Thursday Night Live! Garden Broadcast 2: Halfway Points, From the Cape of Good Hope to Eternal Asylum

The second episode of the live radio show Garden Broadcast by Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee looks at the idea of acclimatisation of foreign species and people to new climates or cultures.

With guests: Esther Helena Arens, historian of de/colonisation and knowledge-production especially between Netherlands and Indonesia. Kiza Magendane, social entrepreneur and writer, especially on identity and relationships between Europe and Africa. Zuri Camille de Souza of Sensual Ecology and A-1 Publishers. Johanna Seelemann, author with Björn Steinar Blumenstein of Cargo collective.

This episode will examine the halfway point as a critical site in the migration of not only plants but also objects and people. While halfway points are designed to enforce hierarchies of power and control, they also generate new and unforeseeable cultures and ecosystems, as instincts for survival and adaptation negotiate with interrupted narratives, endless bureaucracies, and borders both porous and impenetrable.

Thursday Bite

Before Thursday Night Live! you can grab a bite to eat with the speakers and staff of Het Nieuwe Instituut. At 18:00 Het Nieuwe Café will serve soup with bread or a quiche with salad. Dinner vouchers are available for € 7.50 up to a day before the particular Thursday Night event via the Tickets link.

* Artwork by Ingrid Bittar.