Saman Amini's Integration Plan #2

After the success of Integration Plan #1, voted best cabaret show of 2022 by NRC, Black Sheep Can Fly comes with a sequel: Saman Amini's Integration Plan #2: Everything is Perspective. Armed with sharp jokes, personal stories and compelling music, Saman disrupts the patterns in which we get ourselves stuck.

In this second part, he dives deeper into identity, culture and integration. This time with a renewed perspective: after 25 years, he travels back to his native land and views Iran through a Western lens. He examines politics, media and welfare and casts a critical eye on the Netherlands with a renewed perspective.

Perspective is everything. Integration, racism and the role of the media are at the heart of this performance. Are migrants a burden or an opportunity? Are far-right youth hostile or mostly afraid of what they are losing?

"The other day I was in a cab with a driver of Palestinian descent. He thought the Netherlands was fantastic. "Don't you suffer from racism then?" I asked. He laughed: "In Saudi Arabia I asked for asylum, but they threw me into the desert. I almost got eaten by snakes there!" His story made me realize how powerful it is to see the world through someone else's eyes. Understanding your opponent - in a debate, conflict or conversation - can bring people closer together. Maybe our pain is not in what is being done to us, but in the idea that no one understands us." - Saman Amini