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The QfWf organises an Annual Meeting Day in which a social theme is central and serves as a springboard for questions about the values at stake in a multicultural society. The goal of developing a cosmopolitan open culture is then brought into dialogue through philosophical and spiritual angles as well as by means of artistic expressions. How might we as global citizens contribute to the cosmopolis in our everyday lives through the intercultural art of living?
History
On February 12, 2016: as a prelude to the start of the foundation, we presented a digital game form with wisdom from all over the world: the digital game for Wisdom in the Weesp Library.
On December 22, 2016: the QfWf founding party initiated a playful presentation of the objectives of the Quest for Wisdom Foundation and the relevance of the philosophy of member of honour Dirk De Wachter.
On this day ― in a playful dialogue with the aid of the symbolism on the dialogue table ― ‘the cat’ and ‘the lantern’ were chosen as symbols for the year 2017.
On June 23, 2017: a Meeting Day on the theme of boundaries, walls and a space in between, with the announcement of the launching of the Wisdom Web.
An impression of the day can be seen in a video by Jeffrey Mohammad van der Velde & Tycho Muijen.
On November 24, 2018: a Meeting Day on the theme of Intercultural Celebrations and Rituals with the motto “Bárðarbunga and the Zeitgeister”. A video of the day was made by Antoinette Hijstek.
On September 7, 2019: a Meeting Day about storytelling on the rhythm of life, crossing the borders of cultures and media with a musical opening by Mitra Muijen. Look for an impression on the QfWf-video-channel and the programme: Ontmoetingsdag 2019 (NL)
The QfWf Meeting Day on September 17, 2020 was extra meaningful in the context of the tightened corona lock down measures: Buber’s statement, “All real life is meeting”, became a living experience. The QfWf development team presented cross-cultural perspectives and forms of storytelling around the wisdom of snakes: the Animal Wisdom Programme consisted of art, music, intercultural dialogue and stories! François Reincke made the visual impression on the QfWf-video-channel
On October 2, 2021, the Meeting Day was all about the launching of the third QfWf website Animal Wisdom the fifth anniversary of the QfWf, thanks to the funding. In the atmospheric location in the Plofhuis near Fort Uitermeer on the Vecht, there was dance, music, images and philosophy centred around the theme Birds Wisdom (NL) for harsh (corona) times.
François Reincke made the visual impression of all the artistic contributions to the programme.
For the QfWf-Meeting Day 2022, on October 29 in theater Wesopa in Weesp, an artistic programme has been developed around the theme: “Shaping the good life together with all the colourful cultures on mother earth, as there are smoldering and exploding fires on the world stage.” The central question was: How to set boundaries properly so that the beauty of the differences may shine? In three workshops and a ritual as connecting space in-between, world citizenship was brought into experience with metaphors, such as the polyphony, the rainbow of colours, the world kitchens and the micro (his)stories of one’s own family.
Nivedita Yohana and Tess van Dongen made impressions and Dick Schäfer a video.
The QfWf-Meeting Day 2023, on October 21, on the first floor of “The Library of Gooi-Bussum”, marks the start of the QfWf project “World Citizenship from the Street” under the title The Egg of Sankofa!
The name of the bird SAN-KO-FA symbolizes the Ghanaian saying: “There is nothing wrong with going back for what you have forgotten.”
In a Triptych the egg is peeled to find fruitful ingredients for global citizenship:
“SAN= Re.… ― KO= … Membering ― FA= For the future: whom we want to be for our children’s grandchildren….”
Each Liege is opened and concluded musically by Henry Muldrow and his Cultural Dream Weavers:
to SAN, the past, with a workshop on how to take responsibility for the history of slavery and colonization led by Nivedita Yohana; then a poem by Erfan Pourmohammadi about realizing freedom in the present, KO, and images by Nour Kayali about global citizenship as a hopeful future perspective, FA.
A ritual red thread connects the three parts of the programme through polylogue led by Heidi Muijen & Maud van Ingen & Robin Stemerding.
The 2024-Meeting Day in the De Kapel in Bussum on 20 of April was dedicated
to the art of the Sankofa bird: looking back in time to be better prepared for the future: celebrating the QfWf-accomplishments of the last seven years, giving credits to our retiring member of honour Joke Koppius and then looking into the future in giving a preview of the development of the enrolling QfWf-programme on Global Citizenship.
QfWf Annual Meeting Day Group
Every year, the Soul Circle of QfWf develops around a social relevant theme, like Global Citizenship an intercultural programme for the annual Meeting Day. The results will be shown on our platform deguldensnede
Update 2025-02