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Garri
Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'
“Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...
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Asian Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
Double the dough to hold the door to travel from India to Trinidad and Tobago. I can take a trip anytime because home is wherever Curry Channa and Tamarind Sauce coat my fingers. I know I have...
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African Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
I come from far far away I come from conquered soil and enchanted tongues I want to tell you where I’m from But I’m not sure my body remembers I am all the lost girls searching for their bodies to...
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European Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
Here lies the fruit of my invaded womb. This is what is left of me. There are pieces of my body scattered around looking for its way back to a home that no longer exists. Home is now wherever you...
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Indigenous Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
My land welcomes you. The mountains told us you were coming. The trees whispered you were close. It was written in the smoke. We have been expecting you. There are no maps to lead you to what you...
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The culinary journey of Code Noir
Told by Lelani Lewis
“Code Noir” is a project that guides its audience along the culinary journey of the cultivation of Caribbean cuisine. The namesake of the immersive dinner is the 17th century manuscript defining the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Julia van der Veen
Testing Code Noir
In the morning of 17th September we've tested the upcoming Neo Futurist Dinner: Code Noir. This dinner merges food, performance and interaction to to take visitors on a culinary journey to get a...
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The Code Noir: A brief, yet powerful history
Winston Churchill famously said that “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Our upcoming NeoFuturist Dinner touches on the importance of learning from our collective...
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A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine
A blog for Code Noir
Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Blue Monday
- Opening of Tumulus Hermitage21Sep 2020In July and early August 2020 an ornamental hermitage, built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home improvement detritus (collected on the streets during the pandemic), was constructed at the...
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Joana Velu
Joana Velu (Dutch/Brazilian) is a visual artist constantly zooming in and out from a global context to a micro scale. Through personal stories or other forms of narrative she intends to let herself...
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Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball
Food is both fuel and identity
A blog for Code Noir
In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Stealing Minutes Back / Sacred City
- Teaser screening, interactive installation and intergalactic performance21Sep 2020Stealing Minutes Back/ Sacred City is a part-documentary part-interpretive project focusing on the booming ‘Conscious Scene’ and ‘Conscious Communities’ in Amsterdam, which are centered around such...
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Rachel Rumai Diaz
Rachel Rumai Diaz is a writer, poet, performance artist, teacher and artivist. Being fluent in English, Spanish, Dutch and Spanglish she intertwines languages to create poetry that triggers...
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Lelani Lewis
Lelani Lewis, a chef, food stylist, and culinary activist, creates inspiring audience experiences with her innovative and vibrant approach to food. Growing up in South London with Grenadian and Irish...
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Queer Currents 2020
Mediamatic is the stage for three panel discussions and an exhibition of Queer Currents, a wave of queer expressions in preparation for the Gay Pride.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Queer Currents 2020: Inclusive Space
- Queering Intersectionality in The Critical Visitor20Jul 2020How to open up the institutions of museums and archives for outsider voices? The Critical Visitor research project looks into the hotly debated issues of diversity and inclusion in the fields of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Queer Currents 2020: Meet the Next Generation
- Vijf 'Pink Seniors' over roze ouder worden18Jul 2020Roze senioren, LHBTI-ouderen... Twintig jaar geleden bestonden deze termen nog niet. Maar de huidige generatie 65-plussers is trots op haar roze identiteit en is zeker niet van plan deze op hogere...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Queer Currents 2020: Queer Manifesto Reading
- A collective reading of the Queer Nation Manifesto by Girls Like Us22Jul 2020Girls Like Us is currently working on their first non-magazine publication: a collection of Queer & Feminist manifestos, edited by Liz Allan. In preparation for this project, they invite you to...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Queer Currents 2020: Such Delicate Tenderness
- Een tentoonstelling van Bas Kosters20Jul 2020Bas Kosters is Nederlands extravaganste queer fashion designer. Maandag 20 juli exposeert hij bij Mediamatic met erotische werken over mannelijkheid en homoseksualiteit. "Such Delicate...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Pride
18Jul 2020- MediaMasquerade & Queer Currents2Aug 2020There is no parade this year, but we still think it is important to celebrate identity in all its facets. That is why Mediamatic has a program during the pride week that gives an ode to the...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Values for Survival
- Presentation of the first results within the complementary research program of the Dutch contribution to the 17th Architecture Biennale of Venice14Jul 2020In these strange times, in which our daily life has changed radically, it has become clear that we must jointly look for new ways and values to shape our lives. In Values for Survival, the social and...
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Diversity mission
As a progressive public cultural institution, we find diversity, in all its facets, essential. We actively strive to raise awareness and implement a more transversal and integrated way of thinking...
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Een sterke culturele basisinfrastructuur
Felicitaties aan nieuwe instellingen
Op 4 juni 2020 presenteerde de Raad voor Cultuur aan minister Van Engelshoven zijn advies over de Basisinfrastructuur (BIS) 2021-2024. Met dit advies geeft de Raad de culturele sector een enorme...