#improv — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #improv, aggregated by home.social.
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Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 53 this July and August?
We love our scheming characters - which is why we go double in "The Witch & the Widow's Web", a farce from our second #Inktober challenge where both Pasquella's plan (to fake Isabella's madness) and Vittoria's plot (to feed her husband to a lion) complicate each other combined with a conman magician (with a fake monster)! Will the tricks be revealed this summer at Pennsic?
Follow and check back often for updates! But whatever our final selection is, you can come laugh at us on:
➤ Peace Thursday (July 30) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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NEW: "The 10% Rule: Run Better D&D Games on the Fly"
Winging it might actually produce better D&D sessions than heavy prep. Learn the 10% Rule for running D&D on the fly.
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFYujs6Rd5o
READ: https://ruckerworks.com/2026/05/run-dnd-on-the-fly/#DungeonsAndDragons #DungeonMaster #DnDTips #TabletopRPG #TTRPG #DnD #RPG #DnDCommunity #improv
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Ce samedi à 21h CET je participerai au International Drone Day avec Radio Prague, mon groupe d’origine (premiers concerts en 1982). Concert en ligne dans Second Life et probablement sur Twitch
diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/12497542
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Vignettes
No context. No script. This is an improvised audio drama...Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/vignettes/
#AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Fiction #AudioFiction #Improv #ScienceFiction
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Artist to Artist: Ali Chahrour
Felix Meritis, Saturday, June 13 at 03:30 PM GMT+2
Diana Al-Halabi & ghenwa abou fayad
How do you continue working when the reality of war finds itself next to your rehearsal space? What is it like to create art amidst destructive forces? And how does the current situation in Lebanon influence the work of Lebanese artists in The Netherlands? During this Artist to Artist, a collaboration between Felix Meritis and Holland Festival, three Lebanese artists discuss these questions and the importance of sharing stories that often remain in the background.
Lebanese artist Ali Chahrour is part of Holland Festival with his multidisciplinary dance performance When I Saw the Sea. In his work, he connects personal and collective stories with themes such as love and war. During this Artist to Artist he will be joined in conversation by cross-disciplinary artists Diana Al-Halabi and ghenwa abou fayad.
Line-up
Ali Chahrour
Dancer and choreographer Ali Chahrour (Beirut, 1989) has developed a unique movement language that breaks away from Western codes and models. This language reflects his cultural background and the political, social, and religious context in which he works. In an earlier series of performances, part of his “Death” trilogy, he brought funeral rituals to life, combining tradition with a sharp sense of modernity. He later began a new series centered on the theme of “love,” including Told by My Mother, which was presented at Holland Festival in 2025.
Chahrour’s work is characterized by a combination of lyrical poetry and intensely intertwined bodies. His performances have been presented at the Festival d’Avignon (2016, 2018, and 2022) as well as at numerous other festivals worldwide.
Lees meerDiana Al-Halabi
Born in Lebanon in 1990, Diana Al-Halabi is a Rotterdam–Beirut–based interdisciplinary artist working primarily with film and painting. Through an intersectional feminist lens, her practice navigates the entanglement of the personal and the political, challenging top-down structures of power — from the patriarchal gaze and institutional violence to bureaucracy, settler colonialism, migration, and visa regimes. Her recent research, “Famine and Hunger Strikes: Decolonizing the Digestive System,” explores the politicization of the digestive system as a form of bottom-up resistance.
Al-Halabi’s work spans film and painting, with her 2022 film, “The Disaster Cannot Be Contained,” screening at international festivals, including IFFR, and winning Best Short Film in the national competition at the Beirut Shorts International Film Festival. In 2023, she received the IFFR RTM PITCH Award for her short film “The Battle of Empty Stomachs,” which premiered at IFFR 2024, Raindance Film Festival (UK), and Blackstar Film Festival (USA).
Lees meerghenwa (noiré) abou fayad
ghenwa (noiré) abou fayad is a Lebanese cross-disciplinary artist, performer, and installation practitioner. Their work explores the politics of language, oral history, and repetition through sound, storytelling, and improvisation. Using an electro-acoustic setup, ghenwa plays the bouzouqi, sings, and plays the synths to weave together socio-political narratives, memory, and everyday survival, often treating performance as a living archive shaped by embodied experience.
Their practice extends into collaborative and pedagogical formats, including projects such as Hacked Orchestra which she initiated then collaborated on with Hackers & Designers (2024) – which , a collaboration with Hackers and Designers culminating in a sonic presentation at the Muziekgebouw, they facilitated the Insurgent Learning Workshop (2024), and later co-lead Voice as Legacy: Tracing the Unwritten (Sonic Acts x SALWA Foundation, 2025).
Their ongoing sound research uses a dactylo (Arabic typewriter) as an instrument, investigating the gendered history of typing as feminized labor and its sonic potential. At the moment, ghenwa is working on producing their first debut EP entitled ‘daken – sombre’.
Lees meerhttps://offbeat.amsterdam/event/artist-to-artist-ali-chahrour
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COMING SOON: "Winging your D&D game is better, but..."
I've got a new video and article coming out tomorrow that describes how winging your #TTRPG game might be a better way to produce quality D&D sessions.
Stay tuned!
READERS: https://ruckerworks.com/blog/
WATCHERS: https://www.youtube.com/@ruckerworks/#DungeonsAndDragons #DungeonMaster #DnDTips #TabletopRPG #DnD #RPG #DnDCommunity #improv
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COMING SOON: "Winging your D&D game is better, but..."
I've got a new video and article coming out tomorrow that describes how winging your #TTRPG game might be a better way to produce quality D&D sessions.
Stay tuned!
READERS: https://ruckerworks.com/blog/
WATCHERS: https://www.youtube.com/@ruckerworks/#DungeonsAndDragons #DungeonMaster #DnDTips #TabletopRPG #DnD #RPG #DnDCommunity #improv
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COMING SOON: "Winging your D&D game is better, but..."
I've got a new video and article coming out tomorrow that describes how winging your #TTRPG game might be a better way to produce quality D&D sessions.
Stay tuned!
READERS: https://ruckerworks.com/blog/
WATCHERS: https://www.youtube.com/@ruckerworks/#DungeonsAndDragons #DungeonMaster #DnDTips #TabletopRPG #DnD #RPG #DnDCommunity #improv
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COMING SOON: "Winging your D&D game is better, but..."
I've got a new video and article coming out tomorrow that describes how winging your #TTRPG game might be a better way to produce quality D&D sessions.
Stay tuned!
READERS: https://ruckerworks.com/blog/
WATCHERS: https://www.youtube.com/@ruckerworks/#DungeonsAndDragons #DungeonMaster #DnDTips #TabletopRPG #DnD #RPG #DnDCommunity #improv
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Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra
OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo
Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.
Opening: James McClure & João Guerra
Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.
“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.
Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).
Moor Mother – "DEATH BY LONGITUDE"This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM. -
TEMPERATURA
Grond, Thursday, June 11 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
20:30 (doors: 20:00) Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5/€7,5*
Thursday 11 June, TEMPERATURA presents Futuro Ancestrale, the electro-acoustic project led by Giuseppe Doronzo. On stage with him, Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides, and Frank Rosaly.
Futuro Ancestrale, returns with Elsewhen, a bold new chapter blending ancestral music cultures with the electronic music realm. Fusing microtonal textures, meditative drones, post-rock energy, and fearless improvisation, the project crafts a hypnotic sonic ritual inspired by traditions from Ethiopia, Lesotho, and Persia. Following their critically acclaimed 2024 debut—praised by JazzWise, All About Jazz, and the Europe Jazz Media Chart—Elsewhen expands the group’s visionary language into new territories of trance, folklore, and experimental sound. The album will be out on June 19 on a joint release via Unsounds and Tora Records.
foto: Eric van Nieuwland_____________ TEMPERATURA is a contemporary music concert series, improvisation hub, and everything in between, initiated by composers/performers J. Veličković and F. Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions.
* If you wish to attend but can’t afford our entry fee, please send us an email to temperatura.amsterdam (at) gmail (dot) com and we ‘ll make sure you can join us.
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🎬 Cavia in Concert: The General (1926) with live score by the Joost Buis Trio 🎶 at Nassaukerk
Filmhuis Cavia, Friday, June 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
After becoming an instant classic with its first two sold out editions, Cavia in Concert, our series of film and music performances organized in the amazing hall of the Nassaukerk in collaboration with Podium Nassau, comes back once again before the summer break.
In this edition, taking place during the celebrations for the Nassaukerk’s 100th anniversary, we bring you another legendary film from 1926: The General, by Buster Keaton!
After initially becoming a bust and a big setback in Keaton’s career, The General has been reevaluated and is now considered one of the most significant films of the silent era.
Famously described by Orson Welles as "the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”, The General tells the story of the Great Locomotive Chase, an episode out of the American Civil War. This contributed to its controversial status, representing an example of American cinema’s fascination with the American Confederacy. Still, the film is universally celebrated as one of the greatest examples of comedy in the history of film.
The film was chosen by Joost Buis, improvisational trombonist and lap guitarist, who has been at the forefront of Amsterdam’s jazz scene since the 1980s, and who now is among the leading musicians of the Zaal 100’s legendary Jazz Café. And Zaal 100 is exactly where the ensemble who will be performing the film formed.
Headed by Joost Buis, legendary trombonist and bandleader who has made his mark in the Amsterdam improvisation scene for the past 40 years, the group is also composed by Kristján Martinsson, who will be at the piano, and Yung-Tuan Ku, at the percussions. Bringing together the mix of structure and improvisation typical of the Amsterdam improvisation and jazz music scene, they are bound to give us the right mood to celebrate the 100 years of Nassaukerk and the whole creative community of the Staatsliedenbuurt.
All and all, come to church with us and make sure not to miss this event for the ages!
Tickets: €8 (or Cineville)
Available for pre-sale HERE.
The event will NOT take place in Filmhuis Cavia, but in the Nassaukerk: De Wittenkade 111.
Doors & bar open at 19:15, film starts at 20:00.
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🎬 Cavia in Concert: The General (1926) with live score by the Joost Buis Trio 🎶 at Nassaukerk
Filmhuis Cavia, Friday, June 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
After becoming an instant classic with its first two sold out editions, Cavia in Concert, our series of film and music performances organized in the amazing hall of the Nassaukerk in collaboration with Podium Nassau, comes back once again before the summer break.
In this edition, taking place during the celebrations for the Nassaukerk’s 100th anniversary, we bring you another legendary film from 1926: The General, by Buster Keaton!
After initially becoming a bust and a big setback in Keaton’s career, The General has been reevaluated and is now considered one of the most significant films of the silent era.
Famously described by Orson Welles as "the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”, The General tells the story of the Great Locomotive Chase, an episode out of the American Civil War. This contributed to its controversial status, representing an example of American cinema’s fascination with the American Confederacy. Still, the film is universally celebrated as one of the greatest examples of comedy in the history of film.
The film was chosen by Joost Buis, improvisational trombonist and lap guitarist, who has been at the forefront of Amsterdam’s jazz scene since the 1980s, and who now is among the leading musicians of the Zaal 100’s legendary Jazz Café. And Zaal 100 is exactly where the ensemble who will be performing the film formed.
Headed by Joost Buis, legendary trombonist and bandleader who has made his mark in the Amsterdam improvisation scene for the past 40 years, the group is also composed by Kristján Martinsson, who will be at the piano, and Yung-Tuan Ku, at the percussions. Bringing together the mix of structure and improvisation typical of the Amsterdam improvisation and jazz music scene, they are bound to give us the right mood to celebrate the 100 years of Nassaukerk and the whole creative community of the Staatsliedenbuurt.
All and all, come to church with us and make sure not to miss this event for the ages!
Tickets: €8 (or Cineville)
Available for pre-sale HERE.
The event will NOT take place in Filmhuis Cavia, but in the Nassaukerk: De Wittenkade 111.
Doors & bar open at 19:15, film starts at 20:00.
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Global Sounds x Felipe’s Esentura Pura
Contra, Sunday, June 14 at 06:00 PM GMT+2
This project aims to blend flamenco with improvisation through the lens of various jazz musicians. A sound that will leave no one indifferent
Felipe Aguilera Ruiz - Bass
Antònio Ferreira - Guitar
Cristopher Pérez - Tenor Sax
Dane Paris - Drums
Mikel Legasa - Piano
Manuel Vega - Percussion
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/global-sounds-x-felipes-esentura-pura
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freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ..they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms.. these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery #jazz #improv #musicreview
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freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ..they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms.. these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery #jazz #improv #musicreview
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freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ..they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms.. these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery #jazz #improv #musicreview
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freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ..they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms.. these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery #jazz #improv #musicreview
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Distant Birds – Vol 01 and Vol 02 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ...they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms. With trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood and sax man Matt Otignon as well as incisive drummer Evan Mannell, these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery. #jazz #improv #musicreview
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Distant Birds – Vol 01 and Vol 02 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ...they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms. With trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood and sax man Matt Otignon as well as incisive drummer Evan Mannell, these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery. #jazz #improv #musicreview
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Distant Birds – Vol 01 and Vol 02 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ...they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms. With trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood and sax man Matt Otignon as well as incisive drummer Evan Mannell, these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery. #jazz #improv #musicreview
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Distant Birds – Vol 01 and Vol 02 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ...they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms. With trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood and sax man Matt Otignon as well as incisive drummer Evan Mannell, these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery. #jazz #improv #musicreview
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Distant Birds – Vol 01 and Vol 02 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/distant-birds-1-2/ ...they have constructed four pieces over two volumes that use rhythmic repetition and respectful interplay to propel the listener into previously unconsidered realms. With trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood and sax man Matt Otignon as well as incisive drummer Evan Mannell, these extended improvisatory journeys are a breathtaking discovery. #jazz #improv #musicreview
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TA2REEBAN – تقريبًا (LB, BEIRUT) + EMIRHAN X + SUPERMARKT
OCCII, Saturday, June 20 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
ZALZALA is proud to host their first gathering. The collective, brought into life to showcase and celebrate voices in hardcore and punk from (South Asia, South-West Asia & North Africa) S.W.A.N.A. & Further.
تقریبًا – TA2REEBAN (LB)
Ta2reeban is a 3-piece hardcore punk band from Beirut, Lebanon and an anchor of the Beirut scene. Inspired by classic ‘80s hardcore, modern queercore, and Arabic poetry, their first EP صاحب الموتور بيستند عليكن was released in September 2024 to rave reviews, earning a spot on The Quietus’s top 10 punk releases. They’ve quickly earned their place in the global Harami punk and hardcore scene.أميرحان اكس – EMIRHAN X
Emirhan X is the rapper, producer and multi-instrumentalist who’s boundary-pushing presence keeps evolving hiphop. Known for his energetic live performances and unique sound, Emirhan X combines raw rap with punk and boombap influences, and adds a touch of experimental music. At ZALZALA he will be joined by his full band, creating a sonic attack on the eardrums of anyone in the building.سوپرمارکت – SUPERMARKT
Supermarkt is a five-piece Noise {Dance} rock band :3 based in Amsterdam. The sound is raw, real, relentless. Improv-heavy experimental super-punk inspired by noise, Anatolian rock, no wave and tinnitus. Lyrics tell stories of the absurd, the obscene and the senseless.Presale/door prices adjusted: our events are set up by volunteers in favour of supporting DIY touring acts, but it is getting ever more risky to plan and book events – please support the community and buy your tickets early! Presale closes 18.00 on day of the show.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ta2reeban-lb-beirut-emirhan-x-supermarkt
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EVAN PARKER & BILL NACE (UK/US) + VERA MORAIS (PT) + DIKEMAN, MOOR & BRENNAN (US/UK/CA) + TASHI DORJI & FRANK ROSALY (BT/US)
OCCII, Wednesday, June 10 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
A night of Total Music:: w/ EVAN PARKER & BILL NACE (UK/US) + VERA MORAIS (PT) + DIKEMAN, MOOR & BRENNAN (US/UK/CA) + TASHI DORJI & FRANK ROSALY DUO (BT/US)
tonite’s players:
EVAN PARKER & BILL NACE (UK/US)
(Legendary free jazz monument + Body Head/Open Mouth guitar terrorist)Evan Parker / soprano saxophone
Bill Nace / electric two string taishōgoto+ VERA MORAIS (PT)
Vera Morais / voice+ DIKEMAN, MOOR & BRENNAN (US/UK/CA)
(cactus truck // the ex // earthball)John Dikeman / tenor saxophone
Andy Moor / guitar
John Brennan / drums, percussionTashi Dorji Duo with Frank Rosaly (MOLK FACTORY)
Guitar / Drums, percussion
<a href="https://evanparkerotoroku.bandcamp.com/album/branches">Branches by Evan Parker and Bill Nace</a>
“This sound world of Bill’s two-stringed taishōgoto on this Café OTO night worked beautifully with Evan Parker’s improvisatory saxophone conceptions. The duology achieved instant lift off at ground zero only to find it’s eventual finale as if it were organically ordained. Time seemingly morphed from its ancient human construct of control, rendered inconsequential to the torrential transcendence of the room wildly activated by the magic resonance of the multi-directional pan-spatial sonance of the music as if it were some beatific blessing. It was one of those nights where art as a liberating force of spirit gifted the listeners with an offering of exaltation and joy. It was entirely mystical and mind blowing. A night of Total Music.” – Thurston Moore, London, 2025
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FRED FRITH, TIM HODGKINSON & LIZ ALBEE (US/UK/DE) + LUKRAAK (Marcus Wärnheim & Thomas Jaspers)
OCCII, Tuesday, October 20 at 08:30 PM GMT+2
A night of Total Music #2:: FRED FRITH, TIM HODGKINSON & LIZ ALBEE (US/UK/DE) + LUKRAAK (Marcus Wärnheim & Thomas Jaspers)
– a dazzling celebration of the unexpected – contemplative and ecstatic, unruly and gloriously alive –
FRED FRITH + TIM HODGKINSON + LIZ ALBEE (US/UK/DE)
A meeting of three outstanding improvisational musicians who understand sound as an open territory. Guitar legend Fred Frith – co-founder of Henry Cow and a defining figure in experimental music since the 1970s – encounters Tim Hodgkinson, a comrade from those radical early days and an tireless explorer of improvisation, composition, and sound anthropology. Joining them is Liz Allbee, a Berlin-based trumpeter and sound artist who transforms her instrument into a vibrating resonant body of breath, electronics, and material experimentation. A fully improvised trialogue – raw, poetic, and unpredictable.The combination of Frith‘s prepared guitar/string work, Hodgkinson‘s intense reed work/composition, and Albee‘s trumpet/electronics represents a high-level intersection of veteran avant-garde and experimental improvisation.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith has been making noise of one kind or another for more than 50 years, starting with the rock collective Henry Cow, which he co-founded with Tim Hodgkinson in 1968.
Fred is best known as a pioneering electric guitarist and improviser, song-writer, and composer for film, dance and theater. Through bands like Art Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew, the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Cosa Brava, and now Fremakajo he has stayed close to his roots in rock and folk music while branching out in many other directions.
Fred has performed works by and sometimes alongside composers Alvin Curran, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Christian Wolff; improvised with Lotte Anker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Peter Brötzmann, Lol Coxhill, Janet Feder, gabby fluke-mogul, Tim Hodgkinson, Joëlle Léandre, Phil Minton, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Bob Ostertag, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins, Paula Sanchez, Susana Santos Silva and Camel Zekri, to name a few; and—as session musician—recorded on albums by, for example, Brian Eno, The Residents, Robert Wyatt, The Swans, Violent Femmes, Material, Negativland, John Zorn, Matthew and the Unfortunates, and Half Japanese.
https://www.fredfrith.com/live/Tim Hodgkinson (b. 1949) studied social anthropology at Cambridge, and co-founded the politically and musically radical group HENRY COW with Fred Frith in 1968. In addition to composing, he has a long involvement in improvisation, and came back to anthropology in the 1990’s with research into music and shamanism in Siberia.
As an improvising musician on reeds and lap steel guitar Tim Hodgkinson has performed all over the world with many of the most acclaimed artists in the field, and continues to be fully engaged in the celebrated Konk Pack trio with Roger Turner and Thomas Lehn. In 2009 he released KLARNT – a CD of solo clarinet improvisations.
http://www.timhodgkinson.co.uk/Liz Allbee is a trumpet player who doesn’t play the trumpet all that often. Or at least, not the regular one. Instead, she frequently opts for a quadrophonic trumpet of her own design, as well as her voice and a myriad of self-made objects. The case in point is her recent album Breath Vessels, made using various glasses, pots and dismantled second-hand instruments which produce a surprisingly melodious drone.
Often radical, Allbee is also an economic composer and improviser: prudent layering of loops provides a smooth passage towards trance. An uneasy one – since Allbee’s inspiration comes from recent events like the sinking of the ship Adriana with hundreds of migrants on board in 2023, or from a withering observation the problems of our planet started when humans evolved opposable thumbs. A consoling one – since her work is conceived as new folk music, driven not by nostalgia but by a sense of community.
https://lizallbee.net/LUKRAAK
Lukraak plays post-silly music of crooked beauty. Using alto saxophone, drums, flutes, found objects as well as their own centered bodies and flying limbs, they produce something of their own with a haphazard attitude. Intricate sonic mosaics and vivid tapestries of complex sound masses are created along the edges of experimental jazz and neo-neo-dada-dada.Lukraak has previously performed at Porta-Jazz Festival and Valkhof Festival, as well as at venues in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, France, Poland and the Baltics. They are individually and collectively active members of the vibrant experimental music scene of Amsterdam, and together with Jaap Blonk they perform as Luk&BlonkRaak. On 26th of September 2025 their debut album ‘Zaalig’ was released on LukRecords.
Marcus Wärnheim – alto saxophone, recorders and other stuff
LUKRAAK LIVE IN LILLE
Thomas Jaspers – drums, cymbals, recorders and other stuff -
Happy Towel Day 2026, You Hoopy Froods!
Celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
#TowelDay #Towel #DouglasAdams #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HGttG #Anime #AnimeCon
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Happy Towel Day 2026, You Hoopy Froods!
Celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
#TowelDay #Towel #DouglasAdams #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HGttG #Anime #AnimeCon
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Happy Towel Day 2026, You Hoopy Froods!
Celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
#TowelDay #Towel #DouglasAdams #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HGttG #Anime #AnimeCon
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Happy Towel Day 2026, You Hoopy Froods!
Celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
#TowelDay #Towel #DouglasAdams #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HGttG #Anime #AnimeCon
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Happy Towel Day 2026, You Hoopy Froods!
Celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
#TowelDay #Towel #DouglasAdams #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HGttG #Anime #AnimeCon
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May 25 is also Towel Day, celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Douglas Adams
#Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Parody #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Anime #CWRU #AnimeCon
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May 25 is also Towel Day, celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Douglas Adams
#Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Parody #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Anime #CWRU #AnimeCon
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May 25 is also Towel Day, celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Douglas Adams
#Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Parody #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Anime #CWRU #AnimeCon
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May 25 is also Towel Day, celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Douglas Adams
#Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Parody #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Anime #CWRU #AnimeCon
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May 25 is also Towel Day, celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Douglas Adams
#Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Parody #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Anime #CWRU #AnimeCon
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May 24 is National Brothers Day. Numerous historic and traditional commedia dell'arte plays involve long-lost brothers, including "The Fortunate Brother" and "The Unexpected Twin" as possible options to perform at Pennsic this summer!
Follow and check back often for updates! But whatever our final selection is, you can come laugh at us on:
➤ Peace Thursday (July 30) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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May 24 is National Brothers Day. Numerous historic and traditional commedia dell'arte plays involve long-lost brothers, including "The Fortunate Brother" and "The Unexpected Twin" as possible options to perform at Pennsic this summer!
Follow and check back often for updates! But whatever our final selection is, you can come laugh at us on:
➤ Peace Thursday (July 30) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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May 24 is National Brothers Day. Numerous historic and traditional commedia dell'arte plays involve long-lost brothers, including "The Fortunate Brother" and "The Unexpected Twin" as possible options to perform at Pennsic this summer!
Follow and check back often for updates! But whatever our final selection is, you can come laugh at us on:
➤ Peace Thursday (July 30) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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May 24 is National Brothers Day. Numerous historic and traditional commedia dell'arte plays involve long-lost brothers, including "The Fortunate Brother" and "The Unexpected Twin" as possible options to perform at Pennsic this summer!
Follow and check back often for updates! But whatever our final selection is, you can come laugh at us on:
➤ Peace Thursday (July 30) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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May 24 is National Brothers Day. Numerous historic and traditional commedia dell'arte plays involve long-lost brothers, including "The Fortunate Brother" and "The Unexpected Twin" as possible options to perform at Pennsic this summer!
Follow and check back often for updates! But whatever our final selection is, you can come laugh at us on:
➤ Peace Thursday (July 30) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre
➤ Middle Saturday (August 1) • 9:00pm • PA Tent
➤ War Wednesday (August 5) • 6:00pm • Amphitheatre#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
