Categories: Free Friday Night Opening

Beginner’s Crochet workshop by Maasstitch 

Photo: Nena van Kleef

In October, Maasstitch will host a beginner’s crochet workshop at Marres. Maasstitch is a Maastricht-based craft club focused on crochet and knitting, centered around coming together, creating, sharing, and relaxing with like-minded makers. The group meets regularly to crochet, chat, and inspire one another—whether you’re a total beginner or a seasoned pro. Open to all ages!

Date:

Friday, 17 October 2025

Time:

5PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Reserve your free spot by emailing reserveringen@marres.org.
Space is limited to 10 participants.



Pinch Pot Workshop by Farbod Ceramics

Create your own pinch pot during a workshop led by Farbod Nael.

Farbod Nael is a ceramic artist and designer based in Maastricht. Rooted in the slow, tactile rhythm of working with clay, Farbod combines ancient techniques with contemporary storytelling. Through hand-building, slip casting, and wheel-throwing, they explore themes of diaspora, identity, and collective memory—shaping vessels not just as functional objects, but as carriers of emotion, culture, and care.

Through their project Farbod Ceramics, they create small-batch collections and lead community-based workshops that center healing, heritage, and queer joy.

Your pot will need about 2.5 weeks to dry—pick it up before the holidays and gift someone a unique, handmade present!

Date:

Friday 28 November 2025

Time:

5—7:30PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht


Reserve your free spot by emailing reserveringen@marres.org.
Space is limited to 15 participants.



Beginner’s Sashiko workshop by Textile Textiel

This workshop is a hands-on class where participants learn the traditional Japanese stitching technique called Sashiko, which means “little stabs” in Japanese. Historically used to mend, patch, or strengthen worn clothing—especially workwear. Over time, it evolved into a beautiful form of textile art known for its white geometric patterns stitched onto indigo fabric.

The workshop will be led by Becky Doonan, a freelance textile conservator and seamstress with a strong background in textile crafts and dressmaking. Her work covers a broad spectrum, from creating made-to-measure garments and conserving antique textiles, to teaching textile craft workshops and giving sewing lessons. She has a longstanding fascination with traditional textile craft techniques, which she explores through activities such as embroidery, weaving, and other handicrafts.

Bring your own jeans!

Date:

Friday, 21 November 2025

Time:

5—7:30PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht


Reserve your free spot by emailing reserveringen@marres.org.
Space is limited to 15 participants.

Neighborhood Gathering & Fruit Harvest

After a fun and successful edition in April, Marres will host another neighborhood gathering. Come join us in the Marres city garden. Everyone is welcome – neighbours, friends, and passers-by.

At around 1,000 m², the Marres garden is the largest public city garden in Maastricht. It features a vegetable patch, herb beds, and several fruit trees.

Together we’ll pick ripe figs (maybe even some apples!) and enjoy the fruit, drinks, and summery vibes. You’re welcome to take your harvest home with you.

Date:

Friday, 29 August 2025

Time:

Picking: 4:30—5:30PM
Drinks until 7:30PM

Location:

Marres City Garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Entry is free. We appreciate your RSVP at reserveringen@marres.org.



Book presentation by Floor Martens

Friday Night Openings

From the winter of 2018 to the early spring of 2025, Floor Martens worked steadily on a visual exploration that now comes together in Verstrengeld (Entangled). This book unfolds as a quiet yet powerful visual chronicle of the seasons, where time does not move linearly, but circles and returns.

The photographs in Verstrengeld are infused with attentiveness: to a twisting branch, a fold in the skin, a field full of tangles. What is revealed is more than mere form—it is the elusive, that which resonates without a name. Martens captures moments in which the inner self is mirrored in the outer world, offering an ode to the subtle layers of emotional life.

Verstrengeld is not a book to flip through quickly, but one to slowly disappear into. A still journey through time, texture, and connection.

Date:

Friday, 11 July, 2025

Time:

6PM Walk in
6:30PM Recital by Elisa Verkoelen
8PM End

Location:

Marres, ice house
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Free entry
Claim your spot: reserveringen@marres.org


Workshop Studio SUFI

Photo: FOCUSS 22

Friday Night Openings

We’re so glad you’d like to join! Unfortunately, this workshop is already fully booked.

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.

Date:

Friday, 4 July, 2025

Time:

Start 6:30PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Vultures & Fireflies – Spanish guided tour

Photo: Rob van Hoorn

Friday Night Openings

Join a guided tour led by Daniel Rivera, one of our Spanish-speaking volunteers, and discover the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies by Mexican artist Alejandro Galván in it’s own language.

Date:

Friday, 6 June, 2025

Time:

start 6:30PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht

Free entry
Claim your spot: reserveringen@marres.org


Raeesah’s Hatha Yoga in the garden

Friday Night Opening

FULLY BOOKED

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.

Bring your own mat!

Date

Friday, 23 May, 2025

Time:

start 6:30PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht


Workshop Maastricht University Premium team

In this workshop, you will engage your senses to explore how sensory knowledge is used in the workplace. The Premium team and Marres are very excited to see you there and hope you discover something new  about yourself.

Each year, students from Maastricht University’s Premium program join Marres’ research to explore sensory culture through immersive exhibitions, training, and education.

The event pics and videos will be made for publication on social media.
Questions? Contact k.dehaan@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl

Date:

Friday, May 16, 2025

Time:

5—8PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Free entry!



Ingrid Berger Myhre – Terms & Conditions 

Photo: Henrik Follesø Egeland

How do we use the body as a conduit for language? Under what circumstances must the body act out, adjust, or contradict language? And what do you do with variable interpretations of words?  

Spoken language is always accompanied by gestures. We emphasize our words or soften them, we extend their meaning or brush it off. The silent contract between language and movement is the subject of the engaging performance titled Terms & Conditions by Ingrid Berger Myhre. 

Etymology is the part of linguistics that deals with where words come from. It looks at the connections between concepts and meanings, and how these have changed over time depending on context and use. Etymology can be seen as a kind of map of the movement and relationships of words, both formally and semantically. We use this as a framework to think about how language moves choreographically. Using game structures and choreographic assignments we will explore the literal and metaphorical, embodied cognition, associative trains of thought, related meaning, formal shifts and puns.

Date:

Terms & Conditions takes place on Friday evening, October 31, 2025.

Keep an eye on this page and our socials for more details.

Location:

Marres, Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht

Photo: Henrik Follesø Egeland
Photo: Tale Hendnes

Ingrid Berger Myhre

Ingrid Berger Myhre (1987, Oslo, Norway) is a choreographer and performer based in Brussels. She holds an MA in Choreography; Research and Performance from ex.e.r.ce at the Choreographic Centre in Montpellier and later deepened her project literacy in dance at the Research Studio’s at P.A.R.T.S. Since 2015, she has developed her work as associate artist at Dansateliers Rotterdam, periodically with the support of the Dutch Performing Arts Funds, and the Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) network.

Language and semiotics are central elements to Berger Myhre’s artistic work. Her curiousity for how we read and understand dance, comes together in unpretentious and humorous performances. With her first 2 productions selected for Aerowaves, her work has since 2018 toured extensively in Europe in places like SPRING Festival, Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Kaaitheatre, STUK, Sommerszene and more. Her longstanding and continuous collaboration with composer and sound artist Lasse Passage takes many forms, most recently the stage performance No Dreams, No Gold (2025).

Since 2020, Berger Myhre is supported internationally by Caravan Production.

Credits

Research and direction: Ingrid Berger Myhre
Performer: Ingrid Berger Myhre
Developed in collaboration with: Yuhan Ashley Ho, Calvin Carrier, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold
Outside eyes: Sara Manente, Geert Belpaeme
Residencies: STUK, Leuven (BE), Bora Bora, Aarhus (DK)
Co-production: Bærum Kulturhus (NO)
Supported by: Au Jus, Brussels (BE), I Am Undone (NO), Vlaamse Gemeenschap (BE)
Production: Caravan Production (BE)

Performance of gestures

The diptych on ‘performance of gestures’ by Amparo Gonzalez Sola and Ingrid Berger Myhre continues Marres’ long-standing tradition of exploring the language of the body. The Floor is Lava (2019) by artists Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen, and Museum Motus Mori (2019) by choreographer Katja Heitmann, were also dedicated to this theme.

Press

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Partners / thanks to

Dansateliers, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Frascati Producties, BAU AIR (NL), Greenhouse (NL), Rooms Performance Festival (NL), workspacebrussels (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT)

Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.

Workshop Ebru

Refugee Project Maastricht and Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, invite you to a creative evening.

On Friday, April 4th, Şerife Keskinkılıç will give a presentation and interactive workshop on ebru, the traditional Turkish art of paper marbling and painting on water.

This will be an open and participatory space for cultural exchange, knowledge sharing, and artistic exploration.

Questions? Contact us at info@refugeeprojectmaastricht.nl

Date: Friday, April 4, 2025
Time: 17:30 – 19:00
Location: Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, 6211 RT Maastricht

Marres is open every Friday evening until 20:00, with free admission from 17:00. The Ebru workshop is a free event, and all materials are provided.

Due to high demand, this workshop is unfortunately fully booked. Keep an eye on our web agenda or socials for a new date!

25 years of Marres – Neighborhood Gathering

Photo: Rob van Hoorn

Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of ten special events held on the 25th of every month. On the eve of King’s Day, which falls on April 26 instead of April 27 this year, we warmly invite our neighbors to a special evening at Marres.

Enjoy guided tours in English, Spanish, Dutch and Maastricht dialect by our team. Activities and a guided tour for the little ones, and a refreshing Marres beer or a glass of Aperol in our city garden.

Even if you don’t live nearby, you’re more than welcome to join us in celebrating our anniversary.

Date:

Friday, April 25

Time:

5—8PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Admission is free, but we appreciate your RSVP at reserveringen@marres.org.



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Friday Night Openings

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Marres will have extended hours every Friday evening! From 5PM to 8PM, you can drop by with free admission. Explore the current exhibition and bring your friends, family, or date for a cultural start to your night out.

During the summer months, special events are scheduled for these Friday evenings.

Summer Line Up

Date: Every Friday evening until 10 Oct 2025
Time: 5PM—8PM (open from 12PM)
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Free admission from 5PM

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