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Mo & Kush Band

Mo & Kush Band brings together musicians from many nationalities, including the Netherlands, Sudan, Mali, Spain and Tunisia. They combine songs and rhythms from African cultural traditions with Western instruments and styles such as jazz and blues, creating music that is both exciting and instantly recognisable — and above all, made for dancing. The band…

Melissa Fortes

Melissa Fortes is a dynamic multidisciplinary artist who uses her voice to build bridges between worlds. Raised in a Cape Verdean-Dutch family in Rotterdam, she weaves the warmth of the islands together with the pulse and rhythms of the city in her work. On stage, all her disciplines converge. As a singer, actress, songwriter, and…

Het Markttheater

Het Markttheater is a theatre collective that brings new life to the tradition of market theatre, performing with the spirit of the street and engaging directly with the world around it. Led by artistic directors Sean Hauser and Justin van der Veen, together with business manager Sofie de Vroom, the company works with a broad…

Deafbeat

Deafbeat is a pioneering drumming ensemble from Malaysia that redefines the way we experience rhythm, sound, and communication. Founded in 2008 and led by multidisciplinary artist Lee Mok Yee, the group is composed of performers from the hearing-impaired community. Using vibration instead of sound as the foundation for rhythm, Deafbeat developed a unique training method…

Maia Steinberg

Maia Steinberg (MAGU) is a Uruguayan singer, composer, sound & song therapist, community musician, interdisciplinary creator, and cultural entrepreneur. She studied Composition in Uruguay, completed a Master’s in Audiovisual Composition in France, and earned additional Bachelor and Master degrees in classical voice in the Netherlands. As a composer, Maia has written music for film, video…

Isabel Jones

Isabela Jones is an Artistic Director / sound weaver / audio describer/ singer vocalist, socially engaged audience as makers, body voice interaction site specific-artist. She has been Salamanda Tandem co-founder & Director from 1989 – 2025 (current) Maker type:Artist, Educator, Facilitator, Organisation Maker discipline:Dance, Music, Site-specific Performance, Workshop

Project A – A voice journey

Project A is an award-winning artistic platform founded by Maia Steinberg (MAGU), a professional composer specializing in new opera and theater, singer, and sound & song healer from Uruguay/Poland, currently based in the Netherlands. By re-exploring her own voice after a life turnover, and sharing her experiences with the world, she created Project A as…

ICAF’26 for Professionals

YOU ARE INVITED TO ICAF 2026 TAKING PLACE FROM WEDNESDAY 25-SUNDAY 29 mARCH, 2026 The International Community Arts Festival will be back and take place again in Rotterdam, in March 2026. Mark your calendars and start arranging your travel for Wednesday 25-Sunday 29 March, 2026! For this Edition of the Festival (our 10th Edition!) we…

Zinneke Parade 2024

On Saturday June 1, 2024 in the streets of Brussels. The Zinneke Parade is a large folkloric, surreal and typically Brussels procession that passes through the streets and avenues of Brussels every 2 years. The Zinneke Parade aims to bring together residents, associations and schools from the different neighborhoods of Brussels around a common project.…

Pauluskerk

The Diaconal Center Pauluskerk supports all people in Rotterdam and surroundings that cannot survive without help: Homeless people, addicts, psychiatric patients, people without residence permit, people without employment, young adults that have no guidance for the way of life and vulnerable elderly people. The base of the Pauluskerk is the importance and the ‘perspective of…