This Juli 6-10, the 2026 edition of WE LIVE HERE academy takes place in Amsterdam. WE LIVE HERE is the annual summer academy with which we create time and space to experiment, research, and reflect. Every summer, as the season concludes, a temporary community of professionals from the performing arts and beyond gathers to work and think together.
Coming edition, we focus on subjects matters as: climate change & social justice, migration & belonging, decolonial ecology, two-way learning and how to be/ behave indigenous to the land you’re on. We are very excited to announce that Sithabile Mlotshwa, together with Mapping Colonial History, will host a week-long laboratory; ROOTING from Extraction to Relationship.
Sithabile Mlotshwa (Zimbabwe 1975) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, filmmaker, and cultural producer, based in Arnhem, Netherlands. Born into a land already living inside the long aftermath of colonial violence she has spent 25 years making that violence visible — and making healing possible. Her research-based practice, rooted in a transdisciplinary approach, moves through art — in the form of large-scale installations, two-dimensional works, sculptures, objects, film, sound, writings, and reparatory work — always toward the same horizon: the truth of what colonialism did, is doing, and what healing requires.
Mapping Colonial History (MCH) is a global initiative examining how colonialism shapes all dimensions of existence — bodies, minds, ecosystems, knowledge, time. Not as history. As something that is happening now, continuously reproducing itself while erasing its own operations and the alternatives. Mapping Colonial History is a transdiciplinary - cross continental - cross-cultural project healing the world through culture.