Hello and happy winter! It's Emma here with a quick XP update 🚚 🦢🧤

I hope you are feeling good today, and that you had some nice moments of rest and celebration last month, and that your Monday wasn't too blue this week. It's been a while since our last newsletter, so let me update you on what has been happening in and around Extra Practice lately. First of all, we have moved out. And then in! As most of you know already, we found ourselves a new location just across the river from our old beloved corner on Zwaanshals. The space is larger, newly renovated and well insulated, and has a beautiful view of the Rotte and its many swans. We are and feel sooo lucky and can't wait to share the new XP with you all.

(I guess 'moving' is the topic of this month 🚛 so I thought moving images would be apt)

📹 Kirsten & new studio view

Feeling sentimental, I was looking back at some moving images of the lovely wrap-up event we hosted with Yara in December (thank u again Y 🌯). One of my favourite moments was when, some time between dinner and dancing, everyone picked up a piece of furniture and we collectively moved them across the bridge to the new space. It felt like a special ritual, almost ceremonial, yet so practical and helpful at the same time – a combo I think is essential to Extra Practice (I now even see it echoed in our name?) and I look forward to creating more of that mix in future XP events. Anyway, big shoutout to everyone who carried a box, chair or table top – thanks for moving out/in with us!

📹 Moving ceremony

The next day we moved the rest of the stuff by cargo bike and on foot. There was something so nice about moving every single object with our own bodies and energy (ok except for the electric energy from the borrowed municipality bike). The process felt very simple and grounded, you know?