About us
Two women and a shared love for the arts, preferably with cultural and social impact; meet creative pioneers Floor and Anne-lyke. Where it once started with one shared meal on the Lange Voorhout in collaboration with Stichting Museumkwartier, The Hague is now buzzing with Freedom Meals on this Liberation Day. And yes, they are quite proud of that.
Floor and Anne-lyke have been running their production company fa-bricage since 2010. Three years ago, they were asked by the 4 & 5 May committee to become pioneers in their own city; drivers of a new way to celebrate freedom.
Floor and Anne-lyke have since been on a mission with a team of creative heroes from The Hague to make the Freedom Meals a new tradition in multicultural The Hague. A tradition that is embraced by young and old. From Scheveningen to Schilderswijk, and everything in between. Will you join us?
A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES
Team
A team of bright minds, creative heroes and real organizational talents; they are the silent -but wildly enthusiastic- forces behind the Hague Freedom Meals. And they all contribute a little to the mission; to make the Hague Freedom Meals a new tradition in The Hague, so that more and more strangers -from young, old, from The Hague to The Hague resident- become acquaintances. If that doesn't make for a party!
Floor Zegers
Initiator + coordinator freedom meal The Hague
Anne-Lyke van den Elshout
Initiator + coordinator freedom meal The Hague
Barbara van Rest
Communication and PR
Marlies van der Kolk
Communication and PR
Anthony Renaud
Events
Axel van Leeuwen
Project Manager
Patricia de Koning
Design
Hederik van der Kolk
Design, strategy and development
CONTACT
Board of the Hague Freedom Meals
Since 2024, Haagse vrijheidsmaaltijden has been an independent foundation. We are proud to introduce our board members to you.
chair
Henk Scholten
Henk Scholten (1953) lives in The Hague and worked there until recently as director of the Zuiderstrandtheater and co-developer of Amare. He was also the intendant of the program year Feest aan Zee - Scheveningen 200 years seaside resort in 2018. He previously managed, among others, the Performing Arts Fund, Theater Institute Netherlands and Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. In The Hague he developed, among other things, the concept of 'theatrical celebrations', specifically aimed at non-Western holidays. Henk Scholten has a special bond with Liberation Day: his birthday is on May 5.
Treasurer
Mireille van Gorkum
Mireille van Gorkum (1977) lives in The Hague and is an experienced entrepreneur with a focus on social impact and sustainable relationships between people, nature and society. At Theater en Filmhuis Dakota she is business manager, responsible for the financial and strategic development of this cultural anchor in The Hague focused on Escamp. She is a business coach at the neighborhood store Bij Betje in Moerwijk and has been involved in the Participatie Keuken, where she contributed as a social entrepreneur to the development of the organization and concepts such as the Aanschuiftafel where (vulnerable) residents meet and eat together. From this angle the collaboration with the Haagse Vrijheidsmaaltijden originated.
Secretary
Robert Wittenberg
Robert Wittenberg (1973) lives in Amsterdam and has worked since his student days in Rotterdam until recently at the nationally renowned Dudok Horeca Group. First in Rotterdam, since 2003 as director of the Arnhem branch and since 2021 in his role as brand manager in the five cities where the Dudok Horeca Group has branches. He has always been involved in many cultural and social activities and is currently chairman of the BIZ Meent Rotterdam foundation and board member of the Bridge to Liberation foundation in Arnhem. Bridge to Liberation is a national memorial concert that is held annually in September at the John Frost Bridge in Arnhem.
In his last role at the Dudok Horeca Group, he was involved as an initiator in various Freedom Meals in Rotterdam, in the Freedom Meals in The Hague and as a project manager he organised - in collaboration with local partners - a first major Freedom Meal in the Eusebius Church in Arnhem in 2024.'