Categories: Performance
Marres Winter Program: Free Friday Evenings
Marres is open later every Friday evening until 8PM, with a special program and free admission. Bring your friends, family, or date along for a cultural start to your night out.
Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes
Wander through the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes or join one of the multilingual guided tours, film screenings in collaboration with Lumière, storytelling evenings, workshops on West African traditions, and music sessions together with DAR Cultural Agency. Central themes include heritage, cultural identity, migration, and sensory experience.
Below you’ll find the full program!
Open Call: Marres Friday Night Program
Marres invites makers to program our Friday evenings! We’re offering you a space in which to create your own event, such as a workshop, performance, lecture, presentation, film screening, or anything else you can think of.
For the current exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes, the program has already been fully scheduled. In the summer, we plan to create a public program around the Limburg Biënnale, alongside the Marres Garden Program. In the fall, textiles, handicraft, and collaboration will take center stage in the exhibition by Celina Eceiza.
Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes
Winter Program Calendar
January 2026
Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes multilingual guided tours
9 January, 2026
Join a guided tour of the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes in French, English, or the Maastricht dialect.
Free entrance!
Datum:
Friday, 9 January, 2026
Time:
Doors open from 5PM, program starts at 5:30PM.
5:30 Guided tour in Maastricht dialect by Guus van Engelshoven
6:00 Guided tour in English by Raeesah Nawaz
6:15 Guided tour in French by Soraya Ben-Essalah
Marres closes at 8PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Film Screening ‘Diaspora Babes’
by Elinice Adeyemi
16 January, 2026
On Friday evening, January 16, you can watch two short films, including Diaspora Babes by Nigerian filmmaker Elinice Adeyemi.
Elinice Adeyemi has lived in Maastricht for the past few years and has done Anti-Racist community organizing work in the city. She will screen some of her films and discuss how they intersect with her experiences in Maastricht and with filmmaking and community building.
She directed Diaspora Babes, a film exploring the identities of Black and Brown young women with immigration backgrounds. She co-founded Black Lives Matter Maastricht, now the Maastricht Anti-Racist Society. She is committed to amplifying marginalized voices and believes whole-heartedly in the transformative power of art and community.
Free entrance!
Volunteers Meet & Greet!
Open evening for our current as well as potential new volunteers
23 January, 2026
To thank our volunteers for their incredible dedication over the past year, Marres is organizing a special evening just for them. People who are curious about volunteering and would like to become part of the Marres family are also warmly invited to sign up.
Free entrance!
Date:
Friday, 23 January, 2026
Tijd:
Doors open from 5PM, program starts at 5:30PM
Marres closes at 8PM
Locatie:
Marres, Maastricht
Please reserve your spot via reserveringen@marres.org due to limited capacity.
Workshop Codes of Connection by Pascale Adekpui from CreavidArte
30 January, 2026 * fully booked!
The workshop Codes of Connection introduces participants to Adinkra symbolism from Ghana: a visual language that carries stories about identity, community, and heritage. Participants choose a symbol that resonates with them and translate it into a personal artwork using mixed media such as textiles, beads, and paint.
During the making process, the historical and cultural context of the symbols is explained and connected to their contemporary meaning within the African diaspora. The workshop offers a hands-on experience in which participants reflect on themes such as identity, connection, and cultural transmission.
Pascale Adekpui is a creative entrepeneur from the African diaspora and founder of CreavidArte.
Free entrance!
Date:
Friday, 30 January, 2026
Time:
Doors open from 5PM, program starts at 5:30PM
Marres closes at 8PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Workshop is in both English & Dutch.
Would you like to be added to the waiting list? We will notify you if a spot becomes available. Please send an email to reserveringen@marres.org
Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes
Winter Program Calendar
February 2026
Workshop Fairytale Visitors by Kekkyr
6 February, 2026 * fully booked!
Fairytale Visitors is a family friendly hands-on workshop in which participants use air-dry clay to sculpt characters from their own cultural folklore, creating a shared space where storytelling, material play, and cross-cultural exchange reveal the enduring connections between diverse fairy-tale traditions. Suitable for ages 6+.
Kekkyr is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Maastricht. Through storytelling, sensory experiences and play they create spaces for wonder and discoveries.
Free entrance!
Date:
Friday, 6 February, 2026
Time:
Doors open from 5PM, program starts at 5:30PM
Marres closes at 8PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Workshop is in both English & Dutch. Suitable for 6 years and older.
Film: Hyenas
Lumière Maastricht
10 February, 2026
A timeless parable by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty (Touki Bouki) about human greed and corruption. An African modern classic, based on a play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Djibril Diop Mambéty (1945-1998), who passed away at a young age, made only two feature films, but both are considered African classics. In the vicious satire Hyenas, Mambéty takes us to the poor village of Colobane. Rumour has it that Linguère Ramatou, who left the village years ago and is now ‘richer than the World Bank,’ will visit Colobane. The villagers call a meeting to discuss how they can persuade Linguère to share some of her wealth with them. Upon arrival, Linguère appears willing to donate a large sum of money to the village, but her offer has sinister strings attached.
In Hyenas, Mambéty criticizes the influence of foreign money on Africa, the continent that has so often fallen victim to foreign creditors. ‘My task was to identify the enemy of humanity,’ said the director: ‘Money, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.’
Hyenas is part of the Exploring Cinema series, a collaboration between Lumière and United World College Maastricht. This series offers the opportunity to rediscover remarkable film classics while inviting a deeper analysis of the medium. The film is also part of the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes.
Date:
Tuesday, 10 February, 2026
Time:
7PM
Location:
Lumière
Bassin 88, Maastricht
Workshop Body, Mind and Space
by Awa Gaye & Kadia Doumbouya
20 February, 2026 * fully booked
This workshop explores the body as a site of presence, performance and resistance. Starting from the idea that our presence is never neutral, we examine how bodies, with a focus on racialised bodies, are perceived when moving through Western, white-centered spaces.
Through a series of interactions with the space and the body, participants are invited to become aware of how they occupy space, how they are seen and how this affects the way they feel. The workshop invites different approaches to reclaim space, recenter the body and consciously shift the narrative, from being observed to being present/seen.
Awa Gaye grew up in Belgium and is currently based in Ghent. She studied photography at KASK, Ghent. Her work draws inspiration from family relationships, cultural identity, origin, and race.
Kadia Doumbouya is a multidisciplinary artist from Guinea based in Brussels. Her work brings together painting, performance, and cooking. She explores themes such as memory, body, diaspora, and collective care. Influenced by both Guinean and Belgian cultures, She is interested in how the female body is perceived, remembered, and transmitted across time and space.
Both artists participated in Currents 11: The Turn of Many Suns. Currents is a recurring group exhibition that showcases work by recent graduates from different art academies, brought together by a team of emerging curators.
Free entrance!
Date:
Friday, 20 February, 2026
Time:
Doors open from 5PM, program starts at 5:30PM.
End 7:30, Marres closes at 8PM.
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Textile and embroidery workshop
Sei Pênelópê? by Chiron Floris
27 February, 2026 * fully booked
A sensory, participatory workshop in which participants are invited to reflect on their own relationship to heritage, memory, and collectivity through textile practices and simple embroidery actions. The workshop is inspired by Chiron’s artistic research Sei Pênelópê?, in which she explored her family history, migration trajectories, and a lost sense of belonging through Sardinian textile crafts.
Chiron Floris (Maastricht, 1994) explores the relationship between humans and textiles, and the connections that emerge during the process of making. Her work engages with themes such as ancestral knowledge, migration, and belonging. Through textiles, illustration, diary fragments, photography, and film, she weaves personal stories into broader cultural narratives.
Free entrance!
Date:
Friday, 27 February, 2026
Time:
Doors open from 5PM, program starts at 5:30PM.
End 7:30, Marres closes at 8PM.
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Workshop is in both English & Dutch
Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes
Winter Program Calendar
March 2026
Storytelling Night #3
Marres x Limestone
6 March, 2026
Marres and Limestone are once again organizing a storytelling evening and invite you to gather in Marres’ city garden. Listen to personal stories about diaspora and migration, in a warm and cozy setting, with a fire pit, a small bar, benches, and comfortable cushions and blankets.
With:
Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura is a multidisciplinary performance artist of Sierra Leonean heritage, based in Europe. Her work moves fluidly between ritual, theatre, music, and visual storytelling.
Drawing on Vodun cosmology, West African spiritual traditions, and the archetype of the Wild Woman, she creates performance worlds that merge ancestral memory with contemporary experience. Through movement, language, and sound, she channels fictional personas carrying fragments of history and collective memory.
She describes her practice as “soul-voice storytelling,” where art becomes ritual and ritual becomes resistance—resurrecting forgotten voices, silenced women, and lost bones through trance and embodied ceremony.
Ali Sardari Shahbolaghi is an engineer and an occasional culture event organiser.
Vladyslava (Vlada) Sylenok is a person who happens to write poems, short stories and essays. Precise wording and short-form writing comes most naturally to her. Currently she is searching for her style and voice whilst thinking, speaking and writing in four languages. Her art comes from complexities of untraditional life paths and navigating life on the border between her post-soviet upbringing, contemporary Ukrainian culture and Western world that she once longed for, and the one that has suddenly fallen upon her four years ago.
Ron Bernstein is an artist who has headed the Material Matters Lab at the Jan van Eyck Academie for the past 25 years. He has developed a multitude of artistic practices, including Walking out-labs with other artists and people, as well as indulging in the creative physical activity of Making.
Moderator: Bibice Piets
Free entrance!
Date:
Friday, 6 March, 2026
Time:
Open from 5:30PM
Start 6PM, End 8PM
Location:
Marres City Garden, Maastricht
Do you also have a story about diaspora, migration, or cultural identity that you would like to share? Email educatie@marres.org
Listening Session
Maguette Dieng x Lynnée Denise
Marres x DAR Cultural Agency
Spiritual Sonic Systems: A dialogue sharing frequencies, sounding hope, and calling attention to the unification of rhythmic elevation.
13 March, 2026
Maguette Dieng, whose work is featured in the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes, is returning to Marres – during TEFAF week – with writer and artist Lynnée Denise.
In this exchange, DJs Lynnée Denise and Maguette Dieng think through songs that integrate ancestral and future-facing cultural practices. From prayer rooms to the dance floor, a sophisticated system of knowing is revealed through improvisational rituals and unspeakable languages. Drawing on the role of circles, circulations, and circular ways of knowing, the music reminds its listeners that there is constant movement activated by DJs and selectors throughout the African Diaspora. This reshaping of ancient rhythms gives us new tools to understand secret codes. This experimental session invites the audience to engage with sonic legacies that re-emerge and are echoed through genre as survival strategies.
The listening session starts at 5:30PM sharp and lasts exactly one hour. Afterwards, participants are invited to a collective dinner hosted by Zaytoun, a local collective specializing in Palestinian cuisine that organizes fundraising dinners for Palestine.
This project is organized in collaboration with DAR, a cultural agency and platform that represents emerging talents in art, design, and architecture.
Maguette Dieng is a DJ, music producer, educator, and music programmer. She is also a dedicated explorer of music and sound. She co-founded the Jokkoo Collective and is part of FOC, a self-managed cultural space where she creates artistic and sonic experiences rooted in community, purpose, and healing. Through her personal work, Maguette attempts to translate the emotions and experiences of everyday life into sound in poetic, sensitive, and critical ways.
Lynnée Denise is an interdisciplinary writer and global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought. She is a doctoral student in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research explores how sound system culture creates a living archive for the Black queer diaspora. Her work traces the migrations of music and the role of Black electronic traditions in the African diaspora.
Tickets are free and include both the listening session and the dinner!
Date:
Friday, 13 March, 2026
Time:
From 4:30PM Maguette and Lynnée will start the dialogue through music
Listening session starts at 5:30PM sharp! (Doors to the room will close)
6:30 Iftar dinner (vegan friendly)
You’re welcome to visit the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes the whole day:12-8PM (free admission from 5PM)
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Care Day: An Evening for People with Dementia and Their Caregivers
20 March, 2026
An Evening About Art, the Brain, and Connections
During Brain Awareness Week, Marres, the Brain+Nerve Center at Maastricht University Medical Center+, and the Alzheimer Center of Limburg are organizing a special evening at Marres.
Join us for an accessible, enjoyable, and inspiring gathering that focuses on art and brain health, especially for people with dementia and their caregivers.
The evening will open with a brief introduction by Prof. Marjolein de Vugt from Alzheimer Centrum Limburg, who will discuss dementia prevention and the role that art can play in supporting it. Experience how the brain reacts when looking at art and explore how art can contribute to well-being and cognitive stimulation.
Afterwards, we will explore the exhibition together in small groups with guided tours in Dutch and the Maastricht dialect.
Artistic and cultural environments often spark unexpected conversations and experiences. This gathering aims to provide a space for meeting and sharing stories.
Refreshments will be provided.
Free entrance!
Date:
Friday, 20 March, 2026
Time:
Doors open from 5PM, program starts at 5:30PM
The tours will take place at:
5:30 p.m. Maastricht dialect
5:45 p.m. Dutch
6:15 p.m. Maastricht dialect
6:30 p.m. Dutch
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
The first floor is only accessible via stairs; unfortunately, there is no elevator. We will all be mindful of every step.
We have a maximum capacity of 50 visitors.
Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes multilingual guided tours
27 March, 2026
Join a guided tour of the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes in Dutch, English, or the Maastricht dialect.
Free entrance!
Datum:
Friday, 27 March, 2026
Time:
Doors open from 5PM, program starts at 5:30PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Partners / thanks to:
Partners: RAW Material Company and DAR Cultural Agency
Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes is generously supported by: Het Cultuurfonds, with special thanks to Margarethe Petronella Fonds, VSB Fonds, Elisabeth Strouven Fonds, Stichting Kanunnik Salden/Nieuwenhof, Stichting DOEN and Cultuurmakers Maastricht.
Care Day: An Evening for People with Dementia and Their Caregivers is sponsored by:
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the Municipality of Maastricht.
Fall Program: free entrance on Friday Nights
This fall, Marres is open ONLY on Fridays with a special program and free admission. Bring your friends, family, or date for a cultural start to your night out.
Storytelling Night
Marres x Queer Art Club
10 October 2025
Marres and Queer Art Club are hosting a storytelling evening on Friday evening, 10 October 2025.
We invite you to gather around a campfire in Marres’ intimate city garden and listen to stories with “queer” as the theme.
With:
Marc Boas
Pia Breuer
Brunei Deneumostier
Frida Roper
Date:
Friday evening, 10 October 2025
Time:
inloop vanaf 18:00
storytelling: 18:30—20:30
Location:
Marres garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Free admission
Please reserve a spot via reserveringen@marres.org. There’s a maximum of 50 visitors. The event is in English.
Beginner’s Crochet workshop by Maasstitch
17 October 2025
This workshop is fully booked!
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 evening, 17 October 2025
Time:
5PM
Location:
Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Performance: Terms & Conditions van Ingrid Berger Myhre
31 October 2025
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.
Behind the scenes tour with Leopold Emmen
Free entrance
In November, Marres will host the recordings for The House Where We Used To Live by filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen (Leopold Emmen). Their installations explore the boundary between film and space: not a conventional screen, but an experience that physically surrounds you.
Part 1: 7 November 2025
On Friday, 7 November, Nanouk Leopold and Daan Emmen will give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of their film project at Marres, just before filming kicks off the following week. As a visitor, you will take part in the first test takes!
Part 2: 14 November 2025
Then, on Friday, 14 November, once the cameras have stopped rolling, you can explore the set yourself while they share the stories and insights from the shoot.
Leopold Emmen explore the different characteristics of a house and its inhabitants, and how external forces can put people’s lives under pressure. The film tells the story of two women living together in a house, until one day a large group of strangers enters and decides to live there as well. The work will be on view at Marres in 2027.
Date:
Part 1: Friday evening 7 November 2025
Part 2: Friday evening 14 November 2025
Time:
doors open 5:30PM
start 6PM
Marres closes at 8PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Free admission, but capacity is limited. Email reserveringen@marres.org to reserve a spot. Please mention your preferred date.
NEWS
Nanouk Leopold’s latest film, Whitetail, recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Beginner’s Sashiko workshop by Textile Textiel
21 November 2025
This workshop is fully booked!
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 evening, 21 November 2025
Time:
5—7:30PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Pinch Pot Workshop by Farbod Ceramics
28 November 2025
This workshop is fully booked!
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 evening 28 November 2025
Time:
5—7:30PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Movement workshop Amparo González Sola
Friday September 26, from 6 to 7PM, Amparo González Sola offers an insight into the research Gestures as Portals.
Through simple movement exercises and the activation of the senses, we will explore how gestures can open doors to new ways of perceiving and experiencing. Participation is easy and accessible: no prior experience in dance or performance is required.
Admission is free between 5–8PM and everyone is welcome!
In the film room, the film Holding Gestures will be shown continuously — where gestures and movement once again take center stage, this time on the screen.
Performance: Ingrid Berger Myhre – Terms & Conditions
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. Limited capacity!
Time:
Doors open 5:30, start 6PM
Marres closes at 8PM
Location:
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
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)
Overview Terms & Conditions
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.
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Partners / thanks to
Dansateliers, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) netwerk, Bærum Kulturhus (NO), Au Jus, Brussel (BE), I Am Undone (NO), Vlaamse Gemeenschap (BE), Caravan Production (BE)
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.