Tilburg is the city of its makers. The movers and the shakers. A city that can help your business flourish. But that doesn't happen by itself. Guts are needed to create a commotion. Standing out requires creativity. Not everyone manages to turn the world upside down. Some stand out. Putting rusty ideas in a new light. Stick out their heads above the ground. Making an impact. We are proud of these entrepreneurs and tell their story here.
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Annemijn Rijk is a choreographer and philosopher. With her latest production, Yellow Horizon, she hopes to take the audience fully into an experience: "It's about celebrating the intangible."
Frederike Luijten is a multidisciplinary maker, word artist and City Poet of Tilburg. This functional chaotic person meanders through then, now and later, from place to place and through dialects and languages. This is Frederike's story.
Tilburg-based creator Sandra Pham (23) has a chance to win a Young Impact Award in the Diversity category! In her first theatrical performance "Binnenvetter," she talks about her Vietnamese-Dutch background through spoken word, music and theater.
Read more about Tilburg-based Sandra Pham in race for Young Impact Award
A shared love of dance and movement is the driving force behind Guilherme Miotto and Heleen Volman. With their choreographic platform Corpo Máquina Society, they bring Tilburg children and youth in contact with dancers, freerunners and other creators.
A father who draws and a son who writes. With this formula for success, Jeroen de Leijer and son Boris created the graphic novel "To Texas and Back. For Jeroen an attempt to get Boris out of bed and behind his phone.
Contemporary circus and dance collective TeaTime Company has dedicated its time to contemporary circus, serving up tasty performances like a slowly drawn cup of tea and giving audiences a taste of new flavors of acrobatics, object manipulation and dance.
Next week it's already time for Best Kept Secret! For three days, the festival grounds of the Beekse Bergen will be transformed into a Valhalla for music lovers. And this year, the Tilburg-based Kamerata Zuid is adding a special experience!
Read more about Kamerata Zuid with Sarah Neutkens on Best Kept Secret
Lidi Toepoel sees Tilburg as the ideal setting for her films. The city offers an inspiring breeding ground with fascinating characters, stories, ideas and a valuable network. This is the story of a filmmaker making it in Tillywood.
Black paint is made with yellow, red and blue. No matter how pitch-black the paint appears, colour can always be found in the darkness. Artist Nikè Marchand knows that darkness inside and out.