Especially for this evening Het Nieuwe Café-Rotterdam will serve a Thursday Love Bite with a and finish with Ultimate Loving Beats!

Join us and feel the love! Free entrance, RSVP via Ticket link

Natalie Dixon

Research fellow Natalie Dixon presents her performance-reading Senhora, exploring awkward love, arranged marriage and advertising for a wife. Dixon tells the story of women during post-war Europe who left Portugal to seek love and a better life in “Africa” — using her Portuguese family photo archive as a narrative starting point. Senhora forms part of a series of performance-readings, and is part of the Het Nieuwe Instituut’s on-going program on the theme of Burn-out.

Jason Gwen

After 30 years JASON GWEN finally comes out as a triple threat. Half of his life he has been mastering the craft of acting and contemporary dance. And now music will get all the attention. After a festival season at eg. Milkshake Festival, Valtifest, Paradiso and closing the Uitmarkt, he will be releasing and touring with his 25 items debut concept album, starting January 23. In the form of a concert, nightclub, live screening, speed date and talkshow. He spits on Techno, where Techno and Hip Hop emerges into the new sound of the future. Minimalistic, but with a rhythm that keeps you dancing until dawn. #TheRISEofINCLUSION

Leanne Wijnsma - Roses Smell Like

Nature designed animals to produce two types of odors, to defend and to attract. Humans are no exception. Body odor is crucial for social communication and is particularly influential in mating behaviour. In Roses Smell Like Leanne Wijnsma explores the effects of our hyper hygienic and overly fragrant society. Can artificial smells change our biology and influence partner choice?

Florine van Rees

Florine van Rees became a photographer after finishing the Bachelor of Fashion Design at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. Being intrigued by colours, combinations of things and people, lines and textures, she found

fashion in documentary photography. The main subject of her pictures is unseen beauty in the regular outdoors, mostly in different countries and cultures. The commissioned work is mainly fashion photography, where Florine can be partly stylist as well - having a fashion background.

Thursday Bite

Before the Thursday Night you can grab a bite to eat with the speakers and staff of Het Nieuwe Instituut. At 18:00 Het Nieuwe Café will serve a light vegetarian meal. Dinner vouchers are available for € 7.70 up to a day before the particular Thursday Night event via the Tickets link.

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