Tag: community
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Improv Team-Building Workshop for Teachers: Inholland Aeronautical Engineering Case Study
Teachers constantly juggle research, teaching, mentoring, and administration. In a high-pressure setting like aeronautical engineering, strong collaboration matters. Improv gives teams a playful toolkit to practice: What We Offered A two-hour, highly interactive workshop built around team play: The Results Teachers reconnected outside their usual academic roles. Participants said they felt: “More energized as a…
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Home in Transit: Finding Belonging Through Art in Rotterdam
Finding Home While in Motion Since October 2024, the FRENS Table in Rotterdam has been a weekly creative space where people from all walks of life gather to draw, write, reflect, and connect. Our members brought diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, but shared a common thread: transition. Whether navigating life as a refugee, moving between…
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All You Can Art 2024: Exploring Home, Community, and Creativity in Rotterdam
Engaging with Art and Community During the summer of 2024, Art is Home returned to All You Can Art (AYCA) as hosting artists, leading workshops, and showcasing new works during the Zomercarnaval exposition at Kunsthal Rotterdam. AYCA is a long-standing collaboration between Kunsthal Rotterdam and Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) Curaçao, founded in 2015. Over the…
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IBB Radio: Empowering Creative Youth and Communities in Curaçao
Addressing Creative Isolation on CuraCao Instituto Bueno Bista (IBB), Curaçao’s center for contemporary art, was founded in 2006 by Tirzo Martha and David Bade. It offers a two-year creative preparatory course and a residency for international artists.The school was set up because Curaçao students in the Netherlands face an average dropout rate of 80%. The…
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The Khan Family: Rediscovering Creativity and Hope at FRENS TABLE
A Story of Hope and Rediscovery The Khan family, a mother and three of her five children, have been attending FRENS Table Rotterdam since our third session. The mother had an active art practice in Syria but was forced to leave it behind when she fled her country. After several years in the UAE, the…
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Art Doesn’t Need Words: Creativity Across Languages
In most of our workshops, participants speak different languages. Some are new to the Netherlands, others have grown up here, and some are still finding their place in between. Dutch, Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, English, Ukrainian or no shared language at all. The room often sounds like an orchestra of languages. At first, it can feel…
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Gezelligmaking on the Dorpsplein
Some of our FRENS have been living on the Silja cruise ship for more than two years now, sharing small cabins, borrowing corners for privacy, and carrying on with daily life in very limited space. The Dorpsplein across the road from the boat is their only backyard, but as a bare and empty lot, it…
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3 Creativity Warm-Ups Your Team Can Try This Week
Creativity isn’t just a nice-to-have in the workplace – It’s a key aspect for better communication, stronger collaboration, and innovative thinking. At Art is Home, we use playful, hands-on exercises to unlock these qualities in our Creativity with Purpose workshops. Here are three simple warm-ups you can try in your next meeting. P.S. No art…
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Support Art is Home and Make Your Donation Work for You
Did you know that Stichting Art is Home is a Cultural ANBI? ANBI stands for Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling, which means it’s a nonprofit recognized by the Dutch tax authorities as serving the public good. Being an ANBI comes with benefits – not just for us, but for our donors too. And as a cultural…
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The Art of Gezelligmaking
In the Netherlands, there’s a word that isn’t quite translatable in English or many other languages: gezellig. It’s not just cozy; it’s not just fun… It’s the feeling of being together, of belonging, of comfort and warmth combined together in one. It’s that sense of being at home; and when you add “-making” to it,…
