Save the Date_17 November_Myvillages is 20
Looking back to the future we want – together celebrating and reflecting on 20 years of Myvillages
17 November 2023 in Rotterdam
11:00 - 16:00 Rural Rotterdam Trip
16:00 - 18:00 Gathering at TENT to connect and reconnect
18:00 - 20:00 Panel and Discussion at TENT
20:30 - 23:00 Dinner, Music and Party
Dear colleague, friends, supporter and comrades of Myvillages
In 2003 we officially launched Myvillages (then called myvillages.org) as a shared cultural space for opening up the rural as a working place for artists. Fed up with the ubiquity of urban cultural hegemony, we self-organised ways of thinking together, working within and publishing about the rural as a particularity without any urge to define it.
20 years later and numerous and invaluable encounters, relationships and projects later, we want to celebrate rural realities and imaginaries with you, in the manner of our work: close to the ground, together with others, curious, critical and tangible.
We cordially invite you to join us for one day of Rural Rotterdam on Friday 17th November 2023.
11am – 3pm Rural Rotterdam Trip
Keywords: former farmland, cow and landscape, colonial histories and trans-local dairy knowledge
Meeting Point: Myvillages Studio and Archive, Ericastraat 8
NOTE: please register HERE for this part of the day, as places are limited
4pm – 6pm Books, Coffee and Cake at TENT
A relaxed gathering to connect and reconnect, sharing publications on and about the rural, with slices of home-made cake and coffee. Please bring books and fanzines others should know about.
6pm – 8pm De-urbanising the Museum
A call to acknowledge the urban trajectory of museums/contemporary art spaces and possible rural roles.
Reflective Introduction from Charles Esche, Director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Franziska Zolyom, Director, GfZK Leipzig, followed by a panel with guests (names tbc)
8pm Dinner, Music and Party
On the Boerenzij aka South Rotterdam. Please register HERE
