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Over the next two days, Utopian Hours — the international festival of city-making — celebrates cities and explores city-making, urban imagination and urban innovation. This tenth anniversary has two parts: the first in Rotterdam, followed by the second on 16–17 October in Turin. For this occasion we put up these Woven Cities tapestries of in our showroom. For a break from the conference feel free to walk by.

May 28 and 29 at the iconic Organized by Tickets on utopianhours.it

🎉Coming weekend celebrates its 60th anniversary! Part of the festivities is a free exhibition: de Doelen 60 years in posters. Smuggled-in are these posters that we proposed in 2022 with the idea of retroactively highlight the impressive pop legacy of this venue. The concept was never used but they were selected for our ‘klootviolen’ expo pictured here in 2024. Going through de Doelen archives we found photographic proof of these legendary events:

📷 2&3 Blondie, September 7, 1978
📷 4&5 Kraftwerk, March 21, 1976
📷 6&7 Nirvana, September 1st, 1991
📷 8&9 The Who, September 16th, 1970

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🎉🍻 will celebrate their 12th anniversary at their brand new home: Kaapse Kaai. An impressive historic industrial complex that is now being transformed into new use, located on the south bank in Rotterdam with views over the river. In 1891, the margarine factory opened here. What began as a production company grew into one of the largest industrial complexes in Rotterdam and later even became the beating heart of Unilever. For years, packs of margarine rolled off the production lines here, jars of peanut butter were filled, and products such as Blue Band, Zeeuws Meisje, and Calvé left the factory. Virtually every Dutch household had something from this factory in its cupboard.

The anniversary lineup of guest breweries from across Europe include:
Norm Brewing Company (BE)
to Øl (DK)
Brussels Beer Project (BE)
La Pirata Brewing (ES)
Brouwerij de Kromme Haring (NL)
Laugar Brewery (ES)
Walhalla (NL)
Q***r Brewing (UK)
The Kernel (UK)
Sleeping Village (NO)
Fermentage (PT)

Tickets on sale at their website! Cheers!🍻🎉

🏃🏻🏃🏽‍♀️🏃‍♂️ On Sunday, May 10, Sculpture International Rotterdam and artist Jeroen Jongeleen are organizing the second edition of the Rotterdam Sculpture Run. The running route takes you past well-known and lesser-known, official and unofficial artworks in the city. Along the route, at ten artworks, there will be stamp stations where you can collect ten stamps. Upon return, your stamp card will be numbered and signed by the artist. 🏃🏻🏃🏽‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Here are some stamping impressions of the 1st Sculpture Run in 2025 > We’re busy now working on the stamps for this 2nd edition!⏱️⏱️
info:
Distance: 32 km
Start time: between 10:30 and 11:00 AM
Start and finish location: Het Wilde Weten, Robert Fruinstraat 35
Participation: free
Soup will be served at 4:00 PM.
A maximum of 40 runners can participate.
Register by May 6 at the latest via Sannetje van Haarst, [email protected]

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🪁Always interesting exhibitions at Rotterdam🪁✨During his life, Malcolm Goodman collected more than 500 kites while traveling through over 50 countries. Together with his wife Jeanette, he bought an old bed & breakfast in Middleton-in-Teesdale, England, with the dream of transforming it into a kite museum. Room after room filled up with extraordinary kites—but sadly, permission to open the museum was never granted due to fire safety regulations. Luckily, the story didn’t end there. Our friends from the Dutch kite club—Scheltens&Abbenes, Bertjan Pot and Peter Hebbing—together with curator Charlotte Martens made this remarkable collection a traveling exhibition. Its first stop: Rotterdam 🪁❤️ 🎏 And it’s absolutely worth a visit.> go see for yourself! Till August 30th 🪁



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is really happening this week! 100+ artists, 20 surprising locations, and countless discoveries. Check out the full line-up overview, and get your ticket for a day- or passe-partout at motelmozaique.nl ! 🔗

With this film series, current developments in Iran will be explored, using cinema as point of departure. Across six film evenings, the rich and internationally influential Iranian film culture takes center stage—a cinema that, despite political restrictions, has for decades produced innovative and daring films.

The films are further enriched by contributions from, among others, writer Kader Abdolah, filmmaker Beri Shalmashi, human rights activist Mardjan Seighali, programmer and writer Bahram Sadeghi, and Rotterdam city council members Mina Morkoç and Elika Rehim Zadeh.
From April 15 to May 26 at

➖From March 25-29, 2026 , Rotterdam will be completely devoted to art. ➖At more than 60 locations throughout the city, you can discover fairs, exhibitions, open studios, tours, artist talks ➖From high-profile openings to surprising pop-up shows, art will be everywhere ➖

Here’s to hope, resilience, and better days in future year.
Happy Nowruz!
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‎نور بر تاریکی پیروز است 🌿
نوروز ۱۴۰۵

The limited-edition SUSAN BIJL for 55th IFFR⁠ shopping bag.
Still some available at:⁠ ⁠
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• stores and online⁠ shop
• Official festival shop at De Doelen⁠ till Sun 8 Feb

Hurry!