Date: Saturday, 19 September 2025
Start: 15:00 CET
End: 17:30 CET
Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)

Invitation to After Summer School by Nieuwe Instituut:

Join the After Summer School 2025! During theAfter Summer School (18–21 September) over 20 public classeswill takeplace throughout Rotterdam, presenting the city as a hub for knowledge that deserves to berecognized and included in the city development. How can we change the city by looking,listening, writing, archiving, collaborating, activating, researching, designing, and walkingdifferently? Find the overview of events here –> https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/de-nieuwe-academie/after-summer-school-2025 and secure a ticket for any classes you like— the available spots are limitedand vary by its location.

Voicing Complexities by Mitsitron:

In this workshop, by Rotterdam-based collective Varia, you will listen to public sound libraries and datasets to observe what categorisations they use, which narratives they reinforce, and what worlds they build. Participants will also record (their own) queer sounds of exclusion: sounds that fail, refuse, reject, resist the performance of the norm. Using recorders, phones and various prompts, you will collect different perspectives, positions, stories, experiences. These recordings will provide an entrance point for listening and sound making that challenge binary structures, and counter-act archives of sounds.