Extrapool is a

Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...

based non-profit foundation and an artist-run initiativehttp://www.bataforum.nl/alternatievestadsgids?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&sobi2Id=9 focused on

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

, movies, avant-garde art and underground art. Extrapool was raised in 1991 and is funded by the city of Nijmegen. Extrapool organises festivals and concerts, movie nights, artist in residencies and produces publications. Part of the organisation is also a silk screen studio, and a music studio. The visual workspace and music studio both run free artist in residence programs for artists and

ians. Besides the venue and studio the foundation also has a shop with left field music,

art house An art film (or arthouse film) is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily f ...

movies and books about subjects related to the cultural focus of the organisation.

Comparable Dutch avant garde centres

* Het Apollohuis * OT301 * WORM

References

External links

Official website of Extrapool
{{Coord missing, Netherlands Music venues in the Netherlands Nijmegen Music in Nijmegen Arts organisations based in the Netherlands