Dear reader,

A special bonus-email from our studio space, which currently is a big chaotic mess full of sawdust and construction sounds. We are close to OFFICIALLY OPENING!

XP is slowly changing from a random collection of desks and street-found furniture into carefully designed and hand-made-with-love easily transformable shared studio. Jack has designed a furniture system that allows for different configurations of the space, and we cannot wait to try them out…

See, people often ask ‘what is Extra Practice, exactly?’
But a better question is: what can XP be?
There are many answers, but on June 1st, we give you 4 of them.

You, loyal newsletter subscriber and (e-)friend, are hereby invited to the 4 official openings of Extra Practice.

When
Saturday June 1st 2024
3PM + 5PM + 7PM + 9PM till late

Where
Linker Rottekade 5A
3034 NT Rotterdam

Program
🪚 3PM …… opening XP workshop 
⬜️ 5PM …… opening XP gallery 
🍕 7PM …… opening XP canteen
🪩 9PM …… opening XP bar 

Extra Practice can be a workshop. 

We share tools, materials and knowledge and help each other make the things we want to make. We got desks, a big table, storage units and work surfaces. When we need things for the space, we like to build them ourselves. 

For the finishing touches, we invite you to build and decorate with us! Whether it’s leaving your wisdom on a kitchen tile or creating art for the walls, you are welcome to come and leave your mark.

Extra Practice can be a gallery. 

We’ve been saving our walls for something special. Now we have the space, why not share it? To inaugurate our gallery, honorary ex-XP member Ceola Tunstall-Behrens will be curating an exhibition under the title of OPENINGS. Ceola will be bringing together a selection of Rotterdam-based artists to reflect on the theme of beginnings, possibilities and potential. 

Join for the vernissage, raise a glass of champagne with us, and enjoy an evening of captivating performances and art.

Extra Practice can be a restaurant. 

After three years of cooking our warm lunches on a single hob (and occasionally flipping tiles to make an impromptu grill) we are excited to put our brand new, self-tiled, hand-built expanded kitchen to the test during the opening of our pop-up canteen. 

Between 7 and 9 we’ll be serving pizzas, made with love by our in-house pizzaiolo Giacomo Bardelli… first come first serve! 

Extra Practice can be a bar. 

After you have finished a workday, did the rounds at a gallery opening, and/or lined your stomach with a good meal, what more do you need than a drink and a tune to dance to? (Karaoke maybe?) 

Luckily we recently equipped our good old DJ unit with some vinyl turntables! Time to warm the dance floor with a fine line-up of beloved friends on the decks—which may include you if you feel like sharing the greatest hits from your record collection. (And yes there might also be karaoke… and a special surprise…)

A more detailed program will appear on our website and IG over the coming days.

Hope to see you there! 🦢

Ben, Elliott, Emma, Gijs, Kirsten, Jack
/ Extra Practice