Free to be Free

Image from Foto door Bowie Verschuuren

Free to be Free is the latest site-specific performance by Sites of Memory, on view in Amsterdam between 25 and 29 June. We can learn a lot from the freedom fighters of the past and present. Through dance, theatre, poetry and music, stories of freedom and resistance come to life. The audience will be taken on a theatrical route, starting at the Waalse Kerk and ending at the Bushuis (UvA).

Free to be Free

Dates

Tue 25 Jun15:00 - 16:15

Tue 25 Jun20:30 - 20:45

Wed 26 Jun15:00 - 16:15

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Location

De Waalse Kerk

Walenpleintje 159

1012 JZ Amsterdam

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Theatre route

Free to be Free is Sites of Memory's latest site-specific performance about freedom and resistance. After successful performances in Amersfoort, Deventer, and Utrecht, the performance will be on view in Amsterdam between 25 and 29 June. The audience will be taken on a theatrical route, starting at the Waalse Kerk and ending at the Bushuis (University of Amsterdam).

We can learn a lot from the freedom fighters of the past and certainly from the people who are fighting for freedom today. How was freedom fought for then and now? What forms of revolt and resistance are known? Through dance, theater, poetry and music, stories come to life, about freedom and resistance in the past, present and future.

Free to be Free was developed especially for the Memorial Year, which commemorates 150 years of abolition of slavery in the Netherlands and its (former) colonies. The effects of this past are still felt by many. Many people have to deal with institutional racism and reparations are not yet a reality.

As long as racism and exclusion resulting from colonial thinking and the slavery past are not structurally addressed, Sites of Memory asks the question: freedom for whom?