Performance Situation Room “Open House Festival”

by Het Veem Theater:

For almost 100 Days in 2017, the 100 Day House has been everybody’s house. We painted the space and moved a lot of objects around the building. We have invited people to come and they came. From artists we learned that our thinking should be a politicized thinking. We learned that sometimes being in a space with each other can be already the most political thing to do. We have sold a lot of books (some got 'missing'.) We found out we really love to be a bookshop as well. 

We encountered a lot of Housemates. We gave (most of) them their key and saw them come back to the house. We've seen the leaves falling of trees and collected branches for a certain artist who made a certain performance. We collected words to imagine with. We've seen the days getting shorter and the darkness getting heavier. We saw the end of the 100 Day House approaching and we felt how all of this house, that we have come to appreciate even more than we already did, had to go into the dark again. We already felt how badly we are going to miss it.

Before we reached that moment though, there was still the Open House Festival. It was the last main big collective and multiple days event in 2017. In the last week before Christmas we harvested all that we have been doing and growing and sharing with the artists, the reading and research groups, the neighbourhood, the word-bringers, the speakers, the performers, the book-lovers, the bar-buddies, the Improvised Feminism debaters, the Chi-Kung and Yoga movers, the podcast makers, the listeners, the spectators, the writers room critics. 

At the core of it all; the new performance works that have been developed during the 100 Days by housemakers Sonja Jokiniemi, Ogutu Muraya, Oneka von Schrader and Tea Tupajic.

The whole week we were writing, thinking, dancing together. 
To open the house, to live the house, to close the house. 

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LINE-UP

#day87 - Monday 18th December
Superdance by Oneka von Schrader - Open House Festival
'Words for the Future' by Nienke Scholts (lecture performance)
Installation by Isadora Tomasi
Dark Numbers by Tea Tupajic - Open House Festival (lecture)


#day88 - Tuesday 19th December
Superdance by Oneka von Schrader - Open House Festival
'Words for the Future' by Nienke Scholts (lecture performance)
Dark Numbers by Tea Tupajic - Open House Festival (lecture)

#day89 - Wednesday 20th December
BLUE by Aleksandra Lemm - Open House Festival
'Superoutine' by MOHA

#day90 - Thursday 21th December
Ogutu Muraya - Open House Festival
'Spoken Words Feminism' by Margo van de Linde (lecture performance)
Blab by Sonia Jokiniemi - Open House Festival

#day91 - Friday 22nd December
Ogutu Muraya - Open House Festival
Blab by Sonia Jokiniemi - Open House Festival