ESN Rotterdam

ESN Tuesday
2023-01-31 22:00 - 2023-02-01 04:00, 2023-01-17 22:00 - 2023-01-18 04:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Want to party on Tuesday? We have ESN Tuesday every Tuesday at Cafe De Beurs. Join us there to have a blast!!

Free WardrobeFree WaterFree ToiletsSpecial Drink prices!!

Ice Skating
2023-01-28 12:00 - 14:00
⛸ESN ANNOUNCEMENT⛸If you’re new in Rotterdam and want to start off your semester in the best way possible come ice skating with ESN.Join ESN on Saturday the 28th of January and get ready to slide and show us your skills !!

🗓 Date: Saturday the 28th of January🕟 Time: 12:00 to 2:00📍 Location: Toepad 95, 3063 NJ Rotterdam, (Schaatsbaan Rotterdam)💵 price: tba

Note: ice skating is included in the ESN introduction weekend. No need to buy it if you already have a ticket for the ESN intro weekend.Tickets will be out soon!!

Winter Introduction Days 2022-23
2023-01-28 09:30 - 2023-01-29 23:00
Every semester Erasmus Student Network of Rotterdam organises the ESN Intro days for the new incoming full-time and exchange students. This winter, the Introduction Days will take place on the 28th and 29th of January 2023. During the Wintrodays, you will have the opportunity to participate in unforgettable activities with your group. These days are focused on meeting other international students and getting to know the lovely city of Rotterdam. Furthermore, as an international student, you will get an introduction to Dutch Culture.

Join us for a variety of fun activities, from the traditional and ridiculous Crazy 88 to ice-skating to parties and many other more exciting events!

The activities during the Wintrodays will introduce you to the university, student life, and the beautiful city of Rotterdam. In addition to that, our guides have been in Rotterdam for at least a year, so you can ask them your questions about the practical matters and they will be glad to help you out. Are you excited to meet your fellow students from around the world? Don’t wait, and get your tickets now!

Tickets are available now, use this link to buy your ticket!

Every year, 5500 international students come to Rotterdam to study at Erasmus University. However, we make sure the ESN Introduction Days keep a personal, family feeling to them! Therefore, we would like to emphasise registering and paying as soon as possible to make sure you can start your year in Rotterdam with a new group of friends and tons of memories!

Throughout the year, ESN Rotterdam organises 150+ events for international students. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date!

Cocktail Workshop
2023-01-27 20:00 - 22:00
If you like piña colada🎶, you should join the ESN cocktail workshop!🍸Even in winter, you can enjoy a mojito or daiquiri. Learn to make an amazing cocktail with professional bartenders (and of course you get to drink some too!!!)🍹❄️Great teachers, new friends, and a couple cocktails included!!🍹

>>Event Details<<🗓️Date & Time: 8pm 27.01.2023📍Location: Zwarte Zwaan Events, Parkhaven 9, 3016 GM Rotterdam💰Price: 18 Euro, 16 for ESN card holdersGet your ticket here

Semester Opening Party
2023-01-26 22:00 - 2023-01-27 04:00
⚜️ESN Announcement ⚜️It’s happening, the first exchange party in 2023 is going to be a semester opening party.🎉Don’t forget to get your tickets 🎟 and animate your friends to join you for the first big party in 2023.🎊Like always we are excited to see you there and hope for a great party!!

🔥 3 areas🔥 10+ artists🔥 1500 studentsGet your tickets here!

CV Workshop
2023-01-26 15:00 - 18:00
NEW YEAR, NEW ME, NEW CVConstructing a sturdy and impressive CV can be a challenging task, but ESN is here to help! Join us for our CV workshop on January 26th from 15:00 – 18:00 right on Campus and explore the six different components of a CV and develop the best CV to present to future employers!

Get your free ticket here!

International Film Festival Rotterdam
2023-01-25 08:00 - 2023-02-05 17:00
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) offers a high-quality line-up of carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, short films and media art. This year IFFR is back in person for the first time since the pandemic! 🎥🍿

And ESN card holders get a special benefit: 50% off on all films! 🎉

Keep an eye on your email for the details! 👀(Didn’t receive it? Send an email to culturalcommittee@esn-rotterdam.nl)

12 days of films and events can be quite an overwhelming choice, so the team at IFFR has made a special selection for ESN students from each of their programmes:

Focus programmes Focus: Yuasa Masaaki Focus: The Shape of Things to Come?Focus: Judit ElekFocus: arcFocus: Stanya KahnHarbourAls uw gat maar lacht (If Yes, Okay)Something You Said Last NightBright FutureAmikoLas DemásLimelightShowing UpNo Dogs or Italians AllowedThe BoysCinema RegainedGirl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli MixtapeLe taxi, le cinéma et moiShort & Mid-lengthMidnight Special! (short film compilation)PoMoFoMo (short film compilation)

For more information about the festival: https://iffr.com/en

ESN Tuesday- Chinese New year
2023-01-24 22:00 - 2023-01-25 04:00
⚜️ESN Announcement ⚜️Ccelebrate with us and the CSA (Chinese student association) the Chinese New Year at Beurs 🎉Join us in welcoming the new year of the rabbit 🐇on the 24.01 with your friends⏰22.00🗓24.01📍at Beurs💰free

Open Stage Night
2023-01-23 20:00 - 22:00
Open Stage Night is back!! Join us together with Studium Generale for the first night of performances of 2023. Everyone is invited to come for a relaxing evening with live music and entertainment on campus at Erasmus Pavilion. Are you a performer? Sign up via the SG Website!

Laser Tag
2023-01-19 17:30 - 19:30
🔫ESN ANNOUNCEMENT🔫ESN is going to LASER TAG !!!!Are you ready to show us your shooting skills in the dark?Then join us Thursday 19th of January at 17:30See you there 🙂

🗓 Date: Thursday 19th of January🕟 Time: 17:30-19:15📍 Location: Parkhaven 11💵 price: 13 ESN Card, 16 Regular

Get your ticket here!

ESN Theater trip: Club Invites
2023-01-18 20:00 - 22:00
ESN is going to the Theatre again!Club Guy & Roni is coming to town with the annual Club Invites program!This year they have invited Mohamed Yusuf Boss and the duo Anna Jacobs and Hanna van der Meer, also known as Lunatics and Poets, and offered them a podium where they could express their ideas and develop their oeuvre.The end result is two performances: Yusuf Boss’s mercilessly allusive dance exposition LABA, and Lunatics and Poets’ unforgiving Postcards from a better place, which has been shaped as a visual poem perfectly intertwining the good and the bad within the human psyche.

About the performances:The performance, named LABA, is an immersive, entrancing ode to the lingering yarn of belongingness to and feeling like ‘being at home’, at a place that doesn’t actually exist. The performance explores these concepts through the fundamentals of Hip-hop and other styles, including the African Pantsula and Jaandheer, and the Haka from the Maori

In Postcards from a better place, Lunatics and Poets illustrate the duality of human nature. From an infantile game to overt violence, it is the inner darkness that confronts us with irreversible acts, shame and guilt. This performance is a poetic portrait of the shadow side that at the same time makes us human.

Get your tickets here!

Meditation and Journaling
2023-01-18 17:00 - 19:30
It is time to relax!

If you feel stressed or overwhelmed join our meditation & journaling session on Wednesday 18/1! 📖

After the meditation, you will have time to chat with other students and relax with a nice cup of tea while journalling 🎨☕.Meeting point and time: Campus TBA at 17:00

Get your ticket here!

ESN Tuesday: Birthday Bash
2023-01-10 22:00 - 2023-01-11 04:00
⚜️ESN announcement ⚜️We use the first ESN Tuesday of 2023 to celebrate all our birthdays!!🎉Dress up in your favorite birthday outfit ✨and show it off with all your friends and join us with everyone whose already back in Rotterdam⏰22.00🗓10.01📍at Beurs💰free

Open Stage Night
2022-12-12 19:30 - 22:00
Play or sing along with your favorite Christmas Carols in this special open stage night by Studium Generale and ESN-Rotterdam!

This extended edition of the monthly Open Stage Night will include the usual diverse range of talented performers, with special performances from Bonno Getz and the EMA band!

Signing up for a performance? -> It doesn’t have to be a Christmas song, but of course, it would be nice. We provide a backline (with drums, electric piano, and guitar amplification), and you bring your instrument. Sign up here!

Would you like to come and sing along without performing? -> You’re more than welcome! The entrance is free!

Fortune Dance Performance
2022-12-08 19:30 - 22:30
Club Guy & Roni is coming to town and we are bringing loads and loads of Fortune with us! This time, ESN is presenting a special opportunity to go behind the scenes with the artists of Club Guy & Roni, who will show us the magic of their performances during a meet-and-greet.

But what does Fortune actually mean to you, or to me, or somebody that lives somewhere across the world? In this performance at Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg, our mission became exploring the deeper undertones of the term going beyond all socioeconomic, political, ethnic, spiritual, and religious stereotypes and categorizations.

Join us on the 8th of December at Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg to become part of the experience! Get to know more about the show here!

ESNcard Price: €9Normal Ticket: €10Get your ticket here!

Film Special: The Batman
2022-12-07 19:00 - 22:30
Together with SG Erasmus, we invite you to our monthly film night on campus. This time we dive into Gotham City with The Batman – following on from SG’s talk on the science behind superheroes.

About the film:For two years, Bruce Wayne has guarded the streets of Gotham City as Batman. He has become a terror to criminals, learning the dark side of the city. With only a few loyal allies in a city where corruption is rampant, the lone hero symbolizes revenge for ordinary citizens. When an assassin sadistically targets Gotham’s elite, a trail of cryptic clues leads Batman to the underworld, where he comes in contact with Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Oswald Cobblepot/the Penguin, Carmine Falcone, and Edward Nashton/the Riddler. As the evidence begins to become clearer, his adversary’s grand plans come to light….

Ticket price: €4Get your tickets here!

Christmas Cards & Cookie Decoration
2022-12-06 17:00 - 19:00
Christmas is coming !! 🎅🎄

Join us to write Christmas cards for your loved ones and decorate gingerbread cookies! 📜✨You can also write cards delivered to the elderly in Rotterdam wishing them a Merry Christmas. 🤍🤝Tea/hot chocolate/coffee and Christmas snacks are provided! ☕

Meeting point: Campus (Langeveld 1.14)Meeting time: 17:00

Get your tickets here!

Jam Session with EMA
2022-12-05 20:00 - 22:00
Join us together with Erasmsus Music Association for our second jam session!

No ticket required – just come along to Cafe in de Smitse on campus to jam or just enjoy the music!

Munster Christmas Market
2022-12-03 08:00 - 23:59
ESN goes to a proper Christmas market

Visit a proper German student city! After exploring the local castle and botanical gardens, you will have the freedom of enjoying the 9 different Christmas markets in the city to get into the proper Christmas spirit!

Bring cash for Germany and warm clothes!!Date: 3rd of December: (8:00-24:00)Price: 40 normal/35 ESN cardIncludes: Transport, City tour, RecommendationsGet your ticket here!

Beer Cantus
2022-12-01 20:00 - 2022-12-02 03:00
The holiday season is almost upon us. Firelight, loads of food, presents, and: CHRISTMAS CAROLS!

For the people that are already blasting them through your speakers: LETSGO you maniacs. No convincing needed.

Rest Assured, it’s going to be awesome For all others, you need to step up your game, and we have the perfect way for you to get into the mood: 25 tables; live band; a special venue; 1 pitchers per table included (for 6 people); great ambiance; rule + songbook AND an after party just for €15 per person! Are you ready for the best Cantus of your lives?

I think you will be convinced now! Here once more all the info in one row:

Date: Thursday 1st of DecemberTime: 20.00 – 01.00 Location: Villa Thalia €15 pp, table tickets available w/ Discount.

Get your tickets here!

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Open Stage Night
2022-11-28 20:00 - 22:00
Our monthly Open Stage Night together with Studium Generale is back! Everyone is invited to come for a relaxing evening with live music on campus at Erasmus Pavilion.

Are you a performer? Sign up here!

Tote Bag Designing
2022-11-27 18:00 - 20:00
The ESN Arts & Crafts Club is back! 🎨For our second event in this academic year, we have a Tote Bag drawing session planned✨👜You can design your own Tote Bag with different colors, patterns, and shapes! 🖌❤️We’ll provide all the material for you.Let’s all get creative together and style up our tote bags!!👨🏽‍🎨

🗓 Date & Time: 27th November from 18:00 to 20:00📍 Location: Polak (Campus)💰 Price: 3€ for ESN-card holders and 4€ for non-cardholders

Buy your ticket here!

Powerleague
2022-11-26 11:00 - 15:00
Are you ready to cheer for your country and compete against the world?Together with 6 football players represent the nation of your choice during the ESN World Cup tournament!Join the championship and play for your country!May the best team win and good luck!

🗓 Date: Saturday 26th of November🕟 Time: 11:15-15:00📍 Location: Leningradplaats 12, 3066 SG Rotterdam💵 €4,00 regular and ESN card holder

Note: you can register either as a complete team with 7 players or individually

Get your ticket here!

Full Moon Exchange Party
2022-11-24 21:00 - 2022-11-25 04:00
Forget backpacking in Thailand, we’re bringing the Full Moon party right to your doorstep in Rotterdam!

Expect:❍ Extensive blacklight decorations❍ Neon face paint artists❍ Glow in the dark beer pong❍ Bucket drink specials

🌕 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦 🌕❍ Thursday, November 24❍ 21:00 – 04:00 (doors close at 23:00)❍ Now&Wow Club Rotterdam

Get your tickets here!

Working as an International in the Dutch arena: Practical and Personal Stories
2022-11-24 16:00 - 18:30
Do you want to work in the Netherlands? Do you want to find out more about your career opportunities right after graduation?🧑‍🎓 In this case, ESN X Lighthouse Career Cafe event is exactly for you!You will:✅ find out about the personal experiences of our alumni speakers about how they found their jobs✅ Get all the answers on visa-related process✅ Food&drinks ✨🥤🥞✅ Explore the Dutch labor market tendencies✅ Explore the Dutch working culture✅ Q&A

The program includes 1-hour workshop, a short break, a panel discussion from our alumnus, and final drinks where you can ask any questions left.

Location and time: 24th of November, 16:00. Mandeville building, T3-16.

Slots are very limited! Less than 100 places are available. Get your free ticket by using this link.

Prague City Trip
2022-11-17 19:00 - 2022-11-20 18:00
Every semester, all the Dutch ESN sections go on an amazing journey together to one of the major cities in Europe. The whole weekend is filled with activities, tours, parties, and with lots of new friends from all over the world. Join us this time in Prague. The price of the trip is € 159 and includes the following:Transportation in a touring carAccommodation in a hostel2 Tours around the cityA trained (student) guideParties every nightOptional ESN activities

There is a complete schedule for all days included in the price. You can add extra activities as you please.

For more information and to buy your ticket, click here!

International Food Fair- Wellbeing Week
2022-11-17 15:00 - 17:00
Together with the EUR International Office, ESN is excited to present an event that has become a staple in the event calendar each year: the International Food Fair. 🌍🥘

As part of the week of the international student, as well as this year’s wellbeing week, we’ve invited a variety of multicultural associations to give you a taste of their cuisine. 🍱🍲

Tickets are free, so come along to the Erasmus Sports Café to try some new foods from around the world! 🌎

Get your ticket here!

Pizza and Poker
2022-11-16 18:00 - 20:00
Do you have the perfect poker face?♠️♦️♣️♥️Then join us for Pizza & Poker at Polak to show off your bluffing skills!🃏🤠Even if you don‘t know how to play Poker, we‘re there to teach you! Pizza and drinks are included!🍕🥤

🗓️Date & Time: 16th November from 18:00 to 20:00📍Location: Polak (Campus)💰Price: €5 (€4 with ESNcard)

Get your ticket here!

Sport Quiz
2022-11-15 21:00 - 23:00
Do you know everything about World Cups and sports? Is your knowledge solid?

Come test it with us at our old school sports quiz and try to win free tickets for the glow party🕺 or some beers 🍻!!

Good luck and may the best team win!

🗓 Date: Tuesday 15th of November🕟 Time: 21:00-23:00📍 Location: De Beurs💵 FREE!!

Get your free ticket here!
