Leonel Piccardo is a Photographer and Afro-Surrealist artist from the Dominican Republic based in the Netherlands.
Piccardo creates artwork that explores themes of self-exploration using his afro-identity and experiences as a catalyst for his imaginary worlds. As of 2021 Piccardo became known as GlitchOfMind in the NFT community and his work has been exhibited in  STRATOSPHERE, Beijing 2021, Bringing Worlds, LA, USA 2021, Sonsbeek x The BlackArchives 2021, OBA Amsterdam Zwarte Beweging, and others.

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“Become the strongest version of yourself. Be your own guru. The body achieves what the mind believes. It always hurts before it gets better”
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#ShapeME &#8211; the new work by Rotterdam based collective HipSick &#8211; is a performative installation that deals with different perspectives on the virtual identity.
After PUPPIES FOR SALE, the trilogy Some Say Morality is Negotiable continues with #ShapeME. #ShapeME emphasizes the performer’s own relationship to the fabricated real, the makeability of the body, and the psychological effects these concepts have on us. Does your life matter if you don’t continuously show it off online? If others can’t see how fit you are and how perfect your skin looks?

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#ShapeME by Hipsick

CLUB GEWALT is a music and theatre collective from Rotterdam. They create and perform their own shows, that always have a musical basis. Fascinated by pop culture and the world of the millennial, they create universes where many forms of art meet; from apocalyptic clubbing to R&amp;B opera’s.
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Die Hexe is a theatrical concert by the fake German punk band Herr Hamsterfleisch. In 60 minutes of head-banging punk songs, lyrical rock ballads and absurd activistic performances, the leading lady transforms into the archetype of the witch. And ode to the woman who is hard to love. An ode to the importance of getting angry. A reminder to the necessity to always keep fighting for something that is seemingly obvious, like fucking human rights. 
Herr Hamsterfleisch is a radical feminist alter ego of music and performance collective Club Gewalt, with club member Loulou as virtuous lead. Once inspired by Nina Hagen, they make political “post-prog-punk” songs: Femine, Loud and Extreme. Performed in a made up German-like language and with a lot of noise. So, don’t forget to bring earplugs.

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Die Hexe by Club Gewalt

Hang Youth moves between being an art project, an angry tweet and a serious punk band. Social and human rights issues are at the core of this anarchistic band. They will keep making music untill kapalism is destroyed.

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Perry Gits is a dancer, singer and performer. After studying Urban Contemporary Dans at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten be placed in musicals as ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Hair’ and he was a singer in a gospel choir. In his own work Perry uses his art like a political instrument to talk about subjects that are considered taboo. He wants to have a healing impact. How do you free yourself from the straitjacket in which our society forces you? Who do you actually want to be? Can you be yourself anytime, anywhere? These personal and at the same time universal questions are contained in a multidisciplinary and highly dynamic performance in which Perry Gits not only exposes himself.

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Sofie Kramer (1990) is an Amsterdam-based theatre performer and writer. Deriving from personal experiences, she examines her inner world from a political and philosophical perspective to tell bigger stories about the influence of power structures on the individual. In this search, she strongly relies on &#8211; and rebels against &#8211; antique sources such as Greek mythology. The fighting body is a returning theme in her work: the body that tries to fight time, gravity, the gaze of the other. She shows these fights in physical, strongly visual and often multidisciplinary performances, musicality and the body always being the starting point of the process.
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A Pole Tragedy

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A Pole Tragedy by Sofie Kramer

Total Seclusion is a skate punk band, influenced by early 1980’s punk, indie, garage, rock ’n roll, ska, metal and their own insanity. With cynical lyrics inspired by everything that frustrates, bugs or fascinates them, energetic stage performances and schizophrenic style changes, their music has the power, chaos and kick in the balls that you all deserve.

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LIONSTORM is the Netherlands&#8217; first queer rap formation consisting of members Vuige Muis and Skerrie Sterrie.

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POM is a band from Amsterdam who believes that raw music could get along well with cheerful vibes and relatable scenes of the realistic daily lives. Inspired by britpop, punk and garage rock, they&#8217;ve created their own &#8216;FUZZPOP&#8217;. With the band’s own special sauce, they’ve created a harmony of flamboyance, loudness and pure energy in their live performance.

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45ACIDBABIES is comprised of Sophia de Geus, Daniel Brem, Robin de Geus and Giorgio Paquay, four inherently different creative personalities hellbent on somehow making it work. The band is rapidly gaining international fanfare and acclaim with their combustible, boundary-blurring shows, shrewdly incorporating elements of hip hop, dance punk, garage rock, and pop. This bold, all-embracing approach is extended by often bizarre stage visuals and props.
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Noys is a post punk band that often takes inspiration from 60&#8217;s garage rock and 80&#8217;s new wave. The 3 boys and 2 girls often hang out in their rehearsal room drinking beer and discussing youth and media. This leads to cynical lyrics with a strong catchy tune.

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AiRich (pronounced as &#8216;I-Rich&#8217;) is an Afro-Caribbean Visual Artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. AiRich unites the past and future to create her afro futuristic super beings. After finishing school, she discovered the beauty of photography and fine arts and decided to develop her own view. She uses portrait photography as a medium to tell empowering stories inspired by black mythology and science fiction. The characters in her work are portrayed by models with features and appearances that do not conform to western beauty standards, emphasizing the importance of rediscovering and redefining the black identity.

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With ‘Dear Doubts’ Revue Regret invites the audience to a safe space where they feel both confronted and comfortable enough to reflect on their own regrets and life choices.
We make decisions every day, be it about mere trifles or life-changing events. Each of these choices has consequences that leave a trace – sometimes a memory, sometimes a scar. Choices also generate regrets. “Dear Doubts” captures these moments of indecision with a collage of evocative images. Acrobatic feats visualize the “what ifs” and “maybes” of life’s contingencies. What if I fall, what if I regret? Revue Regret condense these existential doubts into captivating physical performances that flirt with the abyss. The protagonists Lisa Chudalla and Jakob Jacobsson push themselves to their limits in exploring the tension between transitoriness and finality. They perform fantastic tight rope acts, swallow swords, and challenge gravity in the wheel. A thoughtful and exhilarating evening that tackles the philosophical via the physical.

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Inspired by classical fairytales and mythology, the story of the main character in Obsidian // Silk is entered around The Wired Boy, who is faced by challenges he must overcome, both internally and in relation to the external world. The audience is taken into to the realm of a human being who struggles with the oppression of his sexual orientation by both society and himself, leading to his eventual transformation into a robot void of emotion. Throughout the story, many different identities, archetypes and personas are adopted &#8211; each serving as an explorative vehicle that expresses an aspect of the protagonist’s &#8211; and the artist’s &#8211; identity. Feminine versus masculine energy is a main theme, as is nature versus technology.

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Two dudes sitting in a shitty car. A DJ and a millennial &#8211; talking about the inevitable reality of life: it’s easier to fall than it is to rise. Be it gravity (or clinical depression) the conversation is interrupted by a collision &#8211; an impact that thrusts you into an absurd journey through the darkness of the subconscious. Safe Sex by Teddy’s Last Ride is a multi-dimensional trip into self-discovery.

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