Long-distance LARPing is an ERASMUS+ funded artistic research project developed by Nerdlab and Sickhouse. Our primary question is how we can build physical and digital spaces that foster connection and self-expression and where agency remains in the hands of the participants.

We draw inspiration from live-action role-playing games (LARPs). Our goal is to synthesise LARP design practices into a methodology for youth workers, social workers, artists and experience designers to enrich their practices and provide more creative spaces for the groups they work with.

Long Distant Larp

Something has been awaken in the cinema.
From the depths of dusty film cans, late-night television broadcast, forgotten drive-ins and questionable basements… the monsters are returning, one by one.

 is a cinematic ritual devoted to the glorious age of monsters, mostly from before 1970, and occasionally after, if the creature insists.

Every Monday night we summon all vampires, mutants, swamp creatures, radioactive nightmares, gothic specters, and all the beautiful horrors that crawled out of the golden age of monster movies.

Before the screening begins, we enter a one-minute meditation guided by the sacred mantra of 

 to properly align mind, body and monster spirit. Then the lights go down.

Grab a drink. Take a seat. Eyes wide open.

Come dressed as a monster and enter the movie for free!
And if you want to join a Signal chat where to talk about old gems and cult films, 

Larry returns to his Welsh ancestral home from the US upon learning that his brother has died. When he tries to save Jenny, a rural girl who is being attacked by a werewolf, he gets bitten by it…


A scientist's experiment to cure hunger creates a giant spider that escapes from an isolated desert laboratory and wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.

The crew of a spacecraft, Nostromo, intercept a distress signal from a planet and set out to investigate it. However, to their horror, they are attacked by an alien which later invades their ship.

Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra team up to save mankind from the deadliest threat of all… a fire-breathing space monster.

Sam, a young boy, is convinced of a monster's presence in his home, due to certain disturbing visions. His erratic behaviour concerns his single mother, Amelia, who spirals into a state of paranoia.

Dr Miles Bennell, a doctor in a California town, is horrified to discover that a covert alien invasion is replacing his fellow citizens with emotionless duplicates.

: Sickhouse! Oldenzaalsestraat 128, Enschede.
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Monster Monday Movie Mash

GOGBOT is a festival dedicated to art, tech & music, that every year takes the city center of Enschede and turns it into a steampunk party. 

 and Sickhouse is happy to participate in two ways: as one of the festival exhibition locations, and as a co-organizer of the Saturday’s symposium.

GOGBOT celebrates fresh talent from recent art academy graduates who delivered standout graduation works. At Sickhouse, we're showcasing the following artists:



Myrthe van Loon, Severi Aaltonen, Varvara Pekhota, Martyna Pekala, Maroua Gaddur, Valentina Cadena Renza, and Rayan Naftchi.


 together with Patyt Reyes. More details on the program and schedule are available 

 for more information on the full program.
Entrance to 

GOGBOT 2026 at Sickhouse: Expo + Symposium 

 enschede is welcoming the wonderfull popronde once again ! 

We are host to two bands BARBEE & PENSIVE VIVIFIER .

Born in the theater, raised in the club: Pensive Vivifier invites you to drift away, dance hard, and sing along at the top of your lungs. As an audience member, you’ll find yourself mesmerized by visuals that are captivating, humorous, or utterly overwhelming. Drawing inspiration from Björk, A.G. Cook, and Death Grips, they blend emotion and beats in songs about anxiety, doomscrolling, family, and love.

Emerging from the chaos of the East comes BARBEE, a four-piece powerhouse blending the raw energy of Nirvana with the untamed spirit of Amyl & the Sniffers and the dark flair of Starcrawler. In 2025, the band stormed the Dutch and German live circuits and released its debut EP, *Bad Mood*, under the wing of Goomah. Come check them out!


For more info & Other bands check our their website :

POPRONDE

This year GOGBOT looks into Propaganda and the role of technologies in its proliferation under the theme “

 

Together with Planetart and Patyt Reyes, we have prepared a program of interactive sessions, where we explore how to spot and resist forms of propaganda and the political agendas of techno-fascist regimes. During these sessions, spread over the day, different artist-researchers will share how they have learned to recognize, dodge, or disrupt technological processes that can lead to the ‘manufacturing’ of our minds or shape our opinions.



> See schedule under for the times and locations

” where our session hosts will come together in a playful panel. The audience is also invited to participate and brainstorm on different ways of reacting to manipulating technologies. Our session hosts will be there to contribute as experts and add nuance and clarity to the discussion.

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The panel takes place at Concordia Theater at 19:30

 workshop with registration 25 places available - (bring your laptop if you can)


So-called AI models are largely fed with content scraped from your, my and whatever available websites. These models cannot self-clean like cats, so how come they are not immediately poisoned by intentionally placed prompt injections? During the workshop, we will first examine how web-scraped data is cleaned with software engineers’ imagination and estimates of “good enough” rules, a.k.a heuristics, before being used for training. Then we will follow these rigid estimates, teaming up with the overwhelming scale of “dirty data”, together develop a set of anti-heuristic heuristics that make our data too dirty to be trained on.

Close Enough: The Eerie Intimacy of Drone Surveillance 


Close Enough is an installation about the eerie intimacy of drone surveillance: the pilot comes to know their target through sight alone, while the target comes to know the drone mostly by its sound. Drawing on her research into drone warfare, Ahnjili ZhuParris traces how this one-sided closeness has become ordinary as more and more of life moves onto screens. The talk addresses her drone research, the making of the installation itself from hobby drones and open-source computer vision, and the way these same off-the-shelf technologies are redrawing the landscape of war, where the gap between a consumer drone and a weapon has never been narrower. The talk includes a small live demo of the work.


This interactive study group revisits the Simple Sabotage Field Manual to ask what its strategies of everyday resistance might mean in the age of platform technologies. Originally circulated among antifascist resistance movements during the Second World War, the manual instructs ordinary citizens on how to disrupt and undermine enemy operations in fascist-occupied Europe without getting caught. Using the manual as a historical blueprint, we will read, discuss, and translate its strategies of everyday sabotage into the context of today’s platform technologies.

Together, we will ask: What could simple sabotage look like in the digital everyday? How might we interrupt, confuse, slow down, refuse, or otherwise interfere with the oppressive technologies and platforms that structure our daily lives?

Starting from selected passages from the manual and examples from

 (the work !Mediengruppe Bitnik presents at the GOGBOT festival), participants will collectively develop ideas for small acts of digital refusal and disobedience. The session is about thinking together and exploring the possibilities, limits, humour, and contradictions of everyday resistance within technological systems that are increasingly difficult to opt out of.

Gandalf vs Peter Thiel by Pablo F. Quarta



Why did Peter Thiel, Chairman of the macrodata panoptic surveillance giant, Palantir Technologies, buy a 12-million-dollar mansion in Buenos Aires?

Why are activists protesting outside of his door while dressed up as Gandalf, the wise wizard from The Lord of the Rings?

Join game designer, Pablo Quarta, in a playful rumination about the state of technofascism in Argentinian society today. Together, we will try to figure out why so many right-wing politicians and tech mogul billionaires from all around the world have their eyes on this South American country, what their ambitions are, and what every day Argentinians can do to get them to fuck right off.

Lecture
Pick your free ticket at Concordia ticket booth


It is often thought that propaganda is a concept that applies only to ‘totalitarian’ regimes of the past, or to regimes that seem to be stuck in a time capsule – from Putin to Kim Jong-un. Authoritarian politics within democracies even has its own lexicon – the so-called ‘post-truth’ era, characterised by ‘alternative facts’ and fake news. Yet the word ‘propaganda’ is shunned. Is not precisely this notion – that democracy is free from propaganda – itself the product of propaganda?

Jonas Staal, artist, propaganda researcher and author of *Propaganda Art in the 21st Century* (2019) and *Climate Propagandas* (2024), takes you on a journey through this lecture on propaganda, exploring how contemporary propaganda works – including within Western democracies. From the science fiction writers advising French President Macron, to the Pentagon’s game developers, the filmmaker who conceived ‘Trumpism’ and the dramaturg who scripted Putin’s performance.

Propaganda literacy, Staal argues, is an essential weapon not only for resisting dominant powers, but also for promoting a better world.



This lecture is organized in collaboration with the 

. To enter this session, please grab a free ticket at Concordia's ticket booth.

Martyna Marciniak, Ahnjili Zhuparris, !Mediengruppe bitnik, Pablo F. Quarta and Jonas Staal, 

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The public will be divided in two teams one lead by 

The Saboteurs Convention

, is celebrating its third edition this year of being organized jointly by 

, and it will run for three days for the first time. 

From 24 to 26 September, KO(O)RTS aims to provide a platform for (up-and-coming) filmmakers to showcase their work, celebrate creativity and connect communities through a wide variety of underground, experimental & art-house films. At the same time, it offers local filmmakers the opportunity to share ideas and knowledge with international professionals.

The programme promises to be alternative, never-before-seen and fun, with a carefully curated selection of films presented with care, through multi-sensory set-ups and playful approaches.

To complement the festival, there will also be workshops, meetings with filmmakers and a public awards ceremony. In this way, we aim to create a vibrant event that brings filmmakers and film enthusiasts together and celebrates the art of short films!


 Early birds tickets will be released on August 14th.
We’ll publish the full program on the 

Tickets via Concordia

KO(O)RTS Short Film Festival 

For Pride Twente we are throwing a party where you and your fit become part of a collection of good times! Join the catwalk if you wish, serve looks, or just come to make new friends and shake ass on the dancefloor! Everybody here is a work of art and we are excited to inspire, be inspired, and slayyy!

19:06 hrs START. DONT BE FASHIONABLY LATE, or only a bit. GET A DRINK, talk to people.

20:14 hrs DANCE DANCE DRINK MINGLE FALL IN LOVE

22:12 hrs SLAY ENDS, but Radio Galactica keeps playing so more DANCE DRINK MINGLE

Join us for an evening celebrating queer fashion and style!

SLAYY!

Sickhouse is very happy to welcome Hackfest for the first time ! 

HackFest aims to make technology and knowledge accessible to everyone, promotes creativity and stimulates both social and economic innovation. On 

, Hackfest gives a platform to a diverse group of creative minds, hackers, inventors, designers, artists, engineers, developers and hobbyists to showcase their projects in an inspiring space.

These enthusiastic makers come to Hackfest to present their creations and share their discoveries with the public. The event brings together curious people who enjoy learning and sharing their skills through lectures and workshops and working on their own projects on site. It is a place where people are amazed by installations, original do-it-yourself projects, fascinating discoveries and innovative solutions.

Hackfest puts these projects in the spotlight and provides a platform for original ideas.

Tickets 

HACKFEST

Museumnacht Enschede / Night at the museum is an evening when the city transforms into a living work of art. As the sun sets, museums, studios, creative hubs, and cultural institutions open their doors, inviting you into a world of surprise, imagination, and connection.

You wander through buildings you might already know, yet experience them with a whole new energy in the dark. Art feels closer, music sounds more intense, and in every space, you discover something unexpected. Museumnacht Enschede is for everyone—whether you’re an art connoisseur, a dreamer, an adventurer, or simply curious. You enter with a simple wristband but leave with lasting impressions. 

For News feel free to sign up for the newsletter via this 

! We’ll keep you updated on cool cultural events hosted by our partners and venues throughout the year, notify you when ticket sales begin, and share the program for the night well in advance. Ticket sales start on Wednesday, July 8 at 8:00 PM—and be sure to mark November 7 in your calendar. After all, Museumnacht is a night you won’t want to miss!

Get your Tickets via Concordia through this

Enschede Museumnacht / Night at the Museum

The 14th edition of Overkill Festival is coming! 
Step into 

: in a context of hyper-productivity and short attention spans, we want to explore how games and playful media might help us reclaim spaces to dream together.

and find information about the theme and tickets. Early bird pass available until September 30. Program and additional locations will be announced soon.

Tickets for the festival

THE OVERKILL FESTIVAL 

Sickhouse welcomes Alexander Zanen with a new immersive installation. Graduated from AKI in 2022, from the moving image department, Alexander questions in his work the role of images in relation to the ones that look at them. When a narration is not linear anymore what stories emerge?

 is an AR wander, a walkable, immersive audio play without a screen. Wearing headphones and a tracker, you move through a space where spatial sound and scenographic lighting react to your movements. Your route determines which scenes you trigger: as you wander, the sound, light and narrative shift around you.

In Dérive, you follow a TV salesman and a journalist who come face to face with the ‘spectacle’: a world in which images come between us and determine how we see one another. As you wander, you trigger scenes that bring this to life, from busy streets with flashing lights and passing ambulances to an invitation to a hidden jazz bar. Every step reveals a new layer of the story. How can we change our perception when images are no longer in control?

Dérive: een AR-dwaaltocht is een wandelbaar, immersief hoorspel zonder scherm. Met koptelefoon en tracker beweeg je door een ruimte waar ruimtelijk geluid en scenografisch licht op je reageren. Je route bepaalt welke scènes je activeert: door te dwalen verschuiven geluid, licht en verhaal om je heen.

In Dérive volg je een tv-verkoper en een journalist die botsen op het ‘spektakel’: een wereld waarin beelden tussen ons in komen te staan en bepalen hoe we elkaar zien. Terwijl je dwaalt, activeer je scènes die dit voelbaar maken, van drukke straten met zwaaiende lichten en passerende ambulances tot een uitnodiging naar een verborgen jazzbar. Elke stap onthult een nieuwe laag van het verhaal. Hoe kunnen we onze perceptie veranderen als beeld niet langer de baas is?

 from 12:00 to 18:00
The experience lasts 15 minutes. In order to experience the installation, you need to 

Timeslot

Dérive - Alexander Zanen

, a monthly role-playing event organised together with 

, or if you enjoy board games, card games, painting miniatures, or kitbashing… any tabletop activity is welcome!

We’ll host some RPG tables, led by someone from our community or a special guest.

We’ll also have open tables for board games. Bring your favorite games and share them with us, or try out some from our collection.

Come alone or with a group. Playing is an great way to make new friends!

We’d also love to see your own game or story creations and be your play-testers!


Whether you’re a role-playing game master, a game designer looking for testers, or have another type of activity in mind, we’re looking for you! 
As a host, here’s what you can expect from us:

Support from experienced event organizers

Game materials such as dice, available or provided

: 18:00 to 23:30
> 18:00 walk-in and dinner: bring your food to eat together 🍲🥗🍛🥡
> 19:00 the games start
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 Give what you can (with this, you support the location and the two organizers in getting new games, inviting guests and hosting special adventures). 


PLAY! TableTop Night September

This event is full , keep an eye on our hotglue blog for new events :

In the first weekend of September we are coming together for a truly collaborative in person game jam!

We invite 12 participants to create live-action role-playing games (LARP) that foster self-expression and connection in physical and digital spaces. Building on the previous activities, we will explore how we can use simple technologies (think a chat, a discord server, a notepad, the lost art of a phone call) in our LARP design to connect players across distances.

One of the games designed during the jam will be played during the LARP showcase at Nerdlab and Sickhouse in February 2027.

If this sounds like a big challenge, it's because it is! But worry not, you will be guided by amazing mentor Jana Romanova.

Jana is a multidisciplinary artist working with games, performance, and photography. Through role-playing, social games, and various playful experiments, she researches liminal spaces, (in)visible systems that shape us, and what agency, care, and ecological imagination might look like when we playtest other ways of living together.

This is an activity for 12 participants - youth workers, artists, game designers, LARP enthusiasts and curious humans. The only requirement is that you have played a LARP before and you are interested in designing one. We will give priority to young people 18-30 years old.

We provide accommodation in the hostel, food and for participants traveling from abroad - travel.

https://nerdlab.be/agenda/long-distance-larping-double-trouble-game-jam

Long-distance LARPing ♦ Double-trouble game jam

 is our monthly meet-up for playful makers, programmers, enthusiasts, producers, artists, designers, curators, and all people interested in game making. At Colliders, we brainstorm, present our progress, give feedback, enjoy creations and, of course, we play!

Colliders purpose is to develop a 

around indie/art house game makers and playful artists. With Colliders, we want to support each other and create more opportunities for collaborations and exchange. 

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Colliders has a different theme and game selection each month, in 

, aligned with the theme of GOGBOT Festival: 

We will have the latest game by Amanita Design portraying a city orchestrated by omnipresent loudspeakers, and another handcrafted game about how a grandfather who went to war changed behavior. We will also present a classic anti-adver game about them eat industry. Lastly, we prepared two games about TV broadcast, one that put us in the role of a technician, deciding what should be watched, and the other about someone being broadcast.


“In the dystopian city of Phonopolis, life is orchestrated by omnipresent loudspeakers that dictate every aspect of people’s existence. Citizens, bound by the authoritarian Leader's commands, work in unison to achieve his grand vision.”


"my granddad came home from the war a changed man. he was bitter, quick to anger and aggressive."

"Making money in a corporation like McDonald's is not easy! Behind every burger there is a complex process you need to master: from pastures to the slaughterhouse, from restaurants to branding. You'll discover all the dirty secrets that made us one of the biggest company in the world."

"Take control of the National Nightly News. With the nation's eyes fixed on your choices, it’s up to you to decide what gets broadcast."


"Tune in to American Arcadia, the most popular reality tv show on the planet! In this retro-futuristic 70s metropolis all citizens enjoy a life of luxury and comfort... and are completely unaware that they're being broadcast 24/7! "

Turns out the secret sauce to press coverage is the same as most other things: research, dedication, kindness, and spreadsheets! Success not guaranteed, but by pitching your games to journalists, you will hone into how to best describe it, why it matters, and what future projects will get the attention you deserve.

Didre Schutte of Studio Beautiful & Beast explains how coming from a completely different background she learned game development over the summer. How did she come into this field and what does she have now? And what was the summer school program and the scene in Berlin like?

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COLLIDERS Meet-up – Propaganda

To come back from the summer break with a bang, we are throwing a party of live music. This event is organised together with Sound Unbound, local record store (and much more : 

Queer art punk from the southern Netherlands.

https://designerviolence.bandcamp.com/album/candyland-2

Muovipussi is an explosive electronic music group from Finland formed by Milla Lahtinen, Niklas Blomberg and Heidi Finnberg in 2018. The band mixes uncommon ingredients experienced in live concerts and challenge the audience to let go dull and dusty norms and beliefs. Their music includes elements from completely different genres like rap, crispy pop and metal. 

Amongst virtuosic playing and fast rapping, there is growling and an almost theatrical way of performing. If at some point you ask yourself “what is going on?!” the band’s mission has succeed. 

Muovipussi have performed at festivals like Le Guess Who?, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Fusion, Nyege Nyege, Sziget, and Eurosonic.


, who brings you the discoveries of their sonic expedition to far away corners of the galaxy. Playing 

, they set the perfect night to expand your playlist and transport Sickhouse to an unconventional dancefloor of global grooves.

Expect Latin - Afro - Cumbia - Caribbean - Bollywood - World Psych - Vintage disco - Global Club and more.

: Sickhouse, Oldenzaalsestraat 128, Enschede.
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: 19:00 to 23:59
19:00 Doors Open
20:00 Designer Violence
21:00 Muovipussi 
22:00 Radio Galactica
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After-Summer Welcome

MUOVIPUSSI+ Designer Violence

, an accessory designed to be used in moments of 

, that activates sound through their own designed movement, using electronics, e-textiles, and recycled materials. Through discussions on microaggressions and other activities, participants also develop their own character and story, which they then bring to life in a LARP (Live Action Role Play) session.

>> The first part of the workshop is on 11&12 of July : look 

This is the second part of the workshop.
Part II -- 


In a 2-hour session, participants bring their devices and characters into play. Using their "weapons", they navigate scenarios together in a guided, playful, and safe environment.

 : As an interdisciplinary media artist, musician, game maker, educator, and learner, Ahreum Lee navigates the complexities of technology, data, and socio-political narratives. Fascinated by the ritualistic use of everyday technologies, she explores their impact on socio-political dynamics and their interactions with both human and more-than-human entities.
This summer Ahreum Lee is the artist-in-residence for the 

. During the residency, Ahreum will reimagine digital infrastructures through gestures of deliberate slowness and ritual acts of data feeding.



 : Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 of July starting at 13:00
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 Saturday 25 of July starting at 13:00
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 : Sickhouse, Oldenzaalsestraat 128, 7514DS Enschede
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Agenda

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