Close Up 8.3: Third Places as Urban Sanctuaries

How can we protect third places or find new venues to embody a place of community? So that we can stay practicing this essential part of being human? This night we discuss what it means to lose third spaces and the cultural heritage of the 'bruine kroeg'. We talk from angles like the municipality, bar placemaking, social science, a poetic perspective and with a bruine kroeg owner him/herself.

The Bruine Kroeg: an Amsterdam phenomenon of a brown bar with beer taps, jenever and red tapestry. These places often fulfill the roll of a ‘third place’, a place next to your living and working environment, a place for meeting people, community and fostering human connection. Sadly, de bruine kroeg as well as queer bars and other third places in the city are under threat.

How can we protect third places or find new venues to embody a place of community? Together with a varied panel with expertise in policy making, community building and place making, the cultural heritage of (queer) bars and what it means to run a third place in Amsterdam, we will discuss the significance of third places. Moreover, we will discuss how to protect these societal living rooms, so that we can keep engaging in this essential part of being human.

After this panel talk, we will host a decorate your own jenever glass painting workshop. We will try to bring the ‘Bruine Kroeg” to VOXPOP. You can stick around to chat, play some games or maybe fill your painted ‘borrel’ glass with some jenever.

Practical

Entrance to this programme is free. Walk-in starts at 18:30 and ends around 21:30. You can register through the link below.

Adress: Binnengasthuisstraat 9, VOX-POP (BG3, ground floor).

Programme

• 18:30-19:00 Walk-in
• 19:00- 20:10 Panel talk followed by break
• 20:10- 21:00 Decorate a jenever glass workshop
• 21:00- 22:00 Hang at the Voxpop Third space café