Rehearsals for Climate Justice 16 and 17 May, Amsterdam
You are warmly invited to our Rehearsals for Climate Justice workshop, co-organized with Disobedient Art School:
Where do we start when fighting for Climate Justice? Don’t let your feelings overwhelm you; come together to connect with what drives you to action.
Disobedient Art School (.d.a.s.) and Stroomversnellers have prepared ‘Rehearsals for Climate Justice’, a creative workshop in which we will create and perform interventions for public spaces that reflect our immediate concerns related to Climate Justice, with freshly formed affinity groups.
At .d.a.s., we use the Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the know-how of Fossil Free Couture NL to activate your imagination and prefigure creative disobedience. Stroomversnellers uses Direct Education, based on training-for-change principles and their experience with activist groups, to support the creative work.
We are looking for artists, activists, and anyone wanting to contribute to more just and beautiful protests.
When: 16 and 17 May, 13:00 to 17:00 @ Café Gilde, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam
If you want to have vegan lunch together, you can come at 12:00.
The workshop will be facilitated by Paes Leao, David Limaverde and Stroomversneller Harriët.
Ready to join us? Write to us at: das@fossilfreeculture.nl at May 11th at the latest.
Please forward this invitation to whoever might be interested!
Disobedient Art School is an evolving, co-created framework for collective learning. It creates non-hierarchical spaces where artists and activists merge embodied knowledge with action. By bending roles between teacher and learner, it fosters creative disobedience to challenge systemic injustice and build community resilience. Find us: https://fossilfreeculture.nl/das-portfolio/
You already know Stroomvernsellers: we’re open to working with different kinds of social movements to train for change.
This workshop is sponsored by Patagonia.
Bio of facilitators:
Paes Leão is a multidisciplinary artist and activist based in Amsterdam whose practice engages urgent social and ecological questions as realities demanding action, not just representation. Addressing the hollowing out of public life by inequality and extractive economies, they use film, drawing, performance, and community projects to construct situations where people can rehearse alternative ways of living. Collaboration with residents, activists, and researchers is central to their process, treating research as a tool for accountability rather than a neutral exercise. Leão creates deliberately unfinished works that invite participation, viewing imagination as infrastructure to practice alternative futures in civic spaces today. Their work moves between analysis and concrete intervention, refusing “awareness” as an endpoint. Instead, they insist on agency and collective strategy, embracing creative civil disobedience to not only interpret the world but to actively shift it.
David Limaverde is a Brazilian-born, Amsterdam-based participatory artist, art-educator, and researcher. He is the founder of Home of Participation and a member of Disobedient Art School, a platform for shared study and artistic experimentation at the intersection of culture, ecology, and concrete political action through art. He also collaborates with Tecno Barca in the Brazilian Amazon, developing artistic and pedagogical processes grounded in local knowledge, territorial struggle, and anti-extractive forms of creation. Holding a Ph.D. in Arts and Education from the University of Barcelona, Limaverde works across participatory art, critical pedagogy, and artistic research, with a focus on climate justice, community care, public space, and socially engaged cultural practice.
Harriët is a philosopher, researcher, and activist working on climate justice, political emotions, and social change. She completed her PhD at the University of Antwerp, where her research examined the role of privilege in climate justice activism, with a focus on emotions, narratives, strategies, and radicality. Her research interests include political emotions, ecofascism, activism, and social change. She is currently working on a popular philosophy book on different conceptions of violence for ISVW Uitgeverij. She is a member of Climate Obstruction NL, a network of researchers and academics investigating the fossil fuel industry’s ongoing efforts to maintain business as usual and obstruct meaningful climate action. In addition, she works as a coordinator, coach, and workshop developer at Stroomversnellers, a trainers’ collective that supports social movements.