BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:23099@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Small Miracle #3: Radiance DTSTAMP:20260726T134334Z DTSTART:20260620T130000Z DTEND:20260621T000000Z DESCRIPTION:Saturday 20 June\n\n\nSMALL MIRACLE #3: RADIANCE\n\nLineup: Bil ly Morgan\, Lina Bravo\, rots and Adil (ekat yawa)\, Radna Rumping\,\nGust avo A. Cruz Cerna\, Andrea González\, Simon Marschall\, Matcha / Gerardo\n Contreras\, Yelizaveta Strakhova | Piano bar: Alec Mateo\, Bin Koh\, Jimen a Casas\,\ntbaTime: 15:00 - 02:00 hrsTickets: € 10\,- | Stadspas Groene St ip: €2\,50 | Choose\nyour arrival timeslot: 15:00 - 18:00 / 18:00 - 21:00 / 21:00 - 23:00 (This is\nyour arrival timeslot\, not an begin and end-tim e of your stay)Tickets\n[https://plein-theater.stager.co/shop/default/even ts?date=2026-06-20]\n\nDutch below\n\n\n#GETINVOLVED\n\nThis series is par t of the Plein Theater program for co-creation\, in which we\ninvite you t o participate\, and curated by creative community producer Lorenzo\nGarcía -Andrade Llamas. Read more on our page Community >\n[https://plein-theater .nl/en/community]\n\nWe invite you to an extended program dedicated to rad iance: light in excess of\nnecessity. Taking place on the eve of the summe r solstice\, the gathering\ncelebrates that which extends beyond itself\; shining\, spilling\, reflecting\,\nrefracting\, scattering\, emanating and enduring.\n\nThrough an afternoon and evening of swimming\, music\, perfo rmance\, collective\nmaking and shared meals\, we will gather around the l ight that\, at this time of\nyear\, stretches the days unwilling to leave. \n\n\nSMALL MIRACLES\n\nSmall Miracles is a series of interdisciplinary pr ograms that tend to the\nexisting and possible communities of Plein Theate r. Taking place across\ndifferent Saturdays throughout the year\, the seri es brings together diverse\nartistic practices in extended\, durational fo rmats.\n\nEach Saturday is dedicated to a word—or a word-mode—that serves as an invitation\nto explore the possibilities a theater offers for coming together. With a focus\non desirable abundances and communal luxury\, the programming of Small Miracles\nleans toward words aligned with these noti ons.\n\n\n#3: RADIANCE\n\nOn the eve of the summer solstice\, we invite yo u to a gathering dedicated to the\nexcess of light at this time of year an d the different ways it emanates.\nConceived around the shifting moments o f the day\, the program attends the\nchanging qualities of light and the s ituations and relations they produce. As\nthe day progresses and the light transforms\, so too does the gathering.\n\n\nPROGRAM\n\nThe program unfol ds through a series of phases:\n\n15:00–18:00 - Swimming & Collective Maki ng\n\nThroughout the afternoon\, a swimming pool for the feet designed by Yelizaveta\nStrakhova and hosted by Andrea González will be open on the te rrace.\n\nrots and Adil from Ekat Yawa will host Long Shadow Blue Sky\, a cyanotype\nworkshop. We will be exposing different "things" and "parts" to the two\ndifferent chemicals that were the precursor (voorloper) to photo graphy. The\nresulting works will be developed and installed on the walls of the theater\nlater that day.\n\nLina Bravo will host an Earth Consultor y\, inviting participants to meet\ndifferent clays\, sands\, pigments and soils gathered from Amsterdam and beyond.\nWe will bind them into watercol ors using the sweet solar energy of honey and\nbotanic gums.\n\nSimon Mars chall will offer the workshop Guardening What\, through conversations\,\nm ovement\, and ways of perception we will explore ways to destructure garde ning\nas an expression of control.\n\nGustavo A. Cruz Cerna will share the talk _Do you have a moment to talk about\ncollectives?_ in which he explo res Mexican art collectives from the 1970s and\ntheir role in the country' s art history. In this process he opens a conversation\nabout the state of collective practices in Mexico's art scene today.\n\n18:00–19:00 - Exhibi tion Opening & Dinner\n\nWe will open the exhibition resulting from the cy anotype workshop and share a\ndinner.\n\n19:00–21:00 — Piano Bar & DJ Set by Radna Rumping\n\nFor two hours\, community members and guests are invit ed to play the piano in the\ntheater ́s café. Contributions may last anywh ere between a single song and ten\nminutes. In the intervals between perfo rmances\, Radna Rumping will provide a\ncontinuous musical accompaniment.\ n\nConfirmed piano players include:\n\nAlec Mateo\n\nBin Koh\n\nJimena Cas as\n\nMore participants to be announced.\n\n21:00–21:30 - Performance\n\nT he Piano Bar will be followed by a performance by Billy Morgan\, presentin g a\nnew study combining movement and self-produced music.\n\n21:30–Late - Celebration\n\nDJ Matcha plays and celebration into the night.\n\n\n#GETI NVOLVED\n\nCyanotype Workshop & Piano Bar\n\nOn the eve of the summer sols tice\, we invite you to contribute to Radiance\, a\nday-long gathering ded icated to the excess of light and the many ways it\ntravels.\n\n15:00–18:0 0 — Cyanotype Workshop\n\nrots and Adil from ekat yawa will host long shad ow blue sky\, a collective\ncyanotype workshop. We will be exposing differ ent "things" and "parts" to the\ntwo different chemicals that were the pre cursor (voorloper) to photography.\nThroughout the afternoon\, we will wor k together to create a temporary exhibition\nthat will be installed on the walls of Plein Theater and opened later that\nevening. Come and make your own cyanotype on the longest day of the year. What\ndoes the light reflec t or retrace?\n\nNo previous experience is necessary.\n\n19:00–21:00 — Pia no Bar\n\nAs the day moves into evening\, the piano in Plein Theater's caf é will be opened\nto friends\, neighbors\, artists\, musicians and anyone who would like to share a\nsong. Participants are invited to play for anyw here between a single piece and\nten minutes. Classical music\, pop songs\ , improvisations\, unfinished\ncompositions\, standards\, experiments and unexpected encounters with the\ninstrument are all welcome.\n\nIn the inte rvals between performances\, Radna Rumping will accompany the evening\nwit h a DJ set.\n\nIf you would like to participate in the Piano Bar\, please contact: Lorenzo\nGarcía Andrade (lorenzo@plein-theater.nl [lorenzo@plein- theater.nl])\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS\n\nLina Bravo Mora (Bogotá) Based in A msterdam\, is a visual artist\, clay and soil\nresearcher with a backgroun d in social anthropology\, radical pedagogies and\nfacilitation for confli ct transformation. She works in co-creating educational\nspaces and progra ms for life-sustaining\, emancipatory and liberatory practices.\n\nRadna R umping is an Amsterdam-based curator and artist. Her practice is\nrelation al and collaborative\, engaging with public space\, experimental\narchivin g\, forms of gathering\, and conditions of (in)visibility. She is drawn to \nartistic practices that defy categorisation\, with a special interest fo r\nperformance art. In 2015 she co-founded Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee\, an onlin e radio\nplatform dedicated to the arts. Her essays and audio works are ma de public\nthrough readings\, radio broadcasts\, exhibitions and sofarsore al.net\n[http://sofarsoreal.net/].\n\nrots (they/them\, 1994) is a specula tive lifestyle designer currently\nresearching: masculinity\, performativi ty\, (i love) language\, (the art of)\nmaintenance\, (my) grandparents\, w i(t)chcraft\, alternative/anti capitalistic webs\nand networks\, coinciden ce and association.\n\nAdil is a printer\, projectionist (images/emotions) \, sometimes writer\, teacher.\nInterested in resistance\, masculinity\, w orking together with people to make\nthings not shit.\n\nekat yawa is take away in reverse. we work work together decentralizing the\ncentre of amst erdam.\n\nYelizaveta Strakhova (b. 1993\, Russia) is an Amsterdam-based sp atial\npractitioner at the intersection of art and architecture. She uses water's\nconnective and transformative force as a lens through which to ex plore societal\nvalues and dynamics\, reflecting broader cultural and envi ronmental narratives.\nShe experiments with formats of social gatherings a nd small-scale space-making\nas instant ways of critically responding to a variety of contexts and\nimplementing and testing scenarios for the alter native development of\nlandscapes.\n\nAndrea González works with images. H er research revolves around spatial\npolitics\, infrastructure\, and terri tory through a possibilist and experimental\nlens. By exploring new forms of storytelling\, she immerses herself in material\nculture\, reappropriat ing and re-signifying fragments. Her work revisits\nunderrepresented narra tives\, questions editorial practices\, and develops and\nuncovers new for ms of communication.\n\nGustavo A. Cruz Cerna is an independent editor\, c ritic\, and curator. He studied\nPhilosophy and Art History at the Nationa l Autonomous University of Mexico\n(UNAM). His current research focuses on artistic collectives in Mexico during\nthe 1970s and 1980s and their part icipation in institutional art spaces. His\nwritings have been published i n media outlets such as Blog de Crítica\, Campo de\nRelámpagos\, Horizonta l\, GasTV\, Revista Cubo Blanco\, Nexos\, Revista Gatopardo\,\nand the Rev ista de la Universidad.Since 2015\, he has been an active member of\nthe c ollective Biquini Wax EPS. He has participated in exhibition projects at\n venues including the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC)\, kurima nzutto\,\nthe University Museum of El Chopo\, and Campeche in Mexico City\ , as well as the\nPalais de Tokyo and 15 Beautreillis in Paris. He current ly works as an editor at\nthe Centro de la Imagen and for Revista Cubo.\n\ n\n\nTHROWBACK PAST EVENTS\n\n22 FEB 2026\nSmall Miracle #1: Nightkeeping\ nView recap & photos >\n[https://plein-theater.nl/nieuws/02-mei-2026-small -miracle-2-antiproductivity]\n\n02 MAY 2026\nSmall Miracle #2: Anti-produc tivity\nView recap & photos >\n[https://plein-theater.nl/nieuws/22-feb-202 6-small-miracles-1-nightkeeping] URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/small-miracle-3-solstice GEO:52.3608907;4.9138063 LOCATION:Plein Theater - Sajetplein 39\, 1091 DB Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:alternative,amsterdam-oost,blues,community,dinner,dj,exhibition, experimental,improv,music,oosterparkbuurt,opening,performance,piano,storyt elling,talk,theater,theatre,workshop X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Saturday 20 June

Small Miracle #3: Radiance

Lineup: Billy Morgan, Lina Bravo, rots and Adil (ekat yawa), Radna Ru mping, Gustavo A. Cruz Cerna, Andrea González, Simon Marschall, Matcha / G erardo Contreras, Yelizaveta Strakhova | Piano bar: Alec Mateo, Bin Koh, J imena Casas, tbaTime: 15:00 - 02:00 hrsTickets: € 10,- | Stadspas Groene S tip: €2,50 | Choose your arrival timeslot: 15:00 - 18:00 / 18:00 - 21:00 / 21:00 - 23:00 (This is your arrival timeslot, not an begin and end-time o f your stay)Tickets

Dutch below

#GetInvolved

This series is part of the Plein The ater program for co-creation, in which we invite you to participate, and c urated by creative community producer Lorenzo García-Andrade Llamas. Read more on our page Community >

We invite you to an extended pr ogram dedicated to radiance: light in excess of necessity. Taking place on the eve of the summer solstice, the gathering celebrates that which exten ds beyond itself; shining, spilling, reflecting, refracting, scattering, e manating and enduring.

Through an afternoon and evening of swimmin g, music, performance, collective making and shared meals, we will gather around the light that, at this time of year, stretches the days unwilling to leave.

Small Miracles

Small Miracles is a series of interdisciplinary programs that tend to the existing and po ssible communities of Plein Theater. Taking place across different Saturda ys throughout the year, the series brings together diverse artistic practi ces in extended, durational formats.

Each Saturday is dedicated to a word—or a word-mode—that serves as an invitation to explore the possibil ities a theater offers for coming together. With a focus on desirable abun dances and communal luxury, the programming of Small Miracles leans toward words aligned with these notions.

#3: Radiance

On the eve of the summer solstice, we invite you to a gathering ded icated to the excess of light at this time of year and the different ways it emanates. Conceived around the shifting moments of the day, the program attends the changing qualities of light and the situations and relations they produce. As the day progresses and the light transforms, so too does the gathering.

Program

The program unfold s through a series of phases:

15:00–18:00 - Swimming & Collective Making

Throughout the afternoon, a swimming poo l for the feet designed by Yelizaveta Strakhova and hoste d by Andrea González will be open on the terrace.

rots and Adil from Ekat Yawa will host < em>Long Shadow Blue Sky, a cyanotype workshop. We will be exposing di fferent "things" and "parts" to the two different chemicals that were the precursor (voorloper) to photography. The resulting works will be develope d and installed on the walls of the theater later that day.

Lina Bravo will host an Earth Consultory, inviting part icipants to meet different clays, sands, pigments and soils gathered from Amsterdam and beyond. We will bind them into watercolors using the sweet s olar energy of honey and botanic gums.

Simon Marschall will offer the workshop Guardening What, through conversatio ns, movement, and ways of perception we will explore ways to destructure g ardening as an expression of control.

Gustavo A. Cruz Cern a will share the talk _Do you have a moment to talk a bout collectives?_ in which he explores Mexican art collect ives from the 1970s and their role in the country's art history. In this p rocess he opens a conversation about the state of collective practices in Mexico's art scene today.

18:00–19:00 - Exhibition Opening & Dinner

We will open the exhibition resulting from th e cyanotype workshop and share a dinner.

19:00–21:00 — Pian o Bar & DJ Set by Radna Rumping

For two hours, communi ty members and guests are invited to play the piano in the theater ́s café . Contributions may last anywhere between a single song and ten minutes. I n the intervals between performances, Radna Rumping will provide a continuous musical accompaniment.

Confirmed piano players include:

Alec Mateo

Bin Koh

Jimena Casas

More participants to be ann ounced.

21:00–21:30 - Performance

The Piano Bar will be followed by a performance by Billy Morgan, p resenting a new study combining movement and self-produced music.

< strong>21:30–Late - Celebration

DJ Matcha plays and celebration into the night.

#GetInvolved

Cyanotype Workshop & Piano Bar

On t he eve of the summer solstice, we invite you to contribute to Radiance , a day-long gathering dedicated to the excess of light and the many ways it travels.

15:00–18:00 — Cyanotype Workshop< /p>

rots and Adil from ekat yawa will host long shadow blue sky, a collective cyanotype workshop. We will be exposing different "things" and "parts" to the two different chemicals that were the precursor (voorl oper) to photography. Throughout the afternoon, we will work together to c reate a temporary exhibition that will be installed on the walls of Plein Theater and opened later that evening. Come and make your own cyanotype on the longest day of the year. What does the light reflect or retrace?

No previous experience is necessary.

19:00–21:00 — Pia no Bar

As the day moves into evening, the piano in Plein T heater's café will be opened to friends, neighbors, artists, musicians and anyone who would like to share a song. Participants are invited to play f or anywhere between a single piece and ten minutes. Classical music, pop s ongs, improvisations, unfinished compositions, standards, experiments and unexpected encounters with the instrument are all welcome.

In the i ntervals between performances, Radna Rumping will accompany the evening wi th a DJ set.

If you would like to participate in the Piano Bar, ple ase contact: Lorenzo García Andrade (lorenzo@plein-theater.nl)

About the artists

Lina Bravo Mora (Bogotá) Based in Amsterdam, is a visual artist, clay and soil researcher with a background in social a nthropology, radical pedagogies and facilitation for conflict transformati on. She works in co-creating educational spaces and programs for life-sust aining, emancipatory and liberatory practices.

Radna Rumpin g is an Amsterdam-based curator and artist. Her practice is relat ional and collaborative, engaging with public space, experimental archivin g, forms of gathering, and conditions of (in)visibility. She is drawn to a rtistic practices that defy categorisation, with a special interest for pe rformance art. In 2015 she co-founded Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, an online radi o platform dedicated to the arts. Her essays and audio works are made publ ic through readings, radio broadcasts, exhibitions and sofarsoreal.net.

rots (they/them, 1994) is a speculative lifestyle designer currently res earching: masculinity, performativity, (i love) language, (the art of) mai ntenance, (my) grandparents, wi(t)chcraft, alternative/anti capitalistic w ebs and networks, coincidence and association.

Adil is a printer, projectionist (images/emotions), sometimes writer, teacher . Interested in resistance, masculinity, working together with people to m ake things not shit.

ekat yawa is take away in rev erse. we work work together decentralizing the centre of amsterdam.

< p>Yelizaveta Strakhova (b. 1993, Russia) is an Amsterdam- based spatial practitioner at the intersection of art and architecture. Sh e uses water's connective and transformative force as a lens through which to explore societal values and dynamics, reflecting broader cultural and environmental narratives. She experiments with formats of social gathering s and small-scale space-making as instant ways of critically responding to a variety of contexts and implementing and testing scenarios for the alte rnative development of landscapes.

Andrea González works with images. Her research revolves around spatial politics, infras tructure, and territory through a possibilist and experimental lens. By ex ploring new forms of storytelling, she immerses herself in material cultur e, reappropriating and re-signifying fragments. Her work revisits underrep resented narratives, questions editorial practices, and develops and uncov ers new forms of communication.

Gustavo A. Cruz Cerna is an independent editor, critic, and curator. He studied Philosophy a nd Art History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His current research focuses on artistic collectives in Mexico during the 197 0s and 1980s and their participation in institutional art spaces. His writ ings have been published in media outlets such as Blog de Crítica, Campo d e Relámpagos, Horizontal, GasTV, Revista Cubo Blanco, Nexos, Revista Gatop ardo, and the Revista de la Universidad.Since 2015, he has been an active member of the collective Biquini Wax EPS. He has participated in exhibitio n projects at venues including the University Museum of Contemporary Art ( MUAC), kurimanzutto, the University Museum of El Chopo, and Campeche in Me xico City, as well as the Palais de Tokyo and 15 Beautreillis in Paris. He currently works as an editor at the Centro de la Imagen and for Revista C ubo.

Throwback past events

22 FEB 20 26
Small Miracle #1: Nightkeeping
View recap & photos >

02 MAY 2026
Small Miracle #2: Anti-productivity
View recap & photos >

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