First Date Dinner Concert | Nienke Nasserian & Vrouwkje Tuinman

What is love without dating and food? When you choose the theme "Out of Love" as a festival, of course you have to create the ultimate conditions for love to flourish.

While enjoying a vegan two-course dinner (including 1 drink) at theater kitchen and café TREK, witness the First Date of soprano Nienke Nasserian and writer Vrouwkje Tuinman.

Does it click? Does it chafe? Does it sizzle? Does something flare up?

MENU

• for: green asparagus with baba ganoush, peach, hazelnuts, pistachio and aceto balsamic vinegar
• main: portabella stuffed with lentils, bell bell pepper and tomato

CREDITS
recitation Vrouwkje Tuinman
vocals Nienke Nasserian

photo Nienke Martin Sieper
photo Vrouwkje Luuk Huiskes

VROUWKJE TUINMAN
Vrouwkje Tuinman (1974) writes novels, books of poetry, texts for music theater and other things for which she cannot think of a pigeonhole. She has won prizes for it. In June 2022 her novella Tijdelijk verblijf was published. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of essays. In October 2022, Vrouwkje received the (approximately) triennial C.C.S. Crone Prize for her entire oeuvre.

NIENKE NASSERIAN
Soprano and classical music theater maker Nienke Nasserian Nillesen graduated from the Master of Music Music Music Theater Classical program at the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg in 2018. She also obtained her Bachelor here in 2016. Nienke has appeared in several productions such as PLEIN, a co-production of Wunderbaum and Theater Rotterdam and the children's opera The Theory of Everything, a production of De Nationale Opera & Ballet. As a creator, Nasserian has written and performed in four performances. Her latest performance RISE, a self-help opera premiered at Wonderfeel Festival in the summer of 2023, after winning the Keep an Eye Production Prize with her performance MTOTO.