Mark To the Music – A Mindful Art Experience op Boring Festival 2024

Wheelchair accessible 

This experience requires a free VIP drive leaving at 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00. Read the practical information carefully.

Immerse yourself in a sensory and intuitive mindfulness session, combined with music and a drawing session in Museum van de Geest. After the success of Mark to the Music during Amsterdam Dance Event, we bring this mindful art experience to Haarlem. Explore your inner world through sound and colour, using mindfulness-based techniques.

This multidisciplinary art intervention is guided by Jolien Posthumus, a professional mindfulness trainer and Program Manager for Mental Health at Museum van de Geest. The beats are provided by DJ Nelly. Let yourself be taken on a personal journey with the power of electronic music and sound through a guided visual meditation. This way, you'll enter the night with renewed energy!

Adopted by Nous'Klaer, Clone, and Phuture West: the whole of Rotterdam is already captivated by Nelly (formerly known as Nelly Dragon). In the Maasstad, she became addicted to nineties rave tunes and hardcore, and is still addicted to dark basement music, but in a deeper corner. Oh, and during the coronavirus period, she also immersed herself in ambient music for sets on radio station Operator. "Ridiculously talented!!", says Lisa Molle (Dekmantel). "Dreamy techno, flawlessly mixed, and not afraid to surprise you by waking you up from that dream with pounding breakbeats.

Practical Information
Take advantage of the free Boring bus, and you'll be at the museum in 6 minutes (or back in the city center). The bus leaves 30 minutes before the start of a session, make sure your on time.

Pick-up point (to Musem):
Jansstraat 40, Janskerk (Noord-Hollands Archief)
At 19:00, 20:00, 21:00, 22:00 to Museum van de Geest.

Pick-up point (back to city centre):
Schotersingel 2, Museum van de Geest at 20:30, 21:30, 22:30 and 23:30 to Janskerk.


You can also come on your own. Make sure you arrive on time for the Mark to the Music – a mindful art experience sessions at 19:30, 20:30, 21:30, and 22:30. Be present 15 minutes before the start. The sessions last 35 minutes.

About Jolien Posthumus
Jolien Posthumus is the Program Manager for Mental Health at the Museum of the Mind and an experienced mindfulness trainer. Graduated as a creative craftsman, specializing in art and cultural history, Jolien has actively engaged in connecting Art and Well-being for the past 20 years. In addition to her 18 years of experience as a meditation teacher, she is trained as a mindfulness trainer. She is a pioneer of Mindfulness in the Museum in the Netherlands and has developed numerous programs for various museums at home and abroad.