Join us for a season full of cultural highlights! In addition to the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies by Mexican artist Alejandro Galván, Marres offers free Friday nights, special events, and workshops.
Friday Night Openings
Free entry
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.
Below is a list of Friday Nights with special programming.
Date:
Every Friday evening
Time:
5PM—8PM (open from 12PM)
Free admission from 5PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Raeesah’s Hatha Yoga in the garden
We’re so glad you’d like to join! Unfortunately, this workshop is already 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.
Date
Friday, 23 May, 2025
Time:
start 6:30PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
25 years of Marres – Book presentation & city walk
On May 25, Marres invites you to the presentation of a special booklet dedicated to the rich history of the Marres brewing family—an integral part of Maastricht’s heritage.
Goudgeel, Oud Bruin (Golden, Amber Brown), written by René Schmeetz, takes you on a journey through the past of the family, the city, and its beer culture. From gravestones and façades to cafés and churches, the walking route includes about fifteen locations throughout the city center where this history still lives on. Each stop tells a unique story—starting in 1641 when the first female family member became a brewer, and ending in 1959 when the last Marres brewery closed its doors.
The walk leads you to Marres at Capucijnenstraat 98, where Pierre and Corrie Marres lived with their family until 1964. For more than three centuries, Pierre’s ancestors passed down the craft from generation to generation.
Date:
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Tme:
12:30PM
Reception at the front desk of Marres, chance to have a drink in the garden
1PM
Start first guided walk (approx. 1 hour)
Fully booked
Afterwards: chance to have a drink in the garden
2:30PM
Reception at the front desk of Marres
3PM
Start second guided walk (approx. 1 hour)
Fully booked
4—5PM
Drinks in the Marres garden
Activity:
Join the Goudgeel, Oud Bruin city walk through the heart of Maastricht, guided by author René Schmeetz. After the walk, you’re welcome to enjoy a refreshing Marres beer or another drink.
Participation fee:
We recommend that participants purchase 1 booklet per unit, individual, couple, or family.
€20 includes the booklet and guided walk (regular price: €25). The book is written in Dutch.
How to sign up:
It is not possible to subscribe for the guided city walks anymore. But you can also do the walk independently.
On your own:
Prefer to explore independently? You can also purchase the booklet (including the walk) for €20 per couple or family (regular price: €25).
Location:
Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Spanish guided tours Vultures & Fireflies
Take a tour led by one of our Spanish-speaking volunteers and discover the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies by Mexican artist Alejandro Galván in a whole new way.
Date:
Friday, 6 June, 2025
Time:
start 6:30PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Free entry
Claim your spot: reserveringen@marres.org
Book Launch with Q&A
Marres x Studium Generale
On the occasion of Alejandro Galván’s Vultures & Fireflies at Marres, a book is being released, curated by Tonatiuh López and Laura Martinez. This publication features stunning visuals, essays, and poetry by Guadalupe Reyes, Mitzi Cuevas, Razzia Santillán, Lydiette Carrión, Adrián Román, Juan Pablo Ramos, Samuel Segura, Laura Martínez, and Tonatiuh López, designed by The Rodina.
During this book launch various aspects dive into of the work of Alejandro Galván with different experts. The artist himself and the two curators of the exhibition and book: Laura Martinez and Tonatiuh López, will also be present.
The conversation addresses urban planning in Mexico City, social participation, art and activism, violence and injustice in society, including femicide, Mexican politics and corruption, and the importance of sharing stories.
Guest speakers:
– Lydiette Carrión Rivera, an independant journalist and writer (online)
– Tonatiuh López, a Mexican curator, art historian, writer, and activist.
– Sergio Alvarado Vazquez, a researcher at the University of Twente
Date: Friday, June 20, 2025
Time: 5PM
Location: Karl Dittrich Hall, Student Services Centre Maastricht University
Bonnefantenstraat 2, Maastricht
Following the talk you can visit the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies at Marres, House for Contemporary Culture until 8PM.
Free admission
The event is in English
Workshop Studio SUFI
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
Book presentation by Floor Martens
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
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
Admission:
€5,00 per person
Language:
Dutch
Group size:
Maximum of 12 persons per workshop
Location:
Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Materials included:
- Handmade field guide printed with Riso
- A4 Arches 640gsm paper for the visual narrative
- Various pencils and drawing materials
- Collage paper
- Botanical books (reference material)
Linocut workshop
by Elisa Verkoelen
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
Admission:
€5,00 per person
Language:
Dutch
Group size:
Maximum of 8 persons per workshop
Location:
Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Materials included
Marres x Limestone Books – Storytelling Night
Following a successful try-out in March, Marres and Limestone Books are teaming up once again for a storytelling evening on September 5, 2025.
Join us around the campfire in the intimate city garden of Marres to listen to stories—tales that deserve to be remembered. Whether fact or fiction, each story aims to bring people together through the power of oral history.
The names of the evening’s storytellers will be announced soon.
Date:
Friday, 5 September, 2025
Time:
Start 6:30PM
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Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
