What Makes Belonging Real?

Refugee Welcome Week is back at Club RAUM for a second time as a pit-stop during their 2026 programme. RWW is a refugee-led cultural programme of art, dialogue and action across the Netherlands. This time the programme at RAUM will focus on dialogue, enrichment, community & belonging.

Panel Talk w/ Berat & Hussain, moderated by Youssef
This panel explores who gets to belong and how belonging is shaped through community, identity, care, shared values, and lived experiences; while touching on intersectionality, displacement, representation, and club culture.

Workshop by Farah Al Morshedy
Rituals of Becoming is a participatory workshop where participants transform personal feelings into a shared ritual of empowerment and release. Through writing and symbolic stones, the workshop explores feelings of exclusion, grief, hope, protection, and the possibility of becoming.

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Performance by Stavros Kyrillos
Reviving elkhawal—a historical drag-like performance tradition from Egypt—this interactive piece combines storytelling, belly dance, and audience participation to reclaim queer cultural histories. Lolita Om Badawi connects stories of past khawal performers with present-day queer experiences across the SWANA region and diaspora.

Featuring artworks in the space made by young refugees at Stichting Het Vluchtelingenkind

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