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19th September 2009 - 4th September 2010 - ?th September 2011

Loesje and her friends were for the second time celebrating the Recycled Creativity festival at the wagon park Lohmühle in Berlin, to find out how far creativity can take us.

“An open space for ideas, initiatives, music, video and other means of expression, where people can meet each other to interact, discuss, participate and experience.”

The visitors had the chance to upcycle old materials into something creative, useful and new. They were also screen printing t-shirts, making bikes out of bamboo, painting pictures on children' faces, becoming reborn with yoga, hoola hooping, writing with Loejse's creative text writing method and learned how to cook the best chai while singing and dancing.

On the stage we enjoyed DJ Skinny Jim and the performances by Lady Gabi, Caroleen and Alexa D Saster. The very special tunes of Wynton Kelly Stevenson rocked the whole crowd and Trike entertained us tremendously with their performance (and costumes!). As the final act we saw the interesting performance of LAN and could happily conclude the evening.

In 2009 we had a clothes-swapping point with sewing machines, we were creating light objects from trash and destroying old computers to make jewelry and sculptures. Artists were experimenting with recycled sounds by sampling trash bags or “performing with bag pipe made from block flute, few pipes and plastic bags of dogs food.”

Let's meet next year and create something together!

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Voluntary vacancie:

Loesje, a poster-sticking girl born in 1983 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, has been working on spreading her thoughts and ideas all over the world for the last 26 years. She aims to make people think, laugh and act upon her texts. To accommodate her ideals the Foundation Loesje International was founded in 1994. Some of the goals of the Foundation are;

-      world wide spreading of  “black and white text”posters that give color to life;

-      world wide creating possibilities in which participants of Loesje activities can constantly  start and support progressive social initiative. Within this a maximum possibility is given to the development of individual freedom and social concern of the mentioned participants;

-      worldwide supporting the different national Loesje groups as well as the individual participant who takes part in Loesje activities;-

-      and further supporting everything that has a direct or indirect connection with this or can be stimulating for this, everything in the broadest sense of the words. 

The Foundation Loesje International will celebrate the 5^th anniversary of her Berlin office this year. Whilst looking back at 5 years of black and white posters, innovative ideas and border crossing projects the time has also come to develop new strategies for the future.

To help us develop new ideas whilst guarding the continuity the Foundation is now looking for a new:

Board member

We would welcome the following qualities:

-     Knowledge of or affinity with the ideas and ideals of Loesje International

-     (Basic) knowledge of the German language

-     Experience with fundraising (through funds, private foundations and any other ways)

-     Networks and contacts that could be helpful for the future of Loesje International

-     Coaching qualities, experience in guiding employees, conflict management, mediation

-     Knowledge of the German/Dutch tax and legal systems 

If you feel that you could positively contribute to our board with your ideas and knowledge, we would like to hear from you.

We offer you a whole new world of ideas, new friendships and a broadened horizon, as well as a compensation for travel expenses made.  Your position in the board would be decided upon by mutual agreement.

 The current board consists out of members from North-West Europe and for geographical equality purposes we warmly welcome applicants from different countries. We would also especially welcome all female applicants for reasons of maintaining a gender balance. For further information or to apply you can contact Farah Marzak (farah.marzak[at]gmail.com)