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Dogger Bank Coalition Inaugural Meeting & Water Bodies Orchestra
At the heart of the North Sea lies an underwater sandbank: the Dogger Bank. This breeding ground of the North Sea is a unique Natura 2000 area with high biodiversity, despite its severely degraded state. Over the next three years, a broad coalition—led by the Embassy of the North Sea and the Doggerland Foundation—will work…
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Rights of Nature beyond the Looking Glass
Researchers from the University of Amsterdam, led by Rights of Nature expert mr. dr. Laura Burgers, started a one-year interdisciplinary research project entitled Rights of Nature beyond the Looking Glass. Financed by a so-called ‘seed grant’, the aim of this project is to explore the potential and implications of recognizing the rights of nature in…
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Screening The Coriolis Effect at Cinebergen
September 23 2025 at 8 pm, Theater Cinebergen will organize a special screening of the film The Coriolis Effect, a poetic feature documentary about our world spinning out of control. The film is set in Cape Verde: the place where hurricanes are born. With a Q&A with Zindoc, the directors of the film I am the River the River…
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Water Bodies Future Thinking Session
Collective futures During this session, the Confluence will take a key next step towards a collective vision for the future of the network, its joint activities and goals. While the previous two Confluences (Mar Menor 2023 and Venice Lagoon 2024) focused on getting to know each other’s waters and initiatives, today we will move our…
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Robert Macfarlane opens Confluence in Amsterdam
The third edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place in the Netherlands, from 21 – 24 September 2025. Famous author Robert Macfarlane will open the Confluence, Sunday afternoon September 21 2025 in De Balie Amsterdam, with a talk about his new book Is A River Alive? Whether it’s the Amazon or…
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Diplomatic Suitcase exhibition at Mediamatic
After Murcia, Venice, Italy, Berlin and Lisbon, the Diplomatic Suitcase is now travelling to Amsterdam! The Diplomatic Suitcase is the multimedia, portable exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies. From 19 September – 10 October 2025 the exhibition will be presented and activated at Mediamatic art center in Amsterdam. Cultural water diplomacy The Diplomatic…
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Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025
Full programmeWhen two or more rivers meet in a landscape, they flow together and continue as one body of water: they ‘confluence’. From 21 to 24 September 2025, representatives of more than 35 European seas, lakes, rivers, wetlands, lagoons, and glaciers will confluence in the Netherlands. The Confluence 2025 is a growing interdisciplinary community of water…
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Hydro Bodies Assembly: Oslo
Transgeographical Hydro Bodies ‘Transgeographical Hydro Bodies’ is a collaboration of four European partners: Forevergreen (IT), iii (NL), Tenthaus (NO), and Cashmere Radio (DE), promoting an innovative way of touring by stimulating critical reflection on the environment through a transdisciplinary artistic approach. At the heart of the project is the participatory lecture performance ‘Hydro Bodies Assembly’,…
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Water Bodies Orchestra at Tiber River, Rome
The Water Bodies Orchestra will perform a second pilot premiere at the shores of the Tiber River in Rome, May 14 2025. The Water Bodies Orchestra is a musical and embodied digital design project, aimed to unlock the sound archive of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, a growing community of activists, artists and academics…
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Hydro Bodies Assembly: The Hague
Transgeographical Hydro Bodies ‘Transgeographical Hydro Bodies’ is a collaboration of four European partners: Forevergreen (IT), iii (NL), Tenthaus (NO), and Cashmere Radio (DE), promoting an innovative way of touring by stimulating critical reflection on the environment through a transdisciplinary artistic approach. At the heart of the project is the participatory lecture performance ‘Hydro Bodies Assembly’,…
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Hydro Bodies Assembly: Genova
Transgeographical Hydro Bodies ‘Transgeographical Hydro Bodies’ is a collaboration of four European partners: Forevergreen (IT), iii (NL), Tenthaus (NO), and Cashmere Radio (DE), promoting an innovative way of touring by stimulating critical reflection on the environment through a transdisciplinary artistic approach. At the heart of the project is the participatory lecture performance ‘Hydro Bodies Assembly’,…
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Monthly online water bodies meeting
Every third Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm, the water bodies network comes together to exchange plans and ideas. Find bellow the schedule. Should you be interested to join one of these sessions to meet the network, please send an email to: info@ambassadevandenoordzee.nl to receive the agenda + Zoomlink. Wednesday 16 April 4 pm…
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Diplomatic Suitcase at the Interspecies exhibition Lisbon
From April 2 2025, the Diplomatic Suitcase will be exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition Interspecies. The Diplomatic Suitcase is the travelling exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, our European community with now over 25 grass roots activists, artists & academics representing Europes glaciers, seas, lakes, lagunes and rivers.…
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Abrazo a la Madre Tierra
Mar Menor activists organise Abrazo a la Madre Tierra On March 23 2025 at 12 am, groups of water activists all over the world will make a local human chain around ecosystems in danger. With this action they want to draw attention to endangered water ecosystems and to the aggression towards the environment and its…
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Assembly Whose Ocean?
WHOSE OCEAN? ASSEMBLY The ocean is vital for life on earth and climate, yet its voice is rarely heard in law and political decision-making. It is completely unclear who is meant when bodies like the UN speak of ‘our oceans’. It is also uncertain who has the right to lay claim to the ocean or…
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Rights of the Deep
Part of the global Rights of Nature movement, Rights of the Deep advocates for recognizing the deep sea—home to vast biodiversity and critical mineral resources—as an ecosystem with intrinsic rights to protection and preservation. This largely unexplored “last frontier” is increasingly threatened by deep seabed mining, regulated by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a UN…
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Can the Piave still Murmur?
An assembly in Ocean Space for an in-depth discussion and a series of artistic elements centered on the case of the Grave di Ciano, an important area in the Piave river, protected by the Natura 2000 project but threatened by a potentially ecologically damaging climate adaptation project.
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Confluence of European Water Bodies
From 3 to 6 October 2024, the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place, an initiative of the Embassy of the North Sea, TBA21–Academy, and representatives of the ILP Mar Menor
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Film screening I am the river, the river is me
The Confluence of European Water Bodies will kick off on 3 October 2024 with the screening of 'I am the river, the river is me', a river movie starring the Whanganui River in New Zealand, the world’s first ecosystem with legal personhood.
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Online press confluence
The Confluence of European Water Bodies will hold an online press confluence 26 September 2024, from 10:00 - 11:00. This online session will give press, researchers and anyone interested, the opportunity to ask questions.
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Diplomatic Suitcase at Spore Initiative Berlin
The Diplomatic Suitcase: now on display for the first time at Spore Initiative Berlin as part of the exhibition Wasserspiegel – Water Bodies.