Antwerp 2025

Topic: Artistic and strategic plan for the 2025 trajectory

Discussed issues:

• Feedback on the ‘Behind the Scenes’ video;
• Brainstorming on strategies to promote the international reach of the Second Tribunal in 2026, such as academic networks and venues;
• Update on planned artistic workshops, which will include: writing workshops, jam sessions, forum theatre and feminist photography;
• Update on the visual concept of the year: ‘Our Hands’;
• Dissemination strategies beyond our regular meetings, such as: public performances, recording the authorial songs in a studio session to promote them in public platforms; a video clip.
• Coordinate with the city of Antwerp to ensure proper organisation and support for the Second Tribunal, including partners.

Questions:

• How can we record and promote the creative material we have developed to be available after the performances?
• What strategies can we use to expand our community to strengthen the women’s rights movement in Antwerp and beyond?

This year we shall write the 2026 Hymn that we can sing together when we march in the 8M after the Tribunal. We, women from all over the world, take all our signs and sing; a song that everybody can sing.

The idea of women as predators is a very convenient myth that has been spread through centuries. The moment women start to assert themselves, patriarchy – at times through organised religious movements – quickly gets the word out, and then the women are damned.