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Evens Foundation Exploring the intersections of democracy, youth and technology The Evens Foundation operates from offices in Antwerp, Paris and Warsaw.

Working across the arts, democracy, education, media and science, the initiatives of the Evens Foundation experiment with ways of living together which recognise the plurality of human histories, cultures, and experiences. The Evens Foundation is a public-benefit foundation started in 1990 by Irène Evens-Radzyminska and Georges Evens, who established it because of their commitment to the European project. Born in Poland, they witnessed the troubled history of the Second World War that tore the European continent apart.

13/10/2026

Sometimes it’s a family affair.

When did you last oppose power?

This is one of the questions we’ve been asking as part of Changing Democracies, exploring how the past affects our relationship with democracy today. Find out more at the link in bio.

08/10/2026

Looking for new resources and practical examples? Or a moment to reflect on your own attitudes and motivations as an educator?

Over the past few months, we’ve been working with to embed the stories we’ve gathered through Changing Democracies into a free online course for teachers and educators.

Starting from witnesses' accounts about systemic transitions in Europe it supports educators to open up conversations about democracy with young people. Online and at your own pace. We're launching very soon.

07/10/2026

Opposition to power can look like many different things. Sometimes it’s participating in protests. 

How did you last oppose power?

Part of our ongoing exploration of democracy, past, present, and personal. Find out more at the link in bio.

Thanks again to for filming and editing!

02/10/2026

What does opposition look like? Often it’s normal people you meet on the street. 

When did you last oppose power?

29/09/2026

Anger can be a powerful motivator, especially when it comes to politics. But it’s also where we can find honesty and emotion. That’s one of the reasons we included this question - "what makes you angry about the world today?" - in our educational work around Changing Democracies.

We heard lots of different answers on the streets of Warsaw. What’s yours?

28/09/2026

We've only scratched the surface of Solidarity: the etymology, the construction of collective identity, the question of organisation, the difference between solidarity that includes and solidarity that excludes. There's more in the book than we've been able to cover, and more we want to say about it and discuss.

But we’re working on something new that we’re very excited about. This book club will be back in a new form in October, with a new title we’re hoping will inspire some interesting discussions. 

In the meantime: what has stayed with you most strongly from reading Solidarity? Is there a question the book has left you with that you're still thinking about?

25/09/2026

What makes you angry about the world today? Anger is political, it tells you what people think is wrong and what they think should be different. 

We asked people on the streets of Warsaw what ’s making them angry right now. The answers were a mix of the personal and the political.

23/09/2026

What we expect from democracy can tell us a lot about what we think it’s for. And the gap between what we expect and what we get is where a lot of the most interesting questions about today’s crisis live.

We asked people on the streets of Warsaw to tell us about what they expect. Are your expectations the same?


Thanks to for filming and editing!

22/09/2026

Organising is a kind of alchemy.

Taylor and Hunt-Hendrix call it that, describing it as “a process that turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength”.

Alchemy is transformation through process. It’s not magic, but patient, deliberate work. The suggestion is that solidarity doesn't just describe a feeling or a political position, but it's something that happens to people when they organise together. The process changes them as much as it changes the world around them.

This is a counterpoint to the argument about scale and organisation from a few posts ago. It’s not just that organisation makes a movement more effective, it’s that organisisng matters in and of itself. It does something special. In this way, Solidarity turns into an almost creative act. It makes things possible and can transform individuals as well as create collective change. 

What else has that kind of power?

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