About this Event
WAKE-UP TALK — THE SOFTEST PROTEST
What if slowing down became an act of protest?
We live in a world that keeps asking for more: more productivity, more consumption, more attention, more speed.
Slow Up for Humanity turns that logic around. Instead of speeding up, it asks us to collectively slow down — not as an individual escape, but as a public signal that the way we exhaust ourselves and the planet isn’t sustainable.
Fresh from the first Slow Up weekend, Elisabeth Van Lierop and Tijs Delbeke, co-founders of Worried Citizens, join us to talk about why they started the initiative, why slowing down can be political, and what collective action can look like when it doesn’t have to shout.
This isn’t a talk about doing nothing.
It’s a conversation about doing things differently.
PRACTICAL
Monday 26 September
[10.00 till 11.00]
ROAR
Nederkouter 125, Gent
Free entrance
Registration required.
SPEAKERS
Elisabeth Van Lierop
Co-founder of Worried Citizens, author & gentle activist
Tijs Delbeke
Co-founder of Worried Citizens & musician
Come curious. Leave with a different idea of protest.
WHAT IS A WAKE-UP TALK?
Morning conversations that matter.
Wake-Up Talks are ROAR’s accessible conversations about the issues, ideas and people shaping the world around us.
A guest gives some context.
Then we open up the room.
No long lectures.
No panel full of jargon.
Just real stories, good coffee and space to ask questions.
Event venue & nearby stays
Roar Ghent, 125 Nederkouter, Gent, Belgium
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