A three-year festival bringing live art into Dutch train stations. Its Waiting Rooms turned glass platform shelters into living-room stages.
For three years, I worked on the NS Tryout Festival, a festival celebrating the Dutch national railway. As part of the festival, I helped conceptualize and program live experiences in several train stations across the Netherlands, creating artistic encounters for broad audiences in unconventional public settings. My primary responsibility was the “Waiting Rooms” component, in which the glass waiting rooms on train platforms were transformed into intimate living-room environments where passers-by could experience music, dance, poetry, and other art forms. The project was a strong example of how creativity can activate public space, and how curation, accessibility, and production thinking can work together to create high-impact programming beyond traditional venues.