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Even though we started off the year by declaring Trampoline House in danger of closing, we managed to mobilize popular support and strong partnerships that enable and improve Trampoline House's future work for early integration of asylum seekers in Denmark.
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2016 was a fateful year for Trampoline House. We began the year by officially declaring the house in danger of closing, and at the same time, we witnessed a humanitarian catastrophe on the political level that included the jewelry act, border control, stricter asylum policies and deliberate deterioration of asylum seekers’ conditions. The result was evident amongst the asylum seekers that we meet: increased poverty, isolation, and forced passivity.
Popular support ensures Trampoline House’s future activities
Nevertheless, 2016 turned out to be a fantastic year for Trampoline House. We went from 50 recurring monthly supporters to more than 300. They are citizens in Denmark who have decided to contribute so that we can continue our work. Thanks to this popular support, our calendar is full of social activities, democracy workshops, language and culture classes, communal dinners, asylum and integration counselling, medical counselling and skills development every week - all activities that take place in a community where everyone contributes and participates, everyone respects each other, and nobody’s a victim. That’s how good integration happens.
Our method of integration was acknowledged in 2016 by the award of both the Livia Award and Bispebjerg Frivilligpris, and Trampoline House’s exhibition space CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics won Kunstkritikerprisen 2016. Throughout the fall of 2016, CAMP’s three first exhibitions were also exhibited in the National Gallery of Denmark. That was an important confirmation that migration is a complex theme, and that its representation reaches far beyond the parliament in Christiansborg.
Our future work is also to a large extent made possible by Roskilde Festival’s support after Trampoline House and CAMP participated as official partners at the festival in 2016. It was a great experience for everyone who participated to represent Trampoline House and speak to the festival’s many curious guests.
Civil society supplements the municipal integration efforts
Integration is about more than jobs and language. Civil society therefore has an important mission in supplementing the municipal efforts and creating a meaningful integration that focuses on both employment, democratic practice, system awareness, social network, and respect.
But the government is right that, to a large extent, integration has to happen through the job market. During the next three years, Trampoline House’s holistic method of integration will focus on finding internships and regular work to the asylum seekers that have internships in Trampoline House and want to contribute to the Danish society.
That’s a big task that we can’t solve on our own. Luckily, we’ve met some strong partners throughout the last year, who share our ambitions of opening up the job market for asylum seekers: Together with the workers’ union DJØF we’ve started a mentor network for highly educated asylum seekers; with the support of Tuborgfondet and in collaboration with the consulting agency QVARTZ, we’ve developed specific tools and a volunteer network for mapping out asylum seekers’ skills; and together with the integration-specialized consultancy firm LG Insight, we’re working on Trampoline House’s strategic development within the area of early integration to the job market.
Integration is everyone’s responsibility
Trampoline House exists because we have a vision for a better Denmark. We believe that integration can succeed if we focus on revitalizing our democracy and active citizenship. Integration is everyone’s concern and responsibility. Integration means that we grow together into a better and stronger community, a new “us”.
Thanks to a little more than 300 individuals’ recurring donations, we can now continue working for this mission until the end of 2017. We’re very grateful that they have carried us through this year’s financial crisis. With their - and hopefully others’ - help, we’ll also continue in 2018 and the following years!
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We demand justice for stateless refugees in Denmark. March with us in solidarity on June 10 at 1 pm. We gather at Christiansborg Castle Square, from where we march around the inner city, and finish back at Christiansborg for speeches, poetry, and music.
On Saturday, June 17, from 4 pm–01 am, we are throwing a support party for Trampoline House at BumZen on Nørrebro, Copenhagen. Join us with your family and friends for a blast of a party with community kitchen, bar, raffle, DJs and music – and help support Copenhagen's only community center for displaced people❣️
Trampoline House invites the public to a big community meeting about the massive mal-thriving of rejected asylum-seeking children in the Danish deportation system on Thursday, June 1, from 3–5:00 pm at Union, Nørrebro. Come and join us to discuss what we can do!
Trampoline House is hosting a big party on Saturday, April 15 from 6pm–2am in Impact Roasters’ amazing space at Flintholm Train Station 💃🏻🕺🏿🎶 Please come – it’s also your party!
We have just updated our Friday program and event calendar for the Spring 🌱 We have a series of interesting events coming up! Check it out…
Together with five European partners, Weekend Trampoline House has organized a questionnaire survey on young Europeans' attitudes towards refugees and immigrants. The result is discouraging reading to us, but it's good to know the scale of the problem before taking action!
When Weekend Trampoline House opens again after the Christmas holidays on January 6, we will have new opening hours and a new staff member!
Weekend Trampoline House will be closed for the Christmas Holidays from December 19 to January 5. We will open again on Friday, January 6 at 2 pm. Thank you so much for a fantastic 2022 ❤️ Merry Christmas, happy hew year, and see you again in 2023!
🎄 Join us in Weekend Trampoline House for a festive Christmas celebration with Christmas bingo, Christmas film screening, and Christmas community dinner ☃️♥️
On Sunday, December 18, we will continue our free lecture series on the Danish asylum system when Sine Hav from the Danish Refugee Council visits Weekend Trampoline House. She will tell us more about the requirements for applying for a permanent residence permit in Denmark. After the lecture, you are most welcome to join our festive Christmas celebration.
Are you thinking of volunteering in Weekend Trampoline House, or are you already volunteering but have not yet attended an info meeting? Then join this info meeting for new volunteers on Sunday, November 27, from 4–5 pm.
Christmas is coming 🎄⛄️❄️ We celebrate this in Weekend Trampoline House's Children's Club with lots of cozy Christmas activities for children and their parents. Because it's no fun celebrating Christmas in an asylum center or celebrating Christmas in a foreign country you've just fled to. Click to see our festive program 🥨🎁💝´
Please join us in Weekend Trampoline House on Friday, November 11 from 4–7 pm for the launch of the new issue of visAvis, a magazine produced by activists of all backgrounds and passports since 2009. The launch includes readings, film screenings, and food.
The Iranian people from deportation center Avnstrup invite you to their demonstration on Saturday, November 5 at Christiansborg Slotsplads, Copenhagen from 2–4 pm. Iran is not safe – therefore, the Iranians who are living in Danish deportation centres demand to get their asylum cases reopened and not be subjected to the deporation center system!
📣 Are you in Kassel in the coming weeks to see the groundbreaking documenta fifteen exhibition before it closes on September 25, then Trampoline House would be very happy to see you to one of our events about the global north’s dysfunctional asylum policies and how to imagine asylum differently. All events are free and conducted in English. Click to read more 👉👉🏽👉🏿
Weekend Trampoline House now offers free legal counseling to asylum seekers, rejected asylum seekers, and refugees with residence permit in Denmark every second Friday (uneven weeks) from 2–6 pm and every second Sunday (even weeks) from 2–6 pm by Weekend Trampoline House’s legal counselor Michelle Keun-Rasmussen. Click for more info…
Are you thinking of volunteering in Weekend Trampoline House, or are you already volunteering but have not yet attended an info meeting? Then join this info meeting for new volunteers on Sunday, August 28, from 4–5 pm.
Join us for one of this year’s coolest summer parties and support Trampoline House's work for refugees and asylum seekers in Denmark at the same time. The party takes place on August 20 from 6 pm–2 am at Kapelvej 44, 2200 Copenhagen N. Click to read more…
This summer, Trampoline House will be exhibiting art projects, doing performances, and hosting workshops in Germany as part of the major contemporary art exhibition Lumbung – documenta fifteen. Trampoline House is one of 14 lumbung members in documenta fifteen, which will take place over 100 days from June 18–September 25, 2022 in Kassel, Germany.
On Sunday, we will continue our lecture series on the Danish asylum system when Anne Lund Preisler Herbst from the Danish Refugee Council visits the Weekend Trampoline House. She will tell us more about the so-called paradigm shift in Danish immigration policy, which was adopted by the Folketing in February 2019.
We are so proud to announce that Project Art Works, a collective of neurodiverse artists and activists from the UK, will visit Trampoline House from May 20–22 to conduct a workshop with people from the house. Titled "Massaging the Asylum System", the workshop runs over two days and is for people in the Danish asylum system and in the Danish integration program.
📣 Trampoline House is co-organizer of a big demonstration on Sunday, April 17, in Copenhagen, which protests against Denmark's forced deportation practices that divide families and allow the use of force.
On May 1, you can learn more about the poor health conditions of refugees at Europe's borders. It happens when the film festival Global Health Film Days in collaboration with Doctors without Borders Denmark and Weekend Trampoline House invite the public to a film and debate event in the Apostle Church in Copenhagen about the living conditions of refugees and asylum seekers in the notorious Moria refugee camp on the Greek island Lesvos.
Super exciting puppet workshop with Joachim Hamou this Friday in Weekend Trampoline House. The workshop is part of Trampoline House’s contribution to the documenta fifteen exhibition, which takes place in Germany this summer❣️
This Sunday, Dr. Poornima Luthra will conduct a workshop in Weekend Trampoline House on diversity, equality, and inclusion. What we can all do to become an active ally of inclusion. Everyone is welcome!
On Friday, March 11, Michala Clante Bendixen from Refugees Welcome Denmark will pass by Weekend Trampoline House's house meeting to tell us more about the special law for Ukrainian refugees, which is expected to be passed in the Danish Folketing within a few days. Everyone is welcome!
On Sunday, February 27, Mads Melin from the Danish Refugee Council will give a lecture in the Weekend Trampoline House on the asylum procedure in Denmark. Everyone is welcome!
On January 28, 2022, the refugee justice community center Trampoline House re-opens in a smaller version under the name "Weekend Trampoline House" in the Apostle Church's parish house in Vesterbro in Copenhagen. Warm welcome to a festive opening reception from 5–9 pm. There will be live music, light food and beverages, and you can learn more about the new house and how to become a part of it. Click to read more…