For just €28.50, you can attend the three nights (08/12, 19/12 and 23/12) of the Culture Unlimited Festival at Grounds/Lab Grounds. Buy your passe-partout ticket here.

| This event will take place at Lab Grounds (‘s-Gravendijkwal 58B). Lab Grounds is located on the second floor and there is no lift in the building, sorry for the inconvenience.

The much-anticipated Culture Unlimited Festival is back for its 2024 edition, offering a spectacular celebration of diversity, art, and intercultural exchange. From late November to December 23rd, audiences across several Dutch cities are invited to embark on this extraordinary cultural journey. This year, the festival proudly presents a diverse array of music, primarily highlighting the rich traditions of the Eastern world. Audiences can expect to be immersed in a variety of genres, from contemporary classical to jazz, pop, electronic, and Eastern folk music.

Tijn Wybenga & Federico Calcagno

Tijn Wybenga and Federico Calcagno first crossed paths in 2019, when they performed together in the band Brainteaser Orchestra (formerly AM.OK). Bonded by a shared passion for improvisation, orchestral textures, and Carnatic music, their collaboration flourished. Tijn finds Federico to be a constant source of inspiration for new compositions. Together, they will debut a piece for piano and bass clarinet, inspired by an improvisation based on Japanese scales originally composed for the Koto. Additionally, they will present several works featuring live electronics and samples, created by both Federico and Tijn.

Catherine Graindorge ft. Simon Ho

Catherine Graindorge is a violinist, violist, composer and actress based in Brussels. Over the years, she has built her craft by mixing disciplines, creating theatre shows as a writer and actor, composing music for her own and others’ shows and playing in various musical formations.

Since 2012 and the release of The Secret of us all, her first solo album, she has multiplied collaborations with artists such as Iggy Pop, John Parish (PJ Harvey), Hugo Race (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Pascal Humbert and Bertrand Cantat (Detroit), Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Mark Lanegan (Jeffrey Lee Pierce Project) but also composed for dance, theatre and cinema (with a Magritte nomination for her soundtrack of Le Chant des Hommes).

In April 2024 she launched her 3rd solo album Songs for the Dead on Tak:Til (Glitterbeat Records). In a distant echo to the cinematographic flights of Max Richter or the flayed harmonies of Warren Ellis, somewhere between ambient, rock and neo-classical, the music on this new opus continues its singular, bewitching trajectory.