Symposium: Dealing with the Real Stuff

9 Oct 2025
15:00 - 20:00

Symposium: Dealing with the Real Stuff

Dealing with the Real Stuff, initiated by lecturer and researcher Nathalie Roos in collaboration with the Breitner Academy, Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Framer Framed, investigates and develops a pedagogical approach to art as citizenship education. The three-year project, which began in 2022, concludes on 9 October 2025 with a symposium and book launch.

How can art and activism in education contribute to critical citizenship? This question is central to the symposium. You’re taken into the world of activist art and education through performances, presentations and workshops that encourage thinking and action. In addition, the book Dealing with the Real Stuff is presented, an inspiring publication full of practical tools for cross-curricular art and citizenship education.

The symposium marks the conclusion of the multi-year project Dealing with the Real Stuff. In this project, Roos investigated how art can contribute to citizenship education, inspired by the working methods of contemporary activist artists. This resulted in an interdisciplinary minor for students of art education and social studies and an in-depth practical study of the relationship between art, activism, and education.

The symposium also offers a moment to celebrate the launch of the publication Dealing with the Real Stuff: Kunst, Activisme en Burgerschap in het Onderwijs by Nathalie Roos, featuring essays by contributors to the project. The book can be purchased at the symposium or online.

Programme

15:00 Performance by Salman Dirir
15:20 Opening by keynote Nathalie Roos
15:40 Keynote Hayfaa Chalabi
16:15 Break / Intervention  Rest Is Resistance 
16:30 Keynote Martijn Dekker
17:00 Good practices by students
17:20 Break
17:45 Workshops
19:00 Soup by Volkskeuken De Sering, music and an exhibition of the student’s work

This event is in Dutch.
Please register here.

Publication

Editors: Nathalie Roos & Ebissé Wakjira (Framer Framed)
Designer: Alizée Bollen
Publisher: Framer Framed
Pages: 139
Price: €22,50
ISBN 9789083454313

Credits

This program is realized in collaboration with: Docent Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving (Breitner Academie, AHK), Leraar Maatschappijleer (HvA),  Framer Framed and CASE (Centre for Arts & Sciences Education).

Admission is free, pay what you can
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