Category: event

Doodle Dabble is back! With story books, casset tapes, and a recorder!

Join us for a workshop on writing in the margins using Marginalia an open-source and free, collaborative article annotation and publishing platform. This platform foregrounds non-linear, messy, entangled knowledge creation using annotations, hyperlinks, scribbles, and more. It is for those seeking online space for communal learning, wild experiments in reading and writing, and intervening into the text to make room for themselves in it. The workshop will be led by Arran Lyon, a creative technologist/coder, computer scientist, hacker and Senka Milutinović, a designer, researcher, writer. Both are a part of the ARK collective and have an interest in storytelling and knowledge creation with technology.

How do flowers, plants and animals think about karaoke, ceramics and newspapers? During this two-day multispecies festival, the platform for extratonality explores different ways to give other species a place within the creative field.

Get to know the Common Dirt of Charlois with the help of the Common Dirt Map. From the Arie Berkelaarpad to the Shared Grounds behind the Gouwplein; you can find them all on the map!

During this Colonial Infrastructures worksession we will continue investigate systems of commodity, processes of labour and assembly, and global import-export relationships through the intimate object of hair.

Hello! during a 3 months Special Issue, XPUB investigated the questions asked by the Declarations artistic research:\ on the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural impact on our practices. On the 18th of April we welcome you at Varia to present our works!

Boricua artist Karla Claudio hosts a talk, film screening and workshop about Caribbean dye plants and their colonial histories.

This workshop will begin with a presentation by Naima Cornelia on the methods behind the story, what questions to ask, where to find those answers, and how. and then a hands-on session where we will discuss different ways to tackle a research question. We start by seeing what information we can find online, try some google-search techniques, see what we can dig up and go from there.

Join us for a relaxed evening where musicians and writers create side by side. The idea is simple: some of us will write, some of us will make sounds. Writers can work on something old, start something new, or even write to the music. Musicians are free to jam together or experiment with sounds.

The Platform Of Extratonality invites you to a two-day celebration of graphic music. On Saturday, March 15, we explore the interaction between illustration and music at Roodkapje.

The Platform Of Extratonality invites you to a two-day celebration of illustrative music. On Friday, March 14, we organize an evening with three lectures/performances on graphic notation at Varia.

If in the light of recent events, you've been curious to look into alternative social media that doesn't run on an ad-based model, or is a big-tech owned walled garden, or if you are curious to meet other people who have accounts on the fediverse and beyond, please feel welcome to join us on the 7th of February where we'll explore some alternatives to dominant social media and get started sharing in a more convivial manner.

A performative script reading by Antye Guenther and Philippine Hoegen. What started as a flirtatious and whimsical exercise in collective script writing, developed into a collaborative exploration of our loves, fears and desires regarding work and research…

On January 16 we will start with Breaking Down Whiteness, an awareness raising study group about internalised racism. It will be a peer-to-peer working space for and from white people, where we will work with Layla F. Saad's book “Me And White Supremacy” and follow the learning framework set out by the book over the course of 7 weeks.

A Performance + Open Book with Q&A with the participation of: Amy Gowen (HumDrumPress) as wrangler and some klankschool comrades: mitsitron and Stephen Kerr as co-conspirators and improvisers and Joseph Knierzinger making us sound good

The end of the year arrives soon, but the end of extratonality is nowhere in sight. To celebrate another year full of extratonal milestones we once again organize a celebratory cabaret with a fine selection of extratonal artists!

Our final Game and Watch series will conclude in a movie night, where we will be happy to host you for a screening of "Walang Rape sa Bontok" (Bontok, Rapeless) from Habi Collective..

During this Game & Watch we will collectively play two contrasting videogames to consider how Indigenous narratives are shared and considered in gamified realms. We will examine the representation of Indigenous peoples as well as the roles they are cast in the videogames 'Never Alone' and 'Sid Meier's Colonization'.

We want Varia to be used by people who live in the neighbourhood. Is it already happening but we've never met you all together, we'd love to have a moment to formalise how this can work for everyone. With conversation and food we want to set up ways to organise and coordinate the access for Varia. How can we help each other across our extended solidarity networks? What are our responsibilities to one another and how can we communicate clearly? This is a gathering to share our expectations and needs for this space that we (can) all use.

Join us for a new episode in the extratonal infrastructure series - the extra in Rotterdam's cultural life. Be on time and it is fine!

The times of Cold War seem long gone, yet they significantly impact present cultural ideologies that repeat and evolve in contemporary creative production. This evening gathering is the starting point of a series that tries to expose the influence of the Cold War across present day narratives, technologies and geopolitics.

Whine, Dine and Decline is a dinner and conversation around the local foodscape of the Netherlands and it's potential future in the context of climate change.