Throwback to the FFP Community Festival – photo gallery
11-12-2023
On 31 October 2023 the first ever Feminist Foreign Policy Community Festival took place! With a programme consisting of nineteen unique festival events and over 250 people in attendance, the day was an enormous success!
The idea of a community festival emerged from a survey we conducted during the Summer among our members and partners of proposals submitted for the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs' Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy Conference on 1 - 2 November 2023. This demonstrated a great enthusiasm and need for more collaboration and networking opportunities around all things Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP).
Together with our members CARE Netherlands, Cordaid and Hivos we made our meeting rooms and other spaces in The Hague available for a diverse, inclusive, and interactive community festival. Also, a big thanks to all the organisations that (co-)organised the different festival events.
Throughout the day, participants could stop by at all our venues to attend interesting presentations and talks. There was space for discussion, learning, sharing, and networking. Themes included: the linkages between gender, climate and conflict; queering FFP; demilitarisation and human security; activism and arts; FFP the role of women faith leaders; and youth participation. During the session on 'queering FBB', four groups discussed the four principles of FFP (rights, representation, resources and reality check) and their meaning in practice in relation to queerness. In the session by Our Voices Our Futures (OVOF), participants visualised poems together with the use of paint and canvas. At the documentary screening of 'Raat: nighttime in small town India', participants engaged in in-depth conversations with one of the producers.
Surely the big hit of the day was the one and only Feminist Foreign Policy Pub Quiz. Around eighty participants competed in several rounds. Who would at the end be declared the winner and greatest expert on Feminist Foreign Policy and other feminist trivia? To find out, ten groups fanatically answered various quiz questions and gave all they got during the creative assignment of developing a protest sign. Congratulations to the ''FFPanthers'' on their convincing victory.
