Brainwash Festival
Come to Brainwash Festival, the largest thinking festival in the Netherlands and Belgium! On Sunday 27 October, more than 100 groundbreaking philosophers, scientists, theatre makers and writers will come together at Leidseplein in Amsterdam. Get ready for an unforgettable festival journey where doubt is celebrated! With Dan Ariely, Venki Ramakrishnan, Grace Blakeley, Cat Bohannon, Becca Rothfeld and many more!
Brainwash Festival
One festival at different locations
These are the locations where the Brainwash Festival also takes place, click on the location name for the program Melkweg, Paradiso, De Balie, the Kring and Theater Bellevue.
Exploring the limits of reason
Where the French Enlightenment philosopher René Descartes only assumed that he doubted, there seems to be no room for doubt in our current society. Who are you? What do you stand for? What do you believe in?
A clear answer is constantly expected to all these questions. A rock-solid belief in your own truth and right. But what do 'right' and 'truth' still mean in times of controlling algorithms, screaming politicians and incomprehensible technological developments?
At Brainwash Festival we explore the boundaries of reason, present radical proposals that turn your worldview upside down, celebrate contradictions and make you doubt everything you thought you knew for sure.
Brainwash Festival
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