Theater Vrijburcht Jan Olphert Vaillantlaan 143 1086 XZ Amsterdam (IJburg) Thursday 6 June 2019 At 20.30 hrs We are very honoured to have been given the opportunity to the screening of this very special documentary in Amsterdam. For that, we …
Documentary Tánana at 6 June in Vrijburcht (IJburg Amsterdam) Lees meer ›
With thirty three neighbours and friends we had a very interesting afternoon with the screening of Tánana and aftertalk in the neighbourhood center De Eester. Tánana: meaning ready to set sail in the Yahgan language, is about the return of …
His father beckons him. Sisoi crawls carefully to the bow of the canoe. He follows his father’s index finger. It points to a place in the slightly waving water: ‘there’. Sisoi feels his knees shaking a bit, now he is …
Sisoi listens to his father who is talking with their temporary neighbour. The neighbour gives a helping hand with the repairs on the canoe. The neighbours had a long journey before they arrived, coming all the way from the other …
You can handle a lot if you live in a place where it storms twenty-five times a year. You go ahead even though the wind blows strongly, because you never know whether you will find a fish for dinner. Or …
For weeks now, his mother is dividing the available food into smaller and even smaller portions. His stomach tickles because he’s hungry. There’s almost nothing left, only six mussels and a small piece of cormorant to eat. There are also …
Imagine: six thousand years ago. That’s a way back, isn’t it? Maybe six hundred times your age, or a hundred times that of your grandmother’s. At that time there were already people living in canoes among the numerous islands of …
The Infinite Stories have started! The first episodes talk about Gaméla and her brother Sisoi. They live in canoes on the waters of Tierra del Fuego together with their parents. The life of the family resembles that of the Yahgan, …