Oefen Nederlands by making protest signs together and sharing ideas.
Theme Saturday November 14: Homelessness and housing crisis
Not everyone has a good place to live. Due to high rental prices, affordable housing is difficult to find for many people. Some people have no fixed place of residence.
What do we do?
We talk about living in Brussel
We, collect words, and invent short slogans.
We make signs together using paint, paper, and cardboard.
Meanwhile, we practice Dutch and learn new words.
Good to know:
You do not need any prior knowledge.
You do not have to be creative.
You choose how you participate: you may write, draw, paint, or help others.
The signs made will then be included in the Panneautheque, a mobile library that lends out protest signs during demonstrations.
EN - We talk about current events and create signs for demonstrations.
FR - Nous parlons de l’actualité et fabriquons des pancartes pour des manifestations.
HALF & HALF. Do half, speak Dutch half the time.
Do you speak Dutch?
Join in and help someone practice Dutch.
For each activity there are 3 spots for Dutch speakers.
Send an email to valentine.warlop@muntpunt.be to register.
You simply join the workshop and talk Dutch with the other participants in the meantime. Veel Brusselaars are learning Dutch, but do not always know enough Dutch speakers to talk with. Precisely for this reason, such a simple conversation during an activity can mean a lot: trying out words, asking questions, daring to make mistakes.
This way you experience a fun activity and help someone speak Dutch with more confidence.
What does the Panneauthèque do?
With the Brussels loose collective Panneautheque, also known as the Protest Sign Library or the Protestbib, we make protest signs in the run-up to demonstrations. From union demonstrations to pro-Palestine gatherings, from the Dyke March to the Housing First parade: we are there!
And we could really use your help with that. Come write, paint, cut, and paste with us! Make a sign for something you find important, something that urgently needs to change, something you are angry about, or something you think should finally be put on a piece of cardboard.
We collect the signs in our Protestbib on wheels and roll them along to demonstrations. Everyone is allowed to borrow a sign: take – protest – return. Afterward we collect them again, together with left-behind placards that deserve a new protest life. Everything that passes through us is also photographed for our archive. In this way the collection constantly grows and shrinks: signs come, go, change meaning, or suddenly pop up in a completely different struggle.
How do you register?
Click on a date in the yellow box.
Click on the purple button 'register'.