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Significant others
Roodkapje is a porous cultural platform, we invite Others to program a Significant part of our events. Often young, emerging bookers, labels and initiatives organize their first public activities at our multifunctional location. We guide and challenge them to experiment with injecting visual arts into band nights or workouts into nightlife to create multisensory experiences.
Roodkapje is ethically non-monogamous when it comes to our Significant Others, we partner up with local initiatives, invite volunteers to program in the summer and work with four young labels/bookers. We welcome those who we think bring along an unheard sound/vision and are open for new ideas that come to us per mail, pigeon or DM.
With our Significant Others we develop long-term relationships and their program is created in dialogue with Roodkapje. Besides them we give space to one-time gatherings, annual festivals or private parties. We work(ed) a.o. with O. , Motel Mozaique, Left of the Dial, Rotown, Stimuleringsfonds voor de Creatieve Industrie, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam and Queer Gym.
Current Significant Others
Futura Resistenza is a label and platform from Brussels and Rotterdam, that operates somewhere on the border between performance, music and visual arts. Roodkapje asked the label to program a series of concerts in our venue. Throughout this year Futura Resistenza invites musicians and artists who already have a connection with the label, as well as people who they simply admire and want to see perform.
Past events:
22 November 2024 – Sofi Naufal, MIAUX, KUNTARI, Elsa van der Linden
21 September 2024 – Clara de Asis, Bergur Andersonl Geigen
11 May 2024 – Jacob Dwyer, Kim David Bots, Lyckle De Jong, Lukas De Clerck, Lucija Gregov + DJ Cardboard Lamb
23 Februari 2024 – NÂR, CV Vision, Gemma Luz Bosch
06 October 2023 – a mini festival with De Mond (BE), Elisabeth Klinck (BE), Susannah Stark (SCO), Juho Toivonen (FI), Otto Willberg (UK), DIAN (BE), DJ Hoekboud (NL)
7 July – 16 July 2023 – Milli Vinylli / Collective Trajectory with Hamburger Community with PIET, Viana Afoumou, Emir Karyo, NDNMK Solutions, DJ Wiel Bullekes, Maja Simišić
08 June 2023 – Two Solos for Callum G’Froerer (AU) & Clara La Licata (IT) by Anthony Pateras (AU) / Michiko Ogawa (JP/DE) / Jasna Veličković (NL) / Kleingeld (NL)
17 March 2023 – MSHR (US) / Tes Damen and The Wet Elders (NL) / Sans Âge / DJ Jacco Wanneer
On a cold January day in 2022, Dennis Muñoz Espadiña of Hocus Bogus Publishing came by our tavern to seek refuge from the icy storms. After feasting on juicy burgers and ornating himself in otherworldly art, he decided to never leave the premises again. Ever since, Hocus Bogus Publishing is housed in our backspace. His merry mix of DIY punk attitude, fine art aesthetics and his Riso-printer of many colours have enlightened Roodkapje and Burgertrut.
If you are interested in Riso printing contact Hocus Bogus Publishing directly!
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Past events:
18 April 2024 – Opening/Happening by Hamburger Community 2024 ‘Ctrl + C(ity, ontrol) / Ctrl + V(ent, andalise, ision) by Irene Cassarini, Julia Wilhelm, M.C. Julie Yu, Repelsteeltje, Tisa World and Josué Amador
19 – 20 April 2024 – ‘Paste’ open collage studio during Motel Mozaique
8 April – 23 April 2023 – Riso Paper Scissors with Hamburger Community 2023 – the exhibition/project/hang out
9, 16, 23 April 2023 – Animation Playground
7 April 2023 – 7 April – Grand opening of the exhibition Riso Paper Scissors by Hamburger Community 2023: NDNMK Solutions, Emir Karyo, Viana Afoumou, Maja Simišić, Jip Piet w/ live performances by c00, Live Riso sound sesh by Jip Piet & Viana Afoumou (vixnde), Blöd Heinie
10 April – 1 May 2022 – Smudged Soil (Hamburger Community 2022 Exhibition) with Simon Keizer, Ratri Notosudirdjo, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Natalia Sorzano, Hasret Emine, Lucija Gregov
Galleriso:
Galleriso is our ever changing tiny expo with Riso prints by Rotterdam based artists. Printed in the Hocus Bogus Publishing Riso studio. Every month we invite artists to make a design for the front of our Roodkapje event program flyer & a limited edition A3 print. In Burgertrut you can admire our Galleriso wall. The prints are available in limited edition A3 prints through the artists. Contact the artists directly for full on artist support; check their contact details next to the prints.
Viana Afoumou
We couldn’t get enough of former Hamburger Community (Roodkapje’s artist residency) resident Viana Afoumou, so she became one of our Significant Others. Creating a wholesome bubble away from the world, while being fully a part of it, this multidisciplinary artist and musician strives to make both audience and artists feel at ease. Often participatory (mostly involving food), the events are invitations to share experiences regardless of skills and backgrounds. In her personal practice, Viana Afoumou presents intimate and layered explorations of sound, silence and voice, intertwined with stories and songs.
Upcoming events:
22 December 2024 – Killer Toaster #3: Jam Sandwich
Past events:
29 November 2024 – SAMODIVA CHAPTER V: Dogtooth Violet
30 August 2024 – “NOT OLIEBOLLEN” by Viana Afoumou and Loveth Besamoh, a night into Africanfuturism and their Cameroonian roots. A dinner, movie screening and invitation to gather together and share common heritages.
25 January 2024 – FM (Full Moon) Field Recording Workshop x Leonie Roessler. An audiozine workshop including an outdoor walk through Rotterdam’s top-rated dark and lonely alleys, guided by Leonie Roessler.
22 November 2023 – Killer Toaster Electronic Jam session – an electronic jam session accompanied by delicious home made jelly/jam.
Sanneke Kleingeld
“Mag ik in uw OORSCHELP …..” is a cabinet of curiosities. It’s hazy in the cabinet, the door creaks – you can’t stop sneezing. . . .
The series of events are an ongoing experiment where comfort and discomfort will hold hands (sweaty palms included). For everyone who’s tired of the occasional club nights and ready for disturbed utopia.
Past events:
30 May 2024 – Mag ik in Uw OORSCHELP frummelen? w/ Val Clipp, Rutger Zuydervelt & Gonçalo Almeida, Ezra V and Miitzi, Visuals by Luca Tornato
14 October 2023 – Mag ik in uw OORSCHELP tuimelen? w/ Loma Doom, Elina Tapio, Fani Konstantinidou, Nancy Phantom
_I think I’m trying to get a taste of all the flavours
Uncovering who the fuck I am, holographically
All music and performance is imbued with that energy
Leaking your heart, outside of narrow formulas
Coming from a burning desire, to feel more like myself
We really do experience it and we’re supposed to._
About Pretty//Ugly
Pretty//Ugly is an individual organizer and volunteer active in the DIY scene and hosts shows at OCCII – Amsterdam and Roodkapje – Rotterdam. Their goal is to facilitate artists who step out of the “doe maar normaal, dan doe je al gek genoeg” attitude and burst open the narrow framework on what a show is and can be. The impetus is to dance, mosh, move around with our fellow goblins, elves, rats, snails, dogs and cats
Past events:
30 November 2024 – Stakattak, Plus Instruments, Dorpstraat 3, DJ Zamity Mitelembe
16 November 2024 – Borlab, Lifeless Past, Designer Violence, VJ Elena Chadaeva, DJ Zamity Mitelembe
05 April 2024 – Findom, The Earwurms, badtime , VJ Hiddenbehindmist, PIET
02 March 2024 – Museumnacht with Mathilde Nobel, Noemi Calzavara, Strict Nurse, VJ Elena Chadaeva, Spullen, Curling
24 February 2024 – Youniss, Kiss My Knoblauch, Emirhan X, DJ Factory Girl + make-up stand by the Tovertrutten
26 April 2023 – Knalbal Carnaval with Vieze Meisje, C.V. De GiErBoYs, Rowan van As, Beppie Klaft, Blöd Heinie, Sarine. Organized together with Schuffel
29 April 2023 – Swan Meat, pharfetchd, NDNMK Solutions, Simone Schuffelen
20 May 2023 – Club Ø. w/ Promis3, whiterose, Simone Schuffelen, Ksenia Perek, SUKUBRATZ, fiona avalon
13 October 2023 – Ramses3000 (live) + Min Taka + 0′00″ + Nocebo
18 November 2023 – H.U.T. + The Earwurms + &The + DJ Jip Piet
Brian Murphy
Murphy’s Circus is the passion project of musician Brian Murphy, who recently started working as a programmer for Roodkapje. Brian grew up in a household that held all forms of art in the highest regard and he was encouraged to channel his creativity into art. After being entranced by music at a young age, he devoted himself to expressing his thoughts and feelings in this art form. Other artistic disciplines were never forgotten or put aside. They simply lived alongside his main passion, helping and inspiring him when it was needed. With Murphy’s Circus, Brian wants to recapitulate the ‘circus’ of art he grew up in. Artists and musicians of different disciplines will provide the audience with an evening filled with the beauty of creative human expression. Whether it be distraction, entertainment or inspiration you’re looking for, Murphy’s Circus will do its best to deliver the goods.
Past events:
06 September 2024 – Murphy’s Circus #4 with interbellum, Laura Kampman, The Apiary, Hanburgu and TOBI
16 December 2023 – Murphy’s Circus #2 with Radio Trapani, the Downbeat Detonators, PUPPIES IN THE SUN, sleight of hand by Sinan, make-up stand by the Tovertrutten, live visuals by Reine & Jake, live visuals by woetoe, tarot card reading by Jannes van Arkel, Spice Dokha
14 July 2023 – Bandy Charcoal with Windup Space, Loveth Besamoh and Dixi. Listening to bands while making art.
We <3 our volunteers! Our community of volunteers is an integral and indispensable part of the past, present, and future of Roodkapje.
Throughout the year we reserve some time and space for Roodkapje volunteers to help organize and create events. In 2022 Flor Alarcon, Niels Werij, Sjoerd van Kampen and Fede Claes curated a series of summer performances in Burgertrut called Cucumber Time. The first edition of TRUTfest was held in December ’22, a big festival with an exhibition, performances and concerts created by the volunteer team inviting all creatives in Roodkapje and Burgertrut to join.