12 Apr

12:00

Studio/K

Timorplein 62, Amsterdam

CinemAsia invites the queer community to Queer Nongkrong, inspired by the Indonesian spirit of 'nongkrong'—the joy of casual togetherness. This event is about celebrating connection through activities and enjoying each other's company.

Queer Nongkrong

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CinemAsia invites the queer community to Queer Nongkrong, inspired by the Indonesian spirit of nongkrong: the joy of casual togetherness. Queer Nongkrong is all about celebrating connection, whether through shared activities or simply enjoying each other's company.

Program

12:00 – 14:00 Zine workshop with Tyra
13:30 – 15:30 Crochet workshop with Lu
14:30 – 16:00 Ink workshop with Kwinnie
16:00 – 17:00 Dialogue space with Dinah

Important: Queer Nongkrong is a safer space, exclusively for the queer community, with a special focus on Asian queers.

Registration Details:

Pre-registration is possible for all workshops (limited spots). Walk-ins are also welcome, depending on capacity.

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Workshop Details

Zine making workshop with Tyra

dreaming about zines

A relaxed zine workshop where we draw, paint, cut, and paste—mixing and matching images to tell stories together and discuss shared experiences. Participants are invited to create zines collaboratively: experimenting together and creating a space to be carefree for a while.

Tyra Ang

Tyra Ang
Tyra Ang is a Chinese-Aruban animator and illustrator based in Rotterdam. She enjoys telling stories about the everyday and evokes a specific atmosphere or emotion with her work, with a strong interest in diasporic nostalgia. She loves simple, playful, and colorful art.

Crochet workshop with Lu

We live in a world full of stimuli and hustle. This is your moment to relax and make something queer. Join our crochet circle and find mental peace through the simple, soothing motion of hook and yarn. This is a moment to let go of perfectionism. We create a beginner-friendly space where you can learn the basic techniques of crochet. Just bring yourself, we'll provide the rest!

Lu Lin

Lu Lin
Lu Lin (she/they) is a self-publishing author and a socially engaged artist, born in China and currently based in Arnhem. In her work, she explores what a safe space actually means and for whom that safety applies. Using artistic means, she examines how societal and political factors contribute to exclusion and marginalization, drawing inspiration from intersectional thinking, feminism, and queer perspectives.

Ink workshop with Kwinnie

Sand is a symbol of freedom, carried by the wind from the homeland

In this workshop, we will transform soil (earth, stones, clay, etc.) into ink to write letters and poems and draw memories. We start with earth collected from meaningful places (home gardens, ancestral lands, migration routes) and turn natural materials into memories and expressions.

Additional information: No prior experience is necessary. All materials will be provided, but participants are (optionally) invited to bring a small amount of soil from a place that is meaningful to them.

Kwinnie Lê

Kwinnie Lê
Kwinnie Lê is an artist, researcher, poet, and shapeshifter. Inspired by mythology, folklore, and oral histories, they place ancestral traditions within contemporary urban life. Currently, they focus on the Vietnamese ancestral tattoo tradition. Although rooted in erased histories, fiction becomes a means to achieve uncompromising hope.

Dialogue space with Dinah

Beyond the Binary: Pacific Gender Diversity & Colonial Violence

In the Pacific—including Samoa and Hawai‘i—gender-diverse identities have existed for centuries within living cultures. This workshop explores how colonization and slavery imposed Western gender norms, and how queer communities today are reclaiming cultural knowledge, dignity, and solidarity.

Dinah Bons

Dinah Bons
Dinah Bons is a transgender activist, politician, and advocate at the Hiv Vereniging (HIV Association). Her work connects trans rights, sex worker rights, and public health from a decolonial perspective. As a creative strategist at Female Economy, founded by theater maker Adelheid Roosen, she works at the intersection of art, policy, and lived experience, questioning institutional exclusion.