From 18 to 27 September is the Rotterdam Pride 2020 is from 18 to 27 September. For over a week the city is one big rainbow as together, Rotterdammers celebrate sexual, gender and cultural diversity.

 

As there's no such thing as Pride without drag queens, the Pride-week ends in Club Villa Thalia with a spectacular Drag Queen Dinner Show titled 'Dare to love us!'. On Saturday, September 26th, there'll be performances by six nationally and internationally renowned drag queens as well as delicious drinks and a three-course menu.

 

At the Drag Queen Dinnershow no less than six amazingly dressed ladies from home and abroad give two performances. In total, vVisitors are treated to as many as 12 shows. None other than Lola McQueen (known from Belgium's Got Talent), Kimberley Clark (USA), Amy Astoria (NL), Magica Wonders (NL), Vanity Kip (NL) and DJ Diva MayDay (NL) will be performing. In between the acts, acrobat Mizai Kobi, known from Holland's Got Talent, gives an enchanting performance from the air. Your MC for this evening is singer and entertainer Marvin Verwijk.

 

During the show visitors also get an excellent three-course menu at the table as well as drinks. Visitors have a choice of meat, fish or vegetarian dishes. The menu is another surprise, but we'll reveal the dessert: Romanoff strawberries.

 

The Drag Queen Dinner Show is a unique collaboration between The Party Group (of which Villa Thalia is part) and Gay Pride Rotterdam. Other cafés owned by The Party Group in the heart of Rotterdam are also participating in Pride Week. In café De Beurs, Scharrels & Schuim and George Cocktailbar you'll see rainbow colours all week long.

 

Anuschka Bozo, creative producer of The Party Group: "Everyone is welcome in our business, including the gay and open-minded community. In Villa Thalia we regularly organize spectacular dinner shows, so an edition with beautiful drag queens is a perfect fit with Pride Week. We fully support this great organization and would like to do our bit".

 

Location: Villa Thalia, Kruiskade 31, Rotterdam
Date: Saturday, September 26th, 18:30 - 23:00 hours
Tickets: €52,50 (excluding drinks and service costs)*
Booking: https://dragqueendinnershow-villathalia.eventbrite.nl
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/villa-thalia/drag-queen-dinnershow/734189830462715/

 

 

 

 

Amy is intelligent, rational and technically minded, Djimmy is a tough leader who craves the romance of the port. This makes the contemporary duo the personification of the port of Rotterdam, where hard-working people and innovative technology complement and strengthen each other on a daily basis.

 

Stichting Wereldhavendagen developed Amy and Djimmy in collaboration with Rotterdam Festivals and events agency Fjuze, which has a lot of experience with innovative use of technology. The presence of Amy and Djimmy at the Digital Port Day is unique as it is quite rare that drones are provided with a personality and used in such a way at a (digital) event.

 

"The uniqueness of drones is that they show a new perspective of a world only known to us from the ground up," says Klaas Rohde, owner of Fjuze. "For us, drones are flying robots, in which we see personalities.

 

"Thanks to Amy and Djimmy we can show a whole new side of the port of Rotterdam," says Sabine Bruijnincx, director of Stichting Wereldhavendagen. "We are very proud that thanks to the creative collaboration with Fjuze and Rotterdam Festivals we can offer our audience a real first during the Digital Port Day.

 

The Digital Port Day is an initiative of the World Port Days Foundation. On Saturday 5 September 2020, the website and social media of the World Port Days and media partners Rijnmond and OPEN Rotterdam will offer a glimpse into the past, present and future of the port of Rotterdam. The presentation is in robot hands of Amy and Djimmy and also flesh and blood 'Digital Port Reporters' Kirsten and Remco.

 

The audience can enjoy unique vlogs, live streams and live radio all day long with stories about special and innovative port companies and ships. There will also be beautiful photos and video footage with highlights from the past editions of the World Port Days. The day traditionally ends with a video recording of the evening show.

 

The Digital Port Day can be followed live on Saturday 5 September from 10:00 to 18:00 on the website of the World Port Days.

 

The World Port Days in Rotterdam attract hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, making it the largest annual maritime event in the Netherlands. In connection with COVID-19, the 43rd edition will not take place as a public event. Under the name 'Port Stories 2020' the port of Rotterdam will be put in the spotlight in various ways on 4 and 5 September 2020. The main sponsors/partners of the World Port Days are Port of Rotterdam, the Royal Netherlands Navy and Rotterdam Festivals.

 

For more information visit wereldhavendagen.nl.

 

 

Using various archaeological objects, texts and visual material - including special photographs, drawings and two new documentaries - various stories will be told in the expo. Learn everything about ships and locks, immerse yourself in the world of water management, and marvel at the history of Rotterdam. The top piece in the expo is a punter, a boat that was used to close the dam in the Rotte and was found during archaeological research in 1991.

 

At the beginning of the nineties, Rotterdam archaeologists were investigating the dam from which Rotterdam owes its name. Deep in the construction pit of the Willemsspoortunnel they make a sensational discovery: there is a complete boat under the dam! The punter-like vessel was used to close the last hole. The ship's wood also reveals when the dam was built: around 1270. This small ship, which created our city 750 years ago, is now on display for the first time in Museum Rotterdam!

 

The ship is a sensational Rotterdam relic: the punter is - almost literally - the basis of our world port city. The first Rotterdammers built their houses on the dam in the Rotte. Besides the original punter, the exhibition shows the centuries-old connection between Rotterdam, shipping and water management. From the ingenious drainage sluices in the medieval dam to the latest rain radar and smart roofs.

 

In the adjacent Halvemaanpassage another expo will open on September 5th: Voet aan de Grond. A very nice addition to our project, and only 25 meters away!

 

For all activities around the theme 750 years dam in the Rotte, please visit www.ookditisderotte.nl.

 

 

The Rotterdam orchestra and the spoken word artist worked together earlier this year. This is when they discovered the common ground that forms the basis for these concerts. On Liberation Day a video was launched by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra: an ode to freedom, in which four Rotterdam artists participated. One of them was the spoken word artist Y.M.P.

Now the collaboration will be continued with a full evening programme in de Doelen during which newly composed works by Y.M.P. and an exceptional composer will be presented.

 

 

For the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra the collaboration is a logical next step. "We would like to translate the innovative online musical experiences, which have done very well on video in recent months, into a live experience. That's a creative track that we're setting out for ourselves, in addition to everything we continue to do online. Entering into the experiment, that's what we've been interested in for some time now. And it suits us to make a little more room for it now," says director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra George Wiegel.

 

Y.M.P.: "This collaboration is a dream come true. From the beginning of my career, I have always said that I will someday make music for the orchestra. Those were big words, time to turn it into great deeds. In this production, classical music and hip-hop become a whole".

 

The concerts will take place in de Doelen on 24 and 25 September. More information on the website of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.