LivingBreathingSpaces
Living Breathing Spaces - a product of collective hearts - #2
Thursday 11 dec 2025, 18:00 doors open
Start 18:30-20:00
C&CP, Putselaan 178 Rotterdam
Music, movement and collective performance guidance by:
Dorota Márföldi-Matejová
Rohiet Tjon Poen Gie
Luke Deane / Lisa
Froggr Arafat
For the second edition of Living Breathing Spaces - a product of collective hearts - we invite you on Dec 11th to transform this space into what we wish it to be: a place of human connection, welcoming authenticity, expression and collective creativity. Through the guidance and performing presence of four Rotterdam-based artists, experienced both in their diverse performance practice as well as in practices of experimental education, self-taught learning, creative teaching and collective learning, we will make a collective performance-improvisation with sounds, words and moves that will resonate through the spaces of the building.
This evening welcomes everyBody. Active participation is welcome but not required. We believe that your presence and listening is a participation in itself already.
Living Breathing Spaces is an encounter between the local community, local artists & educators, visitors and passers-by. Together we create a space for imagination, connection and interaction.
During the first edition on 7 September, the authentic voices and expressions of Rotterdam-based artists, poets, speakers and musicians resonated through the building of Cultuur&Campus Putselaan, opening questions such as: what kind of space do we want to create, as artists and humans living in these times, meeting in the city of Rotterdam? What kind of space can hold both our imagination as artists and as human beings transformed into reality? What kinds of places do we want our voices, our art, our experiences, and our newly created memories to be embodied in?
Just as our minds, bodies and souls hold memories, places, spaces and buildings hold memories. We can re-build, re-create, transform and make new ones.
This event is part of the Campus Studio Programme ‘Collective Learning for a Shared and Just City’, curated by the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative for Cultuur&Campus Putselaan, written & programmed by Dorota Matejová (freelance artist and educator).
For Living Breathing Spaces no. 2
We welcome Rohiet Tjon Poen Gie, a dancer, choreographer and teacher using hip-hop and contemporary techniques as a vehicle to show and shift underexposed perspectives on the subject of colonialism; Luke Deane (also known on stage as ´Lisa´), an artist chameleon, curious performer and composer using music as a tool to facilitate dialogues between unexpected things and people; Froggr Arafat, a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of sound, image, and cultural memory transforming everyday sounds and symbols into immersive narratives of liberation; Dorota Márföldi-Matejová, a musician, performer-composer, educator, poet exploring the many ways of performing and creating connections through authentic expression, vulnerability & shifting and breaking the genre and class boundaries in performance art and between the performer and the audience.
Living Breathing Spaces no. I – a product of collective hearts #1
Written and programmed by By Dorota Matejová
Sunday sept 7th, 15:00-18:30h
at Cultuur en Campus Putselaan, Putselaan 178
With music and poetry by: Lucija Gregov, Bernat Boronat, Lucas Bernardo da Silva, Denk neni, Mustapha Eaisaouiyen, Dorota Márföldi-Matejová, DJ ANTO
Living Breathing Spaces invite you to the place where music & poetry across multiple backgrounds and genres meet and resonate through the space of Cultuur&Campus Putselaan, a recently renovated building intended as a space for cultural dialogue, community encounter and shared learning, a place that holds old memories and through Living Breathing Spaces opens up for the first time to the public, thus beginning to create new encounters and new memories.
Welcome to all, free entrance
This event invites you to reflect on naturally emerging questions: What kind of space do we want to create as artists and human beings living during this time in this world, meeting in the city of Rotterdam? What kind of space can hold both our imagination as artists and as human beings transformed into reality? What kind of places do we want our voices, our art and our experiences and newly created memories to be embodied within?
During this afternoon we will encounter music and poetry by multiple Rotterdam-based musicians and poets, each of them bringing their distinctive voice and creativity into Living Breathing Spaces.
We will meet the music performed by Lucas Bernardo da Silva, sharing the intimacy and the depth of solo violin music; we will encounter the words of Mustapha Eaisaouiyen, embodying the poetry deeply rooted in the lived stories and culture of the local community; we will be embraced by the music-created-in-the-moment by Lucija Gregov & Bernat Boronat, exploring and opening up the space through their cello & bass clarinet immersive conversations; we will be invited into the music world of Denk neni, combining hiphop and poetry into one lived expression of resistance and love.
We will be welcomed by Janneke Absil & Kim Bouvy, speaking from the experience of the many created local initiatives and collective projects; and we will be guided through the spaces by Dorota Márföldi-Matejová, living her imagination and dreams through her poems and songs performed on various flutes.
This event is written & programmed by Dorota Matejová
During this afternoon we will encounter music and poetry by multiple Rotterdam-based musicians and poets, each of them bringing their distinctive voice and creativity into Living Breathing Spaces.
We will meet the music performed by Lucas Bernardo da Silva, sharing the intimacy and the depth of solo violin music; we will encounter the words of Mustapha Eaisaouiyen, embodying the poetry deeply rooted in the lived stories and culture of the local community; we will be embraced by the music-created-in-the-moment by Lucija Gregov & Bernat Boronat, exploring and opening up the space through their cello & bass clarinet immersive conversations; we will be invited into the music world of Denk neni, combining hiphop and poetry into one lived expression of resistance and love.
We will be welcomed by Janneke Absil & Kim Bouvy, speaking from the experience of the many created local initiatives and collective projects; and we will be guided through the spaces by Dorota Márföldi-Matejová, living her imagination and dreams through her poems and songs performed on various flutes.
This event is written & programmed by Dorota Matejová
Dorota Márföldi-Matejová is a traverso & wooden flutes player, performer-composer and poet from Slovakia, based in Rotterdam. Fascinated by & rooted in physicality and musicality of the body, instrument, sound, voice, poetry - she creates music-movement-poetic performances and encounters. Coming from experimental, early-classical and club music backgrounds, she sees art as an essential part of the society, “food for our souls”. Always looking for authenticity and understanding that art needs to be accessible for everybody from all classes & backgrounds, she passionately explores the many ways of “being on stage” with a desire to share and bring music & poetry into diverse spaces, pushing and breaking the class and genre divisions in performance art & between performer and audience. Recurring subjects in her works are transformation, vulnerability, love, nature, (dis)connection, human emotions, the body-and-the soul.
Denk neni, grew up in Ethiopia, currently residing in Rotterdam, is an artist whose essence lies in the powerful combination of Hiphop and poetry. He strives to capture the essence of life - its struggles, joys, and complexities. "My art is a testimony of resistance and love, we resist because we love, if we don’t love we don’t resist, we just let it be."
Mustapha Eaisaouiyen is a housing activist rooted in Rotterdam, where the echoes of the demolished Tweebosbuurt still shape his fight for justice. His struggle is a story of loss turned into resistance. He is one of the founding members of Right to the City and Woonopstand; active in the Bond Precaire Woonvormen, and a member of the Afrikaanderwijk Wijkcoöperatie. Mustapha´s poetry and speeches revolve around housing justice, radical love, and radical participation, giving a voice to the unhoused and undocumented people and all those made invisible by gentrification. Through his writing and organizing he reclaims space not just in the city, but in the collective imagination of what a just home can be.
Lucija Gregov is a cellist, improviser, composer and programmer. She has been developing projects and researching in the fields of classical music, electro acoustic music, improvisation, experimental music, radio and sound art.
Bernat Boronat is a clarinetist and improviser based in Rotterdam, with a dedicated focus on exploring extended techniques and new sounds within the bass clarinet and other non-conventional instruments.
Drawing on their mutual fascination for drones, multiphonics, improvisation and extended
instrumental sounding, in their duo Lucija Gregov and Bernat Boronat together create music that has a palpable sense of open space. Created with minimal means, the duo’s sonic exploration unfolds in an unhurried pace with a compulsive sense of continuity. In this ongoing collaboration, Lucija and Bernat keep expanding on ways in which cello and bass clarinet come together, often sounding as one instrument, only to gradually drift apart and occupy a distinctive sonic space of one's own.
Bernat Boronat is a clarinetist and improviser based in Rotterdam, with a dedicated focus on exploring extended techniques and new sounds within the bass clarinet and other non-conventional instruments.
Drawing on their mutual fascination for drones, multiphonics, improvisation and extended
instrumental sounding, in their duo Lucija Gregov and Bernat Boronat together create music that has a palpable sense of open space. Created with minimal means, the duo’s sonic exploration unfolds in an unhurried pace with a compulsive sense of continuity. In this ongoing collaboration, Lucija and Bernat keep expanding on ways in which cello and bass clarinet come together, often sounding as one instrument, only to gradually drift apart and occupy a distinctive sonic space of one's own.
Lucas Bernardo da Silva, is a Brazilian violinist specialized in both historically informed and modern performance. Currently based in the Netherlands, he has performed with ensembles such as Pynarello, Il Giardino Armonico, Libero Ensemble, Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Spira Mirabilis and others. A versatile musician, Lucas is active in chamber music and orchestral projects across Europe. He holds a Master’s from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and a Bachelor’s from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, having studied with Vera Beths and Peter Brunt. His playing spans Baroque to late Romantic repertoire on period and modern instruments.