Connotations
Connotations was created by Japanese photographer, Hideyuki Ishibashi and American poet, win harms, with sound production by Guido van Asselt. It has been shown in Amsterdam and Tokyo as an installation piece. The digital collages are amalgams of boys using internet hashtags to generate images which Hideyuki imagined when he first read win’s poetry. Check…
ECKOSPHERE
Eckosphere came up in the Amsterdam house scene and first stepped behind the decks in a club in 1999. Later, he became interested in sound production and graduated from SAE Institue in Amsterdam. After organizing parties as part of a team for 90 Watts, he started to explore the effect of sound on the human psyche…
To the Streets!
To the Streets! A Rough Night Press Event WHEN: February 16th, 2017 WHERE: Dokhuis Galerie @ Plantage Doklaan 8, 1018 CM Amsterdam WHAT: Vegan fare starting @ 19h (7pm), poetry and protestations @ 20:30 (8:30pm), music after until closing @ 23:30 (11:30pm) Hosted by: win harms, Editor-in-Chief, Rough Night Press https://winharms.com/ In these strange…
Little Attic Sessions
What do audiences look for in a young woman poet after the teen angst is gone and with it the cutting, the Ritalin, the Prozac, junkie chic and bitten red fingernails? Does the reader want a pithy, twelve-step renaissance somewhere around the late twenties, neatly swallowing the feminist pill like it’s the gateway drug to…
Word on the Street!
A Rough Night Press Event We are bringing you a special 4/20 edition of Rough Night and it is going to be dope (pun intended). It’s time to chillax and welcome spring to Amsterdam with some poetry, homemade vegan food, and some loungy soundscapes. We are welcoming back Dirty Boys featuring the rapper/spoken word…
In Naam Der Kunst
“I.N.K. (In Naam der Kunst) Collective invites you to shift your perspective during their Amsterdam debut at Dokhuis Galerie on the 19th of August, from midday until 23.30. This day long happening will feature intuitive paintings, insightful sound installation, confrontational performance art, and other multidimensional multimedia. I.N.K. Collective explores themes of metamorphosis and rebirth while attempting…
Rough Night at Dokhuis
We are back again at Dokhuis Galerie for a Rough Night of spoken word, cheap drinks, vegan food, and live music. We have a stellar lineup of international poets from Belgrade, Amsterdam, and Brazil! And, we have not one, but TWO musical acts, so you really don’t want to miss this one. Be there or be…
Rough Night x Ruigoord Fiery Tongues
We reimagine this reality. Poetry spilling from angel-lipped Neo-Kalis who are staging tiny revolutions. Our special edition of Rough Night at Fiery Tongues has an international women’s lineup with spoken word performances by Hannah Woods (Germany) Rushika Wick (GB) Win Harms (Land of Imagination) Uncia aka Halima Salat (Kenya) Inge (Netherlands) Kirsty Allison (Gb)…
Rx [Rough Times Retrograde Prescription]
Rough Night Press has an online poetry + photography zine, Rx [Rough Times Retrograde Prescription] where we pair warrior poetry with rebel art. We imagine a reality without filters or illusion as we dance with Lady Death in digital overdrive saluting beautifully doomed ideals on the edge of existence. In the end, nothing matters. But…
IRRATIONAL LIBRARY x TO KNOW THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING [New Single from the Upcoming 2nd Album]
Rough Night Press is psyched to show you a hot-off-the-presses video from our favorite makers of spokensoul-rocknroll-funkedupfreedom-boogieforyourbrains-partyprotestmusic, Irrational Library! This was filmed at Vondelbunker during our event, UprisInk when they proved they are the badass new Beats. The new album, Everything at All Times and All Things at Once, will be…
RNP + NRP : LOST GENIUS x Cinetol
Now something for the poetic paupers & worshippers of the spoken word… Our friends from across the pond, New River Press have rediscovered the cult Downtown LA poet Robert Lundquist, one of the rising stars of the ’70s Santa Cruz renaissance. Most of you are familiar with his contemporary, Charles Bukowski who cemented the archetype…
RNP x UprisInk: the revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be live-streamed! It will take place in bunkers and basements, on the streets and under the radar. Poetry is dying and we might have saved it on the Summer Solstice. Rough Night Press joined UprisInk for events in Vondelbunker on 06.21.2019 The night featured Irrational Library [as seen in the video…
Cyber SOTU Festival 19.04.20
Although our beloved Sounds of the Underground Festival hosted at various cultural vrijhavens around the city cannot go on as planned due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we are happy to announce that Cyber SOTU Festival will live stream in its place. We hope you will tune in for eclectic sounds from Amsterdam’s thriving underground…