How can we talk to each other to pass down intergenerational memories? How can we not repeat violent patterns in our ecosystems? Let us practice intellectual humility. Let us step aside, let us stop taking centre stage. Let us talk to each other and practice listening. We will sit and think together. We will write in commons, and pass on certain knowledge and wisdom. How do we start listening? 

The Assembly is envisaged to be a gathering and thinking space for activists, artists, scholars, and other cultural practitioners to discuss various topics around decolonisation, pedagogy, racism, and the politics of archiving. We employ an 'ethics of listening' as a useful mode to create a space for thinking together and establish conditions for interconnectedness between different locales. While this Assembly takes place in the Netherlands, we want it to be a site of reflection where activists, artists, and cultural practitioners in the Netherlands think about their struggles and positionalities in relation to the pressing matters in different contexts. The Assembly is preceded by the production of Connecting Oceans, a podcast for translocal conversation between artists, activists, and scholars. 

The Assembly is organised with contributions of Diah Widuretno & Sekolah Pagesangan, Dicky Senda & Lakoat Kujawas, Tauriq Jenkins, Ola Hassanain, No More Later, O Coletivo Dulcineia Catadora, Deborah Thomas/Practicing Refusal Collective -The Sojourner Project, Nawal Mustafa, Quinsy Gario, Simone Zeefuik, IMAGINART (Yazan Khalili, Eszter Szakacs, Aria Spinelli, Chiara de Cesari, Abdulkerim Pusat, Nuraini Juliastuti, Carine Zaayman), Homing, ASKV PAO, Hodan Warsame, Julian Togar Abraham, and Katayoun Arian aka discourse. Amsterdam Assembly is made possible by the Worlding Public Cultures Project: The Arts and Social Innovation. It is realised with the support of Framer Framed.