CINEMA COLOMBIANO
WORM 25 Anniversary Celebrations kickoff with films, music and empanadas!

Early bird alert! Get your 12 euro combi-ticket before August 19 and enjoy the whole day and night programme!
On the 7th of September, CINEMA COLOMBIANO returns with their annual film festival in WORM Rotterdam. WORM is celebrating its 25th anniversary, so the team has prepared something special for this year’s edition. Aside from the indoor film programme, there’s going to be a Colombian block party outside on the Boomgaardsstraat, centred around a 3 meter-high picó. A picó is a typical sound system from the northern coast of Colombia, and we are honoured to invite El Mágico Baobab – the only Dutch picó – to join in the festivities! Inbetween the films and in the evening, you’ll be able to enjoy cumbia, champeta, salsa and other music genres inherent to Colombian culture.

12:00 Kickoff festival (outside)
13:30 Film block 1
16:30 Film block 2
18:30 Film block 3
20:00 Picó-party (outside)
23:00 Cinema Colombiano Club Night (inside)
04:00 FIN

A regular ticket (10 euros) gives you access to the film programme!
A Combi-ticket (15 euros) gives you access to the film programme + the club night!
The outdoor activities are open for everyone free of charge!

The festival continues one week later, on the 14th of September, in Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam. We are still working on the full program and the required permits, so the program is still under reservation. Keep an eye out on social media or go to www.cinecol.nl for more information.

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/cinema-colombiano-2/

Nightlife

Outdoor events

Club

Culture

Party

Cultural

🎨 Cultural

🪩 Party

Worm

Cinema Colombiano - WORM 25 Kick Off!

WORM ticket

Did you miss all the fun during daytime?
Don’t worry, you can join us into the night!
It’s gonna be a tropical Friday with avant-garde experiments from Latin America and its diaspora.

More tba.

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/club-cinema-colombiano/

Experimental

Latin

Club Cinema Colombiano!

Jason Kunwar

A Song of Woes, We offer Steeps is a musical performance that travels through various songs, stories, and melodies from diverse geographical landscapes of Nepal and Himalayan regions. It is a composition and a collection of joys, sorrows, rituals, festivals, struggles, migration, and urbanization that evokes the contemporary Nepalese and Himalayan experience.

Their performance experiments with various traditional and contemporary styles of Nepalese and Tibetan musical repertoires incorporating electronic elements. The collaboration between Jason, Ranav, Sanskriti and Turi brings together various instruments such as singing bowls, Tibetan cymbals, woodwinds like the Radung, Bamboo flutes, string instruments like the Nepalese Sarangi, Nepasese drum Dhimay of Newar people and eastern classical instruments plus the Tabla, along with electronic soundscapes. The result is a mesmerizing sound that transcends cultural boundaries and transports the listener to unexplored sonic realms. It's a truly immersive musical adventure.

Jason Kunwar (Nepal) based in Kathmandu, is a multidisciplinary artist and award-winning film music composer. Drawing from Nepalese and Himalayan folk traditions, contemporary philosophy, experimental text, and local politics, his work over the past 15 years delves deeply into the challenges of village life, laborers, and migrant workers. Holding a Master's in Ethnomusicology, Kunwar has extensively researched Nepal's vanishing traditional musical practices, instruments, and folklore. His recent creations blend electronic soundscapes with traditional Nepalese and Tibetan instruments.

Ranav Adhikari (Nepal/Germany) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and media technologist/ producer, who founded Boiling Head Media in Berlin. He holds a Bachelors in Ethno-Musicology from Kathmandu University and a Master in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie University Berlin. He has been involved in audio, video, and event production for various artist and companies including Sasha Waltz & Guest, etc.

Turi Leng Seong Agostino (Australia/Germany) is an Australian-born composer and producer based in Berlin. Agostino’s music embraces multiple genres, and concepts of temporality and identity, which he traces back to his Chinese-Malaysian-Italian heritage.  
Agostino has worked as a producer with German hip hop artist Mauli and Scandinavian folk singer/songwriter Tuvaband, ao.

Sanskrtiti Shrestha (Nepal/ Norway) is a Nepalese tabla player based in Oslo. Shrestha has been active in some iconic projects in Scandinavia, touring across Europe, Asia, and Australia with ensembles spanning a large diversity of musical genres. She brings her  
Nepalese/Indian musical background in the merge with jazz, electronics and other styles of contemporary music. She has been working to promote the tabla to be recognized as a versatile instrument with rich possibilities.Sanskriti learned Tabla from her teacher Homnath  
Upadhyaya in Kathmandu where she completed her masters in Tabla from Allahabad Sangeet Samiti Ktm.

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/kalponik-rekha-2-with-jason-kunwar-ranav-adhikari-turi-leng-seong-and-sanskriti-shrestha/

Electronic music

Performances

Kalponik Rekha #2 with Jason Kunwar, Ranav Adhikari, Turi Leng Seong and Sanskriti Shrestha

Jongeren zijn vaak de voorlopers van heel veel culturele stromingen. Daarom wil WORM de nieuwe generatie jongeren een plek bieden om hun eigen cultuur door te ontwikkelen.

Elke woensdag avond kunnen jongeren tussen de 14 en 29 jaar in WORM bij elkaar komen. Ze kunnen daar aan hun eigen creatieve dingen werken of samen iets maken. Ze ontmoeten andere creatievelingen en vanuit hier kunnen ze nieuwe projecten beginnen.

Nieuwe ideeën ontstaan vaak als mensen elkaar ontmoeten en samen komen. En het zijn vaak de jongeren die nieuwe dingen durven uit te proberen. Denk aan: hiphop, clubkids, punk, hippiecultuur en nog veel meer stromingen die allemaal ontstaan zijn vanuit jongeren. Maar ook ideologisch zijn jongeren vaak voorlopers. Veel protest groepen ontstaan op universiteiten. En bij black lives matter protesten, klimaatmarsen en feministische/LGBT+ optochten, nemen jongeren het voortouw. WORM wil dit niet aansturen, maar eerder ruimte bieden zodat jongeren die cultuur zonder veroordeling zelf kunnen laten ontstaan.

We willen het idee van wat “Art” is niet opleggen. Elke vorm van creativiteit is welkom en er is geen veroordeling van wat goed of slecht is. Het is bedoeld om een fijne en leuke plek te zijn voor jongeren om zich zonder oordeel te uiten. De jongeren kunnen zich bijvoorbeeld bezig houden met: TikTok, games, K-pop, comics, scrhrijven, tekenen, dans, muziek, film, fotografie, fashion, koken, drag, en alles wat ze verder kunnen bedenken.

De meeste jongeren begeven zich nu veel online en daar ontstaan super veel nieuwe creatieve dingen. Met de Artgang willen we de online wereld verbinden met de offline wereld. Én we willen iedereen een kans geven om zich te kunnen ontwikkelen en serieus genomen te worden. De mensen die vaak over het hoofd worden gezien zijn hier welkom.

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/art-gang-worm-124/

Workshops

🏀 Active

Art-Gang WORM #124

W.R. Mysteries of the Organism
by Dušan Makavejev
Yugoslavia, 1971, 85 min., German, Russian, English w/ English subtitles

An homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, feminist uprising, street manifestations and the orgone theory are explored.

Hard to put this wild adventure into words or a genre, but it truly is a hidden gem (winner of the Palme d'Or in 1971, nevertheless), and a rare 35mm print from the archives of the BUTFF (B-movie, Underground & Trash Film Festival).

With an introduction by Cas Buys, lecturer of Philosophy of Science at Erasmus University, and specialized in the role of trauma in modern neuroscience en psychoanalysis. He writes:  
Wilhelm Reich can easily be described as one of the most eccentric thinkers in Western history. His psychoanalytic work linked sexuality to the emergence of states such as fascism and communism. In later life, he began to see sexuality as an expression of a kind of life energy, which he attempted to harness with his infamous cloudbuster machines, even attempting to influence the weather. In his final years, he waged an intergalactic battle against aliens until the FDA arrested him, where he died in prison.  
Who was this man? A genius or a truth teller? Before the film, I would like to address this question by taking a look at his life and his thinking.

Cineville valid at the door!

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/cultfilm-w-r-mysteries-of-the-organism/

Film

Activism

Philosophy

Feminism

CULTFILM: W.R. Mysteries of the Organism

Ravech

This night promises to be really exciting! Visual artist Sarojini Lewis presents her latest interactive work, one heralding a new approach towards post-colonial documentary film making. Sarojini will be working with the young metal band Ravech (SR) who make a new, political form of metal. Ravech play a live set of new songs crafted for the interdisciplinary framework Lewis has created, and will "bodily engage" with this space and a selected sound recordings. They will be joined by a live VJ who creates a video collage from various historical fragments; we all know that history is never just a linear story and we want to bring you a more multi-layered experience.

The work showcases visual connections and historical narrations about the plantation, Berg en Dal. We also explore the Sutterlin script and extracts from missionary diaries (from 1862), describing the personal relationships and complaints of the formerly enslaved, after emancipation.

The visual aspects of the documentary contain diverse elements of Sarojini Lewis’s work, such as the performance and embodiment of the rituals and stories which she made in collaboration with the bandmembers of Ravech.

Two of the band members are related to Berg en Dal by their name – Stutgard – their genealogy is described in the dairies since 1824. Their uncle Stutgard, together with Kaatje, Prof Lamur and Cynthia Macleod – as well as several personas related to the plantation – retell their observations.

This is Ravech’s first time as a band in Europe! Welcome, Chaver Stutgard, Reindell Stutgard, Adam Wakidin and Raydle Santjes!

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/sarojini-lewis-x-ravech-sr-documentary-film-meets-metal-music-in-disclosing-diaries/

Live music

Documentary

Politics

Sarojini Lewis x Ravech (SR): documentary film meets metal music in Disclosing Diaries

Prince Pasensi

Celebrate WORM’s 25th Anniversary with "Diaspora Dreams"!

On Friday, September 13th, get ready for an extraordinary night as we kick off the club season with a special celebration of WORM's 25th anniversary. Join us for the first edition of "Diaspora Dreams," a colourful club night dedicated to connecting through live music, dance, and community, all while celebrating black culture.

Diaspora Dreams is an event where you'll experience an eclectic mix of music from talented DJs representing diverse cultural backgrounds. It's a night that honours the rich cultural heritage of the diaspora, merging traditions with the contemporary culture we live in today.

Line-Up:
Me Gusta DJ set (b2b)
ANDA Electronix Soundsystem (live drums)
Prince Pasensi b2b Chinnamasta

Me Gusta Collective is a multicultural group of artists based in Manchester, known for their captivating blend of Afro-Latin, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern music styles. Their performances weave traditional and new-age rhythms, creating a musical tapestry that has enchanted audiences at festivals like Warehouse Project’s Repercussion Festival, We Out Here, El Dorado, and Kelburn Festival in Scotland. They've featured and broadcasted on stations such as NTS Radio, Worldwide FM & Rinse FM.

ANDA Electronix celebrates the long history of African influences on electronic music. You’ll hear a wide range of rhythmic and progressive tracks. Think of genres like Batida, UK Funky, Kuduro, Gqom, Baile Funk and more. Expect percussive cutting edge tunes where Electronic music blend together with the sound of Africa and her diaspora.

Prince Pasensi is one of the innovators of a new sound emerging from the Amsterdam underground, Prince Pasensi’s infectious rhythms are rapidly gaining international recognition. Performing at festivals like Down the Rabbit Hole and clubs such as Radio Radio, Garage Noord and Lofi, Prince Pasensi’s sets have been described as a journey through a world of rhythms.

Chinnamasta is an Amsterdam based Caribbean DJ and sonic / cultural researcher, with DJing being an extension of her practice, research and presentation. She is mostly interested in the cross pollination of sonic landscapes and cultures between peoples.

Join us for a night where every beat tells a story.
Celebrate cultural heritage, share your own story, shake your bunda and immerse yourself in the dynamic world of "Diaspora Dreams."

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/diaspora-dreams/

Diaspora Dreams

Walking Grass Agriculture: Queer Kitchen

The Taiwanese art collective Walking Grass Agriculture: Han-sheng Chen and Hsing-yu Liu, who both come from farming families, integrate geography, field studies, and material culture research, transforming their agricultural experiences into a unique artistic methodology. In recent years, their focus has expanded to include ecological concerns, urban transformation, and gender issues.

The collective hails from Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s largest port city, whose urban development, industrial landscapes, and diverse culture have much in common with Rotterdam. The collaboration between Walking Grass Agriculture and WORM Rotterdam is an organic coming together of principles, curiosities, and investigative nature.

In September 2024, the collective will participate in a one-month residency in S/ash Gallery at WORM Rotterdam.
WORM serves as a productive soil for the seeds of this cultural exchange of sailors, pirates and inherent farmers to break in a new artistic playground to explore the personal and familial aspects within the grand narratives of colonisalism and migration.
We invite you to dock by on our packed September weekend, to start the new cultural season with us and harvest the fruits of their labour.

Han-sheng and Hsing-yu are researching the post-colonial discourse on exchanging goods with a focus on plants and objects.
The Walking Grass Agriculture collective is collaborating with organisations like Limestone Books Maastricht, Ook Huis, and De Garage by hosting workshops and cooking sessions.
Keep an eye on our Instagram page to stay updated!

The collective will be opening their studio doors to the public during the Art Centraal XL Rotterdam.
From 13:00-18:00 the artists will be present in the space to tell you about their process, research and offer insights to their art practice.
The final outcome of this residency will culminate into an exhibition opening on the 25th of September 2024 at 15:00!

More information about Walking Grass Agriculture: http://walkinggrass.weebly.com/

Read this article by Florian Cramer on Han-sheng Chen and Hsing-yu Liu here: https://worm.org/2024/07/24/queering-farming-walking-grass-agriculture/

!!The two day Open Studio visits are part of our 25 WORM celebration!!
More informaiton about WORM 25: http://worm.org/2024/07/22/worm-25-press-release/

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/walking-grass-agriculture-queer-kitchen/

Walking Grass Agriculture: Queer Kitchen Day1

Walking Grass Agriculture: Queer Kitchen

The Taiwanese art collective Walking Grass Agriculture: Han-sheng Chen and Hsing-yu Liu, who both come from farming families, integrate geography, field studies, and material culture research, transforming their agricultural experiences into a unique artistic methodology. In recent years, their focus has expanded to include ecological concerns, urban transformation, and gender issues.

The collective hails from Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s largest port city, whose urban development, industrial landscapes, and diverse culture have much in common with Rotterdam. The collaboration between Walking Grass Agriculture and WORM Rotterdam is an organic coming together of principles, curiosities, and investigative nature.

Liu Hsing-Yu
Liu Hsing-Yu is an enthusiastic follower of the first-generation Pokémon and Cardcaptor Sakura. Born in Kaohsiung in 1985, Liu received his MFA degree from the National Kaohsiung Normal University. After he earned the honourable mention in the 2018 Taipei Arts Awards, he was invited in 2019 to participate in the “Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human” curated by the Centre Pompidou. Working as an art critic, curator, artist, and the founder of the Walking Grass Agriculture, Liu has perennial interest in gender, farming, and environmental issues. The exhibitions he has curated include the "Survival of the Exceptional"(2020, Tainan Taiwan), “Attachment-Detachment: The fluxes of subjects and objects” Hong Kong＆Taiwan Art Exchange Exhibition” in Cattle Depot Artists Village.（2017）“The philosophy of disclosure” at Digiark, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts（2017）“Lifetime Warranty – The Romance of Home Appliances “ at Taipei Digital Art Center（2018）

Han-Sheng, Chen
Born in 1988, Kaohsiung (Taiwan), and graduated from Taipei National University of Arts. Currently a Dierctor of the TAIPEI ArtCreator Trade Union, and a Curator of Walking Grass Agriculture. He works with experimental animation and mixed media kinetic installations, incorporating his own background and identity. His themes often include agriculture, nature and the coexistence of human beings with our environment. His works have garnered many positive responses, silver medal in the Taipei Arts Award, Honorable mention in Tokyo Art Olympia, including the first prize of Next Art Tainan, silver medal in the MATA prize, selected for the Taoyuan Contemporary Arts Award ,the Digital art award Taipei, National Art Exhibtion ROC and the Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale. Once Residency in C-lab creators, China Art35, The PIER-2 Art Center, Bangkok Tentacles, Chiang Mai Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space, Bamboo Curtain Studio. Works have been exhibited in France Centre Pompidou, Bangkok Biennial, Spain Esplugues Angelina Alós 19th, Italy POP UP MINIARTEXTIL.

In September 2024, the collective will participate in a one-month residency in S/ash Gallery at WORM Rotterdam.
WORM serves as a productive soil for the seeds of this cultural exchange of sailors, pirates and inherent farmers to break in a new artistic playground to explore the personal and familiar aspects within the grand narratives of colonisalism and migration.
We invite you to dock by on our packed September weekend, to start the new cultural season with us and harvest the fruits of their labour.

Han-sheng and Hsing-yu are researching the post-colonial discourse on exchanging goods with a focus on plants and objects.
The Walking Grass Agriculture collective is collaborating with organisations like Limestone Books Maastricht, Ook Huis, and De Garage by hosting workshops and cooking sessions.
Keep an eye on our Instagram page to stay updated!

The collective will be opening their studio doors to the public during the Art Centraal XL Rotterdam.
From 13:00-18:00 the artists will be present in the space to tell you about their process, research and offer insights to their art practice.
The final outcome of this residency will culminate into an exhibition opening on the 25th of September 2024 at 15:00!

More information about Walking Grass Agriculture: http://walkinggrass.weebly.com/

Read this article by Florian Cramer on Han-sheng Chen and Hsing-yu Liu here: https://worm.org/2024/07/24/queering-farming-walking-grass-agriculture/

!!The two day Open Studio visits are part of our 25 WORM celebration!!
More informaiton about WORM 25: http://worm.org/2024/07/22/worm-25-press-release/

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/walking-grass-agriculture-queer-kitchen-2/

Walking Grass Agriculture: Queer Kitchen Day2

Frontaal is hét literair podium van nu met een gevarieerd programma van korte verhalen, spoken word en gedichten. Met op de planken Grote Gasten (bekende auteurs) en Literaire Superhelden (aanstormende schrijvers). Deze editie met Eva Eikhout, Sophia Blyden, Lelie Danesh, Anneleen van Offel en een open mic!

Eva Eikhout: Inspirerende spreker en auteur met een energie en doorzettingskracht waar menig mens jaloers op is.

Sophia Blyden: Schrijver, dichter en kersverse debutant met een eigenzinnige kijk op het leven tussen meisje en moeder.

Lelie Danesh: Experimentele filmmaker, dichter en spoken word artiest die de grenzen van kunst opzoekt.

Anneleen van Offel: Auteur van De stem van Sulina, een roman die onrust, moederwoede, vanlife, rivieren en het klimaat verkent.

Open Mic: Klim zelf op het podium en deel jouw verhaal! Meld je aan via Instagram voor de Open Mic van Frontaal.

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Event source:
https://worm.org/production/frontaal-eva-eikhout-sophia-blyden-lelie-danesh-anneleen-van-offel-e-v-a/

Spoken word

Open mic

Frontaal: Eva Eikhout, Sophia Blyden, Lelie Danesh, Anneleen van Offel + open mic

Adam

Maggie

Christie

Eric

Anna

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WORM is de ultieme testomgeving voor alternatieve kunstproductie, experimentele levensvormen en niet- academische kennisontwikkeling. Wij zijn een netwerkorganisatie op het snijvlak van (populaire) cultuur en (podium) kunsten, gevoed door de interesse in de inspirerende, mooie, urgente, vitale, rauwe, weerbarstige en/of maffe shit waar onze medemens mee op de proppen komt. We zien de chaos die hiermee gepaard gaat niet als een probleem, maar we gebruiken het als energie voor actie.

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