Netherlands

The Arab film Festival – Rotterdam is a yearly cultural activity organized by the FAFF, the object of the festival is to support the Arab cinema and the Arab filmmakers, to promote better understanding among the Arab and European people, and to be a means for developing the art of film industry. The festival take place for 24 days during the month of June from every year, in Rotterdam and four other Dutch cities.

Mission: Developing the Centre of Arab West Understanding in Egypt. Aims: To advance the mutual understanding, in the wide sense of the word, between the Arabic World and the Western World

To create a possibility for artists and non artists to merge, to work together on themes like, communication,exchange, rethinking of values, and showing parts of human interestst.

The main objective of the foundation is to organize dialogue seminars on neutral ground in which Israeli and Palestinian youth can meet and get to know each other, based on equality and without any political purpose. COME Foundation wants to facilitate an open dialogue between the participants.
With the organization of these seminars, we hope to give Israeli and Palestinian youth six opportunities, which can be seen as the six sub-objectives of COME Foundation. We wish to provide them a safe space in which they will have:

the opportunity to meet, which in daily life is difficult and not always possible;

the opportunity to express what people are really concerned about;

the opportunity to experience and see the human side of the conflict and to look differently at  the other and at the situation;

the opportunity to hear and understand the interests, impact and motives of the other;

the opportunity for self-examination and reflection;

the opportunity to broaden one’s perspectives, which can be applied in daily life.
The seminars create safe spaces for participants to develop a more hopeful perspective on their often difficult situation, in a crucial stage of their life and in which there is nearly no significant mutual contact between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. By organizing these seminars, COME wants to convey its multiple commitment to both sides.

We are an organisation of Arab-European women who have set up an Oriental Institute for art and culture in Amsterdam. The philosophy is not only to show the beautiful side of the culture of the Oriental world (North Africa, Middle East, Turkey and Iran). But also to stimulate comprehension, cooperation and friendship between people no matter what age, culture or religion they may have. We wish to develop a secular centre which is aware of the past and focused on the future. A place where artistic freedom will allow for cultural expression of both the Oriental and European community.

Apolitique et non réligieuse, la fondation FONDEMA oeuvre au rapprochement des cultures en promouvant le dialogue Nord-Sud.
Dans ce but elle mettra en oeuvre de multiples activités: organisation de colloques, débats d'idées, échanges culturels et artistiques et économiques entre l'Europe, la zone rive sud de la Méditerranée/Afrique noire par voie de conseil et mise en relation.

Our mission is to create an international network of future leaders with a strong sense of human rights.  We do so by connecting young people in a summer program with each other and key figures in the field of academia, anti-racism and anti-discrimation, we educate young people by providing high level lectures, workshops and activities on human rights, diversity, democracy, history. we inspire them by bringing in examples of good practices and developing opportunities for meaningful internships.

If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution is a rolling curatorial platform, departing from a spirit of open questioning and long term enquiry with artists. The undercurrent is its interest in visual art practices related to performance and performativity. From there it investigates topics relevant in both art and the cultural and societal sphere. Inspired by the quote of the anarchist Emma Goldman, the platform explores the critical and celebratory implications of this statement in artists’ work, curatorial and theoretical practice. If I Can’t Dance… works along the systematic of collaboration. It doesn’t have a ‘house’, but instead produces and develops projects and programmes that have different manifestations in different institutions within the Netherlands and abroad. Each edition, defined by a certain field of investigation, engages a set of partners and unfolds along a travelling trajectory. If I Can’t Dance… believes in this unique potential of art, being both critical and celebratory. Emma Goldman’s statement we like to embrace, as it suggests that the search for agency and the potential for empowerment lies in all elements of life and cannot be regulated to a firmly cordoned-off arena named the political. Thus it is embedded and reflected in art too.

The key sentiment of the Layan Foundation are the children that are being affected on both sides of the conflict.

Layan Foundation empowers children and youth in Gaza, the West Bank and Israël by providing them with the tools to build more open, inclusive and resilient communities together.
We need more inclusive and empathetic societies to combat lack of trust and intolerance.
Better educational opportunities effectively contribute to new perspectives for our youth.
Our main two objectives
Engage with and build Faith and Hope for children in Gaza, West Bank and Israel.

Organizing or supporting emergency relief actions for the purposes referred to in paragraph children and young adults in question, and to promote their ability whether or not to train or study outside Israel or Gaza to follow or complete a study or training;
raising gifts and donations, or raising other funds and/or subsidies with which the foundation supports existing projects or initiatives can support financially or new projects or initiatives to set up;
setting up and maintaining one – where necessary by professionals

Originally a workshop for young modern dancers and choreographers to develop ideas as artists in residence, Los now focuses on urban arts, especially urban dance (hiphop, breakdance, streetdance) and rap. Stressing the global nature of urban juvenile culture, Los investigates its reception by cultural institutions, art schools and the responsible authorities and politicians in the Netherlands and adjacent European countries and in Morocco and Turkey (homelands of most of the immigrants who dominate the urban scene), with the objective of arriving at an understanding of the artistic potential of international juvenile culture and means of promoting it. Research is carried out in a continuous dialogue with practice in the form of projects with young urban artists.