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SHARING BEYOND THE COLLECTION - 24 January at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
Sharing Beyond The Collection - 24 January 2026 - Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
On the 24th of January we welcome you to gather with Beyond Walls Collective and different communities to share beyond the collection at the memorial altar in the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam. The memorial altar, initiated by Manuwi C. Tokai, serves as a site of remembrance for the ancestors held in the museum’s collection. The altar is also a place for stories to unfold. The memorial altar will be present until mid‑February.
Together we will explore the urgency behind and beyond the altar, addressing what remains unseen in museum depots. Through a sharing session as part of our project Beyond The Collection, we engage with different stories connected to the memorial altar and ancestral belongings from Toraja, Maluku, and Timor. And we hope to hear from you as well.
This gathering is an invitation to slow down, to listen, and to collectively sense what these stories about ancestral remains might ask of us today. What emerges when we stand before an altar that holds memory, grief, resistance, and ongoing connection? What becomes possible when we share knowledge, stories, and lived experiences beyond institutional frames?
You are welcome to join the sharing session.
Beyond Walls zaterdag 27 september 2025 bij het Nederlands Film Festival (NFF).
Op zaterdag 27 september nemen filmmakers Jeremy Flohr en Armando Ello namens Beyond Walls deel aan de Nederlands Film Festival (NFF) Focus Talk: Community, Collective and Archive.
Tijdens dit panel onderzoeken collectieven hoe gezamenlijke creatie, verbeelding en archieven kunnen worden ingezet om 'vergeten' of historisch gemarginaliseerde verhalen zichtbaar te maken, en hoe film als instrument kan bijdragen aan maatschappelijke verandering. Beyond Walls is gevraagd om te vertellen hoe ons collectief onderzoek, kunst en storytelling samenbrengt als methode om verhalen voorbij institutionele archieven en dominante narratieven te versterken, en hoe film hierin een essentiële rol speelt.
‘Voiced By Eight, Carried By Three’A Poetic Reflection on WANUA
"Voiced By Eight, Carried By Three": A Poetic Reflection on WANUA.
Beyond Walls co-founder and storyteller Jeremy Flohr wrote a poem expressing his reflections on the WANUA experience in Makassar, May and June 2025.
WANUA: Beyond Home now at Makassar International Writers Festival!
WANUA: Beyond Home now at Makassar International Writers Festival!
Beyond Walls and Makassar International Writers Festival collaboratively present WANUA: an international research and artist exchange that brings together artists, writers, and cultural practitioners from Sulawesi, the Moluccas, and the diaspora in the Netherlands.
For the last months, artists and researchers Theoresia Rumthe, Djé-Rimo, Safa Liron, Hirah Sanada, Rachmat Mustamin, Tiga Batang Rumah and Louie Buana explored Wanua through research, storytelling, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
We invite you to their artistic creations at the Makassar International Writers Festival 2025.
New Research & Artist Exchange WANUA in collaboration with Makassar International Writers Festival.
New Research & Artist Exchange WANUA in collaboration with Makassar International Writers Festival
Makassar International Writers Festival and Beyond Walls collaboratively join forces in WANUA: an international research and artist exchange project connecting artists, writers, and cultural practitioners from Sulawesi, the Moluccas, and the diaspora in The Netherlands. Together, they explore shared heritage through research, oral histories, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Their new artistic works will be presented at Makassar International Writers Festival, held at the historic site of Fort Rotterdam. The participating artists and researchers are Theoresia Rumthe, Hirah Sanada, Djé-Rimo Holle, Rachmat Mustamin, Tiga Batang Rumah, Safa Liron, and Louie Buana.
MEERJARENSUBSIDIE AFK VOLLEDIG GEHONOREERD!
Met trots delen we dat Beyond Walls een structurele bijdrage ontvangt van het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) voor 2025 - 2026! Onze aanvraag is volledig gehonoreerd én op alle criteria positief beoordeeld.✨
De commissie: “We zien in Beyond Walls een belangrijke organisatie op het gebied van erfgoedonderzoek naar, voor en met diasporagemeenschappen verbonden met koloniale geschiedenissen. Het doel om onderzoek te doen en de dialoog op te zoeken zit in de kern van haar werk besloten. We vinden het sterk dat gemeenschappen in Nederland en daarbuiten met elkaar verbonden worden. Er worden onderwerpen aangekaart die doorwerken in het heden, zoals hoe om te gaan met de teruggave van museale voorwerpen aan de oorspronkelijke eigenaars en hoe om te gaan met de immateriële kant van het koloniale verleden.”
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