Sickhouse Reopening FULL PROGRAM

The re-opening of Sickhouse is a triple celebration: of spaces for culture, of Play as medium, and of our community. The two-day event brings artists, makers, neighbors and new visitors together to discover, explore and imagine what Sickhouse can become. With an exhibition that reflects on our relation with space, an eclectic film program, and a series of panels for sharing experiences, the opening’s program showcases what Sickhouse stands for. Along with playful sessions, music and performances, our program also makes sure to bring us all together and celebrate.

• Feminist media, Feminist practice 13:00 to 14:00
  (with Christie Morgan from Softer London, Vanity Roxane Lammers from The FemDem, & artist, hacker and designer Juliette Lizotte)
  Collective reflection on how feminist approaches entangle with creative practices and community-driven work, giving place to unique initiatives, specially in the creative field.
  Alt Tech for Alternative Futures 14:15 to 15:15
  (with Roos Grothuizen, Pablo San Gregorio, Rein van de Woerd, & Sunjoo Lee)
  These artists and creators develop tools and techniques as alternatives to the hyper-capitalist and dystopian technological products that are often forced onto our societies. They will share their recent creations and practices in a playful way. Together, we reflect about craftsmanship in digital culture and our ability to rewrite our future with better technologies.
• Cultural space in Netherlands 15:30 to 16:30
  (with Alicia Breton Ferrer from Roodkapje, Marie Janin from Sickhouse, more tbc)
  Organizers from different cultural and artistic initiatives will share their histories around finding or fighting for a physical space for their communities. We will reflect on the struggles and successes that come when searching for such a space, and discuss how these have an influence on our collective practices.

• Bingo JAM forever with Paulina Martínez 13:00 to 15:30
  A co-creation workshop to explore possible games using a bingo card. For bingo experts, beginners, and game-making enthusiasts of all ages. Find it at Residency, max 15 people.
• Playful session Deviation game, with Pablo San Gregorio 14:30 to 15:30
  “Draw things humans can understand, but an image recognition AI can’t!” Deviation Game is a co-op party game for 2-6 players that pits human creativity against AI perception. Flipping Alan Turing’s revolutionary 1950 Imitation Game. Find it at Mokumokuroom.
• Playful session Pico Park 17:30 to 18:30 (tbc)
• Zine Corner hosted by Sophia Varekamp
  A space to collect wishes, dreams, feelings and reactions of Sickhouse visitors. A playful feedback guide for Sickhouse, to have in mind when programming…

• Sound performance Drift by Maggie Ghaziani 20:00
  Sound and light interactive installation. Find it at Expo.
• BoterBoter 21:00
  Dutch-language electro-punk steeped in absurdism and poetry. BoterBoter takes a greedy sip of our strange existence and then reveals his digestive system. His music makes you laugh, frown, dance, and run for cover. Find it at Mokumokuroom.
• Snoerwoud 22:00
• Onja+Movikca+OrganiizedChaos 23:00

• Sound performance Drift by Maggie Ghaziani 18:30
  Sound and light interactive installation. Find it at Expo.
• Housemaid 21:00
  Four-piece indie rock band that seamlessly interweaves raw energy with hypnotic grooves and sharp observations. Their sound, steeped in shoegaze, krautrock, and post-punk, is simultaneously dreamy and confrontational. Influenced by artists like Courtney Barnett, Wet Leg, and Talking Heads.
• PostElla (tbc) 22:00

• Flow, family friendly animation 12:30-14:00
  Flow is a breathtaking odyssey of a young cat who, along with her companions, searches for dry land in a world devastated by a catastrophic flood. The movie is made using Blender and its real-time rendering software Eevee, frequently used for video games. Gints Zilbalodis, director of the film, declared that this was a big bonus since he likes to experiment with the visuals and to make many versions, so those softwares allowed him to be more spontaneous and intuitive, trying different camera angles and render it out very quickly to see if it worked or not.
• Sickhouse in Shorts short films curated by Sirin Bahar Demirel 15:00 to 17:00
  This is TMI (Subarna Dash & Vidushi Gupta, India, 6 min)
  A group of women have a candid and intimate chat about all breasts, great and small, comparing notes with perks and troubles and sharing startling tales of prejudice.
  Happiness (Firat Yücel, Netherlands-Turkey, 2025, 18 min)
  The film chronicles the sleepless nights of a group of activists, eyes fixed on screens as they follow the news from Palestine and across the region. In Amsterdam, far from their home countries, police violence and the threat of deportation glue them to digital interfaces night after night.
  Hotel Mokum (Yannes Hmeijman, Netherlands, 2023, 30 min)
  Short documentary about a collective that squatted the abandoned Hotel Marnix in the heart of Amsterdam on October 16th, 2021. Over six weeks the collective transformed the hotel into a home, a free space and an oasis in a city smothered by hypergentrification. At the height of its popularity, Hotel Mokum got evicted under the guise of fire safety. The film combines documentary footage, archival materials, and constructed scenes to create a complex and intimate portrait of a hopeful collective and the city they are working to reclaim.
• Still Playing (Mohamed Mesbah, 2025, 37 min) 17:30 to 18:15
  West Bank, summer 2024. Rasheed, a video game creator, struggles to raise his two sons amidst Israeli army raids and the news from Gaza. By night, he creates games where mothers and fathers are no longer able to protect their children.
• Midnight screening (film tba) 00:00 to 02:00

• Maggie Ghaziani, Drift, sound and light interactive installation. Maggie will also perform once each day in the installation.
• Sam & Tessa “I remember… Ongoing stories and memories of Sickhouse’s community”. Video installation. Collective archive.
• Tessa Wiegerinck “Betting on Enschede”. Photo installation about local cultural organisations and their spaces.
• Han Hogan and Donal Fullam, Mega Dreoilín is an art project in the form of a 16-bit video game about the challenges to be young and find a house in Dublin in the middle of the housing crises. Let’s play video showing the project.
• Vincent Schoutsen, Wouter van Veldhoven, Leon Denise & Emilie Breslavetz, RoBowGotchi, the new alternative arcade of Sickhouse.
• Paulina Martinez, interactive installation.

• Official words by Marie Janin, Aike Lutkemoller, Zuraida Buter
• Grandioze Gezelligheidsbingo, playful performance by Paulina Martínez 18:30 - 19:30
  Moved by the question of what it means to have SPACE, and while wandering around Enschede, we came across a large number of play spaces hosted in the speeltuinen. These are spaces driven by neighbours who have been caring for play for all ages, for over 60 years. To celebrate Sickhouse’s new home, we want to bring one of the games treathe speeltuinen: BINGO.