Help preserving the old Liberal Arts place
Preserve the Carriage House (koetshuis), the Garden Halls (tuinzalen), and the Studio (atelier) as a free space for the future. We need your voice!
This September, Triodos Bank will start the public sale of the Carriage House, the Garden Halls, and the Studio at the Reehorst Estate in Driebergen-Zeist. The Reehorst Estate was once purchased for the Free School and also became home to the Association of Free Schools and many other initiatives. Here’s a unique chance for that to happen again!
The Carriage House is the perfect place for the arts and crafts classes of the Vrije Hogeschool and as a workshop space for freelance artists. The Garden Halls remain the valuable meeting place they already are, now run by Antropia. And the Studio is being transformed into a wool and art space for the Claudy Jongstra Foundation. Together, they are setting up a cooperative so that the place can always be filled with arts, crafts, education, and community. The Iona Foundation will make an offer in September, with the idea of never selling the place again. The buildings are falling apart, but our plan is very much alive. So we can get started right away. We just need to convince Triodos Bank, and we need your help with that.
Courtyard
We need you with your story, memories, and dreams for the future to help make this dream come true on this piece of estate! Tell Triodos Bank, through a letter, a podcast, an artwork, or another form, why you hope the above plan will succeed. If you don’t want to write yourself, we have a fill-in letter (editable PDF, in Dutch) ready for you.
Atelier
Letters, essays, diary entries, artworks, poems – everything can be sent to Roos Naves via iona@iona.nl (clearly mention ‘Koetshuis’ in the subject) or by mail to Iona Stichting, attn. Koetshuis, Herengracht 276, 1016BX in Amsterdam. All submissions will be submitted with the bid in September. This gives the bid a strong voice.
Let’s fill the Reehorst again with art, crafts, education, anthroposophy, parties, nature, and lots of young people!
The photos in this post are a representation of the developed renovation plans by Natrufied Architecture and Swiep Interior Design
