![]() ![]() Please give yourself enough time to arrive and check in for the event. Should I arrive in advance of my visit time? If you do arrive late, we may ask you to wait until we can accommodate you. ![]() It is best not to arrive more than 15 minutes before the entrance time printed on your ticket. ![]() Your entry time is a 15-minute window from the time printed on your ticket. We advise allowing for 60 minutes within Dark Spectrum, in order to experience it properly. Last entry into the tunnels will be allowed 10 minutes after the final advertised time slot. The event will close 60 minutes after the final advertised time slot. No, there is no specific parking for the event. We recommend you check with local authorities or use a map finding service to find the best option for you. There is also no designated bike parking for Dark Spectrum at Wynyard Park or inside Wynyard Train Station. Finding Enok is a film about and also an ode to Enok, an indigenous girl who suffered in an inhuman system and whose existence has forever changed our family into what it is.There will not be a cloakroom available, please travel light. We do advise you to dress warmly when attending Dark Spectrum. She taught me the all-important lesson we must all learn: countries and women must be freed, now and in the past, from colonial and patriarchal structures, power must be returned to them to express their stories, voices and freedom. And that includes Enok, our grandfather’s mistress, who had to give up her own child to the father as well as the ruler of her land. How do you yourself feel about these changing views of our past? Do they lead to that sense of guilt and desire to make amends? Our ancestors will continue to visit us, at least in spirit and our DNA, if the violations they experienced in the past are not addressed and acknowledged. But we are also the grandchildren of a white Dutchman who was part of that colonial system. nYou need a nimble mind for that.Īt a time when kings and government leaders are apologising for past misdeeds, my cousin Maurice and I made a road movie in our native Indonesia, in search of the indigenous ancestor Enok, to whom we feel connected. But if you, or at least your ancestors, were perpetrators, it becomes more difficult. If you were (once) a victim of another, it is not so difficult. The assessment of our ancestors’ actions is diametrically reversed. Yet we have to acknowledge it and many feel shame about the past. That briefly outlines the split we find ourselves in we Dutch were colonists and oppressed another people, but to this day we have enormous difficulty admitting it. The Indonesians themselves have a different independence date: 17 August 1945, when President Sukarno issued the proclamation. Since 1949, Indonesia has been an independent state, at least according to the Netherlands, when the official handover took place. Before World War II one of the largest empires in the world, with many colonies in East and West, now one of the smallest country’s. "In Europe, where many countries in history colonised other countries, a discussion about our past has been going on for years. Doug Doyle/Zoom WBGO Journal host and News Director Doug Doyle chats with Pamela Morgan (bottom left), Gina Rodgers-Sealy (top right) and Dorna van Rouveroy van Nieuwaalĭorna van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal's Finding Enok: The hidden history of a family in the Dutch East Indies screens at 5pm at the Cranford Theater in Cranford, NJ.
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