Overview projects Social Cohesion
Here you can find all of the projects we contributed to in 2008.
Community Art
Amsterdam
‘Kunstwerkt in de Indische Buurt’ is a community art project, in which artists and local residents collaborate in a series of creative activities, culminating in a neighbourhood festival.
Amsterdam
‘Expeditie Nieuw West’ is a theatre route based on stories and encounters with different residents of Amsterdam-Nieuw West.
Amsterdam
Neighbourhood Alliance is a platform of initiatives and organisations representing various sectors and focusing in particular on community arts, engaged in neighbourhood exchanges, getting to know others and sharing knowledge.
Amsterdam
‘The quality of ... Community Art’ is a study undertaken by critics, makers and audiences to devise criteria for assessing community art productions.
Den Haag
‘Een Rode Draad’ is a collection of three hundred red outfits designed with various residents of The Hague and presented in an exuberant procession through the city, involving hundreds of people.
Amsterdam
The community art programme of the Over het IJ Festival presents four theatre productions involving young creators, residents and organisations based in Amsterdam-Noord.
Amsterdam
In the Community Theatre Amsterdam Workplace, up-and-coming theatre makers, under the direction of experienced theatre makers, create productions in the field of community theatre.
Amsterdam
The project ‘Af-breken en Op-bouwen’ encourages local residents of Amsterdam-West to work with artists to improve their neighbourhood.
Haarlem
Members of various football clubs and other residents of the polder community collaborate on the dance production, De Overlevering (oral history), under the leadership of a professional artist.
Amsterdam
The World in your Neighbourhood brings together residents of Amsterdam from diverse backgrounds by presenting love poems in local shops.
Rotterdam
Plastic Love Theatre Company, in partnership with residents of Rotterdam’s impoverished district of Het Oude Boorden, produces the soap opera ‘Het Nieuwe Klooster’.
Utrecht
‘Leven met Verschillen’ (living with differences) is a three-year project in which four young theatre makers create theatre productions with residents from various districts in Utrecht.
Social Cohesion Miscellaneous
Amsterdam
Recording stories of first-generation Moroccan migrant workers and the relationship with their sons to foster greater understanding and respect between the generations.
Groningen
Adolescents from two disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Groningen, Korrewegwijk and De Hoogte, create video reports about their community. The reports were broadcast on the local channel, OOG TV, and the web-based channel, Stadjers TV.
Hilversum
De Club van 100 Lokaal puts people with practical needs in touch with people who would like to help. The site is supported by local radio and television broadcasts.
Utrecht
Loitering youths organise neighbourhood programmes in ten different hangouts in the Netherlands. During the closing event, the best neighbourhood campaign of the Netherlands is selected.
Utrecht
‘Do you think outside your INBOX’ comprises an interactive exhibition and workshops for youngsters aimed at countering polarisation between different groups in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam
Cultuur aan het IJ organises various activities for local residents in the vicinity of De Tolhuistuin.
Helden
‘Integratieplein de Rotonde’ is a traffic education project in Maasbree, which promotes interaction between local primary school pupils, people with an impairment and the elderly.
Utrecht
Under the motto ‘think global, act local’, the VIPbus (‘Very Inspiring People, Places and Projects’) calls at bus stops in all the communities of Utrecht, and encourages local residents to meet each other, sample new insights and share experience with others in their immediate vicinity.
Amsterdam
Women Inc organises various activities aimed at developing Women Inc as a national platform that fosters closer interaction between women from different backgrounds in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam
Blue House Foundation organises cultural projects with artists and residents of IJburg, fleshing out the communal history of the district and, in the process, enhancing the involvement of local residents in their new district.
Den Haag
Together with local residents and artists, Hotel Transvaal transforms condemned buildings in the district of Transvaal in The Hague into temporary hotel rooms.
Utrecht
In the project ‘Open House’ (‘De Zoete Inval’), artist Olivier Darne brings together the various districts of Utrecht.
Bennebroek
The project ‘Kids & Respect’ brings together primary school children and local adult residents through theatre visits.
Heerlen
Mediascapers stimlates residents of Limburg to use new communication tools and assists local Limburg-based media organisations in creating new programmes with residents.
Klimmen
Students at Maastricht Academy of Music perform concerts for people in care homes.
Amsterdam
Through art and cultural initiatives, Bureau Liefde in de Stad seeks to promote love in the city and improve communication between residents.
Amsterdam
The Ramadan Festival approaches and motivates local organisations in every province of the Netherlands to organise activities emphasising the importance of long-term dialogue between different groups in society.
Amsterdam
'Happiness Brigades' throughout the Netherlands organise surprising, cheerful campaigns to counteract negative attitudes towards issues such as integration, the gap between citizens and politicians, and the lack of respect.
Amsterdam
‘In the neighbourhood’ creates a long-term and contemporary meeting place, where artists and residents share their communal stories.