We’re Here, My Dear is a work that weaves together graphic design, costume, and public space to explore the experience of navigating the night as women, queer, and femme-presenting people. Rooted in both vulnerability and joy, the work reclaims the night as a space of possibility, inviting collective strength, visibility, and play. Six night performers, women and feminine-presenting people, move through the city in shifting formations, sometimes together and sometimes alone, wearing custom-designed costumes. These garments act as evolving archives, embedding traces of past experiences and encounters. We’re Here, My Dear transforms urban space into a site of connection, separation, and visibility. This website archives the drawings, posters, sketchbooks, costumes and photography. Check out the work below.

Each night performer in the night team had their own sketchbook. These pages are the digitized results from the six sketchbooks. The color of the pencil in each sketchbook corresponds to the embroidery color of that night performer. The drawings were later embroidered into the costumes.

These posters promote the work We’re Here, My Dear. The posters are placed at the starting point of each bar, club, or creative space. In the open space of the poster, the night performers do a small exercise to begin the night walk. During the first night walk, the performers connected their names in a single line, forming a bond. The theme for walk one was connection. For walk two, the theme was separation and time alone, so all the names were written separately. The theme for walk three was clustering and being in small groups.

Each performer in the night team writes or draws inside a sketchbook, and the outcomes are later embroidered into the costumes. To connect the sketchbooks to the costumes, leftover fabric from the costume production was used to make the sketchbook covers. Since the fabrics were remnants, each cover is unique in its shape, color, and size.

The night team each kept a sketchbook, in which they drew or wrote. The costume designer reviewed the sketches and translated them into embroidery. For the final night walk, all of the embroidery was added to the costumes.

The night walks took place in many creative spaces and spanned a period of months.

Night walk one

Bar Bocht → Hoogstraat → Bar Bocht
25 October 2025
19:00–21:00
The first night walk began at Bar Bocht. The night team prepared in the basement and washrooms before heading out into the city. This walk moved through an outdoor shopping area in the center of Rotterdam and focused on the theme of connection.

Night walk two

Garage Noord → Nieuwendammerdijk → Garage Noord
21 November 2025
21:00–23:00
The second night walk started at Garage Noord. Centered on separation and time alone, the route led through Vliegenbos and continued along Nieuwendammerdijk, allowing performers to move both together and independently.

Night walk three

WORM → Wijnhaven → WORM
14 December 2025
19:00–21:00
The third and final night walk began at WORM. This walk explored themes of clustering and being in small groups, bringing the series to a close through a more collective rhythm.

These maps archive all three walks made in the Netherlands.

Thank you Laura, Matilde, Max, Bente, Joanne, Sara and Fay! Thank you No Kiss! Kindly supported by het Cultuurfonds and Amarte.