On The Sand is supported by a lot of professional musicians. Since the founder of the organisation, Kivanc Sarikus, is a former student of CODARTS Conservatory as well as the Dokuz Eylul University Conservatory of Izmir, many of his friends and colleagues are now closely connected to On The Sand. This has resulted in many high quality music concerts and projects from the very beginning of On The Sand.
Music Nights and concerts
By now, we organise a thematic Music Night every month. In the past year we’ve created an Indian Music Night, a Classical Music Night, a Jazz- and improvisation Night, an Open Stage night for local talents, World music and many Jamm-sessions with a broad variety of musicians. We organise more of these nights, added by Live-looping Jamm sessions and Music Experiments yet to be discovered. On The Sand also collaborates with Folkhouse Matrix Rotterdam which is most prominent new age concert space in Rotterdam.
On The Sand focuses on new wave storytelling, documentary theatre, text development combined contemporary art forms. Please see ''Yol ve Yolcu'' The Road and the Traveller and Dialogue Project series . This two projects are migrant-led projects. Collects post-immigrant stories in Europe and worldwide.
Our Performing arts department organises work shop series in acting, movement, play writing, directing, puppet making/playing, shadow theatre and new dramaturgy.
Monster and Missy Reading Theatre
The Reading Theatre is a cheerful performance that helps children (8-10 years old) in a playful way to master the Dutch language. OnTheSand developed the project directly with MoodyDoodle, a Dutch company for children's stories. We use MoodyDoodles book 'Monster en Meisje' as a startingpoint as a reference making theatre for children. Young audiences are practicing language by listening, structuring a poem.
On The Sand likes the art of moviemaking and the use of media in a broader perspective. Therefore we shoot short movies or clips ourselves, and are equally enthusiastic to support talented audio visual students (Willem de Kooning, Piet Zwart) and local filmmakers. They can use our space to present their works to the audience and/or ask for our help by developing it. For example, our space has been used several times for casting scenes.
On The Sand helps with Matrix Rotterdam live stream events. Cooperates with Yeni Perform which is digital theatre venue based in Istanbul.
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