Incubate is the annual celebration of independent culture in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is a festival exhibiting a diverse view on indie culture as a whole, including music, contemporary dance, film and visual arts. It brings more than 200 cutting edge artists in an intimate context to an international audience. Black metal next to free jazz. Refreshing art next to inspiring debate.

Incubate people

Below a list of the fabulous people that make this festival possible.


Marketing

We love marketing.

Barry Spooren

Hi there! I’m Barry Spooren and for Incubate I do fundraising, coordination of our innovation conferences and open source policy development. I started working at Incubate (then called ZXZW) as an intern for the Utrecht School of the Arts early 2009. After I graduated, I kept on working at the fes..

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Dyon Schlebos

My name is Dyon Schlebos and I coördinate the physical promotion for the Incubate festival by supervising the Incubate street team. Since 2008 I have tried to gather an enthusiastic group of volunteers to be part of this team. With the street team we try to make Incubate visible for all you free mi..

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Erik Luyten

Senior Online Marketing & PR..

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Ingo Oszkinat

Hi, my name is Ingo Oszkinat! I know, my last name sounds kind of un-Dutch. It is actually. It's Lithuanian. At least that is where I think it's from. I'm born and raised in the upper parts of North Holland though, and I moved to Tilburg some five years ago. I finished four years of studying Graphic..

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Joost Heijthuijsen

Bringing my all time heroes Sun Ra Arkestra and Hermann Nitsch to Tilburg. Cool gigs from Joker and Hauschka and Franko B giving me rectinal bleeding. Those are some of my artistic highlights on Incubate, but more important than that is working with my colleagues, all the volunteers and all people i..

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Roel van Oosterhout

Hi, I am Roel van Oosterhout. Here at Incubate I work as a niche marketeer until the festival takes place. Next to this I work as a marketeer at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I’ve studied both communication science and the sociology of culture and I’m a total music freak (I play guitar in a slu..

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Sebastiaan Janssen

Hi there! I am Sebastiaan Janssen. At Incubate I will be working as a niche marketeer until the festival in September. Besides working at Incubate I work at the publicitiy and marketing department of the SJU Jazzpodium in Utrecht. I totally love the eclectic character of Incubate, bringing together ..

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Steph Byrne

Hi! I’m Steph Byrne, photography-intern at Incubate. I’ve been taking pictures on the festival since the second edition and I’ve been in love with it ever since. This year, I’ll be working on several photo-documentaries about the crew, the Glocal project and the festival itself. To me, Inc..

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Tijs Heesterbeek

I'm the Senior General Marketing and Communications guy and responsible for the old skool communication. It means I'm writing most of the stuff you read here, I'm responsoble for the adds and all the other communication that comes to a festival like this. I like lasagna, old French cars, Hall and Oa..

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Bookings

Our bookers book more than 200 artists every year. Big up for them!

Frank Kimenai

With a long and active history in DIY music culture, be it playing in several bands or booking shows in every available space in Tilburg, I founded the Incubate festival, a large scale festival focusing on Independent culture. What started out as a hobby ended up as a full time job. Together with co..

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Peter Meeuwsen

Hello I'm Peter. I joined the Incubate team as an intern for my study Arts, Culture & Media and stayed afterwards. I'm responsible for bookings, time schedules and a lot of other things. I'm also the person checking all the tips people give us on our social media...

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Vincent Koreman

Hey, I’m Vincent. I'm one of the founders of the fest. I used to play in a lot of bands, in styles ranging from electronix to black metal and have also graduated Art School. What’s important for me is creating a platform for the independent (thinking) artists out there. Not only by doing the fe..

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Production

Laszlo Gimenez

Head of stagemanagers/ production..

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Loes Hermans

Site Production @ Facilities..

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Tineke de Mug

Hi! I’m Tineke and this wil be the third year I work for Incubate. This festival has been growing ever since its start. And so have I! Starting as a shy girl doing some online marketing/community, soon growing into doing productional work like sorting out transport, accommodations and other very i..

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Project Management

Evelien Rombouts

My function is to stay in touch with al the locations and venues for the Incubate festival. I’m also the assistent of Frank Kimenai. In 2009 I was a volunteer at the festival, this year I started my internship at the Incubate organisation. I do a study called Music Management at the Utrecht Sch..

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Sonja Augart

Curator dance and performance ..

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