Date:  September 9
Time: 18:00-20:00
Location: Old Library, Clockhouse (Generaal Foulkesweg 37)

We are kicking off the new academic year with an open meeting day at our headquarters, aka the Clockhouse.

Don't know what OtherWise is yet? This is a great opportunity to get to know a bit about our organisation and our work, and learn ways you can get involved. 

If you are already a friend/fan of OtherWise, you are also welcome to join our meeting and see what we are cooking up for the upcoming year.

Fingers crossed that the weather will be good so that we can go and hang out at the Arboretum park next door!

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at otherwise@wur.nl

Date: June 22
Time:  5:30 PM - 9:30 PM 
Location: Nude Toekomst, Mennonietenweg 15A

Come join us for a warm and cozy evening full of meeting new people, cooking together, and enjoying delicious food!

Activity:
Together we will prepare dolmas and share information about Buddy to Buddy and Otherwise.

Food:
We will enjoy rice, lentil soup, and dolmas together.

Everyone is welcome!

Registration is required via the registration form here !

We look forward to seeing you!

The program:

- basic terms and what an operating system does

- the differences in major operating systems

- open source and free software

- software use from a political perspective and sustainable software

- how to change your operating system and try out the alternatives

What to bring: We will try out stuff in the workshop, so if you have the possibility, bring a laptop and some empty storage media (for example, an USB stick: 4 GB is good, 8 GB is even better, and more is no problem :)).

PS: If you are a computer nerd you are of course also welcome, but we will probably cover knowledge you already have :)

This workshop is facilitated by Xenia, who studies Ocean Engineering as an exchange student at WUR. Xenia is passionate about digital independence because it is essential to democratic and sustainable societies.

We believe that the success of our post-capitalist experiments relies not only on efficient mobilization and strategy, but also on resilient communities grounded in deep relationships. 

Together with Ania and myself (Luca), we turned last spring’s OtherWise course on Community Building into a 2-part workshop series!

In these workshops, we will first explore the political relevance of community building, and then zoom in on an essential topic of community building, namely grief. The workshops will host a mix of seminars, sharing circles and ceremonial practices, with an aim to develop tools and frameworks that you can apply within your activist and community groups. 

As there is limited space, we ask you to fill in a brief sign-up form. And whereas both sessions follow up on each other, it is also possible to attend individual sessions.

Find the full course invitation, workshop descriptions, dates, and sign-up form at this link!

Excited to have you!

In solidarity, Ania and Luca.

Date: 7 March

Time: 19:30 - 23:30

Location: NudeToekomst, Mennonietenweg 15a, Wageningen

International Women’s Day Celebration – We Dance in Solidarity

The world is on fire, but sometimes self-care is an act of resistance. Alongside action and solidarity, we’re choosing an evening of dance, treats, and connection. Entrance €2,50 pp.

This night is specially for FLINTA (femme/fluid/

female, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans, agenda) (no cis men) to celebrate together, recharge, and support one another.

Program:
Kurdish dance workshop
Palestinian embroidery workshop
Performance by the International Women’s Choir
Moroccan tea ceremony & sale of Ramadan sweets
Mocktail bar & Somali sambuus
World disco

📅 When: February 12, 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM

📍 Where: The Clockhouse, Generaal Foulkesweg 37 in Wageningen

💡 What: Strengthening the relationship between academia and activism through inspiring talks and creative workshops

Dear friends of the Activist Academy,  

The program for our celebration of five times Resistance, Power, and Movements has been finalized! We invite all of you to join us for an afternoon of serious discussion, creativity, and party. Click here  to register. 

The present situation in our world leaves us entrapped in our bubbles, lonely and craving for connection.

We often suffer from a feeling of disconnect, where we kind of close off from the stream of life like living in a bubble with predictable habits and thought patterns. This protection mechanism makes us at times quite lonely. We forget to open the window and allow a new breath of fresh air to come in. This workshop gives you practical tools to reconnect and to find your own way to open that window for a new delight.

The term resonance was developed by German sociologist Hartmut Rosa. She stated that meaning does not arise from utility, power, control, or success, but from our relational connection with the world—when the world responds, when something resonates.

According to Rosa, resonance is a relational experience in which we feel touched by something outside ourselves—a person, a landscape, a work of art, a response to a letter. Resonance is a two-way street: we speak and the world responds. This is different from harmony, happiness, or recognition; it is an experience of meaningful reciprocity.

With this workshop we will explore different ways of listening – playfully, deeply, compassionately – to ourselves, in relationship with others and nature. Listening we do in the 'here and now', with our whole being. It creates the condition for 'resonant connection', a meaningful reciprocity with our inner and outer world.

Date: 4 November

Time: 17:30 - 19:00 (with vegan dinner at 19:00)

Location: Old library, Clockhouse (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, Wageningen)

About the workshop

In this workshop we'll lean into listening, watching and feeling the magic of music/videoclips to sense our individual and collective imagination for decolonial multispecies peace. Not sure what decolonial peace is? Join the workshop and get a playful feel for it.

Set up: we'll use three videoclips as prompts for dream journaling. Afterwards, we will do an exercise in buddy pairs and reflect as a group. In a political economy that drains your energy, this workshop is not set up to be 'productive' but to simply fill your cup a little bit. And maybe find some grounding in what is really calling for collective care practices.

Questions before the event or accessibility needs? Email us at otherwise@wur.nl

We will send you a confirmation email one week before the event!

Join us for ''The Atlas of Return", a workshop with Weaving Realities arts collective!

19th June 2025, 3 - 5 PM
At Gaia Plateau (1st floor)

In this embodied workshop, led by Yuchen Li, we explore the intimate connections between memory, food, and land through the practices of senti-pensar (thinking-feeling) and corpo-territorial cartografía (body-territory mapping). Drawing on ancestral knowledge and somatic awareness, participants will be guided through a meditative, mindful experience with food—engaging the senses to awaken memory and presence.

From this grounded encounter, we move into a process of mapping our bodies as our first territories—bodies inseparable from the living, breathing lands we inhabit. Guided by the cardinal directions, we invite a reverent return to the elemental coordinates that orient us in relationship with Earth and each other.

This practice invites reflection on food not only as nourishment but as a vessel of ancestral memory, cultural coordinates, and seeds for reimagining relational worlds. In a time when food systems are increasingly abstracted and commodified, this workshop offers a space for re-rooting in embodied knowledge, memory, and belonging.

✏️Sign up
https://forms.gle/iHxbtCLPVQF8n4Jy9

This is part 3 of the seminar series in conjunction with the course RSO58806 Beyond Sustainability: Theorizing post and anti-capitalist food futures. The seminar series is open to the university community, and co-organized with Otherwise.

Frontline Voices: Resistance Against Glencore ✊
Get ready for a powerful session that brings the global fight for justice right to our doorstep.

On their way to the UN Human Rights Week in Switzerland, Julio (Peru) and Inés (Colombia) — frontline defenders of land, nature, and human rights — will make a stop in the Netherlands to share their firsthand stories of resistance against mining giant Glencore.

Glencore, one of the world's largest multinationals, has left a trail of ecological destruction and human suffering in its wake. But communities are rising. And they're not backing down.

🔊 Hear directly from those who are leading the resistance.

💥 Learn how extractivism threatens lives and land — and what can be done.

🤝 Discover ways you can stand in solidarity.

📍Don't miss this rare opportunity to connect with global changemakers on the ground.

🗓 June 17, 12:00h-13:30h
📍 Forum, Room: P0631
📣 Open to all
💬 Q&A ​​and discussion

🌟 Attention !
In case you are not familiar with Spanish, please bring headphones and a device (laptop, phone,..) so we can do live translation (spanish-english).

See you there!

Welcome to: Queer ecology - or how to become more-than-one 

with Gizem Şentürk

What is natural? Where is nature? What does queer have anything to do with it? Queer ecology offers an intersectional perspective on nature, more-than-human and more all while deconstructing binaries. It also shows the inherent interconnectedness between things: be it the bacteria living on human gut, or mushrooms in a forest or humans living in the web of a city. In this lecture, we will look into how queer ecology as a critical theory came about, with its connections to ecofeminism and queer theory. We will also focus on symbiosis as a queer phenomenon: Through a journey from science fiction to science fact, we will look into popular media like Star Trek, symbiogenesis theory, and connect them to philosophical questions on the individual – or the lack there of. 

Date: 6 June, 2025

Time: 16:00-18:00 

Place: Gaia Plateau, the 1st floor, Wageningen University

When? 20th May, 5.30-7.30 PM 27th May, 3-5 PM (note it previously said 6-8 PM! This was wrong!)

Where?  both at the Dance room at the Clockhouse(Generaal Foulkesweg 37 Wageningen)

Register here: https://forms.gle/fnYgtFeSx3cGiAEXA

In these  two workshops  we will exchange through music, movement and conversation as is custom in the practice of Capoeira Angola. As such we will explore the capacity of our full being (hands, feet, hearts, heads) to navigate complexity, trouble and connection. For both of these workshops we extend the invitation to be open to experience something new, something strange, something 'other', to not reject this from a position of superiority or a desire for control, but rather to play with what it conveys to you, to be open to its significance and therewith its potential to negate the preconceived. How might we navigate complexity differently, inviting play, ritual and comradeship into resistance movements? What can we learn from ancestry and what ancestor do we want to become?

In the first workshop ( 20th of May ) the focus is on establishing a first contact with Capoeira Angola's movements, rhythms and making contact with the ground. For the second workshop ( 27th of May ) we are honored to have mestre Marcelo Angola joining us from Bahia, Brazil. During this workshop we go into the origins of Capoeira Angola, ancestrality, and relations between Europe and Brazil.

About Capoeira Angola:

Capoeira Angola emerged in the 16th century with the arrival of enslaved African populations in Brazil. These practiced and trained Capoeira at the senzalas, small huts made of palm, located inside the plantations. Capoeira was a way to affirm their rights and train rebellion in order to fight for liberation from their oppressors. Some escaped to the jungles and with the passing of the years, small illegal communities were created (known as quilombos) where they finally reached their spiritual liberty. Capoeira Angola continued to evolve as a mixture of art, dance, fight, culture, education, and as a philosophy and way of life.

Curious? 
Register here: 
https://forms.gle/VXGE2K28E1UWYfHd7

On May 30 and 31, 2025, the first edition of the Rooting Deeper Festival will take place at Proeftuin Ede. Celebrate with us our connections to the land, to good, just food and to its many cultures. We come together against oppression and fascism, and for peace, life and freedom.  On 30 May  from 13.30 onwards there are bike excursions to agroecological farms, sign up here. On 31 May  from 14.00 onwards, you can enjoy music, spoken word, storytelling by the fire, arts, workshops (in English too), local food and drinks, a crafts market, and a cool children's program. Location: Proeftuin Ede, a 10 minute walk from Ede-Wageningen train station. Get your (free) ticket through the link here : https://agroecologie.nl/rootingdeeper/

OtherWise will be giving a workshop on the 31st of May, from 18:30 - 19:00 on celebrating relations of reciprocity with the more-than-human world. Expect embodied exploration, a call to connect with our animal ancestors, a collective art-making journey, and some more magic in the air!

Movie night: Yintah on the 21st of April

The movie follows the Wet'suwet'en nation that reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from the Canadian government and several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth.

Their struggle against the construction of a Gas pipeline continues to this day.

Details

Screening starts at 8pm, on the 21st of April, in the Old Library of the Clockhouse, Generaal Foulkesweg 37. No need to sign up!

🪡Feminist Radical Quiltmaking Workshop for Women's day🪡

Time to reclaim traditionally 'feminine' 'crafts' for the radical act that they are!
In honor of Women's March, OtherWise and Amsterdam Dyke March are coming together to bring you a Radical Quiltmaking Workshop on March 6, 5:00 PM-8:00 PM💜
📍Location: Clockhouse (General Foulkesweg 37, 6703BL)

Each participant will embroider or paint words and doodles of resistance on themes surrounding feminism.
You will moreover have the chance to learn some simple patchwork techniques!

Together, these patches will form a feminsit radical quilt that we will parade during the Women's March in Wageningen!✊

Materials and snacks will be provided. Just sign up and bring yourself! (Sign up Link) (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1IXjAGOh0haZPLF3K_HP5qc846T8XmvfnWhkxMI0vrY454A/viewform?usp=sharing)

Update: First session starts on the 20th!

Join us for our three-part workshop series: REST EMBODY RESIST with Zahira Mous

Workshop dates:  20, 26 February 2025, from 5-8 pm. As we build up the content and the trust in the group, we generally expect attendance in all three sessions unless communicated with us for certain circumstances.

Location: Clockhouse building Old library (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, Wageningen)

Questions to: otherwise@wur.nl

Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HaczU_P5ne2y48ikmF6uudZU9QmsPGHyZBx7CoSWSJ4/edit

This three-part workshop is focused on movement and mind-body connection, for people who want to heal and learn in a group setting. Zahira uses decolonized healing methods to help the community cope with the demanding reality of being human. Modalities utilized: sharing and listening, EFT, moving from the wisdom of the body, and creativity. It is a three-part workshop series during which we deepen the work each session, diving into layers of our being, making an inner inquiry and creating space within (sometimes questions, sometimes answers). With this work, you'll gain tools to help regulate your nervous system, increasing self-awareness through recognizing your worth, as well as connecting to (building) community. Welcome to REST | EMBODY | RESIST.

For whom?

Rest And Resist emerged as a platform for needing a supportive and safe space for fellow activists and artists fighting for a free Palestine, and beyond. Their work focuses on fighting exhaustion, separation, burnout, harm, and disillusionment in activist movements. If you are longing for a collective space where you can rest with intent to co-regulate, build resilience, supportive networks, mutual care, and trust, this space is for you. As we will use our bodies to move and heal what needs healing, we aim to accommodate bodies of different abilities. If you have any questions or concerns weather this space is for you, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at otherwise@wur.nl .

When: Wednesday February 12 @17:30
Where: Dance room, WUR Clockhouse (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen)

There are several reasons why we enroll at a university and there are several ways in which a university education contributes to our personal and professional development. A degree can open doors to many different career paths, classes can be a great opportunity to meet new people, and some university professors are great mentors. However, the same classrooms can impact us in less constructive ways: since we are compelled to prove we are better, smarter, and more special than those around us.

Tonight, we will explore how universities shape us through discussing public intellectuals, people who make a living by being visibly smarter and more special than others. (Self-reflection can only be truly effective, if we ask ourselves the toughest questions, like, do we have something in common with Jordan Peterson?;))

Vegan snacks and tea will be provided :)