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Didier Eribon on Class and Inequality

De Balie, Tuesday, September 29 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

How does social inequality shape the experience of growing older? This evening Philosopher Didier Eribon, one of the most influential French thinkers of his generation, will speak about the intersections of class, ageing, and inequality.

Eribon argues that we think far too little about old age: “It only concerns the people who are directly affected, and their children. Very old people form a political category that is not recognised as such. This is an economic, social, political, and moral problem.” (Didier Eribon in NRC, 2024)

Eribon’s work Returning to Reims (2018) became an international reference point for understanding class, social mobility, and inequality. In his latest book, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman (2024), Eribon turns his attention to the final stage of life. Reflecting on the decline and death of his mother, he explores how ageing, dependency, and care are deeply shaped by social inequalities.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/didier-eribon-on-class-and-inequality

CinéDialoog: Tomato, Pepper, Depression

De Balie, Wednesday, September 9 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

Aybüke Avcı comes from the Turkish village of Çetirevli, near Adana. The tomatoes, peppers, and other crops grown there survive on medication, much like the diagnosed depression patients who make up half of the village’s population.

As the production of pepper paste—the village’s source of livelihood—goes through various stages of harvesting, sorting, and grinding, the burden of physically heavy work on people’s mental worlds gradually increases.

During a summer coinciding with the pepper harvest, Aybüke retraces the memories of her childhood and makes a confronting but gentle portrait of her uncles Mehmet and Yakup, both grappling with depression.

After the screening Aybüke will join us for a conversation on this intimate documentary.

About the speaker

Aybüke Avcı is a filmmaker from Turkey. She has worked in film programming and project development at cultural institutions including İBB Kültür AŞ and Akbank Sanat.

Her first feature-length documentary, Tomato, Pepper, Depression (2024), premiered in the National Documentary Competition of the 43rd Istanbul Film Festival, where it received a Special Mention Award. The film was subsequently screened at numerous festivals and received awards including the Johan van der Keuken New Talent Award at the 18th Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days and the Best Film Released on Digital Platforms Award at the 58th SİYAD Turkish Cinema Awards.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cinedialoog-tomato-pepper-depression

[untitled games event] #8: "undisciplined feeling"

UGE Studio, Sunday, August 23 at 04:30 PM GMT+2

Future? No Thanks! + VisunovOS + coalescent || tidal rapture + Brand Nacht + Internet Teapot + Unruly, Undead, Un Un

Back after a short summer break!🌞

Join us on Sunday 23 August 2026 for an evening of games and talks about big feelings, wrong feelings, unruly emotions, improvised agency, and screaming (joyously) over the cliff-edge of our world.

The six works in [untitled games event] edition #8 are emotionally ungovernable and beautifully messy, showing us that, sometimes, “unsanctioned” feelings could help us get unstuck.

Future? No Thanks! is set in a eco-socialist utopia that works for everyone except YOU. VisunovOS breaks the grey monotony of our digital tools, offering instead a giddy, reckless playground to make games in. The duo Internet Teapot show us how they bent the arc of a game jam towards climate justice.

Brand Nacht follows a bored man in a dangerous job, waiting for something -anything- to happen. Unruly, Undead, Un Un: a place safe from all this chaos is a haunting machinima film about seeking sanctuary from the militarized narratives of survival videogames. And coalescent || tidal rapture explores intimacy in all its sensuous, mysterious, and primal fullness.

We can’t wait to see you all and experience these works together.

A selection of edition #8 works (from left): Unruly, Undead Un Un, coalescent || tidal rapture, VisunovOS, Future? No Thanks! and Brand Nacht

[untitled games event] #8: “undisciplined feeling”
Sunday 23 August 2026

1630-1900

Tussen de Bogen 46
Amsterdam 1013JB

Games and conversations from 1630 onwards.
Talks at 1730.

Please feel free to bring beverages and snacks to share.
You’re also welcome to bring along your own games or prototype for others to play!

Featured works in edition #8

Future? No Thanks! by Molleindustria

Utopia is here. You're not impressed.
Future? No Thanks! is a narrative-driven, open-world adventure set in an ecosocialist utopia. The year is 2045, and society has never been better: climate change is finally being tackled, democracy thrives, and technology serves the public good. There's just one problem: you.

🗣️ Creator Paolo Pedercini will be present for a micro-talk

coalescent || tidal rapture, by Hanwen Xu & Hatim Benhsain

A hypnagogic 3D swimming/entanglement adventure game about harmonizing and want. Dive into a world of mer-people who are transforming and discovering casual relationships through the eyes of a floater who's just been dumped and refuses to evolve.

VisunovOS, by Alexandria “Lexie” van Eekelen

A playful and weird web-based tool to create art with! VisunovOS features a variety of toy-tools that re-contextualize recognizable web features, remixing their use-cases in ways that may not be intended or approved.
Play around with a key smash 4-bar beat composer, a dress-up puppet maker, a kinetic novel slideshow constructor, a styled and moving word processor, a cookbook featuring recipes and guides, div-based and CSS-styled fractal makers, a div-based drawing tool, and other desktop-breaking effect toys.

🗣️ Creator Lexie will be present for a micro-talk

Unruly, Undead, Un Un: a place safe from all of this chaos by Riccardo Santalucia

A machinima short film that turns survival and apocalyptic gameplay into a poetic intervention. Against militarized narratives, creator Riccardo Santalucia probes emotion, social behaviour, and the friction between roles, systems, and rules.

❗The film will be screened on loop at the event, and will be available to watch online until the 30th of August. Watch at your own pace and bring your impressions to the room!

🗣️ Director Riccardo Santalucia will be present for a micro-talk

Brand Nacht, by Evita Julia

Play as a bored and increasingly frustrated firefighter left behind by his crew in this short experience inspired by the creator’s time interning at a fire station. Explore the detailed rooms of an empty Dutch fire station and experience the restless hours in between call outs.

🗣️ Creator Evita Julia will be present for a micro-talk

TALK: Internet Teapot on modding game jams.

While game jams are best known for their short-sprint, competitive format, often gatekept by expectations of a game design or development background, the Mzansi Climate Justice! Game Jam deliberately “modded” the conventional game jam structure. In this short talk, the duo Internet Teapot give a behind-the-scenes look at this project and how they sought to subvert and reimagine the game jam as a platform for collective exploration of social issues and activism.

Tell all your friends, bring all your friends.
As ever, we would love to hear your thoughts.

Until the 23rd,

[uge]

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/untitled-games-event-8-undisciplined-feeling

Filmvertoning: Soldier’s Bones

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Thursday, September 10 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

★★★★ Soldier’s Bones doordringt je ervan hoe makkelijk oorlogsmoeheid toeslaat, terwijl de verschrikkingen doorgaan – De Volkskrant.

In 1971 ontdekt de jonge Newsweek-verslaggever Alec Shimkin een geheime Amerikaanse militaire operatie in de Mekongdelta: Operation Speedy Express, waarbij op grote schaal oorlogsmisdaden worden gepleegd. Na het bloedbad van My Lai in 1968 is hij ervan overtuigd dat ook deze “Super My Lai” aan het licht moet komen. Maandenlang hield Newsweek zijn onderzoek tegen—onder druk van de overheid en door zelfcensuur binnen de redactie. Wat een onthullende coverstory had moeten zijn, verschijnt uiteindelijk als een klein, afgezwakt artikel zonder zichtbare impact. De Vietnamese ooggetuigenverklaringen die Alec zorgvuldig had verzameld, verdwijnen uit beeld.
Kort daarna raakt Alec vermist in Vietnam. Soldier’s Bones reconstrueert zijn poging om Operation Speedy Express te onthullen—het verhaal dat hij zelf niet kon afmaken. Wat verdween er met hem? En wat zegt zijn stilte over hoe verhalen worden gevormd, gefilterd of onderdrukt, en wie bepaalt wat zichtbaar wordt en wat niet?

Over de film

In 1971 ontdekt de jonge Newsweek-verslaggever Alec Shimkin een geheime Amerikaanse militaire operatie in de Mekongdelta: Operation Speedy Express, waarbij op grote schaal oorlogsmisdaden worden gepleegd. Na het bloedbad van My Lai in 1968 is hij ervan overtuigd dat ook deze “Super My Lai” aan het licht moet komen. Maandenlang hield Newsweek zijn onderzoek tegen—onder druk van de overheid en door zelfcensuur binnen de redactie. Wat een onthullende coverstory had moeten zijn, verschijnt uiteindelijk als een klein, afgezwakt artikel zonder zichtbare impact. De Vietnamese ooggetuigenverklaringen die Alec zorgvuldig had verzameld, verdwijnen uit beeld.
Kort daarna raakt Alec vermist in Vietnam. Soldier’s Bones reconstrueert zijn poging om Operation Speedy Express te onthullen—het verhaal dat hij zelf niet kon afmaken. Wat verdween er met hem? En wat zegt zijn stilte over hoe verhalen worden gevormd, gefilterd of onderdrukt, en wie bepaalt wat zichtbaar wordt en wat niet?

Meer over de sprekers

Kasper Verkaik is een Nederlandse documentairemaker en regisseur. Hij studeerde aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en de Nederlandse Filmacademie. Zijn werk richt zich op maatschappelijke en menselijke verhalen, met een mix van journalistieke verdieping en persoonlijke observatie. Hij maakte onder meer documentaires als Dear Oprah, Daddy Doll en Plaza Man, die werden vertoond op nationale en internationale podia.

Dr. Dat M. Nguyen is onderzoeker en gespecialiseerd in de geschiedenis en gevolgen van oorlog in Zuidoost-Azië, met een bijzondere focus op Vietnam. Zijn werk richt zich op thema’s als oorlogstrauma, religie, herinnering en de sociale en ecologische gevolgen van oorlogsvoering.

Lees meer De massamoord in Vietnam die in een voetnoot verdween

Trouw

Movies That Matter Dutch Focus: Soldier’s Bones by Kasper Verkaik

Business Doc Europe

De massamoord die in een voetnoot verdween

De Filmkrant

Kijktip: Soldier's Bones

BNNVARA

Recensie: Soldier’s Bones is een filmmonument voor een oorlogsjournalist en diens in de kiem gesmoorde onthulling

Het Parool

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/soldiers-bones-wie-beslist-welke-verhalen-overleven

Changá screening + Domino avond

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Wednesday, September 30 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

Exploring Dutch-Caribbean identity through 'Changá' and an evening of Dominoes.

Join us for a screening of Changá which follows Dutch-Caribbean artists in the Netherlands, as they apply the philosophy of domino to the game of life. Changá is a documentary that explores the complex yet vibrant sense of belonging experienced by Antillean and Dutch-Caribbean creatives living in the Netherlands. Through the lens of domino, a beloved pastime across the Caribbean, the film follows anthropologist Francio Guadeloupe and filmmaker Manpreet Brar as they sit down with a new generation of artists navigating life between two worlds.

Following the screening, we invite you to stay for a lively domino evening; a chance to experience the philosophy of the film firsthand. Whether you’re a seasoned player or have never touched a domino tile before, everyone is welcome at the table.

More about Changá...

In Papiamentu, Changá is the term used when a player wins at both ends of the domino chain, scoring double points. For the opponent, however, it means being blocked from the game entirely. The film uses this metaphor to ask: How do you move within the realm of what is possible? What initiatives do you take, and where do they lead you?

Through intimate conversations with musicians, poets, and creators, the film asks: how do you build a home far from home, and what does it take to play your hand with grace? Through their stories, the film reveals how these creatives apply the philosophy of domino to their daily lives, by responding to the hand they are dealt, finding opportunities in obstacles, and redefining what it means to call the Netherlands home. As one participant puts it: “Everybody comes to the game of life, gets a hand and has to play it.”

In this event Francio Guadeloupe Professor of Anthropology at UvA and Senior Researcher at KITLV-KNAW Manpreet Brar Visual Antropologist AMY MIYÚ Singer/Recording Artist Juny Martina Hip-Hop Artist Eva Croes Performing Artist, Choreographer, Actor, and Dance Educator Failo Rapper/Freestyle artist

More about the invited players...

Prof. dr. Francio Guadeloupe is a social anthropologist and public intellectual examining colonial legacies, cultural diversity, and national identity across the Dutch Kingdom. He holds a dual role as Professor of Public Anthropology of Kingdom Relations at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Senior Research Fellow at the KITLV. A former President of the University of St. Martin, his fieldwork spans the Dutch Caribbean, the Netherlands, and Brazil. He argues that the Caribbean and European parts of the Kingdom are deeply interwoven in daily life, not separate worlds. His key books include Chanting Down the New Jerusalem (2009) and Black Man in the Netherlands (2022).

AMY MIYÚ is an entertainer with Curaçaoan roots whose music, energy, and creative presence are deeply rooted in her Caribbean identity. After first gaining attention with a locally celebrated debut track, she went on to build a solo career that led to collaborations with artists and producers including Yung Felix, Rochelle, Lady Bee, and Laidback Luke. Blending moombahton, dancehall, house, and rap, Amy moves effortlessly between Papiamentu, Dutch, and English, creating genre-fluid music driven by rhythm, attitude, and movement. Known for her vibrant personality both on stage and online, she continues to expand her artistic world through music, live performance, and now film, bringing the sound and spirit of the islands to new audiences.

Juny Martina is an hip-hop artist from Curaçao who uses his music as a protest against social injustice. His latest album ‘Negropont’ explores the complex identity of the ‘Yu Di Kòrsou’ and the future of the island, painting a dystopian picture of the relationship between Curaçao and the Netherlands. Blending local genres such as Seú, Tambú and Müzik di Zumbi with hip-hop, Juny creates a post-genre sound that pairs sharp statements on colonialism and capitalism with a hopeful and lively energy. Rapping primarily in Papiamentu, his music results in swinging, steaming dancefloor scenes. Juny Martina, mas ku un rapper!

Eva Croes is an Aruban performing artist, choreographer, actor, and dance educator based in the Netherlands. In 2022, she was awarded Teacher of the Year by the Municipality of Amsterdam in recognition of her contribution to arts education. Her career has taken her to stages in Jordan, Germany, Scotland, the United States, and Cuba, where she performed at the Biennale de La Habana. Alongside her work in dance, Eva is professionally training as an actor, expanding her artistic practice through film and screen performance. She is passionate about telling stories that foster empathy, spark dialogue, and connect people across cultures.

Faisal (Failo) Lobato is a freestyle artist and musician born and raised in Aruba in a Surinamese household. Influenced by Caribbean rhythms and his cultural background, Failo blends these elements with modern hip hop and R&B to create his own distinct sound. Constantly surrounding himself with music and artistry, Failo continues to shape and evolve his creative identity.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/changa-screening-domino-avond

Queer Is Not Dead Festival Opening

Vrankrijk, Friday, August 28 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

In our current political climate we need to focus on what unites us – Queer is not dead Fest aims to strengthen and connect the antifascist and queer communities.

The fest consists of workshops, skill sharing and parties, related to queer and antifascist topics and groups. There will be open slots for spontaneous contributions, discussions and action-planning.

You don’t need to be queer to join the fest, it’s meant to connect different political movements that engage in antifascist actions with the queer community.

The fest is:
Antifascist,
Antiracist,
Anticapitalist,
Vegan,
Pro Palestinian,
Queer or queer allies,
Anti Meta.

More info coming soon!

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/queer-is-not-dead-festival-opening

Queer Is Not Dead Festival Opening

Vrankrijk, Friday, August 28 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

In our current political climate we need to focus on what unites us – Queer is not dead Fest aims to strengthen and connect the antifascist and queer communities.

The fest consists of workshops, skill sharing and parties, related to queer and antifascist topics and groups. There will be open slots for spontaneous contributions, discussions and action-planning.

You don’t need to be queer to join the fest, it’s meant to connect different political movements that engage in antifascist actions with the queer community.

The fest is:
Antifascist,
Antiracist,
Anticapitalist,
Vegan,
Pro Palestinian,
Queer or queer allies,
Anti Meta.

More info coming soon!

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/queer-is-not-dead-festival-opening

Pig Feast: Beyond the Frame

Felix Meritis, Monday, September 14 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

Critical conversations on solidarity with indigenous resistance

Join us for a moderated discussion centered around the documentary film Pesta Babi (The Pig Feast: Colonialism in Our Time), indigenous resistance in West Papua and a critical look on solidarity amidst censorship, eco-genocide, political commodification, and the potential pitfall of new forms of (re)colonisation.

In Pesta Babi, directors Dandhy Dwi Laskono and Cypri Paju Dale document how, under the guise of “food security” and “energy transition”, the Indonesian government is rapidly converting West Papuan forests into large rice fields and industrial plantations for palm oil biodiesel and sugarcane bioethanol. The documentary critically examines the long standing exploitation of West Papua, protected by the military, and the displacement of Indigenous communities from their customary lands, which are essential to their livelihoods, identity and cultural survival. Although public screenings of the documentary have been forcibly disrupted in Indonesia, Pesta Babi has sparked much attention in Indonesia and abroad.

During this programme, we will have direct conversations with the film production team and West Papuan researchers and artivists, with screening of curated clips discussing the film. Together, we will dissect the ecosystem of “solidarity” that surrounds indigenous resistance in West Papua and ask the difficult questions: What does genuine solidarity look like? And how do we ensure our support remains true to the source on the ground, rather than reinventing new forms of (re)colonisation in the name of solidarity, out of good intention?

During this event we will not screen the full film. The full documentary is freely available on YouTube (Official website of Jubi Independent journalism).

Food and snacks by Café Warung Pas. Please note that the ticket price only covers production costs. During the program, QR codes will be available for donations in support of Indigenous communities and their struggle.

This program is a collaboration of Serumpun Kolektif, Watch65, Gerak Solidaritas Belanda (GSB), Lestari Bergerak, and Felix Meritis.

Line-up

Tamara Soukotta (moderator)

Currently a visiting researcher affiliated with the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tamara’s work is very much influenced by her interests in decoloniality and other knowledge, as well as her background as a researcher and practitioner.

For the past 25 years, Tamara has been working with various political actors and institutions on issues such as violent conflicts, peace processes, crisis management, post-conflict/disaster reconstruction, power and inequality, intersectionality, and coloniality of development — both as a researcher-lecturer and as a development practitioner.

Coming from Indonesia and now based in the Netherlands, Tamara connects networks and initiatives in Indonesia with her present work in Europe, highlighting linkages between local and global. Beyond academia, Tamara also engages in collaborative research and popular education, making knowledge accessible to broader audiences through public lectures, workshops, and publications in both scholarly and popular outlets.

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Koes Komo (Artist)
A native Semarang, Koes Komo (b. 1980) now calls Amsterdam home and is an active member of the city’s communities while remaining connected to his Indonesian roots. He was active in the Indonesian Migrant Workers (IMWU) Netherlands, and also a volunteer during IPT (International Peoples’s Tribunal) 1965 in The Haag 2015, for which he did many courtroom sketches.

Komo specializes in rapid illustrations and event reportages. He sustains his artmaking by taking up jobs in the construction sector –laboring experience has deeply influenced his process as he makes use of scraps and recycled materials to create art. This time will showcase his installations from the Lawan exhibition (2025), “You have the guts to play games with me?!”

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Maryanto Beb(Artist)
Maryanto creates powerful monochromatic paintings and monumental installations that dissect socio-political structures through the depiction of landscapes. His works investigates the impact of technological development, industrialisation, pollution, and resource exploitation on the natural world, reflecting the harsh realities in his home country. Through fable-like and theatrical settings, Maryanto’s landscapes present deeply urgent concerns around the encroachment of the environment, both physical and cultural.

Maryanto had solo exhibitions and presentations in Indonesia, Amsterdam, Singapore, Korea, Dubai, London, Hong Kong and Australia. He has participated in various biennales including the 2nd Industrial Biennale, Labin, Croatia (2018); Koganei Art Spot Chateau, Tokyo (2018); Setouchi Triennale, Naoshima, Japan (2016); Jakarta and Jogja Biennales, Indonesia (2015), Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale (2025), etc. Other notable institutional group exhibitions include Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; ArtAffairs, Amsterdam; and Heden, Denhaag (2013), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand (2021); Swiss National Museum Zurich Switzerland (2024), Muan Museum of Art Korea (2025). Fairs he has participated in include: Art Basel Focus, Hong Kong, Art Jakarta, ARTSG, ArtStage, Art Dubai Bawabba Solo presentation, Frieze Korea.

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About the organizers

Watch65

Watch65 is a Netherlands-based voluntary association that is committed to the ongoing fight to uphold justice for the victims of gross violations of human rights in Indonesia. Founded in 2018, Watch65 brings together activists, writers, journalists, researchers and political exiles who participated as volunteers in the landmark International People’s Tribunal on Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia 1965. Held in The Hague in 2015, IPT65 was one of the most significant transitional justice initiatives undertaken by the civil society to address the mass atrocities that were directed at alleged members, supporters and sympathizers of the Partai Komunis Indonesia, as well as organizations affiliated to it. This systematic destruction of the Indonesian Left was the first in a series of brutality that the Indonesian state has regularly exacted on its own citizens.

Serumpun Kolektif

Serumpun Kolektif is a community of like-minded Indonesians in the Netherlands, united by a shared mission to celebrate and share our cultural heritage through art and music. The Netherlands is home to a strong Indonesian community; however, we believe an important voice remains underrepresented—one that offers a more nuanced, inclusive, and contemporary view of Indonesia’s artistic and musical landscape.

Gerakan Solidaritas Belanda (GSB)

Gerak Solidaritas Belanda (GSB) is a solidarity movement that came together following the August 2025 mass protest in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a solidarity movement initiated by Indonesians in the Netherlands, GSB stands in solidarity with (grassroots) struggles and movements resisting injustice and fascist regimes, particularly in Indonesia.

Lestari Bergerak

A group of Indonesians in the Netherlands who are committed to foster and engage with our progressive-left history to fight for today’s people’s liberation back home and elsewhere. We initiate fundraisers, panels, and educational presentations about the condition of the masses, whilst also organising community gatherings, and cultural workshops.

Would you like to attend this program, but don’t have the means to pay for a ticket? Send an email to [email protected], we can work something out.

Note: By booking this ticket, you agree to potentially be photographed during the event.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/pig-feast-beyond-the-frame

Café 't Mandje - 100 Jaar Queer Amsterdam

Paradiso, Sunday, February 28 at 01:00 PM GMT+1

Café 't Mandje celebrates its 100th anniversary

On Sunday 28 February, we’ll be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Café 't Mandje. Founded in 1927, this traditional pub was run by pioneer Bet van Beeren and went on to become a fixture within the queer community, both in Amsterdam and far beyond.

As Amsterdam’s first queer café, ‘t Mandje has symbolised connection and community for a century. With this anniversary, we are celebrating not only the pub’s existence, but also 100 years of queer presence in the city.

An evening for, by and with the queer community. With De Trut in de Kelder and a spectacular programme in the Big Hall – of which the line-up will be announced later – we’ll be celebrating a century of queer history together, as well as the future that lies ahead.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cafe-t-mandje-100-jaar-queer-amsterdam

Café 't Mandje - 100 Jaar Queer Amsterdam

Paradiso, Sunday, February 28 at 01:00 PM GMT+1

Café 't Mandje celebrates its 100th anniversary

On Sunday 28 February, we’ll be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Café 't Mandje. Founded in 1927, this traditional pub was run by pioneer Bet van Beeren and went on to become a fixture within the queer community, both in Amsterdam and far beyond.

As Amsterdam’s first queer café, ‘t Mandje has symbolised connection and community for a century. With this anniversary, we are celebrating not only the pub’s existence, but also 100 years of queer presence in the city.

An evening for, by and with the queer community. With De Trut in de Kelder and a spectacular programme in the Big Hall – of which the line-up will be announced later – we’ll be celebrating a century of queer history together, as well as the future that lies ahead.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cafe-t-mandje-100-jaar-queer-amsterdam

Derk Sauer Lecture by Evan Gershkovich

De Balie, Saturday, October 31 at 08:00 PM GMT+1

The inaugural Derk Sauer Lecture will be delivered by journalist Evan Gershkovich, who spent nearly a year and a half in a Russian prison. The Derk Sauer Lecture is an initiative by Het Parool, The Moscow Times, and De Balie to, in the spirit of the late Derk Sauer, who passed away last year, highlight the importance of press freedom at a time when that freedom is increasingly under threat.

Evan Gershkovich’s name made headlines around the world in 2023 after he was arrested in Russia. The Wall Street Journal correspondent was accused by the Russian authorities of spying for the U.S. government. Following a closed-door show trial, Gershkovich was sentenced to sixteen years in a penal colony. One month later, he was released as part of a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia. In total, he spent nearly a year and a half in captivity.

The first Derk Sauer Lecture, a collaboration between Het Parool, The Moscow Times, and De Balie, will be delivered by Evan Gershkovich. He will offer a unique insight into Putin’s Russia, the methods of the FSB, and the harsh and isolated reality of the Russian prison system.

Evan Gershkovich was a friend of Derk Sauer. He began his journalism career at The Moscow Times, the newspaper founded by Sauer. In his column for Het Parool, Sauer regularly wrote about Gershkovich’s case. In an open letter published in Het Parool in 2023, Sauer wrote: “One of the first things Evan Gershkovich did when he returned to American soil was to draw attention to the prisoners who had been left behind. ‘I will devote all my energy to securing their freedom as well.’ That’s Evan.”

About Evan Gershkovich

Evan Gershkovich (1991) is an American journalist. He has worked for The New York Times and The Moscow Times, among other publications, and currently works for The Wall Street Journal. He was serving as the newspaper’s correspondent in Russia when he was arrested. His book This Cursed Beautiful Country, in which he reflects on this period of his life, will be published in September.

About Derk Sauer

Derk Sauer (1952–2025) was a Dutch journalist and media entrepreneur. In 1989, he moved to Moscow, where he founded the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. For 34 years, Sauer chronicled his life in Russia through his column in Het Parool. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he returned to the Netherlands and relocated The Moscow Times to Amsterdam, from where the newspaper continued its independent reporting on Russia.

Sauer was closely involved with De Balie as a member of its Supervisory Board. He was also one of the initiators of the exhibition Artists Against the Kremlin, hosted at De Balie. Sauer passed away in 2025. The Derk Sauer Lecture is being held for the first time this year to defend global press freedom, a cause that Sauer championed throughout his life, at a time when it is coming under increasing pressure.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/derk-sauer-lecture-by-evan-gershkovich

Filmvertoning: Beat Street

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Friday, August 14 at 04:00 PM GMT+2

Wat gebeurt er 'When Streets Connect? Dat zie je in de legendarische hiphopfilm Beat Street.

CULTLIFECOMM Events presenteert: WHEN STREETS CONNECT en trapt af met een event waar creativiteit, cultuur, lifestyle en community samenkomen.What happens When Streets Connect? Dat zie je in de legendarische hiphopfilm Beat Street.

Beat Street is een Amerikaanse film uit 1984, geregisseerd door Stan Lathan, waarin Hip Hop als cultuur in begin jaren tachtig centraal staat. De film speelt zich af in de Bronx, de plek waar Hip Hop op 11 augustus 1973 is ontstaan. De film volgt twee broers en hun vriendengroep, die allemaal toegewijd zijn aan verschillende elementen van Hip Hop als cultuur, waaronder Breakdance, Graffiti, Rap en Dj’en, Hip Hop fashion etc.

Pakhuis maakt Ruimte

Deze zomer zetten we de deuren van ons pakhuis open voor makers en gemeenschappen met een leuk idee. Het resultaat? Een agenda boordevol toffe, gratis zomeractiviteiten! Maak bijvoorbeeld je eigen magazine, volg een tekenworkshop met livemuziek, ontmoet andere creatievelingen op marktjes... Ontdek de volledige agenda via Pakhuis maakt Ruimte. Tot snel!

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/filmvertoning-beat-street

RA25: Amsterdam - Greenhouse Sessions live

San Francisco, Thursday, October 22 at 12:00 PM GMT+2

Back in 2001, Resident Advisor launched in a living room in Sydney. Now, more than two decades later, we’re celebrating our 25th birthday with a book, merch, an archival project and ten parties in clubbing hubs around the world.

Between September and December, we’ll be touching down everywhere from Paris to Mexico City, starting in London, home to RA’s main office, and ending in Sydney, where it all began 25 years ago.

We’re keeping the lineups under wraps for now, but expect dozens of artists who represent the past, present and future of electronic music, from OG legends to the freshest names—and plenty of exclusive b2b pairings.

See you front left.

Lineup:
TBA

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ra25-amsterdam-greenhouse-sessions-live

Lezing ‘De kunstenaars van de Jan Steenzolder’

Arti et Amicitiae, Saturday, September 5 at 02:30 PM GMT+2

In 2018 kwam Theo de Feyter te wonen en te werken in een atelier aan de Tweede Jan Steenstraat in de Amsterdamse wijk 'De Pijp'. Dat atelier stond bekend als de ‘Jan Steenzolder’, omdat het was gevestigd op een voormalige hooizolder. Het is nog steeds een kunstenaarswerkplaats, al meer dan 120 jaar dus, te beginnen met Leo Gestel, Jan Sluijters en Piet Mondriaan – de schilders van het luminisme, een modernistische richting in de Nederlandse kunst, verwant aan het fauvisme.

Later werkten onder andere Willem den Ouden, Jan Mensinga en Peter Vos op de Jan Steenzolder. De Feyter kende de verhalen wel; met name de tumultueuze beginperiode werd door meerdere kunsthistorici beschreven. De geschiedenis begon echter pas echt voor hem te leven toen hij allerlei voorwerpen vond die hadden toebehoord aan de vorige bewoners.

De lezing concentreert zich op die beginperiode en op de vraag hoe het mogelijk is dat voorwerpen 120 jaar overleven in dezelfde ruimte. Ook de verhouding van de vernieuwers tot de in die tijd al eerbiedwaardige vereniging Arti et Amicitiae komt ter sprake.

In 1904 huurde Leo Gestel de hooizolder als atelier en maakte er een ontmoetingsplaats van – een ‘broedplaats’ avant la lettre. Hij verzamelde een rijk gevarieerd gezelschap om zich heen dat bestond uit kunstenaars, musici, wetenschappers, journalisten en verzamelaars. De schilders onder hen, zoals Mommie Schwarz, Else Berg, Jaap Weyand, John Rädecker en vele anderen, zetten zich af tegen de heersende impressionistische scholen. Na hun luministische periode zouden zij niet veel later de Bergense School vormen, de belangrijkste vooroorlogse expressionistische groep in Nederland.

De kunstenaars van de Jan Steenzolder probeerden niet alleen de kunst te vernieuwen, maar ook bestaande kunstenaarsverenigingen, zoals Sint Lucas en Arti et Amicitiae. De artistieke tegenstelling van die dagen culmineerde in de strijd tussen ‘de bruinen’ en ‘de blauwen’: kunstenaars met respectievelijk een traditioneel en een modern palet. Die strijd scheurde de verenigingen uiteen; nieuwe werden opgericht.

Ook schrijvers, onder wie Nescio, lieten zich uit over de Jan Steenzolder en haar rol in de ontwikkeling van de moderne kunst. Op de zolder bleef een aantal schilderijen achter dat deze strijd illustreert, waaronder een grote schildering die Leo Gestel in 1916 maakte voor een feest in Arti.

Tegen die tijd was de strijd grotendeels beslecht en waren meerdere luministen van het eerste uur lid geworden van Arti, zij het meestal als leden zonder stemrecht. Zij bleven daarmee de moderne jongens en meisjes.

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Praktische informatie

Theo de Feyter
Het huis van de kunstenaars. De schilders van de Jan Steenzolder.
Uitgeverij Waanders, Zwolle, 2026.

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Meer informatie
Zie ook: Ronald Ruseler, Het atelier als vrijplaats, of een gesprek met Theo de Feyter, in Articula 34 (oktober 2025), p. 2–4.

Tentoonstelling
Theo de Feyter – De Jan Steenzolder
Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
20 juni t/m 20 september 2026

Een installatie bestaande uit tekeningen, voorwerpen en poppen.

Beeld: De Spaanse kroeg in Arti, Panorama 7.3.1916

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De Arti Shuffle is een publiek toegankelijk programma in kunstenaarsvereniging Arti et Amicitiae waarin beeldende kunst, performances, muziek, literatuur en film samenkomen.

In samenwerking met Arti-leden en externe makers ontstaat telkens een verrassend en veelzijdig programma dat nieuwe verbindingen legt, een breed publiek aantrekt en de sociëteit nieuwe energie geeft.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/lezing-de-kunstenaars-van-de-jan-steenzolder

Arti Shuffle Jonge Musici: Isaure & Christian Johannes

Arti et Amicitiae, Thursday, November 19 at 08:30 PM GMT+1

Arti Shuffle Young Musicians #2

Arti Shuffles Young Musicians is a collaboration between Arti and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. This concert series offers talented young musicians the opportunity to gain valuable performance experience and showcase their artistry at various venues. Audiences are invited to discover a new generation of musicians through a diverse programme filled with inspiring and surprising performances.

Arti Shuffles Jonge Musici: Isaure & Christian Johannes

Isaure & Christian Johannes Songwriter Isaure and composer Christian Johannes come together for an evening of classical music and folk tunes. Their acoustic set of piano, guitar and vocal weaves together different repertoires: Isaure’s intimate songs with classical pieces, laying words on the melodies of Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Bach...

Isaure [she/her] is a French singer songwriter based in Amsterdam. Her music takes roots in folk, with a particular taste for melody and storytelling. Seeing her live is like witnessing a conversation between herself and her guitar, where they exchange about their favorite animals, food metaphors, love - which seems to be at the bottom of it all -, and when awkwardness happens. Isaure’s songs are like jam jars on a shelf. A collection of moments sealed in time, and neatly treasured. As time goes by, the songs infuse, until perfectly pickled or sirupy sweet. Turning life’s fruit into a good snack, could that be what music is about?

Christian Johannes [he/him] is an Amsterdam-based Dutch/Surinamese {de}composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly works in electro-acoustic formats, and is deeply involved with folk, glitch and environmental sound, and synthesising these aesthetics. In his recently released debut album glitch_folk:a.manifesto:, Johannes reworks 8 death-related folk tunes, decomposing and breaking them down using digital means, with the aim of learning to let go of things that you love.

conservatoriumamsterdam.nl

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The Arti Shuffle is a public programme at the artists’ association Arti et Amicitiae, where visual arts, performance, music, literature, and film come together.

In collaboration with Arti members and guest artists, each edition offers a surprising and diverse programme that creates new connections, attracts a broad audience, and brings fresh energy to the society.

-- > Would you like to join us for dinner before the event? Please make a reservation via [email protected] or call +31 (0)20 623 2995.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/arti-shuffle-jonge-musici-isaure-and-christian-johannes

Arti Shuffle Jonge Musici: Jason Li & Isaac Lam

Arti et Amicitiae, Thursday, September 17 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

Arti Shuffle Young Musicians #1

Arti Shuffle Young Musicians is a collaboration between Arti and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. This concert series offers talented young musicians the opportunity to gain performance experience and showcase their artistry in a variety of venues. Visitors are introduced to a new generation of musicians through a diverse and engaging programme of inspiring performances.

Arti Shuffles Jonge Musici: Tenor Jason Li and pianist Isaac Lam

Tenor Jason Li and pianist Isaac Lam, a Hong Kong duo based in Amsterdam, present an evening celebrating the richness and diversity of the art song repertoire. Their programme opens with Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, one of the most beloved song cycles in the German Lied tradition, followed by Maurice Ravel's Histoires Naturelles and selected songs by Florence Price and Charles Ives.

Jason Li is currently completing his Master's degree in Classical Voice at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he studies with Sasja Hunnego. Before moving to the Netherlands, he performed extensively in Hong Kong, appearing as the tenor soloist in Meine Hoffnung meine Freunde and I-solate with HK Singfest, as well as taking operatic roles including Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Danilo in Lehár's The Merry Widow. His artistic interests centre on the expressive possibilities of song and opera, bringing poetry and storytelling to life through performance.

Isaac Lam is a répétiteur, composer, and pianist based in Amsterdam. He is a freelance répétiteur with the Dutch National Opera Studio and an Associate Répétiteur at the Dutch National Opera Academy. A graduate of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, he has recently worked on productions including Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, conducted Pergolesi's La serva padrona from the harpsichord, and performed in the Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw. Alongside his work as a collaborative pianist, he holds a Master's degree in Composition from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His music has been performed by ensembles including the Mivos Quartet and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.

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The Arti Shuffle is a public programme at the artists’ association Arti et Amicitiae, where visual arts, performance, music, literature, and film come together.

In collaboration with Arti members and guest artists, each edition offers a surprising and diverse programme that creates new connections, attracts a broad audience, and brings fresh energy to the society.

-- > Would you like to join us for dinner before the event? Please make a reservation via [email protected] or call +31 (0)20 623 2995.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/arti-shuffle-jonge-musici-jason-li-and-isaac-lam

Arti Shuffle Young Musicians: Gaia Szames & Lóránt Illyés

Arti et Amicitiae, Thursday, January 21 at 08:30 PM GMT+1

Arti Shuffle Young Musicians #3

Arti Shuffles Young Musicians is a collaboration between Arti and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. This concert series offers talented young musicians the opportunity to gain valuable performance experience and showcase their artistry at various venues. Audiences are invited to discover a new generation of musicians through a diverse programme filled with inspiring and surprising performances.

Arti Shuffle Jonge Musici: Gaia Szames & Lóránt Illyés

This programme is centred around the air de cour, the French court song that flourished from the late sixteenth century through the reign of Louis XIII. Written for voice and plucked-string instruments, these intimate songs were performed in salons and private chambers rather than on grand stages. Their themes revolve around love, longing, heartbreak, and pastoral imagery, populated by shepherds, shepherdesses, nymphs, and gods.

The programme traces the development of the genre through several generations of composers. Adrian Le Roy and Charles Tessier represent its early stages, when the air de cour was still closely connected to the Renaissance chanson. Le Roy was also a prominent music publisher and co-founder of the Ballard printing house, which would become the leading publisher of French court music for the next two centuries. Pierre Guédron, who directed music at the courts of Henri IV and Louis XIII, and his son-in-law and successor Antoine Boesset, helped shape the genre into a more expressive and theatrical form. Étienne Moulinié, music director to Gaston d'Orléans for more than three decades, brought a distinctive harmonic richness to the tradition. Bénigne de Bacilly, renowned as both a composer and singing teacher, left behind one of the most important treatises on ornamentation and performance practice of the period.

Much of the repertoire performed in this concert survives thanks to the publications of the Ballard family press. Together, these songs offer a rare glimpse into the intimate musical world of seventeenth-century France.

This is a programme built on subtle gestures, intimate expression, and careful listening.

Gaia Szames is an Argentinian soprano based in Amsterdam, specialising in Early Music. Her main focus lies in Italian monody and madrigals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as French music from the same period.

Active as both a soloist and ensemble singer, she has performed under the direction of Andrés Locatelli, Adrián van der Spoel, Eduardo López Banzo and others. She has explored a wide range of repertoires, including Spanish and Latin American polyphony with Jonatan Alvarado, Italian Renaissance polyphony with Claron McFadden and Mike Fentross, and Spanish and Italian monody with Ensemble La Primavera.

She earned her Bachelor's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, completed a Master's degree in Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and is currently pursuing a second Master's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Xenia Meijer.

Lóránt Illyés is a Hungarian musician based in Amsterdam, specialising in Early Music. After earning a Bachelor's degree in Classical Guitar from the University of Szeged's Faculty of Music, he completed a Master's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

He is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Early Music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, specialising in lute and theorbo, with a particular interest in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire.

Gaia Szames — soprano
Lóránt Illyés — lute and theorbo

conservatoriumamsterdam.nl

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The Arti Shuffle is a public programme at the artists’ association Arti et Amicitiae, where visual arts, performance, music, literature, and film come together.

In collaboration with Arti members and guest artists, each edition offers a surprising and diverse programme that creates new connections, attracts a broad audience, and brings fresh energy to the society.

-- > Would you like to join us for dinner before the event? Please make a reservation via [email protected] or call +31 (0)20 623 2995.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/arti-shuffle-young-musicians-gaia-szames-and-lorant-illyes

Girls to the Front

Paradiso, Saturday, August 15 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

A new wave of home-grown female punk bands

This is the rescheduled Girls to the Front show on Friday 26 June. Tickets purchased for that date are also valid for this date.

Girls to the Front is an Utrecht based initiative which focuses on the Dutch based FLINTA representation within the punk music industry. It started as an event on the 8th of march in dB’s by Bibi Fay Bannink, an 18 year old feminist punk fan with a plan. Which grew out to a compilation vinyl with 14 FLINTA fronted punk bands, called Girls to the Front. Which was released on the 8th of march 2025 in EKKO, and was followed by a tour throughout the Netherlands. Including Paradiso, VERA Groningen, Rotown, Wilde Weide and Down the Rabbit Hole Dj-set. 2026 will bring another compilation vinyl, another tour and a continued fight.

Girls to the Front doesn’t only celebrate the various ‘punk’ sounds created by FLINTA people that are alive and loud in the country, but also wants to dive in the intersectional struggles and inspirations people experience through the making of zines or through organizing more interdisciplinary events with poetry, film talks and panels.

Girls to the Front hopes to work towards a community of FLINTA people who can mosh together without constantly having to be cautious of the male dominance in spaces like this and take inspiration from the Riot Grrrl movement with modern implications and struggles. Most importantly we want all the FLINTA people to the front and we want them to collectively scream en mosh together and celebrate their identities through punk as a genre, but also a lifestyle. 

Last March, Girls to the Front, Vol. 2 saw the light of day.

Line-up:
Supermarkt - Experimental superpunk noise. Absurd, obscene, and senseless.
The Woman - punk in attitude, open in emotion, and radical in honesty.
L.A. Sagne - Amsterdam based punkband creates explosive songs.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/girls-to-the-front-1

Georgia: On the Brink of Oligarchy

De Balie, Wednesday, September 16 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

Georgia is a country that stands at a crossroads. Will it choose closer integration with the European Union, as a large share of the population desires? Or will it deepen its relationship with Putin’s Russia, as the country’s oligarchic elite prefers? In conversation with Hans Gutbrod.

Recent Georgian history offers important lessons about developments affecting all of Europe. In many ways, Georgia served as Putin’s testing ground, foreshadowing the events that would later unfold in Ukraine. After the Caucasus nation chose a pro-European course, Putin launched a war against Georgia. To this day, Russia continues to occupy part of the country.

The current Georgian government has adopted a pro-Russian stance, with the wealthy oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili playing a powerful behind-the-scenes role. Despite massive public protests, the government pushed through the so-called ‘foreign agents’ law, modeled on Russian legislation. Critics fear this marks the beginning of a broader effort to silence independent media and opposition movements.

With political scholar Hans Gutbrod, we speak about the future of Georgia, and what that implies for the wider region and Europe. Will Georgia ultimately slide into oligarchic rule, or will the country, still an official candidate for EU membership, find its place in Europe?

About Hand Gutbrod
Hans Gutbrod is a German-born academic and consultant in policy research. He has been working in the Caucasus region since 1999 and currently is a professor at Tbilisi’s Ilia State University. His recent book Ethics of Political Commemoration: Towards a New Paradigm (with David Wood, 2023) proposes that the just war tradition can help to order public debates on remembrance.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/georgia-on-the-brink-of-oligarchy

REPAIR. Learning Cultural Justice from the ABC Islands

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Tuesday, September 22 at 05:00 PM GMT+2

How do local organisations on the ABC islands engage with the painful histories and ongoing effects of colonialism and slavery? REPAIR explores the enduring impact of colonial legacies on cultural heritage in the Dutch Caribbean by learning from reparative interventions developed in the ABC islands. How do local organisations engage with the painful histories and ongoing effects of colonialism and slavery? How do they put cultural justice into practice? This event is a collaboration between the Association of Museums & Heritage of Curaçao (AMHC), Cas di Cultura (Aruba), the Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), Fundashon Históriko Kultural Boneriano (FuHiKuBo) and Utrecht University. Programme 17:00 - 18:30 | Forum for Cultural Justice The forum brings together a broad audience interested in cultural justice and postcolonial reparations, including researchers, cultural professionals, practitioners, activists, and anyone curious about or engaged with these issues. Together, participants will explore through an open and horizontal dialogue the expectations, needs, aspirations, and limitations that shape the landscape of cultural justice and reparative practices. 19:30 - 21:30 | REPAIR Film screenings A selection of documentaries and films will be presented, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Chair: Kjelld Masoud Kroon Memoria Ancestral (2024), a documentary by Natusha Croes (Cas di Cultura). Savoneta (2008), a film by Gabri Christa. E cas a keda bashi (The House Was Empty) (1955), a film by Abraham Jesurun and Gloria Jesurun. Uní den Karnaval (United in Carnaval) (2023), a documentary by Bòi Antoin (FuHiKuBo).

Day programme

13:00–17:00 Expo The afternoon programme can be found here. It features four panel sessions in which the partner organisations—AMHC (Curaçao), Cas di Cultura (Aruba), Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), and FuHiKuBo (Bonaire)—present their projects and initiatives. Please, register here. Organisers: Vicky Arens (Cas di Cultura, Aruba), Camila Malig (Utrecht University), Jamila Mascat (Utrecht University), Emma Louise Pratt (FuHiKuBo), Zhwendeline Pieter (AMHC, Curaçao), Leenke Ripmeester (Eye Filmmuseum).

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/repair-learning-cultural-justice-from-the-abc-islands

Arti Shuffle Jonge Musici: A Journey Through Song

Arti et Amicitiae, Thursday, September 17 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

Tenor Jason Li and pianist Isaac Lam, a Hong Kong duo based in Amsterdam, present an evening celebrating the richness and diversity of the art song repertoire. Their programme opens with Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, one of the most beloved song cycles in the German Lied tradition, followed by Maurice Ravel's Histoires Naturelles and selected songs by Florence Price and Charles Ives.

Jason Li is currently completing his Master's degree in Classical Voice at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he studies with Sasja Hunnego. Before moving to the Netherlands, he performed extensively in Hong Kong, appearing as the tenor soloist in Meine Hoffnung meine Freunde and I-solate with HK Singfest, as well as taking operatic roles including Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Danilo in Lehár's The Merry Widow. His artistic interests centre on the expressive possibilities of song and opera, bringing poetry and storytelling to life through performance.

Isaac Lam is a répétiteur, composer, and pianist based in Amsterdam. He is a freelance répétiteur with the Dutch National Opera Studio and an Associate Répétiteur at the Dutch National Opera Academy. A graduate of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, he has recently worked on productions including Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, conducted Pergolesi's La serva padrona from the harpsichord, and performed in the Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw. Alongside his work as a collaborative pianist, he holds a Master's degree in Composition from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His music has been performed by ensembles including the Mivos Quartet and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.

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The Arti Shuffle is a public programme at the artists’ association Arti et Amicitiae, where visual arts, performance, music, literature, and film come together.

In collaboration with Arti members and guest artists, each edition offers a surprising and diverse programme that creates new connections, attracts a broad audience, and brings fresh energy to the society.

-- > Would you like to join us for dinner before the event? Please make a reservation via [email protected] or call +31 (0)20 623 2995.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/arti-shuffle-jonge-musici-a-journey-through-song

Varta: The Daily War in Ukraine

De Balie, Sunday, September 20 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

In VARTA the daily reality of the war in Ukraine becomes real and tangible. The screening is followed by a conversation with the film makers and writer Jaap Scholten.

In the documentary series VARTA, Evgen Matvienko and Mariana Shafro, together with their collective Neutrino, film the lives of Ukrainian soldiers: pilots, tank crews, helicopter pilots, women in combat. It’s a honest depiction of the war: the silence between missions, the discomfort, the humor, the grief. VARTA has been shown at Tate Modern and Les Rencontres d’Arles.

The screening of fragments of this documentary series is followed by conversation with Evgen Matvienko and Shafro. How do you film at the frontline? What does it mean to build a cultural archive of your country in war time?

They are joined by Dutch writer Jaap Scholten, who has crossed into Ukraine again and again since 2022 with Protect Ukraine, the aid organisation he founded to supply the Ukrainian army. His books Drie zakken dameskleding, twee cakes Kyiv en een sniper and Nastya in Charkiv are built from the front, from the people he has met there.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/varta-the-daily-war-in-ukraine

Waterpoes een Botografie Boek-performance

Arti et Amicitiae, Thursday, July 23 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

Presentatie van Waterpoes

Stap aan boord voor de feestelijke presentatie van Waterpoes, de nieuwe botofictie van Gabriël Kousbroek.

In Waterpoes neemt Kousbroek je mee op een surrealistische reis over het Amsterdamse water, gezien door de ogen van een eigenzinnige grachtennozem in zijn geliefde schippersvletje, de Waterpoes. Met verhalen en tekeningen laat hij je meedrijven door veertig jaar avontuur op de grachten: van ontmoetingen met kleurrijke figuren en botsingen met waterhufters tot nachtelijke tochten, humoristische observaties en persoonlijke herinneringen. Het boek is een ode aan het varen, aan Amsterdam en aan een leven vol onverwachte gebeurtenissen.

Tijdens de presentatie vertelt Gabriël Kousbroek over het ontstaan van het boek, leest hij voor uit Waterpoes en gaat hij in gesprek over zijn avonturen op het water, zijn liefde voor boten en zijn veelzijdige kunstenaarschap.

De middag wordt muzikaal omlijst door het turbofolktrio Motortoaster, componist en pianist Ringo Maurer en DJ Gaap.

Na afloop is Waterpoes verkrijgbaar en kun je je exemplaar direct laten signeren.

Kom luisteren, kijken en meevaren in de wereld van Waterpoes.

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AT5

NHnieuws.nl

Singel Uitgeverijen

Gabrielkousbroek.nl

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De Arti Shuffle is een publiek toegankelijk programma in kunstenaarsvereniging Arti et Amicitiae waarin beeldende kunst, performances, muziek, literatuur en film samenkomen.

In samenwerking met Arti-leden en externe makers ontstaat telkens een verrassend en veelzijdig programma dat nieuwe verbindingen legt, een breed publiek aantrekt en de sociëteit nieuwe energie geeft.

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https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/waterpoes-een-botografie-boek-performance

Eet mij niet #4

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Friday, October 2 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Hoe stapt Amsterdam over op een diervriendelijk menu? Wat kan en wil de Amsterdamse horeca?

Dierenliefde, gezondheid, autonomie en culinair enthousiasme: we hebben veel redenen om steeds minder vlees en zuivel te eten. Aan de vooravond van Werelddierendag staan we stil bij onze relatie met dieren en gaan we in gesprek over een nieuw plantaardig menu voor de stad. Hoe maken we gezamenlijk die cultuuromslag? Wie zet inspirerende stappen en wie aarzelt nog? Tijdens deze vierde editie van Eet mij niet gaan we in gesprek met inspirerende initiatiefnemers, professionals en beleidsmakers. Dit jaar gaan we in gesprek met Amsterdamse chefs, recensenten en nieuwe initiatieven. Hoe kunnen Amsterdamse smaakmakers en poortwachters de weg vrijmaken naar een menu voor iedereen die van dieren houdt?

Met in dit programma Mark Schalken Kunstenaar, initiatiefnemer 'De vleesvrije stad’ en ‘Eet mij niet’

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/eet-mij-niet-4

Eet mij niet #4

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Friday, October 2 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Hoe stapt Amsterdam over op een diervriendelijk menu? Wat kan en wil de Amsterdamse horeca?

Dierenliefde, gezondheid, autonomie en culinair enthousiasme: we hebben veel redenen om steeds minder vlees en zuivel te eten. Aan de vooravond van Werelddierendag staan we stil bij onze relatie met dieren en gaan we in gesprek over een nieuw plantaardig menu voor de stad. Hoe maken we gezamenlijk die cultuuromslag? Wie zet inspirerende stappen en wie aarzelt nog? Tijdens deze vierde editie van Eet mij niet gaan we in gesprek met inspirerende initiatiefnemers, professionals en beleidsmakers. Dit jaar gaan we in gesprek met Amsterdamse chefs, recensenten en nieuwe initiatieven. Hoe kunnen Amsterdamse smaakmakers en poortwachters de weg vrijmaken naar een menu voor iedereen die van dieren houdt?

Met in dit programma Mark Schalken Kunstenaar, initiatiefnemer 'De vleesvrije stad’ en ‘Eet mij niet’

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/eet-mij-niet-4

Noam Bargil Quintet

Arti et Amicitiae, Thursday, September 3 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

The Noam Bargil Quintet presents contemporary jazz rooted in lyrical folk melodies, Middle Eastern musical influences, and the expressive language of hard bop and modern jazz of the 1960s.

Led by Amsterdam-based trumpeter and composer Noam Bargil, the program reflects his personal musical voice and cultural background. The music combines strong melodic storytelling, deep lyricism, energetic improvisation, and a warm, narrative approach to composition.

The quintet brings together musicians who live and work across Europe, offering a concert experience that is both intimate and dynamic. Through original compositions, the ensemble creates a dialogue between Middle Eastern colors, contemporary jazz, and Noam’s ongoing search for a personal and distinctive sound.

Lyrical, energetic, and emotionally rich, the program takes audiences on a musical journey shaped by melody, improvisation, heritage, and modern jazz.

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The Arti Shuffle is a public programme at the artists’ association Arti et Amicitiae, where visual arts, performance, music, literature, and film come together.

In collaboration with Arti members and guest artists, each edition offers a surprising and diverse programme that creates new connections, attracts a broad audience, and brings fresh energy to the society.

-- > Would you like to join us for dinner before the event? Please make a reservation via [email protected] or call +31 (0)20 623 2995.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/noam-bargil-quintet

Workshop: Hoe maak ik een book-a-zine in eigen beheer?

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Wednesday, August 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Van idee tot Lezz is More. Interactieve workshop met Monique Doppert en Mir Wermuth.

Neem een kijkje achter de schermen van Lezz is More! In deze interactieve workshop nemen auteur Monique Doppert en zakelijk leider Mir Wermuth je mee van concept tot release. We duiken in de wereld van eigen beheer met als study case Lezz is More, dat 1 juli uitkwam. Hoe maak je creativiteit én bedrijfsvoering sluitend zonder uitgever? Met de deelnemers kiezen we twee onderwerpen uit het maakproces om uit te diepen – van manuscript, ontwerp, drukwerk, distributie tot marketing. Na een vragenronde volgt een korte quiz, waarbij de discussie meer telt dan de score. Wij hebben niet de wijsheid in pacht maar delen graag onze ervaring met ieder die zelf een boek wil maken.

Note: Bij aanmelding voor deze activiteit worden je naam en e‐mailadres gedeeld met de maker/organisator, zodat zij indien nodig contact met je kunnen opnemen over je deelname.

Fondsen en partners

Over Pakhuis maakt Ruimte

Deze zomer zetten we de deuren van ons pakhuis open voor makers en gemeenschappen met een leuk idee. Het resultaat? Een agenda boordevol toffe, gratis zomeractiviteiten! Maak bijvoorbeeld je eigen magazine, volg een tekenworkshop met livemuziek, ontmoet andere creatievelingen op marktjes... Ontdek de volledige agenda via Pakhuis maakt Ruimte. Tot snel!

Lees meer Sexual revolution, a lesson by Jennifer Hopelezz Linktree Lezz is more

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/workshop-hoe-maak-ik-een-book-a-zine-in-eigen-beheer

Workshop: Hoe maak ik een book-a-zine in eigen beheer?

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Wednesday, August 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Van idee tot Lezz is More. Interactieve workshop met Monique Doppert en Mir Wermuth.

Neem een kijkje achter de schermen van Lezz is More! In deze interactieve workshop nemen auteur Monique Doppert en zakelijk leider Mir Wermuth je mee van concept tot release. We duiken in de wereld van eigen beheer met als study case Lezz is More, dat 1 juli uitkwam. Hoe maak je creativiteit én bedrijfsvoering sluitend zonder uitgever? Met de deelnemers kiezen we twee onderwerpen uit het maakproces om uit te diepen – van manuscript, ontwerp, drukwerk, distributie tot marketing. Na een vragenronde volgt een korte quiz, waarbij de discussie meer telt dan de score. Wij hebben niet de wijsheid in pacht maar delen graag onze ervaring met ieder die zelf een boek wil maken.

Note: Bij aanmelding voor deze activiteit worden je naam en e‐mailadres gedeeld met de maker/organisator, zodat zij indien nodig contact met je kunnen opnemen over je deelname.

Fondsen en partners

Over Pakhuis maakt Ruimte

Deze zomer zetten we de deuren van ons pakhuis open voor makers en gemeenschappen met een leuk idee. Het resultaat? Een agenda boordevol toffe, gratis zomeractiviteiten! Maak bijvoorbeeld je eigen magazine, volg een tekenworkshop met livemuziek, ontmoet andere creatievelingen op marktjes... Ontdek de volledige agenda via Pakhuis maakt Ruimte. Tot snel!

Lees meer Sexual revolution, a lesson by Jennifer Hopelezz Linktree Lezz is more

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/workshop-hoe-maak-ik-een-book-a-zine-in-eigen-beheer

OTION presents W.A.V.E

Felix Meritis, Saturday, October 3 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Part Three: Making the Wave

OTION returns to Felix Meritis with the third part of W.A.V.E: Making the Wave, an immersive performance series exploring the invisible forces that connect sound, body, and space. Through sound, movement, and ritual storytelling, OTION transforms live music into a fully spatial experience, where sound is not just heard, but physically felt.

The series unfolds in three chapters: Floating on the WAVE, Riding the WAVE, and Making the WAVE, each offering a distinct atmosphere within a continuous journey. Together with a sound artist and dancer, OTION activates three essential elements: space, voice, and body, guiding audiences along a path from listening, to embodiment, to creation; from surrender, to safety, to play.

Beginning with vibration as sound moving through space, shifting into vibration as sensation within the body and beyond, W.A.V.E explores how stillness, presence, sound, voice, song, movement, and dance shape both individual and collective experience. Join us on October 3rd and step into OTION’s inner landscape, where vibration becomes a shared language and performance transforms into a living field. After the performance, join the After WAVE to relax, enjoy drinks, and dance to our live DJ. Whether or not you joined the first wave, you’re welcome in the second.

Line-up

OTION

OTION (Guillermo Armand Blinker)- Theo d’Or (VSCD) and Amsterdam Art Award (AFK) nominee (2024) Designer Award (VSCD) nominee 2025 – is a multidisciplinary artist who works with vibration as material. Through sound, movement, and ritual storytelling, OTION creates immersive experiences that attune bodies, spaces, and communities to one another.

Water is both source and guide in OTION’s practice, a living metaphor for continuity, memory, and transformation. Like water, his work moves between states: sonic, physical, spiritual. It flows through liminal spaces where identity softens, time expands, and new ways of being become possible.

Rooted in a background of choreography, dance, songwriting, and composition, OTION composes environments rather than performances. Harmonized, loop-based vocals form dense soundscapes. These vibrating layers carry the audience into ceremonial states, where movement, breath, and listening become acts of collective tuning.

OTION’s poetic lyricism weaves themes of transformation, spiritual connection, and a queer way of sensing the world. His work does not aim to be consumed, but entered: a shared frequency where personal and collective healing can unfold.

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Sarada Sarita

Sarada Sarita is a pioneering, trailblazing and leading female figure in the Dutch and International dance world. Due to her diverse background with a wide variety and versatility in experience and knowledge, she studies and speaks the universal language of dance with reverence and love. She is especially well versed in performing, theater, composition, improvisation / freestyle, movement direction and is deeply rooted in the street and club dance scene and culture.

Sarita aka SaSa is specifically known for whacking & voguing; studying and bringing that to the Netherlands as one of the first; in theater, art spaces, schools, film as well as building whole new communities representing the culture and dance worldwide. You can find her work as a performer and choreographer on stages, screens and events. As a teacher, coach and mentor you can find her at dance academies, schools, studio’s, companies and online worldwide.

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SHARC

SHARC (Siem Schellevis) is an artist director focusing on artist identity and art direction, and working at the intersection of body, perception, and meaning. He works with art made in short arcs, or as he calls it: SHARCS. His work does not aim to explain or persuade, but to reorient experience.

Drawing from martial arts science, ancient wisdom traditions, philosophy and hip hop, he designs immersive services that allow the artist to speak directly through and to the BODYMIND rather than the intellect.

SHARC is known for translating complex human mechanisms into simple, felt experiences. His direction is minimal, precise, and experiential. Less narrative. More signal. His work spans across film, music, language, spatial design, and embodied practice. SHARC invites artists to develop a healthy distinction between the self they have and the spirit or soul that they are, so they may create vacuums in spacetime where people can explore meaning, fulfillment and connection.

Worked with national and international acts like The Child of LOV, Cameron McVey, Illnoledge, Alain Clark and Khadijia El Kharraz-Alami, among others.

Stillness is not an aesthetic in his work. It is the medium. Stillness First.

Lees meer

More about Chapter 3: W.A.V.E — Making the Wave

Making the Wave is the moment of emergence and release. Here, vibration is no longer only perceived or followed. It is generated, shaped, and shared. Sound, movement, and collective energy converge into a field of creation where boundaries between performer and participant dissolve. This chapter explores agency, transformation, and the power of intentional frequency. Making the Wave asks what happens when we recognize ourselves not just as receivers of vibration, but as sources of it, co-creating the unseen spectrum that connects us.

Would you like to attend this program, but don’t have the means to pay for a ticket? Send an email to [email protected], we can work something out.

Note: By booking this ticket, you agree to potentially be photographed during the event.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/otion-presents-wave-2

CinéDialoog: The Desert of the Real

De Balie, Friday, August 14 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

In de nieuwe documentaire van Luuk Bouwman, o.a. bekend van Gerlach en De Propagandist, nemen zes mensen die een psychose meemaakten de kijker mee in hun ervaringen en stellen zij vragen over de werkelijkheid en het bewustzijn. Hoe kan je weten of je wakker bent of droomt? Wat is echt?

Ondanks hun verschillende achtergronden – een psycholoog, een filosoof, een muzikant, een psychiatrisch zorgverlener, een kunstenaar – delen de personages van The Desert of the Real een diepgaande reflectie op wat de psychose betekent voor hoe ze naar de wereld kijken.

The Desert of the Real toont hun leven vóór de ingrijpende gebeurtenissen, de ervaringen van de psychose, en de weg terug. De ontwapenende en emotionele herinneringen worden verfilmd in ensceneringen die aansluiten bij het gevoel dat verschillende hoofdpersonen hadden, dat ze zich in een film bevonden: huiskamers en klinieken blijken decors. De bijzondere vormgeving van de documentaire is geïnspireerd door scifi en horror films. Gaandeweg kantelt het perspectief: de hoofdpersonen keren niet terug naar een ‘gezonde’ wereld, maar naar een vervreemdende en ontwrichtende werkelijkheid.

Na de vertoning zetten we onze zoektocht naar de werkelijkheid voort, met hulp van Luuk Bouwman (filmmaker, voormalig muzikant), de Wachowski-zussen (filmmakers, voormalige broers), Plato (filosoof, voormalig leerling van Socrates), Jan Gerrit Schuurman (psycholoog, voormalig psychosepatiënt) en Maya (hindoeïstische godin van de illusie, voormalig niets).

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cinedialoog-the-desert-of-the-real

GOODBYE POVERTY JETSET by Sepp Eckenhaussen

San Serriffe, Wednesday, July 15 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

introduction by Amy Gowen, talk with Mela Miekus, Alina Lupu and Sepp Eckenhaussen, and a provocation by Koen Bartijn

The art economy makes some people filthy rich but leaves most people making art in poverty. How is that possible? And, more importantly, how can it be changed? Can we imagine and organise an art world that is economically sustainable for the people working in it?

Each chapter in this book focuses on one alternative model that art workers already practice, including commons, co-operatives, community currencies, basic income, infrastructural critique, fair payment guidelines, economically responsible art education, and social unions. A combination of case studies, theory, and historical reflections provide solid strategic insights into what works for the workers and what doesn’t.

Goodbye Poverty Jetset is a toolbox for artists, designers, museum guards, curators, writers, tour guides, and art handlers – in short, for all the art workers who want to change the system they live and work in, collectively.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/goodbye-poverty-jetset-by-sepp-eckenhaussen

LATENT MOURNINGS by Flavia Dzodan

San Serriffe, Thursday, July 16 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

reading and conversation with Flavia Dzodan and Hugo Esquinca at 6.30pm

Latent Mournings examines how infrastructures of computation reorganize affect, temporality, and the conditions of perception. Through theoretical essays, recursive analyses, and media-archaeological experiments, Dzodan develops a framework in which emotion becomes logistical, latency becomes epistemic material, and mourning emerges as an infrastructural mode rather than an interior state.

Tracing a genealogy that moves from Affective Logistics to the spectral and chimeric ethics of Amorino Latente, the book maps the residues and remainders that shape contemporary life under algorithmic governance. Dzodan’s writing inhabits the interval between exhaustion and maintenance, articulating a practice ground- ed in latency, refusal, and the aesthetics of the never-made.

Drawing from projects such as Absence / Longing / Saturation, Haptic Mournings, and the ongoing research on Chronoecology, Latent Mournings outlines a low-energy ecology of the present: one defined by infrastructural decay, affective capture, and the spectral artifacts generated by systems that optimize for frictionless operation. This work offers a rigorous vocabulary for describing the computational present while insisting on the value of opacity, recursion, and incompletion as analytical methods.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/latent-mournings-by-flavia-dzodan

GOODBYE POVERTY JETSET by Sepp Eckenhaussen

San Serriffe, Wednesday, July 15 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

introduction by Amy Gowen, talk with Mela Miekus, Alina Lupu and Sepp Eckenhaussen, and a provocation by Koen Bartijn

The art economy makes some people filthy rich but leaves most people making art in poverty. How is that possible? And, more importantly, how can it be changed? Can we imagine and organise an art world that is economically sustainable for the people working in it?

Each chapter in this book focuses on one alternative model that art workers already practice, including commons, co-operatives, community currencies, basic income, infrastructural critique, fair payment guidelines, economically responsible art education, and social unions. A combination of case studies, theory, and historical reflections provide solid strategic insights into what works for the workers and what doesn’t.

Goodbye Poverty Jetset is a toolbox for artists, designers, museum guards, curators, writers, tour guides, and art handlers – in short, for all the art workers who want to change the system they live and work in, collectively.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/goodbye-poverty-jetset-by-sepp-eckenhaussen

LATENT MOURNINGS by Flavia Dzodan

San Serriffe, Thursday, July 16 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

reading and conversation with Flavia Dzodan and Hugo Esquinca at 6.30pm

Latent Mournings examines how infrastructures of computation reorganize affect, temporality, and the conditions of perception. Through theoretical essays, recursive analyses, and media-archaeological experiments, Dzodan develops a framework in which emotion becomes logistical, latency becomes epistemic material, and mourning emerges as an infrastructural mode rather than an interior state.

Tracing a genealogy that moves from Affective Logistics to the spectral and chimeric ethics of Amorino Latente, the book maps the residues and remainders that shape contemporary life under algorithmic governance. Dzodan’s writing inhabits the interval between exhaustion and maintenance, articulating a practice ground- ed in latency, refusal, and the aesthetics of the never-made.

Drawing from projects such as Absence / Longing / Saturation, Haptic Mournings, and the ongoing research on Chronoecology, Latent Mournings outlines a low-energy ecology of the present: one defined by infrastructural decay, affective capture, and the spectral artifacts generated by systems that optimize for frictionless operation. This work offers a rigorous vocabulary for describing the computational present while insisting on the value of opacity, recursion, and incompletion as analytical methods.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/latent-mournings-by-flavia-dzodan

A Brief History of Environmental Humour

SPUI25, Thursday, September 3 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

What is and can be the role of humour in environmental literature? Nicole Seymour will explore this question by discussing two primary Anglophone genres: nature writing and cli-fi. While the first has been widely stereotyped as preachy and sentimental, Seymour returns to its playful roots as well as its recent tradition of self-satire. And while cli-fi has a progressive reputation, she will show that the genre’s recent deployments of humour have had troubling effects, such as erasing Indigenous perspectives.

Seymour will place these phenomena in their larger contexts, including the development of queer ecologies as a critical framework and the rise of meta-modernism as a cultural sensibility. After her talk, she will be joined in conversation by Peter van Dam, Barnita Bagchi, and moderator Jesse van Amelsvoort. Together, they will think about environmental humour in other literary and cultural traditions and histories across Europe, South Asia, and North America. How do protest movements use humour and other playful affects? How to read Dutch environmental discourses and genres in this respect? And how does children’s literature incorporate humour?

Speakers

Nicole Seymour is Professor of English and Graduate Advisor for Environmental Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her most recent books are Glitter (Bloomsbury) and Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press). She is working on a new book project about the right-wing appropriation of camp aesthetics.

Peter van Dam is professor of Dutch history at the University of Amsterdam. Inspired by social, environmental, and political history, he investigates how people attempt to change their relationships with each other and the environment. The handling of food and energy are central to this work. His latest book is Fair Trade: Humanitarianism in the Age of Postcolonial Globalization.

Barnita Bagchi is Chair and Professor in World Literatures in English at the University of Amsterdam. Her expertises on women’s writing, utopia, dystopia, heterotopia, and speculative scenarios has led to current work on ecologies, the environment, and literature.

Jesse van Amelsvoort (moderator) is a scholar of comparative literature, and a lecturer in European Studies, University of Amsterdam. His latest book is Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/a-brief-history-of-environmental-humour

A Brief History of Environmental Humour

SPUI25, Thursday, September 3 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

What is and can be the role of humour in environmental literature? Nicole Seymour will explore this question by discussing two primary Anglophone genres: nature writing and cli-fi. While the first has been widely stereotyped as preachy and sentimental, Seymour returns to its playful roots as well as its recent tradition of self-satire. And while cli-fi has a progressive reputation, she will show that the genre’s recent deployments of humour have had troubling effects, such as erasing Indigenous perspectives.

Seymour will place these phenomena in their larger contexts, including the development of queer ecologies as a critical framework and the rise of meta-modernism as a cultural sensibility. After her talk, she will be joined in conversation by Peter van Dam, Barnita Bagchi, and moderator Jesse van Amelsvoort. Together, they will think about environmental humour in other literary and cultural traditions and histories across Europe, South Asia, and North America. How do protest movements use humour and other playful affects? How to read Dutch environmental discourses and genres in this respect? And how does children’s literature incorporate humour?

Speakers

Nicole Seymour is Professor of English and Graduate Advisor for Environmental Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her most recent books are Glitter (Bloomsbury) and Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press). She is working on a new book project about the right-wing appropriation of camp aesthetics.

Peter van Dam is professor of Dutch history at the University of Amsterdam. Inspired by social, environmental, and political history, he investigates how people attempt to change their relationships with each other and the environment. The handling of food and energy are central to this work. His latest book is Fair Trade: Humanitarianism in the Age of Postcolonial Globalization.

Barnita Bagchi is Chair and Professor in World Literatures in English at the University of Amsterdam. Her expertises on women’s writing, utopia, dystopia, heterotopia, and speculative scenarios has led to current work on ecologies, the environment, and literature.

Jesse van Amelsvoort (moderator) is a scholar of comparative literature, and a lecturer in European Studies, University of Amsterdam. His latest book is Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/a-brief-history-of-environmental-humour

Dit is geen pijp - dit is De Pijp!

Arti et Amicitiae, Sunday, September 13 at 02:30 PM GMT+2

Piet Mondriaan en Marlene Dumas, Willem Kloos en Gerard Reve, Eduard Jacobs en Boy Edgar, Berlage en De Bazel... De Pijp dankt zijn reputatie als het Quartier Latin van Amsterdam aan de vele kunstopleidingen die er gevestigd waren, van de Quellinusschool tot de Rijksakademie, maar ook aan de Tachtigers, de eerste avant-gardebeweging van Nederland. Het was zowel een uitgesproken katholieke als een joodse wijk. Hier bloeiden de theosofie en de Nieuwe Kunst, terwijl het socialisme zijn architectonische vertaling vond in de Amsterdamse School.

De Pijp is het resultaat van maar liefst zeven stadsplannen, waarvan er vijf door de gemeenteraad werden afgekeurd. De verplichte ophoging van de grond leidde tot de aanleg van extra straten, waardoor een volkswijk ontstond met prestigieuze bebouwing langs de kades en het Sarphatipark. Vanwege de relatief hoge huren werd veel onderverhuurd, waardoor De Pijp al snel uitgroeide tot een wijk van studenten, dichters en kunstenaars. Daarbij speelde ook de aanwezigheid van verschillende kunstopleidingen een belangrijke rol.

Naast de Quellinusschool, de Rijkskunstnijverheidsschool en de Rijksnormaalschool was vooral de Rijksakademie van groot belang. Deze instelling, opgericht in 1870, was de eerste kunstacademie van Europa die vrouwen toeliet. Velen van hen vestigden zich vervolgens in De Pijp. Aan het Sarphatipark verrees bovendien het eerste speciaal ontworpen gebouw met atelierwoningen van Nederland: Sarphatipark 42. Hier werkten gedurende tientallen jaren kunstenaars van uiteenlopende disciplines, onder wie Piet Mondriaan. Ook in andere woongebouwen ontstonden belangrijke ontmoetingsplaatsen voor kunstenaars, zoals de Jan Steenzolder, waar het luminisme en de Bergense School mede vorm kregen.

De wijk werd voltooid als onderdeel van Berlages Plan Zuid, deels gerealiseerd door socialistische woningcorporaties. Daardoor vonden ook tal van intellectuelen en schrijvers hier een thuis, onder wie Meijer Sluijser, Gerard van het Reve, Jan en Annie Romein en Sal Santen. Het complex De Dageraad geldt nog altijd als een van de belangrijkste monumenten van de Amsterdamse School.

Ook in de 21e eeuw blijft De Pijp een geliefde wijk voor kunstenaars, van Marlene Dumas, Leo Vroegindeweij en Jan Sierhuis tot Hugo Kaagman en Fabrice.

Cultuurhistoricus Michel Didier studeerde in 1987 af met een doctoraalscriptie over schilderkunst, muziek en poëzie. Sindsdien publiceerde hij honderden artikelen en diverse boeken over kunst, film, muziek en fotografie. Vorig jaar verscheen zijn Cultuuratlas van Amsterdam: Oud-Zuid, dit jaar volgt De Pijp en volgend jaar De Jordaan.

Beeld: Katinka van Rood en Paul Grégoire

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De Arti Shuffle is een publiek toegankelijk programma in kunstenaarsvereniging Arti et Amicitiae waarin beeldende kunst, performances, muziek, literatuur en film samenkomen.

In samenwerking met Arti-leden en externe makers ontstaat telkens een verrassend en veelzijdig programma dat nieuwe verbindingen legt, een breed publiek aantrekt en de sociëteit nieuwe energie geeft.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/dit-is-geen-pijp-dit-is-de-pijp

Patrick Radden Keefe: How to Tell a Story

De Balie, Wednesday, September 30 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

The New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe on his approach to reporting. What draws him to figures from the criminal underworld? How do you write journalistic true-crime stories without slipping into sensationalism? And how does he recognize a great story in the first place?

Few nonfiction writers have attained such stature that they appear as themselves in the HBO series Industry and serve as the face of a fashion brand. Patrick Radden Keefe is one of them. Keefe previously wrote groundbreaking accounts of the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical empire made thousands of Americans addicted to prescription painkillers, as well as exposés of the Mafia underworld in New York’s Chinatown. In his reporting for The New Yorker, Keefe has profiled figures such as drug kingpin El Chapo and Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder. His research is so meticulous that he solved the murder of Jean McConville, a woman who was kidnapped and killed during the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland.

Patrick Radden Keefe weaves together deeply personal, often true-crime stories with broader social and political developments, using them to offer a diagnose of our times. A compelling example is his most recent book, London Falling. Following the mysterious death of a British teenager, it emerges that the boy had been leading a double life, posing as the heir to a Russian oligarch. Behind this personal tragedy lies a larger story: how London welcomed Russian billionaires with open arms, fundamentally reshaping the city and transforming it into what became known as ‘Londongrad.’

We’ll talk with Keefe about his approach to reporting. What draws him to figures from the criminal underworld? How do you write journalistic true-crime stories without slipping into sensationalism? And how does he recognize a great story in the first place?

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/patrick-radden-keefe-how-to-tell-a-story

Tank and the Bangas

Paradiso, Monday, November 30 at 08:30 PM GMT+1

Explosion of soul, hiphop and r&b

Hailing from New Orleans, Tank and the Bangas are a globally beloved, shapeshifting collective celebrated for their wildly original fusion of soul, hip-hop, and forward-thinking R&B. Led by singer Tarriona “Tank” Ball and multi-instrumentalist Norman Spence II, the group uses music as a vessel for unbridled joy and communal connection. Fresh off a GRAMMY win for their spoken-word powerhouse The Heart, The Mind, The Soul, they return to a euphoric, party-ready sound on their latest album, The Last Balloon.

As the final installment in their acclaimed album trilogy, The Last Balloon blends raw emotionality with playful exuberance, featuring brilliant collaborations with the likes of Lucky Daye and Ledisi. Rooted in the improvisational poetry scene where they first connected, Tank and the Bangas have crafted a suite of songs designed to thrive on stage. Their highly interactive live shows promise a transcendent, healing experience that inevitably leaves the crowd uplifted.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/tank-and-the-bangas

AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability

SPUI25, Wednesday, September 2 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Why are we rapidly expanding AI infrastructures? What is the social and environmental impact of rapidly expanding AI infrastructures? Who benefits from the AI–hype and who bears the costs? How do metaphors used to describe technology restrict our understanding of these questions?

Join us for the book launch ‘AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability’, an event that explores thematerial, political, and environmental realities behind today’s AI systems. The book explores critical issues, such as the environmental degradation, economicconcentration, and social justice of AI infrastructure, areas that have often been overlooked in discussion on sustainability.The environmental impacts of data centres, the factories of AI, have been extensively documented.Despite this, the European Commission aims to triple the number of data centres operating withinthe EU, relying primarily on efficiency–based measures to control environmental harm. This“sustainability through optimization” approach flawed and does not account for AI’s supply chain of violence. So why are we deepening conflicts across the globe to build places where machines thrive?
During this event, editors Anne Mollen and Fieke Jansen, will introduce the ideas and motivationsbehind ‘AI, Infrastructure, and sustainability’, reflecting on what the material nature, politicaleconomy, and governance of AI reveal about its broader societal consequences. Contributing authors Anne Mollen, Patrick Brodie, and Gerwin van Schie will furhter explore the power structures, environmental impact, and knowledge implications of AI infrastructures.

Speakers

Anne Mollen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Communication Studies at theUniversity of Münster. She conducts research on automation, algorithms and “ArtificialIntelligence“, specifically on the sustainability of AI, automation and public opinionformation, and the use of automated decision–making systems in the workplace. Patrick Brodie is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Informationand Communication Studies at University College Dublin. His research focuses on thepolitical ecology of digital infrastructures. He is the co–author of From the Bog to the Cloud:Dependency and Eco–Modernity in Ireland (Bristol UP, 2025). Gerwin van Schie works as an Assistant Professor in the Media and Culture Department atUtrecht University, where he investigates how plant, soil, flower, and tree metaphors areoperationalised in various forms of algorithmic culture, ranging from government datasystems to academic discourse on platform infrastructures. Fieke Jansen is Assistant Professor at the Media Study department of the University of Amsterdam. She is the co-PI of the critical infrastructure lab en her research focussed on how the material impact of expanding infrastructures is shaping the management, distribution, and depletion of natural resources.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ai-infrastructures-and-sustainability

Jelle x Tarang

Splendor, Friday, August 7 at 08:15 PM GMT+2

Guitar and tabla duo present new original music + a dialogue between tap dance and tabla

Tap dancer Marije Nie met tabla player Tarang Poddar in 2023 in a unique project called 'Book of Premonitions', where more than 200 students from the IVKO school in Amsterdam were invited to collectively create a 'libretto' based on their visions on the future. They made texts, but also scultures and drawings. Working from their materials, the artists of the collective then created a unique, one-off 'opera' that was performed at De Doelen, Korzo and Muziektheater. In this collaboration, Marije and Tarang found a resonance between taps and tablas, which led to this evening in which they will explore the connections between tabla and tap in an improvised dialogue, after which Tarang will present his concert Jelle x Tarang.

Jelle X Tarang have been developing rhythmically intricate instrumental music built around grooves, odd metres, and shifting rhythmic perspectives — technically demanding yet completely accessible to the untrained ear. Drawing from jazz, African musical influences, Indian classical music, and electronic aesthetics, the duo constructs acoustic music that constantly mutates, where repetition, silence, and sudden breaks shape the flow like an evolving machine. Using electric guitar, live processing, tabla, and percussion, they blur the line between acoustic and electronic sound while creating a highly distinctive and contemporary musical language.

Jelle Roozenburg layers melodic fragments, rich contemporary harmonies, and looping textures into compositions that blur the line between acoustic and electronic sound. Within these shifting
structures, Tarang Poddar — a seasoned artist whose stage presence holds the room with the same focused economy as his playing — navigates polyrhythms, metric modulations, and hybrid
percussion textures through a combined tabla and percussion setup; deeply rooted in Indian classical music, his varied influences bleed into one another in unexpected ways, while the tabla
itself is pushed toward unfamiliar sonic territory, creating a highly distinctive and contemporary aesthetic to the instrument.

Marije Nie is a Marije Nie is a tap dancer and theatre maker. She began her career as a musician with her feet—a tap-dancing percussionist—before expanding her practice as a theatrical performer, dramaturg, educator, researcher and facilitator. Through her various collectives and projects, she has created a wide range of concerts, interdisciplinary performances, community art projects, interventions in organisations and artist sessions, creation labs and workshops. Beyond performing, she is committed to facilitate the exchange of experiences and knowledge, and to developing collaborative methods for collective art-making.

Jelle Roozenburg - el. guitar, live processing
Tarang Poddar - tabla, voice
Marije Nie - tap dance

Two movies of tarangpoddarmusic on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWb3J9jiBjs/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtSf1KiOwL/

Member concert
Splendor can only be the independent and free hub that it is, thanks to the members who support us. We pay them back with our specialty: music. Every year, all Splendor musicians play one concert that's free for this crucial group to whom Splendor owes its everyday existence. Combined with many other events, this means that our members have free entrance to over 50 concerts a year for €9,99 p/m (and €4,99 p/m for minima and students!) – and receive a discount for all other concerts. Pretty good deal, right?

The members enable Splendor to remain independent, which is the only way to secure real freedom in programming, experimentation, risk-taking and the promotion of young, upcoming artists. If you can think of another place without a central programming, where last-minute concerts can be planned any moment, where there is no backstage and artists and audience are constantly mingling and hanging out at the bar, where mysterious creative outbursts can be presented that are often labeled 'too risky' elsewhere, and that still guarantees high quality by unleashing the best of The Netherlands' music scene in this creative playground – you get a free membership!

Would you rather just visit this concert without becoming a member? You're more than welcome! Buy your ticket(s) below.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/jelle-x-tarang

Roots, Ancestors, DNA: What are we looking for?

SPUI25, Friday, September 18 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

DNA tests, genealogical databases, the Dutch TV show Spoorloos, roots travels, family constellations, the search for biological ancestors: a (marketed) mass interest in ancestry and lineage has emerged in western worlds.

“In all of us, there is a hunger, bone-marrow deep, to know our heritage—to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning.”
– Alex Haley

Since Alex Haley’s influential 1976 novel Roots, America has seen the rise of a genealogical industry. Western Europe would later start to pick up on the frenzy, with TV shows such as the Dutch Spoorloos, and the BBC’s Who do you think you are?, and particularly with the booming of DNA tests in the 21st century. Simultaneously, the value of ancestors and biological lineage has been accentuated from a different perspective. Stimulated by critical black studies, indigenous studies, and adoption studies, these voices bring to the fore the trauma and impact of forcefully broken (biological) family ties under colonialism, slavery, and international adoption.

Biological descent, lineage, and family trees are quite ambiguous issues. They also carry connotations of biological determinism, racism, and patriarchy. How can racial notions of biological descendance or nationalist belonging, and patriarchal foundations of lineage be critically distinguished from the longing for reparation after separations from ancestors, family, or parents? And, in the case of LHBTQI histories, how have symbolic ancestors done the work of rooting identities in the past in the absence of biological lineage? In sum: What kind of relationships with the past are sought for, and which ones are neglected or excluded?

Speakers

Francesca Morgan teaches U.S. history at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Her publications include her 2021 book on American genealogy’s political dimensions, entitled A Nation of Descendants, and her earlier monograph on hereditary organizations, Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (2005).

Chiara Candaele is a postdoctoral researcher at NL-Lab, KNAW. She specializes in studying the historical intersections of children and colonialism. She wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on the history of transnational adoption in postcolonial Belgium, and is currently conducting research on institutional childcare in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia (1800-1980).

Ayşenur Korkmaz received her Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the afterlives of the Armenian genocide, touching upon mass violence, genealogy, and heritage studies. Korkmaz currently works at the Meertens Institute on an ERC-funded project, where she focuses on Turkey’s immersive heritage spaces and the political imaginaries of neo-Ottomanism.

Marijke Huisman is assistant professor of Public History in the Department of History at Utrecht University, interested in emancipatory uses of the past. She recently published Queer geschiedenis van Nederland. De strijd om een eigen verleden (2026). (A Queer History of the Netherlands. The Struggle around a History of Themselves).

Geertje Mak (moderator) is Professor of Gender History and Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, NL-Lab and KNAW.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/roots-ancestors-dna-what-are-we-looking-for

Een avond met Douglas Stuart over zijn nieuwste roman ‘John, zoon van John’

SPUI25, Friday, September 18 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Deze avond ontvangen we bekroond bestsellerauteur Douglas Stuart. De Schots-Amerikaanse schrijver, die in 2020 de Booker Prize won met zijn debuut Shuggie Bain, gaat in gesprek over zijn laatste roman, John, zoon van John, en over het schrijverschap dat hem tot een van de meest geprezen stemmen van nu maakte.

In John, zoon van John keert John-Calum – Cal voor wie hem kent – na een mislukte start als kunstenaar berooid terug naar het Schotse eiland Harris. Daar wachten de twee pijlers van zijn jeugd: zijn vader John, schaapsboer, tweedwever en lekenprediker, en zijn grootmoeder Ella, een warme en ruwgebekte vrouw uit Glasgow. Cal verlangt naar een soort leven dat op het kale eiland weinig ruimte krijgt, terwijl zijn vader worstelt met zijn zoons lange haren, de vreemde kleren en het geloof dat maar niet wil beklijven. Douglas Stuart schreef een roman over afkomst en plicht, over mannelijkheid en verlangen, en over de ingewikkelde liefde tussen een vader en een zoon en gaat hierover deze avond in gesprek. Koop hier je ticket.

Douglas Stuart (1976) is een Schots-Amerikaanse schrijver. Zijn debuut Shuggie Bain won in 2020 de Booker Prize en werd in meer dan veertig talen vertaald. Daarna verscheen Young Mungo. John, zoon van John is zijn nieuwste roman; het boek werd gekozen voor Oprah’s Book Club en is een wereldwijde bestseller.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/een-avond-met-douglas-stuart-over-zijn-nieuwste-roman-john-zoon-van-john

Hoe maak ik een book-a-zine in eigen beheer?

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Wednesday, August 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Van idee tot Lezz is More. Interactieve workshop met Monique Doppert en Mir Wermuth.

Neem een kijkje achter de schermen van Lezz is More! In deze interactieve workshop nemen auteur Monique Doppert en zakelijk leider Mir Wermuth je mee van concept tot release. We duiken in de wereld van eigen beheer met als study case Lezz is More, dat 1 juli uitkwam. Hoe maak je creativiteit én bedrijfsvoering sluitend zonder uitgever? Met de deelnemers kiezen we twee onderwerpen uit het maakproces om uit te diepen – van manuscript, ontwerp, drukwerk, distributie tot marketing. Na een vragenronde volgt een korte quiz, waarbij de discussie meer telt dan de score. Wij hebben niet de wijsheid in pacht maar delen graag onze ervaring met ieder die zelf een boek wil maken.

Note: Bij aanmelding voor deze activiteit worden je naam en e‐mailadres gedeeld met de maker/organisator, zodat zij indien nodig contact met je kunnen opnemen over je deelname.

Fondsen en partners

Over Pakhuis maakt Ruimte

Deze zomer zetten we de deuren van ons pakhuis open voor makers en gemeenschappen met een leuk idee. Het resultaat? Een agenda boordevol toffe, gratis zomeractiviteiten! Maak bijvoorbeeld je eigen magazine, volg een tekenworkshop met livemuziek, ontmoet andere creatievelingen op marktjes... Ontdek de volledige agenda via Pakhuis maakt Ruimte. Tot snel!

Lees meer Sexual revolution, a lesson by Jennifer Hopelezz Linktree Lezz is more

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/hoe-maak-ik-een-book-a-zine-in-eigen-beheer

[untitled games event] #7: "oblique frequencies"

UGE Studio, Sunday, July 12 at 04:30 PM GMT+2

Abigail + Dykesommar + Hedgeborough + Slowquest + Mystery City + Free Books!

One more UGE before a summer break?

Join us on Sunday 12 July 2026 for a warm evening of games and talks about tuning in to stranger, queerer, and unexpected realms of experience.

The six works in [untitled games event] edition #7 show us parallax views, skewed angles, hidden layers, and rich new possibilities. “You will be returned home safely, but forever changed.”

Abigail is a breathtakingly beautiful handcrafted adventure about memory, loss, and the way places shape the people who leave them behind. Hedgeborough drops us into a left-behind place, and tells a moving story of community-driven change.

Dykesommar is about rapturous, world-bending change, tackling the precarity of queer legacy and the new worlds we build in the shell of the old.

Slowquest’s “pick-your-path” adventure books upend the world you thought you knew on every page, and with every choice. Designer Apsara Flury of Papertrail navigates videogame cityscapes in search of the perfect anti-perspectival style for her project on street library infrastructures.

And Mystery City Games’ outdoor escape rooms turn the street itself into a playground for speculative pasts.

We can’t wait to see you all and experience these works together.

A selection of edition #7 works (from left): Free Books!, Mystery Under Magi-Mart, Hedgeborough, Abigail, and Dykesommar.

[untitled games event] #7: “oblique frequencies”
Sunday 12 July 2026

1630-1900

Tussen de Bogen 46
Amsterdam 1013JB

Games and conversations from 1630 onwards.
Talks at 1730.

Please feel free to bring beverages and snacks to share.
You’re also welcome to bring along your own games or prototype for others to play!

Featured works in edition #7

Dykesommar, by Zoé "lasticotdelespace" Arcaina

A wild soundclash of styles collide in this experimental RPG, made entirely in Microsoft PowerPoint (!!). We play Marjo, a pure product of the het society but then boom bam pow! by a crazy twist of fate she becomes a lesbian.

Ok but how can she build her new identity when she grew up with a het mindset? And also, how can she become a cool lesbian if she doesn't care about her heritage?

🗣️ Creator Zoé Arcaina will be present for a micro-talk

Abigail, by Hapshapen Games

A narrative-driven adventure about memory, change, and the way places shape the people who leave them behind. Featuring a richly crafted world (made with clay and felt and paper and textile!), a unique evolving folk game, and a deeply personal story.

As you explore Abigail’s tactile hometown, grapple with a past that doesn’t exist anymore, and flickers of a future that doesn’t belong to her.

Hedgeborough, by Mary Tallontire

An open world game about the city of Hedgeborough, where a newspaper about declining hedgehog numbers kickstarts community action to improve the biodiversity of the urban area, helping to bring the city together to improve public spaces and maybe bring back hedgehogs too.

A game about community conservation, rewilding, speculative urban futures and ultimately... hedgehogs!

🗣️ Creator Mary Tallontire will be present for a micro-talk

SHOWCASE: Bodie H.’s “pick your path” adventures

A mini-showcase of illustrator Bodie H.’s ‘pick your path' adventure stories in the world of Slowquest. These delightful books allow you to make decisions, pretty much on every page, which influence where the story goes. Grumpy goblins, secret dungeons, magic potions, and more!

🗣️ Bodie H. (Slowquest) will be present for a micro-talk

TALK: The Mystery of A Secret Sender, by Mystery City Games

How do you turn a real city into a game world? Join Ben from Mystery City Games for a look behind the scenes of their first historical mystery. In this interactive game design session, we’ll solve problems, learn from mistakes, and weaponise laziness to turn a rough sketch into a finished game (hopefully faster than last time).

TALK: Apsara Flury of Papertrail, on “Free Books!”

Apsara Flury from Papertrail retraces how videogame urbanism inspired her to draw 50 anti-perspectival illustrations for a book about street library infrastructures.

Tell all your friends, bring all your friends.
As ever, we would love to hear your thoughts.

Until the 12th,

[uge]

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/untitled-games-event-7-oblique-frequencies

Kiss Facility

Paradiso, Thursday, October 8 at 10:00 PM GMT+2

Dream couple create mysterious, Arabic-inspired shoegaze tracks together

Ever since the heyday of Haifa Wehbe, the modern Arab music scene has been waiting for a new embodiment of that feminine energy. Artists such as Mayah Alkhateri are filling this niche with a contemporary vigour. The Emirati-Egyptian musician, together with Salvadore Navarrete – better known as Sega Bodega – is the driving force behind Kiss Facility, a duo that combines shoegaze indie rock with haunting Arabic lyrics. Their latest album, ‘KHAZNA’ (meaning ‘safe’, ‘vault’ or ‘treasure chamber’), refers to everything that is kept hidden. The themes unfold through layered vocals and unexpected sounds, exploring vulnerable subjects such as love and liberation.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/kiss-facility

Super-Sonic Jazz Festival · Friday

Paradiso, Friday, November 20 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

With anaiis, Theo Croker, Nubiyan Twist. Solomon Fox, dreamcast moe and SML

Check hier de volledige line-up van het festival + meer info over de artiesten. 

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/super-sonic-jazz-festival-friday-1

HOSTING SPACE by Maike Statz

San Serriffe, Friday, July 3 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

Hosting Space explores how processes of hosting, such as access, support, and gathering, operate within the context of an art institution. It invites readers to reconsider how these activities are embedded in the spaces we inhabit and how they shape spatial practices.

The publication reflects on an exhibition and event program curated by Maike Statz at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, in 2023, bringing together visual documentation, new writing, and interviews with Staci Bu Shea, Océane Vé-Réveillac, and César Reyes Nájera. Through these contributions, the book considers how art institutions and spatial practitioners might operate differently by prioritizing accessibility, interdependence, difference, maintenance, and spaces for spontaneous gathering.
Designed by Francesca Lucchitta and edited by Mathijs van Geest, Hosting Space is both an invitation and an active archive, engaging with ongoing discussions on socially engaged practices, institutional critique, and exhibition-making as a method of research.

Maike Statz (born 1992) is an Australian interior architect, artist and writer living in Oslo and Amsterdam. In her work she explores the relationship between bodies, emotion, behaviour, identity and space. Informed by feminist and queer practices, Maike Statz investigates spatial inequalities and seeks alternative tools and methods for space-making.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/hosting-space-by-maike-statz

Contra @ Homelanding

Contra, Sunday, July 5 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

Family dinner at Homelanding hosted by Contra. 

Dinner & Live music 

From 18.00 - 22.00 

Book your time slot here

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/contra-homelanding

Workshop African Dance in House Movement by Nadéeya GK

Paradiso, Saturday, August 29 at 11:00 AM GMT+2

Summer Dance Forever 2026

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/workshop-african-dance-in-house-movement-by-nadeeya-gk

Arnon Grunberg meets Ruth Franklin

De Balie, Wednesday, September 2 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Who was Anne Frank as a historical person, and how does her life relate to the global icon she has become? Ruth Franklin speaks with Arnon Grunberg on her book The Many Lives of Anne Frank.

Anne Frank’s diary has come to represent a universal message against hatred and prejudice. Meanwhile, her image has been drawn into widely differing and sometimes controversial political contexts, including comparisons between Jewish suffering during the Holocaust and Palestinian suffering in Gaza today. What is lost when Anne becomes a symbol for many causes at once? How do we balance the universal power of her words with the historical reality of her life as a Jewish girl targeted for extermination by the Nazis?

A conversation about how Anne Frank has been understood, misunderstood, and continually reinterpreted since the publication of her diary. How has her legacy been reshaped in an increasingly divided world, and what does it mean for a life to become a moral symbol?

About the speakers

Ruth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic. Her biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016) won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the year’s best nonfiction books by The New York Times, Time, and NPR, among others. Her writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and Harper’s. Franklin has received several major fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her earlier book, A Thousand Darknesses (2011), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/arnon-grunberg-meets-ruth-franklin-1

Guided tour Wunderkind

Huis Marseille, Monday, June 29 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

Is an artist born or made? Is a person’s identity set from birth, or discovered later? Martine Gutierrez addresses these questions in a large-scale solo exhibition, Wunderkind, emphasising the importance of creativity and expression – qualities that characterised her childhood and made her the internationally celebrated artist she has since become.

Our team of experienced and enthusiastic tour guides will be delighted to take you around any or all of the current exhibitions in Huis Marseille. With new exhibitions mounted every three months, there is always something new to discover and to learn about photography at Huis Marseille. Our tours focus on looking, reflecting, and inquiring as a group.

These interactive guided tours last either 60 or 90 minutes, and can be given either in English or Dutch.

Max. participants

15 persons

Length

at least 1 hour

Cost

€ 90,– per hour, €120,– per 1,5 hour (both excl. museum entrance)

Book now via email

Cancellations A reservation may be cancelled or altered up to 5 working days before your planned visit to Huis Marseille, at no charge. Reservations cancelled later than this are, however, subject to payment in full.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/guided-tour-wunderkind

IN BUT NOT OF with Cecilia Casabona and Noam Youngrak Son

San Serriffe, Friday, June 26 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

Working within cultural institutions creates a core tension: how can you stay independent while trying to change the very systems you’re part of? In But Not Of: Practices of Commoning in Art and Infrastructure explores that tension by mapping out how “commons” can exist both outside and inside the structures of cultural production.

With contributions from Andrea J. Nightingale, Andrea Thal, Bianca Schick, Binna Choi, Chris Lee, Clara Balaguer, Dalia Maini, Josh Plough, Lorenzo Gerbi, Madhumita Nandi, Maren Bang, Nina Martin, Noam Youngrak Son, Noura Alkhalili, Pete Fung, Peter Linebaugh, Simon Fairlie, Wojciech Matejko, and Yin Awien, this collection goes beyond the usual critiques of institutions. It connects cultural commoning to wider histories of social struggle – from the privatization of common land in Britain to the destruction of Palestinian shared farming systems under colonial rule. The book looks at the spaces around institutions as both fragile commons and practical foundations for change.

Through essays, real-world examples, and fiction, these cultural organizers, writers, and artists from different fields and places tackle this tension head-on. How do collectives survive budget cuts and political crackdowns? How do Indigenous ways of knowing challenge institutional ideas about sharing and care? Can circulation and debt be turned into tools for redistribution? And how can speculation and science fiction help us practice autonomy even within systems that limit it?
Instead of just talking about autonomy, this collection pushes for real strategies. It gives cultural organizers a crucial framework for navigating conflicting values—especially now, when the same institutions can fund both decolonial art and genocide.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/in-but-not-of-with-cecilia-casabona-and-noam-youngrak-son

STATEMENT AND COUNTER-STATEMENT 1 + 2 by Experimental Jetset

San Serriffe, Saturday, June 13 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

with talks by Dutton Hauhart, Lieven Lahaye and Experimental Jetset at 6.30pm

We kindly invite you to join us for a special evening dedicated to the release of the two latest paperbacks by Experimental Jetset – their new monograph (‘Statement and Counter-Statement 2: Typologies/ Typographies/ Topologies/ Topographies’) and the reprint of their previous monograph (‘Statement and Counter-Statement: Notes on EJ, Vol. 1’), both published by Roma Publications.
The event will feature two speakers doing short talks – first, there’s Dutton Hauhart, who will tell something about the proofreading of both paperbacks; in fact, Dutton has been the proofreader of all of Experimental Jetset’s paperbacks (and the in-house proofreader of Roma Publications and Idea Books as well), so he might have some interesting things to say about correcting text. Secondly, there’s artist/librarian Lieven Lahaye, contributor to the second paperback, who will read an excerpt from the essay that he wrote for EJ – ‘!KOM direkt’ (‘!COME immediately’), mapping a dérive-like journey through the archive. Added to that, Experimental Jetset will be there as well, signing (or rather, stamping) their books. So when in town, do drop by.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/statement-and-counter-statement-1-2-by-experimental-jetset

How Wars End

De Balie, Thursday, June 25 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Genocide? Now that president Trump has established a ‘Board of Peace,’ in which reconstruction appears to be approached primarily as a real-estate deal, we examine the politics of peace.

Linda Kinstler (journalist for The Economist and a scholar at Harvard University) argues that in peace building, there should be space for ‘oblivion’, a collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’

How have acts of oblivion helped humankind move on since Roman times? What, for instance, was ‘forgotten’ in post-Nazi Germany? Is oblivion still possible in a digital age in which everything is documented? And how is oblivion different from simply ignoring the past and start building a ‘riviera of the Middle East’, as Trump is intending?

Linda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book Come to This Court and Cry, about the Nazi trials. She has also published in, among others, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Guardian.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/how-wars-end

CATALOG: COLLECTED by Lieven Lahaye

San Serriffe, Thursday, June 11 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

with readings by Annie Goodner and Lieven Lahaye at 6.30pm

Catalog is a serial publication about cataloging, written by Lieven Lahaye and designed by Ott Metusala. This book collects the different Catalog signatures, published since 2020. These were originally published as support structures for exhibitions, events and talks. It’s a book that started from one interest (the near invisibility of writer Duncan Smith) and then followed many different tangents until it ended up somewhere... miscellaneous.

With contributions by Phil Baber, Carlo Canún, Kasia Fudakowski, Annie Goodner, Meg Miller, Noah Emanuel Morrison, Joke Robaard, Duncan Smith and Anu Vahtra. With material from the archives of Kathy Acker, Sylvère Lotringer, Terrence Sellers, Semiotext(e), IISG,

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/catalog-collected-by-lieven-lahaye

Rare look inside the original Arti library at the Van Gogh Museum

Arti et Amicitiae, Monday, July 6 at 04:30 PM GMT+2

The Van Gogh Museum is offering Arti members a unique opportunity: a rare glimpse into our original library. Guided by a curator, you’ll gain access to a selection from the complete Arti library, as it was available to artists in the nineteenth century.

A special chance to see books and journals that generations of Arti members consulted for knowledge, inspiration, and artistic development.

The library was built up from the founding of Arti in 1839 and grew into an important collection of art journals and specialist literature. In 1992, the collection was transferred to the Van Gogh Museum, where it has been preserved in its entirety.

On Monday 6 July, Arti members are invited to visit this extraordinary collection free of charge, one final time. There are three time slots available, each for a maximum of 15 participants. Places are limited.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity, reserve your ticket via the button above.

Please note: this activity is exclusively for Arti members.

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Image: Stadsarchief Amsterdam / Vereenigde Fotobureaux N.V.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/rare-look-inside-the-original-arti-library-at-the-van-gogh-museum

Not my Knowledge: Painting workshop "What I carry with me"

VOX-POP, Tuesday, June 30 at 05:00 PM GMT+2

What traditions, stories and forms of knowledge did you grow up with that you rarely see reflected in books or official histories? And how do these shape who you are today? In this painting workshop, you’ll explore these questions through art.

In “What I carry with me” you will work creatively with both personal and collective memories. Heritage and identity are at the heart of this workshop: you’ll reflect on the knowledge, rituals and stories you carry, and translate them into visual art. Step by step, you’ll turn individual and shared experiences into a painting or mixed-media work.

Participation is free, but due to limited capacity we advise you to book your spot in advance. Doors are open at 16.30 and the workshop lasts until 19.00. Location: VOX-POP, binnengasthuisstraat 9. The workshop is in English and in Dutch.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/not-my-knowledge-painting-workshop-what-i-carry-with-me

[untitled games event] #4: "tend and befriend"

UGE Studio, Sunday, April 19 at 04:30 PM GMT+2

Welcome to Approx AI + Data Garden + Curiosmos + Time Flies + Reworlding Ramallah

Join us on Sunday 19 April 2026 for an evening of games and talks about tending, caring, growing, and mutating.

The five works in [untitled games event] edition #4 are all spaces for growth, change and understanding. They are gardens to tend to, playgrounds to explore, offices to break into, or exercises in imagining better futures.

Data Garden is a single-button game about building a reflection of your digital self that knows more about you than yourself. Welcome to Approx AI! considers how you might destroy that digital self, and explores the complexities of modern-day activism.

Curiosmos is a cosmic sandbox where you design a solar system from the ground up. Time Flies is a little adventure about big plans and making the most of our limited time in this world.

Reworlding Ramallah is a collection of short science-fiction stories from Palestine. Editor Callum Copley will present the book, and talk about how gameplay, collaborative storytelling, and worldbuilding exercises can be powerful tools to imagine decolonial futures.

We can’t wait to see you all and experience these works together.

Edition #4 works (from left): Welcome to Approx AI, Data Garden, Curiosmos, Time Flies, Reworlding Ramallah

[untitled games event] #4: “tend and befriend”
Sunday 19 April 2026
1630-1900 (new start time!)

Tussen de Bogen 46
Amsterdam 1013JB

Games and conversations from 1630 onwards.
Talks at 1730.
Please feel free to bring beverages and snacks to share.
You’re also welcome to bring along your own games or prototype for others to play!

Featured works in edition #4

Time Flies, by Michael Frei & Raphaël Munoz

In Time Flies, you're a fly—your life is short and your bucket list is long! Learn an instrument, read a book, become rich, get drunk, or make someone smile. And if you don't feel like pursuing your goals, you can just relax, clean your wings, and listen to music. Explore a painstakingly hand-drawn, densely detailed world.

Curiosmos, by Céline & the Silly Stars

Outer space never looked so cute! Curiosmos is a whimsical cosmic sandbox game where you design a solar system from the ground up.

Collide stardust and asteroids to make a new planet. Once the planet is large enough you can zoom in and play around on the surface. Experiment with shaping the land and weather. Your planet will be curiously watching as you discover how to create clouds, rain, thunder, mountains, volcanoes and even add a sprinkle of life.

🗣️ Creator Céline Veltman will be present for a micro-talk

Data Garden, by Shaman Garage

In this click & click adventure you will have a single button to advance in the story: a virtual routine of a content consumer who lives their day through different platforms that harvest their data.

This data will end up reflected in a growing garden where everything endures. A reflection of your digital self that knows more about you than yourself.

🗣️ Pablo San Gregorio and (hopefully!) Iván McGill from Shaman Garage will be present for a micro-talk

Welcome to Approx AI! by Zofia Bochińska

How can we regain control of our privacy online?
Can we oppose the flood of AI-generated content?
How do we protest in the digital age?
Using old-school computer graphics, an 8-bit soundtrack, three unique characters and a (relatable) office setting, this visual novel invites you to explore the moral complexities of modern-day activism.

🗣️ Creator ZofiaBochińska will be present for a micro-talk

TALK: Callum Copley on Reworlding Ramallah

Reworlding Ramallah is a collection of stories born of a series of science fiction writing workshops led by Callum Copley at Disarming Design in Birzeit, a few miles north of Ramallah, Palestine. In this talk, Callum (who was also the volume’s editor) will explore how gameplay, collaborative storytelling, and world-building exercises can serve as powerful tools for imagining decolonial futures.

Tell all your friends, bring all your friends.
As ever, we would love to hear your thoughts.

Until the 19th,

[uge]

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/untitled-games-event-4-tend-and-befriend

Rememberment: Palestine in Real Time

Perdu, Thursday, June 18 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Scenes of bodily humiliation and mutilation have been screaming from our screens for nearly three years. Working through and against the grain of this obvious, ubiquitous archive, Puar and Srouji set out to excavate the longue durée of debilitation in Gaza and conversely, also to foreground the praxis of “re-member-ment” that highlight Palestinian determination to become differently whole. Puar will be presenting their lecture performance and discussing the politics of image circulation and collective witnessing that inspire Puar and Srouji‘s collaborative work.

This evening at Perdu is the second poetic counterpart to a two-part programme curated by Layal Ftouni. The first event will take the form of a lecture at BAK Basecamp in Utrecht on 16th of June (17.00-19.00).

*This event is partially funded by Layal Ftouni’s NWO Veni grant from the Dutch research Council.*

Bio’s:

Jasbir K. Puar is Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Extraordinary Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa, and Professor Emerita at Rutgers University where she was faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department for 23 years.

Puar is the author of the award-winning books: The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017), which has been translated into Spanish and is forthcoming in Portuguese, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese, and re-issued as an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (2017). Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly, mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian, and translated into more than 20 languages.

Dima Srouji is a Palestinian architect and visual artist exploring the ground as a deep space of rich cultural weight and a space for potential collective repair. She was the Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2022-2023 and currently leading MA City Design studio Underground Palestine at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Institut du Monde Arabe, Corning Museum of Glass, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and The Sharjah Art Foundation.

Layal Ftouni

Dima Srouji

Jasbir K. Puar

Gender Programme at Utrecht University

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