Parktheater Eindhoven offers a dynamic and inspiring stage for self-expression, creative exploration, and emotional release through the performing and visual arts.

From music and dance to photography, painting, poetry, and improvisation, this iconic venue provides a professional yet welcoming environment for participants to reconnect with their creative instincts and experiment with diverse modes of expression.

Workshops and curated experiences are designed to unlock the transformative power of art as a tool for both self-empowerment and community contribution.

MAD Emergent Art Center is the experimental engine of the program, powering the tech domain with cutting-edge tools and boundary-pushing methods that invite participants to imagine, prototype, and experience new realities.

Here, in-person participants can gain access to a vibrant playground of creative technologies and storytelling interfaces, including improvisational software, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, sound design, interactive installations, and narrative architecture.

These tools are integrated into workshops and co-creation labs led by technologists, designers, and facilitators who specialize in using emerging media for emotional processing, identity exploration, and innovation under pressure.

With nearly 30 years of expertise, Janine Wetzels and her Eindhoven-based Textiellab‑040 lab offer a rich, hands-on environment for participants to experiment with sustainable textile techniques—whether weaving, knitting, tufting, dyeing, or embroidery—with materials rescued from pre-loved and discarded sources. 

Textiellab‑040’s is the program’s co-creative space for textile resurrection and fashion art, where seasoned facilitators guide participants in using preloved textiles and sustainable materials as both canvas and toolkit for personal reinvention.

With nearly two decades of grassroots cultural work, Geert Tiersma—affectionately known as “Pizza Geert”—has transformed his Eindhoven-based creative haven into a living archive of experimentation, community, and sound. What began as a local gathering place now pulses as a hybrid space: part pizza salon, part instrument museum, and part workshop playground for radical imagination.

Geert’s venue is the program’s co-creative playground for circular design—where junk becomes jam, trash turns to tunes, and learning feels like play.

Participants are invited to explore handcrafted instruments, many built from discarded materials, and experiment with their own forms of DIY sonic storytelling, guided by Geert’s blend of irreverent creativity and deep local roots.

Whether you're crafting a drum from a tin can or composing a new rhythm for your life, this offbeat atelier offers an open invitation to play, repurpose, and reclaim the noise of everyday life—one beat, one slice, one idea at a time.