Project “Cast Lead”

Programme

Week 1:	“the artists”
Monday evening 11 October,  8.00 p.m.
Programme maker:	Ingrid Rollema
Speakers:	Ingrid Rollema (Hoezo een geweten?) Ludo de Brabander (Kapitalisme is oorlog) Stef Aupers (Virtual Reality and Morality) Peter Depelchin with the MARSYAS-Collectief (Djahilia)

Wednesday evening 13 October at 8.00 p.m.
Programme maker:	Felix Villanueva
Speakers:	Cornel Bierens (De soldaat, de kunstenaar, de ziel en de dood - alles poëtisch) Erwin Jans (The art of war) Leon Wecke (Beeld en Werkelijkheid)

Friday evening 15 October at 8.00 p.m.
Programme maker:	Özkan Gölpinar
Speakers:	Özkan Gölpinar in conversation with warcorrespondents Moustapha Oukbih and Nadette de Visser

Programme makers:
Özkan Gölpinar	dramatist, publicist. Writes for Trouw, De Groene Amsterdammer, Contrast and other publications. Programme manager Cultural Diversity at The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB) in Amsterdam.
Ingrid Rollema	visual artist, former director of the Vrije Academie Den Haag, member of the Hope Foundation’s project team in Gaza.
Felix Villanueva	curator/publicist, head of the post-academic DNA studios and Studium Generale of the Vrije Academie Den Haag.

Guest speakers:
Stef Aupers	cultural sociologist at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Researched the online social relationships of gamers.
Cornel Bierens	visual artist, writer and art critic. Writes for Vrij Nederland, De Groene Amsterdammer and other publications.
Ludo de Brabander	Flemish peace activist, staff member and lecturer at University College Arteveldehogeschool in Gent, Belgium. Writes about international politics and specialized in NATO, foreign and security policies of the European Union and the Middle East situation.
Peter Depelchin	Flemish visual artist, also performer with the MARSYAS-Collectief
Erwin Jans	studied Germanic Philology and Theatre Sciences, writer/publicist. Dramatist at Het Toneelhuis Antwerp. Teaches theatre and drama at the Catholic University of Leuven and the Hogeschool Antwerp. Wrote the book Interculturele Intoxicaties. Over Kunst, cultuur en verschil (2006) (Intercultural Intoxications. About Art, culture and differences)
Moustapha Oukbih	Middle East correspondent for the NOS (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation).
Nadette de Visser	journalist. Lived in Israeli West Jerusalem and Palestinian East Jerusalem respectively over a period of almost four years. In 2008 her book Van onze correspondent. Standplaats Jeruzalem/Al Ouds (From our correspondent. Location Jerusalem/Al Ouds) was published.
Leon Wecke	polemologist. Works at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management of the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Week 2:	“the activists”
The programme of the second week (18 - 20 October)  consists of three days of discussions between and with international professionals and activists from various walks of life.  For each of them life is an art inspired by ideals. The discussions will focus on the anarchy which is the international rule of law,  the quest for redress of injustice and the  return to democracy.
Dutch composer and musician Harry de Wit will round off the project with a performance.
Programme maker: Sonja Zimmermann

Monday evening 18 October,  8.00 p.m.
Speakers:	Inez Louwagie/Wouter de Clercq (Airmiles for El Al Passengers) Yeela Raanan (The Bedouin Struggle for Recognition) Anja Meulenbelt (The Threat of Peace)

Tuesday evening 19 October, 8.00 p.m
Speakers:	Greta Berlin (The Gaza Freedom Flotilla) Pierre Galand (The Russell Tribunal on Palestine) Malainin Mohamed Lakhal (The Struggle for Western Sahara) Met Arabische luitmuziek van Nizar Rohana

Wednesday evening 20 October at 8.00 p.m.
Speakers/performer:
	Badjassen Brigade (Bathrobe Brigade) (Stolen Beauty) Roisin Bryce & Jackie McKenna (Nine Women of Derry against Raytheon) Anja Meulenbelt (Activism for Democracy) Theo Loevendie (under reserve)

Programme maker:
Sonja Zimmermann	Anthropologist, arabist and linguist, authority on gender and development-aid worker, volunteer for the Netherlands Palestine Committee since 2003.

Guest speakers:
De Badjassen Brigade	A group of young Dutch women who run a playful boycott campaign against products from Israeli settlements
Greta Berlin	American co-founder of and spokesperson for the Free Gaza Movement, organized the Peace Fleet to Gaza in 2010, among many other things.
Pierre Galand	member of the Belgian Socialist Party and former Belgian senator; former Secretary General of Oxfam; chairman of the European Coordinating Committee of NGOs on Palestine (ECCP); one of the organizers of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Roisin Bryce	a socialist activist and member of People Before Profit Alliance in Ireland. She is also member of the Derry Antiwar Coalition and one of the nine women who took action against the American defence technology company Raytheon.
Malainin Mohamed Lakhal	born 1971, in Western Sahara when under Spanish occupation. With Western Sahara under Moroccan occupation he studied in Moroccan schools.  In 1999, he was one of the organizers of a mass protest in El Aaiún, famous as the Intifada of 99. He now lives in Belgium, is  Secretary General of the Saharawi Journalists and Writers Union (UPES) and is member in the Association of the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeared.
Jackie McKenna	one of the nine women who took action against the American defence technology company Raytheon.
Inez Louwagie Wouter de Clercq	Belgian activists for Vredesactie (Peace Action) Belgium, known for their playful campaign against the American arms supply to Israel at the airport of Liège.
Anja Meulenbelt	Dutch feminist, politician, and writer of a.o. De schaamte voorbij (Shame is over) 1976, Het beroofde land (The promised land) 2000, De tweede Intifada (The second Intifada) 2001, Een spiegel liegt niet (A mirror never lies) 2002, en Oorlog als vrede dreigt (War when peace threatens) 2010. With her Kifaia foundation she helps disabled persons in the Gaza strip.
Yeela Raanan	works for the RUCV (Regional Council for Unrecognized Villages) in Israel. Campaigns, among other things, for the rights of the Negev Bedouins.
Harry de Wit	is a composer/musician and internationally well known for his compositions and has a reputation in the domain of the improvisation music. Next to his work as a composer/musician he also designs electro-acoustic instruments. He often creates music for dance, theatre, film and television productions.

Monday afternoon 18 October at 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.

FILMPROGRAMME location: Vrije Academie, Paviljoensgracht 20-24, Den Haag

1. Blockade Busters…Breaking the Siege of Gaza (30 minutes)

2. Destiny Hills (60 minutes)