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De Voorkamer is a meeting space for newcomers and the local community. A platform that uses the different personalities and talents of newcomers as a tool for communicating with the local community. During U? 2025, De Voorkamer invites you to share your story through intuitive embroidery, reflective improvisation and spoken word.
The program starts with gathering and embroidering intuitively, where mistakes are intuitive gestures of our hands. Sharing and connecting while elements such as tangled threads, knots or unconventional stitching techniques add layers of curiosity and fascination.
The next step is to take this curiosity and extend our movements to the rest of the body, as a way to reflect on the emotional cost of migration within the cities we currently inhabit, using improvisation and performance as a tool.
Finally we use our voice and our language to express and share our inner worlds, our stories, ourselves in an open mic. The evening will conclude with a community dinner while connecting over a cooked meal and good company.
13:00 - 15:00 | Intuitive Embroidery
14:30 - 16:00 | Reflective Improvisation
16:15 - 18:15 | Storytelling Open Mic
18:30 | A Shared Meal