May 1, 2022
iii workspace, The Hague
12:00 – 18:00
Participants need to be 18+
Fee: €30 incl. VAT
Reserve your spot HERE

On this international worker’s day, we will learn how to make cocktails, from a basic martini to your own conceptual one. Led by artist and cocktail enthusiast, Gökay Atabek.

The workshop will cover:
-introduction to different alcohol, tools and glassware
-a simple martini recipe
-syrups, bitters, and garnishes (make your own syrups to take home)
-extended techniques such as pressure infusion and maceration
-making your own personal spirit
-a performative cocktail presented by Gökay
-and an assignment to create your own cocktail

Participants need to bring:
–pen and paper
–2 re-sealable bottles *
–spit bottle/bucket**

A cocktail kit, which must consist of:
–a shaker tin
-barspoon
-jigger
-muddler
-hawthorne strainer
-tea strainer

If you don’t have these, we recommend ordering this kit
and a tea strainer like this one

* Grolsch Beugels work perfect for this.
** Yes, seriously. Otherwise, we will all be drunk within the first 2 hours.

Other materials will be provided by iii.

Gökay Atabek is an artist and researcher who, albeit unwillingly, has been appointed the representee, accountant, webmaster, and production manager of Vølksamt! – a de-facto art collective that deals with intermedia art.

Prior to his appointment as local representative, Atabek has been working with computer and new media art (a name he finds abrasively stupid at the time of this writing). After an adventure starting in his bedroom with a Big Muff Pi, he developed competence in electronics, which he nowadays uses to assist and advise Vølksamt! Currently, he is delving into practices such as publishing, blue-collar labor, and mixology. He works and swims at de Besturing.

Experimental Cocktail Workshop with Gökay Atabek is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.