Rotterdam Pride presents Roze Zaterdag at the Coolsingel

Roze Zaterdag Rotterdam Pride Danielle_van_der_Veeken

Roze Zaterdag (Pink Saturday) is organized at the end of June since 1977. The event offers space for celebration, meeting, and visibility in favor of sexual and gender diversity. Rotterdam Pride usually takes place in September but in honor of Roze Zaterdag the event will be in June with Roze Zaterdag on June 18 at […]

A Moonshine Crawl along 4 renowned cocktail bars

Moonshine Crawl

After a long period of drought in the nightlife industry, Rotterdam’s first Moonshine Crawl will take place on Friday March 25. During this evening participants go cocktail hopping. 4 renowned cocktail bars in the center of Rotterdam guarantee a unique experience not to be missed. From 11 PM onwards these regarded cocktail bars serve their […]

Mittwoch offers German dishes with a Rotterdam twist

Mittwoch by Mark Bolk

Lisa Meijer and Roos van Gorkom met each other while working at Supermercado. They shared the same dream of once opening their own eaterie. At Mittwoch they serve German delicacies like bretzel, bratwurst and flammkuchen, and Berlin beer and wine. Mittwoch is located at the Goudsesingel, next to Rotonde which offers the same sort of […]

Kunsthal presents the Netherlands’ most talented animation artists

Animation Studio Job Joris Marieke in Kunsthal

The animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke is well regarded because of their poetic, cute, funny, and sometimes disturbing creations. They already won an Emmy and got an Oscar nomination. Reason enough for the Kunsthal to celebrate their work with: A Triple Life. The exhibition runs from 26 February to 8 May. Job Roggeveen (1979), […]

Experience Venco Choco D’rop in The Koopgoot

Venco ChocoDrop-UpStore Rotterdam

The Dutch sure love drop. The rest of the world calls this liquorice. Venco is a famous brand of Dutch liquorice for over 140 years and introduced a unique taste sensation last year. They put drop in a thick layer of delicious Belgian chocolate. To celebrate Choco D’rop there is a store in the Koopgoot. […]

Rotterdam Ahoy will get an ibis Styles Hotel

Ahoy-ibis-Styles-Foruminvest

Foruminvest will start the construction of an ibis Styles hotel with 250 rooms next to Rotterdam Ahoy this April. The hotel opens in the autumn of 2023. A hotel has always been a dream of Ahoy. Jolanda Jansen, CEO Rotterdam Ahoy, explains: “We are extremely pleased that after a long start-up process, we can finally […]

Hardt Hyperloop moves headquarters to Rotterdam

Hardt Hyperloop Rotterdam

Hardt is developing a hyperloop. A team of students at TU Delft started the company in 2017. The scale-up will move from Delft to the Rotterdam Science Tower this June. The move will enable the tech company to further realize its growth ambitions and the realization of the hyperloop. A hyperloop is basically a tube […]

POW! WOW! Rotterdam will be known as ALL CAPS

All Caps MOTS - photo by Martine Kiers

POW! WOW! Rotterdam has changed its name in ALL CAPS. With the tagline: Capital Art, the festival will transform Feijenoord into (street) art heaven from the 4th till the 11th of September 2022. At the end of last year, the organization behind POW! WOW! Rotterdam announced that it was separating from the international POW! WOW! […]

O. Festival brings adventurous opera and more

O. is an international festival for opera, music and theatre with unique location performances and exciting productions

O. is the new name for Operadagen Rotterdam since 2021. From Friday 20 to Sunday 29 May 2022, O. takes place at various locations in the city. The international festival for opera, music, and theatre offers unique performances and exciting productions at surprising locations in Rotterdam. Expect ten days of performances and concerts, from works […]

Fleur Kassels introduces In Love We Share

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Fleur Kassels is a jewelry designer from Rotterdam. She uses recycled gold and silver to create small works of art with hand tools that once belonged to her grandfather. She is inspired by the love language between two people and uses this for her new campaign: In Love We Share. This Valentinesday she highlights the […]