Incubate people

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

Artistic team

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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Artistic director

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 fes..

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Operation and finances

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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Production

Tineke de Mug

Hi! I’m Tineke and I am head of Production at Incubate. Behind the scenes I am making sure everything falls into it's place, this is why you won’t see me around a lot during Incubate. But if you do, we'll have a beer! ..

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Steph Byrne

Hello hello! I'm Steph, participation manager at Incubate. I coordinate most volunteers and private accommodation for bands. Since I am a photographer as well, me and my photography-team make sure we have a beautiful documentation of each Incubate edition. Check the website to write in as a voluntee..

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Marketing

Sjuul Stultjens

Hi there! My name is Sjuul and I’m an intern at the marketing department of Incubate festival. Together with my colleagues I make sure you know what's coming your way this next September. I’m currently a third year student at International Event, Music & Entertainment studies located here in Til..

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Jelle Agema

Since April 2011 they call him ‘Senior General Marketing and Communications’ but he still calls himself Jelle. He lives in Amsterdam. Jelle works at Incubate because Incubate makes independent culture matter. Together with the marketing team he works hard to expose the festival artists and partn..

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Brent Oostrum

After visiting Incubate two years in a row and in need of a place for internship for my study Media & Entertainment, the first thing that came to mind was Incubate! My name is Brent Oostrum and I now work as niche marketing intern, although you will probably see most of my work through the Inlog blo..

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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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Erik Luyten

Hi there, I'm Erik. At Incubate, I am responsible for the online marketing and PR. Website, the Incubate blog(s), Generation Bass, Twitter, Facebook: you name it and the messages on it are probably mine. Back in 2007, I started as an intern at the festival - then called ZXZW - and sticked around. Bu..

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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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Development

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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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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Project Management

Sonja Augart

I’m working as an independent artist, choreographer and performer. I studied at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie and at the Fonty Dansacademie in Tilburg (NL). After finishing my studies in 1998 I made different works, which contained site-specific work, choreography for theatre and also time-related..

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Merijn Denkers

Hello! I'm Merijn and I started this year at Incubate as assistant programmer visual arts. I am working on a few projects at Incubate 2011. I'm a visual artist myself, but at the moment a lot of my time is in keeping track of developments in art. Feel free to contact me for tips and recommendations ..

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Jantien Borsboom

Hey, my name is Jantien! I've been enjoying Incubate as a visitor for some years, and recently I joined the Incubate crew as assistent film programming. With a background in animation and video art, and a very broad interest in film and all things connected to it, I'm devoted to bringing you Indepen..

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Maud van Maarseveen

Hi! I'm Maud, intern at Incubate. I'm currently working on setting up the Incubate Radio show wich will be aired during the festival and will also be working in production a lot a bit later on.I'm a student from way up north at Leeuwarden's Acadamy for Popculture. I study Organizing & Concepting and..

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Maarten Lammers

I'm Maarten, project leader of the Glocal project. I started as a research intern in 2009 but came back as project leader of Glocal in 2011. As a kid from the Brabant countryside with a big interest in (independent) culture I'm happy to work on the combination of those two. With a history as initiat..

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