Time for Revolution!

Date: 24 October
Time: 19:15 - 22:30
Location: Amare, Spinozafoyer

We live in a time of uncertainty and injustice. Climate disruption, racism and war. Choices and solutions within existing dominant frameworks offer little solace. Do we need a revolution? And what does a radical struggle for justice actually look like? During this event, four leading thinkers and creators will discuss alternative forms of justice and the meaning of revolution in our time.

Programme
7:00 p.m. Doors open
7:15 p.m. Programme begins
7:30 p.m. Ceremonial opening with Fazle Shairmahomed
8:00 p.m. Opening of the conversation: time for revolution!
8:45 p.m. Break
9:00 p.m. Continuation of conversation: hopeful horizons
9:30 p.m. Closing
9:40 p.m. Informal gathering with drinks
10:30 p.m. End

Nani Jansen Reventlow – international human rights lawyer, sheds light on the possibilities of law and justice outside established frameworks.

Chris de Ploeg – journalist and author, examines the power structures that maintain the current world order and the movements that oppose it.

Shivant Jhagroe – public administration, writer and musician, delves into ecological justice, coloniality and the power of grassroots resistance.

Fazle Shairmahomed - performance artist, works with embodied knowledge, rituals and the healing power of community to break colonial legacies.

Sharon Wezer –producer, marketer, curator and moderator, who opens up the space for reflection, exchange and connection with sharp questions and attentive guidance.

An in-depth conversation with ample attention to intersectionality and decolonization in which we also take the time to explore hopeful horizons. Towards the end of both rounds of discussion, there is room for the audience to ask questions.

Credits

Nani Jansen Reventlow is an international human rights lawyer. She is the founder of Systemic Justice, an organization that works for marginalized communities across Europe through strategic litigation. Previously, she founded the Digital Freedom Fund. Nani is the author of the book Radical Justice, a collection of nine essays on how we can create a better world, which was published in Dutch in 2024 and the English edition of which will be released in March 2026.

Chris Kaspar de Ploeg (1994) is a grassroots organizer, journalist and author of The Great Colonial War (2025) and Ukraine in the Crossfire (2016). Chris is also a co-founder and core organizer at Aralez, a grassroots organization for decolonization, and at Arts of Resistance, a coalition that bridges social movements and the arts. He is also an organizer and policy officer at the anti-colonial socialist party De Vonk. Chris writes, speaks and organizes on various themes of social justice, such as (neo-)colonialism, climate justice, racism and capitalism. You can find his work on his website: www.chrisdeploeg.com.

Shivant Jhagroe is a public administrator, writer and musician. He delves into ecological justice, coloniality and the power of grassroots resistance. He also works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University. In his teaching, he focuses on themes such as environmental policy, climate justice and power. His recent book Beyond Sustainability (2024) argues that thinking and acting from Western sustainability perpetuates social exclusion and capitalist exploitation. At the same time, sustainability thinking blocks the much-needed radical and just system change. With his research, he develops perspectives for an eco-just society in which caring relationships with the earth and each other are central. In addition, he composes and produces music as part of the decolonial art collective CTRL+ALT+.

Fazle Shairmahomed (he/she/they/dem) creates performance rituals and altar installations with dance, plants, film and text. His work focuses on spiritual processes of decolonization and creolization, through which spaces are being created for interactions between different cosmologies and the sensorium. Community is a basis from where they create, which requires (interdisciplinary) collaboration. Inspiration for Fazle’s creations are rooted in interaction with Queer communities such as The Hang-Out 070, Queer Moslims, Hindostaans & Queer, and artistic communities such as CLOUD danslab and Masala Movement, and CTRL+ALT+. More in particular, she is inspired by Muslim/Sufi traditions of Gnawa, Zar, the whirling Dervish; Japanese Butoh, Surinamese Winti culture, Hindu rituals, Caribbean dance traditions such as Soca, Chutney, and Bubbling, Palestinian Dabke, Muslim funeral practices, and the Club. Fazle graduated in Cultural & Social Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic at the University of Leiden.

Sharon Wezer is a bharatanatyam dancer, program maker, marketer and moderator. From her broad expertise, she connects art, culture and communication with substantive depth and creativity. She likes to dive into the depths to make complex topics clear and accessible. What characterizes her is her enthusiasm: whether she is on stage, developing a program or leading a conversation, she always knows how to touch and inspire people with energy, attention and involvement.