RAFI 4 KURDISTAN

Come celebrate the complex culture and history of Kurdish people. RAFI is committed to ensure that different cultural and historical aspects of Kurdish identity are thoughtfully highlighted and brought together in this shared space.

The program includes Kurdish food, film(makers), academics, writers and local artists. With them, we’ll offer a glimpse of how the diaspora in Amsterdam shares their culture in a local context. Kurdish or not, this is a great chance to enjoy good food, listen local music and connect with a sizeable Dutch community of the Kurdish diaspora.

In the LibRAFI, we’ve put together a collection of texts and books that explores the depth and diversity of Kurdish history. LibRAFI offers you the opportunity to bring it home with you to delve deeper in the contents of the event at your own home.

The panel discussions bring together Kurdish writers, filmmakers, and thinkers, giving you a chance to ask questions, engage in meaningful dialogue, and do so in good faith. The film allows space for you to form your interpretations by yourself or with others, and perhaps you can even share them with the makers afterwards.

We’ll end the night together to decompress together around the table.

Description of the programme

Tijdens het evenement zullen we gebruik maken van vier verschillende ruimtes met grotendeels een overlap.

Activiteiten en tijden per ruimte:

Zonzij

14.00 - 19.00: Film vertoningen en paneltalks

Foyer

14:00 - 19:00: Markt 

As kamer

14:00 - 19:00: LIBRAFI

Tuinhuis

19:00 - 21:30: Diner

About our event partners

RAFI (Raising Awareness and Funds Initiative) is an Amsterdam founded initiative that aims to raise awareness and funds in support of and in solidarity with dire global political currents. We aim to respond to different (yet intersecting) forms of oppression regionally and globally through local collectivization and collaboration. Through education, fundraising, conversation, and sensation, we are continuously looking for ways to navigate both desensitization and isolation under the weight of global suffering and grief. It starts with educating and informing ourselves and each other, and eventually translating this into a shared space in the form of an event.

Being aware that one individual, organization, event or even global movement is not enough to secure freedom and stop oppression globally, we believe in concentrated efforts to spread attentiveness and care and activate communities locally. Circulating within the (unfolding) Palestinian tragedy: "Let Your Heartbreak Politicize You, Let Your Heartbreak Radicalize You, Let Your Heartbreak Organize You" (@pearlye, inspired by Mariane Kaba), RAFI follows the initiative of radically deconstructing our thought patterns and putting our collaborative efforts to use for those politically oppressed.

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