Plantage Dok

Lokaal x Impro Jam x Space is the Place
2026-03-20 18:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokzaal
Dinner: 18:30 (10€)
Concert starts 20:30 / Jam afterwards

Space is the Place presents a travelling series IMPRO JAM, tonight as part of Lokaal @ Plantage Dok.
A meeting point to explore free improvisation and experimental music through collaboration, curiosity, and spontaneous music-making. Bring
your instruments, dancers welcome!

OPENING GROUP: Beatrice Sberna (voice), Uldis Vitols (bass), Ab Baars (saxophone, clarinet), Nasim Lopes-Palacios Navarro (drums).

For years, De Ruimte has been the home of the fantastic Impro Jam series: a meeting place to explore free improvisation and experimental music through collaboration, curiosity, and spontaneous music-making. The series was initiated in 2014 by saxophonist Ada Rave. Each event starts with a fixed group of artists, after which other musicians are welcome to join with their instruments and jam together on stage. We are proud to announce a new, short series of Impro Jams at various locations in Amsterdam and Utrecht.

Dok Night
2026-03-19 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.
More info about the program is coming soon

Dok Night
2026-03-12 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ancient Hostility (Liverpool, UK)
Harmony singing and drones from members of All In Vain and Dawn Ray’d, singing songs about heartbreak and resistance.
https://ancienthostilityfolk.bandcamp.com/album/sing-as-loud-as-you-can
Lyngfarer (Norway)Lyngfarer is the musical moniker of Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Magnus Nymo, rooted in quiet, pensive folk-influenced music shaped by rural landscapes and DIY, punk, and sci-fi cultural backgrounds. The project spans acoustic, dark folk, and minimal styles, with releases like Dagen Kommer that showcase contemplative songwriting and diverse instrumentation.
https://lyngfarer.bandcamp.com/
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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.

Dok Night - Opening expo Embodied Cognition by Sara Mokken& live music
2026-03-05 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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 Live music by Keely Westwood
18:30 Opening exhibition Embodied Cognition by Sara Mokken
19:00 Vegan dinner
20:30 Live music by Fooi

Dok Night - No borders film screening & Het Laatste Avondmaal
2026-02-26 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.
19u Benefit dinner by Het Laatste Avondmaal
20u No borders film screening: The Ashes of Moria
On Europe’s biggest refugee/concentration camp in the words of those who survived. Collecting (optinal) donations for the Aegean Boat Report
(Film starts at 20h instead of 18h!)

Oog om oog, kindertheater voorstelling
2026-02-25 15:00 - 18:00 | Dokzaal
Oog om oog
Een fysieke muzikale voorstelling op het lijf geschreven
Theater Zuidplein
Genre: Dans, Jongerenvoorstelling, Theater, Muziek
Duur: 45 minuten
Geschikt voor: 8+
aanmelden verplicht
15u inloop
15.30 voorstelling
Na afloop naar de herdenking febr.staking
‘Oog om oog’ gaat over strijd en kameraadschap. Op wat voor manier kijk je naar elkaar? Wat blijft er van een conflict over als we ons inlevingsvermogen maximaal inzetten? Zoomen wij in op de motivatie en houding van de ander en proberen te begrijpen wat voor impact het handelen en gedrag kan hebben?
We zien groepen tegenover elkaar staan; groepen die samen strijden; lichamen die uitgeput raken; we horen een lange opgebouwde compositie passend bij de choreografie; we zien een danser met een bodycam, zoals soldaten tegenwoordig met bodycam een conflictsituatie in gaan. Tegelijkertijd is het een voorstelling die hoop, reflectie en troost moet bieden in deze
(soms) roerige tijden.
Theatermakers Dionne Zwennicker-Norton en Freek den Hartogh werken samen aan een fysieke en muzikale voorstelling op maat voor de groep performers in de leeftijd van 12 tot 22 jaar. Dionne is als choreograaf en Freek als componist betrokken. Samen met de jongeren maken ze een choreografie en compositie op maat waarin de focus op het landelijke thema: gedeelde waarheid vanuit verschillende perspectieven ligt.
Regie: Dionne Zwennicker-Norton & Freek den Hartogh
Choreografie: Dionne Zwennicker-Norton
Muziek: Freek den Hartogh
Performers: n.t.b.
Producent: Theater Zuidplein

Lokaal meets SITP & Orbits
2026-02-20 18:30 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
18:30 – 19:30 Dinner | 20:30 Start music

Space is the Place & Orbits musician collective invited three acts embracing improvisation and adventure; Berlin based multi-instrumentalist / performance-artist Teresa Riemann, Giuseppe Doronzo & Genevieve Murphy play duo on electronics & bagpipes (& more) and Vera Morais performs with her project Eupnea, an ensemble of voices and flutes. Finally, DJ Andy Ex will play his incredibly wide palate of music. We will use both the hall and the basement.
LINE-UP (music starts 20:30).
EUPNEA (Vera Morais / Līva Dumpe / Sarah van Eijk / Teresa Costa / Ketija Ringa-Karahona)
Giuseppe Doronzo & Genevieve Murphy
Teresa Riemann
DJ Andy Ex
Dinner (18:30) by John Pastinaak: Richly filled winter veggie stew with white beans, tarragon pesto, roasted nuts and Turkish bread.

ABOUT LOKAAL
Lokaal is an Amsterdam based collective for adventurous performing arts. It is born out of the urge to nurture an autonomous community where audiences and artists come together. We are local Amsterdam cultural citizens – artists and artists lovers – searching for inspiring fellow creatives who dare to express themselves honestly, with respect and without boundaries.

Dok Night - SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA: Slavnosti snezenek (1984) directed by Jiří Menzel
2026-02-19 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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 open
19 Vegan Food by JAER Kitchen: pilau with salad, vegetables and pumpkin soup
20.30 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA: Slavnosti snezenek (1984) directed by Jiří Menzel
Presented by Jeffrey Badcock
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.

Dok Night Pigs Rising Benefiet voor Gaza // voku // film screening (Leila Khaled: The Orange Tree) // muziek met Alexandra Duvekot / Βορειάνοι / Mister Fish & co.
2026-02-12 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Film screening: Leila Khaled: The Orange Tree @ 18.00
Veganistich Palestijns eten @ 19.00
Come support grassroots efforts to deliver essential supplies to people in Gaza. In response to the ongoing destruction caused by the genocidal Zionist machine, we are coming together to provide much-needed aid. Proceeds from the dinner will be sent to the Union of Agricultural Work Commitees.

No reservation is needed.

muziek @ 19u30
Intiem en intimiderend. Een ontmoetingsstek voor muzikanten en een ontsmettingsplek voor doorgedragen zielen. Gelikt en pas verzonnen, boven en beneden, gerold in jouw wimpers en in stukjes gesneden.

Alexandra Duvekot
Alexandra Duvekot pares her music down to cello, voice, and sparse experimental soundscapes. The journey unfolds slowly, favoring texture, storylines, and intuitive longing over structure. Intimate, unsettled, and sometimes watery in its experimental nature.

Βορειάνοι (Voriáni)Amsterdam based Greek rempetiko group playing songs from the early 20th century

Rebetiko emerged in the early twentieth century in the port cities of Greece, among people who had lost almost everything. Songs of longing and loss, of love and hardship, poverty and resistance. Instruments were smashed, songs were censored. But the music lived on in cafés and homes, through the many recordings that were made and is still highly relevant today.
Join us and feel the spirit of the rebetes.
Méla | voice & zills
Johannes | lavta
Anastasis | guitar & voice
instagram

Mister Fish & co.

Dok Night - QC presents De toekomst, hoe pakken we het aan?!
2026-02-05 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.

18u Open
19u Vegan Food by chef Lips
20u Questions Collective presents:
De toekomst, hoe pakken we het aan?! (spoedvergadering).
Het is een spoedvergadering.
Het is absurdistisch.
Je kunt meedoen.
Je kunt agenda-punten inbrengen,
en je kunt ook gewoon komen luisteren.
Er is live muziek, een metronoom (tik-tak-tik-tak)
Een beamer!
Er zullen stoelen zijn en kantoor-attributen,
en misschien zelfs een flip-over.
We hopen heel erg dat je komt, want een vergadering betekent niets zonder jouw input.
Samen maken we de toekomst, acuut en accuraat.
Let op: er is plek voor 10 deelnemers. Wil je meedoen? Kom dan op tijd. Deelname is gratis.
Je mag natuurlijk ook gewoon komen kijken als je meedoen iets te spannend vindt.
Over QC
Questions Collective ontwikkelt nieuw werk door continue uitproberen. Vanuit een frustratie en fascinatie voor eindeloze vergaderingen en machtsstucturen, willen we het vergaderen zelf onder de loep nemen. Op een verrassende en absurdistische manier, vol improvisatie.
Wat kan je verwachten?
– Een helder begin waarin we duidelijk uitleggen hoe je kunt meedoen.
– Een leuke interactieve avond
– Er zijn geen foute agenda-punten, foute vragen, niemand wordt belachelijk gemaakt. (Behalve het fenomeen van ‘de manager’ en ‘de vergadering’ wellicht.)
– Elke gelijkenis met bestaande gebeurtenissen of personen berust op louter toeval.
– Het duurt 60 minuten.
– Er zijn special guests

Dok Night - Open Mic & Benefit dinner by Het Laatste Avondmaal
2026-01-29 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.
18u Open
19u Benefit Dinner by Het Laatste Avondmaal
20u – 22u Open Mic – poetry, music, spoken word, prose
This evening invites you to come share your art and indulge in the creations of others — poetry, music, or any other performance that wants to breathe for a moment. From 20:00 to 20:30, performers can sign up and will get a spot of 5-7 minutes in a cozy Dok basement setting. New comers and seasoned artists: everyone is welcome!
+ sign up for performances starts at 20:00
+ every participant has 5-7 minutes
+ doesn’t have to be original work, take your own instruments- amplifier, mic will be accessible at the spot
+ everyone is welcome: firsttimers and seasoned performers

AND… monthly exhibition ‘Silent Screamers’, ‘Hardwerkende Lanterfanters’ and more… by Gabriel van Hoften.

Dok Night - Album release show: Relaxheadman
2026-01-22 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.
18u Open
19u Vegan Food by Chef Lips
20u30 Album release show: Relaxheadman
Relax Head Man is een Amsterdamse band gevormd rond
Tineke Vroegop en Wim Elzinga. Sinds de oprichting in 2016 zijn er 2 singles
en 4 albums verschenen. In januari 2026 verschijnt het 5de album genaamd Maisie Red.

AND…. monthly exhibition ‘Silent Screamers’, ‘Hardwerkende Lanterfanters’ and more… by Gabriel van Hoften.

DansDok
2026-01-17 20:00 - 23:30 | Dokhuis
Dag DansDokdansers,

Het nieuwe jaar is nog jong, dus één extra proostmoment kan vast geen kwaad 😉
Kom dansen en proosten tijdens onze komende DansDokavond!

Dok Night - SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA: THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS (1985) Directed by Sergei Parajanov and Dodo Abashidze
2026-01-15 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.
18u Open
19u Vegan Food
20u30 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA
THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS 1985
(ამბავი სურამის ციხისა)
Directed by Sergei Parajanov and Dodo Abashidze
88 minutes
In Georgian with English subtitles
Despite the fact that Sergei Parajanov was one of the most internationally acclaimed directors of all time, his films are rarely shown today. We projected his classic The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova) several years ago, and the audience was blown away. His movies are ravishing visual tapestries, bordering on the psychedelic, leading you to places you have never been, stirring up feelings you never had before. And this film in particular—Suram Fortress—has a wild, eclectic, soul-jarring musical soundtrack. His movies are almost like moving paintings, and their stories unravel in a state of pure ecstasy.
This film is based on an old Georgian folk tale about a fortress that is under constant construction. Whenever they get close to finishing it, something gives way and it crumbles. Frustrated by this mystery, the King’s servants go to a fortune-teller, who reveals that a young boy must be walled up alive in one corner of the building, so that the fortress will stand strong. Parajanov made this movie after he was released from a Soviet prison, so perhaps the theme of this flick resonated with his own sacrifice of imprisonment.
He was 60 years old, had spent much of his life behind bars, and it’s incredible that after such a long dark journey, he could still make a film as unbearably bright as this. This is pure art, untouched by politics or business. It is one part ethnographic folk tale, and one part surreal cinematic poem. Parajanov was an artistic compatriot of Andrei Tarkovsky, and he remains one of most visionary and magical filmmakers who ever lived.

Presented by Jeffrey Badcock
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.

AND….. monthly exhibition ‘Silent Screamers’, ‘Hardwerkende Lanterfanters’ and more… by Gabriel van Hoften

Dok Night - Opening Expo, live music & Ethiopian Food
2026-01-08 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.
18u Open
19 u Vegan Ethiopian Food by Moknen (!!benefit dinner for Gaza is moved to Thursday Jan.15!!)
20u30 Live music in the basement Local Pollution & Friends met Nina Guarneri (jazz/folk) NONDESCRIPTUSER (weird tronics) & Chili Con Chaos (chaos punk) & Timur Abbiasov (visuals)
AND the opening of the monthly exhibition ‘Silent Screamers’, ‘Hardwerkende Lanterfanters’ and more… by Gabriel van Hoften

SHAPES LINES AND LAYERS – Celebration Ig 80 Ab 70 = 150
2025-12-28 17:00 - 22:00 | Dokzaal
a day with two concerts, a meal and publications about the work of Ig and the work of Ab.
the first concert 17:00-18:00: a selection of Hennemans compositions. For this occasion Ig will write a new composition for accordeon and voice.
the second concert 20:00-21:30: an improvisation concert of duo Baars Henneman and international guests.
Ticket here.
flyer with full details:

Dok Night / PUNISHMENT PARK (1971) Directed by Peter Watkins
2025-12-18 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
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.
PUNISHMENT PARK (1971)
Directed by Peter Watkins
88 minutes
In English

Peter Watkins is one of the most important filmmakers still living….he stands right up there with Godard in creating his own vision of cinema and social responsibility. And also like many visionaries Watkins has mostly been criticized for making absurd claims, only to find out a few years later that everything he said was true.
PUNISHMENT PARK is Watkins view of America in the early 70s. He considered it a sort of science fiction film set in the near future, and actually its parallels with Guantanamo Bay are chilling. This film is about the construction of “punishment parks” in the deserts where all undesirables are being held. Watkins’ films tend to be banned in the country he makes them in, and it was also true of this film which was banned as being un-american. Made with a cast of unprofessional actors, who contributed in the creation of the piece, this is an example of spontaneous filmmaking at its most intelligent…. a pseudo-documentary which has absolutely astounding results. The film remains one of the most controversial, most searing films in the history of cinema.
And, hey, guess what…. when Obama was in office he signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which means that now anyone in America can now suddenly be taken away, without charge, without a lawyer, without trial and imprisoned/tortured indefinitely. Yep, we are certainly living in Science fiction these days.
One recent viewer’s response:
“To think this film was made the year I was born. To think people are still having their constitutional rights taken away, now in the name of “homeland security”. To think this movie was intentionally banned from the American public. PUNISHMENT PARK addresses the political divide in the United States better than any movie I’ve ever seen. A movie like this is so polarizing, it has the potential to cause riots. It makes you face the issue: are you for the people’s right of dissent in a time of war, or for the constitution being compromised in the name of “national security”? The acting is totally convincing. So much so, I can’t see any acting going on here at all. If this is a scripted documentary, it’s more convincing than any reality show on television today. PUNISHMENT PARK is possibly the most important film ever made.”

20:30
Free screening
Dinners are available from 19:00

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Presented by Jeffrey Badcock
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.

Waiting Tape Release
2025-12-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Dokzaal
20:00 Doors Open
21:00 Some live music by T’iju T’iju, Spill Gold, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly & Omar Amarin

Entrance = free

Waiting is an album born from listening to Palestinian poets and their words from within occupation. Initiated by Spill Gold, the project began as an exploration through sound and poetry, and grew as they invited musician friends to contribute songs connected to this shared theme.
In these sounds and words lives the enduring hope for freedom.
Free Palestine
All income from the sales of this cassette tape will go to Theatre Day Productions in Gaza.
Theatre Day Productions creates theater with and for children, young people, women, and families in Gaza. They provide space for them to express themselves, to dream, and to imagine a better tomorrow. Together, they prove that art and freedom of expression are stronger than destruction, and that hope is born from theater.

https://molkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/waiting

Dok Night
2025-12-11 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-12-04 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-11-27 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.

Documentary 'From Compassion to Crime'
2025-12-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Dokzaal
Op maandag 8 december 2025 wordt de documentaire From Compassion to Crime vertoond bij Plantage Dok, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam.
De avond duurt van 19.30 tot 21.30 uur en bestaat uit de filmvertoning met een voor- en nagesprek.

🎬 THE FILM IS SHOWN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

Over de film
From Compassion to Crime laat zien hoe mensen die zich solidair tonen met vluchtelingen – door hen te redden, op te vangen of hun verhalen zichtbaar te maken – steeds vaker worden vervolgd als criminelen.

Op 3 juli 2025 stemde de Tweede Kamer in met de Asielnoodmaatregelenwet. Deze wet maakt niet alleen verblijf zonder papieren strafbaar, maar ook het helpen van mensen zonder papieren. Wat jarenlang in Zuid-Europa gebeurde – waar vrijwilligers, advocaten en journalisten werden vervolgd – is nu werkelijkheid geworden in Nederland.
De documentaire volgt verschillende mensen die hun menselijkheid boven de regels stelden en daarvoor een hoge prijs betalen.

• Tommy Olsen (Aegean Boat Report) – een ex-kinderopvangpedagoog uit Noorwegen. Met zijn kleine NGO runt hij een noodlijn die 24/7 bereikbaar is voor vluchtelingen op zee en documenteert hij illegale pushbacks van de Griekse kustwacht. Juist daarom wordt hij nu beschuldigd van mensensmokkel en lidmaatschap van een criminele organisatie.

• Pieter Wittenberg – een schipper die drenkelingen op zee niet kon negeren. Hij bood uitgeputte mensen hulp tot de kustwacht hen overnam. Geen heldendaad, maar volgens hem “gewoon menselijkheid”. Toch klaagt Griekenland hem aan voor mensensmokkel en deelname aan een criminele organisatie.

• Ingeborg Beugel – Nederlandse journalist en jarenlang correspondent in Griekenland. Ze werd vervolgd wegens haar publicaties over de behandeling van vluchtelingen én omdat ze een jonge Afghaanse vluchteling tijdelijk in huis nam. Olangs is zij in hoger beroep vrijgesproken.

Hun verhalen staan niet op zichzelf. In Bosnië en Bulgarije worden hulpverleners opgesloten zonder proces, schepen van hulporganisaties worden aan de ketting gelegd, en zelfs in Ter Apel werden vrijwilligers vervolgd omdat zij voedsel uitdeelden.

De vraag die blijft hangen
From Compassion to Crime stelt een scherpe vraag:
Wat zegt het over onze samenleving als hulp aan je medemens strafbaar wordt?
Alleen al in 2023 werden 117 Europeanen vervolgd omdat zij vluchtelingen hielpen. De documentaire toont niet alleen cijfers, maar vooral de persoonlijke verhalen achter deze ontwikkeling.

Praktische informatie
📍 Locatie
Plantage Dok
Plantage Doklaan 8
Amsterdam

📅 Datum
Maandag 8 december 2025

⏰ Tijd
Van 19.30 tot 21.30 uur,
met voorgesprek en nagesprek.

🎫 Tickets online kopen

🎬 THE FILM IS SHOWN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
(Voeg hier zelf een ticket- of aanmeldlink toe als die er is.)

Over de maker
From Compassion to Crime is de debuutdocumentaire van Stanzen Leh Jelsma. De film onderzoekt hoe daden van solidariteit in Europa – en nu ook in Nederland – steeds vaker strafbaar worden gesteld. Het is een urgente film die aansluit bij maatschappelijke debatten, protesten en fundamentele vragen over rechtvaardigheid, menselijkheid en solidariteit.

Dok Night / SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA / PANEL STORY (1980) ​​Directed by Vera Chytilová
2025-11-20 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.
PANEL STORY 1980
(Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste)

​​Directed by Vera Chytilová
96 minutes
In Czech with English subtitles

The bold films of Czechoslovakian director Vera Chytilová (Daisies) are still largely deleted from film history at this moment. Women are generally marginalized if not downright ignored from the official film history books. Like female directors Lina Wertmüller, Liliana Cavani and Agnes Varda, Chytilová’s career shows an incredible wealth—her films are visionary and uncompromising. Her name is finally getting on the map a bit after all these years, but whenever a Chytilová film is shown today it’s still always the same one, over and over. Crazy. This flick is a black comedy that was banned for years, and still has never really been given a chance.
Vera Chytilová was a rebel who reflected the surreal changes that Czechoslovakia was going through in the 60s and 70s. Panel Story is an incredible encapsulation of the attempted modernist project taking place in the suburbs outside of Prague in the 70s… a creation that was actually a destruction… a dream that was a nightmare. The flats were conceived of as bright and modern solutions to a housing crisis, ready to be equipped with all the latest domestic appliances – but the result was a domestic hell promoting mind-numbing standardization. The mass-produced housing estates of efficient prefabricated high-rises were both a striving for paradise, and an expulsion from paradise at the same time.
This film probably only rivals Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her in its abrasive criticism of our Brave New World. This is real psycho-filmmaking, with deliberately chaotic editing, an atonal music score and sudden frantic camera movements that feel like the cameraman was a rat being flushed down a toilet. Chytilová’s use of space is compressed and claustrophobic, and the structure of the film is a rapid-fire flipping through the tenant’s households, almost as if we are jumping through channels on a television with a remote control. The images are taut and overbearing, the sound-design is compressed and autistic. Throughout the mess we do manage to follow the paths of several people’s lives… in a fragmented, scattered way.
Incendiary cinema, created by a brave soul… one of Czechoslovakia’s greatest…

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Presented by Jeffrey Badcock
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.

Free screening
Dinners are available from 19:00

even a dead star can be a lighthouse - by Maria Angerman
2025-11-16 19:00 - 2025-11-26 17:00 | Dokzaal
even a dead star can be a lighthouse
shortfilm+ performance lecture
by Maria Angerman

What happens when oxygen fads at the sdige of the sea?
Maria Angerman will present two works in dialogue that explore the shifting scologies bangath the sur-
face. The short film Even a Dead Star Can Be a Lighthouse is a spaculation on the resilisnoe and adapt-
ability of aquatic life as it encounters changing environmental conditions. (Un)Intentional Migrators is a
performance lecture that refiscts on svolutionary ecology and invasive spacies to the sounds of the dax-
ophone. Among the whispars of underwater beings, the quastion remains: who has the right to dacida
who belongs?
Maria Angerman is an artist and fimmaker based in Fin/ano, who s interesigo in now/ thresnoo spaces
between land and sea reveal processes of loss, resilience, and transformation, while also offering grounds
for imagining alternative futures. Last winter she did a residency at Plantage Dok, where sha developed
the film, partly in collaboration with the residents.
Kindly supported by @kulturfonden @taiksgram @sisfinland @svensk-osterbottniskasamfundet

FREE ENTRANCE

Desert Flower
2025-11-15 19:00 - 22:00
In a new setting, we return.
A journey through sound and image, motion and emotion,  captured across distant places and fleeting encounters.
We move with the presence of familiar strangers,  and the resonance of natural landscapes.
This time, we gather in a space once hidden,
a former church now open, not for worship, but for wonder.
With ambient soundscapes and visual rituals,  a moment of unfolding together.

Come and join us.
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Websites:
https://www.instagram.com/contrast.__
https://www.instagram.com/creations_lunatico

LOKAAL EDITION #6 COLLAB W/ MOLK FACTORY – JEREMIAH CHIU & SOFIA MARTA HONER, MAURIZIO TAKARA & CARLA BOREGAS, T’IJU T’IJU AKA JOCHEM VAN TOL
2025-11-14 20:30 - 23:30 | Dokzaal
MOLK FACTORY is an artist collective based in Amsterdam, they started by hosting small concerts in their MOLK studio located in the Broedplaats Plantage Dok, with the mind-set of organising ‘special occasions’ events, where friends passing by would get a chance to perform in an intimate setting instead of just in big concert halls. Molk Factory’s motto is to celebrate their (inter)national community, to contribute in ‘Keep(ing) Amsterdam Weird’ and to embrace multi-media sonic, visual and performative interventions to support artists from close and afar!
During 2025 they have invited LOKAAL series & community to start a new series afresh, due to the growing Amsterdam city’s gentrification, which has led to the loss of important art&music experimental spaces like De Ruimte & Sexyland.
¡Come visit!
PROGRAM

JEREMIAH CHIU & SOFIA MARTA HONER
The LA-based duo of synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer have spent years refining a masterful interplay of acoustic and electronic sounds, both in live performance and across three albums for International Anthem: 2022’s Recordings from the Åland Islands, 2023’s The Closest Thing to Silence (in collaboration with legendary French musician Ariel Kalma), and 2025’s Different Rooms.
Drawing from their roots in Chicago’s improvisational and experimental music scene, Chiu and Honer have crafted a unique sound, melding the distinctive tonal colors of viola and modular synthesizer into a cohesive and unexpected whole. It’s a singular aesthetic that can be delightfully disorienting, with arrangements being constructed and deconstructed in real time both improvisationally and via the duo’s extensive penchant for live-sampling. As Pitchfork put it: “you’re never quite sure if what you’re hearing is played ‘live’ or manipulated, and sounds keep darting over the porous border.”
The duo’s recent live activity includes a fall 2024 EU/UK tour with both headlining performances and support slots for Carl Stone and Arooj Aftab, as well as stateside appearances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight new music festival and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Summer 2025 sees the release of the duo’s new album Different Rooms.
“… the Los Angeles-based collaborators shape a tranquil vision of a Nordic landscape that feels just beyond the edge of reality.”
– Jayson Greene, Pitchfork
https://www.intlanthem.com/artists/jeremiah-chiu-marta-sofia-honer

MAURIZIO TAKARA & CARLA BOREGAS
Both crucial members of the Brazilian music scene, Carla Boregas and M.Takara have been playing as a duo since 2018. Together their music is the result of an interplay between drums and synths, blending Boregas’s aether and warmth electronics with Takara’s jazzy improvised percussion, somewhere between abstract improvisation and propulsive rhythm. The landscape they present is real and vibrant, sometimes brash, sometimes beautiful, rarely bland or ambivalent, an organic layering of manipulated synthesizers and acoustic sounds.
First linking minds on 2020’s “Linha D’Água” (Bokeh Versions), where they attempted to sounding the abstract and succeed in creating a mysterious and evocative soundtrack with water as a central element of inspiration. The aquatic theme is still present on the new release “Grande Massa D’Água” (Hive Mind Records). The dubbed-out, dreamlike gravity that anchored their debut was replaced by finely cracked filigree constructions that sound as if they might shatter at anymoment, slipping through the cracks just like the water that informs their compositional process,coating the past and gushing forcefully into the future. From the fringes of jazz, electroacustic and electronica, they pour that experience into the immersive.
Grande
Massa D'Agua by M. Takara & Carla Boregas

T’IJU T’IJU AKA JOCHEM VAN TOL
Having hung his hat in the past on collaborative projects such as The Paper Ensemble, SOON and Silverbones, Jochem van Tol’s new project T’iju T’iju answers a long-held hypothesis: what would happen if he were to experiment with sound and music on his own? The answer lies partly in its moniker, named after the Bolivian word for grasshopper, an animal the Amsterdam-based composer and artist feels a peculiar spiritual connection to.
T’iju T’iju’s debut EP 1: the dragon is still alive was written and recorded by Van Tol during a retreat in Spain. The two tracks, “Blue Birds” and “New Grass”, (a nod to Talk Talk’s seminal final LP Laug-hing Stock) were shaped by manipulating organic sounds with an assembly of synth modules and tape manipulations. Van Tol took on a tactile approach that felt novel and adventurous to him. In the past, he had completed works that were meant to be performed or vice versa, performances that were meant to put to rest on a recording. These recordings are more candid and personal, homing in on the moments themselves, music made with no audience in mind.
The dragon is still alive is the first of a series of releases in which Van Tol chases down his own curiosity through sound, without the weight of laboring over the results. Just because T’iju T’iju is a solo endeavor, doesn’t mean the music can’t attach to and interact with other disciplines. Case in point, the next chapter for the project involves a soundtrack of a film. The music is a snapshot of sounds acting like characters driven by impulse and curiosity, much like a natural ecosystem, unraveling without second guessing itself.
Liner Notes
[..] Though the dragon is still alive consists of just two tracks, the music itself feels nonlinear, like a fully realized environment to endlessly explore and get lost in. It’s a place where modern electronic sounds can descend into the primordial, and organic melodies rouse into blissful sentience. The possibilities are, indeed, endless.
– Jasper Willems

tickets:
https://www.ticketview.nl/shop/deruimte?eventID=7091

Dok Night - benefiet dinner Gaza + concert HISKE + Djorie in the Dokzaal
2025-11-13 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
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.
SCHEDULE
17:30 Documentary screening (“Gaza Fights for Freedom”)
19:00 Dinner (benefiet, by Ismail)
20:30 Music (by HISKE en Djorie)

BENEFIET
Join @ismailshziada and friends for an evening of solidarity and fundraising to support grassroots efforts delivering essential supplies to people in Gaza. In response to the ongoing destruction caused by the Zionist genocidal machine, we are coming together to provide much-needed aid.
🎬 Documentary Screening | 17:30
“Gaza Fights for Freedom” is a documentary about the Great March of Return protests. It tells the story of Gaza past and present. You will hear from the victims who were there on the ground.
🍽️ Dinner | 19:00
Homemade dishes prepared by Ismail Ziada and friends
MUSIC

HISKE. is a vocalist and composer whose music explores the intersection of diverse genres. With roots in R&B and jazz, she blends these influences with elements of folk and Brazilian-inspired Latin sounds. After releasing her EP with her band in 2023, HISKE. now returns to the stage as a solo artist—where vocal, electronic textures and acoustic warmth converge
listen to HISKE

Djorie is an Irish musician and producer working with strings, sampling, looping and synthesisers for an etherial sound with an industrial edge.
listen to Djorie

Dok Night – Expositie opening van Michèle Naja
2025-11-06 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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.

De tentoonstelling “Licht reflecties” presenteert een aantal creaties en projecten die voortkomen uit mijn interesse in lichten van Amsterdam en elders. Ik ben geboren in ‘68 en ben autodidactisch mozaïekkunstenaar, schilder en schepper. Aangetrokken door de interactie tussen licht en materiaal, ga ik ook graag in gesprek met het publiek over wat mij beweegt.

Muzikale omlijsting door:
Théo Salaris
Contrabassist aan het conservatorium van Amsterdam

Orè Album Release Concert
2025-11-02 14:30 - 18:00 | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
Orè – Album Release Concert
Pedro Ivo Ferreira – Bass
Miguel Petruccelli -Guitar
José Soares – Sax
Onno Govaert – Drums
https://pedroivoferreira.bandcamp.com/
Pedro Kasteliins & QBAE
Pedro Kasteliins – Vocals/ Guitar
Gabriel de Oliveira – Vocals/Guitar / Sax
Zenzele Mthembu-Salter – Bass
Dane Paris – Drums
http://www.pedrokastelijns.com/
http://www.instagram.com/pedrokastelijns
Pietro Vincentini solo
Drums and Electronics
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14.30 doors/ 15.00 start / 18.00 end
Tickets: €10-€15 (sliding seale)

Dok Night - Benefit dinner by Het Laatste Avondmaal
2025-10-30 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
