Framer Framed

Presentation: Moving Love

The project aims to widen the focus of queer stories, which often centre on fear and precarity, by sharing accounts of hope and love

Conference: Queer & Trans Social Justice: Art, Community & Survival

This one-day conference examines how art, creativity and community can advance social justice for queer and transgender people

Opening: Moving Love (Rescheduled)

Join the presentation of Moving Love, a film project for and by queer refugees

Workshop series: Moving Love Think Tank Sessions

As part of the presentation Moving Love, this workshop series invites participants into conversation to explore the multiple perspectives that shape and are shaped by the asylum system

Family Embodiment Practice: Book Kin, Home Arrival

Social artist Sun Chang hosts a ritual homecoming for 'Family Embodiment Practice', a queer-migrant art pedagogy shaped through six years of community research

Community event: Alle Kleuren Oost

Come and help shape Pride Oost 2026: the neighbourhood party with a touch of pink, celebrating the rich diversity of Amsterdam East

Book Launch and Workshop: Radical Quilting by Dyke March Amsterdam

This evening dives into fiber art outside of heteronormativity and at different intersections

Presentation: Open Archief 4.0 with mo Futures and Wassila Abboud

Final event Open Archief 2025-2026, a collaborative project that explores the potentials of making archival material accessible

Book Launch: This Queer Arab Family

An evening focussed on a book that explores how queer Arab communities reimagine family beyond traditional expectations

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 5 - Synthetic Ancestors, Becoming-With Symbiotic Kin

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 4 - Re-Stor(y)ing Transformation, Braiding the Hybrid Bio-Landscape

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 3 – Repair Speculative Kin

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 2 - Water Bodies

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 1 - Becoming Wind(s)

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Finissage: THE TAIL

Finissage of the performance installation THE TAIL with talks by Tessa de Boer from MAISON the FAUX and Alma Noor (aka DJ YoungWoman), followed by karaoke with Eastern Playgrounds

Finding Our Legs: A WERQ Workout for THE TAIL

Update: unfortunately, this event has been cancelled due to the warm weather. A workout in solidarity with the mermaid's transformation, followed by a conversation on reclaiming sport as a trans and/or queer athlete.

Workshop: Archiving Personal Queer Stories #2

Workshop session for queer people who are interested in archiving their personal stories and experiences

The Other Voice in the Fairy Tale

This workshop explores what it means to inhabit the marginal voices in fairy tales, such as The Little Mermaid

The Ghana Queer Underground

A presentation, talk and screening examining what it means to reclaim one’s existence as a queer individual in Ghana

Spoken Word: Queer Tales of Transformation

An evening of spoken word performances and an open mic, inspired by MAISON the FAUX’s installation THE TAIL

Cutting Through: A Queer Collage Workshop

A collage workshop inspired by the themes of installation THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

Media, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Queer Cultural Sector

A talk about the role of media in breaking through structures of abuse within the cultural sector

Launch: LIMBO Booklet

The launch of the second LIMBO booklet with an afternoon of art, food, music, rhythm dance and celebration

Dancehall Divas Then and Now: Framing the Caribbean Feminist Narrative

This event explores the gendered dynamics of Dancehall culture through performance, discussion, and visual material

Performances: THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

Live performances in collaboration with Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto López Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis.

Introduction and Q&A with MAISON the FAUX

Before the final performance of THE TAIL, creators Tessa de Boer and Joris Suk from MAISON the FAUX give an introduction to the work and its development

Queer & Price: Queering the Fair Practice Code

Conference that examines the significance of equitable compensation within queer and transgender communities

THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

Performance installation that explores themes of transformation, in collaboration with Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto López Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis

Workshop: 100 Butterflies for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Girls, and Non-Binary People

Textile workshop on embroidery and crafts as a means of feminist resistance in the context of International Women's Day

Museum Night Amsterdam 2024

A programme at Foam, co-curated by Framer Framed.

Book Presentation: Archival Textures – (Re)claiming

Using archival traces to show how queer and feminist communities in the Netherlands have (re)claimed symbols, words and stories as a means of empowerment

Queer Open Stage: Act 11

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Pride Photo: A Love Letter to Queer Resilience

An evening programme highlighting some of the incredible visual stories in this year’s Pride Photo exhibition.

Book launch: Connecting the Dots by Amsterdam Dyke March

Presentation of Connecting the Dots, a publication by Amsterdam Dyke March on queer theory

Queer Open Stage: Act 10

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Creative Publication Launch: to M•Others #2

Launch of publication 'to M•Others #2' with initiator Sun Chang during Queer Open Stage

Queer environmental embodiment: UÝRA - The Rising Forest

Screening, talk and sound performance on queer rights and environmental resistance

Queer Open Stage: Act 9

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Queer Open Stage: Act 8

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Queer Open Stage: Act 7

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Workshop: Archiving Personal Queer Stories #1

Workshop session for queer people who are interested into archiving their personal stories and experiences

Queer Open Stage: Act 6

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Queer Open Stage: Act 5

A monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Masterclass by Puma Camillê: The intersection of voguing and capoeira

Performance and workshop by Puma Camillê that combines voguing and capoeira, organised as part of the Willem de Kooning Academy's course 'Things and Stuff'

Queer Open Stage: Act 4

A monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness

Queer Open Stage: Act 3

A monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness

Rebel Dances: Borders in Tranc-it

A performance initiated by Papaya Kuir, directed by Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla and hosted by Framer Framed

Queer Open Stage: Act 2

A new monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness

Queer Open Stage: Act 1

A new monthly series to celebrate art, diversity, and community, to coincide with Queer Amsterdam

Bread, Freedom, Bisexuality, and Social Justice

Presentation and performance about identity and social justice for Moroccan bisexual individuals

Global Queer Rights Perspective: the Jamaican Edition

Film screening of 'The Abominable Crime' and conversation

Talanoa Forum: Swimming Against The Tide

An artist-led gathering by Yuki Kihara, co-hosted by LIMBO & Framer Framed in collaboration with National Museum of World Cultures

Queer Poetry Night x LIMBO

In collaboration with Unwanted Words & Queer Currents

Workshop 2: Beauty Basics for all genders

By Makeup Artist Timothy Paul

Workshop: Beauty Basics for all genders

By Makeup Artist Timothy Paul

LIMBO: Engaged scholarship and queer exilic narratives

A creative workshop series for queer, refugee and migrant community

Finissage: Proud Aliens

Music, food, drinks and henna to celebrate the last day of the group show by Open Atelier

Opening: Proud Aliens & QUEER

Exhibition opening of Framer Framed's Open Atelier and a new public installation by United Painting: QUEER

Exhibition: Proud Aliens

A colourful exhibition by Framer Framed's Open Atelier

Public Space Installation: QUEER

by United Painting

Queer Youth, Remember Kirvan Fortuin

A panel on LGBTQI+ art, culture and education

In Memoriam: Kirvan Fortuin

Memorial Celebration to commemorate the life of Kirvan Fortuin

Queer Currents Opening

with Evert van Straaten & Dennis Elzinga

Queer Series: SILENCE=DEATH

Reflections on artistic efforts in relation to the HIV/Aids crisis

Diasporic Self: Informal gatherings with Anne Krul

Diasporic Self: Caring as Lingua Franca - Fiction & Myths of Black Womxnhood

An evening programme i.c.w. Dipsaus podcast.

Educational series: Broadcasting from Babylon

On intersectional feminist, queer, and anti-colonial embodied, listening and sounding practices.

Exhibition: Diasporic Self - Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca

A project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante

Black Queerness & Diasporic Lives

An event on everyday intergenerational black queer social life, love and communities to look into the embodied experience of Black Queer people in Europe.

Exhibition opening: House of Wisdom

With an opening performance by Istanbul Queer Art Collective.

Queer Series: Istanbul Queer Art Collective

The fifth edition of the Queer Series, a program of public events focusing on queer elements of artworks, art colletives and art archives.

Exhibition: Chomma, with work by Jody Brand

Unseen exhibition in the public hallways of the Tolhuistuin, with work by South African photographer Jody Brand

Symposium: Declassified - How to Un/Engender the Ethnographic Object?

On the (historical) construction of gender and sexuality within the ethnographic collecting practices of museums.

Performance: by Kirvan Fortuin - A Festival of Project Spaces

Event as part of A Festival of Project Spaces; a performance by choreographer and dancer Kirvan Fortuin

Queer Series: Wu Tsang’s WILDNESS

Screening of the documentary WILDNESS (2012) by Wu Tsang.

Queer Series: Somos Libres!? Queer Amsterdam in the ‘80s

Screenings of the film by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas and Daniel Brun on gay Amsterdam in the 1980's.

Queerly There? Queer Art in Czech and Slovak Context

Lecture by Zuzana Štefková on explicit voicing out of the issues of sexuality and gender non-normativity in Czech and Slovak context.

Filthy Mouth - Dirty Politics

Experimental conference on the relationship between vulgar language, radical feminism.

Exhibition: Embodied Spaces

An exhibition curated by Christine Eyene on the body, gender and identity.

Lecture: Curating Body Narratives by Christine Eyene

Masterclass by Christine Eyene on her research and curatorial practice dealing with the body in contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora.