VOX-POP

Our programmes in March ✨ Check our link in bio for a full overview.

🌈 Exhibition & Opening Event: Q***r Underground

What does it mean to be q***r, and which stories remain unseen?

In celebration of Q***r History Month, the exhibition Q***r Underground takes over VOX-POP from 10–31 March. Curated by student association Spotlight in collaboration with VOX-POP and the Allard Pierson Museum, this exhibition explores intersectionality and the layered, intimate realities of q***r identities through the work of seven q***r artists.

Join us on 10 March for the festive opening, featuring a panel discussion with the artists followed by a drag performance by Mannish Pixel ( ) & drinks!

✨ Programme
16.45 - 17.00 Walk-in 
17.00 - 17.20 Introduction and panel discussion with artists | Part 1
17.25 - 17.35 Drag performance 
17.45 - 18.00 Panel discussion with artists | Part 2
18.00 - 18.10 Spoken word by Zuzia 
18.10 - 19.00 Closing remarks and drinks

The exhibition runs Monday–Friday, 10:00–17:00 at VOX-POP (BG 3).
Everyone is welcome — registration for the opening is required due to limited capacity.

📅 Tuesday, 10 March 2026
🕒 17.00 - 19.00
📍VOX-POP
Register via link in bio!

✨ Purim: A Celebration of Stories and Connection

On Thursday 5 March, De Joodse Stad brings Purim back to the heart of Amsterdam in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities Diversity Office. Together, we create space for cultural storytelling, shared traditions, and connection within our academic community.

Purim commemorates how Queen Esther saved the Jewish people in 5th-century BCE Persia. Today, it is a joyful festival of reversals: a moment to play with hidden identities, make noise, share food, and celebrate courage.

🗓 5 March 2026
⏰ 16:30–19:30
📍 VOX-POP (BG 3) Binnengasthuisstraat 9
Register via link in bio!

Programme
16:30–16:45 Welcome & introduction by Julia van der Krieke
16:45–17:30 Naftalie Hershler shares the story of Esther
17:30–19:30 Creative activities, drinks & snacks
🎭 Create your own mask
🎁 Perform a Mitzvah by donating essential items for De Regenbooggroep (water bottles, sunglasses, caps, warm men’s clothing, shoes, sleeping bags, working phones/laptops, bicycles or bike parts)

Swipe to learn more about Julia van der Krieke & Naftalie Hershel!

Free entry. Please register in advance to help us prepare.
Snacks are kosher style.

🖋️ Screenprinting Matters | Printed Matters Exhibition Finissage

Discover Farah Fayyad’s striking designs and take a piece of them home with you! 

Join us on Friday, February 27 from 17:00 to 19:00 at VOX-POP for a last chance to visit the Printed Matters exhibition and get a powerful design by graphic designer Farah Fayyad printed on your t-shirt, tote bag, or other fabric of your choice. 

✨ About Farah Fayyad
Farah Fayyad is a graphic designer and printmaker from Beirut, Lebanon. Classically trained in Arabic calligraphy, her practice aims to preserve the traditional structure and behaviour of the script while reimagining its form. She is currently based between Beirut and Amsterdam. 
- Please bring a t-shirt or other fabric to print on

📅 Friday, 27 February 2026
🕒 17.00 - 19.00
📍VOX-POP
🎟️ Free of charge — registration required (via link in bio)!

🖋️ Printed Matters | Essay Editing Workshop

Want to learn more about editing academic essays? Curious about the behind-the-scenes processes of an academic journal?

Join us on Monday, February 23 and get advice on how to edit academic texts from Soapbox Journal. Bring excerpts from your own texts (up to 1,000 words).

🖋️ About Soapbox
Soapbox is an independent, open-access, student-run publishing platform, operating both in print as a peer-reviewed journal and online.

📅 Monday, 23 February 2026
🕒 17.00 - 19.00
📍VOX-POP
🎟️ Free of charge — registration required (via link in bio)!

Brainwave #4 Worlding beyond Wording II

What happens when we express ourselves without relying on words alone?

In this second Worlding beyond Wording, you’ll join a hands-on workshop with Aion Arribas and antje nestel from artist collective shy*play. Together, we will explore ways of communicating that go beyond clear sentences or sitting still at a table. Instead of focusing only on words, we’ll follow somatic exercises with fabrics, texts, and our voice. This will help us discover how language and the senses come together to create meaning.

📅 Tuesday, 24 February 2026
🕒 Time: 16:00 – 18:00
📍 Location:  VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9 (BG3)
🎟️ Free — sign up via link in bio!

🐉✨ Spring Festival Celebration at VOX-POP ✨🧧

Join us on 19 February for an afternoon dedicated to welcoming the Lunar New Year at VOX-POP. The Spring Festival marks the beginning of the new year according to the Lunar calendar and is traditionally a time for family reunions, honouring ancestors, and celebrating new beginnings. The festival lasts fifteen days and ends with the Lantern Festival, and at VOX-POP, we’re bringing some of that spirit together in one festive evening.

From 16.30 to 19.30, Humanities students and staff are invited to enjoy free snacks and drinks, ongoing creative workshops, and live performances. The programme is organised in collaboration with Media & Culture student Alicia Văcaru and students who grew up with this tradition.

📍 Where: BG3, VOX-POP (ground floor)
🗓 When: Thursday, 19 February 2026
⏰ Time: 16.30 - 19.30

🎟 Practical info
Free entry, no registration required.
Workshops are first come, first served.
Open to all with an interest in cultural exchange.

Design: Alicia Văcaru .andra

🐉✨ Spring Festival Celebration at VOX-POP

Join us on 19 February for an afternoon dedicated to welcoming the Lunar New Year at VOX-POP. The Spring Festival marks the beginning of the new year according to the Lunar calendar and is traditionally a time for family reunions, honouring ancestors, and celebrating new beginnings. The festival lasts fifteen days and ends with the Lantern Festival, and at VOX-POP, we’re bringing some of that spirit together in one festive evening.

From 16.30 to 19.30, Humanities students and staff are invited to enjoy free snacks and drinks, ongoing creative workshops, and live performances. The programme is organised in collaboration with Media & Culture student Alicia Văcaru and students who grew up with this tradition.

📍 Where: VOX-POP (Binnengasthuisstraat 9)
🗓 When: Thursday, 19 February 2026
⏰ Time: 16.30 - 19.30

🎟 Practical info
Free entry, no registration required.
Workshops are first come, first served.
Open to all with an interest in cultural exchange.

Design: Alicia Văcaru .andra

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP | Printed Matters

Join us in “making-inventory”: finding in our bodies the traces of those histories and stories that are ours to tell, but which might need new worlds and listening ears to receive them. 
 
Come on February 17 for a creative-writing workshop aimed at those struggling to find the words to write. Grounded in the work of Antonio Gramsci, Julietta Singh, Lola Olufemi and Ursula K. LeGuin, the workshop will invite a reflection on belonging as a praxis of positioning and creative storytelling.

📅 Tuesday, 17 February 2026
🕒 16.00 - 18.30
📍VOX-POP
Free to all — register through link in bio!

EXHIBITION OPENING | Printed Matters

How do independent publications transform printed matter into a site of play, questioning, experimentation, resistance and radical knowledge production?

We invite you to the festive opening of Printed Matters: The Politics and Aesthetics of Independent Publications, an exhibition that explores independent publishing as a practice in which aesthetics and politics are inseparable.

Join us on February 13 at VOX-POP, with a surprise performance by Simulacrum magazine followed by drinks. 

⭐️ Programme 
16.30 Opening 
17.30 Surprise Performance by Simulacrum magazine 
18.00 - 19.00 Drinks 

Throughout its two-week duration, the exhibition will remain active through public programming with workshops and printmaking events transforming its space into a living learning environment: part exhibition, part fair, part communal gathering. More announcements soon. 

📅 Friday, 13 February 2026
🕒 16.30 - 19.00
📍VOX-POP
🔗 Free entry, register via link in bio!

Our programmes in February ✨ Check the link in bio for a full overview and sign up links.

#9.2 CLOSE UP: Unwrap your Birthday Ritual

Join us at our second CLOSE UP programme of the year, Unwrap your Birthday Ritual, to deconstruct how we celebrate or don’t celebrate our birthdays each year ✨ Some of us go big, some keep it quiet, and some do not celebrate at all. Together, we explore how birthday memories influence the rituals we return to year after year.

⭐️ Irene Stengs
Following a Kringverjaardag, Irene Stengs will give us a mini lecture in which she maps the connection of birthdays and ritual practices.

⭐️ Sandy Bosmans
A poetry writing and reading workshop will be gifted to us by spoken word artist and writer Sandy Bosmans—through poetry & reflection we explore birthdays as meaningful rituals. 

Come to our birthday party and bring your birthday memories. Let us surprise you!

📅 Thursday, 12 February 2026
🕒 19.00 - 21.30
📍VOX-POP
🔗 Free entry — register via link in bio!