We would like to welcome you to our tiny little Biodiversum! Dressing-up and/or down is in absolute favour! Just don’t be boring. Music wise we like uplifting techno, but in the context of diversity we might surprise you here and there. Come out, come out, wherever you are… Expect a whiff of climate activism through performances but also if you like to read between the lines… Out of the ashes of late Homogenic, Cirkus Klauterwerck and Boy Scouts arises a brand new and super exciting queer-party in the church of Ruigoord! Our aim is to create one of the most colourful playgrounds ever where all different kinds of beings feel free to play around. Uit de as van wijle Homogenic, Cirkus Klauterwerck en Boy Scouts herrijst een alle machtig prachtig mooie Queer avond! Onder de noemer BioDivers zullen we strijden tegen elke vorm van monocultuur, weg met die alles vernietigende eenheidsworst! It’s a rewarding game, since the more you show of yourself, the more the night shall reveal itself to you. And what would be stranger in these unimaginative times of monoculture than expressing your true self creatively and freely? Come and let your shiny self loose at our participatory dance floor and rewrite alternate history with us. A playful, sensuous and fluid queer gathering at the magical fringes of Amsterdam, in the church of the cultural free port Ruigoord. ”Our get-togethers also have a networking function, we hope free spirits can gather around and meet each other and automatically create an international network.□ Queer gathering in the church of Ruigoord! □ “There are never enough of those,” Marcella, the third of the trio, smiles. So three years on, how many more ‘like-minded free spirits’ have they discovered out there? You can find hints for an open-minded society almost everywhere, in art, lyris, even in graffiti written on walls,” she notes. “ I was just deeply impressed that long time ago there was a society where sexual orientation was not an issue. “I think it’s nothing new nowadays that back in the day, people’s understanding of sexuality was very different,” she points out. And the more effort people make the bigger the bubble grows.”ĭani studies the science of history at college during her daytimes and came up with this event’s theme after attending a series of seminars examining sex, sexuality and sexual identities in the ancient world, in particular Ancient Greece. When you have 500 people who’ve made an effort dancing together on a dance floor you get a really good vibe. “We really try to motivate people to use their creativity. “We think it is a great add-on for a party to work with a dress-code,” he explains. “ It’s just that we have a dress-code and expect each and everyone to make at least some effort.” “Actually anybody that feels like playing our game is very welcome,” he clarifies. “Think Mysterious Muze, Sexy Troubadour, Naked Ephebos or Oichonoöi, Funky Poet or just be really creative.”Įmerging almost fully formed from Amsterdam’s infamous alternative/ art squat community of Ruigoord in 2012, Cirkus Klauterwerck immediately attracted a select bunch of outsiders, misfits and queers that’s grown to the point where they’re now packing out Radion for regularly tri-monthly parties alongside additional events both in Ruigoord and a stage at Milkshake Festival.ĭespite their directions for revellers to dress up, Carlo (one of six organisers) insists they’re anything but elitist. “Think symposium but don’t get stuck in ancient Greece, express yourself,” they recommend. “No man can defeat his own erection”, they helpfully add, before outlining their latest dress-code directions. “Let’s travel back in time to a society where everybody was (at least) bisexual and break the boxes of homo- and heterosexuality once and forever!!” It will be a SYMPOSIUM in honour of FREEDOM,” they declare on the event page for Saturday’s QUEERKLUB #4 at Radion in Amsterdam. “For our last get-together of the year we would like to invite all like-minded and free spirits for a very special gathering. Labelling themselves a ‘circus’ for queers and friends and home of good music from disco to techno’, Berlin/ Amsterdam collective Cirkus Klauterwerck are passionate about both their parties and the ethos behind them.
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