Small Resistance. Hope. Lone Wolves.
The Iranian woman who climbed onto a car and waved her hijab. Rosa Parks who sat in the front of the bus. The man in China who held up four tanks with a plastic bag. Emma Sulkowicz, who carried the mattress upon which she was raped across the Columbia University campus. Colin Kaepernick, who knelt during the national anthem and was never signed again. People who, on their own, made a system tremble.
Sinead O’Connor was one of them. Vilified for her outspoken opinions, shunned by the industry, her career marred by negative media attention. When she tore up a picture of the pope on SNL while singing “War,” she was labeled as crazy. But her act was a protest, a statement, a risk she consciously took. Just like the protests of lesser-known lone wolves, it was a moment that grew larger than herself.
This evening is for them. Poets, writers, and spoken word artists share stories of how something small keeps the fire burning. Of lone wolves who offer hope. Thorn de Vries, Mees van Rijswijk, Alma Mathijsen, Damaris, Smita James, and Maurits de Bruijn take the stage. Alone, but never without an audience.
‘De moeite loont, want de moeite loont altijd.’
– Virginia Woolf, laatste zin van ‘Een eigen Kamer’.