Gentle Strategising is a full week of collective activities, organised by this year's MAMA Rotterdam 'poule of programme makers' (Angela Chan / Worm: art + ecology, Leana Boven, Arvand Pourabbasi and Golnar Abbasi (WorkNot!), and Mary Ponomareva ) in collaboration with local arts and activism groups.

From 21-27 September 2020, the space within and outside MAMA’s showroom will become sites for open, creative, and reflective activities that confront today’s urgent global injustices – reinforced by the pandemic, climate, racial and socio-economic injustices – at a local level.

The programme encourages slow conversations, active co-learning and practical reflections that are methods of our Gentle Strategising. Through scheduled daily activities facilitated by our invited groups, a small press and zines ‘window bookshop’, banners and mural art, and online participation and streaming, Gentle Strategising offers a week that nurtures respectful and collaborative strategising as the foundation for just and safer spaces.

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A message from the programme makers:

“We hope to inspire, inform and generate equitable futures that centre the existing, invaluable work of local artists and activists to these causes. We seek to support marginalised activism through redistributing material resources, advocating these aims throughout our week, and creatively documenting the breadth of work as a form of radical self-archiving.”


Please follow our invited contributors we've handed daily programming to, for activities updates! More here.

Tuesday
Kontra
Eun J Lee

Wednesday
Doe Het Zelf Werkplaats

Thursday
Nights of Philosophy

Friday
Cultural Workers Unite

Saturday
Verbalism

Sunday
Klauw

* limited indoor and outdoor capacities on Witte de Withstraat in line with safety regulations*


Graphic Design by our Mary Ponomareva