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Rainbow Soulclub, a collective founded by artists Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit eighteen years ago in Amsterdam.
The collective came to existence after Janssen and Korsmit visited the Blaka Watra walk-in centre from De Regenboog Groep, a non-profit organisation that helps people with issues related to poverty, addiction, homelessness. and “undocumentedness”. As artists with socially engaged practices, they were asked to organise a workshop in the shelter, and following its success, it became a weekly event, progressively leading towards the foundation of the collective.
Rainbow Soulclub is an artistic collective composed of different kinds of makers and thinkers with different kinds of backgrounds. Meeting regularly at the collective studio in the Blaka Watra centre, as well as Janssen and Korsmit’s studio, the collective is a melting pot of people that learn from one another and work together to realise artistic projects. The collective is ever-expanding and connecting people from different walks of life, with stories of adversity, overcoming, and well-being. The collective enriches their network not only with hardship in common, but also through collaborations with other forms of collectivities, like art students across the Netherlands.
The collaboration between members follows no hierarchies and is based on different scales of contribution. Members of the group help each other whenever possible, for instance by assisting someone during a court case, helping with the application for a residence permit, or finding a place to live and refurbishing it together. The collective has also contributed to projects in other countries where some of the members are native from, such as Suriname and Ghana.
The collective came to existence after Janssen and Korsmit visited the Blaka Watra walk-in centre from De Regenboog Groep, a non-profit organisation that helps people with issues related to poverty, addiction, homelessness. and “undocumentedness”. As artists with socially engaged practices, they were asked to organise a workshop in the shelter, and following its success, it became a weekly event, progressively leading towards the foundation of the collective.
Rainbow Soulclub is an artistic collective composed of different kinds of makers and thinkers with different kinds of backgrounds. Meeting regularly at the collective studio in the Blaka Watra centre, as well as Janssen and Korsmit’s studio, the collective is a melting pot of people that learn from one another and work together to realise artistic projects. The collective is ever-expanding and connecting people from different walks of life, with stories of adversity, overcoming, and well-being. The collective enriches their network not only with hardship in common, but also through collaborations with other forms of collectivities, like art students across the Netherlands.
The collaboration between members follows no hierarchies and is based on different scales of contribution. Members of the group help each other whenever possible, for instance by assisting someone during a court case, helping with the application for a residence permit, or finding a place to live and refurbishing it together. The collective has also contributed to projects in other countries where some of the members are native from, such as Suriname and Ghana.
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