SickHouse Warming
The re-opening of Sickhouse is a triple celebration: of spaces for culture, of Play as medium, and of our community. Scroll down or click here for more information about our reopening exhibition, film program, interactive panels, playful sessions, and music program.
FRIDAY 27-02
SICKHOUSE OPENS FROM 12:00 to 00:00
PANEL TALKS
Feminist media, Feminist practice
Friday 27 February - 13:00 to 14:00
with Christie Morgan from Softer, 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
Friday 27 February - 14:20 to 15:20
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.
Finding, Building, Claiming our Space
Friday 27 February - 15:40 to 16:40
with Tessa Wiegenrinck, Alicia Breton Ferrer from Roodkapje, Marie Janin from Sickhouse, Wouter Overman from ACU, and Jasper Schütz from Studio Complex.
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.
OFFICIAL OPENING
Opening words
Friday 27 February - 17:30
Playful intro with Zuraida Buter
Opening words from Marie Janin, Aike Lutkemoller
Grandioze Gezelligheidsbingo
Friday 27 February - 18:30 to 19:30
by Paulina Martínez
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.
Zine Corner “Dream Collector”
Friday 27 February - 20:00 to 22:00
hosted by Sophia Varenkamp
Find a partner, get on a quest, refelct on space and share your dreams !
LIVE MUSIC
Drift - Sound Performance
Friday 27 February - 20:00
by Maggie Ghaziani
Sound and light interactive installation. Find it at Expo.
BoterBoter - Concert
Friday 27 February - 21:00
by BoterBoter
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.
Snoerwoud - Concert
Friday 27 February - 22:00
Onja+Movikca+OrganiizedChaos
Friday 27 February - 23:00
Snoerwoud
BoterBoter
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
EXHIBITION
Drift
Sound and light interactive installation
by Maggie Ghaziani
I remember… Ongoing stories and memories of Sickhouse’s community
Video installation. Collective archive
by Sam & Tessa
Mega Dreoilín
Walkthrough video installation
by Han Hogan and Donal Fullam
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.
RoBowGotchi
Art-cade Machine
by Vincent Schoutsen, Wouter van Veldhoven, Leon Denise & Emilie Breslavetz
Alternative ways of inhabiting space
Interactive Installation
by Paulina Martinez
Robogotchi
SATURDAY 28-02
SICKHOUSE OPENS FROM 12:00 to 02:00
PLAYFUL SESSIONS
Bingo JAM forever
Saturday 28 February - 13:00 to 15:00
hosted by Paulina Martínez
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.
Deviation Game Play Session
Saturday 28 February - 14:30 to 15:30
hosted by Pablo San Gregorio
“Draw things humans can understand, but an image recognition AI can’t!” Deviation Game is a co-op party game developed by Playfool and Tomo Kihara for 2-6 players that pits human creativity against AI perception. Flipping Alan Turing’s revolutionary 1950 Imitation Game.
Pico Park Play Session (tbc)
Saturday 28 February - 17:30 to 18:30
with TBC
A cooperative puzzle game developed by TECOPARK. The rule is quite simple: "Get all the keys and get to the goal and clear", but all 48 levels have special gimmicks designed specifically for multiplayer. Up to 8 players can play simultaneously!
Zine Corner “Dream Collector”
Saturday 28 February - 15:30 to 17:30
hosted by Sophia Varenkamp
Find a partner, get on a quest, refelct on space and share your dreams !
FILM SCREENING
Flow (age 6+)
Saturday 28 February - 12:30 to 14:00
Directed by Gints Zilbalodis
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
Saturday 28 February - 15:30 to 17:00
Curated by Sirin Bahar Demirel
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
Saturday 28 February - 17:30 to 18:15
Directed by Mohamed Mesbah
LIVE MUSIC
Drift - Sound Performance
Saturday 28 February - 20:00
by Maggie Ghaziani
Sound and light interactive installation. Find it at Expo.
Housemaid - Concert
Saturday 28 February - 21:00
by Housemaid
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; an experimental mix that lingers. Influenced by artists like Courtney Barnett, Wet Leg, and Talking Heads, Housemaid delivers music that not only gets under your skin but also challenges your worldview.
Arris Unbound - DJ set
Saturday 28 February 22:00
Midnight screening (+18)
Saturday 28 February - 23:59 to 2:00
Surprise title
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