Engage with Rotterdam 🎗️✎🎨
Let’s kick off the first-ever edition of Engage Rotterdam together! Come take part, meet people, and help shape a safer, joyful space for conversation, workshops, and celebration. More information below ⬇️
What is Engage?
Engage Rotterdam is a citywide movement for collective action. They bring makers, residents, entrepreneurs, and social organisations together to co-create through storytelling, music, visual art, cooking, and other forms of expression. They use creativity to surface neighbourhood strengths and needs and turn shared ideas into community‑led initiatives.
Website: https://www.engagerotterdam.nl/en-us
Their Manifesto: https://www.engagerotterdam.nl/en-us/manifest
Location: Witte de Withkwartier
Your role:
At this event, volunteers will help us:
Welcome and guide visitors between spaces
Support artists/facilitators during concerts, workshops and talks
Assist with registration, crowd flow and information
Help with simple tech/AV checks
Gather short stories/feedback from visitors.
What volunteers receive:
Meals/snacks and drinks during shifts
A free festival/day pass when not on duty
A letter of participation (upon request)
€25 Donner book gift card
On‑site briefing and team leads to support you
You can find the entire program here: https://www.engagerotterdam.nl/nl-nl/programma. Events range from storytelling, music, visual art, cooking, and any other form of creative expression made by creators, local residents, entrepreneurs, and community organizations.
The events:
✧ Anti-Fascist Church
When? October 11th, 11:00-23:00
Where? Paradise Church, Nieuwe Binnenweg 25, 3014 GB Rotterdam
What? In their first artistic collaboration, artists Jeanne van Heeswijk and Jonas Staal assemble over forty cultural workers, activists, musicians, political organizations, and social movements to perform a twelve-hour musical anti-fascist service
✧ BLQK TENT
When? October 10th, 11th, 12th
Where? HipHopHuis, Boomgaardsstraat 46, 3012 XD Rotterdam
What? What if queer people of color were the norm? BLQCK TENT invites you to discover what it feels like to break away from the structures that surround us every day: capitalism, hierarchy, sexism and racism. In this temporary space you are challenged to explore alternative ways of being. Enter a world where different rules apply.
Specific Needs: Mentally and physically strong volunteers for Anti Fascist Church!
Priority: Queer and trans volunteers! We’d love to welcome queer and trans folks to BLQCK Tent. Come take part, meet people, and help shape a safer, joyful space for conversation, workshops, and celebration.
✧ Workshop: Trigger Your Story
When? October 10th, 11th, 12th
Where? Different locations (check of the website)
What? Everyone carries an untold story, waiting for the right moment to emerge. What's yours? Discover it in this creative workshop by artist and designer Yi-Fei Chen
✧ Technologies of Solidarity
When? October 10th, 11th, 12th
Where? At the V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
What? Technologies of Solidarity invites you to learn about alternatives to digital technologies. During engage 2025, V2_ will host talks, workshops, and artistic projects exploring open-source tools, ethical AI, and offline ways to stay connected. Try out practical tools and imagine new, more collaborative, and creative ways of working with technology.
Slots:
Many slots are available from Thursday to Sunday! You can check the program of each day on the website and volunteer for the event in which you feel the most confortable.
✧ Thursday 09-10-2025
16:00-19:00
19:00-23:00
✧ Friday 10-10-2025
09:30 - 14:30
14:30 - 18:00
18:00 - 22:30
✧ Saturday 11-10-2025
09:30 - 14:30
14:30 - 19:00
19:00 - 23:00
✧ Sunday 12-10-2025
09:30 - 14:30
14:30 - 18:30
🤝 Message from the organiser:
“If you’d like to volunteer, amazing roles include welcome & wayfinding, safer-space stewarding, session support, and outreach (flyers, socials, community networks). No experience needed: we provide a short briefing and on-site support.
If you’re joining as a participant, you’re just as important. Bring yourself, your voice, and your curiosity. If you have access needs, please tell us and we’ll plan together.
Thank you so much for your time and energy!”
- Team Engage 2025
