#amsterdam — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #amsterdam, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/nl/223325/ Bijenkolonie strijkt neer op gevel universiteitsgebouw Amsterdam #Amsterdam #Bijenkolonie #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Dutch #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #gebouw #Headlines #Hoofdpunten #LatestNews #LatestNews #Nederland #Nederlanden #Nederlands #Netherlands #News #Nieuws #NL #TopStories #TopStories #UvA #Voorpaginanieuws
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Today's photo: Frederiksplein (1904).
[EN] A kiosk on Frederiksplein. Large iron poles for the overhead lines of the electric tram.
[NL] Een kiosk op het Frederiksplein. Grote ijzeren palen voor de bovenleiding van de elektrische tram.
Via https://020apps.nl/olie/random/ #Amsterdam #JacobOlie #Frederiksplein #kiosk
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V.I.C
Paradiso, Thursday, October 8 at 07:30 PM GMT+2
Alternative UK rap with genre-bending qualitiesV.I.C is an artist born in Nigeria and raised in the UK who, with his sharp lyrics and genre-bending sound, is carving out his own path in alternative rap. He made his global breakthrough with ‘A Teen’ on the FIFA 22 soundtrack and has maintained his momentum with standout releases such as ‘Wasteman’ and ‘Diamonds’. As well as releasing his own music, he also contributed to the soundtrack of the animated film GOAT.
With his debut album ‘Industry Games’, due out this year, V.I.C is embarking on a new chapter in his career. He is going on tour for the first time with an energetic live show across the UK and Europe. A unique opportunity to be among the first to experience his music live.
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Restaurant: Sisi & Sevgi koken
Zaal 100, Thursday, June 4 at 06:00 PM GMT+2
Elke donderdag:Restaurant: Sisi & Sevgi koken
a wholesome, hearty, and fully vegan dinner Treat yourself to a wholesome, hearty, and fully vegan dinner every Thursday! Our 3-course vegan menu is just €12 and includes a soup, main course, and a dessert. Don't forget to make a reservation! Dinner starts at 18.00 Reservation: 06-85368215 (WhatsApp)/ 020-6880127 E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected] And don ́t forget: Cash Only! (old school)https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/restaurant-sisi-and-sevgi-koken-53
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Alles moet beter
Pakhuis de Zwijger, Tuesday, June 23 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Een film over activisme en het falen van een vastgeroest systeem.Op 23 juni vertonen we de film ‘Alles moet beter’; een indringende blik op opgroeien in een wereld vol systeemcrises. De film volgt jongeren die op verschillende manieren geraakt worden door dit falen, en hun zoektocht naar hoe het beter kan, of moet.
Zo staat Sam (27) terecht voor Extinction Rebellion-acties, nadat de gemeente haar vorig jaar als ambtenaar op non-actief zette vanwege haar activisme. Ruben (24) wacht al een jaar als verlamd op het einde van zijn rechtszaak nadat hij als PvdA-commissielid in Dordrecht informatie lekte over een mogelijke deal met gif-uitstotend bedrijf Chemours. Rohan (23) is verwikkeld in een eindeloze strijd voor gepaste hulp. Zijn gemeente, Den Haag, helpt hem, als ‘Toeslagenkind’, nauwelijks, terwijl hij wel recht heeft op steun. Alle drie zetten ze zich in voor hun idealen, en alle drie raken ze verstrikt in de bestaande systemen. Kan de jongere generatie een verschil maken in een wereld die vóór hen is ingericht?
Na afloop gaan we hierover in gesprek met regisseur Dikla Zeidler. We praten over hoe het is om jong te zijn in tijden van meerdere systeemcrises, over de zoektocht naar hoe het beter kan, of moet, en ook over de beeldtaal van de documentaire. Meld je aan en praat 23 juni mee!
Met in dit programma Dikla Zeidler Freelance documentary filmmakerMeer over de film
Alles moet beter volgt drie jongeren die op verschillende manieren geraakt worden door opstapelende systeemcrises en toont hun zoektocht naar hoe het beter moet. Zo staat Sam (27) terecht voor burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid bij klimaatacties, nadat de gemeente haar een jaar eerder als ambtenaar op non-actief zette vanwege haar activisme. Rohan (23) is verwikkeld in een eindeloze strijd voor gepaste hulp voor hem als ‘Toeslagenkind’, maar wordt daarbij van het kastje naar de muur gestuurd. Ruben (25) wacht al een jaar op het einde van zijn rechtszaak nadat hij als PvdA-commissielid in Dordrecht informatie lekte over een mogelijke deal met gif-uitstotend bedrijf Chemours. Alle drie raken ze verstrikt in de bestaande systemen.
Begeleid door protestmuziek van o.a. Hang Youth, Ploegendienst, Sef en Sophie Straat komen hun individuele acties, van protest tot politiek, samen in één schreeuw van urgentie: Alles moet beter!
Over de sprekers
Dikla Zeidler (41) is documentairemaker en journalist. Ze maakte eerder onder andere de documentaires De Kinderen van Mokum, en ik en SAMAR – vliegen we of vallen we? Haar werk draait veelal om coming-of-age en idealisme. Daarnaast is ze altijd in het bijzonder geïnteresseerd geweest in verdiepende verhalen achter het nieuws. Alles moet beter is haar vijfde film.
Lees meer ‘Ik wil laten zien dat sommige problemen te groot zijn om als individu aan te pakken’De documentaire ‘Alles moet beter’ (NTR) volgt drie jongeren die op verschillende manieren geraakt worden door falende systemen. Het moet beter, maar kan dat? Dikla Zeidler volgde de jongeren een aantal jaar in hun zoektocht. NPO Doc sprak met de regisseur over het maakproces
Straatinterviews over de thema's uit de filmOnderaan de pagina staan de straatinterviews van Jahkini Bisselink in Heerlen, Winschoten en Amsterdam Bijlmer.
Alles moet beter! Maar waar moeten we beginnen? In het kader van de documentaire reist Jahkini Bisselink het hele land door op zoek naar antwoorden.
Documentaire ‘Alles moet beter’ legt worstelingen van jongvolwassenen bloot: ‘Ik heb het idee dat Gen Z heel slecht wordt begrepen’Regisseur Dikla Zeidler schetst de frustraties van een volgens haar onbegrepen generatie. Drie twintigers vertegenwoordigen falende en vastgeroeste systemen in de documentaire. ‘Ik wilde hun frustraties voelbaar maken.’
BeroepsactivistDikla Zeidler laat angst, moed, wanhoop, hoop afwisselen en toont de warmte die gelijkgestemdheid oplevert.
De last op de schouders van jongeren die de wereld willen veranderen. ‘Ik kan niet het niet doen’Het vergt heel wat om te vechten voor een betere wereld. Documentairemaker Dikla Zeidler brengt de twijfels, woede en vermoeidheid in beeld van jongeren die voor hun gevoel niet gehoord worden.
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CiNEMOCCii PRESENTS: DRIJFLAND (Nico Boink, 2026, 64 Min, NL //EN subtitled)+ Q/A
OCCII, Wednesday, July 1 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
CiNEMOCCii present: Film Screening DRIJFLAND
D r i j f l a n d (Nico Boink, 2026, 64 Min, NL //EN subtitled)
Drijfand tells the story of the foating gardens created by the renowned artist Robert Jasper Grootveld in Amsterdam’s Entrepot harbor, Zeeburg district.
Beginning in late 1999, I started to film the construction of these unique garden islands in Grootveld’s workshop, a visionary project he had nurtured since the 1960s. Within a few months two floating garden were completed. Through intimate footage, we witness the creative process unfold, as well as the sudden collapse of the project. Amid escalating tensions between Grootveld and local authorities.
Until his passing in 2009, I filmed regularly. Among the moments captured were times when he was recognized for his role in bringing global attention to Amsterdam, as well as his involvement as one of the founders of the Provo movement in the 1960s.
In 2024, drawn by the gardens’ abundant nature and the dedication of the Raft Builders of Amsterdam, who maintain the islands in Grootveld’s pioneering spirit, I returned to document this living legacy.
The islands’ buoyancy relies on styrofoam, a material Grootveld championed for its “power of softness” . Yet, 25 years later, styrofoam’s environmental impact has sparked urgent questions. The film delves into this dilemma, tracing the search for sustainable, bio-based alternatives that honour Grootveld’s ethos while protecting nature.
Drijfand offers a candid, tender, and often hilarious glimpse into Amsterdam’s underground creative forces, a story of resilience, innovation, and the evolving relationship between art, nature, and community.
Nico Boink
Besides working as a professional photographer throughout my career, I’ve also operated as an
independent, non-proft, and autonomous filmmaker. This approach allowed me to create films that
span long periods of time.Trailer: https://boinkinbeeld.nl/drijfland/trailer%20-%20SD%20480p.mov
Free entry, but donations encouraged €5 / 10 / 15
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025)
Melkweg, Tuesday, September 15 at 06:30 PM GMT+2
It took Amy Berg ten years to gain access to the archive of Jeff Buckley (1966-1997) through his heirs. She draws heavily on the material for this documentary about the life of the man who became a musical icon in a short space of time—thanks to a heavenly voice that only grew stronger at the top of its range, one phenomenal album, Grace, and his death at the age of 30, which left the music world stunned.
Using energetic editing, the film strings together moments from his childhood to his tragic death. There is footage of a 14-year-old Buckley singing “Roxanne” by The Police, and of his performances at the New York underground café Sin-é, where he would try out his own material, as well as audio recordings of messages he left on answering machines.
These clips reveal the more personal side of Buckley, which also emerges in interviews with former band members, musician friends like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann, his mother Mary Guibert, and his former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser. Their stories make this film more than just an attempt to explain an elusive musical enigma; it becomes a tender portrait shaped by love.
Melkweg often hosts different types of programmes at the same time, such as concerts, club nights and films. Please note that there may occasionally be some noise pollution from other programmes during the screening.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/its-never-over-jeff-buckley-2025-2
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Book Launch and Workshop: Radical Quilting by Dyke March Amsterdam
Framer Framed, Thursday, June 4 at 06:00 PM GMT+2
Join us on 4 June 2026 for the launch of the book Radical Quilting, a collection of pieces on fiber arts, community work and activism, written by members of the Dyke March Amsterdam group together with other writers from the community. The evening includes a talk with some of the authors and a workshop in which participants collaboratively create a memory map of Amsterdam with needle and thread.In preparation for the Dyke March 2026, a group of volunteers – the ‘DIY Dykes’ – quilted a banner to carry during the march. For a couple of months, the group met once a week, working on their 30x30cm panel, using a decorative technique of their choice.
With so many people quilting, crocheting, knitting and sewing radically, why is it that fiber arts are still often tied to traditional gender roles? In the publication Radical Quilting, the authors show how to do fiber arts outside of heteronormativity and at different intersections. The quilting is radical: the 2024 Dyke March banner is a token of their dedication to the community and mutual aid in spite of gentrification, and above all, an example of their subversion of gendered expectations in fiber arts.
Sign up here. Feel free to bring your fiber work in progress along!
In the same space where the event takes place, Framer Framed is currently hosting the Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past project. Before the event, and every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, participants are welcome to join the creation of a tapestry bringing together stories, perspectives and histories. Sign up here to work on this project.
Info & CreditsThis event is in English. Admission is free, pay what you can. Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend!
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
LocationFramer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdamhttps://offbeat.amsterdam/event/book-launch-and-workshop-radical-quilting-by-dyke-march-amsterdam
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/93812/ Les Jumelles opens a pop-up store in Amsterdam #Amsterdam #Netherlands
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/93774/ Eredivisie in Review: PSV’s winning formula, what went wrong for Ajax #Amsterdam #Netherlands
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Amsterdam fights overtourism: Go see rest of the Netherlands
Famous for its tolerance as much as its narrow houses and broad canals, Amsterdam is undergoing a radical…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #Amsterdam #amsterdamtravelguide #continentsandregions #europe #Tourism #Travelandtourism #WesternEurope
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Artist to Artist: Ali Chahrour
Felix Meritis, Saturday, June 13 at 03:30 PM GMT+2
Diana Al-Halabi & ghenwa abou fayad
How do you continue working when the reality of war finds itself next to your rehearsal space? What is it like to create art amidst destructive forces? And how does the current situation in Lebanon influence the work of Lebanese artists in The Netherlands? During this Artist to Artist, a collaboration between Felix Meritis and Holland Festival, three Lebanese artists discuss these questions and the importance of sharing stories that often remain in the background.
Lebanese artist Ali Chahrour is part of Holland Festival with his multidisciplinary dance performance When I Saw the Sea. In his work, he connects personal and collective stories with themes such as love and war. During this Artist to Artist he will be joined in conversation by cross-disciplinary artists Diana Al-Halabi and ghenwa abou fayad.
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Ali Chahrour
Dancer and choreographer Ali Chahrour (Beirut, 1989) has developed a unique movement language that breaks away from Western codes and models. This language reflects his cultural background and the political, social, and religious context in which he works. In an earlier series of performances, part of his “Death” trilogy, he brought funeral rituals to life, combining tradition with a sharp sense of modernity. He later began a new series centered on the theme of “love,” including Told by My Mother, which was presented at Holland Festival in 2025.
Chahrour’s work is characterized by a combination of lyrical poetry and intensely intertwined bodies. His performances have been presented at the Festival d’Avignon (2016, 2018, and 2022) as well as at numerous other festivals worldwide.
Lees meerDiana Al-Halabi
Born in Lebanon in 1990, Diana Al-Halabi is a Rotterdam–Beirut–based interdisciplinary artist working primarily with film and painting. Through an intersectional feminist lens, her practice navigates the entanglement of the personal and the political, challenging top-down structures of power — from the patriarchal gaze and institutional violence to bureaucracy, settler colonialism, migration, and visa regimes. Her recent research, “Famine and Hunger Strikes: Decolonizing the Digestive System,” explores the politicization of the digestive system as a form of bottom-up resistance.
Al-Halabi’s work spans film and painting, with her 2022 film, “The Disaster Cannot Be Contained,” screening at international festivals, including IFFR, and winning Best Short Film in the national competition at the Beirut Shorts International Film Festival. In 2023, she received the IFFR RTM PITCH Award for her short film “The Battle of Empty Stomachs,” which premiered at IFFR 2024, Raindance Film Festival (UK), and Blackstar Film Festival (USA).
Lees meerghenwa (noiré) abou fayad
ghenwa (noiré) abou fayad is a Lebanese cross-disciplinary artist, performer, and installation practitioner. Their work explores the politics of language, oral history, and repetition through sound, storytelling, and improvisation. Using an electro-acoustic setup, ghenwa plays the bouzouqi, sings, and plays the synths to weave together socio-political narratives, memory, and everyday survival, often treating performance as a living archive shaped by embodied experience.
Their practice extends into collaborative and pedagogical formats, including projects such as Hacked Orchestra which she initiated then collaborated on with Hackers & Designers (2024) – which , a collaboration with Hackers and Designers culminating in a sonic presentation at the Muziekgebouw, they facilitated the Insurgent Learning Workshop (2024), and later co-lead Voice as Legacy: Tracing the Unwritten (Sonic Acts x SALWA Foundation, 2025).
Their ongoing sound research uses a dactylo (Arabic typewriter) as an instrument, investigating the gendered history of typing as feminized labor and its sonic potential. At the moment, ghenwa is working on producing their first debut EP entitled ‘daken – sombre’.
Lees meerhttps://offbeat.amsterdam/event/artist-to-artist-ali-chahrour
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Ares
Tolhuistuin, Wednesday, November 18 at 08:30 PM GMT+1
Na twee jaar stilte keert rapper Ares terug naar het podium met de ‘Andere Man’ tour: een volledig vernieuwde liveshow waarin hij het album tot leven brengt met een liveband en nieuwe arrangementen. Voorafgaand aan de show wordt de twintig minuten durende albumfilm ‘Noorderzon’ vertoond, waarmee het publiek direct wordt meegenomen in de wereld van het project.
‘Andere Man’ markeert een nieuwe levensfase voor Ares (Rens Ottema, 1995). Hij ging voor het eerst in therapie, stopte met blowen en begon zijn gedachten en worstelingen openlijk te verwerken in zijn muziek. Op het album zoekt hij naar balans, stelt hij grote levensvragen en laat hij een eerlijkere en kwetsbaardere kant van zichzelf horen.
Gemaakt in de rust van de Schotse hooglanden klinkt ‘Andere Man’ warmer, persoonlijker en gelaagder dan Ares zijn eerdere werk. Die ontwikkeling vertaalt zich live naar een show waarin muziek, film en storytelling samenkomen.
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EasyJet Introduces ‘TaxiBot’ #Technology at #Amsterdam -
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#16hp live in #concert at #paradiso #Amsterdam
Happy Birthday Tomba!
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#16hp live in #concert at #paradiso #Amsterdam
Happy Birthday Tomba!
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#16hp live in #concert at #paradiso #Amsterdam
Happy Birthday Tomba!
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Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
jazztalenten van muziekschool Amsterdam
Zaal 100, Sunday, May 31 at 03:00 PM GMT+2
'Sneak Preview'jazztalenten van muziekschool Amsterdam
Sneak Preview' van Jazz talenten van Muziekschool Amsterdam. Deze middag treden er meerdere jazz combo's, gevuld met jong Amsterdams talent, op van de Muziekschool Amsterdam. Ze hebben een half jaar lang geoefend en repertoire opgebouwd en laten dat deze middag horen, met na afloop een jam sessie voor jonge jazz muzikanten.https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/jazztalenten-van-muziekschool-amsterdam
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Duo Cobogó music from Brazil India Eastern Mediterranean
Teatro Munganga, Sunday, June 21 at 11:00 AM GMT+2
Duo Cobogó’s music flows between different styles and traditions, creating something truly magical. The Brazilian Juliano Abramovay plays guitar, lute and is a composer who has explored music from faraway places, like the Eastern Mediterranean. The Indian Tarang plays the tabla, an Indian drum, and has learned music from an amazing teacher in the traditional way. Duo Cobogó mixes rhythms and melodies from India, Brazil, Jazz, and the Mediterranean to create music that feels like a big adventure. Their songs can make you feel peaceful, like a calm lake, or excited, like a thrilling roller coaster!https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/duo-cobogo-music-from-brazil-india-eastern-mediterranean
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Contemporary instrumental music from Brazil by Santos Latif González Trio
Teatro Munganga, Saturday, July 4 at 07:00 PM GMT+2
Santos Latif González Trio is a group dedicated to contemporary instrumental music from Brazil, departing from the traditions of choro, samba and música instrumental brasileira, also known as Brazilian Jazz.
Our members are Tiago Santos (10-string mandolin), Nelson Latif (7-string guitar) and Mariano González (percussion).
In the group that carries our names, we showcase our original compositions and exploring new possibilities of the instruments we play, which are highly attached to the Brazilian, African and Latin American traditions, but also in constant transformation. Tiago Santos Mandolinist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and musicologist from Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. PhD candidate and member of the UNESCO Chair on Transcultural Music Studies at "Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT" in Weimar, Germany. Tiago has been performing concerts and giving courses and workshops worldwide with performances, compositions, studies, and research for mandolin that mix different backgrounds and elements of Brazilian, Latin American, and other classical musical genres. He has recorded five albums: "Ludicamente" (2023), "Afinidades" (2022), "O Bandolim Polifônico de 10 cordas" (2019), "Nosso Tempo" (2017), and "Chorobossambando" (2013). Cavaquinho and acoustic guitar player Nelson Latif formed his musical identity in the legendary jazz scene of 1980's São Paulo. With roots in choro and jazz, Latif merges Brazilian styles and a classical guitar technique with diverse musical influences. In his melodic phrasing one hears bebop and Brazilian syncopations. As cultural promoter, Nelson Latif has been coordinating educational projects for universities and cultural institutions around the world. Mariano González is a multi-instrumentalist and musicologist from São Paulo, Brazil. His percussion style is all about the expressive potential of single instruments, and seeking the mind-body-instrument connection on any musical style. As a researcher, he is dedicated to percussive music from African and the Latin American diaspora, and has recently defended a PhD dissertation in musicology and linguistics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, focusing on the drum languages of the Yoruba in Nigeria. As a lecturer, Mariano has worked at the UNESCO Chair on Transcultural Music Studies at the FRANZ-LISZT University of Music in Weimar (Germany), the Utrecht Conservatory HKU (Netherlands) and the TU Delft (Netherlands). -
Carl Mayotte Quintet jazz concert
Teatro Munganga, Sunday, May 31 at 04:00 PM GMT+2
Carl Mayotte is an award-winning Canadian bassist, composer, and bandleader recognized for his virtuosity, rhythmic precision, and genre-crossing musical voice.
Blending jazz, fusion, rock, and Latin influences, he has quickly established himself as one of the most compelling artists of his generation on the Canadian jazz scene. A Félix Award winner for Jazz Album of the Year and Radio-Canada Jazz Revelation, Carl has released several critically acclaimed albums and performed extensively across Canada and abroad.
His projects are known for their rich compositions, dynamic grooves, and strong sense of storytelling, bringing together musicians from diverse musical backgrounds. Carl is currently working on his upcoming album, Claude, a deeply personal and introspective project that marks a new chapter in his artistic journey, further refining his compositional voice while remaining rooted in the energy and openness that define his music. Carl Mayotte-Bass
Gabriel Cyr- Guitar
Damien-Jade Cyr- Saxophones
Francis Grégoire-Keys
Stéphane Chamberland-Drumshttps://offbeat.amsterdam/event/carl-mayotte-quintet-jazz-concert
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Anna Setton featuring Lucas Santana
Teatro Munganga, Thursday, May 28 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Anna Setton and Lucas Santana join forces for an special journey through Brazilian Music. The great Brazilian Jazz composer, guitarist and vocalist is a special figure: she shaped her voice and musicality navigating through São Paulo jazz night, dived into the lakes of jazz, bossa nova Brazilian popular music and from there emerged with a fresh, melodic and original music.In this concert, Anna presents her own compositions and arrangements, showcasing her powerful yet intimate voice while performing alongside composer and arranger Edu Sangirardi, with special guest Lucas Santana on saxophone.
Anna Setton
Edu Sangirardi
Lucas Santanahttps://offbeat.amsterdam/event/anna-setton-featuring-lucas-santana
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Afro-Brazilian Jazz & Heritage by Dandara Modesto & Edwin Correia
Teatro Munganga, Saturday, June 27 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Singer Dandara Modesto and guitarist Edwin Correia met at a late-night jam session in Salvador de Bahia for the first time.
Their instantaneous musical connection marked the beginning of a collaboration that transcends geographical and artistic boundaries. Now based in Switzerland, the duo explores a musical universe that blends the richness of their Afro-Brazilian heritage with the creative freedom of jazz.
Buoyed by poetic lyrics and delicate melodies, they combine traditional rhythms, modern harmonies and electronic effects to create musical landscapes that are both dreamlike and deeply rooted in ancestral traditions. A musical journey that blends exoticism, memory and innovation. -
FILMS WITH A VIEW | WISDOM OF HAPPINESS (2024)
Pllek, Tuesday, June 16 at 10:35 PM GMT+2
Films With A View at Pllek
Watching a film with an open sky at the NDSM-wharf, in Amsterdam Noord.
Cinema & Skyline: the ultimate movie experience in Amsterdam Noord
Experience the magic of Outdoor Cinema at Pllek, with the best view of the skyline of Amsterdam. Every Tuesday evening – until the end of September – we show the most impressive, moving and controversial movies on our city beach on the NDSM Wharf. On a beach chair with a drink in your hand you’ll be sucked into the big screen.
Pick-up headphones: 21:35
Start movie: 22:35
Wisdom of Happiness (2024) at Pllek (Amsterdam Noord, NDSM Wharf)
The world, today. After more than ninety years at the centre of global affairs, the Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) speaks directly to the viewer, as if you are having a personal conversation with the world’s most renowned ambassador of compassion. Drawing on never-before-seen archival footage, he looks back on his childhood in Tibet, his flight from the Chinese occupation and a life in exile, but above all, he shares his timeless wisdom on inner peace, mindfulness and building a happier world. In what may well be his final film appearance, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate shows that the capacity for happiness lies not outside us, but within. This remarkable documentary was produced under the guidance of Richard Gere and Oren Moverman.
Genre: Documentary
Wisdom of Happiness (2024) at Pllek (Amsterdam Noord, NDSM Wharf)
The world, today. After more than ninety years at the centre of global affairs, the Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) speaks directly to the viewer, as if you are having a personal conversation with the world’s most renowned ambassador of compassion. Drawing on never-before-seen archival footage, he looks back on his childhood in Tibet, his flight from the Chinese occupation and a life in exile, but above all, he shares his timeless wisdom on inner peace, mindfulness and building a happier world. In what may well be his final film appearance, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate shows that the capacity for happiness lies not outside us, but within. This remarkable documentary was produced under the guidance of Richard Gere and Oren Moverman.
Genre: Documentary
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/films-with-a-view-or-wisdom-of-happiness-2024
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Building a house without bricks - What’s Next? How Is the Horizon Distributed?
OT301, Saturday, June 13 at 12:00 PM GMT+2
Genre: Workshop
Open: 12:00 - 16:00 hrs
Tickets: € 0This workshop explores how access to time and futurity is unevenly distributed. While some people can plan ahead, commit long-term, or imagine future possibilities, others navigate precarity and constantly changing conditions. Through collective reflection, fictional scenarios, and the use of film as a time-based medium, participants will examine how living within different timelines shapes collaboration and responsibility, and how economic, social, and personal conditions affect perceptions of time, continuity, long-term vision, and the ways people organise and work within solidarity-based structures.
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Building a house without bricks - Film Pot
OT301, Friday, June 12 at 02:00 PM GMT+2
Genre: Screenings
Open: 14:00 - 19:00 hrs
Tickets: € 0Film Pot is a shared digital space where filmmakers contribute works into a common pool: a living archive built on trust, circulation, and collective use. It grows from the experience of translocal communities, the understanding that moving images can carry contexts across borders, and the belief that learning from each other's ways of seeing the world is in itself a form of being together.
This screening brings together a selection of films from this shared space: works made in the different localities where our ecosystems are grounded: Mexico, Palestine, Jakarta, Makassar, Jayapura, South Africa, Iran, Belgium, and The Netherlands. The contributions are presented as a looping, ongoing programme, and through a conversation with some of the filmmakers present. The films do not share a single theme, rather a shared condition: they travel and make place for encounters where physical presence was not possible.https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/building-a-house-without-bricks-film-pot
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Building a house without bricks - Print & Sewing Open Space
OT301, Friday, June 12 at 02:00 PM GMT+2
Genre: Workspace
Open: 14:00 - 19:00 hrs
Tickets: € 0The Print & Sewing Open Space is an ongoing, travelling project consisting of a modular and mobile accumulation of collectively owned — and borrowed — print, publishing, textile, and making resources, including a risograph machine, library shelves, book-making materials, sewing tools, and a DIY screenprinting table, among others.
Activated across Café Gilde and Ventilator Bar, the Print & Sewing Open Space functions as an open workspace, library, and kiosk where guests, collaborators, and friends — current and soon-to-be — can come together to print, sew, bind, mend, repair, publish, and experiment collectively. We are interested in sharing and exchanging DIY techniques of printing, binding, sewing, and publishing, making these tools and practices accessible to wider communities.
Rooted in the interrelation between self-publishing and textile practices as political tools to disseminate our own knowledges, the space will host workshops that merge both disciplines — from bookbinding with textiles and collective publishing to garment repair, sewing for collectives, and other hands-on experiments.
The Open Space also includes a library of publications contributed by members of damdam and its broader ecosystem. Workshops and activities will be announced via damdam’s Instagram.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/building-a-house-without-bricks-print-and-sewing-open-space
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Building a house without bricks - Print & Sewing Open Space
OT301, Friday, June 12 at 02:00 PM GMT+2
Genre: Workspace
Open: 14:00 - 19:00 hrs
Tickets: € 0The Print & Sewing Open Space is an ongoing, travelling project consisting of a modular and mobile accumulation of collectively owned — and borrowed — print, publishing, textile, and making resources, including a risograph machine, library shelves, book-making materials, sewing tools, and a DIY screenprinting table, among others.
Activated across Café Gilde and Ventilator Bar, the Print & Sewing Open Space functions as an open workspace, library, and kiosk where guests, collaborators, and friends — current and soon-to-be — can come together to print, sew, bind, mend, repair, publish, and experiment collectively. We are interested in sharing and exchanging DIY techniques of printing, binding, sewing, and publishing, making these tools and practices accessible to wider communities.
Rooted in the interrelation between self-publishing and textile practices as political tools to disseminate our own knowledges, the space will host workshops that merge both disciplines — from bookbinding with textiles and collective publishing to garment repair, sewing for collectives, and other hands-on experiments.
The Open Space also includes a library of publications contributed by members of damdam and its broader ecosystem. Workshops and activities will be announced via damdam’s Instagram.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/building-a-house-without-bricks-print-and-sewing-open-space
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Off the Page
Mezrab, Tuesday, November 10 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Have you ever been to a public reading by a renowned author, and watched them hide behind their own words, avoiding the eyes of their fans? Then they sign their books, often without even glancing inside. For all they know, they could be autographing copies of ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’. We storytellers are different. We immerse ourselves in our audience, aiming our stories to each and every one of them. We don’t just share stories; we embody them, using our very presence as a signature. Yet, while our craft is every bit as vital as novelists and poets, they’re the ones basking in accolades, media spotlights, honorary degrees, and HBO deals.
To level the playing field, storytellers have united to shake up literature. Imagine Proust’s magnum opus summarized in mere minutes, Don Quixote sent on a wild adventure aboard the Pequod, or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with a happy ending.
Those ‘writer-writers’ might fight back, but our voices will be louder than their cease-and-desist letters. Join our rebellion!
Doors open at 19.00, event starts at 20.00.
Dad is making soup.
Entrance: Donations.
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Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
Straight To Video presents Nightmare At Noon (1988)
LAB111, Friday, June 19 at 09:00 PM GMT+2
STRAIGHT TO VIDEO PRESENTS NIGHTMARE AT NOON (1988)
Curators Lieuwe and Levente bring you the ultimate cult night every month with Straight to Video presents... Prepare for a wild cult film from the VHS era, filled with mind-boggling moments, rubbery rarities, and deranged dialogue.This June: what happens when a government experiment poisons the water supply of a sleepy desert town? In Nightmare at Noon, the locals turn into green-bleeding homicidal maniacs, leaving sheriff George Kennedy, fired cop Bo Hopkins, and an utterly unhinged Wings Hauser to fight back against the madness. Directed by Greek exploitation legend Nico Mastorakis, this gloriously chaotic B-movie throws zombies, conspiracies, flamethrowers, motorcycle stunts, and endless exploding cars into one delirious package.
Part sci-fi paranoia thriller, part action movie, part zombie mayhem, Nightmare at Noon constantly escalates into increasingly absurd territory, including an overly long helicopter battle. Featuring manic villainy from Brion James and enough pyrotechnics for three movies, this cult oddity is exactly the kind of loud, messy, wildly entertaining VHS-era insanity that Straight to Video was made for.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/straight-to-video-presents-nightmare-at-noon-1988
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Orb Weaver
Grond, Friday, June 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Liminal/subliminal spiritual/ritual ambient punk jazz. Unit includes David Mitchell guitar, Robbert van Hulzen drums, Lorenzo Servali on bass. Location is not as far from the centre as you think, and is really nice with a good acoustic, decent sound system and friendly people. 19 June 8pm, price: stern look of judgment – admiring gaze.
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TEMPERATURA
Grond, Thursday, June 11 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
20:30 (doors: 20:00) Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5/€7,5*
Thursday 11 June, TEMPERATURA presents Futuro Ancestrale, the electro-acoustic project led by Giuseppe Doronzo. On stage with him, Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides, and Frank Rosaly.
Futuro Ancestrale, returns with Elsewhen, a bold new chapter blending ancestral music cultures with the electronic music realm. Fusing microtonal textures, meditative drones, post-rock energy, and fearless improvisation, the project crafts a hypnotic sonic ritual inspired by traditions from Ethiopia, Lesotho, and Persia. Following their critically acclaimed 2024 debut—praised by JazzWise, All About Jazz, and the Europe Jazz Media Chart—Elsewhen expands the group’s visionary language into new territories of trance, folklore, and experimental sound. The album will be out on June 19 on a joint release via Unsounds and Tora Records.
foto: Eric van Nieuwland_____________ TEMPERATURA is a contemporary music concert series, improvisation hub, and everything in between, initiated by composers/performers J. Veličković and F. Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions.
* If you wish to attend but can’t afford our entry fee, please send us an email to temperatura.amsterdam (at) gmail (dot) com and we ‘ll make sure you can join us.
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🎬 Cavia in Concert: The General (1926) with live score by the Joost Buis Trio 🎶 at Nassaukerk
Filmhuis Cavia, Friday, June 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
After becoming an instant classic with its first two sold out editions, Cavia in Concert, our series of film and music performances organized in the amazing hall of the Nassaukerk in collaboration with Podium Nassau, comes back once again before the summer break.
In this edition, taking place during the celebrations for the Nassaukerk’s 100th anniversary, we bring you another legendary film from 1926: The General, by Buster Keaton!
After initially becoming a bust and a big setback in Keaton’s career, The General has been reevaluated and is now considered one of the most significant films of the silent era.
Famously described by Orson Welles as "the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”, The General tells the story of the Great Locomotive Chase, an episode out of the American Civil War. This contributed to its controversial status, representing an example of American cinema’s fascination with the American Confederacy. Still, the film is universally celebrated as one of the greatest examples of comedy in the history of film.
The film was chosen by Joost Buis, improvisational trombonist and lap guitarist, who has been at the forefront of Amsterdam’s jazz scene since the 1980s, and who now is among the leading musicians of the Zaal 100’s legendary Jazz Café. And Zaal 100 is exactly where the ensemble who will be performing the film formed.
Headed by Joost Buis, legendary trombonist and bandleader who has made his mark in the Amsterdam improvisation scene for the past 40 years, the group is also composed by Kristján Martinsson, who will be at the piano, and Yung-Tuan Ku, at the percussions. Bringing together the mix of structure and improvisation typical of the Amsterdam improvisation and jazz music scene, they are bound to give us the right mood to celebrate the 100 years of Nassaukerk and the whole creative community of the Staatsliedenbuurt.
All and all, come to church with us and make sure not to miss this event for the ages!
Tickets: €8 (or Cineville)
Available for pre-sale HERE.
The event will NOT take place in Filmhuis Cavia, but in the Nassaukerk: De Wittenkade 111.
Doors & bar open at 19:15, film starts at 20:00.
