Black Speaks Back Presents: Toward Refusal - A Black Study Gathering
Zaterdag 10. mei om 10:00 - Zondag 11. mei om 16:00
10:00-16:00 Each Day
Metro54, Amsterdam
What does it mean to refuse? Not as withdrawal or silence, but as a deliberate act. Refusal as a method. As practice. As a way of thinking and living that pushes against systems of control.
This workshop is an invitation to study together, to join in Black Study. To sit with theory that emerges from Black life, Black death and Black struggle. We’ll spend two days reading, listening, discussing, and making sense of refusal as a political and personal practice. Rooted in the Black Radical Tradition, we’ll explore how Black study helps us understand the world and act within it.
We’ll read and think with writers like Audre Lorde, Fred Moten, and Tina Campt. The aim is not just to understand the texts, but to ask what they do, and what they ask of us.
A special brough to you by Black Speaks Back, hosted by Metro54. Black Speaks Back is a Belgo-Dutch grassroots platform and dedicated to amplifying Black narratives from the Netherlands and Belgium in experimental ways.
Details
When: 10 and 11 May 2025 from 10:00 until 16:00
Fee: Free registration, limited place!
Where: Metro 54, Westerdoksdijk 597, 1013 BX Amsterdam
Materials: Reading Material and Information will be distributed by email upon signing up
Language: English
Accessibility info:
That gathering space at Metro54 is located on the ground floor.
The doorway is 100 cm wide
The doorway to the toilet is 80 cm wide. However, the toilet doesn’t meet the requirements to be deemed wheelchair accessible.
Metro54 • Westerdoksdijk 597, 1013 BX Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
