This live festival programme already took place from 1st - 4th July 2021.
A big thank you to everyone who participated!
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Tickets for the workshops are sold separately.
Music Workshop
Trust, Freedom and Exploration 1 (13:00-14:30) CANCELLED
We will create together! Bring your instrument, dancing shoes, poems, or whatever you like, and most of all, your playful mindset.
by Oene van Geel and Rob van den Broek
Trust, Freedom and Exploration 2 (15:30-17:00) CANCELLED
We will create together! Bring your instrument, dancing shoes, poems, or whatever you like, and most of all, your playful mindset.
by Oene van Geel and Rob van den Broek
Music Workshop
Stochastic from Scrap (13:00-17:00)
Co-write and play a score with possible reactions to probable events, using self-built instruments and strange parameters.
Bring your instrument, reusable materials, something that feels like home, sounds like someone you know might have liked, someone you admire may have used... a pan, a rope, a stone, a tire, the skin of a tree, rice, etc.
Some materials provided by Stiggelbout Slagwerk
Clay Workshop
Socialising with Clay (15:00-17:00)
Confrontations: a crystallization of our feelings in the material ground. A group ceramics workshop working with clay and Plaster of Paris, creating your own personally expressive sculpture.
By Jonathan Clark and Alessio Pozzi
Presentation of all workshops (17:30 - 18:00)
Live Music
The Skypainters
A band (Viola, Jazz guitar, Keyboards, Bass, Drums) playing original music at the junction of Modern Jazz and Classical music - AKA "Impressionistic Jazz".
Kirill Dumchenko, Andreia Florindo, Tonke Suithoff, Gabriele Bertossi, Petr Agapov
Het Kanaal
With a modest blend of music, poetry and theatre, Het Kanaal tells the extraordinary story of modern youth.
Patrick Hoving, Sanam Tahmasebi, Sander Koning, Evert Prummel, Wietse de Haan, and Janneke Hoek
Streetview Collective
An interactive, improvisational music performance by a group of Amsterdam-based musicians and artists who want to bridge the gap between the realms of art and community.
Miriam den Boer, Christine Cornwell and Maya Felixbrodt
Installations & Performance Art
“Mimir’s Well V”
An interdisciplinary performative installation depicting the mythological location of Mimir's Well (as described in the Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson).
"Luister"
"Luister" ("Listen") is an installation piece comprised of two litters/palanquins that contain sound/poetry installations designed to reset oneself inwards for a sharper focus of the reasons we are here for.
Exhibition
Exhibition (fixed)
"Art Without Borders"
A collection of contemporary drawings by Iranian artists Amir Mohammadzadeh and Hossein Tadi, curated by Willem Vugteveen for a recent exhibition in Podium Zuidhaege in Assen. A selection of artworks from this collection has been kindly lent to us through the support of both artists and the curator.
Menumortu Mixed-Media Artworks
A collection of surreal hand-cut collages by artist Menumortu that soothe/challenge/confuse/disturb and showcase many aspects of the human mind and behaviour.
A collection of portrait photographs portraying local subgroups and people who live on the edge of society, all of whom share, in their own way, an aversion to the current consumer society and strive for a sober existence.
Prints of two of her works based on gender issues, titled: "What Gender?" and "What Does a WOMAN have to do to be BELIEVED?"
Printed illustrations depicting female empowerment.
Bazaart Art Market
During the festival days, we will hold a small art market, named "Bazaart", in which we collaborate with local artists to sell and promote their art or handicraft works that have a connection to the various values/themes of our festival.
Bazaart will be open on Friday and Saturday at De Loods, and Sunday at the Prins Claus Conservatorium, for festival visitors to peruse, ask questions, and buy items from the artists themselves.
The artists include: Janneke Hoek, Cristian Menumortu, Marieke Pras, Nina Marte Wilson, Kamile Cesnaviciute, Eline Boer, Helene Richter, Klaudija Ylaite.
Live Music
Nebula
A quartet diving deep into 'sound alchemy', exploring free improvisation and spontaneous composition.
Austėja Žvirblyte, Yaşar Kan, Stanimir Lambov and Aleksandar Škorić
Duo Orient
Duo Orient, consisting of soprano singer Anahita Malakooti and Jazz double bassist Esat Ekincioglu, performs a unique repertoire of Baroque arias with influences from the East and the avant-garde.
Streetview Collective
An interactive, improvisational music performance by a group of Amsterdam-based musicians and artists who want to bridge the gap between the realms of art and community.
Miriam den Boer, Christine Cornwell and Maya Felixbrodt
Installations & Performance Art
“Mimir’s Well V”
An interdisciplinary performative installation depicting the mythological location of Mimir's Well (as described in the Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson).
"Luister"
"Luister" ("Listen") is an installation piece comprised of two litters/palanquins that contain sound/poetry installations designed to reset oneself inwards for a sharper focus of the reasons we are here for.
Exhibitions
Exhibition (fixed)
"Art Without Borders"
A collection of contemporary drawings by Iranian artists Amir Mohammadzadeh and Hossein Tadi, curated by Willem Vugteveen for a recent exhibition in Podium Zuidhaege in Assen. A selection of artworks from this collection has been kindly lent to us through the support of both artists and the curator.
Menumortu Mixed-Media Artworks
A collection of surreal hand-cut collages by artist Menumortu that soothe/challenge/confuse/disturb and showcase many aspects of the human mind and behaviour.
A collection of portrait photographs portraying local subgroups and people who live on the edge of society, all of whom share, in their own way, an aversion to the current consumer society and strive for a sober existence.
Prints of two of her works based on gender issues, titled: "What Gender?" and "What Does a WOMAN have to do to be BELIEVED?"
Printed illustrations depicting female empowerment.
Bazaart Art Market
During the festival days, we will hold a small art market, named "Bazaart", in which we collaborate with local artists to sell and promote their art or handicraft works that have a connection to the various values/themes of our festival.
Bazaart will be open on Friday and Saturday at De Loods, and Sunday at the Prins Claus Conservatorium, for festival visitors to peruse, ask questions, and buy items from the artists themselves.
The artists include: Janneke Hoek, Cristian Menumortu, Marieke Pras, Nina Marte Wilson, Kamile Cesnaviciute, Eline Boer, Helene Richter, Klaudija Ylaite.
Live Music
Hansko Visser Trio
A trio of instrumentalists on keys, guitar, and self-built instruments playing the piece "En de Kookaburra Lacht/Eenmanseuropa" ("And the kookaburra laughs/One Man Europe") with text by Koos Schuur.
Hansko Visser, Reinier van Houdt and Ruggero di Luisi; Ceda i Olgica Foundation
Ivan Baryshnikov
Performing “Another Angle” - a solo piece for saxophone and electronics, written specifically for this festival during a period of artistic and personal self-reflection provoked by the pandemic.
Patricia Swart
Performing “ConcenzorA” - an interactive concert in which the audience can play with and determine the flow of the concert. With the use of sensor-controlled installations, you are allowed to influence the electronic music while the musicians perform on the saxophone and harp.
Patricia Swart and Aurelie Journot
Installations & Performance Art
“Mimir’s Well V”
An interdisciplinary performative installation depicting the mythological location of Mimir's Well (as described in the Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson).
"Luister"
"Luister" ("Listen") is an installation piece comprised of two litters/palanquins that contain sound/poetry installations designed to reset oneself inwards for a sharper focus of the reasons we are here for.
Exhibitions
Exhibition (fixed)
"Art Without Borders"
A collection of contemporary drawings by Iranian artists Amir Mohammadzadeh and Hossein Tadi, curated by Willem Vugteveen for a recent exhibition in Podium Zuidhaege in Assen. A selection of artworks from this collection has been kindly lent to us through the support of both artists and the curator.
Menumortu Mixed-Media Artworks
A collection of surreal hand-cut collages by artist Menumortu that soothe/challenge/confuse/disturb and showcase many aspects of the human mind and behaviour.
A collection of portrait photographs portraying local subgroups and people who live on the edge of society, all of whom share, in their own way, an aversion to the current consumer society and strive for a sober existence.
Prints of two of her works based on gender issues, titled: "What Gender?" and "What Does a WOMAN have to do to be BELIEVED?"
Printed illustrations depicting female empowerment.
Bazaart Art Market
During the festival days, we will hold a small art market, named "Bazaart", in which we collaborate with local artists to sell and promote their art or handicraft works that have a connection to the various values/themes of our festival.
Bazaart will be open on Friday and Saturday at De Loods, and Sunday at the Prins Claus Conservatorium, for festival visitors to peruse, ask questions, and buy items from the artists themselves.
The artists include: Janneke Hoek, Cristian Menumortu, Marieke Pras, Nina Marte Wilson, Kamile Cesnaviciute, Eline Boer, Helene Richter, Klaudija Ylaite.
Live Music
Act III
A music trio performing their project "Stones and Joys of Modern Society": a mix of Funk, Jazz, Cumbia, Afro-Peruvian Music and Latin-Jazz dedicated to portraying different aspects of human life, as urgent, political, parodic, or banal as they may be.
Bruno Timarchi Ynoñán, Yeonju Yoo and Bran Gosker
Mohamad Alnasser
A solo performance of traditional Syrian music sung and played on the oud.
Johan de Goede
A set of live poetry about consciousness and the relation to the earth as defined by the interaction between humans.
Installations & Performance Art
"In Search of the Line"
A performance art piece about the layers of collectivity: networks, the role of the individual in a group and vice versa.
"Luister"
"Luister" ("Listen") is an installation piece comprised of two litters/palanquins that contain sound/poetry installations designed to reset oneself inwards for a sharper focus of the reasons we are here for.
Exhibitions
Exhibition (fixed)
"Art Without Borders"
A collection of contemporary drawings by Iranian artists Amir Mohammadzadeh and Hossein Tadi, curated by Willem Vugteveen for a recent exhibition in Podium Zuidhaege in Assen. A selection of artworks from this collection has been kindly lent to us through the support of both artists and the curator.
Menumortu Mixed-Media Artworks
A collection of surreal hand-cut collages by artist Menumortu that soothe/challenge/confuse/disturb and showcase many aspects of the human mind and behaviour.
A collection of portrait photographs portraying local subgroups and people who live on the edge of society, all of whom share, in their own way, an aversion to the current consumer society and strive for a sober existence.
Prints of two of her works based on gender issues, titled: "What Gender?" and "What Does a WOMAN have to do to be BELIEVED?"
Printed illustrations depicting female empowerment.
Bazaart Art Market
During the festival days, we will hold a small art market, named "Bazaart", in which we collaborate with local artists to sell and promote their art or handicraft works that have a connection to the various values/themes of our festival.
Bazaart will be open on Friday and Saturday at De Loods, and Sunday at the Prins Claus Conservatorium, for festival visitors to peruse, ask questions, and buy items from the artists themselves.
The artists include: Janneke Hoek, Cristian Menumortu, Marieke Pras, Nina Marte Wilson, Kamile Cesnaviciute, Eline Boer, Helene Richter, Klaudija Ylaite.
Live Music
Sunmass
A multimedia, multi-composer live music project that combines beat-driven, melancholic electronic music with hypnotising Persian-influenced vocals, and percussion.
Rik van den Heuvel, Sanam Tahmasebi and Marco Diaz
Live At Olympus
An instrumental duo playing electro-acoustic guitar and classical violin performing songs from their album ‘We Are Live At Olympus’.
Dirk-Jan Apoll and Tsveta Boneva
J. R. Bathoorn
A local singer and accordion player, performing (mainly) European folk music songs, in various languages, drawing parallels between their historical themes with contemporary topics, such as refugee issues, war, financial troubles, and love.
Installations & Performance Art
"In Search of the Line"
A performance art piece about the layers of collectivity: networks, the role of the individual in a group and vice versa.
"Luister"
"Luister" ("Listen") is an installation piece comprised of two litters/palanquins that contain sound/poetry installations designed to reset oneself inwards for a sharper focus of the reasons we are here for.
Exhibitions
Exhibition (fixed)
"Art Without Borders"
A collection of contemporary drawings by Iranian artists Amir Mohammadzadeh and Hossein Tadi, curated by Willem Vugteveen for a recent exhibition in Podium Zuidhaege in Assen. A selection of artworks from this collection has been kindly lent to us through the support of both artists and the curator.
Menumortu Mixed-Media Artworks
A collection of surreal hand-cut collages by artist Menumortu that soothe/challenge/confuse/disturb and showcase many aspects of the human mind and behaviour.
A collection of portrait photographs portraying local subgroups and people who live on the edge of society, all of whom share, in their own way, an aversion to the current consumer society and strive for a sober existence.
Prints of two of her works based on gender issues, titled: "What Gender?" and "What Does a WOMAN have to do to be BELIEVED?"
Printed illustrations depicting female empowerment.
Bazaart Art Market
During the festival days, we will hold a small art market, named "Bazaart", in which we collaborate with local artists to sell and promote their art or handicraft works that have a connection to the various values/themes of our festival.
Bazaart will be open on Friday and Saturday at De Loods, and Sunday at the Prins Claus Conservatorium, for festival visitors to peruse, ask questions, and buy items from the artists themselves.
The artists include: Janneke Hoek, Cristian Menumortu, Marieke Pras, Nina Marte Wilson, Kamile Cesnaviciute, Eline Boer, Helene Richter, Klaudija Ylaite.
Live Music
Resonance
An interactive sound and light sculpture with live electronic music performance. In creating this essential dialogue between sound and light, the creators invite questions about the necessity of 'the other' in art-making and in society.
Nicholas Thayer and Frouke ten Velden
With support from Stimuleringsfonds
Poetic Synthonautics
A collaborative project of spoken word poetry and electronic soundscapes that asks the listener to see reality without filters or illusion and to break free of the societal patterns that have put us on the edge of existence.
Win Harms (a.k.a. MSCHF), Lorenzo Mirra (a.k.a. I // O) and Stefano Messina
J. R. Bathoorn
A local singer and accordion player, performing (mainly) European folk music songs, in various languages, drawing parallels between their historical themes with contemporary topics, such as refugee issues, war, financial troubles, and love.
Installations & Performance Art
"In Search of the Line"
A performance art piece about the layers of collectivity: networks, the role of the individual in a group and vice versa.
"Luister"
"Luister" ("Listen") is an installation piece comprised of two litters/palanquins that contain sound/poetry installations designed to reset oneself inwards for a sharper focus of the reasons we are here for.
Exhibitions
Exhibition (fixed)
"Art Without Borders"
A collection of contemporary drawings by Iranian artists Amir Mohammadzadeh and Hossein Tadi, curated by Willem Vugteveen for a recent exhibition in Podium Zuidhaege in Assen. A selection of artworks from this collection has been kindly lent to us through the support of both artists and the curator.
Menumortu Mixed-Media Artworks
A collection of surreal hand-cut collages by artist Menumortu that soothe/challenge/confuse/disturb and showcase many aspects of the human mind and behaviour.
A collection of portrait photographs portraying local subgroups and people who live on the edge of society, all of whom share, in their own way, an aversion to the current consumer society and strive for a sober existence.
Prints of two of her works based on gender issues, titled: "What Gender?" and "What Does a WOMAN have to do to be BELIEVED?"
Printed illustrations depicting female empowerment.
Bazaart Art Market
During the festival days, we will hold a small art market, named "Bazaart", in which we collaborate with local artists to sell and promote their art or handicraft works that have a connection to the various values/themes of our festival.
Bazaart will be open on Friday and Saturday at De Loods, and Sunday at the Prins Claus Conservatorium, for festival visitors to peruse, ask questions, and buy items from the artists themselves.
The artists include: Janneke Hoek, Cristian Menumortu, Marieke Pras, Nina Marte Wilson, Kamile Cesnaviciute, Eline Boer, Helene Richter, Klaudija Ylaite.
Sunday 4th July 2021 (12:00 - 17:35)
Films, Music and Discussions
at the Prince Claus Conservatoroire
Tickets are sold for the full programme on Sunday 4th.
Art-Documentary Films:
Espacio Interior (Inner Space)
A short film created during the 2020 lockdown (in Spain) that explores a collection of experiences from different people in different locations, including their routines and feelings during confinement, divided into eight chapters but unified by the performance of one actress. Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Written, directed and produced by Esther Fernandez Mata; acted by Lorena Ávila; music by Joan Pons
Sediment
A short artistic documentary-fiction film, made in 2019, which encourages and celebrates the diversity of human life in the world. In this film, which takes place both in Iran and the Netherlands, there is a focus on girls and women in two cultures—Iranian and Dutch—which gives the viewer another way to look at diversities. Language(s): Farsi and Dutch with English subtitles
Written and directed by Vida Kasaei, photography directed by Amir Komelizadeh; music composed by Setareh Nafisi; music produced by Nicholas Thayer and Setareh Nafisi
Following this film screening, there will be a short discussion/Q&A session between the filmmaker(s), cinematography expert Thomas Vandenberg, and the audience, moderated by Leo Delfgaauw.
It Striked in the Clear Sky
A short artistic documentary film about the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 2020, created by an Armenian-Cypriot artist wanting to go against nationalism, express compassion to the other perspectives, and seek peace.
Hamsoo
A short film showing "Hamsoo" - a project aimed at spreading art in spaces or neighborhoods that, for various reasons, do not have access to art education and its enjoyment. "Hamsoo" is a space for new experiences and helps to test ideas that benefit the whole community.
Life is a Journey
A simple yet powerful short story about women who attempt to make the most of their journeys away from their birthplace, and their reflections on culture, traditions, and identity that come with it. Languages: Spanish and Dutch with English subtitles.
by Viviana M. Calderón de la Barca
Following this film screening, there will be a short discussion/Q&A session between the filmmaker, cinematography expert Thomas Vandenberg, and the audience, moderated by Leo Delfgaauw, as well as a live performance by Dutch rapper BLESZ.
Art-Music Films
A Thousand Cuts
An animated music video that uses string quartet and electronics that blur the boundaries between the analogue and the digital, with a similar interplay reflected in the animation to capture the feeling of familiarity with the real world but with a layer of augmented reality sitting above it.
Music composed by Nicholas Thayer; Animation by Brandon Bolmer (AKA Maskarade)
Wayfarer
An audio-visual journey into finding a sense of freedom, derived from finding the courage to walk, headlong into uncertainty, firmly and in balance, and in doing so to find inner peace.
Written and composed by Setareh Nafisi; Directed by Sam Asaert; Music produced by Setareh Nafisi and Nicholas Thayer.
Body Line
A music and movement film exploring the relationship between vision and body, landscape and humanity, arranged in congruence with sensitivity, harmony, allegory and myth.
Choreography, performance, and film production by Rachel Wolfe; music by Zainab Lax and Oh No Noh
M. Butterfly
A short film dedicated to the transgender community, inspired by the opera Madama Butterfly by Puccini, which the artist recently worked on in the Mannheim opera house. The film presents a minimal, inspiring portrayal of one's emotional journey of metamorphosis in life—of finding out one's identity, inner feelings, body desires—and the suffering that can be felt throughout this journey.
Following this film screening, there will be a short reflection session with the filmmaker and the audience about the social topics it represents.
Music Performances
Alexandra Ivanova Trio: "Trust the Stranger"
Navigating between jazz, oriental and Afro-Cuban music, this performance features original compositions and texts and invites the audience to a collective reflection on norms across the East and West.
BLESZ Performance
Live performance by spoken-word poet-rapper BLESZ, following the film screening and discussion session of Life is a Journey.
Bazaart Art Market
During the festival days, we will hold a small art market, named "Bazaart", in which we collaborate with local artists to sell and promote their art or handicraft works that have a connection to the various values/themes of our festival.
Bazaart will be open on Friday and Saturday at De Loods, and Sunday at the Prins Claus Conservatorium, for festival visitors to peruse, ask questions, and buy items from the artists themselves.
The artists include: Janneke Hoek, Cristian Menumortu, Marieke Pras, Nina Marte Wilson, Kamile Cesnaviciute, Eline Boer, Helene Richter, Klaudija Ylaite.