FOR REAL

FOR REAL (trailer) is a theatrical radio-show on what it means to matter. The starting point is the intellectual undermining of women: the sexism on the mind and the soul and lack of interest in what they think, say, make or try to achieve in life. As an audience-member, you are a guest in our radio-studio.

Over the speakers, you hear the voices of fourteen women. They analyse the intellectual undermining, starting from their personal and professional experiences with sexism on the mind and soul. How does this influence your sense of self, your trust, the building of relationships, and eventually: the course of life?

The audience completes the investigation, when the musicians start interviewing them on the topics at hand. These interactions are carried by a new technique of improvising, in which the musicians support risky and honest conversations as they unfold. Each performance of FOR REAL will be recorded and released as a podcast-episode. By doing this, we create a sounding collection of your voices on what it means to matter: to have dignity, to feel understood and to be taken seriously.

Interviewees:
The audience • Angela Saini • Aldith Hunkar • Kate Manne • Maaike Meijer • Avery Trufelman • Julia Wouters • Gaea Schoeters • Kymia Kermani • Bindu De Knock • Annelies Van Parys • Sara Mohammadi • Yung-Tuan Ku • Celia Serrano • Androniki Menelaou

Sarah Jeffery (recorders),
Andrea Voets (harp),
George Dumitriu (viola, guitar)

PLEASE NOTE: Participation in this podcast recording is voluntary. Feel free to join the conversation, or just listen.
In English, with surtitles in English and Dutch.
Duration: 1h50min

Member concert
Splendor can only be the independent and free hub that it is, thanks to the members who support us. We pay them back with our specialty: music. Every year, all Splendor musicians play one concert that's free for this crucial group to whom Splendor owes its everyday existence. Combined with many other events, this means that our members have free entrance to about 80 concerts a year for €9,99 p/m (and €4,99 p/m for minima and students!) – and receive a discount for all other concerts. Pretty good deal, right?

The members enable Splendor to remain independent, which is the only way to secure real freedom in programming, experimentation, risk-taking and the promotion of young, upcoming artists. If you can think of another place without a central programming, where last-minute concerts can be planned any moment, where there is no backstage and artists and audience are constantly mingling and hanging out at the bar, where mysterious creative outbursts can be presented that are often labeled 'too risky' elsewhere, and that still guarantees high quality by unleashing the best of The Netherlands' music scene in this creative playground – you get a free membership!

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