Tubes and talloren: joys and sorrows in Deurne-Noord

'The richest neighbourhood in Antwerp if you start from the back.' This is how residents sometimes describe Deurne-Noord, a neighbourhood squeezed between the Sportpaleis, the Ring and the Bosuil stadium. There is a lot of traffic, noise pollution and poverty, and you don't have to go there for clean air either. Nevertheless, many residents are proud of their neighbourhood. One of the reasons is Dinamo. For almost twenty years, this community centre has been keeping things together. Neighbourhood meals, local markets, a flourishing bicycle workshop, Dutch lessons, structural solutions for people in poverty: it is a meeting place like a warm blanket. Author Geert Schuermans spent a year working in Dinamo. In this book, he tells about the ins and outs of neighbourhood work, but he mainly sketches the people who found a second home there: Joke, Hafida, Hugo, Alaa and all the others, from visitors to volunteers and professionals. What drives them to that community centre? What do they find there and what do they contribute? The result is sometimes sad, sometimes funny, but always hopeful stories full of energy. In collaboration with SAM Steunpunt Mens en Samenleving