, bringing together data, memory, and lived experience. It makes space for overlooked stories to sit beside the official archive, letting counter knowledges speak.

We’ll open a dialogue with the archive, attempting to relate to it rather than extract from it. Hosted within the Social Practice Library, we’ll engage in gentle acts of communication facilitated by Chaeyoung Kim with the archive: listening, responding, and offering something in return. We’ll play with the idea of staining the existing archive queer, letting our stories, gestures, and crumbs leave their mark.

Expect playful activities, re-thinking, and food cooked up by Masha Zotova.
Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions or accessibility needs.
Photos will be taken by Lea Novi, no faces will be in any photos.

Sign up via [www.eventbrite.nl/e/reading-room-of-the-future-01-staining-the-archive-queer-tickets-1354830086259?aff=oddtdtcreator this link]

This event is part of
The Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative invites you to join the Studio Programme Collective Learning for a Shared and Just City, presented in collaboration with/part of Cultuur & Campus Putselaan.

In the programme, we focus on learning together — grounded in the knowledge already present in the neighbourhood. Through conversations, workshops, and hands-on collaborations, members of the cooperative, local experts, students, and residents come together to explore new forms of living, working, and taking care of one another.
We warmly welcome you to take part. The Studio Programme is rooted in the network of people and collectives in the Afrikaanderwijk and builds new connections with partners of Cultuur & Campus Putselaan.