Program Amsterdam

Bellow you can see the program of each day separately:

Detailed description of workshops per day:

FRIDAY

Solidarity Gardening Session

Time: 13:00-17:00
Location: @GreenAss Garden, ADM Noord
Language: English

Green Ass Garden consists of three spaces with different functions:
In the Vegetable garden with the Geodesic Dome as a greenhouse, we grow more rare veggies from different cultures from seed. In all of the areas, we play together with the existing ecology of the land. We also love the wonder and surprise in sustainable experiments and green arts. In the Food Forest border, wild medicinal plants are growing together in groups which offer similar health benefits. On Het Groene Veld, the area around the water basins is in development as an edible park landscape.

Amsterdam’s Food Landscape & How you can help to flourish it

By: City Plot
Time: 17:00-19:00
Location: @Cultural Center
Language: English

There are a lot of pioneering food projects in and around Amsterdam that aim to transform the food system from global monoculture to local polyculture. From Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) gardens like Pluk! at the Fruittuin and the Boterbloem in the Tuinen van West, to the dream of Voedselpark Amsterdam to safeguard biological agricultural land for the commons. Amsterdam farmer and member of the Cityplot urban farming collective Ann Doherty will give examples of local pioneering food project s that safeguard biodiversity, climate and soil.

Documentary Screening: “MEER, The battle for Amsterdam’s last fields” + Q&A by Voedselpark

Time: 20:30 (movie 74′)
Location: @Cultural Center
Language: movie – Dutch with English subtitles

The last agricultural land of the city of Amsterdam is located in the Lutkemeerpolder. For centuries, farmers and their fields were part of the city, but now only one piece remains. And it is precisely there that the municipality has planned huge distribution centers.

GroenLinks alderman Marieke van Doorninck defends the plans and is determined to have the business park built. Organic care farm ‘De Boterbloem’ of Trijntje Hoogendam has to clear the field and she resists with everything she has. Committed Amsterdammers are taking increasingly tougher actions. How did it come to this? Why is the business park actually being built? And are there alternatives?

Filmmaker Bart Melief followed the development of the business park in the Lutkemeerpolder and the protests against it for three years. With his film he wants to record this historic event and erect a monument for a small polder in a big city.

SATURDAY

Opening Session of FAF#7

Time: 10:00-10:20
Location : @Movement Building Space
Language: English

We will introduce the Food Autonomy Festival #7: the purposeof the festival, focus of this year, movement building space, main logistics points and safer space agreement.

Guided Meditation For the Earth

By: Cebby Bliss (She/Her)
Time: 10:20
Location: @Movement Building Space
Language: English

Have you felt overwhelmed in the face of existential crises like biodiversity loss and climate change? Ecoanxiety is becoming prevalent in societies around the world. How can we find peace when all around is in flux? This guided meditation before the excitement of the FAF is a moment for grounding, to simply breathe. We will join in solidarity and gratefulness for Mother Earth, taking a moment to reconnect with ourselves and the greater whole. All are welcome.

An introduction to the many evil faces of fossil gas

By: Food & Water Action, Gastivists
Time: 11:00-12:30
Location: @Concert Hall
Language: English

Fossil, so-called “natural”, gas has made many headlines in the past months. But what is it actually and why is it so problematic for people, the planet, and the climate? This session starts off with a fun quiz and will try to give insights into the basics around fossil gas – with lots of opportunities for any questions you may have. We will also look at the dirty business of gas infrastructure – a current boom tries to cover Europe – and beyond – in a spider web of steel. With Europe rushing to get out of Russian gas the question is also: Where do we get our gas from now, and what impacts does this have? There will be space to discuss this, and probably much more in this session.

Panel: Alliance building & intersectional organizing

By: Ida, Leonardo, Jesse
Time: 11:00-12:30
Location: @Cultural Center
Language: English

What can the agroecology and food autonomy movement in the Netherlands learn from other movements to create more intersectional, diverse, and impactful connections? Why are certain demographics, such as labor unions, not already in our movements? Which groups should be more involved, and what are the challenges to get there? New alliances come with challenges, but there is often a complementarity in the strategies and tactics that different groups use and therefore a lot of power in organizing together.

Food Coops, Fossil Fuels, Farmers, Friends

By: Vokomokum
Time: 11:00-12:30
Location: @Siloh
Language: English and/or Dutch

Description of the activities of Vokomokum and how food coops can contribute to fossil-free agriculture, support local farmers, foster friendships, and more. Vokomokum is a food cooperative in Amsterdam. By working collectively, members have access to high-quality, fairly-priced and local products from transparent sources. All products are organic and vegetarian.

Storytelling workshop for changemakers

By: Berber
Time: 11:00-12:30
Location: @Movement building space
Language: English

The world needs to change and you want to be a part of it! Storytelling is a powerfull tool that can create awareness, establish connections and plant seeds of positive change. You will work with a group of inspiring people and a professional storyteller to develop the tools you need to tell an engaging story. Find your voice, find your story. The people that want can share their story on stage on Sunday at the storytelling night in the Silo.

About: Berber started off her career as a human rights lawyer before she became a professional storyteller. She realized that if we want to make a difference in the world we have to change the stories we tell and give a voice to the people less heard. She changed her life, traveled the world for inspiration and attended the Mezrab international storytellingschool in Amsterdam. Now she founded a positive-impact tourcompany, guides people to find their own voice and story and performs in theaters, festivals and public events.

Interactive Soil Workshop

By: Toekomstboeren & ECVC
Time: 14:00
Location: @Siloh
Language: English

Klarien and Edu, CSA farmers and members of Toekomstboeren and Via Campesina Europe will co-facilitate an interactive workshop on how to recognize different types of soil, compost, manures and other organic materials. While smelling, touching, and if you dare, tasting different types of soil, we’ll open a discussion on soil regeneration, alternatives to synthetic fertilizers and resistance peasant movements around the world fighting corporate-control agribusiness advocating for food sovereignty. The goal of the workshop is to have fun while learning to recognize different types of organic materials and soil that will be placed in a big table. We’ll also learn how to create seedling blocks free from peat and we’ll dig a hole in the ground as a basic initiation to a soil analysis. All this while having conversation on how to compost industrial agriculture!!!

Sowing & Weaving Connections between People & Movements

By: ASEED
Time: 14:00
Location: @Movement Building Space
Language: English

The division and fragmentation among people and movements who are fighting against the same oppressive system contributes to preventing us from truly challenging it. Fortunately, there is a growing acknowledgment of this challenge and a corresponding discussion on how to overcome it. The purpose of this workshop is to engage in this conversation and actively create connection. By learning the art of weaving with natural materials and creating seedbombs, we seek to weave connection and facilitate the sowing and exchange of ideas among all participants in the session who are committed to challenging division and fostering interconnectedness.

FoodCoops Networking Assembly

By: Biobulkbende
Time: 14:00-15:00
Location: @Gathering point
Language: English

A space to meet other co-operatives active in The Netherlands to see what we can learn from each other and potentially create a support network that facilitates greater connection and collaboration.

The Nature Way of Cultivating Life

By: ASEED
Time: 14:00
Location: @Garden
Language: English

A talk and demonstration of how a food forest works and the relation between our body and the balance of nature. The micro and macro perspective in what we cultivate as a society and how that affects our body and planet.

Talk: the Agri-Food System & Colonialism

By: Futuro Vegetal
Time: 16:15
Location: @Concert Hall
Language: English

We will talk about the situation with the agri-food system in the Iberian Peninsula, the European depredation of the territory and its relationship with colonialism in Latin America

Permaculture for a Healthy Yield

By: Anna’s Tuin & Ruigte
Time: 16:15
Location: @Cultural Center & GreenAss Garden
Language: English

Anna’s Tuin & Ruigte is a community-based urban farming project and natural area of 1 hectare at the edge of Amsterdam Science Park. Here we work according to the Permaculture design system by working with nature, rather than against it. Are you wondering how you could apply natural principles in your own garden for a healthy yield? During this presentation garden coordinator Fleur Jager will share examples of how we ‘work with nature’ in Anna’s Tuin & Ruigte. Afterwards we will take time together to ‘observe and interact’ in the garden of ADM Noord.

Theatre as Communal Experience

By: Astaro Theatro
Time: 14:15-16:15
Location: @Siloh
Language: English

Our lives are communal; we need to be social to survive. Theatre becomes an empowering act of artistic and human blossoming in the direction of communal experience and collaborative sharing. Hence this workshop where participants engage in the process of authorship through representation and self-representation, improvisations, learning to feel the others and the space. Egos are tamed, the collective creates. There is no separation or hierarchy among body, mind and spoken word. We learn to work with our body, our breath, our voice in a non-judgemental way. We explore the space and we interact with the others. We are in the process of learning that physical exercises, improvisations and experiments allow the body to introduce new ideas. The body does the thinking, in a way. We seek a deeper interaction by ‘feeling’ the other performers while at the same time being a total actor. Who I am is because of you. “Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater” (Augusto Boal) This theatre workshop explores the basics of the performative practice: posture, movement, presence, body, the other in the space, games and the voice in many of its expressions. Our voices engage in spoken word, text and poetry. Our work will be inspired by theatre masters like Jerzy.

SUNDAY

Knutselen voor kinderen

By: Reframe Play
Time: 11:30
Location: @Kid’s Area
Language: English/ Dutch/ German

At the open crafting station we will get creative with the kids using only leftover material that we rescue from architecture offices. Together, we will dive into a colourful world and get inspired to create and play freely.

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG): niet hier, niet daar, nergens niet

By: Fossielvrij NL
Time: 14:30
Location: @Concert Hall
Language: Dutch

In onze nieuwe campagne richten we ons op de import van vloeibaar gas (LNG) in Nederland. Specifiek willen we de bouw van nieuwe LNG-infrastructuur tegenhouden en het maatschappelijk draagvlak voor LNG ondermijnen. LNG leidt (naast klimaatschade) tot gas-ellende zoals we in Groningen hebben gezien, maar dan buiten ons blikveld in arme gebieden ver weg. In deze lezing vertellen we meer over het campagneplan en brainstormen we samen over mogelijke acties

Full Spectrum Resistance

Time: 14:30
Location: @Cultural Center
Language: English

How can we be powerful and create diverse strategies to protect life on Earth? And what can we learn from resistance movements in the past? How can we organize and collaborate in social movements to reach effective change, and how do we identify and fill the gaps in our strategy? If you’re curious about these questions and more, come to this workshop! Based on the book ‘Full Spectrum Resistance’ by Aric McBay.

The Real Zero Europe Campaign

By: Real Zero Europe
Time: 16:45
Location: @Cultural Center
Language: English

Lisa Tostado will present the Real Zero Europe Campaign against carbon removal offsets and for gross emission reductions, i.e. a transformation of our energy, transport, and food systems. In the first part, she will explain how it came to existence and how it is operating today. In the second part, she will explain the demands and ways forward. The preentation will only be 20-30 mintes, with lots of room for questions and discussions

Drawing solidarity actions together

By: Via Campesina, SoNeBuTu, ASEED
Time: 16:45
Location: @Siloh
Language: English

In this co-creative activity we will be drawing together. With paper and colours we co-design stickers for solidarity actions that upport movements and pre-existing campaigns for socially just and dignified food systems. We draw for a farm worker movement in Almeria, Spain, which demands labour rights and denounces illegal practices tolerated by Albert Heijn. We draw for a campaign against corporate fossil fertilizers that dominate our food systems. And we draw for ourselves while giving care and attention to our creative faculties

BEANgo

By: ASEED
Time: 16:45
Location: @Kids’ Area
Language: English

Featuring a bunch of members of the bewildering legume family, this b(ea)ngo game will offer a taste of the many beans out there

Storytelling workshop for changemakers – presentation

By: Berber
Time: 18:30-19:00
Location: @Movement building space
Language: English

The world needs to change and you want to be a part of it! Storytelling is a powerfull tool that can create awareness, establish connections and plant seeds of positive change. The people who participated on the Saturday workshop and want to, can share their story on stage on Sunday at the storytelling night in the Movement building space.

Your Local Pirates (band)

Time: 19:00
Location: (tba)
Language: no problem

We sing and make music, acoustic songs with guitar and voice. You can find us at demonstrations, alternative festivals and wherever we get ourselves invited to make the atmosphere even more rebellious than the mood already is.

Many of our songs are written by either one or both of us, but we also play songs we like that other artists created.

Be prepared for our attack!

🌿 Stalls 🌿

This year many collectives will have stalls at the Food Autonomy Festival #7 in Amsterdam on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th!!!

Paper Jam
Paper Jam is an anarchist print collective fighting against racist, cis-hetero-patriarchal, validist, ecocidal, capitalist global domination.

De Vrije Markt
All their products come from free companies. Regularly De Vrije Markt decide to support other social projects. What remains as profit is divided fairly. All this is done with great respect for nature and climate.

Alon’s Pickels
Alon’s Pickels is a pickle company that operates as an anti-capitalist/anti-colonialist tool that sells local vegetables fermented in wooden barrels.

Bakers WO Bosses
Bakers Without Bosses is an Anarcho bakers collective based in Amsterdam. Feed the people, fuck the po-po.

Green Ass Garden
Home made herbal medicine/products from the Green Ass Garden (ADM Noord). There is already the local free seed library in a small cupboard open to everyone in their medicinal food forest border. Green Ass Garden consists of three spaces with different functions: the Vegetable garden with the Geodesic Dome as a greenhouse, the Food Forest , the Het Groene Veld area.

De Vrije Bond
The Vrije Bond (Free Union) is a group of people who are trying to build a different society: a society without hierarchies, without oppression and without exploitation of humans, animals and the environment; an anarchist society in which we deal with each other on a basis of equality. The members of the Vrije Bond are all working in their own way, in their own city, neighborhood, job or action group, to create such a society. They are doing this through direct action, by organizing discussions, writing articles or supplying information. The Vrije Bond serves as a platform to meet each other, to exchange experiences, to develop theory and strategies, but also to organize activities and to support them.

Stop the War on Migrants
Stop the War on Migrants is a campaign against the current EU border and migration policies. We focus on the way the EU militarises border security (both at its own (external) borders and in third countries), deports people on the move and the arms companies and airlines, such as Airbus, Thales and Corendon, lobbying for and profiting from this.

Debt for Climate
A grassroots, Global South-driven initiative connecting social & climate justice struggles by uniting labor, social and climate movements from the Global South & North toward a common goal of turning debt-trap diplomacy on its head by canceling the debt of impoverished nations as a way to pay for leaving fossil fuels in the ground and financing a just transition. The implementation of a global Debt-for-Climate initiative has the potential to leave trillions of dollars in fossil fuel reserves in the ground, while freeing countries from a strangling debt burden often used as a tool for further extraction of natural resources.

Boerengroep
Stichting Boerengroep (Peasant Foundation) is a student foundation at Wageningen University that aims to connect the university (students, research, education) with the reality and challenges of farmers in the Netherlands and worldwide. In this way they fight for social, just and sustainable food production. They do this by bringing students into the fields and farmers into lecture rooms at the university. They will present their project ‘Farm Experience Internship’, a summer course that aims to bridge theoretical knowledge about agroecology from students with practical skills and knowledge from farmers.

Transnational Institute
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet. For nearly 50 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars and policy makers.

Isopodcast
Isopodcast is an Interactive Podcast about the importance of attention for our surroundings and our sensory experience. During this interactive experience people will stroll around and use their phone to slow down and listen to the sounds in the soil and within trees. It’s an experience for people to do by themselves that lasts about half an hour and can be done with headphones and an Android phone. The experience is sadly only available in Dutch for now. There will be some spare phones and headphones that already have the app installed.