Feminist Festival

Feminist Festival Wageningen 2025: a week of power, knowledge and activism

On March 5 & 7-10 2025, Wageningen will host the Feminist Festival, an inspiring week event focusing on women empowerment. Local organisations join forces to present a diverse and stimulating programme, with protests, book reviews and inspiring speakers.

One of the highlights is Babs Gons' lecture in the Bblthk, where she will present her powerful voice on feminism and social change. The festival provides a stage for dialogue, activism and culture, inviting everyone to join in and work together for an equal future.

Keep an eye on the agenda and Instagram for the full programme!

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Period Power | Help Bring Free Menstrual Products to Campus!

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 yesThalia & WUR bleeding 

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

Climate Café | About Climate Change, Gender Justice and intersectionality

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 byClimate Café

Time: 19.30h
Location: Thuis, Stationsstraat 32

Leestips!

Feminist Radical Quiltmaking Workshop

Time to reclaim traditionally 'feminine' 'crafts' for the radical act that they are!In honor of Women's March, OtherWise and Amsterdam Dyke March are coming together to bring you a Radical Quiltmaking Workshop on March 6💜 

Each participant will embroider or paint words and doodles of resistance on themes surrounding feminism.  Together, these patches will form a feminst radical quilt that we will parade during the Women's March in Wageningen!✊ 

Language: EN 

Organized by: Dyke March Amsterdam 

Time: 17.00-20.00h
Location: Clockhouse, General Foulkesweg 37, Wageningen 

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Bodies of art

We are converting the reading tables at the ground floor of the bbltk to one big table for collaging, discussing and lego-ing. Our theme is the human body, with a focus on the reproductive system. We’re going to dive into the known, the unknown, the misconceptions, and above all, the beauty. 

We’re going to come together on two separate moments to be creative with the material with the help of the facilitating artist. All materials will be available on site. We invite you to leave your artwork with us for a while if you wish, so we can exhibit it in our art corner in the university (Aurora's corner) and publish a selection in the Jester newspaper. The activity is appropriate for all ages.

Let’s dive in together to learn, discuss, challenge and be challenged.

Languages: EN/NL

Organized byRUW Foundationthe Jester

Time: 18:00-20:00h
Location: bblthk, Stationsstraat 2

Feminist Talk Show

Join us in celebrating International Women’s Day with an engaging Feminist Talk Show where we will feature inspiring speakers sharing their personal stories, discussing the impact of women who influenced their studies, careers, and reflecting on the challenges they have faced as women in academia and beyond. The session will be interactive with the audience, allowing participants to share their thoughts and questions.

Languages: EN

Organized by: WUR

Time: 12.00-14.00h
Location: Impulse, WUR, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, building number 115

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Diner & talk | Women in politics

In honor of International Women’s Day, the women in Wageningen politics invite you to an evening of inspiring conversations and good food. Did you know that nearly half of Wageningen’s city council members are women? What is it like to be politically active as a woman? We’re eager to share our experiences. 

Discover how you can get involved and join the discussion on local policies and issues that matter in Wageningen. Are women’s interests adequately represented? What can we improve? 

Join us at the table for engaging conversations and a shared meal.

Languages: EN/NL

Organized by: Gemeenteraad

Time: 17.30-19.30h
Location: City Hall, Markt 22

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Movie | Daisies

In Daisies we see two women, both called Marie, with an anarchistic and nihilistic sense of humor. In response to the suffocating communist climate that prevailed in Czechoslovakia at the time, they cheerfully break with all the rules and conventions that applied to citizens in general, but especially to women. "If the world is bad, we are bad too," the Maries reason.

The two tormentors mainly target men, whom they ridicule by flirting with them and then rejecting them, taking advantage of them and cutting phallic-shaped gherkins with scissors. This subversive festival of disobedience not only targets patriarchy, but also authoritarianism and censorship. The medium of film is also played with; alternative use of color, framing and the literal cutting up of the image are used to break with the prevailing conventions.

Movie-W and Amnesty International together present the film Daisies (1966) by Vera Chytilová. The International Women's Choir will sing before the film, starting at 19.30u. Afterwards there will be a discussion

Languages: Czech, subtitles NL

Organized by: Movie-WAmnesty International & International women's choir

Time: 19.30h
Location: Movie W, Wilhelminaweg 3a

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Embroidery freedom dress

Tania Romero TorralboJoin embroidering the famous Freedom Skirt. It was originally designed by resistance fighter Mies Boussevain-van Lennep. Just after the second world war, she came up with the Freedom Skirt in a creative way. This skirt was made from old scraps of fabric and yarn that were scarce at the time.

Languages: All 

Organized by: Tania Romero Torralbo

Time: 14.00-16.00h
Location: bblthk, Stationsstraat 2

Artistic Project | Being a Woman

Creative exchange between woman from Wageningen and women from the AZC around the theme ‘What does it mean to be Woman?’. Imagination and conversation come together, get to know each other, and learn from each others perspectives in an accessible way. We do small creative activities and we work with natural and found materials and other.

Are you curious to participate? We have space for 5 women from Wageningen and 5 women from AZC. 10 euro p.p for women from Wageningen. Women from the AZC participate for free. Women from Wageningen make participation for for women from the AZC possible.

Register before March 1 via info@irisjousma.nl or use the purple button to send an email. 

Organized by: Iris, Welkom in Wageningen

Time: 14.00-17.00h
Location: Cultuurwerkplaats, Arboretumlaan 1

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Feminist March

The fight for gender justice is far from over. Across the world, rights are being rolled back, voices silenced, and inequalities reinforced. Now more than ever, we must stand together and take to the streets to show that the future is feminist – and this future starts now!

On March 8, we march for equality, freedom, and justice for all. Join us at 02:00PM at the 5 Mei Plein. We will conclude there as well to gather for a powerful performance by Artists Against Gender Apartheid, followed by an open mic to raise our voices.

📣 Bring a sign, march with us, speak out, and stand in solidarity for a feminist future!

Languages: All 

Organized by: Let’s talk about yes

Time: 14.00-16.00h
Location: 5 Mei Plein

Bodies of art

We are converting the reading tables at the ground floor of the bbltk to one big table for collaging, discussing and lego-ing. Our theme is the human body, with a focus on the reproductive system. We’re going to dive into the known, the unknown, the misconceptions, and above all, the beauty. 

We’re going to come together on two separate moments to be creative with the material with the help of the facilitating artist. All materials will be available on site. We invite you to leave your artwork with us for a while if you wish, so we can exhibit it in our art corner in the university (Aurora's corner) and publish a selection in the Jester newspaper. The activity is appropriate for all ages.

Let’s dive in together to learn, discuss, challenge and be challenged.

Languages: EN/NL

Organized by: RUW Foundationthe Jester

Time: 15:00-17:00h
Location: bblthk, Stationsstraat 2

Protest Artists against gender Apartheid

Illustratie van artist Amber Rahantoknam

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

0317 panel | Women in Music

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

Open Iftar

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

Discussion with Babs Gons (national poet)

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 bybblthk

Time: 20.00h
Location: bblthk, Stationsstraat 2

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It's time again for the 0317 women's edition, the indoor rave at the Junushoff. And it's going to be a special club night, because it's International Women's Day. So time also to not only talk, but also put our money where our mouth is.

We are trying to make a modest contribution with a womxn only lineup, which we will announce soon!We are also introducing this edition the Man Tax Ticket: for any man who earns more in his job for no reason than his female colleague doing the same job. According to solid research, that gap is 36%. Ridiculous right? Exactly!

So, are you someone who gets more purely because of what's hanging between your legs, then you're probably also man enough to pay 5 euros and 40 cents more (roughly 36% more).

Your extra contribution goes 100% to the gages of female artists!

Languages: All 

Organized byPopUPop

Time: 21.00-03.00h
Location: Junushoff, Plantsoen 3

Get your tickets here ➡️ 0317 RAVE TICKETS
 

Art on witch hunts | Guided tour & poetry reading at artwork by Femke Herregraven

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

Jente Posthuma | Reading & interview with author of 'Heks! Heks! Heks!

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 byBeelden op de Berg & Florence Tonk

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

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The definition of a woman is specified to a deep personal expression, different for each individual. Aktief Slip and Thalia are proud to present a panel discussion on what it means to be a woman and on the role femininity plays in developing our identities. Our panelists and audience share their unique experiences, discussing how gender theory plays a role in dictating femininity and providing perspectives from all types of womanhood.

Join us on the March 10!

Languages: EN

Organized by: Thalia, Aktief Slip

Time: 19.30h
Location: Impulse, WUR, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, building number 115

The Feminist Night Run

Lace up, light up, and run (or walk!) for feminism. As part of the Feminist Festival, The Feminist Run Club invites you to a half-half-half marathon ran by, and for, women and gender minorities. Help put feminism on the (Strava) map by tracing a 5km feminist sign across Wageningen!

⏱️ If it’s a walk, it’s a run. If it’s a run, it’s a movement! We have pacers for all speeds.

🍲 Includes a celebratory bowl of feminist soup!

Let’s reclaim the streets—together. 

Languages: All 

Organized by: The Feminist Run Club

Date: Thursday, March 13
Time
: 19.30h
Location: Torckpark, Wageningen

The Feminist Book Club

We are thrilled to announce the book we will be reading this month: The Vegetarian by Nobel Prize winner Han Kang. The novel follows the story of Yeong-hye, a South Korean woman who stops eating meat after a disturbing dream, triggering a series of conflicts with her family and society. Her quiet rebellion leads to obsession, violence and estrangement. Exploring themes of control, desire and resistance.

As always, we will yap about the book for two hours enjoying some cookies and tea and choose the next book together.

So don't forget to bring your suggestion!

Languages: EN

Organized by: The Feminist Book Club (WUR)

Date: Saturday, March 15
Time: 16.00 - 18.00h
Location: DM for location or if you want to join our Whatsapp group!

Contact @thefeministbookclub.wur on Instagram.

Feminist Café

In the 1970s, the feminist movement gathered in women's cafes. They were safe places for discussion, recognition and representation. In 2025, these meeting places almost no longer exist.
While they are needed more than ever. Worldwide, the rights of women, non-binary people and transgender people are under pressure. Also in the Netherlands.

Therefore, on March 20 in Wageningen, MEP Kim van Sparrentak organizes the fourth edition of the women's cafe: the Feminist Cafe. An evening with feminists for feminists.

Together with Philsan Osman (researcher), Agnes Schim van der Loeff (ActionAid), we will discuss ecofeminism, the role of women in the climate movement, and what the interconnections are between gender inequality, environmental issues and social justice.

Program
18:30 walk-in 
19:00 panel discussion 
20:00 drinks & questions from the audience 
21:00 end 

Languages: NL

Organized by
: Kim van Sparrentak
Date: Thursday 20 March
Time: 19.00 - 21.00h
Location: Loburg, Wageningen (Molenstraat 6)

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