Moving Assembly & Peoples Plan Assembly

Deep rooted connections

De Appel is sadly leaving Amsterdam Amsterdam Nieuw-West, after seven years of being welcomed and hosted by different communities in this district. We would like to mark this with both a farewell and celebration of our now shared history with the neighbourhood, as we would like to take some of these stories along to our new location and also link the two locations together. Like so many other buildings in this neighbourhood, Broedplaats LELY is being refurbished for a new purpose and a new audience. The trajectory of this old school building reflects the gentrification processes in this formerly heavily segregated area.

Memories of a building

The programme unfolds over a full day. One part titled “Moving de Appel” where the ecosystem attached to de Appel comes together to remember and think forward; and a second part titled “The People’s Plan” where designer Rosa te Velde and journalist and historian Tayfun Balçik bring together the wider community of Nieuw-West around questions of the overlaps of socio-econmic class, gentrification and displacement.

Nurturing friendships and connections

During the Lely Assemblies we will practise collective remembering and learning. We would like to discuss various questions with our ecosystem such as: What did you learn from de Appel, what did de Appel learn from you, what should de Appel have learned? What do we take with us, what do we leave behind and how do we keep nurturing friendships and connections? Artists Yuri Veerman and Farida Sedoc will be harvesting the conversations making posters which will be printed and disseminated after.