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Beyond the main festival venues, FASHIONCLASH invites visitors to discover fashion across Maastricht through exhibitions, installations, talks and other activities at various locations throughout the city.

At S.A.C.59 / Space for Art & Culture on Rechtstraat, work of Seeing Black and Dre Drevens present a group exhibition bringing together different perspectives on fashion and visual culture.

This year, Limestone Bookshop presents two projects that explore fashion as a medium for storytelling, research and social exchange: a book presentation and talk by Anouk Beckers, and an exhibition by Maya Gawel.

At Townhouse Design Hotel, sustainable and innovative designer Ruben Jurriën presents his work. On Saturday 14 November from 15:00–16:00, Ruben also gives a Designer Talk on all sizes, exploring questions around size, fashion and inclusivity.

At Galerie Post + García, the FASHIONCLASH collection by Teigetje & Woelrat dives into a world of checkered patterns, contrasting knitwear and leather, and a playful, carnavalesque aesthetic. The collection explores the space between contemporary design and the theatrical spirit of carnival, using bright colours and extravagant gestures. All pieces are designed and made by the four designers and makers of the studio, from the initial thread to the final hand-finished details.

This year, Bonnefantenmuseum invites the young generation of performing artists of the Toneelacademie Maastricht (Maastricht Academy of Performing Arts) to rethinking the exhibition Cooking from the Fridge. That is presenting surprising , thought-provoking paintings, photographs, film and videos, installations and sculptures. The students respond to the works by adding short performative acts to create a dialogue between visual and performance arts.

On Friday, A festive parade starting at 14.00 at Centre Céramique, in memory of Pedro Antonio Cano. Our Lady of Holy Death, incarnated in La Monroy, invites everyone to join a colossal procession through Maastricht in memory of Pedro Antonio Cano, an Indigenous man from Nueva Granada, present day Colombia, who was taken to the Spanish Crown in 1792 as living “proof” of giants in the Americas. More than two centuries later, his mortal remains still on exhibition at the Museo de Anatomía Javier Puerta, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The route is leading through Maastricht and ends at The Social Hub Hotel, Pedro returns as a colossal ancestral to be known and homage, not displayed. The procession celebrates his life and gathers signatures demanding the repatriation of his remains to Colombia.