UITNODIGING om mee te doen aan het initiatief Amsterdam Fair City, voor een leefbare en sociale stad. Het eerste half jaar van 2016 is Nederland voorzitter van de Europese Unie. De afsluitende EU-top zal in juni in Amsterdam gehouden worden. Naar aanleiding hiervan is er vanuit de Europese Unie een ‘Pact van Amsterdam’ in voorbereiding rond stedelijk beleid en betere regelgeving. De focus ligt, nogal eenzijdig, op de toename van economische investeringen. Het pact moet op d
Oh, joy, we have a six-month-long cultural festival on our hands. The Netherlands is presiding over the European Union from January 1st to June 30th and apparently it’s customary for a cultural programme to run alongside the presidency. (Like how Zwarte Piet is customary.) The themes championed by the Dutch presidency this year are unity, innovation and commitment. (ho ho. Big words. Tall promises.) The Future Europe festival, a “major cultural festival”, has been organised by
Far below sea level, in the basement of the underground of the Rhine and Meuse delta you find people and places that are connected to a world wide network of autonomous music. It can be described as a subway network where musicians and music fanatics travel from station to station but also are part of a station themselves. Those people are the ones who set up shows, volunteer at the venues, squats or bars, put down matrasses for artists, stick posters on the walls, spam the social media and cook
The majority of the curious readers of this add enter the gates of the ADM ‘Amsterdam Doe Maatschapij’ once or twice a year. But with the right code or good timing anybody can taste the flavours of this unique experiment. This place is not limited to the annual festivals or events that are publicly presented but it’s real experimental/autonomous/anarcho playground. Housing more that 100 people from all ages and of all possible back grounds. It is an oasis in the industrial dese
Elke dinsdag is er Vega Eetcafé in onze publieke ruimte ‘De Muiterij’. Vanaf 19:00 uur kun je komen eten, soms is er live muziek of een andere act en er vinden geregeld benefieten plaats. Op dinsdag 12 januari is in de Muiterij de presentatie van het project van artist-in-residence Naqia Lee. Het project heet ‘the opposite in us’. Door middel van fotografie ontdekte ze wat de overeenkomsten en verschillen zijn tussen de mensen en de Bajesdorpse kat Tijger. O
Theatre is a language, theatre is expression, theatre is desire for communication. In Amsterdam many people tend to associate theatre with a box with a label on it: a building where the bourgeoisie celebrates rituals of endlessly and stiffly repetition of classical texts. Others are just satisfied with (stand up) comedies that mainly entertain with jokes often based on sexism or stereotypes. In general theatre is considered boring, dull, ‘old’. And theatre is more and more an endan