Activities

Facilities:

d´Funky T House is our cafe, organised by DFUNK in collaboration with users. It is open Tuesday through Thursday and serves food and beverages. It is a place to hang out and talk. All refreshments are offered on pay-what-you-can terms. When d´Funky T House is closed the kitchen is open, and coffee and tea is served.

The Kitchen can be used by all users of the house. Every Friday, we cook and eat dinner together. During special holidays (Ramadan, Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter, etc.), we make special get-together dinner parties.

The Counseling Room offers social and legal counseling as well as medical and dental services to asylum seekers once a week. Soon, the Clinic will also offer monthly psychological counseling to the Danish volunteers in the house on how to emotionally tackle the problems they encounter when being involved in asylum related activist work.

In The Library & Reading Zone, we are building up a collection of magazines and books on asylum and migration issues, Danish culture and society, etc. We also hope to subscribe to a number of international newspapers in the near future.

The Children’s Corner is a special area for children visiting the house with their parents. The Children’s Corner has toys and books and offers a number of activities and events for children only.

In the Hair & Tailor Salon, you can get pay-what-you-can haircuts by asylum seekers training as hairdressers every Friday. You can also get your clothes repaired or altered on a pay-what-you-can basis by asylum seekers with professional tailor backgrounds. All donations go to the Trampoline House. Occasionally, the Hair & Tailor Salon also offers makeup classes by asylum seekers training as makeup artists.

The IT Zone has computers with internet access, printers, video and photo equipment. Computer courses is offered regularly. Workshops on how to make videos, photos, blogs, radio and TV programs are offered once in a while.

The Multi Zone is a big space used for meetings, classes, workshops, seminars, study groups, lectures, debates, film screenings, live music, performances, dance classes, parties, etc. It has audio and video projection equipment as well as a black board.

Throughout the Trampoline House, there is also room to show artworks that engage issues of migration and asylum.

-

If you have any suggestions to activities or events you would like to do in the Trampoline House, please let us know!

All activities and events are free!

All activities and events are conducted in English, and we will help each other with translations in other languages when needed!

Usually, all asylum seekers living within greater Copenhagen, who don’t have tickets/monthly travel card from the Danish Red Cross, will get one ticket per week from the Trampoline House to visit the house and participate in its activities. Due to the large amount of weekly visitors and the tremendous strain on out budget, however, we will from March 12, 2012 be forced to stop handing out tickets to people visiting the house. Only asylum seekers, who are volunteering or do ‘practice’ in the house, will be able to get max. 2 tickets per week. We are very sorry about this and are working hard to fundraise additional funds for tickets, so that we can in near future again hand out one ticket per week to all people visiting the house from the camps.

We look forward to seeing you!

Activities every week:

Tuesdays, 2-4 pm:
House meeting during which users of the house discuss what needs to be done and who does it.

Tuesdays, 4-5 pm:
Danish language class (beginners)

Wednesdays, 5-7 pm:
Social and legal counseling for asylum seekers and refugees living underground with volunteering social workers and immigration lawyers.

Fridays, 4-6 pm:
Pay-what-you-can Tailor Shop. If you have clothes that need to be repaired, or if you want a new dress or suit, professional tailor Ahmed will help you. All donations go to the Trampoline House.

Fridays, 4-6 pm:
Pay-what-you-can Haircuts by asylum seekers training as hairdressers. All donations go to the Trampoline House.

Fridays, 6 pm-11 am:
Pay-what-you-can Dinner & Fun (film screening/performance/live music/dancing/games/chill out).

-

Activities every two weeks (see the Calendar for dates and time):

House Coordinators Meeting during which the coordinators of the house discuss administrative, logistical, and programming issues.

visAvis Editorial Meeting, during which the magazine on migration and asylum plans and organizes its forthcoming issues.

-

Activities once a month (see the Calendar for dates and time):

Children’s Programs & Events (theater workshops, painting and drawing classes, dance and music classes, excursions to amusement parks and museums, story-telling days, share-and-learn-from-one-another workshops, etc.).

Guest lectures by experts on Danish or global migration, asylum, and human rights issues.

Introduction to the Danish asylum system by Michala Clante Bendixen from The Committee Underground Refugees.

Introduction to the Trampoline House for new asylum seekers in the Trampoline House.

Introduction to the Trampoline House for new Danish volunteers in the Trampoline House.

Monthly ‘Spring Cleaning’ Day where all the Trampoline House users and volunteers together clean the house thoroughly.

Personal testing and counseling about HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, and unwanted pregnancies prevention by a volunteering representative from the organization Cross-Over.

Practice Orientation Meetings for asylum seekers and Danes doing ‘Practice’ in the Trampoline House.

Psychological counseling to Danish volunteers and users of the house involved in asylum related activist work.

Women’s Program & Events (debates on gender and sexuality roles, handicraft and language exchange projects, babysitting aid, etc.).

Youth Programs & Events (hiphop workshops, video workshops, football tournaments, games night, etc.).

-

Special events once in a while (see the Calendar for dates and time):

Artist-in-residence workshops where we invite international artists working with the problematics of migration and asylum to do a residency in the Trampoline House and collaborate with the house’s users on a project/exhibition.

Computer courses with volunteering asylum seekers.

Debates/open meetings/public hearings organized and hosted by the Trampoline House on migration and asylum problematics.

Excursions to sites of socio-historical significance in Denmark.

Football tournaments.

Guided tours to the asylum centers on Zealand.

Intercultural exchange workshops where different users of the house take turns introducing their native country and its political, cultural, and social fabric.

Intercultural reading groups where we read various theoretical and philosophical texts on asylum and migration.

Mini-workshops on various problems and challenges connected with running the Trampoline House (the user-driving principle, group work, etc.).

Music workshops.

Programs for newly arrived asylum seekers.

Programs for long-term asylum seekers.

Programs for former asylum seekers granted asylum.

Theater workshops.

Trampoline House Newsletter production.

Urban gardening projects.

-

Activities once a year (see the Calendar for dates and time):

Flea/Swop markets.

Fundraising and benefit events.

Special get-together dinner parties during special holidays (Ramadan, Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter, etc.).

Summer camp: The first weekend of August, we rent a bus and drive to northwestern Zealand to spend the weekend together in a borrowed summer house by the Danish sea side.

-