CLOSE UP's

VOX-POP's programming is co-hosted by an annually changing group of talented students. Every 6-8 weeks they organize a 'CLOSE UP': evenings in which a social issue is examined by academics, professionals and artists. This year's brand new student programmers are eager to provide you with surprising programs where we dive into interesting topics together. Will we meet you during their programmes?

Our student programme makers

Every year, a group of talented students join VOX-POP. Through a talent development programme, they gain experience as cultural programme makers. They learn to curate and produce a programme, from editing to production. The 2024-2025 programme maker team consists of Amara, Elle, Marije, Nika and Juanita.

Close Up 8.3: Third Places as Urban Sanctuaries

10 Apr 2025

How can we protect third places or find new venues to embody a place of community? So that we can stay practicing this essential part of being human? This night we discuss what it means to lose third spaces and the ...
Close Up 8.2: There are Black people in the future (Alisha B)

13 Feb 2025

Technology shapes nearly every aspect of our present and sets the grounds for our future. But how can we build a future with and for everyone with systems that reproduce racial bias and exclusion?
Echoes of Loss x Close Up: Stories we tell

28 Nov 2024

How can storytelling help us process grief and loss? In this CLOSE UP event, we explore the transformative power of stories in making sense of personal and collective experiences of grief. Whether it’s the loss of a ...
CLOSE UP 2023-2024

The student programme team of 2023-2024 presented a wonderful series of CLOSE UPs, engaging with topics such as urban walking throughout the ages, finding beauty in visible mending, and the rights of nature. To ...
CLOSE UP 2022-2023

The 2022-2023 program committee has presented a wonderful CLOSE UP series: from questioning 'burgerlijkheidsrituelen' to exploring the exciting boundary between madness and genius among artists and curating the ...
CLOSE UP 2021-2022

The 2021-2022 student programme committee consisted of Eva Voogt, Jet van der Touw, Marjolein Uittenbogaard, Noah Benjamins, Roos van Laer, Thijs van den Hanenberg and Zoë Aronds. Together, they organized an exciting ...
CLOSE UP 2019-2020

The 2019-2020 series of CLOSE UPs was unfortunately cut short midway through due to corona crisis, but our committee already produced two wonderful evenings before March, one on shame and one on contemporary love. ...

CLOSE UP's

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