🌈🏠QUEERHOUSE
From July 15th - 17th, Poetry Trapper Keeper will transform the pavilion, workshop, and outdoor spaces at Treehouse NDSM into 🌈🏠QUEERHOUSE - a three-day artistic occupation, creative recharging station, and community-building hub for the attendees of Queer Pride Amsterdam.
Want a space to write poetry with your besties? Need help actually talking to people after the open mic? Looking for a sensory deprivation chamber to just doodle in together?
🌈🏠 QUEERHOUSE is a multi-use, self-organizing space where you can chill, eat, write, party, AND be creative (whether you’re a quote unquote “artist” or not).
There will be an interactive exhibition, a community closet, free art supplies, writing & drawing workshops, film screenings, improv classes, performances, and events hosted by some of your favorite Queer Amsterdam organizations!!
The creative community space will be open to the public from 16.00 - 23.00 from Monday, July 15th - Wednesday, July 17th.
See below for detailed schedule and registration info.
ACCESSIBILITY:
Treehouse NDSM is wheelchair accessible, but the toilets and restaurant are not.
⭐ MONDAY, JULY 15th ⭐
POETRY DINNER PARTY 🍽️ 🖊️
🎟️ Ticketed: €25 pp (+ taxes/fees) | ⏰ 19-22.00
What happens when we share experience and create shared experience over 4 delightfully poetic courses of dinner? Who were we before we met that night? And who will we be by the end of dessert?
Join Poetry Trapper Keeper at Treehouse NDSM for our POETRY DINNER PARTY.
Over this 4-course meal* created by VEGAN BEAR CHEF, you will experience an immersive community writing event. Each course comes uniquely paired with a collaborative poetry prompt, meant to engage all of your senses and explore the theme of creating memory in community.
QUEER COMMUNITY CLOSET 🎀👢
FREE | ⏰ 16-23.00 (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday)
Swap out last year’s pride outfit and source some free accessories from our second hand queer communal closet. We’ll have clothes and accessories to try on and take, as well as a biodegradable glitter station to make sure you dazzle on every dance floor while being kinder to our planet.
No registration required - just show up!
⭐ TUESDAY, JULY 16th ⭐
BULLETIN BOARD EXHIBITION 🖼️ 📌
FREE | ⏰ 16-20.00 (Tuesday & Wednesday)
BULLETIN BOARD is an exhibition that invites artists and non-artists alike to contemplate the notion of community building and displays of queerness. How can we facilitate community building through art? How do we define an artist? A writer? A performer? Queerness? What does a contemporary community bulletin board look like? Whose needs can it serve? What can be offered? ANd how does a growing installation influence our own perceptions of individual artists’ works?
In an attempt at answering these questions, BULLETIN BOARD will present a dual sided expography. On one side of the wall, artworks by selected artists; on the other side, visitors will be encouraged to tack on to the show their own thoughts, artworks, considerations, and creative outbursts.
No registration required - just show up during opening hours!
QUEER IMPROV WORKSHOP (For Beginners) 🎭 😆
FREE with Registration | ⏰ Tuesday, July 16th: 18.30-20.30
In this FREE two-hour improv workshop, join Jess (@jesssanderss, @eft_improv) in saying fuck the idea of ✨‘too much’ ✨ as you explore unlimited permission to be your fullest, weirdest, and most joyful self. For these two hours, the floor is yours to let go of society’s expectations and unapologetically befriend the silly goose of your soul 🪿
Themed around improv as a catalyst for creativity and queer joy, you’ll learn improv basics and play your first-ever short-form games in a safe and supportive space with other like-minded beginners 🫶
Good to know:
- We’ll have stickers for names and pronouns
- You don’t have to participate in any exercise if it doesn’t feel good
- There will be a break halfway through
- You can use the bathroom, eat snacks, have a drink, take your meds (etc) at any time
Registration required - spots limited!
No Pride in Genocide: Creativity of the Palestinian Resistance 🍉 🇵🇸
A Film Screening Series
FREE | ⏰ Tuesday, July 16th: 21.00-23.00
This Pride month, we reject the Israeli government’s pinkwashing to justify their genocidal, colonial project and celebrate the resilience and creativity of the Palestinian resistance. How do you resist oppression when your oppressor blocks every possible way to self-expression?
The collection of films we’ll screen deals with this question. All screenings are free! We’ll start the screenings on Tuesday, 16th of July, with Sultana’s Reign by Hadi Moussally (2023), a short film portraying a proud Palestinian drag queen named Sultana. We hear Sultana’s story as a displaced Palestinian, her love of her heritage and her everlasting commitment to be true to herself. Then we’ll watch 5 Broken Cameras by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi (2011). It is a documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army as the Israeli occupation seizes most of his village’s farmland in the West Bank. Using his five video cameras, each broken by the Israeli military, he portrays a different part of the story of his village's resistance to Israeli oppression.
No registration required - just show up!
QUEER COMMUNITY CLOSET 🎀👢
FREE | ⏰ 16-23.00 (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday)
Swap out last year’s pride outfit and source some free accessories from our second hand queer communal closet. We’ll have clothes and accessories to try on and take, as well as a biodegradable glitter station to make sure you dazzle on every dance floor while being kinder to our planet.
No registration required - just show up!
⭐ WEDNESDAY, JULY 17th ⭐
BULLETIN BOARD EXHIBITION 🖼️ 📌
FREE | ⏰ 16-20.00 (Tuesday & Wednesday)
BULLETIN BOARD is an exhibition that invites artists and non-artists alike to contemplate the notion of community building and displays of queerness. How can we facilitate community building through art? How do we define an artist? A writer? A performer? Queerness? What does a contemporary community bulletin board look like? Whose needs can it serve? What can be offered? ANd how does a growing installation influence our own perceptions of individual artists’ works?
In an attempt at answering these questions, BULLETIN BOARD will present a dual sided expography. On one side of the wall, artworks by selected artists; on the other side, visitors will be encouraged to tack on to the show their own thoughts, artworks, considerations, and creative outbursts.
No registration required - just show up during opening hours!
DOODLE DEN 🖍️🎨
FREE with Registration | ⏰ Wednesday, July 17th: 16-18.00
Join us for Expressive Mark Making! This doodle session focuses on making art that feels good.
Leave behind the pressure of perfection and immerse yourself in the pure enjoyment of doodling and sketching. This session is all about creating art that brings you joy and satisfaction.
This session is perfect for all artistic levels who are looking to unwind, de-stress, and rediscover the simple pleasure of making art.
Registration required - spots limited!
TWILIGHT & DESIRE: A Sacred Reading & Writing Workshop 🧛 📖
FREE with Registration | ⏰ Wednesday, July 17th: 18.30-21.00
What is your personal brand of heroin? Are you attracted to people with the skin of a killer? Do you find yourself wondering: wildest dreams, where the hell have you been loca?! Join us as we read quotes from Twilight through the theme of desire!
This sacred reading and writing workshop is hosted by Jamie Rhiannon Fehribach (@wildernessofpaper), who will guide us in using one of our cult-classic favorites to meaningfully reflect on some of life’s big questions.
During this workshop you will
- engage in thought-provoking conversations
- write about desire with the help of reflective prompts
- build a creative written piece as a group
- broaden your perspective on what a book like Twilight can actually teach us
Registration required - spots limited!
No Pride in Genocide: Creativity of the Palestinian Resistance 🍉 🇵🇸
A Film Screening Series
FREE | ⏰ Wednesday, July 17th: 21.30-23.00
This Pride month, we reject the Israeli government’s pinkwashing to justify their genocidal, colonial project and celebrate the resilience and creativity of the Palestinian resistance. How do you resist oppression when your oppressor blocks every possible way to self-expression?
On Wednesday, 17th of July, we’ll first watch Homecoming Queenz by Elias Wakeem (2021). It’s a live performance art documenting the border police’s racist and homophobic questioning when Wakeem and their white, Israeli friend Oz Marinov are interacting with them in drag. After this, we’ll screen The Wanted 18 by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan (2014). The Wanted 18 is an animated documentary that tells the story of Palestinians in Beit Sahour who, during the First Intifada, attempted to establish a local dairy industry. They hid a herd of 18 dairy cows from Israeli security forces after the dairy collective was declared a threat to Israel's national security. The film features documentary interviews with participants, archival footage, drawings, black-and-white stop-motion animation, and re-enactments.
No registration required - just show up!
QUEER COMMUNITY CLOSET 🎀👢
FREE | ⏰ 16-23.00 (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday)
Swap out last year’s pride outfit and source some free accessories from our second hand queer communal closet. We’ll have clothes and accessories to try on and take, as well as a biodegradable glitter station to make sure you dazzle on every dance floor while being kinder to our planet.
No registration required - just show up!
We can’t wait to see all of the hot poets, hot artists, hot musicians, hot comedians, hot readers, hot writers, etc. this July!! 🌈🏠
Got questions or suggestions? DM us on instagram.
xx Kelly and Larissa