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What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? The Global Oneness Project uses film to explore how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world. Since 2006 the project founders have been gathering stories from around the world about people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear great responsibility for our shared world. These stories have been compiled in a series of short-films available online at www.globalonenessproject.org. Join us at The Hub to watch these films together and be triggered into a conversation about our ways of individually and collectively expressing oneness.
The film is free for members, guests are welcome and asked to pay a small contribution to the cost of running The Hub this evening. Come at 18.30 if you want to share in ordering some locally-sourced healthy and fair pizza. Bring your own drinks.

The Money Game is a simulation game developed to help people in all financial situations to understand the feelings and beliefs we have about money in our lives and in society. Each person brings a certain amount of money that may lessen or grow depending on the (un)conscious choices you and the others make, so bring an amount you don’t mind losing but that is enough to feel like you are taking a bit of a risk (with a maximum of €1000). The game explores giving, receiving, and asking for money. It is hosted by Lisette Schuitemaker, a social investor and catalyst for systemic change. The Hub is inspired to offer The Money Game to support social entrepreneurs in uncovering unconscious paradigms, choices and challenges in dealing with money while in pursuit for social change.

Places are limited so please RSVP to amsterdam.hosts@the-hub.net to book your place.

Theme: Social Innovation in Theory and Practice at Hub Amsterdam

True social innovation is systems-changing – it alters the perceptions, structures and behaviours that previously gave rise to the challenges it seeks to address. Social Innovation refers to new concepts, strategies, and ways of organising, that meet social needs of all kinds. Needs in e.g. the areas of sustainable economic development, health and new life-styles, education, or community development. Social innovation does not only describe innovation with social objectives, – such as micro finance or e-learning – but also new social processes that in themselves are innovative or innovation-enhancing, such as open source technologies or open space methods. Now, what does this mean in practice? Where does social innovation take place? And in which areas do we most need it? Which elements facilitate social innovation? And what can we do to make social innovation flourish in Amsterdam?

These are a few of the questions that we would like to invite you to explore, with input from Josephine Green (Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design), Tatiana Glad (Co-founder of The Hub in The Netherlands), and with two case studies presented by social innovators in The Hub.

Read more about the Dinsdag programme at www.dinsdag.nu. Since our audience and speakers are partly Dutch, partly non-Dutch, the Dinsdag program for this week will be bi-lingual. Reserve your place by e-mailing amsterdam.hosts@the-hub.net

Called “a political thriller that turns the globalisation debate on its head” by the National Film Board of Canada, The Take is a documentary film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein about how in economic crisis workers in Argentina took over the factories abandoned by their owners and self-organised to restart production and reclaim livelihoods. A provocative film that explores the controversy of local sustenance and globalisation, this film offers sharp insight into a critical time in Argentina. See www.thetake.org for more – and join us at The Hub to watch the film together and be triggered into a conversation about forms of organisation in the wake of financial collapse. 2004, 87 minutes
The film is free for members, guests are welcome and asked to pay a small contribution to the cost of running The Hub this evening. Come at 18.30 if you want to share in ordering some locally-sourced healthy and fair pizza. Bring your own drinks.

The photography of Ari Snow will be on display at the Hub. Ari is a 14 year old expat from the USA who has lived in Amsterdam for the past three years. The photographs that will be on display were taken in Russia and reflect his personal journey as he has worked with orphans for the past three summers. These children are very precious to him and he is excited to be able to share a bit of their lives. This will be his third art exhibit, but the first one showcasing these very significant images. The photographs will be on display at the Hub for 6 weeks. Please join Ari at the Hub’s borrel on 10 of April from 17:00- 18:00.

Acht uur overwerken voor het goede doel is een jaarlijks en landelijk georganiseerd evenement. Op 27 maart wordt in 8 steden overgewerkt door 5 teams van creatieven. Ook Amsterdam doet mee, en wel in The Hub! We zoeken nog een aantal creatieven. Creatief, geinspireerd en enthousiast? Zie onze blog http://amsterdamwerktover.wordpress.com en mail je motivatie en een beknopt CV naar Inge op achtuur2009@gmail.com!

The Money Game is a simulation game developed to help people in all financial situations to understand the feelings and beliefs we have about money in our lives and in society. Each person brings a certain amount of money that may lessen or grow depending on the (un)conscious choices you and the others make, so bring an amount you don’t mind losing but that is enough to feel like you are taking a bit of a risk (with a maximum of €1000). The game explores giving, receiving, and asking for money. It is hosted by Lisette Schuitemaker, a social investor and catalyst for systemic change. The Hub is inspired to offer The Money Game to support social entrepreneurs in uncovering unconscious paradigms, choices and challenges in dealing with money while in pursuit for social change.

Places are limited so please RSVP to amsterdam.hosts@the-hub.net to book your place by 18 March.

Foor Wittink and Brechtje Roos, two professional musicians, will give a workshop to let you experience the language of music. The theme´s for the evening will be ´change´ and ´community´ and I hope this evening will give you some inspiration for work and life.

To sign up for the workshop, please send an email to info@kunstenaarsinbedrijf.nl.