What does freedom mean when you are officially free, yet live every day with the fear of being detained? Artists with lived experience speak about exclusion, confinement and life in the margins. People who commit no crime, yet are treated as criminals and locked up, simply because they don’t have the right documents. This evening stories and performances are showed about immigration detention, border policing, exclusion and racist systems that decide who is allowed to stay and under what conditions.

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Through spoken word, dance, and dialogue, the impact on a human being becomes visible:

How do you stay calm when your life is constantly put on hold? How do you hold on to your dignity when you are not allowed to do anything?
Does anger help, or does it drain you?
Where is the kindness?

During this evening there will be conversations with the audience. Because these borders do not affect only ’the other’. This is the society we all live in. Who, then, commits the real crime?

In collaboration with
Sartianna Kasno
Producent
Programme seriesWeek Tegen Racisme 2026

Pakhuis de Zwijger en Comité 21 maart organiseren van 16 t/m 21 maart 2026 de 8e editie van de jaarlijkse Week Tegen Racisme (WTR), een programma in aanloop naar de landelijke Demonstratie Tegen Racisme. De Week Tegen Racisme biedt een interdisciplinair programma vol theater, film, muziek, spoken word, storytelling, lezingen, workshops en dialoog. Hierbij werken we samen met kunstenaars in allerlei disciplines, maatschappelijke organisaties en stadmakers. Tijdens het festival agenderen we een groot aantal onderwerpen binnen de hoofdthema’s racisme en discriminatie, zo behandelen we onder meer politiek, polarisering, sport, onderwijs, vluchtelingen-vraagstukken en klimaatracisme. Doe mee, denk mee en spreek je uit. Samen staan we op tegen racisme.

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