SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit for Tío Mane Reading Room

By: börek - June 26th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday June 30, 2025, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit for Tío Mane Reading Room. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Eat in solidarity of Tío Mane Reading Room in San José del Peñón, Montes de María, Colombia on Monday 30th of June.
Since 1993, Tio Mane’s Room has been a space of hope, learning, and culture. Despite the challenges, the people has kept the library alive with love and effort, providing access to books, art and knowledge for hundreds of children, youth, and adults.
Today, this space is at risk. Its asbestos roof is deteriorating, posing a health hazard to visitors and endangering the books that have shaped generations.
All money raised through this voku will go to replace the roof and ensure that this reading space remains a beacon of inspiration and learning for the entire community. […Lees verder]

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Solidarity Voku – En Solidaridad con lxs afectadxs por el conflicto armado del Catatumbo

By: börek - May 13th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday May 19, 2025, Solidarity Voku – En Solidaridad con lxs afectadxs por el conflicto armado del Catatumbo. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Dinner in solidarity with the people affected by the armed conflict in the north of Colombia, with the intention of gathering funds to support a family, which until now has received very little attention.
We create an opportunity to inform about the topic and discuss about the guerilla that gets no attention in Europe in a moment of total mobilizaion against indigenous communities in Colombia, with the recent assasination of the activist Erik Ánderson Menza Pavi, the hypocritical and perfomative reaction of the United Nations, and the racist statements by the Universidad Nacional against indigenous representation and mobilization.
The dinner will be vegan Colombian food; we hope to see many of you, and send lots of love.
https://baudoap.com/la-paz-muere-en-el-catatumbo/ […Lees verder]

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SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: benefit Voku supporting Colectivo las Abejas

By: börek - November 17th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday November 18, 2024, benefit Voku supporting Colectivo las Abejas. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This Voku is brought to you by SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity). On this Monday, we will cook a vegan three-course meal from rescued ingredients and raise money for the “Colectivo las Abejas”.
The “Colectivo las Abejas” is a small non-profit organization based in San Cristobal de las Casas which works with agroecology and bioconstructions. Las Abejas works predominantly in local schools, where they organize workshops, and introduce small agroecological systems such as vegetable beds, vermicompost, filters for cleaning grey waters, and gardens with medicinal herbs. In this way, they aim at inspiring children, teachers, and their parents to implement similar systems in their homes, in a context where access to water is scarce (especially to clean water).
Las Abejas works in both private and public schools. The work in public schools is all volunteer based and they lack resources to keep the project going. They need support to be able to organize a set of workshops in a secondary school this year and to create educational material.
If you believe in the need of re-appropriating our food production and in the right for everyone to have access to water, please come and eat a delicious vegan meal to support the project!
SKRAPS ((Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity) : https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/skraps-solidarity-kitchen […Lees verder]

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SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: benefit dinner supporting the Iku community in Colombia. Concert by Catsnout

By: börek - September 30th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

Monday September 30, 2024, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit dinner supporting the Iku community in Colombia in reclaiming their ancestral land. Concert by Catsnout. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music from 8:30pm.

We are SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity), an Amsterdam-based cooking collective with the goal of transforming rescued food into tasty vegan dishes, which are then used to support national and international initiatives.
This Voku is dedicated to the Iku people, an indigenous community from Colombia currently striving to acquire ancestral land. Their goal is to reclaim their territory, and build a space to educate young students and nurture future mamos and sagas (spiritual leaders). By doing so, they aim to preserve their ancestral wisdom and actively deconstruct colonial heritage.
In this Voku, we hope to support them in reclaiming their land, and we invite you to join us in this endeavour.

After the dinner, there will be a concert by the band Catsnout who writes about themselves: “hello, we make fun yelling heartfelt anti-folk. Welcome to our acoustic experiment in Joe’s Garage, bring your flutes please!” The show will start around 20:30. […Lees verder]

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Benefit Voku for Weavers of Resistance

By: börek - June 10th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet

Monday 10 June 2024, Benefit Voku for Weavers of Resistance. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The Amsterdam’s chapter of the House of Yeguazas and SKRAPS this week join their forces to raise funds for Tejedores de Resistencia (‘Weavers of Resistance’), a project that weaves collective memory in relation to the conflict of Colombia and its sociopolitical entanglements.
“Nos tocamos a través de los hilos. Hilos que tejen la vida y la muerte, que permiten tocar el pensamiento, el sentir, las pieles y que florezca una superficie de resistencia, cuidado y denuncia.” Join us for amazing rescued vegan food and a short video! […Lees verder]

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Colombian film night

By: börek - March 1st, 2018  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday March 25th 2018. Colombian film night. Screening with English subtitles, 125 minutes. Doors open at 8pm, film starts at 8:30pm.

A unique black-and-white review – dreamlike exploration of the Amazon’s imperialist pollution. A mystical tribal shaman leads two western explorers through his disappearing world, in this psychedelic, politically tinged Colombian adventure. The film details the west’s obsession with exploiting indigenous life in stories of two white explorers, separated by decades.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to play a movie, let us know: joe [at] squat [dot] net

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Music with Sol Okarina

By: börek - November 1st, 2017  Filed under: Muziek, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 9 November 2017, Volkseten Vegazulu from 7pm. After the food, music with Sol Okarina.

Sol Okarina from Colombia and Venezuela, calypso socca cumbia and other Caribbean rhythms accompanied by a cuatro, performing the songs of her new album Planet4. https://www.solokarina.com/

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchen, every monday and thursday, all year long. We are remaining closed if no one is volunteering to cook. Keep an eye on this page to make sure we are open. Door opens at 7pm. Vegan food for 4€ or donation. All benefits go for social & political struggles. No reservation.

Have you ever considered cooking at Joe’s Garage with your friends? We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. Enjoying it is a must. If you want to know which days are still available in the schedule, send an email to joe [at] squat [dot] net and book yourself the night. You can, of course, also participate by rolling up your sleeves and doing the dishes.

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Colombian evening, Wiwa community, photo exhibition & more

By: börek - April 1st, 2017  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

wiwaMonday April 17th 2017, Colombian evening, Wiwa community, photo exhibition & more. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

Wiwa community is an indigenous group that lives in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta one of the most biodiverse region nearby the Caribbean Coast in Colombia. Since they have been in the middle of the armed conflict and most recently the intervention of transnational companies, they are in a process of strengthening their communities through cultural practices, particularly traditional music. Music for them is one of the most important intangible resources and through the practice of music the knowledge regarding with nature and social behave is transmitted along generations. In recent years, in our dialogue with wiwa communities they found useful to register some of the sounds and stories of music as part of their educational process. On that concerning, together with the musicians and the authorities of the community of Siminke, we started to develop an idea of a documentary about the importance of the music as a tool of resistance and social mobilization, according to with the needs of the communities and issues that they faced such transnational projects. We want to share with the people interest in Amsterdam part of the work that we have been doing together through a photography exhibition and a fragment of the material recorded until now. Since we are doing this process without profit interest, which means, with our own resources and have to take with us the film equipment to the village, we are looking for strategies to support the travel but also we always bring to the communities some elements that are demanding for them sometimes such medicines, school supplies, and food. […Lees verder]

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