Create a Newspaper Together
about Cool Zuid
10 october
16:00 – 18:00
What deserves attention in Cool Zuid? What’s important, newsworthy, urgent or terribly normal? In this workshop, we will work towards creating an alternative neighbourhood newspaper, made up of contributions from participants. We will go out into the neighbourhood and collect good (or boring) stories, (absurd) images, (meaningless) advertisements, (non-)rhyming poetry and (legendary) photos. Mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl (Jorien Ketelaar and Floor van Meeuwen) will introduce us to various collective publication methods, such as zine-making, to create a polyphonic newspaper together.
The newspaper will be printed that same weekend and distributed in the neighbourhood on Saturday 11 October. In this way, the workshop itself becomes part of the local news and we publish our collective voice in public space.
Put pen to paper and contribute to our neighbourhood newspaper!
Are you a resident of the Witte de Withkwartier? Sign up for this workshop for free at hello@engagerotterdam.nl
How can we find new ways of working together towards a better future? During engage 2025, we will explore this question through a series of workshops. As the Creative Research Crew, we will look for alternative perspectives on Cool Zuid from various creative angles. We will test ways in which local residents, creators and doers can work together more effectively.
Each workshop in this series generates material that we will use in subsequent sessions: from stories and newspapers to neighbourhood maps and posters. In this way, we’ll be building a collective research project step by step, with room for experimentation, imagination and discussion.
Whether you are a neighbourhood resident or not, whether you join for one session or take part in the entire series—everyone's perspective and contributions are welcome. Together, we will create a multifaceted picture of the neighbourhood and of the ways in which we can continue to work together in the future.
About
Mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl is a collective that creates dynamic installations with a crossover between workshops, public space installations, and happenings through interactions with others. Their projects share a common focus on engaging with the environment and fostering exchanges with a diverse audience, generating new imaginaries around the contexts the projects take place in.