Monthly Sunday morning lectures organised by the master's programme DAS Creative Producing in collaboration with Adyen.

The lectures take place on Sunday morning, at 11.00, Adyen, Rokin 49, Amsterdam. Admission is free. Sign up using the registration form.

On Sunday morning, 8 December, we will host our monthly keynote-lecture. This time we will be joined by Russel Hlongwane and Ola Hassanain. The lecture will be in English.

For the keynote lecture in December we welcome professionals that are connected to the network of our partner: the Prince Claus Fund. The Prince Claus Fund is an independent foundation dedicated to culture and development. With trust-based funding, connections and recognition, they serve engaged artists and cultural practitioners in places where culture is under pressure. The organisation depends on culture as a force for change.  

“The ones who challenge dominant systems, are often the most at risk. They are the forefront of real change, addressing equity, freedom and climate challenges in their communities and beyond. We need their voices to be heard.”

In this lecture we celebrate international cultural practitioners and their strategies to work with communities in their contexts. These contexts are substantially different from our own, allowing us to broaden our view to possible new strategies of production.

Registration:
To register please click here. 

About Russel Hlongwane
Russel Hlongwane is a cultural producer and creative industries consultant based in Durban, South Africa. His work is located at the intersection of Heritage/ Modernity and Culture/ Tradition as it applies to various disciplines of artistic practice. His practice includes cultural research, creative producing, design, curatorship and the creative economy. Hlongwane is part of a number of collectives, working groups and programmes spread across the SADC region, the continent and internationally. He operates as a curator, writer, producer, researcher, theorist and consultant. In the discipline of film, he served in the Durban International Film Festival selection committee and has been curator of the Durban Film Mart industry programme (2018; 2019). 

About Ola Hassanain
Ola Hassanain trained her focus on the subtle politics of space, namely, how built spaces react to and reinforce violence from state entities, which in turn, creates a built environment that reflects, responds to, and regulates the lives of those who inhabit it. 

Her most recent work explores an idea of “space as discourse,” an expanded notion of space that encompasses political and environmental questions. Her work tries to develop a spatial vocabulary that follows how ruptures presented by "political events", make it possible to aspire to new kinds of ecologies. Ola's development of critical spatial practice is partly informed by her post-academic training which includes an ongoing Rijksakademie Residency, BAK fellowship 2017-2018, and teaching in HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, and Sandberg Institute amongst others. 

After the lecture, for those interested in the master's program DAS Creative Producing there will be time to ask questions to students and teachers. For more information, go to our website.

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About the collaboration between Adyen and the Academy of Theatre and Dance
In 2022, Adyen and the Academy of Theatre and Dance will launch a special collaboration to provide a space for inspiration, reflection, and action in the heart of the city of Amsterdam.  

The company Adyen was founded in 2006, in the center of Amsterdam, by a group of Dutch entrepreneurs. Adyen is a payment platform that processes payments for leading companies around the world. It currently has more than 2,000 employees and 27 offices around the world. In 2021, Adyen opened additional office space on the Rokin, in the same city center where the company's journey began. In collaboration with the Academy of Theater and Dance, the company is opening its offices to Amsterdam residents to connect with, and give back to, the city of Amsterdam. Within its education, the academy explores the ways in which art can contribute to shaping the world, based on the firm belief that art can set people and the world in motion.