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Svmerion (MEX) + How To Disappear (MEX) + Nebelstørm (NL)

The Cave, Friday, September 11 at 09:00 PM GMT+2

Svmerion (MEX)

Fri September 11, 2026 starts at 23:00

Hailing from Gómez Palacio, Durango Mexican extreme metal force Svmerian delivers a savage blend of thrash and black metal fueled by themes of war, hatred, and violence. Formed in 2018, the band combines razor-sharp riffs, relentless aggression, and raw underground intensity into a sound that’s both chaotic and crushing. With a fierce DIY spirit and uncompromising energy, Svmerian continues to carve its name into the modern extreme metal scene.

How To Disappear (MEX)

Fri September 11, 2026 starts at 22:00

Emerging from the underground with a bleak and emotionally charged sound, How to Disappear blends atmospheric black metal, post-metal, and haunting melancholy into an immersive sonic experience. Formed in 2022, the project explores themes of isolation, loss, and existential despair through crushing riffs, ethereal textures, and emotionally raw songwriting. Balancing aggression with cinematic atmosphere, How to Disappear crafts music that is as introspective as it is devastating.

Nebelstørm (NL)

Fri September 11, 2026 starts at 21:00

Their performances are more rituals than concerts. Shrouded in smoke and minimal lighting, the band often literally disappears into the mist on stage, their silhouettes only vaguely visible as the music induces an almost trance-like state. The audience is immersed in a world where time fades and only the feeling of chill, darkness, and ecstasy remains. Although the band consciously remains independent of labels and commercial influences, they distribute their music through digital platforms and exclusive physical releases (often on limitededition cassette or vinyl). Each work is an incantation, a snapshot of inner turmoil and natural transience. NEBELSTØRM is built on mist, melancholy, and pure artistic conviction. In a world that is constantly getting louder, NEBELSTØRM whispers in stormy silence.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/svmerion-mex-how-to-disappear-mex-nebelstorm-nl

Molton Grove (NL) + Horizon Tide (NL) + RC Sullivan (NL)

The Cave, Saturday, September 12 at 09:00 PM GMT+2

Molton Grove (NL)

Sat September 12, 2026 starts at 23:00

Discover Molton Grove, the alternative rock sensation from Amsterdam! With their powerful riffs and melodies, they are gaining significant ground in the alternative rock scene. Although they draw inspiration from virtually every genre, the band’s sound is primarily rooted in the distinctive style of the 90s. Think of the energy of bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam, blended with a contemporary twist that puts Molton Grove’s own stamp on the genre.

Horizon Tide (NL)

Sat September 12, 2026 starts at 22:00

Horizon Tide (formed in 2015) is an alternative metal band with progressive influences, hailing from the Amsterdam/Utrecht region. The band consists of Daan Romein (vocals, guitar), Tom van der Schaaf (guitar), Hasan Işik (drums), and Lex de Vries (bass guitar). The impression Horizon Tide’s music leaves on the listener is one of an unexpected blend of various (progressive) elements drawn from the metal palette. It is like a story filled with surprising plot twists—music that makes you headbang one moment, drift away in a reverie the next, and occasionally catches you off guard with a sharp, unexpected turn. The band and its music are constantly evolving, yet they always manage to retain their own unique sound.

RC Sullivan (NL)

Sat September 12, 2026 starts at 21:00

R.C. Sullivan is rough and harmonious. It's familiar, yet exciting. The beat is fast and energetic, still variably so. The lyrics are introspective, though inviting. The music is chaotic but catchy. It's melodic hardcore. Expect melodic riffs, vehement vocals and pounding rhythms.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/molton-grove-nl-horizon-tide-nl-rc-sullivan-nl

Ukrainian New Wave

Splendor, Friday, October 30 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

Antonii Baryshevskyi presents:SplenDoor to Ukraine: CINEMA

More info soon

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ukrainian-new-wave

Ontworteld: W.C. Handy en Leadbelly + Music by Friends

Splendor, Friday, October 2 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

River Adomeit presents:

First edition of the new roots-focused series begins with two vital early American Blues musicians, W.C. Handy and Lead Belly. Siebren Smink will play an opening guitar set, celebrating fellow Amsterdam composers.

First set:
Siebren Smink - guitar

Second set:
Cem Karayalçin - guitar
France Amado - voice
River Adomeit - bass

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https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ontworteld-wc-handy-en-leadbelly-music-by-friends

The Mary Wallopers

Paradiso, Saturday, January 30 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

Irish folk with a punk attitude

This is the concert on Saturday, January 30. The Mary Walloppers is also giving a concert on Friday, January 29.

The Mary Wallopers breathe new life into Irish folk songs, without smoothing out the rough edges. The band from Dundalk began during the COVID-19 lockdown with live streams from the living room of brothers Charles and Andrew Handy. What started as a trio grew into a six-piece band, featuring banjo, accordion, tin whistle, uilleann pipes and drums. Traditional songs and protest tunes are given driving rhythms and loose harmonies, ensuring the music remains true to the Irish folk tradition whilst retaining the directness of punk.

The songs deal with working-class life, the housing crisis and resistance to exploitation. Humour and politics blend effortlessly: old Irish folk tunes are not treated as museum pieces, but as stories that still have something to say. On 18 September, their third album ‘Paddywhackery’ is released, recorded in two weeks with James Skelly of The Coral. On tracks such as ‘Landlord’s Demise’, ‘Crowns of England’ and ‘The Big Mixer’, The Mary Wallopers sound fuller and more powerful. At the same time, the core remains the same: using songs from the Irish tradition to say something about life today.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-mary-wallopers-1

The Mary Wallopers

Paradiso, Friday, January 29 at 07:30 PM GMT+1

Irish folk with a punk attitude

This is the concert on Friday, January 29. The Mary Walloppers is also giving a concert on Saturday, January 30.

The Mary Wallopers breathe new life into Irish folk songs, without smoothing out the rough edges. The band from Dundalk began during the COVID-19 lockdown with live streams from the living room of brothers Charles and Andrew Handy. What started as a trio grew into a six-piece band, featuring banjo, accordion, tin whistle, uilleann pipes and drums. Traditional songs and protest tunes are given driving rhythms and loose harmonies, ensuring the music remains true to the Irish folk tradition whilst retaining the directness of punk.

The songs deal with working-class life, the housing crisis and resistance to exploitation. Humour and politics blend effortlessly: old Irish folk tunes are not treated as museum pieces, but as stories that still have something to say. On 18 September, their third album ‘Paddywhackery’ is released, recorded in two weeks with James Skelly of The Coral. On tracks such as ‘Landlord’s Demise’, ‘Crowns of England’ and ‘The Big Mixer’, The Mary Wallopers sound fuller and more powerful. At the same time, the core remains the same: using songs from the Irish tradition to say something about life today.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-mary-wallopers-2

Squeeze

Paradiso, Sunday, March 21 at 07:30 PM GMT+1

A mainstay of British pop

Squeeze are the British band formed around songwriters Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford. Since emerging in the late seventies, they have become a defining presence in British pop, with songs such as 'Cool for Cats' and 'Up the Junction' now regarded as classics. Between 1978 and 1996, 11 singles reached the UK Top 40. Their influence can be heard in artists including Lily Allen and The Killers. More than five decades on, Tilbrook and Difford are still making music together. In 2026, they released 'Trixies', an album first conceived during their teenage years.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/squeeze

Karate Boogaloo

Paradiso, Saturday, February 13 at 10:00 PM GMT+1

Instrumental funk and soul from Melbourne

The four members of Karate Boogaloo have been making music together since their school days. In Melbourne, bassist Henry Jenkins, drummer Hudson Whitlock, organist Callum Riley and guitarist Darvid Thor began by covering songs by Booker T. & The M.G.’s and The Meters. Almost twenty years on, they have distilled those influences into their own brand of instrumental funk and soul. Hammond organ, guitar, bass and drums form the foundation for playful melodies and the tension of an old film soundtrack. The music is recorded live without overdubs, clearly demonstrating just how well the quartet plays together.

Their new album, ‘Access All Areas’, is due for release on 9 October. For this new album, Karate Boogaloo stripped away everything that made the tracks more complicated than necessary. Recorded on four tracks and with as little embellishment as possible, the album showcases how Karate Boogaloo have fully made the instrumental funk and soul of their heroes their own.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/karate-boogaloo

Van Istanbul naar Marrakech

Splendor, Friday, November 27 at 08:30 PM GMT+1

Mattijs van de Woerd presents:Mediterraneo band en zanger gast Salah Eddin Mosbah

Naar Marrakech – een muzikale odyssee over zeeën en eeuwen

In deze vierde editie van het Istanbul Midnight-project dompelen we ons onder in de rijke tradities die de culturen rond de Middellandse Zee met elkaar verbinden:

Programmahoogtepunten
● Andalusische muziek – Ervaar de verfijnde elegantie van de Marokkaanse traditie, diep geworteld in het historische Al-Andalus.
● Ottomaanse klassieke muziek – Luister naar majestueuze makam-lijnen en sierlijke vocale ornamentiek, gevormd door eeuwen van Turkse kunstmuziek.
● Rebetiko – Voel de soulvolle en rauwe charme van de historische straatliederen uit Athene en Istanbul, gebracht met ongepolijste passie en expressie.

Speciale gast: Dr. Michalis Cholevas

Tijdens het evenement geeft Dr. Michalis Cholevas een korte presentatie over de makam. Aan de hand van livevoorbeelden belicht hij de historische achtergrond, klassieke vormen en de improvisatietradities van de instrumentale taksim en vocale gazel.

Mediterraneo Band
De Mediterraneo Band werd opgericht in 2022 en bestaat uit getalenteerde muzikanten uit Syrië, Turkije, Griekenland, Duitsland en Nederland, die een passie delen voor mediterrane muzikale tradities. De band ontstond uit gedeelde ervaringen bij Codarts WMDC in Nederland en biedt een unieke fusie van klassieke en hedendaagse Arabische, Griekse en Turkse composities met westerse instrumenten. Hun geluid weerspiegelt een moderne draai aan Makam-muziek terwijl ze trouw blijven aan haar tijdloze wortels.

Salah Eddin Musbah (MA) - zang
Pelagia Tsiachri Renta (GR) - zang
Burak Savaş (TR) - zang, viool
Caner Malkoç (TR) - klarinet
Yiorgos Bereris (GR) - piano
Ektoras Remsak (GR/PL) - drums
Ayman Hajjmian (SY/NL) - contrabas

Dit project is mede mogelijk gemaakt door de financiële steun van het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), Fonds 21 en het Cultuurfonds (Catarina Latina Fonds)

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https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/van-istanbul-naar-marrakech

RAVEL - Album release!

Splendor, Sunday, October 11 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Bart de Vrees presents:Feestconcert met Ensemble Lumaka: muziek van Ravel voor fluit, harp en strijktrio

Lumaka is al jaren in de ban van de betoverende en geniale muziek van Maurice Ravel. Daarom gaat het ensemble nu het album RAVEL met bewerkingen van zijn mooiste stukken uitbrengen: de Sonatine en Tombeau de Couperin werden al eerder voor fluit, harp en strijkers bewerkt. De arrangementen van Ma Mère l’Oye en Menuet Antique voor kwintet komen van leden van Lumaka zelf.

Ter feestviering speelt Lumaka uittreksels uit het nieuwe album (en iets meer) en er zal een verrassing plaatsvinden - wellicht wint u dan de nieuwe schrijf?

Ensemble Lumaka, bestaat inmiddels bijna 25 jaar en werd opgericht door Jana Machalett (fluit), Martina Forni (altviool) en Miriam Overlach (harp), toentertijd studenten aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Al gauw wonnen zij enkele concoursen zoals het Internationale Kamermuziekconcours Almere en Het Debuut. Sindsdien is het ensemble uitgebreid met cello (Charles Watt) en viool (wisselende spelers) en trad het ensemble regelmatig op in de mooiste concertzalen van Nederland (waaronder de Kleine Zaal van het Concertgebouw, de Hermitage, Concertgebouw de Vereeniging) en bij festivals (bijvoorbeeld het Grachtenfestival, Festival Classique, Peter de Grote Festival, het Thailand International Harpfestival, het 47th Istanbul Music Festival). RAVEL is de vierde cd van Lumaka.
De Lumaka-leden zijn tegenwoordig o.a. werkzaam bij het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Postland en als solisten en kamermusici in de hedendaagse en oude muziek, maar vinden toch nog steeds de tijd om met elkaar te blijven optreden en van het gezamenlijk spel te genieten.
De afgelopen jaren is het ensemble zich steeds meer gaan verdiepen in de muziek van 1900 tot 1940, met name uit Frankrijk. In die tijd ontstond er veel nieuw repertoire voor fluit, harp en strijkers en het is een tijd vol omwentelingen in maatschappij en dus ook muziek: zo hoor je nog overblijfselen uit romantiek, de eerste jazz-invloeden, fascinatie voor buiten-Europese muziek, gekke tonaliteit en ritmiek... of soms, zoals bij Ravel het eerbetoon aan de oude meesters uit het barok.

Ensemble Lumaka:
Jana Machalett - fluit
Martina Forni - altviool
Charles Watt - cello
Miriam Overlach - harp
Te gast: Laura Lunansky - viool

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ravel-album-release

Duo 12-21: Classical & Electric Guitars

Splendor, Monday, October 12 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

Mattijs van de Woerd presents:Works by a.o. Bach, Debussy, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Tigran Hamasyan & Brad Mehldau

Duo 12-21 is a guitar duo formed by Portuguese guitarist Bárbara Macedo (2004) and Estonian guitarist Kelly Johannes (2003), both studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, under the guidance of Gabriel Bianco.

12-21 was born from their desire to step beyond traditional boundaries and explore new possibilities with the guitar. By moving between the classical and electric guitar, they create a dialogue between two contrasting yet connected sound worlds, exploring their different possibilities. The name 12–21 reflects this idea of contrast and connection: two distinct elements that, while different, share a common identity. Their program includes works by celebrated composers from the classical tradition, including J. S. Bach and C. Debussy, alongside contemporay composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Tõnu Kõrvits. They also perform their own arrangements of music by jazz musicians such as Tigran Hamasyan and Brad Mehldau.

Bárbara Macedo – Classical & Electric Guitar
Kelly Johannes – Classical & Electric Guitar

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/duo-12-21-classical-and-electric-guitars

Daniël Belinfante - Et in Arcadia Ego

Splendor, Monday, October 5 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Mattijs van de Woerd presents:Pianorecital by Dimitri Malignan, CD launch concert

Launch concert of the new CD Daniël Belinfante – Et in Arcadia Ego: a piano recital by Dimitri Malignan featuring the music of Daniël Belinfante—a Dutch-Jewish composer born in Amsterdam in 1893 and murdered at Auschwitz in 1945—recorded for the first time.

The program juxtaposes Belinfante’s works with those of composers who inspired him or whose aesthetic aligned with his own: Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Milhaud... and other surprises!

This CD is part of the Missing Voices collection and project initiated by Dimitri Malignan, and dedicated to recording composers who were persecuted in the Holocaust.

Dimitri Malignan, piano

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/daniel-belinfante-et-in-arcadia-ego

Pi Strijkkwartet

Salon de IJzerstaven, Sunday, October 25 at 04:00 PM GMT+1

Avontuurlijk programma met 21e‑eeuwse muziek: werken van Caroline Shaw, Gabriella Smith, Joey Roukens en John Luther Adams.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/pi-strijkkwartet

The Black Fire Documentary (2023)

Melkweg, Wednesday, October 14 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

The Amsterdam-based music platform Steppin’ Into Tomorrow is back with a special curated night of three short Afro-jazz documentaries and an online Q&A with saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch.

Juju to Oneness of Juju (2026)
The story of the evolution of the legendary African spiritual jazz group Juju into Oneness of Juju, known from tracks like 'African Rhythms'.

The Black Fire Documentary (2023)
The Black Fire Documentary uncovers Washington, DC’s music and its cultural heritage by highlighting the documents, images, photographs, art, video footage, music and the people behind Black Fire Records. Through the use of primary and secondary research methods, in-person interviews, and archival and media footage and photography, the documentary shines light on a Black-owned independent jazz record label started in Chocolate City, aka the nation’s capital in the 1970’s. Established by DJ and record producer Jimmy Gray, and saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch who led the band Oneness Of Juju, Black Fire Records followed in the footsteps of other influential black-owned independent labels like Strata-East and Tribe.

Tony Williams in Africa (1973)
Tony Williams in Africa is a 37-minute short by bassist and educator Willie Ruff that follows American jazz drummer Tony Williams on a trip to Senegal and Gambia in 1972, featuring super 8mm footage of Williams jamming outdoors with West African drummers as well as a framing section with Ruff, Williams, and pianist Dwike Mitchell presenting the film on 16mm to local children. Restored by the Yale Film Archive and hasn’t been released on any commercial streaming services.

Online Q&A: Plunky Branch
After the films there is an online Q&A with James “Plunky” Branch to talk about Black Fire Records and his band Oneness of Juju!

Melkweg often hosts different types of programmes at the same time, such as concerts, club nights and films. Please note that there may occasionally be some noise pollution from other programmes during the screening.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-black-fire-documentary-2023

The Black Fire Documentary (2023)

Melkweg, Wednesday, October 14 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

The Amsterdam-based music platform Steppin’ Into Tomorrow is back with a special curated night of three short Afro-jazz documentaries and an online Q&A with saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch.

Juju to Oneness of Juju (2026)
The story of the evolution of the legendary African spiritual jazz group Juju into Oneness of Juju, known from tracks like 'African Rhythms'.

The Black Fire Documentary (2023)
The Black Fire Documentary uncovers Washington, DC’s music and its cultural heritage by highlighting the documents, images, photographs, art, video footage, music and the people behind Black Fire Records. Through the use of primary and secondary research methods, in-person interviews, and archival and media footage and photography, the documentary shines light on a Black-owned independent jazz record label started in Chocolate City, aka the nation’s capital in the 1970’s. Established by DJ and record producer Jimmy Gray, and saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch who led the band Oneness Of Juju, Black Fire Records followed in the footsteps of other influential black-owned independent labels like Strata-East and Tribe.

Tony Williams in Africa (1973)
Tony Williams in Africa is a 37-minute short by bassist and educator Willie Ruff that follows American jazz drummer Tony Williams on a trip to Senegal and Gambia in 1972, featuring super 8mm footage of Williams jamming outdoors with West African drummers as well as a framing section with Ruff, Williams, and pianist Dwike Mitchell presenting the film on 16mm to local children. Restored by the Yale Film Archive and hasn’t been released on any commercial streaming services.

Online Q&A: Plunky Branch
After the films there is an online Q&A with James “Plunky” Branch to talk about Black Fire Records and his band Oneness of Juju!

Melkweg often hosts different types of programmes at the same time, such as concerts, club nights and films. Please note that there may occasionally be some noise pollution from other programmes during the screening.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-black-fire-documentary-2023

Beyond the Dresscode

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Thursday, October 8 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

What does it mean to find your style, and yourself, between Caribbean and Dutch cultures?

On the Dutch Caribbean islands, style comes with rules like church protocols, community expectations and the pressure to fit a certain mold. Moving to the Netherlands, or elsewhere abroad, opens up a world of options. But it also brings new questions: Who am I without those rules? How do I stay connected to my roots while exploring new ways of expressing myself? We’re bringing together creatives who live this tension every day. Designers, stylists, and visionaries navigating between two worlds, two beauty standards, and two very different ideas of what fashion should be. We’ll explore the shift from “bo no ta bisti kos di hende” to thrifting and upcycling, and the courage it takes to experiment in a small community. We’ll also tackle the bigger question: what does beauty mean in the Caribbean vs. the Netherlands, and who gets to define it?

Pop out and show out for a night of connection, culture and conversation!

POP-UP EVENT: Browse and shop at our pop-up market featuring clothing and accessories from Dutch Caribbean brands and makers. More info on the pop-up market will be shared soon!

In this programme Goldiie Creative Director, Designer and Stylist John Brooks Founder & Director, Brooks Modeling Agency BV Quiana Cronie Multidisciplinary Designer

More about the speakers

Goldiie is a Curaçaoan-Bonairian multidisciplinary artist, creative director, and jewelry designer. Her work explores themes of beauty, identity, memory, and transformation. Moving between design, fashion, film, and education, she draws deeply from her Caribbean heritage. By bringing together personal stories, cultural elements, and different artistic disciplines, Goldiie creates her own layered visual language.

Originally from St. Maarten and based in Amsterdam, John Brooks is the founder and director of Brooks Modeling Agency. Since founding the agency in 2012, he has built it from an independent boutique into an internationally focused modeling agency with a presence in Amsterdam, Milan and Paris. Driven by instinct and a genuine passion for discovering new talent, John has always looked beyond conventional ideas of beauty. His approach is personal and hands-on, with a strong focus on individuality, development and building careers that can grow internationally. Over the years, Brooks Modeling Agency has developed a diverse roster of models working across the global fashion industry. At the heart of John’s work remains the same philosophy he started with: recognising potential, giving talent an opportunity, and helping individuality stand out.

Quiana Cronie is an Aruban multidisciplinary designer exploring storytelling through visual design and fashion. Inspired by Aruba’s forgotten narratives, she translates stories into visual worlds, textures, and wearables. Her work bridges past and present, preserving and reimagining the island’s stories for future generations.

Nerizje Polanco is a fashion enthusiast, content creator and Cultural Anthropologist with a passion for style, culture and self-expression. Their approach to fashion is deeply rooted in an appreciation for identity and cultural expression. Their Caribbean heritage heavily influences their style, bringing vibrancy, individuality, and a strong sense of cultural pride to their looks.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/beyond-the-dresscode

Ongewenst, maar niet uitzetbaar

SPUI25, Thursday, October 8 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Deze avond gaat over de verschoppelingen van deze wereld: de veroordeelde buitenlandse crimineel die zijn straf heeft uitgezeten, maar niet kan worden uitgezet. De voormalige terrorist die, zonder ooit een rechter te hebben gezien, voor onbepaalde tijd wordt vastgehouden. En de vermeende génocidair die zelfs na vrijspraak nergens een thuis vindt.

Het is het verhaal van een van de meest beladen politieke kwesties van deze tijd: ongewenste, maar niet-uitzetbare migranten. Criminologen Joris van Wijk en Maarten Bolhuis hebben hier het boek ‘Undesirable but Unremovable Migrants: War Criminals, Terrorists and Foreign Offenders in Limbo’ over geschreven. Op deze avond laten zij aan de hand van verschillende voorbeelden zien hoe dit probleem is ontstaan, hoe omvangrijk het inmiddels is geworden en welke oplossingen denkbaar zijn.

Verwacht geen pasklare oplossingen, maar wél grote vragen en onvolkomen antwoorden. Joris van Wijk en Maarten Bolhuis vertellen over Congolese jagers-verzamelaars, Griekse asylia, ontmaskerde nazi’s, Afghaanse oorlogsmisdadigers en het verzwegen geheim van Guantánamo Bay.

Deze avond confronteert je ook met de vraag waar jij zelf staat. Hoe ver mag de staat gaan in het beperken van fundamentele rechten om de samenleving te beschermen? Gelden voor de ‘ander’ andere regels? En zo ja, waarom eigenlijk?

Sprekers

Joris van Wijk is hoogleraar Criminology of conflict-related crimes and post-conflict justice aan de VU.

Maarten Bolhuis is universitair docent Criminologie aan de VU. Hun onderzoek richt zich op raakvlakken tussen conflictgerelateerde criminaliteit en terrorisme, post-conflict transities, en migratie.

Elies van Sliedregt is hoogleraar Strafrecht en Strafprocesrecht aan Tilburg University. Daarvoor was zij hoogleraar Internationaal Strafrecht aan de University of Leeds (Verenigd Koninkrijk). Eerder werkte zij aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, waar zij van 2011 tot 2015 decaan was van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid. In 2022 ontving zij een ERC Advanced Grant voor het project Joined Up Justice: Building a Global Justice System at the Domestic Level. Haar recente onderzoek richt zich op de wisselwerking tussen internationaal strafrecht, vluchtelingenrecht en het Europese strafrecht.

Veronique Aicha (moderator) is Head of Social Impact bij RESCALED, een Europese beweging die pleit voor kleinschalige detentiehuizen die verankerd zijn in de gemeenschap, als vervanging voor grootschalige gevangenissen. Haar werk richt zich op het hervormen van rechtssystemen in Europa. Eerder werkte ze als programmamanager criminal justice bij het Nederlands Helsinki Comité, waar ze werkte in landen als Albanië en Kosovo. Daarnaast was ze voorzitter van de European Prison Education Association (EPEA) in Nederland waarvoor ze gevangenissen bezocht in heel Europa. Ook publiceert ze artikelen en werkt ze momenteel aan haar eerste documentaire als regisseur: een hybride film over jazz en rechtvaardigheid, waarin de relatie tussen artistieke expressie en maatschappelijke onderdrukking centraal staat.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ongewenst-maar-niet-uitzetbaar

Pottenkijkers: Bouchra

De Uitkijk, Wednesday, September 16 at 09:00 PM GMT+2

After a summer break, Pottenkijkers returns to our favorite theater De Uitkijk on September 16 with the original, groundbreaking animated film Bouchra (2025), the first feature film by documentary filmmaker Orian Barki and visual artist Meriem Bennani (known for the web series 2 Lizards).

Bouchra, a filmmaker from New York, tries to write about her departure from Casablanca and her mother in Morocco. In the nine years since Bouchra came out, she and her mother have barely spoken. While Bouchra seeks support from her friends in the New York queer scene, she picks up the phone and calls her mother. In doing so, she tries to come to terms with exactly what happened, and with everything that has remained unspoken between them.

Barki and Bennani bring documentary, fiction, improvisation and memory together. Bouchra and her mother appear as coyotes, sometimes in multiple versions at once, as they approach, avoid and repeatedly try to understand one another. Bouchra is not only a film about a complicated mother-daughter relationship, but also about migration, intimacy, and the question of how to tell a story that has not yet reached its end.

• Language: English, French, Arabic
• Subtitles: English
• Duration: 83 mins.
• Director: Orian Yani Barki & Meriem Bennani
• Cast: Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki, Fayçal Azizi
• Year: 2025
• Country: United States, Italy, Maroc

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/pottenkijkers-bouchra

How Diversity And Inclusion Came Under Attack

De Balie, Thursday, October 22 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies are under fire from both sides of the political spectre: efforts are dismissed as ‘woke’ on the right and as a corporate checklist substituting real change on the left. How have these principles of diversity become so politicized?

The death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday marks a tragic low point in the culture war surrounding diversity and inclusion policies. In the United States, the Trump administration is rolling back such policies, while in the Netherlands, major corporations are pulling out of events such as Amsterdam’s Canal Parade. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies are under fire from both sides: efforts are dismissed as ‘woke’ on the right and as a corporate checklist substituting real change on the left.

The diversity principle holds that societies, institutions and democracies are strengthened when people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives engage with one another. But how to get there, when this very notion has become so politicized?

Tonight we look at the role that universities have played in the ideas and policies on diversity, equity and inclusion. Professor David B. Oppenheimer wrote the book The Diversity Principle, which chronicles how diversity became a foundational value of higher education over the last two hundred years, from quota for Jewish students at Ivy League schools to the desegregation of schools in the American South after the civil rights movement. He will enter into conversation with Dr. Ivana Isailović, who examines how neoliberalism is incorporating emancipatory thoughts and movements.

About the speakers

David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and Co-Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. He is the author of The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea.

Ivana Isailović is Assistant Professor of EU law and the academic coordinator of the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) interdisciplinary research project. Her research sits at the intersection of law, gender studies, critical theory and political economy. Her ongoing research examines the interplay between law, political economy and gender based inequalities in global contexts.

Samira Rafaela is a former Member of the European Parliament, international speaker and advisor advocating for better women’s health. She also conducted research into the gender pay gap as a visiting researcher at Cornell University in the US.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/how-diversity-and-inclusion-came-under-attack

A Man of Integrity

De Balie, Sunday, September 13 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

A principled man refuses to surrender his small farm to a powerful corporation, but his resistance draws him into a corrupt system where money, influence and violence dictate the rules.

Reza, a former university lecturer, has withdrawn from public life and moved with his wife and young son to a remote village in northern Iran, where he runs a small goldfish farm. Hoping to live quietly and independently, he soon discovers that keeping out of local power struggles is easier said than done.

A powerful corporation, backed by corrupt local officials, is determined to take control of the land and water around his farm. When Reza refuses to cooperate, seemingly minor acts of intimidation gradually escalate into a campaign designed to force him out. His commitment to honesty and principle is put to the test.

With A Man of Integrity, Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a tense and uncompromising portrait of corruption and power. Reza’s struggle is not simply against a particular company or group of officials, but against a society in which injustice has become deeply embedded.

The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where Rasoulof was awarded the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Film.

On 4 September, Mohammad Rasoulof joins us at De Balie for The Aesthetics of Tyranny, a conversation about power, repression and the representation of tyranny in his work. In the weeks that follow, we present a small retrospective of Rasoulof’s films, offering the opportunity to discover his remarkable body of work on the big screen.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/a-man-of-integrity

Heritage and Horizon: Screening Porte Bagage (2026)

VOX-POP, Thursday, October 1 at 04:30 PM GMT+2

Join us on Thursday 1 October for the screening of Porte Bagage (2026) at VOX-POP. This acclaimed road movie is the debut film by Abdelkarim and Asma El-Fassi. The screening is taking place as part of the project Heritage and Horizon: Between Memory and Imagination.

Please note that the movie is in Dutch. English subtitles are available.

Porte Bagage centres on a familiar journey: the road trip from the Netherlands to Morocco, an annual ritual for many Moroccan-Dutch people. With the trunk (and sometimes the roof too) fully loaded, a multi-day journey begins in which ‘home’ in the Netherlands gives way to ‘home’ in Morocco.

The film portrays this journey in an emotional, nostalgic and also humorous way. Along the way, the travellers laugh, debate, eat, sing and create new memories. What appears to be an ordinary holiday trip actually symbolises living between two different places, which can both feel like home.

The success of Porte Bagage has shown how this summer holiday has become part of a shared experience amongst Moroccan-Dutch people. The film touches on questions of family, memory, identity, living between different worlds and choosing one’s own destiny.

Synopsis

Noor (30) looks after her stubborn father Musa (76), who suffers from dementia. When offered her dream job as a chef in Paris, she is left to choose between her career and her family.

To make the severity of their father’s condition clear to her brothers and sister, Noor arranges an appointment with a neurologist. Following the death of a close friend, Musa expresses his wish to return to Morocco. Initially reluctant, Noor begins to see this as her way out – helping her father return to his homeland whilst finally pursuing her own dreams of independence.

Despite resistance from her brother Farid, she manages to persuade her brothers to join her on a road trip, during which they come to terms with their past and their uncertain future.

About Zouka

Zouka is a film company with a social heart, sharing stories that matter. Zouka creates authentic films and documentaries and develops innovative concepts and strategies that harness the power of film to bring about social change. Their focus is on sharing stories from underrepresented groups; people whose voices need to be heard. Zouka believes in the power of inclusion and uses creativity to transform ideas into powerful visual stories that make an impact, with the ultimate goal of bringing communities closer together.

Programme

16:00 Doors open
16:30 Start of screening
18:30 End of event

Practical information

This event is free and open to everyone. We do ask that you register in advance. The event will take place at VOX-POP (ground floor), Binnengasthuisstraat 9.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/heritage-and-horizon-screening-porte-bagage-2026

Living Room Session

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

Fragmented Resonance

Living Room Session is a curatorial framework and recurring live program set in a metaphorical living room where different artistic practices meet. Curated and hosted by Shaquille Shaniqua Joy, each edition brings together artists who explore a shared subject through their own medium.

This edition centers on Fragmented Resonance, a subject that considers how understanding emerges through fragments, echoes, and relationships rather than fixed meanings. Memories, sounds, objects, movements, and encounters carry traces that repeat and reverberate across time, creating connections between places, histories, and lived experiences. Like an echo, resonance is never an exact repetition, it shifts, returns, and transforms. Meaning lies not in certainty but in what continues to resonate between people, bodies, and places.

Join us on October 2 for an evening with a reading by interdisciplinary artist and poet(ic learner) senakirfa A. alongside a meditative soundscape by storyteller and sound artist Marine Magdalene, and the screening of two short films by artist and photographer Bernice Mulenga, followed by a conversation with Shaquille Shainqua Joy exploring the music and sounds that influence their practice.
Programimage made by senakirfa A.

Line-up

BERNICE MULENGA

Bernice Mulenga (b. 1996) is a British-Congolese artist and photographer based in London. Mulenga’s practice seeks to archive, document and interrogate the world around them, primarily focusing on themselves, Black queer global and local communities, and the experiences found within them. Their work centres on bonds, kinship and the search for intimacy. This is exemplified in their ongoing photo series #friendsonfilm, a living archive that has been growing since 2015 and continues to evolve with time.

Mulenga’s recent exhibitions include their first institutional solo show, LMK WHEN U REACH at Auto Italia, London (2025); Malembe, Malembe, Goswell Road, Paris (2025); Sending My Love To You, Baby, Haricot Gallery, London (2024); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2024); Pictures of Us, Gathering, London; The Makings of You, Modern Art Oxford (Photo Oxford); and Beautiful Experiments at Photo50 London Art Fair (all 2023), among many others. Most recently, Mulenga was awarded the Circa Prize 2024, and their film Let’s Move On was featured on Piccadilly Lights in London and other international screens throughout September 2024.

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SENAKIRFA A.

senakirfa A. is an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary artist and poet(ic learner), her work across installation, sculpture, writing, sound, and zine-making, is an extension of her poetry practice, through which she centers what she terms poetic in(ter)ventions: an amalgam signifying what African-Diasporic worldmaking ushers in. A. deeply fosters the thinking that she has been able to share, and simultaneously the continuous collaborative making that unfolds together with Bobbie Müller, Jung Yeon Kim, Phantom Wizard, and S*an D. Henry-Smith.

For the Living Room Session, senakirfa A. will read and work with sound informed by her study of the traditionally female-led Nnwonkoro song tradition of the Ashanti people in Ghana.

MARINE MAGDALENE

Marine is a storyteller and sound artist whose work explores how sound can create space for remembrance, healing, and (re)connection with diasporic histories while opening pathways toward new cultural futures and practices. Guided by her Afro and Caribbean heritage, she creates meditative sonic landscapes that invite listeners to reflect and feel inward.

SHAQUILLE SHANIQUA JOY

Shaquille Shaniqua Joy is a moderator and cultural curator whose practice centers on storytelling. Working across conversations, programs, and exhibitions, Shaquille explores how subjectivity and lived experience can serve as vital forms of knowledge. Their curatorial and conversational practice emphasizes exchange over extraction: as a moderator, they prioritize conversations rather than interviews, cultivating environments where complexity, nuance, and vulnerability can be explored. Through this approach, Shaquille collaborates with cultural institutions, museums, platforms, and brands to create encounters where listening, resonance, and embodied presence become central methods of inquiry, including formats such as Living Room Session.

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/living-room-session-1

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

De Balie, Sunday, September 27 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

When a judge’s service pistol disappears, mounting political unrest turns a Tehran family against itself as suspicion, fear and authoritarian power invade their home.

Iman is appointed as an investigating judge at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. His promotion brings both prestige and a new burden – as protests erupt across the country, he is expected to enforce the state’s increasingly severe response. Meanwhile, his wife and two daughters are watching the events unfold on social media, increasingly questioning the system their father serves.

When his service pistol mysteriously disappears, the tensions inside the family reach breaking point. Suspicion turns inward as father, mother and daughters become trapped in a struggle over trust, authority and belief. What begins as a family drama gradually transforms into a claustrophobic portrait of a society consumed by fear and paranoia.

With The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof connects the intimate and the political with extraordinary force. The film was made under the threat of repression in Iran, and its story draws directly on the nationwide protests of 2022. Moving between the streets of Tehran and the increasingly oppressive confines of the family home, Rasoulof examines how authoritarian power penetrates private life — shaping relationships, eroding trust and turning even a family into a battleground.

The film premiered in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Special Jury Prize. Rasoulof himself had fled Iran shortly before the premiere after being sentenced to prison and receiving a flogging sentence for his filmmaking and criticism of the Iranian authorities.

On 4 September, Mohammad Rasoulof joins us at De Balie for The Aesthetics of Tyranny, a conversation about power, repression and the representation of tyranny in his work. In the weeks that follow, we present a small retrospective of Rasoulof’s films, offering the opportunity to discover his remarkable body of work on the big screen.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig

There Is No Evil

De Balie, Sunday, September 20 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

Four stories reveal the human cost of Iran’s death-penalty system, as ordinary people are forced to choose between obedience, resistance and moral responsibility.

A husband returns home after a night shift. A young soldier struggles with an order he cannot accept. A man living in isolation carries the consequences of a decision made years earlier. And a young couple discovers that the past of someone close to them is not what they imagined. Across these stories, Rasoulof moves between the everyday and the extraordinary, revealing how political repression can reach deep into private lives.

Rather than depicting authoritarianism solely through its institutions, There Is No Evil focuses on the individuals who are forced to navigate them. Some obey, some resist, and others try to find a way to live with the consequences of their choices. The result is a quietly devastating film about moral responsibility, complicity and the price of obedience.

The film was made under the shadow of Rasoulof’s own persecution by the Iranian authorities. At the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival, where he was unable to attend because of a travel ban, There Is No Evil won the Golden Bear for Best Film.

On 4 September, Mohammad Rasoulof joins us at De Balie for The Aesthetics of Tyranny, a conversation about power, repression and the representation of tyranny in his work. In the weeks that follow, we present a small retrospective of Rasoulof’s films, offering the opportunity to discover his remarkable body of work on the big screen.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/there-is-no-evil

The Iron Island

De Balie, Sunday, September 6 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

A community living aboard a stranded ship is held together by a charismatic captain whose paternal authority slowly reveals itself as a system of control.

A rusting oil tanker stranded in the Persian Gulf has become an unlikely home for a community of poor and displaced families. Here, children go to school, marriages are arranged, livelihoods are built from scrap metal and oil, and Captain Nemat presides over it all. Charismatic, paternal and increasingly authoritarian, he keeps the fragile community together while quietly dismantling the very ship on which they live.

In Iron Island, Mohammad Rasoulof turns the tanker into a miniature society and a powerful allegory of life under authoritarian rule. The Captain offers protection and stability, but demands obedience in return. When the young Ahmad falls in love with a girl whom Nemat has promised to another man, his refusal to accept the rules of the community brings the Captain’s authority into sharp focus. Meanwhile, the ship itself is slowly sinking beneath them.

Made in 2005, Iron Island already contains many of the themes that would define Rasoulof’s later work: the mechanisms of power, obedience and punishment, the relationship between individual freedom and collective order, and the ways ordinary people become complicit in systems that ultimately threaten them. The film premiered at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight.

On 4 September, Mohammad Rasoulof joins us at De Balie for The Aesthetics of Tyranny, a conversation about the representation of power and oppression in his work. In the weeks that follow, we present a small retrospective of Rasoulof’s films, offering the chance to discover his remarkable body of work on the big screen.

zo 20 sep / 14:00 Cinema

There Is No Evil

Four stories reveal the human cost of Iran’s death-penalty system, as ordinary people are forced to choose between obedience, resistance and moral responsibility. A husband returns home after a night shift. A young soldier struggles with an order he cannot accept. A man living in isolation carries the consequences of a decision made years earlier.

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig

When a judge’s service pistol disappears, mounting political unrest turns a Tehran family against itself as suspicion, fear and authoritarian power invade their home. Iman is appointed as an investigating judge at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. His promotion brings both prestige and a new burden – as protests erupt across the country, he is expected to

Meer Info Tickets vr 4 sep / 19:30 Geopolitiek & Mensenrechten Idee & Verbeelding

Mohammad Rasoulof: The Aesthetics of Tyranny

Mohammad Rasoulof is considered one of the most important modern-day Iranian filmmakers. In his films, he exposes the inner workings of the Iranian regime and shows how political oppression and corruption shape the everyday lives of Iranians. Rasoulof’s films themselves have also been marked by repression. During this edition of The State of the World,

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https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-iron-island

CinéDialoog: Sovereign Son

De Balie, Tuesday, September 22 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

In een zelfgebouwde tent aan de rand van Amsterdam wordt eind 2021 het lichaam gevonden van de Engelse Stanley Powton. Stichting De Eenzame Uitvaart, een initiatief waarbij dichters een gedicht schrijven voor mensen zonder nabestaanden, spoort zijn zoon Marcus op, nét op tijd voor de begrafenis.

Als baby heeft Marcus zijn vader één keer ontmoet en hij probeerde hem al jaren te vinden. Marcus wil zijn vader postuum leren kennen. Samen met filmmaker Cindy Jansen keert hij terug naar de plek waar Stanley leefde en stierf. Zonder de tent, maar met de sporen van een leven buiten de instituties. Voor Marcus zijn het schatten.

Terwijl hij zijn vaders spoor volgt, groeit bij Marcus de identificatie. Stanley’s radicale terugtrekking uit de samenleving wordt een verleidelijk tegenbeeld van Marcus’ eigen leven. Zijn wantrouwen tegenover instanties neemt toe en hij raakt steeds meer gefascineerd door mannelijke online ideeën die controle, zelfredzaamheid en zelfbeheersing beloven.

Met behulp van AI-gegeneerde beelden onderzoekt de film hoe herinnering en identiteit worden gevormd en herschreven en wordt ook Marcus’ wankele grip op zijn eigen verhaal zichtbaar. Wat begon als een zoektocht naar een verdwenen vader, verschuift gaandeweg naar Marcus’ verlangen om buiten het systeem te leven. Een nieuwe start buiten Nederland, op zijn eigen voorwaarden.

Na de vertoning gaan we met de filmmaker in gesprek over Sovereign Son en over het gebruik van AI in de film een in ’t algemeen.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cinedialoog-sovereign-son

Black Achievement Month: Samba Traoré

De Balie, Sunday, October 11 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

Na een mislukte overval op een benzinestation, waarbij zijn medeplichtige wordt gedood, vlucht Samba Traoré met een koffer vol geld naar zijn geboortedorp in Burkina Faso. Daar probeert hij een nieuw leven te beginnen en zijn verleden achter zich te laten.

Met het gestolen geld bouwt Samba een nieuw bestaan op. Hij trouwt met Saratou, wordt opgenomen in het dorpsleven en opent samen met zijn jeugdvriend de eerste bar van het dorp. Voor de buitenwereld lijkt hij een nieuw leven te hebben gevonden. Maar het geld dat hem vrijheid heeft gebracht, wordt tegelijkertijd een voortdurende herinnering aan de misdaad die eraan voorafging. Schuldgevoel en de angst om ontdekt te worden blijven hem achtervolgen.

Met Samba Traoré maakt Idrissa Ouédraogo een ingetogen en menselijke film over schuld, verlossing en de mogelijkheid van een tweede kans. De film onderzoekt de spanning tussen het verlangen naar een nieuw begin en de vraag of je ooit werkelijk aan je verleden kunt ontsnappen.

Samba Traoré uit 1992 geldt als een klassieker van de West-Afrikaanse cinema. De film werd bekroond met de Zilveren Beer op het Filmfestival van Berlijn en is recent in 4K gerestaureerd.

Deze vertoning maakt deel uit van 60 jaar West-Afrikaanse cinema, een programma dat terugkijkt naar de eerste decennia van de Afrikaanse filmgeschiedenis na de onafhankelijkheid, in samenwerking met Black Achievement Month.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/black-achievement-month-samba-traore

Black Achievement Month: Bal poussière

De Balie, Sunday, October 4 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

Demi-dieu, een rijke boer en dorpshoofd, heeft vijf vrouwen. Wanneer hij besluit een zesde vrouw te trouwen, de jonge Binta, heeft hij daar een bijzondere reden voor: hij wil voor iedere dag van de week een vrouw hebben — met uitzondering van zondag, zijn rustdag. Zijn vijf vrouwen zijn allerminst blij met zijn plan.

Maar Binta is geen vrouw die zich zomaar laat vertellen wat ze moet doen. Modern, zelfverzekerd en onafhankelijk, weigert ze zich aan de bestaande verhoudingen te onderwerpen. Al snel ontstaat er een conflict, niet alleen met haar echtgenoot, maar ook met zijn vijf andere vrouwen.

Met Bal poussière maakt Henri Duparc een geestige en speelse komedie over liefde, huwelijk, polygamie en de strijd om autonomie. De film gebruikt de absurditeit van Demi-dieu’s ideaal van een vrouw voor elke dag van de week om traditionele machtsverhoudingen op de hak te nemen. Centraal staat Binta, die weigert zich te voegen naar de rol die haar wordt opgelegd.

Bal poussière uit 1988 is een van de bekendste films van de Ivoriaanse filmmaker Henri Duparc en een vrolijke, eigenzinnige klassieker van de West-Afrikaanse cinema.

Deze vertoning maakt deel uit van 60 jaar West-Afrikaanse cinema, een programma dat terugkijkt naar de eerste decennia van de Afrikaanse filmgeschiedenis na de onafhankelijkheid, in samenwerking met Black Achievement Month.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/black-achievement-month-bal-poussiere

Black Achievement Month: 60 jaar West-Afrikaanse cinema

De Balie, Saturday, October 3 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Hoe ontstaat een cinema wanneer filmmakers voor het eerst de vrijheid krijgen om hun eigen verhalen te vertellen? En hoeveel van die artistieke onafhankelijkheid is er vandaag nog over?

Na de vertoning van Férid Boughedirs Caméra d’Afrique gaan we in gesprek over de ontwikkeling van de Afrikaanse cinema na de onafhankelijkheid. De nieuwe generatie filmmakers richtte zich niet alleen op de urgente maatschappelijke en politieke thema’s waarmee Afrikaanse cinema vaak wordt geassocieerd, maar maakte ook lichte, humoristische en toegankelijke films over liefde, relaties, familie, ambitie en het dagelijks leven — thema’s die net zo goed de Amerikaanse en Franse cinema van die tijd kenmerkten.

We bespreken hoe filmmakers in de eerste decennia na de onafhankelijkheid vanuit hun eigen artistieke en culturele perspectief konden werken, vaak onder moeilijke omstandigheden maar met een sterke behoefte aan zelfexpressie. Welke ruimte ontstond er toen Afrikaanse filmmakers niet langer hoefden te voldoen aan de verwachtingen van de koloniale blik? En in hoeverre bepalen Europese financiers, festivals, distributeurs en internationale verwachtingen vandaag nog steeds welke Afrikaanse films worden gemaakt en gezien?

Het gesprek verbindt de filmgeschiedenis met het heden en onderzoekt wat een werkelijk onafhankelijk Afrikaans filmgeluid betekent.

Deze vertoning maakt deel uit van 60 jaar West-Afrikaanse cinema, een programma dat terugkijkt op de eerste decennia van de Afrikaanse filmgeschiedenis na de onafhankelijkheid, in samenwerking met Black Achievement Month.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/black-achievement-month-60-jaar-west-afrikaanse-cinema

Black Achievement Month: Korte Films uit West-Afrika

De Balie, Sunday, October 18 at 03:00 PM GMT+2

Lamb – La Lutte (Paulin Vieyra) – Senegal, 1963
Sur la dune de la solitude (Timité Bassori) – Niger, 1964
Le Retour d’un aventurier (Moustapha Alassane) – Ivoorkust, 1966
Troublemaker (Olive Nwosu) – Nigeria, 2019

Deze selectie van vier korte films laat zien hoe veelzijdig de nieuwe Afrikaanse cinema vanaf het begin was — en hoe filmmakers tot op de dag van vandaag verschillende vormen vinden om de werkelijkheid van het continent te verbeelden.

In Lamb – La Lutte (1963) van Paulin Vieyra staat de Senegalese worsteltraditie centraal, en de belangrijke plaats die deze inneemt in het dagelijks leven. Timité Bassori’s Sur la dune de la solitude (1964) is een mysterieuze en sfeervolle vertelling over liefde en verlies. In Le Retour d’un aventurier (1966) speelt Moustapha Alassane met de invloed van de Amerikaanse western op de verbeelding van een jonge generatie in Niger. Met Troublemaker (2019) van Olive Nwosu krijgt de selectie een hedendaagse tegenhanger: op een snikhete dag in Oost-Nigeria ontdekt een jonge jongen de gevolgen van zijn eigen daden.

Vier films, vier perspectieven en vier heel verschillende manieren van kijken. Samen tonen ze een cinema die zich niet in één vorm of verhaal laat vangen, maar steeds opnieuw zoekt naar manieren om West-Afrika en zijn veranderende werkelijkheid te verbeelden.

Deze vertoning maakt deel uit van 60 jaar West-Afrikaanse cinema, een programma dat terugkijkt naar de eerste decennia van de Afrikaanse filmgeschiedenis na de onafhankelijkheid, in samenwerking met Black Achievement Month.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/black-achievement-month-korte-films-uit-west-afrika

Resisting Extractive Projects in South Africa

SPUI25, Wednesday, September 30 at 05:15 PM GMT+2

We live in a global climate emergency and yet, the Global North’s socio-economic model is still underpinned by extractivism. This impacts vulnerable frontline and indigenous communities in the Global South, thus leading to the emergence of antagonistic claims and forces. How do communities resist socio-ecologically disruptive extractive projects? How are justice claims catalysed and used against hegemonic forces?

Please note that this event will start at 17:15.

In this event, we will hear testimonies and discuss scientific findings to understand how resistance to oil and gas extraction arises in South Africa. We will document the claims of vulnerable communities affected by extractive projects and discuss how such claims are verbalised in terms of contestation of existing legal and governance structure, which lead to litigation in the case Sustaining the Wild Coast NPC and others v. Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others. In Sustaining the Wild Coast, South African courts stopped Royal Dutch Shell’s developments for oil and gas exploration in the area of Xholobeni, in the Eastern Cape.

The event will consist of a keynote by Sinegugu Zukulu, co-founder and director of Sustaining the Wild Coast, who will address the questions why and how indigenous people fight to protect their territories, and how the rights of indigenous people are being trampled in their own land. After the keynote, a roundtable will follow with Sinegugu Zukulu and Janina Herzog-Hawelka. They will discuss existing scientific findings on the governance of offshore oil and gas exploration in South Africa and its implications for the global imperative to leave fossil fuels in the ground. Moreover, they will discuss how competing narratives and social movements shape the context for the development of fossil fuel resources in South Africa. Moderation: Matteo Fermeglia.

Speakers

Sinegugu Zukulu is a member of amaMpondo Indigenous people in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province, a very proud Mpondo man, a storyteller, social and environmental activist. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Environmental Management degree (Stellenbosch University). For more than two decades he has engaged in activism, advocating for human and environmental rights in rural South Africa. He is a 2024 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize and a few other national and international environmental awards. He has published and co-authored several books and papers.

Janina Herzog-Hawelka is a PhD researcher in the Governance and Inclusive Development (GID) programme group (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam. Her research examines the role of oil and gas companies in shaping pathways towards leaving fossil fuels underground. She focuses on corporate power, legitimacy, governance and the political and social conditions that enable or constrain a fossil fuel phase-out.

Matteo Fermeglia (moderator) is Assistant Professor of Climate Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies, and at the Amsterdam School for Transnational, European and Regional Studies. Matteo’s research interests relate to International and European Union Law in the decarbonisation of the energy sector.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/resisting-extractive-projects-in-south-africa

Filmscreening: Mr Nobody Against Putin

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Thursday, September 17 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

2026 Oscar Winner - Filmscreening of the incredible story of an ordinary teacher who took on Putin.

Join us for an exclusive screening of Mr. Nobody Against Putin, followed by a dialogue with Mikhail Fishman, a renowned Russian journalist, and Robert van der Noodra, a (Russian) hybrid warfare and disinformation expert.

In this programme Mikhail Fishman Political journalist Robert van der Noordaa Engineer & Co-Founder Trollrensics

Mr. Nobody Against Putin is a primary school teacher’s record of the indoctrination of his pupils to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Pavel ‘Pasha’ Talankin is an unlikely hero. A beloved, humorous teacher and school’s videographer. When Russia invades Ukraine, Pasha is tasked with documenting this new reality. But his footage does not show the desired image of patriotism. Instead, his camera secretly captures the increasing pressure, the loss of freedom, and the visible militarization of a young generation.

“Remarkable...an exemplary work of cinematic modernism, a reflexive film that turns its genesis into its subject and its moral essence.” – The New Yorker

Directed by David Borenstein and co-directed by Pasha Talankin, this uniquely collaborative documentary paints a poignant portrait of state control and the vulnerability of educational institutions under authoritarian conditions. It is as captivating and joyful as it is eye-opening and sobering, showcasing rare footage that reveals the profound everyday impact of Putin’s regime on Russians, particularly its children.

Exclusive post-screening talk

How does a state hijack the minds of a generation? Following the film, we will host a deep-dive conversation unpacking the realities of Russian state propaganda, featuring:

Mikhail Fishman, one of Russia’s leading political journalists. As the former editor-in-chief of The Moscow Times and anchor on TV Rain—Russia’s premier independent channel—he has spent decades chronicling the realities of Putin’s regime before moving to Amsterdam in exile. He is the author of the acclaimed book The Successor, published in English by Pushkin Press in January 2026.

Robert van der Noordaa, a Dutch engineer who lived in Russia and Ukraine for many years. After the Crimean annexation, he specialized in fake news, conspiracies and in particular how Russia spreads disinformation with troll armies. After completing his postgraduate in journalism at Erasmus University, Robert co-founded Trollrensics, a software company tracking disinfo and hybrid warfare campaigns on social media.

Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya), a leading voice in post-Soviet feminist performance art. Co-founder of the Factory of Found Clothes (1995–2012) and a member of the artist collective Chto Delat since 2003, she has spent decades using clothing, video, and collaborative performance to give visibility to marginalized and precarious lives.

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https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/filmscreening-mr-nobody-against-putin

Different Roots, Common Ground

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Friday, September 18 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

Building community through dialogue. Where our voices take root.

Have you ever walked into a room and felt like your story didn’t quite belong there? For many in diaspora communities, that feeling is all too familiar. Yet for decades, community organisers, creatives and thinkers have been building spaces where we do belong. SPORA builds on that tradition. Our goal: a platform in the Netherlands for voices, stories, and ideas, growth, intergenerational education and visibility. A space for voices from the African and Caribbean diaspora to speak freely, connect deeply, and share ideas on their own terms, where diaspora narratives are not translated, filtered, or minimised, but expressed fully. Because when we gather, we grow.

Together with Jody Morgan Bite the Bullet podcast Host and Entrepreneur Kriticos Pandelis Mwansa Cultural curator, founder of The Book Club Glenn Helberg Psychiater, directeur praktijk voor psychiatrie en psychotherapie 'Introspect'

For our first edition, three changemakers explore what it means to connect. To nature, to each other, and to ourselves:

Kriticos Mwansa – “The Art of Bringing People Together”
Community can’t be manufactured, but we can create the conditions for it to flourish. In an era where “community” is often reduced to a buzzword, Kriticos shares insights on gathering people in a way that feels organic and sincere. From spatial arrangements to conversation prompts. True belonging isn’t engineered; it surfaces when people feel genuinely invited, safe, and when we intentionally design the room for connections to take root.

Glenn Helberg – “Dispersion of Seeds”
What we call culture is often something that exists as a reaction to the environment. Glenn explores the nervous system, the behaviors we show, and understanding why that behavior is shown; adaptation to what our cultures used to be or meant to be.

Jody Morgan – “Touch Grass”
How does nature shape our identity, culture, wellbeing, and sense of belonging? What can nature teach us about connecting with ourselves and with others? Humans are inherently relational, and we often think of nature as scenery, but what if it’s actually one of our oldest relationships?

More about the keynote speakers

Glenn Helberg is a psychiatrist, author, speaker, and activist who has spent decades improving the position of Antilleans and Arubans in the Netherlands. He broke multiple taboos within the Caribbean community, including absent fatherhood and homosexuality. In 2011, he initiated the first Antillean boat at Amsterdam’s Pride Canal Parade. He received a royal knighthood in 2013, the Black Achievement Award oeuvre prize in 2019, and the Jos Brink Oeuvre Prize in 2021 for his work as a mental health father of the queer community. Helberg is co-founder of the Expertise Center for Transcultural Therapy.

Kriticos Mwansa is a Zambian-born creative with deep Tanzanian roots, a cultural curator, and the visionary founder of The Book Club. He has cultivated a vibrant community centered on a refreshing premise: “No reading required to spark an incredible dialogue.” By bridging literature with music, art, and culinary experiences, Kriticos reimagines reading as a shared cultural journey rather than a solitary task. From intimate dinners to prisons, to prestigious museums and private members clubs, his mission remains constant: gathering curious minds to exchange knowledge and foster connection through the power of conversation.

Jody Morgan was born on the beautiful island of Saba. Her cultural identity has been shaped by her island home and the countries of her parents: Suriname and St. Lucia. Moving to the Netherlands at 17, Jody began pursuing her dream of becoming an entrepreneur and making a positive impact in the world. She has started businesses ranging from designing jewelry that represents Saba and islands across the Caribbean, to graphic and web design, to consultancy for Caribbean companies. Today, she is also the co-host of the Bite the Bullet Podcast. Through all her ventures, Jody continues to find avenues that keep her close to her culture.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/different-roots-common-ground

Herkomst en Horizon: Screening Porte Bagage (2026)

VOX-POP, Thursday, October 1 at 04:30 PM GMT+2

Kom op donderdag 1 oktober naar de screening van Porte Bagage (2026) in VOX-POP. Deze geprezen roadmovie is de debuutfilm van Abdelkarim en Asma El-Fassi. De vertoning vindt plaats als onderdeel van het project Herkomst en Horizon: Tussen herinnering en verbeelding.

Synopsis

Noor (30) zorgt voor haar eigenwijze vader Musa (76), die lijdt aan dementie. Wanneer ze haar droombaan als chef in Parijs krijgt aangeboden, staat ze voor de keuze tussen carrière en familie.
Om haar broers en zus de ernst van hun vaders toestand duidelijk te maken, regelt Noor een afspraak bij de neuroloog. Na het overlijden van een goede vriend spreekt Musa zijn wens uit om naar Marokko terug te keren. Aanvankelijk sceptisch, begint Noor dit te zien als haar uitweg – haar vader helpen remigreren terwijl ze eindelijk haar eigen dromen van onafhankelijkheid najaagt.
Ondanks het verzet van haar broer Farid, weet ze haar broers te overtuigen mee te gaan op een roadtrip, waar ze hun verleden en hun onzekere toekomst onder ogen zien.

Over Zouka

Zouka is een filmbedrijf met een maatschappelijk hart, waar verhalen worden verteld die ertoe doen. Zouka creëert authentieke films en documentaires en ontwikkelt innovatieve concepten en strategieën die de kracht van film benutten om sociale veranderingen teweeg te brengen. Hun focus ligt op het vertellen van verhalen van onderbelichte doelgroepen; mensen wiens stemmen gehoord moeten worden. Zouka gelooft in de kracht van inclusie en zet creativiteit in om ideeën om te zetten in krachtige visuele verhalen die impact maken met als uiteindelijke doel gemeenschappen dichter bij elkaar te brengen.

Programma

16:00 Inloop
16:30 Start screening
18:30 Afsluiting

Praktische informatie

Dit evenement is gratis toegankelijk voor iedereen. We vragen je wel om je vooraf aan te melden. Het evenement vindt plaats bij VOX-POP (begane grond), Binnengasthuisstraat 9.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/herkomst-en-horizon-screening-porte-bagage-2026

THINKING BACK, MAKING FORWARD with Gerrie van Noord and Joost Grootens

San Serriffe, Thursday, September 24 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

talk about the book design with Zuzana Kostelanská, Maud Vervenne, and Virginie Gauthier + conversation with Gerrie van Noord and Joost Grootens, moderated by Emily Rhodes

In the last three decades, creative practice disciplines, such as art, design, architecture, creative writing, fashion, and others, have undergone a ‘research turn’, strongly stimulated by doctoral programmes to deepen artists’ reflections on the roots, relevance and urgencies of their work. There are many reasons why an individual practitioner might decide to undertake a PhD: a desire to uplift one’s practice, to contribute to the intellectual artistic climate, to teach, to pursue an academic career, or some combination of these, or other reasons.

The rise of artistic research or practice-based research is subtly transforming these disciplines. The integration of research into practice, however, has not always been smooth, and the transformations not unequivocally positive.
For this book we issued an open call to ask artists how PhD research has influenced their making and thinking. Our questions were: What are the impacts, urgency, and significance of the PhD for creative practitioners? How are these understood, captured, communicated? How did it change your practice? We even asked: should creative practitioners undertake a PhD in the first place?

Through its thirty contributions Thinking Back, Making Forward tackles these questions in an open way, to acknowledge, equally, the advantages and disadvantages of the creep of the PhD into artistic practice. At the same time, this book shows a wide range of possibilities of what research in artistic practice can entail.

Published by Valiz

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/thinking-back-making-forward-with-gerrie-van-noord-and-joost-grootens

THE HARD QUESTION OF ART by Metahaven

San Serriffe, Friday, September 11 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

with talks by Emilia Tapprest, Hend Samir, Antonio Vega Macotela and Metahaven

Art doesn’t change the world directly; yet we persist in wanting it to. This book argues for a different understanding of art. In these urgent times, we need to rethink the purpose and effects of art—for the creator, the audience, the owner. Art is what moves us, and there is more to being moved than meets the eye.

Through a series of thought experiments, Metahaven shows that art exists in the space between the image formed by the artist and the cognitive effort required to complete it. Art therefore is a question of perception. But what is the future of that space between image and interpretation when attention itself is collapsing?

The Hard Question of Art examines the many ways that art engages perception. Exploring cognition, empathy, complexity, and physics, Metahaven ask whether our capacity to perceive art anew can withstand the pressures of our times. Does beauty matter? Does art have a moral purpose? Is art a game or puzzle that AI will transform? Is the murmuration of starlings a form of art?

As our age asks us to feel and understand more at the same time, what are the cognitive futures of art?

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-hard-question-of-art-by-metahaven

LATENT MOURNINGS by Flavia Dzodan with Hugo Esquinca

San Serriffe, Saturday, September 5 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-with-hugo-esquinca

WAT WAS HIE?

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Thursday, October 8 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Film screening and conversation on colonialism, slavery, and restorative justice.

WAT WAS HIE? unfolds across the landscapes of the Cape, where land, water, and memory bear witness to what history has tried to bury. Retracing entangled histories of Dutch colonialism, Indigenous erasure, resistance, and slavery, the film moves through sites once inhabited and stewarded by San and Khoe communities, revealing how these histories remain inscribed in the terrain.

Through embodied re-enactment, movement, and poetic reflection, and drawing from stories of Krotoa, slave registers, and the lingering traces of the dop system, suppressed histories resurface as living presence.

WAT WAS HIE? asks a searing question: What was here?—inviting a reckoning with memory, healing, and the persistence of colonial violence in both land and body.

Awards:
Storytelling Award at the imagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival – Canada (2026)

Encounters Youth Experience (EYE) Award for Best African Short Film at the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival (2026)

Over Luke De Kock

Luke De Kock is een Zuid-Afrikaanse regisseur, filmmaker, choreograaf en performing artist die lokaal en internationaal werkt op het snijvlak van film en performance. Zijn choreografie was te zien in producties als Honey 3 (Universal Pictures) en Netflix’ Runs In The Family, en hij werkte voor merken als Adidas, BMW en Hennessy. Daarnaast trad hij op met o.a. Toni Braxton en John Legend. Hij is afgestudeerd aan Jazzart Dance Theatre en de University of Cape Town (Theatre and Performance) en staat bekend om zijn site-specific werk waarin hij inheemse geschiedenis, Cape slavery en koloniale uitwissing bevraagt. Eerdere projecten werden gepresenteerd bij o.a. het Castle of Good Hope, Iziko South Africa Museum en tijdens internationale samenwerkingen zoals Sites of Memory en AfroVibes Festival in Nederland.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/wat-was-hie

All That Remains (The Right of Return)

W139, Friday, October 30 at 06:00 PM GMT+1

To close The Nature of Remembering, we are honored to welcome artist-filmmaker Inas Halabi. She will lead us through a listening session centered around field recordings collected from the sites of demolished Palestinian villages. These villages have been turned into Israeli national parks and reserves and overgrown with foreign pine trees in an attempt to erase them, confiscate the land, and prevent the original inhabitants (now refugees) from returning.

The field recordings are part of her ongoing research and a film she is currently producing, which also explores the Indigenous plants that continue to grow in these locations, alongside collective rituals related to the harvest season and land, as a way of disrupting this ongoing erasure. Presenting aural landscapes from these locations, that hold together the drum-like song of cicadas and the drone of jet engines, the soundscapes at W139 invite us to consider: What might an image of ‘return’ sound like?

Ticket: €7,50Student and solidarity ticket: €5

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Inas Halabi (she/her) is an artist-filmmaker living and working between Palestine and the Netherlands. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power manifest, and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life. This is anchored around her interest in landscape and systems of power and control. Taking up the history and territory of her native Palestine, her work explores the politics of erasure and the everlasting impact of colonialism on the land and its people. Through the deliberate use of repetition, she aims to capture and create situations that insist on being looked at more closely, bringing to the foreground details of the invisible violence in the everyday, while continuously searching for ways to disrupt this through image and sound, and more recently through collective practices and rituals related to the land. 

Image: The demolished village of Beyt ‘Itab, Palestine, 2024. From The Right of Return / All That Remains, an ongoing project by Inas Halabi.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/all-that-remains-the-right-of-return

Dok Night – SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA presented by Jeffrey Babcock

Plantage Dok, Thursday, November 19 at 06:00 PM GMT+1

Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or … Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.

18:00 Bar open 19:00 Vegan Dinner 20:30 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA presented by Jeffrey Babcock A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

 

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/dok-night-symbiopsychotaxicinema-presented-by-jeffrey-babcock-2

Dok Night – SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA presented by Jeffrey Babcock

Plantage Dok, Thursday, October 8 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or … Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.

18:00 Bar open 19:00 Vegan Dinner 20:30 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA presented by Jeffrey Babcock A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/dok-night-symbiopsychotaxicinema-presented-by-jeffrey-babcock-1

Dok Night – SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA Presented by Jeffrey Babcock

Plantage Dok, Thursday, September 17 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or … Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.

18:00 Bar open 19:00 Vegan Ethiopian Dinner by Moknen 20:30 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA presented by Jeffrey Babcock A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/dok-night-symbiopsychotaxicinema-presented-by-jeffrey-babcock