Small Miracle #2: Anti-Productivity
Small Miracle #2: Anti-Productivity
Lineup: Mili Herrera, Mariana Jurado Rico, Clara Rojas, Luis Gabriel, Lynn Shore, Alec Mateo, Anthony Mateo, Diana Zuican, Lou Vives, Bin Koh, Studio Brei, Lynn Shore, Jacob DwyerTime: 15:30 - 21:00 hrsTickets: € 10,- Tickets#GetInvolved
This series is part of the Plein Theater program for co-creation, in which we invite you to participate, and curated by creative community producer Lorenzo García-Andrade Llamas. Read more on our page Community >
We nodigen je uit voor een dag gewijd aan het samenkomen in verzet tegen productiviteit, waarbij we spel, tijdverdrijf en vormen van (niets)doen zonder doel verkennen, en waar waarde wordt gedeeld, verloren gaat of verandert door toeval, weigering en de tijd.
Small Miracles
Small Miracles is een reeks interdisciplinaire programma’s die zich richten op de bestaande en potentiële gemeenschappen van Plein Theater. De reeks vindt het hele jaar door op verschillende zaterdagen plaats en brengt diverse artistieke praktijken samen.
Elke zaterdag staat in het teken van een woord – of een woordvorm – en vormt een uitnodiging om in een theater, door middel van samenkomen en vieren, te ontdekken wat een woord hier en nu teweeg kan brengen. Met de nadruk op begeerlijke overvloed en gemeenschappelijke luxe richt de programmering van Small Miracles zich op woorden die aansluiten bij deze ideeën.
English:
Small Miracles is a series of interdisciplinary programs that tend to the existing and possible communities of Plein Theater. Taking place across different Saturdays throughout the year, the series brings together diverse artistic practices in extended, durational formats.
Each Saturday is dedicated to a word—or a word-mode—serving as an invitation to explore, through gathering and celebration, in a theater, what a word can make happen in the here and now. With a focus on desirable abundances and communal luxury, the programming of Small Miracles leans toward words aligned with these notions.
The first Small Miracle took place in the depth of winter, on February 21st, and was dedicated to Nightkeeping
#2: Anti-productivity
English below
Op de dag ná de internationale dag van de arbeid, gaat de tweede Small Miracle over anti-productiviteit. We nodigen je uit om samen te zijn — te spelen, te creëren en tijd door te brengen, zonder doel, resultaat of streven. We beginnen met een expositie opening, spelletjes en activiteiten (gratis toegang), gevolgd door een diner, een loterij en performances.
EN:
Following the 1st of May, international workers days, the second Small Miracle is an invitation to gather against productivity. This day is imagined through playing, sharing, gifting, and undoing. It will end in a celebration with you. The event consists of two parts, the expo opening & games, which is free of charge, followed by food, raffle & performances, for which tickets are available.
We invite you to a day dedicated to gathering against productivity, exploring play, pastimes, hobbies, and forms of (un)doing without purpose, where value is shared, lost, or transformed through chance, refusal, and time
Small Miracles
15:30 - 17:30 Expo opening & games
Beginning at 15:30, friends, artists, and neighbors will gather at Plein Theater’s terrace and café to invite guests to join them in doing some of the activities they return to - games, pastimes, interests - without obligation and that they relate to through pleasure, curiosity, or habit:
Alec Mateo with rolling dice
Diana Zuican with whittling (wood carving)
Lou Vives with fingerboarding
Bin Koh with drawing
Anthony Mateo with dominos
Studio Brei with knitting
Jacob Dwyer with backgammon
Lynn Shore sharing on foraging plants with medicinal and nutritional features found in Oost
Throughout the afternoon, an exhibition by Mariana Jurado Rico in collaboration with Juan Uribe Criollo will be open. This will be an extension of her ongoing research and project titled «Si puedo y es fácil, estoy cansada» (I can and its easy, I am tired). The project consists of a graphic archive of negations and how NO can be generative force today. A selection of the graphic material will be presented in dialogue with the Workers ́ Union of Fun (Sindicato Obrero de la Diversión), a manifesto that uses symbols and humor to reframe struggles.
The program will be of free entrance until 17.30
17:30 - 21:00 Food, raffle & performances
At 17:30 Luis Gabriel will play his acordeon and share the singular relationship of this instrument with his hometown, Villanueva de la Guajira, and how an accident changed the history of music through the reimagination of this instrument.
At 18:00, a dinner will be offered to all attendees. The menu will align with the day ́s word. Alongside this, a free raffle will circulate, open to everyone also free of charge and introducing chance, luck, and the redistribution of objects as a form of participation. Clara Rojas is conceiving and creating the prize.
At 18:30, we will move into the theater, where the winner of the raffle will be announced. The evening will continue with a performance by Mili Herrera, who will offer a performance that moves through passages of transformation, self-dissolution and return across our different selves over a non-linear time.
Be welcome and take a friend.
About the artists
Mili Herrera (b. 1995, Mexico) is a visual artist focused on drawing, facilitation and and performance. Her practice is based on sequential art and caricature, exploring dreamlike possibilities in political intersections like gender diversity, loneliness, and civilizational politics. She studied lithographic printing at the Taller Rufino Tamayo.
Mili holds a degree in visual arts at ENPEG “La Esmeralda”. She has led workshops about legends and comics in various collectives and projects around the forests and coast of Oaxaca, CDMX, and Amsterdam. She has received scholarships to scholar exchange in HEAD-Geneva, Switzerland. She has participated in various collective exhibitions in museums and spaces like MACO Oaxaca ,Tamayo Museum in CDMX, Nordenhake Gallery MX, YopeProjects, Parallel Oaxaca and Liste Art Fair in Basel.
She currently works in Biquini Wax Collective, and is participating in the Curatorial Program in De Appel, Amsterdam, and in the Master’s Programme, Monstrous Futurities at the Sandberg Instituut.
Mariana Jurado Rico (Bogotá, 1991) is an artist and curator working with printing, installation, publishing, radio, and video performance to facilitate points of merger between people. Her works build situations with elements of humor, failure, impatience, and contradiction as tools of resistance. She is currently developing collaborative projects including Espacio Estamos Bien, Sad Belongings Press, and FLUSH, all rooted in her interest in independent, self-initiated structures.
Juan Uribe Criollo is a Bogotá-based artist and cultural manager. His practice spans text, drawing, collage, painting, and sculpture, offering a Latin American perspective on the dynamics of power and domination shaped by the historical teaching of Western art. He engages with inherited narratives without accepting them: he reinterprets them through humor, irony, and irreverence toward the canon and its privileges. By appropriating and imitating other artists, he reveals an affection for their work while simultaneously mocking he conventions of gallery culture and audience expectations.
Clara Rojas is a visual artist based in Amsterdam whose practice centers on memory, perception, and the emotional resonance of materials. Working across glassblowing, installation, video, and textile, she creates immersive environments that explore how personal and collective memories are shaped, stored, and transformed over time. Her work often combines fragile and tactile materials with moving image, allowing physical objects and visual narratives to interact. Through this interplay, Clara investigates the ways in which everyday forms can hold traces of experience, evoking intimacy, absence, and the passage of time. By engaging the viewer’s senses, she invites a reflective encounter with the subtle, often intangible layers of memory. Clara graduated in 2024 from the Large Glass Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Luis Gabriel is a musician from Villanueva, La Guajira, Colombia, a region known as the cradle of the accordion in the country. The arrival of this instrument to the Caribbean port region transformed the history of music, becoming central to genres such as vallenato. A fourth-generation accordionist, Luis Gabriel carries forward a family tradition passed down from his great grandfather and like this embodying and updating a living musical heritage rooted in place, memory, and sound.
Lynn Shore is a natural therapist, medical herbalist, and foraging teacher based in Amsterdam since 2004. Through Urban Herbology, she helps city dwellers reconnect with nature to support physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Her work combines herbal medicine, foraging, and ecological practices, offering walks, workshops, consultations, courses, and community projects. Lynn is a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and other international herbal and foraging organizations. She cares with other volunteers for gardens in Stijltuin at Huize Frankendael, and her first book, The Green City Witch, explores urban herbalism and how it can affect the way we relate to the city.
#GetInvolved - OPEN CALL
You’re warmly invited to join and participate but also to bring something you enjoy doing that has no goal, no productivity, no outcome to chase — a game, a pastime, a small activity you return to for the pleasure of it.
It could be anything: cards, chess, doodling, puzzles, reading, a musical instrument, a quiet craft, or something entirely your own.
This is an invitation to be together — to sit, play, make, and spend time.
Contact Lorenzo García-Andrade Llamas via Lorenzo@plein-theater.nl
