5 Rythms Dance Workshop
2021-12-20 08:00 - 2022-01-02 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokzaal
5Rhythms workshop – The Lighness of Being – Bringing the heart back home
door Mirjam van Hasselt

Dokhuis NIGHT | Vernissage Sketches of Unfurling Fists
2022-02-10 17:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis
An exhibition by Gus Moystad and Jason Swinehammer

Jason Swinehammer (Canada, 1973) and Gus Moystad (Norway, 1992) did not realize just how many themes their art work shared until they started to install this exhibition. Themes exploring fragile masculinity, anxiety, sexuality, dreams and folklore, their works touch on the subtle and extreme inner and outer workings of the human condition.

Dokhuis NIGHT

Elke donderdag / Eten Expo en Entertainment
Vegan Maaltijd € 10,-
Vegan Cakes € 3,-

Reserveren voor zitplaats aan de deur.

Taste before you waste - Wasteless Wednesday
2022-02-16 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-23 18:30 - 20:30, 2022-03-09 18:30 - 21:30, 2022-03-16 18:30 - 21:30, 2022-03-23 18:30 - 21:30, 2022-03-30 18:30 - 21:30 | Dokhuis
Taste before you waste – Wasteless Wednesday

As always, dinner is a donation-based 100% vegan feast created from zero waste ingredients salvaged from nearby Amsterdam food stores.

Doors open at 18:30 and we are operating on a first come, first served basis.

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-02-17 18:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT

+ DJ Nanowicz
+ PING PONG PARTY
+ Exhibition Sketches of Unfurling Fists – an art exhibition by Gus Moystad & Jason Swinehammer
+ Vegan Maaltijd € 10
+ Vegan Cakes € 3,-

Reserveren voor zitplaats aan de deur.

Exhibition Sketches of Unfurling Fists
2022-02-20 14:00 - 17:00 | Dokhuis
Join us for some tea and delicous vegan cake.
Jason, one of the artists, will be present to chat about his art or just pop in for a drink.

Sketches of Unfurling Fists is an exhibition by Jason Swinehammer en Gus Moystad
Jason Swinehammer (Canada, 1973) and Gus Moystad (Norway, 1992) did not realize just how many themes their art work shared until they started to install this exhibition. Themes exploring fragile masculinity, anxiety, sexuality, dreams and folklore, their works touch on the subtle and extreme inner and outer workings of the human condition.

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-02-24 18:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT

+ Exhibition Sketches of Unfurling Fists – an art exhibition by Gus Moystad & Jason Swinehammer

Vooraf reserveren voor vegan maaltijd.

Filmavond - Films for those who care | Aftenlandet (1977)
2022-02-24 20:30 - 22:15 | Dokzaal
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Films for Those Who Care
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.

EVENING LAND 1977
(Aftenlandet)
Directed by Peter Watkins
109 minutes
In Danish with English subtitles
Done in Peter Watkins unique furious docudrama film style, blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, this is another engaging flick dealing with the world around us. The details of the situation don’t really matter much, because the themes are universal. Watkin’s films are not art movies, the director is only interested in discussion, and in finding new ways to understand the world around us since the old ways seem ineffective. Watkins was thrown out of almost every country he was in, except where he is now, in the countryside of France.
This film was shot in Denmark, and revolves around a country on the brink of collapse. We see workers taking over their workspace, we see radicals kidnapping a NATO head honcho. The country is unraveling on every level. But as these uprisings take place we more importantly see the workers and radicals discussing and trying to decide what the best course of action is. The cinema of Watkins is not about sensationalistic stories that serve as action movies – his films are there to help us think, and to care. Therefore this film is not only about a story, it is also about the world at large. How the military operates and how it will be used against its own people when push comes to shove. It is also a critique on the mass media and how it is used to distract and pacify us. Although Watkins is a visionary filmmaker, he is also a collective one, believing in a populist cinema. Therefore this flick was made with 192 non-professionals and everyone chipped in on every level (acting, the ideas explored, the direction the story takes).
Peter Watkins directed Evening Land for the Danish Film Institute, but once they screened it they felt it was too edgy, touching on topics that were too sensitive. So they have kept it under lock and key ever since, acting like it was never made. I can’t think of a better example than this director to show that certain filmmakers are being silenced for decades. As a writer in Le monde put it in 1971 “To find traces of Peter Watkins in a dictionary or a history of cinema you might as well hire a private detective. His works remain hidden, or forbidden, in most cases.”
To underline that point, in a documentary about Watkins, a TV executive explains bluntly why we never see his movies: “Some filmmakers say ‘this is my work and I want it to stay that way’. That is their right, and we respect that right. Those are the films we don’t buy, and those are the films we don’t transmit.”
Free screening

Finissage Exhibition Sketches of Unfurling Fists
2022-02-27 14:00 - 20:30 | Dokhuis
Sketches of Unfurling Fists – an exhibition by Jason Swinehammer en Gus Moystad

In conjunction with the exhibition “Sketches of Unfurling Fists” at Plantage Dok, featuring the art of Jason Swinehammer and Gus Moystad, we’re organising an afternoon of intimate stories and poetry, and rounding off with a show! Discover and explore your own vulnerable masculinity with some tea and cake, while listening to some of Amsterdam’s best storytellers in an artistic environment!
Really, we just want to bring some beautiful souls together to share in togetherness ♥︎
You’re welcome from 14:00 to get a drink, and a tarot reading by none other than the illustrious artist extraordinaire himself, Jason Swinehammer!

At 15:00 we’ll start us off with stories and poems by:
☞ Gus Moystad (Host)☞ Phillip Melchers, Canadian Knuffelbeer (Story)☞ Alex D. Bagget, Thespian of the Far West (Story)☞ Araweelo’s Daughter, Fey Power Poet of 033 (Spoken Word)
After this portion of the afternoon, a small break to rest our hearts and wet our lips, before the show is wrapped up with a dragshow by our headliner:

★★★★★
♞ The Angsty Indieboy himself, Sir Valentijn the Sexy ♞
★★★★★

Towards 18:00 we will be rounding off, with the opportunity to stay and enjoy the art, the drinks, and the food.

Vegan food by Chef Lipsicus (Vegan Assassins) € 10,- / Cakes € 3,-

Taste Before You Waste – Wasteless Wednesday
2022-03-02 18:30 - 21:30 | Dokhuis
Taste before you waste – Wasteless Wednesday

As always, dinner is a donation-based 100% vegan feast created from zero waste ingredients salvaged from nearby Amsterdam food stores.

Doors open at 18:30 and we are operating on a first come, first served basis and on donation

www.tastebeforeyouwaste.org

Dokhuis NIGHT - Questions Collective, alles uit de kast
2022-03-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis
We mogen weer dingen doen. Op deze avond zal alles gebeuren wat je nooit had verwacht.Harige monsters, gekleurde kleding, elektronische terror beats, treurige piano muziek en schaduw verhalen. Een mooie plek om elkaar te ontmoeten. Er is ook een sale met allemaal leuke dingen.
De bar is open en er zijn hapjes. Questions Collective is sinds kort onderdeel van de Plantage Dok en wil jullie graag ontmoeten.
Kom langs! Ook voor vragen op al uw antwoorden!

Start: 6PM Dinner till 8PM
– Sad Piano Tunes by the Forest Spirit – from 6 PM till the spirit vanishes
– Spoken Word by the Embodied Algorithm (Algje) in the dark – 7:30 PM
– Klokpackprijs performance – 8 PM
– Onkruid performance – 8:45 PM
– VJ DJ ROOSCEEE – 21:30 PM

Ongoing: Exhibition and DIY Genitalworkshop (Expo Till 24 Mrt)

Vegan Diner by Chef Lipsicus € 10,-
Vegan Cakes by Miss Whips € 3,-

https://plantagedok.nl/dokkers/questions-collective/

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-03-10 18:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT

+ CERAMISTS

Ceramists are are a garage punk band based in Amsterdam East playing groovy punk songs. Debut album was released in 2019, and out on cassette. Second album Bambi Eyes out now!

+ DJ Mappe

+ Vegan (benefit) meals; profit goes to Ukraine refugees

+ Exhibition Questions Collective – alles uit de kast

Dokhuis NIGHT - Dok For Peace
2022-03-17 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Please join us for a fundraising dinner and screening.All proceeds go to Ukrainian refugees of non-European origin (BIPOC).Axe and Porridge will cook a traditional Ukrainian three-course dinner.
Suggested donation €20 (or more)

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SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Films for Those Who Care
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.

BLACK IS… BLACK AIN’T 1994Directed by Marlon Riggs87 minutesIn english
Let’s deep dive into the confronting cinema of Marlon Riggs—a black queer filmmaker who died from Aids-related complications at the tender age of 37. In some ways, he can be seen as the flipside of the cinematic coin shared with British director Derek Jarman. Both directors were committed — to activism, creativity and going against the grain. Briggs was always knocking out terribly sincere and frank documentaries, in ways that were not only unique in theme, but also in form. The films were inclusive, but also disruptive to the status quo. I personally believe we are all individuals, with radically different experiences, and whenever we speak the truth it will always go against the generic stereotypes propagated by the media. That is why cinema like that of Marlon Riggs is so crucial. It tells the other side of the story that isn’t being told.
This flick was Marlon’s last, and we even have passages of him lying in his hospital bed as he dies, giving his last thoughts. This is a kind of essay-film, flipping between personal reflections, street interviews, spoken poetry, discussions, folk stories, archival material and music—grappling with many issues that unexpectedly conflict, like Queerism, black culture and feminism. On top of it all, we get Angela Davis with her powerful observations, along with Cornel West. In general, there are two different groups of people—those that feel success comes from everyone jumping on the same bandwagon and gaining as many twitter followers as possible… and then there is the other idea of progress—bringing out the contradictions, the problems, and not glossing them over and pretend they don’t exist. Riggs clearly belongs to the latter, and it makes his voice that much stronger because of it. His films are uncomfortable not because they are provocative, but simply because they hit upon some hard truths that many try to avoid.

+ This will be a high-definition screening.
+ Screening at 21:00

Dokhuis Band NIGHT
2022-03-24 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis Band NIGHT

19:00 vegan cuisine + expo Questions Collective

20:00 Combo Qazam, postpunk / math / noise band from Utrecht, NL

Combo Qazam is een Utrechtse postpunk-band die stevig leunt op grooves en meerstemmige vocalen. Op hun goed ontvangen debuut Flight Music (2020) koppelen ze dit aan 90’s indie, mathrock, prog en krautrock. Ritmisch, mechanisch en toch warm nostalgisch. Voor fans van Wire, Battles, Beak>, Tortoise, Pinback, Can en Devo.

Combo Qazam is a post-punk band from Utrecht that relies heavily on grooves and eerie vocal harmonies. On their well-received debut Flight Music (2020), they link this to 90s indie, math rock, prog and krautrock. Rhythmic and mechanical, yet nostalgic like a warm glow. For fans of Wire, Battles, Beak>, Tortoise, Pinback, Can and Devo.

Integendeel Performance Festival
2022-03-26 15:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
Performances, installations, exhibitions and an unforgettable chess tournament.
ARTISTS:
*Avantika
*SULTAN.
*Waakhond
*Mematobe^
*Effie Adnam
*Flauwe Dieren
*De Dikke Vandalen
*Johannes and the Dyna Mites
*De Herontdekkingsreizigers van het Eigen Hart en de Gezamenlijke Ziel bij Kaarslicht
Entree € 12,-
Vegan Dinner € 10,-
www.integendeel.com

Dokhuis NIGHT - Dok for Peace Benefit Night
2022-03-31 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT – Benefit

6 pm ART OPENING by various artists who donated art. The final auction will take place Sunday 24th of April
7 pm dinner cooked by the lovely Elly
8 pm music by dreamy SOUND collective SHE WHO MAKES NOISE
9 pm the energetic amazing band DISHES

* all funds go to the Dok organization for Ukrainian refugees of non-European origin (BIPOC).*

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-04-07 18:00 - 23:00, 2022-04-21 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT

+ Benefit Art Exhibition

+ Vegan Maaltijd € 10,-
+ Vegan Cakes € 3,-

Crystalline
2022-04-09 21:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
Helena Basilova & Jurjen Alkema
Pianiste Helena Basilova speelt muziek van Debussy tot Tanaka. Spectrale muziek, waarbij de componist de kleuren van klank als uitgangspunt nemen. Videokunstenaar Jurjen Alkema heeft hierbij in samenwerking met Helena een betoverend lichtontwerp gemaakt.
Op het programma staat werk van vier opeenvolgende generaties componisten: Debussy, Messiaen, Murail en Tanaka.
Messiaen raakte als jonge componist in de ban van Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande , die Messiaen omschreef als “een bliksemschicht” en “waarschijnlijk de meest doorslaggevende invloed op mij’. Messiaen gaf les aan Tristan Murail, en die op zijn beurt, had Karen Tanaka als student. Het concert beweegt van vroege stukken waarin Messiaen terugkijkt naar Debussy, naar een complexere taal in Vingt regards sur l’Enfant Jésus, vanwaar Murail het stokje overneemt, door naar Tanaka die uiteindelijk terugkeert naar eenvoud.

Programma
Claude Debussy – Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
Olivier Messiaen – Les sons incapable du rêve Première Communion de la Vierge
Tristan Murail – Les Traveaux et les Jours
Karen Tanaka – Crystalline I Children of Light- selection Water Dance I,II, III Techno Etudes I

Hosted by 24classics.

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-04-14 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT

Dokhuis galerie presents:
Live: Frans Doedel – multi talent Amsterdam sailor Frans Doedel plays his songs about drinking and sailing, lost love, ports, streets and bars – unpolished and straight from the heart.
Expo: Benefit group exposition with the wildest variety of visual art – choose your favourite piece before the grand art auction on April 24! Benefit for Refugee Aid.
Food: Dinner at 19h by Earthallujah Productions and Heavenly vegan cakes by Miss Whips.
Dancefloor: DJ Gaap .. .. Rocking Hell!
See you on Thursday!

+ Benefit Art Exhibition
+ Vegan Maaltijd
+ Vegan Cakes

Benefiet Nicaragua: tasty meal and the rebellious music of singer-songwriter Jandir Rodríguez
2022-04-16 17:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
We are organizing this night in celebration and commemoration of the April 2018 protests in Nicaragua, which were brutally repressed by state and paramilitary forces, taking the lives of 328 people and leaving many more injured and in prison. It also pushed more than 150.000 people into exile. For this reason, the night is organized by the Nicaraguan refugee community in the Netherlands, in collaboration with SOSNicaragua-Holanda and the Dutch Solidarity with Nicaragua.

The dinner, starting at 18.00, is a “voku” – people’s kitchen – consisting of a series of typical Nicaraguan dishes like gallo pinto, tostones, adobo mushrooms and guiso (all vegetarian). There will also be tres leches and cajetas de coco for dessert.

The proceeds of the benefit dinner will support the families of political prisoners in need. If you want to be sure of a plate, please sign up for dinner with an email to: sosnicaragua.holanda@gmail.com

Following the dinner, at 20.00, Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Jandir Rodríguez, who is on tour to promote his second album “Volar”, will take the floor to sweep you away to warmer places There will be plenty of time to socialize and maybe even dance a bit! You can also see caricatures by exiled cartoonist Pedro X. Molina and add to the collage of dedications to Nicaragua set up downstairs.

We hope to see you all at Dokhuis on Saturday 16 April!

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Program: Doors open from 17.00 | Dinner from 18.00 | Concert & Music from 20.00
Price: donation € 5,- or more!
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NOTE: park your bikes in the bike spots, and never in front of the neighboor’s buildings. Keep sidewalks free, keep quiet outside. Thank you!

Filmavond, films for those who care | Blue Collar
2022-04-21 20:30 - 22:30 | Dokzaal
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Films for Those Who Care
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.

BLUE COLLAR 1978
Directed by Paul Schrader
114 minutes
In English with English subtitles
Damn, they don’t make films like this anymore, that’s for sure! After Paul Schrader wrote loads of screenplays for other directors like Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) he decided to direct one of his own scripts himself. His choice was this one, BLUE COLLAR…. and so with a great cast including Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel (Bad Lieutenant), and Yaphet Koto (Alien) and a volatile script, he created this explosive gem of a film which is one of the most underrated films from the 70s.
The film is about three drinking buddies who all work in a Detroit car factory. Pissed off about their worker’s union which they feel never does anything for them, one night they decide to rob the union’s safe. That’s the set-up for a film that hooks you in right from the great opening credit sequence and doesn’t let go until the final freeze-frame. This hilarious and tragic film was one of the last films made in Hollywood that depicted the reality of everyday people without all of the gloss, make-up and special effects.
Blue Collar has had a huge impact upon other filmmakers, but has been rarely screened in cinemas since it was made. For example, the whole interracial interaction between black and white people in this film seems to have been directly ripped off by Tarantino as a standard template for films like Pulp Fiction. And by the way, as if all that wasn’t enough, it also has a brilliant soundtrack featuring Captain Beefheart and Howlin’ Wolf. It’s still relevant and powerful thirty years after it was made….a lost masterpiece of engaged cinema. A dynamite film with riveting plot…. it’s a rare screening and it’s for free… what more could you ask for?
This will be a high-definition screening.
Free screening.

Benefit Art Exhibition & Auction
2022-04-24 14:00 - 18:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis Galerie presents a Benefit Art Auction
Participating Artists
Blue Crime, Soon, Ashleigh McCulloch, Olivier Delebecque, Olle Stjerne, Frank Rosaly
Annelinde de Jong, Stéphanie Baechler, Spill Gold, Splitter Spletter, Silver Bone, Jackie Bacon, Julie Mollenhauer, Jason Swinehammer, Daan Simons / Tsugi Woodworks, Mirjam Langemeijer
Ingrid Sanghee Edwards, Bert van de Roemer, Daddy Hands, Alexandra Duvekot, Het Tekenlab
Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, Sanne Kabalt, Dishes, Slow Worries, Cinder Well, Jessica Lever, Helen Mason, Vita Buivid, Hilde Koenders, Alice Abel, Mirra Berridge, Olga Miscińska, Susan Kooi, Bashir

Click here for more information about the auction!

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-04-28 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Vegan Royal Hangover Whine and Dine with Maître Martin – Heavenly Cakes

by Miss Whips + bar, sounds and Benefit Art Exhibition

Koningshuis Kater Diner met Chef Maître Martin – Hemelse gebakjes van
Miss Whips + bar, sounds en Benefit Art Exhibition

Taste before you waste – Wasteless Wednesday
2022-05-04 18:30 - 21:30 | Dokhuis

Dokhuis Night - ASEED Benefit dinner
2022-05-05 19:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
What yummy scents fill this warm spring-air?
Can it be?
Is it true?
Yes it is! ASEED is organizing another benefit dinner.

Join us on the 5th of May from 7pm onwards at the Dokcafé to fill your bellies with delicious treats. You do not need to reserve a spot but places are limited, so make sure you show up not too late!
This time the earnings will go to the organization of the yearly Food Autonomy Festival (FAF), that willl be happening from the 27th-29th of May in Amsterdam and Utrecht. The FAF is a festival organized by ASEED, where we collectively discuss and celebrate alternatives and resistance to the state and the corporate-controlled industrial food system. It is a place where activists, farmers, young academics, food-lovers among many others who fight together for social and ecological justice are brought together. In doing so, we strive in both our perspectives and practices, to challenge racism, sexism, coloniality, and oppression in all its forms. Collectively we take engagement with food beyond procurement and make it a site of resistance, solidarity and autonomy.
At the dinner you will have the opportunity to learn a bit more about the Food Autonomy Festival and ask us all your questions 🙂
Come enjoy good food, good vibes, and make the FAF possible!
To make this solidarity dinner happen, we are looking for volunteers who can help us with various tasks such as setting up, cooking, serving and cleaning at the end of the night.
Are you interested in volunteering?
Let us know in this form so we can ad you to the volunteering schedule: https://form.jotform.com/221082318967359.
Food, drinks and good vibes will be provided! For any further information contact paulina@aseed.net or justine@aseed.net.
See you on the 5th!
Love and Rage,
The ASEED collective
ps. Suggested donation: 7 euros. Please bring your donations in cash 🙂
