Djûke Stammeshaus

Overig

Set. You work in Brussels, and you think about migration. What would you like: Borders closed? Allow everyone? Implement unthinkeless policy? Step into the adventure of Djûke, who worked on the migration file in the political lion's dwell of the European Union. Packed with pencil skirt, diary and "musical button" as a cheerful note in the bureaucratic Blackbox, she gives a unique look behind the scenes of this world stage. How do you maintain your own ideals in an environment where deadlines and national interests are top priority?

With anecdotes, songs, a smile and a tear, Djûke takes the audience along her work experiences, from Brussels to Camp Moria. Energy she dives into conflicting opinions about migration, from compassion to aversion and everything in between, and shows how every person is full of stratification. A performance about the search for meaning as a cog in a large organization, with recognizable dilemmas in a world full of conflict.

Driven by ideals and her mixed roots, Djûke Stammeshaus (1992) started her career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission on the Migration file. She then represented the Netherlands on the Ukraine, Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa files. In 2022 she handed in her diplomatic passport to make theater and to touch a new string on the large migration issue. Because how much can we handle? More topical than ever!