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To celebrate VOX-POP's 11th birthday, we want to invite you to an evening filled with rituals and storytelling. We’ll reflect on what birthday rituals mean to us and what they reveal about ourselves. By telling stories from past celebrations, we’ll connect with one another and uncover the meaning behind the rituals we return to each year. What birthday memories and stories do you have? Let's talk about the rituals that mark our lives every year!
Event details of Close Up: Unwrap Your Birthday Ritual
Date
12 February 2026
Time
19:00 -21:30
Location
BG 3
Room
VOX-POP

Birthdays are a way we celebrate life and look back on the past. How we experience birthdays differs strongly from person to person: maybe you eat a cake, blow out candles, sing, meet with friends, go out, see family. Or maybe you don’t celebrate it at all.

The things we do (or don't) on our birthdays, whether repeated each year or newly created, often become rituals. These birthday rituals carry meaning and help define how we celebrate ourselves and one another. By keeping this line of thought in mind, we will dive deeper into the question of how shared birthday memories influence how our rituals are revisited.

Come to our birthday party, bring your best birthday memories, and let us surprise you!

Practical information

This programme will take place at VOX-POP, ground floor (Binnengasthuisstraat 9). Make sure to be on time so you don't miss any cake (shhh)!

Our event is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to sign up due to limited capacity.

BG 3

Room VOX-POP
Binnengasthuisstraat 9
1012 ZA Amsterdam