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Thank you all for a fantastic edition on Heritage! Radna Rumping of Non-fiction shared her thoughts on heritage and it being an inevitable part of present - and ours to play with. 

"Heritage is yours too, don’t be afraid to touch it!" -Radna Rumping on Heritage at CreativeMornings/Amsterdam 

Special thanks to Aquent for supporting the event, A-Lab for the beautiful location and The Coffee Virus for the delicious breakfast. 

Head over to our Facebook page to see all the photos by on a hazy morning.

See you next month at CreativeMornings!

Image © on a hazy morning

This month’s session on Heritage will take place at creative hub and new business complex for innovative and creative startups, A Lab. You can take the ferry from Amsterdam Central Station just across the IJ River to Buiksloterweg.

Coffee and croissants will be provided by The Coffee Virus. A big thank you to Aquent for supporting the event.

Reserve your spot now for this Friday’s talk! 

July’s speaker is Radna Rumping, an independent cultural programmer and initiator and a partner at Non-fiction. She will be talking about the tension and possibilities of contemporary culture in a heritage environment, based on a selection of projects she’s been involved in. Like last month, we’ll introduce her with a couple of questions:

1. What is your creative profession?

I always find it hard to describe myself in one sentence, my work often brings different professions together. I’m an independent cultural programmer and initiator based in Amsterdam. I connect contemporary culture with heritage, music with visual arts and people with institutions. I’m partner at Non-fiction, office for cultural innovation, and on the side I also make a weekly radio show on Red Light Radio.

2. What will you be sharing with the CreativeMornings community on Friday 25 July?

I’ll share some of my projects with a focus on programming and engaging people with contemporary art within the city and heritage of Amsterdam, for instance a 12-hour art marathon at Oude Kerk, and Tussen-ruimte (Between-space), that consisted of artistic interventions in hidden spaces at the Amsterdam canal area. These projects represent my search for an open and free space, and different modes of concentration in the city.

3. How is Amsterdam and its creative scene special to you?

The creative scene is a very broad term, these days and especially in Amsterdam, everyone is called a creative - from an art director at a big agency to a student at Rietveld. Some parts of it are dear to me, mostly small autonomous spaces or initiatives like Red Light Radio, Lost Property (R.I.P.) and bigger institutions like the Rijksakademie and Oude Kerk - institutions that have an amazing history but also act in the here and now. Amsterdam is like a small village, but what’s special to me is the possibility to switch so easily, to jump on the bicycle and move - from museums to some good club nights to small artist spaces.

4. If stuck in a creative rut, what’s your trick to get free and let loose?
Walk, make soup, swim, listen to a good dj mix.

Thank you Radna for this interview! Sign up now for this Friday’s event at A-Lab. Please note our new location - you can reach it easily by taking the Buiksloterweg ferry from Central Station. The doors will open at 8:30. See you on the 25th!

Photo from Kahakai Kitchen.

Here’s a little something to get you in the mood on this month’s global theme, Heritage: the Book List, a great selection of texts handpicked by the CreativeMornings HQ!

The monthly book list features a selection of inspiring texts on the current month’s theme. Among this month’s authors are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Khaled Hosseini and Barack Obama. Happy reading!

ps. Don’t forget to get your tickets for next Friday’s talk. Tickets go live on Monday 21 July at 9 am! 

We’re excited to announce our speaker for this month’s global theme, “Heritage”: Radna Rumping, independent cultural programmer and initiator, and partner at Non-fiction (office for cultural innovation). She connects contemporary culture with heritage, music with visual arts, and people with institutions.

Tickets will go live Monday July 21st at 9am for Friday’s event on June 25th at A Lab, our great new location this month. See you there!

July’s global theme is "Heritage", sponsored by MailChimp. Mark your calendars for July 25th and keep an eye on this space for our speaker announcement and more!

We are thrilled to welcome Marina van Goor to the CreativeMornings stage this month! The Amsterdam-based social designer of studio MVG/CA will share her thoughts on this month’s global theme, ‘Minimal’. A little introduction is in order before Friday’s event, thus without further ado: #cmams, meet Marina - Marina, meet #cmams.

1. What is your creative profession? 

Under the name MVG/CA, I work as a strategic designer on projects that focus on current issues. 

Through my work, I attempt to expose deeply rooted structures and ways of thinking that influence society and organizations - my designs are meant to make you think. I bring different fields, like academia, business and the creative industry, together to create cross-disciplinary work.

I invent concepts and then choose a fitting format to bring them to life, whether that’s a film, an installation, a piece of furniture or even a company. 

2. What will you be sharing with the CreativeMornings community on Friday 27 June?

At CreativeMornings I will talk about one of my latest projects, EENMAAL, the world’s first one-person restaurant. EENMAAL is a temporary restaurant where you come to as one, sit as one and eat as one, in an attractive public space for temporary disconnection. 

3. How is Amsterdam and its creative scene special to you? 

Amsterdam and the creative scene here is very supporting and very enthusiastic about these kind of initiatives with respect to actual issues. Many within the creative scene - including me - believe that concepts like EENMAAL, exposing actual issues in the city, have an added value to a city.

4. If stuck in a creative rut, what’s your trick to get free and let loose? 

To visit New York! I love the city and I always get so inspired by the energy, the possibilities for new initiatives, the upcoming neighbourhoods, the underground, the food and so on! I was there last month and I am still energized and inspired by the visit. 

Thank you Marina for this short interview! Get your tickets now to this Friday’s event at Pakhuis de Zwijger. As usual, the doors open at 8:30am. See you on the 27th!

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