Extendedinvites you to the presentation of their final project on Saturday, June 21st.
Over the past few months, Extended has been working with the theme of dreams, which served as the inspiration for their final project on lullabies. During the final presentation, we invite you to share your own lullabies with us, so we can listen to them together. Maybe, in doing so, we can escape our nightmares.
Date: 21 June 2025 Time: 12—2PM Location: Marres City Garden, Maastricht
The educational program Extended is a collaborative project by Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie, in which young people work together for four months on a socially engaged art project.
The garden of Marres is, at around 1,000 square meters, the largest public city garden in Maastricht. In August, Marres invites you to take part in workshops exploring all the beauty this hidden piece of nature has to offer.
Drawing workshop De Verborgen Taal van de Tuin(The Hidden Language of the Garden)
by Gladys Zeevaarders Marres x Kasteel Wijlre Estate
How can you capture the essence of a place in a drawing? And how much space do we actually include when we draw a scene? In this special drawing workshop, we’ll dive into the garden of Marres and uncover its hidden language—a language of shapes, memories, and wonder.
You’ll receive a handmade field guide as your starting point, inviting you to set off on an adventurous pencil journey through the garden. This field guide will serve as the foundation for a personal archive we’ll build together, filled with sketches, mementos, and stories.
We’ll use this collection to question and explore the space and to create a visual narrative without words—told entirely through shapes and images. Inspired by old botanical illustrations, you’ll combine your own sketches with fragments of photos and stories from the past and present of the Marres garden.
With a variety of drawing materials and visual examples, Gladys will show how wordless visual stories can come to life. Explore books on forgotten plants to help shape a unique, personal interpretation of this walled garden.
This workshop is an invitation to slow down, to feel, and to connect deeply with the nature around us through drawing.
Date:
Saturday 23 August 2025
Times:
You can sign up for one of the two workshops: 12—2PM 3—5PM
The garden of Marres was the source of inspiration for the linocut that Elisa Verkoelen created a few years ago. “In the Marres garden, I saw how light and shadow alternated, and how the garden was made up of layers.”
On Sunday, August 24, 2025, she will lead a linocut workshop. Discover the Marres garden in a new way: work with negative space and let shadows and shapes tell new stories, which you will then translate into blind drawings and black-and-white linocuts.
No prior experience with linocutting is necessary to participate in the workshop. It is recommended to wear clothing that can get dirty.
Date:
Sunday 24 August 2025
Time:
You can sign up for one of the two workshops: 12—2PM 3—5PM
Would you also like to visit Vultures & Fireflies? You can with a valid admission ticket.
Museum Card holders, ICOM members, children under 18, students of the Maastricht Institute of Arts / Jan van Eyck Academy / Maastricht Academy of Performing Arts / Maastricht Conservatory, and Friends of Marres always receive free admission.
Partners / thanks
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
In addition, Marres thanks Hans Engelbrecht, our volunteer Thuur, as well as everything that grows and flourishes in the garden.
On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, the whole country turns into one big playground — and Marres is joining in! Come play outside in our delightful city garden.
Make your own witch’s brew, smell fragrant flowers, taste fresh elderflower, and search for all the colors of the rainbow.
Let your senses be stimulated and your imagination run wild! Be sure to wear old clothes, because getting dirty is not just allowed — it’s a must!
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: The city garden of Marres in Maastricht The garden is free to enter
For parents, there’s the option to visit the Vultures & Fireflies exhibition, enjoy reading a book in the garden, or relax at Marres Kitchen.
The National Outdoor Play Day is an initiative by Jantje Beton. Jantje Beton is the leading charity that, since 1968, has been working together with children to create more and better play spaces and increase opportunities for play.
On Friday evening, July 4, Dutch designer and tailor Sophie Nelissen—the creative mind behind Studio SUFI—will lead a workshop. Inspired by the Marres garden, you’ll create a fabric bookmark and learn how to use local flowers to print or dye the fabric.
Sophie is a passionate researcher who works with locally sourced materials such as sheep’s wool and natural dye plants, creating designs that tell a story of sustainability and craftsmanship.
Roll out your yoga mat in Maastricht’s city garden and join this yoga session.
Raeesah teaches Hatha yoga with a focus on creating classes that are inclusive and accessible to all levels. Her main goal is to ensure that participants leave the session feeling better – mentally, physically, and/or spiritually. In addition, she collaborates with people from across Maastricht to make her classes more accessible to a wider community.
