Iron Curtain Project

Is it time to rebel? And how do you do that? Learn from the best and come to Remember the Rebel Live show with Marie Lotte Hagen and Nydia van Voorthuizen from the well-known feminist podcast DAMN HONEY. They go full disclosure about their own rebellious actions, telling which rebels they admire and which rebels they find terrifying. They discuss with special guests how you can change society through rebellion. For example, Jerry Afriyie from Kick Out Zwarte Piet tells how his battle started and why it is far from over. There is also a live dance performance of Teddy's last ride from their taboo-breaking performance Goodbye_porn. There is no sitting back, Marie Lotte and Nydia also like to hear rebellious stories from the audience. Luckily there are drinks at the bar!

When is it time to rebel? And who will get up first? Come to Remember the Rebel!

After months of interviews, research and design, the time had finally come on 6 December: the How to Survive a Democracy Pop-up Museum premiered at the end of 2019 in Maastricht.

On November the 9th, 2019, it was exactly 30 years ago the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Iron Curtain. Reason for a party during the Fall of the Wall Mini festival at the Balie in Amsterdam.

The French leader of the 1968 revolution, Alain Geismar, is – fifty years later – in debate centre ‘De Balie’ for a special programme on the occasion of the opening of the WHAT IF!? Pop-up Museum in Amsterdam. What can activists and young thinkers do with his legacy in these times?

Basically every Czech has a story about 1968, even people who were not even born then. 1968 became a traumatic year. After a period of relative freedom during the Prague Spring, Czechoslovakia was occupied by Soviet bloc troops. Fifty years after we opened up the WHAT IF!? Pop-up Museum in BIO|OKO in Prague.

Alain Geismar, one of the leading activist of the May ’68 revolts in Paris, is convinced that society is never finished. ‘We have to keep moving’ he tells in our WHAT IF!? Pop-up Museum. The museum on the revolutionary year of 1968 will open up, for the first time in the Netherlands as part of the Forum on European Culture in Amsterdam. Geismar will be one of the lead guests during a special programme on the legacy of that pivotal year 1968.

A real conversation about the communist past still has not taken place in many Eastern European countries. Heroes were honoured, museums and monuments founded, but many taboos remain.