Prince Claus Awards Week | 23—29 November

Join Prince Claus Fund as we celebrate 30 years of people, practices, and stories that have shaped our journey and gather with our global community to imagine what comes next.

Guided by the vision of 2026 Impact Awardee kąrî’kạchä seid’ou, this year’s programme invites us to think of community not as something fixed, but as something we create and recreate together through exchange, care, participation, and collective imagination.

Across conversations, performances, screenings, workshops, and shared gatherings, we’ll come together to explore how artistic practices can create spaces for connection, new forms of knowledge, and unexpected encounters. Together, we’ll ask how art can bring us closer, challenge inherited ways of thinking, and open up new possibilities for belonging.

23 November | Community is belonging (invitation-only)

Welcome drinks with PCF family & friends at Domo

An intimate gathering at the Fund’s headquarters co-hosted with Mezrab, bringing together the 2026 Impact Award recipient, jury members, international guests, and partners to celebrate our global community.

24 November | Community is storytelling

Bookmaking session with Irma Boom | 14.00-16.30 at EENWERK

Designer and bookmaker Irma Boom explores explores how publishing can preserve stories, foster dialogue, and strengthen communities through conversation, exhibition, and a hands-on bookmaking workshop.

24 November | Community is collaboration (invitation-only)

Gathering at the Mayor's Residence in Amsterdam

An evening of stories and artistic interventions bringing together international guests, partners and Amsterdam communities to explore collaboration as a practice of solidarity, care and collective imagination.

25 November | Community is memory

Into archival practices | 16.00-19.00 at Paradiso

A conversation facilitated by Russel Hlongwane, with Archival Consciousness, Mezrab and Vlisco Foundation to explore different approaches to cultural memory and archiving, alongside artists Rabiul Khan, Nova Ruth and Dicky Takndare, exploring community-based forms of knowledge, heritage and storytelling.

26 November | Community is celebration (invitation-only)

2026 Impact Award Ceremony at the Royal Palace Amsterdam

An evening to celebrate 30 years of championing artists transforming communities worldwide, while looking ahead to the Fund’s future through performances, storytelling, and presentations from Seed, Fellows, and the 2026 Impact Awardee.

27 November | Community is exchange

Visit to "Far and Familiar" exhibition at Domo

Discover a curation by Ala Kheir and Ola Hassanain of Sudanese photographers exploring a country in transformation through documentary and lyrical approaches to photography.

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Featuring 2026 Impact Award recipient kąrî’kạchä seid’ou and his collective blaxTARLINES KUMASI, alongside Impact Award Jury members Ibrahim Mahama, Daniela Ortiz and Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy, the symposium brings their perspectives together through discussions, presentations and the launch of a new book featuring seid’ou’s work.

Partnership with Mezrab

Mezrab joins the Awards Week as a programme partner, bringing its distinctive approach to storytelling and community-building to several moments throughout the week. Through co-hosting, co-designing and facilitating gatherings, Mezrab creates spaces for storytelling, reflection, participation and meaningful encounters.

From welcoming the Fund’s community at Domo to shaping the gathering at the Mayor’s House and contributing to the programme on memory and archives at Paradiso, Mezrab helps bring the week’s central idea to life: Culture is community. Community is a practice.

Thank you

We are grateful to all the organisations and individuals who have supported the Prince Claus Fund over the past 30 years. Below is a list of our partners and supporters without whom the 2026 Awards Week would not have been possible.