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The Ubuntu House
Ubuntu is an
ancient Southern African view about what binds us all together.
Read
more about it here. The
Ubuntu House in Copenhagen is our old
head
quarters for American Pictures from where we
financially supported
the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa from
1977-1987.
Special:
My farewell speech about our past anti-apartheid work to Nelson
Mandela's
daughter - patron of the Ubuntu House -Zindzi
Mandela
Let us continue to meet here in
loving and constructive dialogue
Jacob Holdt
Købmagergade 43
1150 Copenhagen, Denmark
Calendar of the Ubuntu
House
on Facebook
Here are pictures and videos from many of our public lectures
that I photographed in the Ubuntu House after it reopened in
2016.
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Background:
Critical Muslims
un-radicalization
meeting in my
private home
2001-2016
The
Ubuntu House is a continuation of the dialogue groups we held in Forum
for Citical
Muslims -
often in my
living rooms.
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Background:
The peace ring around the Synagogue
after the terror attack
The
Ubuntu House is an offshoot of the terrorist attack on the synagogue
after which I invited Niddal el-Jabri, who had organized the Peace Ring,
to create dialogue groups here in the house.
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The Exit Circle's opening meeting for
women exposed to violence - as many white and brown women
The Exit
Circle are closed dialogue groups for girls and women who
are exposed to psychological violence, social control and religious
social control. The regular dialogue groups around the country I can
not photograph for good reasons. |
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Integrating accommodation for Syrian refugees and Danes brought together
from their provincial villages
Danes often find it difficult to open up to refugees in the towns they
have ended up in, but with a helping hand, both sides benefit greatly
from meeting and living together.
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Refugee
lawyer Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen's concert
In recognition of Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen's great work for
refugees, we invited him to give a concert at the Ubuntu House.
Others can support our work by renting the space.
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Wedding between Swedish agnostic and
Swedish-Afghan Muslim in our Mariam Mosque
In the women's mosque, couples in love from all over Europe, whom
imams will not marry across faiths, come to get married. In our
house love must triumph over all oppressive tribal, clan, national
and religious ties! We have had more than 50 weddings so far, many
of which I have photographed.
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The
Center for Conflict Resolution holds a lot of courses here on a
non-violent approach to our fellow citizens
Without loving inclusive thinking about each other, integration and
dialogue will not succeed. We hold many courses where people can learn
the processes. |
Crossing Borders works with young people all over the world and has
head quarters and meetings here
Crossing Borders works with
diversity and social responsibility on an international level and
has a permanent office in the Ubuntu House |
Meeting place for SABAAH - the
organization of gay immigrants/Muslims
Here pictures from one of their weekend courses in the Ubuntu House
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Incest transformation Festival with actor Lotte
Arnsbjerg
This incest healing and forgiveness conference became too big to be in
Ubuntu House where it belongs and instead moved to Theatre Island. |
Dialogue meetings in the mosque for Jews and Muslims from all over
Europe
The Mariam Mosque and
the Jewish Peace Movement together bring Muslims and Jews in
dialogue.
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Dinner for LGBT asylum seekers
fleeing cultural Christian and Muslim persecution
They especially need
protection from other asylum seekers from their home countries.
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Salaam Shalom
Pesach
Interfaith
celebration of
the Jewish
Passover, where
Muslims and
Christians
celebrate
together and are
taught about the
Jewish holidays.
Including
the female Rabbi
as we plan to
organize
the mosque on
Saturdays as a
"women's
synagogue." |
Syria
hearing with Mogens Lykketoft in Ubuntu House
Mogens Lykketoft is the former Danish foreign minister. The hearing
was on the patterns of conflict behind Syria's tragedy today. |
Sexual
abuse
transformation
Symposium 2017
Transformation
Symposium about and for people who have overcome injuries such as
incest or want a different life or sexual identity.
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The Grand imam
of Indonesia
visiting the
Mariam Mosque
The Grand Imam,
whose mosque in
Jakarta holds
200,000 at a
time, works
closely with the
church and came
to visit us,
along with the
President's
daughter, to
support our
interfaith work. |
Danish Jewish Peace Movement meeting
on 50th anniversary of occupation of Palestine
Conflict zones like
Israel and Palestine are of great interest to us and New Outlook has
a regular meeting place in Ubuntu House |
Crossing
Borders event - Rwanda Never again - in the Ubuntu House
Rwanda is one of the African countries where no work was done to
heal the historical tribal conflicts in time, with tragic
consequences that we can and should all learn from. |
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Özlem Cekic's
book launch
party
with
the Bridge
Builders, which
has an office in
the Ubuntu House
and tries to
engage with
people and
groups of hate. |
The
Mariam Mosque
The now
world-renowned women's mosque is
trying to do away with patriarchy in almost all religions.
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The sexual abuse Transformation Festival at Ubuntu House 2017
The second
transformation festival of the year about and for people who have
overcome injuries such as incest or want a different life or sexual
identity. |
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The Jewish Peace
Movement New
Outlook's
meeting on Jewish
Copenhagen
Historian
Morten Thing
compared the
Jewish ghettos
with today's
Muslim ghettos
in Copenhagen
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Faith in harmony's
meeting on the ABCs of Sikhism
Satnam Singh spoke
about the ABCs of Sikhism at Ubuntu House |
Salaam Shalom's Chanukah celebration
New Outlook and Salaam
Shalom joined forces to celebrate the Jews' annual Chanukah Festival
of Lights.
See the videos with the dances. |
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The Exit
Circle's open
meeting on psychological violence and social control
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The Black Women's group's "Stop Violence Against
Women"
co-organized an
evening on stopping violence against girls and women |
Salaam Shalom's Jewish Sasha song
organized by Tali
Padan |
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The Exit Circle's open
meeting on sexual violence in love relationships
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The Jewish Peace
Movement
New Outlook's
meeting on Israel and
Palestine
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Faith in Harmony's
screening of "Bridging Beliefs"
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The Mariam
Mosque Academy
with Saer El-Jaichi
on the purity of
Arab philosophy |
The Black Women's
group's
"Feminist Tam Tam"
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The Mariam
Mosque Academy
with Jesper
Petersen on
Islamic feminism |
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Meeting
on the Syrian
conflict
Crossing
Borders' meeting
with
psychologist Mozhdeh
Ghasemiyani |
Women's Day meeting
Fatima Osborne talking
about her transition from Somalia.
Video in English.
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Passover 2018
New Outlooks
Passover with
performance by Sanne Nusbaum
singing on
videos.
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The Ubuntu House
gets The Dialogue
Award 2018
Minister of
Culture Mette
Bock presents the
prize to Jacob
Holdt |
The Exit Circle's sexologist
on sexual violence
Sexologist Camilla Dremark on "Violence behind the
veil of love" |
Jewish Peace
Group
New Outlook's
meeting on
Gaza and Israel
With Anders
Jerichow and
Lalou Rostrup
Holdt |
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Famous author
Sara Omar on
social control
and
honor-related
violence
Crossing
Borders' Food
for Thought
event with our
Ubuntu patron
Sara Omar
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Mariam Mosque
Academy
with Professor
Christian Høgel
on Ibn Tufayl's
book "Hayy Ibn
Yaqzan" |
UPC Peace Walk
The final
meeting after
the walk in the
Ubuntu House |
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Salaam Shaloms Chanukah 2018
New Outlook and
Salaam Shalom
celebrate Jews'
annual Chanukah
Festival of
Lights
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Green Christmas
in the Ubuntu
House
"Let's not buy
at Christmas,
let's share"
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People came and
donated to the
Christmas party |
The Jewish Peace
Group's
evening on
philosopher
Hannah Arendt
with a talk by
Claus
Christoffersen
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The Mariam
Mosque Academy
presents Hasib
Nasiri's paper
on Jihadism in
philosophical
light
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Chief rabbi Bent
Melchior speaking on his
activist life as a peace maker
for international
students from Crossing Borders (in English) |
Women's Day
celebration
dedicated to
Winnie Mandela
and Mandela's
Ubuntu concept -
Mandela's
daughter Zindzi
speaking
(in English) |
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Black Women's
Poetry Festival
with many poets
participating |
100% for the children's book release
They work for neglected and
homeless children in Africa and have offices in the Ubuntu House |
Farewell dinner
for our
ambassador
Zindzi Mandela
We made a
special dinner
with many
entertainers
when our patron
of the Ubuntu
House had to go
back to South
Africa, where
she sadly died
shortly after. |
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Another
international wedding in
the Mariam Mosque
between a Sikh
and Muslim
family
(videos in
English)
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"The Bridge builders"
On the new
dialogue book by Özlem Cekic
and Bent Melchior, whose office is in the Ubuntu House |
The Minister for
Development in
the Ubuntu House
To hear about
our NGO work
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Peace researcher
Jan Øberg speaks
in the Ubuntu
House
on the problems
of the West in
the future
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Crossing Border's Board meeting and
dinner 2021
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We celebrate the
AIDS-day 2021
with a book
publishing
followed by a
Christmas
concert in the
Round Tower
Church
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Chanukah 2021
with cantor
Dorothy
Goldberg lightening
with her songs
and Roma music |
New Outlooks Jewish-Muslim dialogue
for the Jewish - Muslim Motorcycle Club |
New Outlook on the White busses
René Meyrowitsch's story about his film, "Liberated from Hitler's Hell" about the rescue of 17,000 concentration camp prisoners by the White Buses. |
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The Bridge
builder's
debate on Koran
burnings and
freedom of
speech |
Salaam-Shalom-Chanukkah |
New Outlooks
lecture on peace |
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Related Ubuntu events
and gatherings
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Muslim-Christian
Christmas 2016
No other Danish
holiday is so
important to
share with our
new Danish
friends. This
year we had so
many people that
we had to move
Christmas Eve
from my home to
the Ubuntu
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Coworker Garba Diallo's 60th
birthday
Garba is the
director of Crossing Borders, which has head quarters in Ubuntu
House. His party featured a mix of guests from all over the world
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Former employee Kitte
Fennestad's funeral
Kitte Fennestad lived
in the Ubuntu House for years while doing graphic design work at
American Pictures. Here is her daughter Kathinka with author Jette
Drewsen, who edited my text in the book. |
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Jacob Holdt's 70th
birthday
where representatives
of the Ubuntu House groups each talked about their work in the
House, but were forbidden to talk about me. |
Funeral of Eva Gammelkær
- longtime supporter of the Ubuntu House
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Gala premiere of
"The Reformist"
- a film about The Mariam Mosque
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Jacob Holdt's book
release party
where he gathered the
people mentioned in the book for coffee in the afternoon and a party
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Jacob Holdt's lecture on his new book
in English for international students in
the Ubuntu House |
Özlem Cekic's book release
of "The Bridge Builders" with Bent
Melchior
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Jacob Holdt's 55th
graduation anniversary
for the 13 remaining old high school classmates on 26 June 2021
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