First Impact Night takes place in Rotterdam Ahoy

Rita Ora plays Impact Night

On Tuesday 4 June, Rotterdam Ahoy will host Impact Night, a brand new event that will bring thousands of visitors together to make an impact on various social issues. There will great shows by international star Rita Ora and Dutch artists such as Son Mieux. As visitors enter the venue they’re confronted with the Impact […]

Record label Nous’klaer Audio celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a festival at BRUTUS

Record label Nous’klaer Audio celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a festival at Brutus

For 10 years, independent record label Nous’klaer Audio from Rotterdam has released progressive, forward-thinking, uncompromising electronic and pop music on their terms. To celebrate, Nous’klaer will throw a festival on June 8 at BRUTUS. A highly unique and wholly unique Rotterdam space, that channels the city’s industrial rawness and creative ingenuity. Nous’klaer label staples, whose […]

Madame Saigon serves an authentic Vietnamese menu

Th einterior of Madame Saigon

The menu at the new family-run Madame Saigon restaurant features dishes based on well-kept family recipes. The restaurant wants to bring guests together in a trendy Vietnamese atmosphere. With its location in a side street of the Witte de Withstraat, The Vietnamese restaurant is located in an excellent and central location. Madame Saigon serves authentic […]

The Fat Fox is a new modern gastropub

The Fatx Fox

Faruk Dervis and Darryl Peijnenborgh, the duo behind restaurant The Iron Lady on Pannekoekstraat, will open a new restaurant. As they both have a passion for English pub culture they have created a modern gastropub in the Witte de With-area. The Fat Fox. Coincidence brought the two gentlemen together. Faruk (46) started The Iron Lady […]

De Kunstfabriek | Unit699 is a gallery and winebar

De kunstfabriek

Cultural entrepreneurs André Marques and Tim Wes have opened a unique concept. De Kunstfabriek | Unit699 is a place where art is created, conceived and celebrated. While enjoying a glass of really good natural wine and good conversation. It can be found at the Groot Handelsgebouw. Together, André and Tim aim to provide a haven […]

The Usual opens hotel for the conscious traveller

The interior of The Usual in Rotterdam

On Westblaak 10 The Usual opens a new hotel where people find each other spontaneously, and ideas and inspiration flow freely. Guests can meet each other while enjoying a croissant and a FairChain coffee, a good daily dinner, or bond with like-minded people during events, music performances, workshops, and talks. The Usual offers the best […]

Armin van Buuren’s A State of Trance in Ahoy

Armin van buuren in Rotterdam

After taking place in Utrecht for over a decade, Armin van Buuren is moving his world-renowned A State of Trance Festival to Rotterdam. The newly unveiled plans include broadening the event’s programming into daytime with activities ranging from masterclasses and demo-drops to panels and artist Q&As. With the expansion into daytime and by becoming a […]

ibis Styles Rotterdam Ahoy is now open

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Adjacent to the Rotterdam Ahoy concert venue and convention centre the new ibis Styles Rotterdam has opened its doors in Rotterdam-Zuid. This stylish hotel offers 250 contemporary and spacious rooms. Together with the chic Italian restaurant, Giacobbe Aperitivo e Cucina, this stylish hotel promises an unforgettable experience. In Rotterdam, the typical ibis Styles features are reflected […]

Pioneering Digital Art at Nieuwe Instituut

Reboot digital art Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters, Emoji is all we have, 2023(Credit Pieter Kers, Beeld.nu)

Digital technologies rapidly reshape our lives and societies. With REBOOT. Pioneering Digital Art the Nieuwe Instituut celebrates the pioneering history of digital art and culture in the Netherlands. Curators Sanneke Huisman (LI-MA) and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Nieuwe Instituut) created an exhibition around twenty ground-breaking digital artworks. All from the Netherlands from the period 1960-2000. In addition, […]

Kunsthal presents In Search of Humanity by Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is one of today’s most prominent artists. An activist, and critic of authoritarian power systems. Kunsthal now presents his work in a large-scale exhibition. In Search of Humanity is the most comprehensive retrospective to date. Including cultural ready-mades, paintings, works made from LEGO bricks, sculptures, installations, photography, and video works, the exhibition presents […]