Cancellation of PAS-festival 2020

With the nice weather these days I don't put on a coat when I go outside, but I do create a zone around me of one and a half meters. And that is not a comfort zone where it is safe within and exciting outside. This zone does not suit me and is not comfortable at all, because the invisible danger lies just as much out- as inside. When someone approaches my zone, I smile kindly and step aside. A lot of friendly nods these days, but it remains unreal. The one-and-a-half-meter-society for as long as it is needed, but it cannot become a ‘new normal’.

Normal for Studium Generale is that we open the doors of the university to welcome everyone to gain and share knowledge. The Pleasure, Art and Science Festival (PAS), with which we have started the season for several years, is a very good example of this. How nice it would be to open the academic year again with this festival in September. But the uncertainty and risks are too great. As much as we would like it to be different, the PAS festival that would take place on 4 and 5 September this year, is canceled. We think of the common responsibility for the health of many and follow the policy of the university. The team is disappointed. We miss bringing people together. We are working hard to organise the rest of our program from September onwards in the hope to meet everyone ‘normally’ again. And we hope to take revenge in 2021 with yet another festive PAS-festival. In the meantime, follow us online via Studium Quarantine.

Rob van Duijn
head Studium Generale Office

PAS festival in short

The PAS-festival provides an accessible introduction to the research that is carried out at the Maastricht University: Science. Another important branch is the fine arts, mainly in the form of music and theatre: Art. And all of this is seasoned with Pleasure, not only through a small programme of clownesque street theatre, but also because all the participants and visitors join in creating a wonderful atmosphere and enjoying a varied programme together.

Entrance: free!
When? Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September 2018, from 7 pm till after midnight!
Where? The Jekerkwartier in the surroundings of the Student Services Centre (Bonnefantenstraat 2)

The festival will be opened on Friday 6 September.

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Aftermovie PAS Festival 2018

We look back on a particularly successful fifth edition of the PAS festival. Many of you visited various locations of Maastricht University for one or more of the 120 activities.

Want to reminisce some more? Then check out our aftermovie.

The photographs are also online available (by Joey Roberts). Check them out on our Facebook page.

Why PAS?

The university and the city
During the PAS festival, Maastricht University (UM) is throwing open the doors of several buildings in the Maastricht Quartier Latin, so that a wide public can explore some unique, sometimes unfamiliar places in person. They will be treated to a wide variety of short lectures, concerts, dance and theatre performances, demonstrations, art and guided tours. >>

PAS festival is bilangual

Klik op het plaatje om naar de Nederlandse website te gaan

All the lectures and activities at the PAS-festival will most of the time be spoken in English as well as in Dutch. In our programme booklet, released at the end of august, as well as this website, all English activities are described.

We also have a Dutch website, with all the Dutch spoken activities.