#amsterdam — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #amsterdam, aggregated by home.social.
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👀 Wist jij dit?
De Spuistraat was eeuwenlang een gracht: de Nieuwezijds Achterburgwal. In 1867 verdween het water en ontstond de straat die we nu kennen. En er reed later zelfs een tram naar Zandvoort. ⬇️
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April Fool Series 2020
Een ijzersterke fotoserie, het hoogtepunt uit de tentoonstelling | A superb series of photographs, the highlight of the exhibition.
Erwin #Olaf in #stedelijkmuseumamsterdam #amsterdam #photo #fotografie #photography #photographer #analog -
In het Levend Paarden Museum in Amsterdam wordt het verhaal van de wereld van het paard verteld. In het museum leer je over de paardenhouderij, de (klassieke) paardrijkunst en de historie van deze stadsmanege. Je ziet het kantoor van de directeur, de kleedkamer van de ruiters en het foyer. Vanaf het balkon heb je een mooi uitzicht over de rijhal.
https://jtravel.nl/nederland/amsterdam/levend-paarden-museum-in-amsterdam/
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A review of Amsterdam: the making of a city, 1980 to today, by Marcel van Engelen. A detailed and informative account of how Amsterdam was transformed from an imploding failing city, with a falling population, a decaying housing stock, and social strife to a booming international town, albeit one that now faces the problems of success. #booktok #amsterdam #urbanplanning https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8NBDT5V/
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Today's photo: Stadhouderskade - around Rijksmuseum (1904).
[EN] The little building is the Polderhuis. It was situated on a small island io the corner of Singelgracht and Boerenwetering, opposite the Rijksmuseum.
[NL] Het huis is het Polderhuis. Het stond op een eilandje in de hoek van Singelgracht en Boerenwetering, tegenover het Rijksmuseum.
Via https://020apps.nl/olie/random/ #Amsterdam #JacobOlie #Stadhouderskade #Polderhuis #Rijksmuseum
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Right now, #Habibi #Rachmaninov with Avdeeva and Rimsky-Korsakov from #Amsterdam https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/habibi_rachmaninov_with_avdeeva_and_rimskykorsakov_from_amsterdam/93632/ #wch
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In 20 minutes, #Habibi #Rachmaninov with Avdeeva and Rimsky-Korsakov from #Amsterdam https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/habibi_rachmaninov_with_avdeeva_and_rimskykorsakov_from_amsterdam/93632/ #wch
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Plum Road Tea Dream_The Hangout
W139, Saturday, October 17 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Plum Road Tea Dream_The Hangout is a relaxed performance centered around the autobiographical video game Plum Road Tea Dream created by artist Samuel Baidoo. The work explores how we can imagine new spaces for grief, healing, commemoration and transformation. Equal parts honest conversation, collective gaming session, tea ceremony and ritual, it invites audiences into an intimate but casual space of reflection and shared experience. For this edition of _The Hangout at W139 Samuel will enter into a dialogue with The Nature of Remembering initiating artist Lawil Karama.
Ticket: €10Student and solidarity ticket: €7,50
Buy your tickets via Eventbrite.
Samuel Baidoo (they/them) is a creator, performer, game designer and mentor. Alongside their work in the Hanafubuki artist collective, Baidoo also works in various collaborative constellations and maintains their individual practice, which links autobiographical experiences to diverse performances through a constantly evolving archive of images, fragments of text, film stills, documentaries, musical pieces, or excerpts from series, films, games, or manga—popular culture has a special place in their heart.
Lawil Karama (she/her) is a Ugandan-Dutch conceptual artist born in former West Berlin and based in Amsterdam. Her work is deeply rooted in the diasporic experience, often drawing from her family history as a starting point for challenging conventional narratives and amplifying unheard voices. Karama’s creative path began in the world of special make-up effects, which continues to influence her approach, bringing a visceral understanding of form, surface, and psychological tension into her current work.
Image: still from Plum Road Tea Dream (2026) by Samuel Baidoo.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/plum-road-tea-dream_the-hangout
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Literature Beyond the Page
SPUI25, Wednesday, September 23 at 05:00 PM GMT+2
Traditionally, literature has been understood as an intimate dialogue between a writer and a reader. However, in times of crisis, literature often moves beyond the page. Writers become public voices, cultural ambassadors, media commentators, and witnesses to history. Today, many Ukrainian authors experience such transformations. During this event, we will reflect on the impact of war and other crises on literature and writers.
As the closing event of the Ukrainian-Dutch Literary Translation Residency, this public conversation explores how the role of writers and literature itself has changed in times of war. How do these changes affect the act of writing? Can literature remain a space for imagination and reflection when writers are increasingly expected to engage with urgent realities? Bringing together Ukrainian and Dutch voices, we will explore these questions from different literary and cultural perspectives.
While rooted in the Ukrainian experience, the discussion opens up broader questions about the responsibilities of writers in contemporary Europe and the role literature can play in shaping public understanding during times of profound change. In addition, our speakers will reflect on literary translation as an essential part of this process. Translation not only brings books to new readers; it enables stories, experiences, and ideas to cross borders, creating new spaces for dialogue and mutual understanding. With: Eugenia Kuznetsova, Tommy Wieringa, and Tobias Wals. Moderation: Simone Peek.
Speakers
Eugenia Kuznetsova is a Ukrainian writer, translator, and researcher. She holds a PhD in literary analysis and has a background in media research, with a focus on conflict-sensitive reporting and countering disinformation. She is the author of the novels Ask Miechka (special mention from the European Union Prize for Literature), The Ladder (BBC Book of the Year Award), and The Sheep Are Safe. Kuznetsova is also the author of Language Is a Sword, a nonfiction book examining Soviet language and identity policies, as well as a graphic book on the history of Ukrainian borshch.
Tommy Wieringa is the author of novels such as Joe Speedboot (F. Bordewijk Prize), Caesarion (shortlist International Dublin Literary Award), These Are the Names (Libris Literature Prize), The Death of Murat Idrissi (shortlist Man Booker International Prize), and recently Nirwana. His work is translated worldwide.
Tobias Wals is a historian of Soviet history and a prolific translator of Ukrainian literature. He has translated Serhii Zhadan, Artem Chekh and Tanja Maljartschuk amongst others.
Simone Peek (moderator) is a journalist and writer. She reports on Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war in 2022, first independently and since 2023 as staff writer for the daily newspaper NRC.
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HACKEDEPICIOTTO (DE) + GLICE
OCCII, Friday, November 20 at 08:30 PM GMT+1
Welcome back! HACKEDEPICIOTTO (Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto) + GLICE (Melle Kromhout & Ruben Braeken)
HACKEDEPICCIOTTO (DE)
Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) & Danielle De Picciotto (Love Parade, Crime & The City Solution)Both are legends within the underground of the music world. This will be the couple’s first visit to Amsterdam since the last one in 2022.
HACKEDEPICIOTTO are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, the co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander’s partner in crime. Alexander Hacke is founding member and bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten. The artist couple, romantically married in 2006, has creatively interacted with countless international projects for almost 2 decades now besides regularly releasing their own compositions.
Their live shows are, to put it mildly, intense. Danielle specializes in unusual instruments such as the Hurdy Gurdy, the auto harp and the cemence besides playing the violin and piano; Alexander is master of the bass, guitar and drums. Together they create beautiful, existentialistic, acoustic soundscapes, which roar and vibrate simultaneously leaving their audiences shaken but overjoyed.
Danielle, author of two books, writes most of their lyrics, be it the poetic spoken word moments or the momentous choirs they compose together. Alexander Hacke, an excellent throat singer and vocalist, growls his grnarly, rumbling cries that float eerily over their nomadic desert drones, with screeching birds, bees or wild wind accompanying slow, heavy riffs that start as a whisper and end in a volcanic, rolling wave of apocalyptic frenzy. The collage of this mixed with melancholic, translucent harmonies, very heavy & low bass chords, and electronics are a mesmerizing universe of sound and emotion which has generated an ever growing group of enthusiastic listeners.
https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/
Glice is an Amsterdam-based noise duo that has been producing uncompromising, layered electronics since 2015. Using analog equipment and a keen ear for detail, Ruben Braeken and Melle Kromhout craft a sound that moves between hushed musique concrète and industrial noise, between abstract sonic experiments and moments of fragile melody—sometimes dark and ominous, at other times deceptively meditative.
Following their critically acclaimed debut LIX (2015), Glice performed at festivals such as Rewire, Incubate and Unsound and released several cassette tapes. Braeken and Kromhout then travelled to Berlin to record the album CIELO (2017) with Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten)—a next step in their sonic evolution, where post-industrial textures meet melodic development. This direction continued on the monumental double album PYRE (2021), co-produced by Lasse Marhaug.
Exactly ten years after their debut, Glice returns in 2025 with ENVOI. Recorded during a series of concerts with Hackedepicciotto in 2022, this is the purest representation yet of their intense, disorienting live shows: four pieces that build tension layer by layer with distorted voices, piercing noise, rattling synths, fragments of melody, and deep drones.
Presale/door prices adjusted: our events are set up by volunteers in favour of supporting DIY touring acts, but it is getting ever more risky to plan and book events – please support the community and buy your tickets early! Presale closes 18.00 on day of the show.
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Film screening and conversation between Martine Gutierrez and her mother
Huis Marseille, Sunday, September 6 at 01:30 PM GMT+2
On Sunday 6 September the artist Martine Gutierrez will attend a special screening of her film The Search for True Beauty. After the screening she will engage in conversation with her mother, who has played an important role in nurturing Martine’s creativity from an early age and whose influence can be felt in various ways throughout Wunderkind, Gutierrez’s current large-scale solo exhibition at Huis Marseille.
During this special event, mother and daughter will revisit the making of The Search for True Beauty, a film Martine made at the age of ten, and reflect on the creative freedom that shaped her childhood: a world of play, transformation and self-invention that continues to resonate throughout her artistic practice today.
Wundermom
Creativity and self-expression were central to Martine Gutierrez’s childhood, as was the special relationship she has always had with her mother; she was encouraged to play, experiment and explore identity freely, without preconceived ideas or restrictions. Martine’s mother also carefully preserved her childhood and family archive, including dresses, puppets, sketchbooks, toys and other objects that inspired Martine to inhabit different characters and explore multiple sides of herself.‘Identity is a performance,’ Martine says. ‘With a bit of practice you can be almost anything.’
Martine’s layered identity and the many ‘stand-ins’ in her self-portraits build on her childhood creations, in which reality and myth continually flowed into one another.
The Search for True Beauty
The Search for True Beauty was Martine Gutierrez’s directorial debut. She wrote the text and music, and directed, narrated and performed in the film. For the soundtrack she composed original flute music – one of several instruments she studied in childhood.Using a single tripod and simple in-camera editing tools, Martine transformed her backyard into an expansive set. In the lead, as the film’s ingénue, she cast her nanny as Julia, ‘a beautiful but not giving girl sent on a journey by a nymph named Gabrielle’. On screen, Martine plays Gabrielle, in addition to every supporting character, including Gazelda, a hostile landowner, and Luffa, a wise wizard.
The Search for True Beauty, 1999
Programme
Digitised Super VHS, 20 min. 01 sec.1.30pm: Doors open
Audience
2pm: Film screening begins
2.20pm: Conversation
3pm: Opportunity to continue the conversation over drinks in the bookshopThe event will be held in English.
Max. participantsLimited capacity, please order a ticket via the link
CostAdmission fee excl. museum entrance: €7.50
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🎬 Azart – Come Make Art (2023) + Q&A
Filmhuis Cavia, Sunday, October 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
Masha Novikova & Annike Kaljouw | 2023 | NL | 83’ | EN subtitles
This documentary tells about the colorful and cheerful history of the Amsterdam Ship of Fools, which sailed around the world for more than 30 years to bring theatre, joy and folly. At the helm is the creator of this sailing work of art: captain and actor August Dirks, who lived and worked on the Azart for more than 30 years. Amsterdam's Azartplein is named after this fool's boat. Captain August wanted to sail the VOC route, he said, but in a different way. “Not to steal and kill, but to play and share.” Now stranded – literally – on a South American beach, where the wonderful story continues, led by a local theater group.
The filmmakers will be in attendance, and there will be an online Q&A with August after the screening. The photo book AZART De Blauwe Schuit, film posters and more will be for sale this evening.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/azart-come-make-art-2023-qanda-3
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🎬 Azart – Come Make Art (2023) + Q&A
Filmhuis Cavia, Friday, September 18 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
Masha Novikova & Annike Kaljouw | 2023 | NL | 83’ | EN subtitles
This documentary tells about the colorful and cheerful history of the Amsterdam Ship of Fools, which sailed around the world for more than 30 years to bring theatre, joy and folly. At the helm is the creator of this sailing work of art: captain and actor August Dirks, who lived and worked on the Azart for more than 30 years. Amsterdam's Azartplein is named after this fool's boat. Captain August wanted to sail the VOC route, he said, but in a different way. “Not to steal and kill, but to play and share.” Now stranded – literally – on a South American beach, where the wonderful story continues, led by a local theater group.
The filmmakers will be in attendance, and there will be an online Q&A with August after the screening. The photo book AZART De Blauwe Schuit, film posters and more will be for sale this evening.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/azart-come-make-art-2023-qanda-2
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Reporting on Russia – with Pjotr Sauer and Shane Walker
De Balie, Friday, October 16 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
How do journalists report on a country where truth itself has become a political battleground? Shaun Walker and Pjotr Sauer discuss their reporting on Russia, the war in Ukraine, and the growing influence of propaganda and misinformation.
Drawing on years of experience reporting from the region, they examine how authoritarian regimes manipulate information, how journalists navigate censorship and disinformation, and what these developments mean for democratic societies.
About the speakers
Shaun Walker, has reported extensively on Russia and the post-Soviet world, exploring how history and memory are used to shape contemporary politics. He is the author of the non-fiction books Odessa Dreams: The Dark Heart of Ukraine’s Online Marriage Industry (2014) and The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past (2018). The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West (2025) is about the agents who lived apparently normal lives in the west as part of Soviet espionage programmes.Pjotr Sauer is a prominent Russian affairs correspondent for The Guardian, known for his extensive on-the-ground reporting on Russia and the war in Ukraine. Raised in Moscow, his journalism career has been shaped by deep regional expertise, ultimately making him a sought-after voice on Russian current events.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/reporting-on-russia-with-pjotr-sauer-and-shane-walker
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Wat doe je bij een seksueel getinte opmerking of grap die echt te ver gaat? Met ‘Man, zeg er wat van!’ roepen we mannen op om elkaar aan te spreken op grensoverschrijdend gedrag.
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🔌♻️ Oude laptop in de kast? Kapotte koptelefoon in een la? Negen basisschoolteams gaan van 31 augustus tot en met 23 september de strijd aan met e-waste. Meld je oude of kapotte apparaten aan en de scholieren komen ze ophalen.