Rad-Ish #011 – Cooking for Community: On Food, Culture and Activism with De Sering
In this episode, we talk with Antoniya and Daan from De Sering, a community kitchen and public space that has become a landmark in Amsterdam for its delicious meals, experimental accessible gastronomy, and vibrant programming. With meals starting from a donation of €2.50, available seven days a week, De Sering stands as an exemplar of accessible dining and community building.
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The new issue of our newspaper has just been published in print as well as digital. We can always use some extra hands to help distributing these newspapers through every corner of Amsterdam. Please contact if you have time to help: info(at)amsterdamalternative.nl
All the articles are also available on our website.
On Friday 19th of June we released ‘Inter // Esse’, a six track EP by Amsterdam based Wilco Prinsen. This EP is not only the debut release by Wilco but also the first release of Anderworld Records, our cooperative, post-capitalistic record label.
This debut release is the first document of Wilco Prinsen’s explorations with the modular synthesizer and is based on both live and studio recordings from the period 2017 - 2025. This period was a transformative one, moving from indie band territory towards the domain of electronica, driven by curiosity and attracted by freedom in sound and composition. The transition was never clean, and that unresolved tension is precisely what moves him as a musician and what this release attempts to document.
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Amsterdam Alternative publishes articles about free spaces, gentrification, politics, climate, music, art, housing and other urgent topics. We publish in our bi-monthly free newspaper as well as online.
See all articlesSomewhere in Amsterdam there is a place where a hawk nests, a child builds a fort, an artist welds a theatre set, a volunteer organizes a festival, a neighbour grows tomatoes, and someone repairs a broken bicycle. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. It is Het Groene Veld. According to the municipality, we are an Experimental Living and Working Community, to visitors, we are a free space and to some civil servants, we are a complicated planning file. And according to a hawk, we are pr
Over the years, different movements have emerged to address environmental challenges and seek more sustainable solutions. One of the most innovative of these initiatives is the creation of Zoöps. The guiding idea of a Zoöp is: what if all forms of life could actively participate in the decision-making process of organizations and have their own voice? To make this possible, the Zoönomic Institute developed the role of the Speaker for the Living, someone who speaks on behalf of the
Amsterdam heeft sinds enkele weken weer een nieuw stadsbestuur. Nou ja, nieuw is het niet echt: dezelfde partijen (GroenLinks en PvdA, nu samen met Pro en D66) blijven de stad besturen. Het programma 2026-2030 leest alsof er een totaal nieuwe aanpak komt – een radicale breuk met hun eigen beleid van de afgelopen jaren. Of zijn het radicale woorden voor oud beleid? Is het één grote groen-, zwart- en witwasserij? Wij lazen voor AA het bestuursakkoord. We zoomen vooral in op h
Every two months we publish a music tip top 6 in our newspaper and on our website. All the releases have been picked with care but we won’t rate the releases. You can do the judging yourself. Tips and links to releases are always welcome (music(at)amsterdamalternative.nl). Wilco Prinsen Inter // Esse Label: Anderworld Release date: 06-2026 Genre: Electronica, IDM Format: Digital Listen on Bandcamp KUTMAH Sacred Conversations Label: All C
Amsterdam Alternative has initiated a wide variety of projects since 2015. Some were temporary but most are still running. Check some of the most current projects below or visit the projects page to see a full overview.
See all projectsFrom the 1st of February 2023 Amsterdam Alternative is running the cinema + bar on the second floor of the OT301. The spaces are being used for film & documentary screenings, discussion nights, comedy, music, dance performances, workshops, book launches, podcast recordings and more.
Anderworld is a record label founded in 2026 by Amsterdam Alternative. Not a traditional, hierarchical label, but a cooperative, post-capitalist initiative focused on music, research, and experimentation. Alongside joy and creativity, we stand for collective ownership models, community meaning, hope, and radical imagination.
Sometimes, you sense it. A gesture, a sound, something pulses quietly beneath the surface of the city. A story waiting to be heard. Rad-Ish is a podcast about the silent dreamers, everyday radicals and hidden dissenters who keep the city alive. We seek out the voices of the underground, the pillars of movements that often go unseen yet build the foundation for collective spaces and a desirable future for the many, not the few. On a regular basis we release a short episode where we pull that little red thread that runs through Amsterdam, from the people directly shaping alternative culture to those nurturing it in the background. We're here to pay attention to those who resist the obvious, and talk to those who quietly practice other ways of being.
This modular web documentary is intended as an inspirational document, a guide and an archive. It is a compilation of stories about and quests for other ways in which we can shape society. We (and many others with us) are convinced that things really can be done differently and that a different view of ownership can play a major role in this.
Thanks to all the talented photographers in the Amsterdam Alternative collective we always have great images in our newspaper and lots of nice photo reports online.
See all photographyFrom July 25 to August 8 2026, Amsterdam proudly hosts the global WorldPride celebration for the first time. On Saturday 25th Elise photographed at the Pride Park in the Vondelpark, the endpoint of the Pride Walk, where the WorldPride Amsterdam was officially opened.
"My thoughts go out to Berlin, where on the same day, the LGBTQIA+ community got attacked at the Pride March. Times like this shows us even more how important it is to celebrate, support and stand up for love, freedom and safety."
Photo report by Elise Vroonhof
On Friday 19th of June we released ‘Inter // Esse’, a six track EP by Amsterdam based Wilco Prinsen. This EP is not only the debut release by Wilco but also the first release of Anderworld Records, our cooperative, post-capitalistic record label.
The release party was held at the OT301 with live sets by Wilco Prinsen, Mathilde Nobel and Bastian Benjamin and DJ sets by Zohar and oernaut.
Thanks to all the artists for their great sets.
Photography: Hanna Rudner
On Thursday 14th of May the anual Ascension day (Hemelvaart) event took place at Rijkshemelvaart again. Always a great day with music, food, drinks and lots of friendly people.
Photography: Jeanne Beyssac
Amsterdam Alternative started as a network of solidarity and free newspaper but we’ve alwys had the ambition to create inspiring videos as well. In 2024 we created and published about 50 hrs of video about collective ownership, in 2025 we started a new video department called Fragmenta.
See all videoInterview with choreographic duo Tatiana Śpiewak & Sarah Zechut about their new performance ‘The upgraded woman’ (March 2026) and their first piece, which they performed in the boiling heat and chaos of the Amsterdam Alternative part of the Ring party on the 21st of June 2025.
The interview was recorded on Friday 13th of March 2026 in the Ventilator bar (OT301).
All performance recordings were made at the Ventilator Cinema and the Ring Party (Amsterdam 750).
Camera: Pablo van Wetten
Edit: Ivo Schmetz
Sound design: Peter Rutten
Animation: Ivo Schmetz
Thanks to:
Tatiana Śpiewak & Sarah Zechut
Music performance: Kyra Khaldi
Dancers: Lola Dupriez, Sofia Montenegro
Een film over en door de mensen van Het Groene Veld.
Help ons mee in strijd voor het behoud van Het Groene Veld! Teken de petitie, hang een poster of kom langs!
Kijk op: https://hetgroeneveld.amsterdam
Camera/edit: Elffin van Baars
Camera: Niels Douma, Tibbe van Diemen, Denys Parchenko, Isa van Lier
Productie/Regie: Isa van Lier, Oscar Zeegers
Met dank aan: Sara, KJ, Hay, Femke, Wybe, Inez, Ollie, Anouk, Isobel
Camera: Pablo van Wetten
Audio/music: Peter Rutten
Edit/animation: Ivo Schmetz
Met dank aan/Thanks to:
People: Ad Vlems, Diny
Funding: AFK, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
In the Amsterdam Alternative agenda you’ll find the public programming from our participating venues.
See the complete agendaA volunteer-run nonprofit space for you to exist / express / connect. A modular living room. A buurt-hub for practice / performance / music / poetry / experiment / exhibition / film +++ Insta
Volta is hét podium van Amsterdam West. We fungeren als oefenruimte en concertzaal voor jonge bands uit Amsterdam. Volta ligt vlak voor de Spaarndammerbuurt, naast het Westerpark. In de podiumzaal worden door vrijwilligers verschillende avonden georganiseerd, doorgaans met Amsterdamse bands.
Salon de IJzerstaven is een kleinschalig podium voor culturele voorstellingen op het Bickerseiland. Het podium programmeert voornamelijk 20e en 21e-eeuwse modern-klassieke muziek en geïmproviseerde muziek/jazz, met een voorkeur voor het experiment. Jonge musici weten ons te vinden. De
De Nieuwe Anita is a place where artists of all colors can live their dream, a relatively small stage for starting or touring musicians, try-outs, stand up comedians, film screenings, literary nights or lectures, we provide a cosy atmosphere and a great audience. Although we try to keep an altern
From Brazil originating theater group Munganga (pronounced: moen-gang-gaa) is a Brazilian word, derived from Mganga, a tribe in Africa. The priests of this tribe make great and exuberant gestures during their rituals. Their way of communicating consists of expressive faces, grimaces and dancing. Si
The Vondelbunker is a 100% volunteer run space, using DIY politics to create a place for counterculture in the hypercapitalist city centre. The Vondelbunker is located in an old bombshelter located in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Under the bridge bands and DJ’s play, performances shown, m
A Lab is Amsterdams een bruisende gemeenschap, broedplaats, werkplek, podium en netwerk in één. Hier vind je een bonte mix van creatieve, innovatieve en sociale ondernemers die samen nieuwe ideeën verkennen en ontwikkelen – in Amsterdam en daarbuiten. Gevestigd in het oud
De Culturele Stelling van Amsterdam is een verdedigingslinie in en rond de stad waarin onafhankelijke creatieve initiatieven, zelfstandige woon-werkpanden en vrije culturele ruimten zich hebben verenigd sinds 2012. Amsterdam heeft van oudsher een reputatie als ‘vrije stad’ en ‘v
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