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We Plant Strange Forests Day 2

Fri 16 January

Art & expo

We Plant Strange Forests Day 3

Sat 17 January

Art & expo

Frontaal #1 2026 - Ester Naomi Perquin, Tom Hofland, oa

Sun 18 January

Talk

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Frontaal #1 2026 - Ester Naomi Perquin, Tom Hofland oa

Off Screen x IFFR 2026

Wed 21 January

FIlm

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Introducing Radiophrenia

Radiophrenia Sticker - a drawn design of various abstract objects in red with a wire or thread running through them, on ochre yellow background

Mark Vernon from Glasgow’s art radio station, Radiophrenia talks to WORM ahead of their residency and broadcast at 25H... →

A new edition of IFFR sound//vision back at WORM

Six programs shown at WORM as part of IFFR's 2026 edition in January →

Unlocked DNB win Rotterdam Music Awards Best Club Night

Photograph of a bearded man wearing a cap holding an award and a certificate: the Unlocked party organisation who host nights at WORM

All of us at WORM are delighted to see Unlocked DNB win the best club night for 2025! →

Rotterdam Code Tour – Crowdfunding

Donation poster of digital creature on a purple background with neon text

Together we strengthen digital education for kids in Rotterdam’s disadvantaged areas. →

WORM and Melly and the Theory of Change Project

A pink image with a black text, saying Fill me in, a QR code leading to a questionnaire for WORM and Kunstinstituut Melly to measure their impact on the Witte de Withstraat in 2025.

published on 27-10-2025
How WORM and Melly measure institutional impact for the OCW - Ministry of Education, Culture and Science - and Impact Ce... →

Interview with Filmwerkplaats’s Esther Urlus

Colour photograph, (taken from a paper magazine, UItagenda) of Esther Urlus and Raluca Croitoru, both standing and smiling, wearing blue overalls in a film laboratory, (tiled walls, various ephemera behind them).

Esther Urlus interviewed over the Back to the Future festival in September, part of the EU's SPECTRAL project →

WORM Latest Press

published on 8-12-2021
All the latest press on WORM - Download WORM's PR Pack here! →

Thys Boer – Rotterdam’s New Night Mayor

Time for Recognition! Inauguration ceremony for Thys Boer at WORM during Festival Downtown 12-9-25 →

Featured

WORM Programme picks and special projects

Radio WORM: Give Chance a Chance

Colour photograph of the artist Ash Kilmartin holding up a Burt Bacharach record - dark background.

Radio WORM in 2026: an interview with Ash Kilmartin about WORM's 'low threshold, high concept' station. →

The 25 Hour Radio Relay is back!

The non-stop LIVE experimental variety show returns over the weekend of 24-25 January 2026 →

Interview with SOUPSPOON Collective – WORM X Amarte 2025

The members of SOUPSPOON look at WORM's graphic designer's work for SOUPSPOON's promotional material.

Get to know the collective behind the Soft Tissue Workshop Series! (10min read) →

Interview with Bolotsa Collective – WORM X Amarte 2025

Photograph of the members of Bolotsa Collective on the side of a canal.

Get to know the collective behind the Party Party Workshop Series! 10 min read →

Interview with Goblin Feast – WORM X Amarte 2025

Image of a table full of all kinds of foods with people dressed in costumes all around. In the picture people have their mouths full.

Get to know the collective behind the Mould Me Workshop Series! (10min read) →

Interview with the collective behind WasteWaves – WORM X Amarte 2025

Picture of the collective behind the WasteWaves workshops. From left to right: Cara, Robin, and Martijn are standing behind Lisa and Nina who are sitting.

Get to know the collective behind the WasteWaves Workshop Series! (10min read) →

Ask For Angela

An introduction to WORM's initiative to combat sexual harassment in the building. →

Our Spaces

Learn about WORM's many spaces!

#Wunderbar

#Wunderbar is the most radical pub on the Witte de Withstraat. Gallery, meeting place, performance space, pub. →

WORM Sound Studios

WORM SOUND STUDIOS and the WAVEFORM RESEARCH CENTRE are internationally celebrated production spaces. →

Radio WORM

published on 22-02-2021
WORM's inhouse radio station! →

The Foyer

The Foyer is an alternative shopping mall for underground artforms and performance. →

WORM Building

Welcome to our building! The history of Boomgaardstraat 71. →

Central Station

WORM's main performance hall - where the magic happens! →

UBIK

UBIK is WORM’s playground for performance artists and those who research the art of performance in its broadest sense.... →

S/ash Gallery

S/ash Gallery is an exhibition space for fast changing presentations, small scale performance events, workshops and arti... →

WORM Pirate Bay

The WORM Pirate Bay Archive invites you to sail through our eclectic collection of avant-garde media, zines, books, DVDs... →