Have you ever needed a pad or tampon on campus and couldn’t find one? So have we—and we’re bloody serious about changing that!

As WUR is not yet providing free menstrual products in university bathrooms, we’re launching a community-driven initiative to show them how it’s done—and to push for lasting change. But we need your help to get it started!

Languages: All languages

Organized by: Let’s talk about yes & Thalia

Time: 12.00-14.00h
Location: Forum stage WUR, Droevendaalsesteeg 2

The Climate Café organises a meeting about Climate Change, Gender Justice and intersectionality. How do Climate Change and gender + relations crosscut daily life and the struggle against Climate Change? With lectures and discussions.

Entrance and consumption for free. A donation is appreciated. 

Languages: EN/NL

Organized by: Climate Café

Time: 19.30h
Location: Thuis, Stationsstraat 32

On Saturday, March 8, a poetic protest will take place on May 5 Square. This third edition of this protest is an initiative of, among others, Poet Laureate Babs Gons and focuses on violence against women. Poetry and dance come together to make a powerful statement of solidarity and sisterhood under the banner Artists Against Gender Apartheid.

In addition to Babs Gons, impressive artists are participating in this protest, including Danielle Zawadi, Sjaan Flikweert and Bonnie Bengsch.

To call attention to the situation of all women worldwide who face oppression, exclusion and violence, we come together for a dancing and poetic protest.

These protests are necessary, are more than words, more than calls or speech. They are a rock, a ritual, an incantation that rises from the soul of every woman, every human being who was once silenced. When we join together in a circle of courage and love, our energy becomes a fist, a song, a hopeful current that breaks through walls, breaks down barriers and forces change.

So, join us, come join us! Call: bring your poem, or a poem that needs to be heard. Let your voice be heard!

Languages: All 

Organized by: Babs Gons

Time: 16.00-17.00h
Location: 5 Mei Plein

Hear from local emerging DJs and established female artists as they discuss their experiences, challenges, and successes in the music industry. A conversation about breaking barriers and carving out one's own sound in a male-dominated field.

Languages: EN

Organized by: PopUPop

Time: 17.00-18.30h
Location: bbthk, Stationsstraat 2

This Open Iftar focuses on eating together and meeting each other. Iftar is the evening meal during Ramadan. The event is a potluck, which means that everyone brings their own food (to share) so that we have enough together.

Sharing is caring. We also want to share the ritual of the iftar with the city, regardless of what or who you believe in. In this way, we want to bring together Wageningers with different worlds and perspectives.

The Open Iftar is organized by women from the Muslim community, together with Thuis Wageningen and MSA Avicenna. Registration is not necessary, just bring one dish for 4 to 6 people. Upon arrival, write on a card what is in this dish (fish, meat, vegan) and what the allergens are (gluten, lactose, etc.). We can host maximum of 250 people.

Languages: All 

Organized by: Women of the muslim community, Thuis and MSA Avicenna

Time: 18.15-21.00h
Location: Stationsstraat voor Thuis

As part of the Feminist Festival, the bblthk features none other than Babs Gons on stage. Babs Gons is a writer, performer, host and teacher. Starting in 2000, she organized Palabras, a monthly stage for young poets and writers in Paradiso, for almost ten years. Then she was artistic director of the now national organization Poetry Circle for many years. Babs Gons is the Poet Laureate of the Netherlands from 2023 to 2025. 

Earlier in the day, a poetic protest “artists against gender apartheid” took place on the freedom square at the initiative of Babs Gons. The evening at the bblthk is a poetic and substantive continuation of this afternoon. Babs welcomes the poets Sjaan Flikweert and Danielle Zawadi. They will discuss the beauty and necessity of poetry in women's struggles and will recite from their own work. 

Come listen to a reading as only Babs Gons can and ask her any pressing questions you may have! 

Languages: NE

Organized by: bblthk

Time: 20.00h
Location: bblthk, Stationsstraat 2

In the Belmonte Arboretum stands a former galchenhuchje where centuries ago people were executed, perhaps even “witches". This is what artist Femke Herregraven discovered on an old map. She made the sculpture Aleyda & Entgen especially for this historical location.

With real names on wooden poles, her installation makes very tangible who was persecuted as witches from the 15th to the 17th century, in our own country.

Mirjam Westen, curator of the exhibition Sculptures on the Mountain 2024, will give a guided tour to this impressive work of art in the park. Poet Martijn Adelmund reads a poem specially written to accompany the sculpture.

Languages: NL

Organized by: Beelden op de Berg

Time: 13.30-14.30h
Location: Arboretum Belmonte, Generaal Foulkesweg 94

Writer Jente Posthuma will be a guest at de bblthk on Sunday 9 March. Last year she was nominated for the International Booker Prize with her novel Waar ik liever niet aan denken (What I'd Rather Not Think About).

Jente has been invited by Stichting Beelden op de Berg and will read from her book Heks!, Heks!, Heks!, which was published in 2023. In it, she retells three old sagas in a sharp and humorous way, with a clear eye for the age-old misogyny that is reflected in fairy tales on witches, a misogyny thatand continues to this day.

Languages: NL

Organized by: Beelden op de Berg & Florence Tonk

Time: 15.00h walk-in | start 15:30-16:30
Location: bblthk, Stationsstraat 2