Love, Death & Darkness in February
Did you join us at our first 2019 creative meetup? We met on February 10 at the lovely Zamen in...
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Category: Event
New Creative Meetup in Amsterdam
This year Hiraeth is beginning a new type of in-person event in Amsterdam, one designed to bring creative people of all kinds together over this shared human experience of migration and the longing for home.
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Homemaker – Objects that Define Home
If we removed ourselves and left only the objects that surround us, what story would they tell...
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A Home in Memory
We are very pleased to announce that we will be screening the movie “A home in Memory”...
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Dinner with Refugees at Havenstraat
Bringing local Amsterdammers and refugees together in a warm and congenial environment
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Light- An Evening of Poetry, Storytelling and Art
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Hiraeth Magazine’s evening celebrating light in...
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Light- A Storytelling Event
As we move towards the darkest time of the year, Hiraeth Magazine invites you to a free evening of...
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Migration and the Dutch Canon
On Friday several members of the Hiraeth team drove to the beautiful little town of Wageningen...
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Whose Heritage Matters
This Friday the Hiraeth team will be heading to the Centre of Space, Place and Society at...
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Hiraeth Magazine Teaser
Have a peek into our storytelling event, and go behind the scenes as we talk about some of our...
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Hiraeth Poetry Night at Labyrinth
From the beginning, we have envisioned Hiraeth not only as a magazine to be read and a podcast to...
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Communities – Part 1: The Pulse of Europe
This coming Sunday at 2pm I will once more, together with my kids, join the crowd, which gathers...
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PODCAST
- Ep. 42 - Using The Fine China 24/06/2020Dori Griffin is a designer and design historian interested in popular print culture and the narrative construction of social and cultural identity. Her first book, Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912-1962, explores tourist maps and the stories they tell about the state’s history, landscape and culture. Dori has also studied culture through looking at […]
- Ep. 41 - Cancer In The Time Of Corona 17/06/2020Ana Martins has been a local in Amsterdam for several years, but originally comes from Portugal. Amsterdam, she says, is the first place that has ever felt like home. She has been an actress and yoga teacher, and now writes a blog called Amsterdive exploring her own relationship with Amsterdam and the Netherlands while focusing […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 40 - Exploring The Streets Of Cairo 04/06/2020Erica Eastley has lived an adventurous life in several different countries in Central Asia, the Middle East and beyond. We’ve never met in person; in fact, I think I first came across Erica when I stumbled on her fascinating blog, The Golden Road to Samarqand, where she was explaining how she cut the bindings off […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 39- A Way Of Reordering Your World 20/05/2020Rowena Dring is British, and spent time in Berlin and France before settling here in Amsterdam. She is an artist who challenges traditional boundaries by incorporating the traditional ‘women’s work’ of sewing and needlework with large-scale painting. She first started this type of art after her father died, and observes that ‘when you feel like […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 38 - 24 - Hour Curfew In Saudi Arabia 13/05/2020‘Emily’ is an American, but grew up moving around a lot, and spent her teenage years living in Mexico. Now with four kids of her own, she has made the move to Saudi Arabia to give them a taste of international life. We have changed her name so she can speak freely about her adventures […]
