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Cocktail

Cocktail Regio Nijmegen organises meetings for LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers. Every second Wednesday of each month, there is a meeting in the Pink House (Roze Huis, Sint Anthoniusplaats 1, Nijmegen). It’s a meeting in which you can meet other LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers and get to know more about the Dutch (LGBTIQ+) community.

Cocktail Nijmegen wants to help reduce the isolation that LGBTIQ+ Refugees and asylum seekers are confronted with. Fleeing a country in which you are not safe being LGBTIQ+, and ending up in an AZC surrounded by the same people you were fleeing from is making life not particularly easy. We want to introduce LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers to eachother, to the Dutch society and to the LGBTIQ+ community. In this way we try to improve the social climate for LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers and make them feel less isolated.

During our meetings we create a safe environment in which our visitors can be who they are, without the fear of being punished for that. Every meeting has a different theme, varying from more serious things like a visit from VWN (VluchtelingenWerk Nederland) to fun meetings with dancing, making music or art.

Besides our meetings we also organize some activities during ‘pink’ events like Pink Wednesday at the Vierdaagse in Nijmegen, or the Pride Parade in Amsterdam.

Our meetings are on every second Wednesday of the month. You are welcome at 18:00, until around 20:00. Is it your first Cocktail meeting? Feel free to come a little earlier (17:00) to get to know each other.

Do you have questions or do you want to visit our meetings?

Buddyproject

Cocktail heeft ook een buddyproject. Via dit project wordt een LHBTI-asielzoeker gekoppeld aan een (vaak Nederlandse) LHBTI-vrijwilliger om sociale activiteiten mee te ondernemen. Het doel van het project is LHBTI-asielzoekers sociaal contact te bieden en daarmee het sociaal isolement van deze groep te doorbreken. Via deze laagdrempelige weg is er iemand om mee te praten en iets leuks mee te gaan doen. Dit contact brengt de asielzoekers ook in aanraking met de Nederlandse maatschappij en de manier waarop in Nederland met LHBTI-zijn omgegaan wordt.

Wil je meer informatie over Cocktail of lijkt het je leuk om buddy te worden? Neem dan contact op met de coördinator of geef je op via deze link: https://forms.gle/9q8q5jeqxVj2vWa79

 

Buddy project

What is it?
It is a project where LGBTQ+-newcomers (refugees and asylum seekers etc.) will be connected to a local LGBTQ+person. If you both feel there is a connection, you can decide to meet up to drink a cup of coffee, go for a hike, to go for a visit in a gay-bar or whatever you both like to do together.

What is the purpose of this project?
In this way we hope to decrease social isolation LGBTQ+ newcomers can expierence and to give a safe introduction in the dutch (gay-) society.

Do you have any questions or would you like to be connected to a buddy?
Send an email to: cocktail@cocregionijmegen.nl or sign up via this link: https://forms.gle/9q8q5jeqxVj2vWa79

Contact met de coördinator