FREEDOM LEAVES YOU WANTING MORE
On Monday 5 May 2025, we celebrate eighty years of freedom. We do this by sitting down together at the table, because real connection is created at the dining table. During the Hague Freedom Meals, we celebrate that we are allowed to live together in freedom. We bring people together, share special stories and ensure that strangers become acquaintances. Join your neighbour or another fellow citizen, or organise a meal in your neighbourhood yourself.
The goal for 2025 is as clear as it is ambitious: eighty meals to celebrate eighty years of freedom.
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SIGN UP
Are you ready to organize your own meal on May 5? Then sign up for the newsletter so we can keep you informed about the Hague Freedom Meals. From Monday December 9, you can officially register your meal and submit an application to the Vfonds for financial support. On to those eighty meals!
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SPREAD THE WORD
To ensure that you can reach as many residents of The Hague as possible for your meal, we are happy to help you on your way with useful communication expressions. In the toolkit you will find images, ready-made texts and promotional material. The toolkit is still under development, but you will find it here as soon as it is available for 2025.
ORGANIZE YOURSELF
REVIEW 2024
We can write all sorts of things about it, but you can only truly experience the atmosphere, the power and the connection of the Hague Freedom Meals by taking a moment to watch this video. The Hague Freedom Meals of 2024 in pictures: that tastes like more, doesn't it?
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SOUP STORIES EXHIBITION
STORIES OF FREEDOM
Curious about the stories of your fellow citizens and what freedom means to them? The Soep Stories Exhibition was on display in the City Hall (Atrium) of The Hague from 12 April to 5 May 2024. Created to make people talk and think about freedom. Eight residents of The Hague answered questions about the freedoms in their lives, past and present, and were captured on film.
COME AND EAT SOUP
On 5 May, we will eat soup together at eighty locations throughout the city. Made with love and with the taste of freedom. Soup that connects, starts stories and with which we celebrate our freedom.
COME CELEBRATE FREEDOM
On May 5th we celebrate that freedom is not something to be taken for granted. We do this by meeting each other. New people or acquaintances. Will you also join us in your neighborhood? We will soon share the locations for the upcoming edition.
COME AND SEE ART
Art connects and helps to start good conversations. Theater, music and spoken word; we will serve you a portion of culture that will linger for a long time next year.
CELEBRATING FREEDOM, THIS IS HOW WE DO IT!
MEAL OF THE CITY
The city meal will take place at a very special location this anniversary year. The atrium of the city hall will be the setting for the largest Hague Freedom Meal of 2025. In collaboration with Stichting Atrium and many volunteers, we will be organizing this freedom meal for many residents of The Hague.
SOUP IS FOR EVERYONE
Anyone can make soup.
When the freedom meal could not take place live during the pandemic, cans of soup were handed out out of necessity. Based on a recipe and concept by Samuel Levie & Joris Bijdendijk. That turned out to be a great success. Simple, tasty and recognizable in every kitchen. The chef who stirred the pot this year was Nick Toet. Yvette van Boven, Nadia Zerouali and London Loy preceded him.
Traditionally, the recipe for the Freedom Soup will be made by a different chef in 2025. Keep an eye on our socials for updates!
ORGANIZE A FREEDOM MEAL IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Are you an organizational talent, a real connector or do you feel like meeting your neighbors? Organize a freedom meal in The Hague on Monday, May 5, 2025.
We support you with everything you need; from cans of soup to conversation cards, placemats and posters. Invite your favorite cultural acts and bring your neighborhood closer together.
In 2025 we would like to organize 80 meals for 80 years of freedom with all our partners in the city. Are you also interested in organizing a meal yourself, then send an email to info@haagsevrijheidsmaaltijden.nl.
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ENJOY A NICE SERVING
From 2025 onwards, you will find a Hague Freedom Meal near you again. Here you will meet your fellow citizens and listen to new stories. Here you will talk to people of all ages, all cultures. And in the midst of diversity, we share the most important thing: we are proudly Hague and grateful for our freedom.
Together we make the difference
Is organizing in your blood, do you like meeting fellow citizens and have you always wanted to work in the city hall? Then this is your chance . Help us make the largest Hague Freedom Meal in the atrium a huge success and contribute in this way to this beautiful freedom tradition in The Hague.
From the beginning of March 2025, you can register here as a volunteer for the Freedom Meal in The Hague City Hall.
'Freedom means that you are allowed to think, say and do what you want. That means that other people are also allowed to think, say and do what they want,'
Come on
Speak what you live
Life what you see
See what you share
And share everything you can.
Danielle Zawadi
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