ICE
The Catharinakerk at blue hour, its windows warm, people crossing the wet square towards the door.

Catharinakerk

ICEDOETINCHEM

500 PEOPLE ENTER A CHURCH.

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The real place

This building has stood on this square since the fourteenth century.

You have walked past it. You may have been married in it. Almost nobody has seen what it can do after dark.

This is not a party placed inside a church.

The church itself becomes the experience.

The nave of the Catharinakerk during restoration work.
The frozen vessel. The church held still and blue, before anything moves.

Same viewpoint. Same stone. Change the light.

The frozen vessel. The church held still and blue, before anything moves.

FROZEN

The luminous peak of ICE: the building dissolved into almost white cyan light.

ICE

Wear

White. All of it.

Arrival into a frozen room: silhouettes entering a cold blue haze.
The frozen vessel. The church held still and blue, before anything moves.
The first thaw: cyan light building in the volume of the nave above a dense crowd.
Immersion. The room filled with light rather than lit by it.
The afterglow of ICE, the light receding and the stone returning.
Immersion. The room filled with light rather than lit by it.

FOUNDING CIRCLE

EVERY STORY HAS A FIRST CIRCLE.

Before ICE opens its doors,a small group will help bring Chapter One to life.

THE FIRST PEOPLE WHO SAID:THIS SHOULD EXIST.

ICE · DOETINCHEMCHAPTER ONE

How you get in

You haven’t beeninvited.Yet.

There is no open ticket sale. A place begins with an invitation — somebody may open a door for you, or you may ask us to. Every invitation has a name on it.

Admission
By invitation
Places
500
Editions
One night, once
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Invitation

Your name here

Your invitation

Your invitation won’tstay the same.

What arrives is not a PDF. It has your name on it, it does not stay the same, and it is still yours the morning after.

We are not going to show you the rest.

I already have one

Open the invitation you were sent.

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We read every one.

Practical

What you need to know

Where
Catharinakerk, DoetinchemSimonsplein 25, Doetinchem
When
November 2026Details with your invitation.
Age
25+. Bring ID.
Dress
White. All of it.

Everything else, and the questions

The Catharinakerk seen from Simonsplein on an ordinary afternoon, brick and stone under a clouded sky.

The morning after, it is a church again.

Catharinakerk · Doetinchem · November 2026

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