Dok Night | Tailor Birds Dream joined by Cato Fluitsma
2023-05-11 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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19:00 Vegan Food by Suzie Creamcheese (€ 10 / cash only)
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Music by Tailor Birds Dream joined by Cato Fluitsma

folk wonder, sound immersive, electric 5 string violin with live looping gorgeousness. Tailor Birds is Sophie Kinston. think Sigur Ros meets Tash Sultana, inspired by the people she meets, the stories she hears. This music is about hopes and dreams of us all. Joined by Cato Fluitsma for that extra piece of magic, on accordeon and vocals.

Dok Night | Symbiopsychotaxicinema
2023-05-18 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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19:00 Vegan Food by Hafid (€ 10 / cash only)
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20:30 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.

NOTRE NAZI (1984)

Our Nazi
Directed by Robert Kramer
116 minutes
In French and German with English subtitles
This is one of the most compelling documentaries that you have never heard of. It’s pretty difficult to frame this film properly because it’s a bit like those wooden Russian Matryoshka dolls—one hidden inside each other. Here is a try. There was once a German filmmaker named Thomas Harlan who made an amazing movie called Wundkanal: Execution in Four Voices. For the film he hires an elderly man to be an actor,who plays a character of an elderly man who was a Nazi, and who is kidnapped by left-wing RAF terrorists. The terrorists take the elderly man, tie him to a chair and interrogate him.
The next Matryoshka doll: The elderly man is played by Alfred Filbert, who took the acting job for money. But it turns out he was an actual Nazi criminal himself during the Third Reich, and was in fact one of the nine men in Hitler’s inner circle who planned the holocaust. He was a SS officer who also devised a way killing thousands of Russians in a special way—he would make their lives unbearable, both physically and psychologically, and then leave a loaded gun next to them so they would kill themselves voluntarily. It was called ‘manipulated suicide’. He was sentenced to life in prison for it in 1963, but released after twelve years. As the movie goes on, the story explodes more and more,… blurring the line between the fictional story of a Nazi officer, and the actual Nazi war criminal who is supposed to be acting. What ends up happening is Filbert is being put on trial before the camera, without any idea of what he was getting himself into. Got me so far?
And here is the next Matryoshka doll: The film we will be showing—Notre Nazi—is a documentary that was made during the shooting of the above mentioned movie Wundkanal, and it pushes the situation even further. It is absolutely riveting to watch this confronting situation unfold. Notre Nazi was directed by exiled American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who was living in Paris. What we get is an amazing situation, but Kramer then adds another layer by questioning the entire film process, revealing how we are easily manipulated by cinema—by what we are shown and what we aren’t. There are still quite a few more hidden Matryoshka dolls in this amazing flick, but it’s best to let them unravel for themselves. As director Robert Kramer himself described the shooting, once the camera started going it released a whole torrent of unpredictable energy that swept the set, and even more than the set.
This will be another ultra-rare screening of a criminally neglected cinematic gem.

2nd hand market, dinner & music
2023-05-21 15:00 - 22:00

Dok Night | inspiratieavond TOTEM
2023-05-25 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Vegan Food by Suzie Creamcheese (€ 10 / cash only)

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18:45 Rituals | Totems | Objects
a night about different perspectives on the totem as a spiritual instrument

On the evening of Thursday 25 May, woodworker Daan Simons of Tsugi Woodworks and illustrator Noa Zuidervaart will present their collaborative project Totem. They will share with the audience their research into contemporary uses of the traditional totem.
In addition, artist and researcher Mirjam Linschooten will show some of her recent projects. She questions the way we interact with (ethnographic) objects and shows how they have coloured our view of history.
Tatjana Cady, of the Abenaki Turtle Clan shares insights and stories from her own experience as a practitioner and teacher of Abenaki Women’s Sacred Wisdom Teachings & Practices and Medicine Wheel Teachings. Tatjana comes from Abenaki, Mohawk, Huron, French and German lineage. As a child she was adopted as first daughter by Grandmother Nanatasis in a traditional Abenaki family ceremony. Her spiritual practice is from the Native American Northeast Woodlands, based in Abenaki ceremonies and teachings.  She would say that her practice is to wake up in the morning and offer her gratitude to the first thing happens each day. “Thank you Ktsi Nwask (Creator)” for the breath of life, thank you for the Sun and all that he brings, thank you for the Earth Mother and all that she brings. Tatjana attends the evening online from North America.
The evening starts at 19:00, with a walk-in from 18:45.

Dok Night | AiR presentation by Melissa Cisneros
2023-06-01 17:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
17:00 Bar open

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18:00 Vegan Food by Chef Lips (€ 10)
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Presentation of Plantage Dok’s Artist in Residence Melissa Cisneros and her son Eliàn

Melissa Cisneros, born in Mexico, travelled/studied and created in various places like Barcelona, California & Amsterdam.
Melissa is founder of the independent and nomad platform La Mecedora. ‘LaM counters economical discourses in art that focus on efficiency, time-pressure and final end products. Instead, it illuminates the rich and insightful path leading towards the eventual performance or dance, whilst reflecting on how perceptions are conditioned by socio-economic factors..’
She’ll show some of her work as a dancer, performer and organiser.

MENGELMOES @ Plantage Dok
2023-06-07 20:30 - 22:00
Wegdromen bij betoverende altviool soundscapes in de Dokzaal
Mengelmoes is een concept dat ik in 2022 heb ontwikkeld. Dit is een solo
project waarbij de altviool wordt gecombineerd met synthesizers en live
elektronica waardoor een kaleidoscoop aan melancholische en kleurrijke
soundscapes ontstaat. Ik laat me ondersteunen door mijn zelf gecreëerde
orkest. Doel: samen met het publiek even helemaal in een andere realiteit
stappen.
Ik breng de altviool graag ten gehore op een experimentele, unieke manier
die tegelijkertijd bruggen slaat naar diverse muziekstijlen. Naast
klassieke en elektronische elementen bevat mijn muziek ook elementen van
minimal- , ambient- , Arabische en filmmuziek.
Kortom: een Mengelmoes van muziekstijlen en klanken.
Mengelmoes heeft in 2022 op diverse festivals en locaties plaatsgevonden,
zoals het Grachtenfestival, Splendor Amsterdam, De Roode Bioscoop en
Lavafest.
Met dit concept heb ik ook de muziek mogen creëren voor de acht-delige
Youtube documentaire ‘Kika Stories’ van Stichting Kinderen Kankervrij. In
deze serie worden de verschillende kanten van kinderkanker belicht. De
documentaire is in september 2022 uitgebracht.
Speciaal voor deze avond zal lichttechnicus Asger Moeselaar de performance
ondersteunen met bijzonder licht en effecten, waardoor het publiek nóg meer
wordt ondergedompeld in een unieke ervaring!

Ticket: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-mengelmoes-plantage-dok-623211541497
Dit event is mede mogelijk gemaakt door het NORMA fonds

Dok Night | Opening Dokkers Expo
2023-06-08 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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19:00 Vegan Food by Suzie Creamcheese (€ 10 / cash only)
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Opening Dokkers Expo
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Music by Monty Pagan
Monty Pagan are a well known folk/ rock/ punk cabaret band.
Ken Parsons on vocals, guitar and Celtic Harp.
Mick de Neeve on 6-string cello and voice
Anne Roosje de Blecourt on sax, Celtic Harp and vocals.
Jurgen Houwers on fiddle and whistles
Expect lively folk songs, beautiful ballads and….the unexpected.

Dok Night
2023-06-15 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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19:00 Vegan Food by Suzy Creamcheese (€ 10 / cash only)
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20:30 de Pannekoeken
Na een pauze van 40 jaar hebben ze de draad weer opgepakt, omdat het bloed kruipt waar het niet gaan kan. Ze spelen nu muziek van toen met een eigen twist, denk aan ; Niel Young, Tony Joe White, CCR,maar bv ook Nora Jones, Etta James, Randy Newman en vele anderen , gewoon omdat het zo lekker is. Mocht je een betere naam te binnen schieten dan horen ze het graag.
Drum: Max Franken
bas/zang: Gerard de Ridder
gitaar/zang: Vincent de Rooij

pOpup-expO in de DOKZAAL
2023-06-17 11:00 - 2023-06-25 18:00 | Dokzaal
Van zaterdag 17 t/m zondag 25 juni organiseren 33 kunstenaars uit Centrum Oost een expositie plus een programma vol creatieve, culturele workshops. De komende weken zal het programma op de website worden aangevuld. De Open Oost shOp zal weer openen waar originele werken, kaarten, keramiek, textiel, sieraden en andere unieke cadeaus verkocht worden.
Een feestelijke opening staat gepland op zondagavond 18 juni, 17 – 20 uur
Dagelijks is de DOKZAAL geopend van 11:00 tot 18:00 uur. De workshops kunnen ook ‘s avonds plaatsvinden.
Finissage op zaterdag 24 juni van 17 – 21.30 uur.

Dok Night | Mamaliga Orkestra
2023-06-22 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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19:00 “all you can eat’ Vegan Sushi by Suzie Creamcheese (€ 10 / cash only)
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20:30 Live music by Mamaliga Orkestra

Klezmer /Gypsy sounds from Belgium, Italy and France
‘A fucking bunch of brides, really lovely in their off-road white dresses
Gypsy songs and melodies.
original directory.
Multiple identities.
A gypsyologically extragadjordinary sound.
For better and for worse’

Dok Night | comic reading by AiR Joris Bas Backer & Friends
2023-06-29 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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19:00 Vegan Food (€ 10 / cash only)
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20:30 Comic Reading
by Plantage Dok Artist-in-Residence Joris Bas Backer & Friends

opening Donderdag Dok avond
2023-09-07 18:00 - 23:00
Opening van het nieuwe seizoen met de documentaire AZART Come make Art
open om 18:00
vanaf 19:00 captain’s diner (vegan)
tekeningen en schilderijen van Gabriël van Hoften
klein nautisch werk van Electric Circus
rond 21:00 film vertoning

Een 83 min documentaire van Annike Kaljouw en Masha Novikova
Sinds 1989 voer het theaterschip Azart als een zelfbenoemde ambassadeur van de vrije geest langs tientallen havens in Europa en ver daarbuiten. Zonder bonnetjes, bankverkeer, belastingen, begrotingen, maandlasten, jaarverslagen, loon, adres, post, rekeningen of verzekeringen. Als Ship of Fools lokte ze de bewoners van grote en kleine nederzettingen naar een satirisch muziektheater op hun tribune aan wal. De tomeloze inzet van talloze artiesten uit vele landen hield het schip in de vaart.
Come make art.
De gekozen scheepsnaam verwijst naar het Russische woord Azart voor De Bezieling Om Alles Op Het Spel Te Zetten. De betekenis van het woord dwaalt in de grote Europese talen rond de begrippen Kans, Pech, Bestemming, Hachelijk Onderneming, Gelegenheid, Gevaar of Risico. Dit werd vanzelf het voorteken van vele beslagleggingen, (bijna) botsingen en andere perikelen alsmede van een wereld- en levensreis in permanente verwondering dat het alsmaar doorging. Tot begin 2020. De pandemie verklaart het schip wereldwijd tot ongewenste gast. De dokter verklaart de schipper August Dirks tot ongeneeslijk ziek. Het schip lag in een vissershaventje in Ecuador. Om de droom te laten voortbestaan besloot de schipper zijn vaartuig cadeau te geven aan de lokale theatergroep Humor u Vida en trok in een dramatische manoeuvre het 180-tons gevaarte op het strand.
In 1994 benoemde de Amsterdamse gemeenteraad de ligplaats van het schip tot Azartplein. Het plein is vernoemd naar een reis die nog doorgaat. De geschiedenis ervan wordt dagelijks op Playa Azart door Ecuadoriaanse theatermakers geschreven.
Synopsis
Deze film vertelt de kleurrijke en vrolijke geschiedenis van het Amsterdamse narrenschip Azart. Aan het roer staat de bedenker van dit varend kunstwerk, schipper en acteur August Dirks, die ruim 30 jaar op het schip voer. Ik wilde een narrenschip optuigen om de wereld mee rond te varen om de lof van de zotheid te bezingen. De film vertelt hoe hij in weer en wind zijn droom waarmaakt. Het oorspronkelijke idee om met het schip naar het centrum van Australië te rijden moet hij opgeven. Hij zoekt naarstig naar een plek in Ecuador om daar het schip te laten stranden. Wij volgen August in zijn missie om het schip deze nieuwe bestemming te geven. Hij bezoekt oude vrienden en familie in Nederland en blikt terug op zijn reizen. We volgen de ontwikkeling van het plan dat een onmogelijke opgave lijkt. Maar in dezelfde bevlieging waarmee Azart de wereldzee bevoer kwam ook dit mirakel voor elkaar. Het schip staat inmiddels parmantig op het strand in Ecuador als cultureel centrum en buurttheater van een vissersdorp. Happy End, schrijft de schipper op elf november 2021 in zijn logboek. Hij omschrijft de laatste rit van Azart als een komedie in drie akten, met heel wat manschappen en bulldozers in de hoofdrol. Een hele dure voorstelling maar zeer memorabel, temeer omdat het schip weer op wielen rijdt en daarmee terugkeert naar haar historische oorsprong als wielschuit of scheepswagen, oftewel de mest uitgelaten kar van de carnavalsparade.

Motivatie
Het idee om een documentaire te maken over het schip Azart leeft al lang en is deels door verschillende filmmakers vervuld. Er is een zeer rijk archief aan filmbeelden. Maar er werd nooit een film gemaakt die een totaaloverzicht probeert te geven van 30 jaar Azart. Nu de scheepsreis is afgelopen hebben veel filmmakers hun materiaal overgedragen. De film wordt verteld door de ogen van de kapitein. Vanuit zijn gezichtspunt ziet de kijker het verhaal van 30 jaar Azart. De film combineert recente gesprekken met August met archiefbeelden die vaak zelf al korte kunstfilmpjes zijn. Het is soms een tragikomedie, want August verwerkt met komische elementen zelfs tragische gebeurtenissen als een dreigend bankroet of dodelijke ziekte. Zo ontstaat een kleurrijk overzicht van de wonderlijke geschiedenis van het theaterschip Een schip dat voor zovelen een bron van inspiratie is en symbool staat voor het verwezenlijken van dromen. Voor velen bleek het een springplank naar een professionele loopbaan in de kunstwereld.
De makers
Masha Novikova: Ik heb eind jaren ’80 op het schip gewoond en meegevaren. Ik nam alles serieus, alle problemen en obstakels leken me dramatisch. Van August heb ik geleerd om dingen anders te zien. Lichter. Alles komst vanzelf, zei hij vaak. Later maakte ik veel documentaires die over oorlog en dictatuur gaan. Dat was succesvol voor mijn carrière, maar naar mijn gevoel soms zinloos omdat oorlog en ellende niet verdwenen zijn. Deze film zou mijn eerste komische documentaire zijn, waarin ik de lichtheid van het bestaan graag wil bezingen. Ik kijk er met positieve verwachting naar uit dat dit ook gaat lukken.
Annike Kaljouw: Vanaf 2017 volg ik de Azart met mijn filmcamera. In Kaap-Verdië zag ik hoe snel August contact legde met de lokale bevolking en hoe het schip een magnetische kracht uitoefende op zoveel verschillende mensen. In een wereld waar veel bepaald wordt door geld en economisch succes, heeft August niet gekozen voor een leven in luxe. Hij wilde de VOC-route varen, zei hij, maar op een andere manier. Niet om te stelen en te kelen, maar om te spelen en te delen. Het raakte mij om te zien hoeveel vrolijkheid en verwondering het schip teweegbracht bij iedereen die het kwam bezoeken. En nog steeds, want het schip is nu een buurtcentrum op een Ecuadoriaans strandje. Toen Masha vertelde een film te willen maken over 30 jaar Azart, heb ik mijn beeldmateriaal ter beschikking gesteld en aangeboden haar te assisteren.

Dok Night | Muziekavond in de kelder
2023-09-14 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Vegan Food

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19:30 Muziekavond in de Dokhuiskelder
Intiem en intimiderend. Een ontmoetingsstek voor muzikanten en een ontsmettingsplek voor doorgedragen zielen. Aan tafel na het eten, op het podium en in je hoofd.
Met
Cocada (Braziliaanse Coco de Roda)
Cocada started as a group of friends that came together to play and
dance coco de roda, a beautiful folkloric tradition from the sunny
Northeast region of Brazil. Coco de roda is an Afro-Indigenous-Brazilian
tradition, rich cultural expression that shares stories of joy and
ancestrality. We celebrate our Brazilian roots, our plural community,
and the love we share for coco.
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Smyrneika/Rebetika door Méla en Johannes
“Méla (voice) and Johannes (lavta/bouzouki) met in Music Village, Agios Lavrentios in the summer of 2022 and started playing Rebetika and Smyrneika, which they both love deeply. We welcome oloi rebetes tou ntounia/όλοι ρεμπέτεσ του ντουνιά to join us!”
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Exhibition of drawings by Gabriël van Hoften ‘Silent Screamers’

Dok Night expo
2023-09-21 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vegan Meals by Suzie Creamcheese
exhibition ‘Silent Screamers’
by
Gabriël van Hoften

Dok Night / Gaia
2023-09-28 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Suzie Creamcheese‘s Vegan meals
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muziek van GAIA
Gaia is een enthousiaste zanggroep van vijf vrouwen plus dirigent. Ze komen iedere week samen om mooie meerstemmige acapella-liedjes te zingen. Hun repertoire komt uit alle delen van de wereld en varieert van mooie ballads tot swingende up-tempo nummers. Veel hiervan zijn sspeciaal door hun dirigent voor hen gearrangeerd. In deze samenstelling zingen ze al ruim 10 jaar met veel plezier samen.

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Finissage van de expositie ‘Silent Screamers’
van
Gabriël van Hoften

MOLK Night at the MOLK factory
2023-10-03 19:30 - 23:30 | Dokzaal
Next Tuesday 3d October we go Molk night again!! <3

With special guests ➸

– Molla Sylla

— RedGreenBlue from Chicago w/ @paulgiallorenzo, Ryan Packard, Charlie Kirchen and guest cornet/electronics

– DJ Superinca on 45’s

Dok Night | Smirk & Dishes
2023-10-05 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rope or Guillotine & World’s Appreciated Kitsch provide you with food & bands!

18:00 Vegan Food

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20:o0 First band
SMIRK (Los Angeles, California, USA)
As the Decline of Western Civilization comes into full focus, our ears turn once again to Los Angeles. The first proper full length from Smirk could very well be the soundtrack to a Decline pt. IV, with tracks like “Living in Hell” and “Hopeless” delivered for a whole new generation of latchkey kids.
But if you’re wondering where the magic is – let’s start with pure, quality songwriting. Vicario and his revolving cast of Smirk players have really done it this time. It’s punk, California, paranoia, guitars, rhythm, and a sense of humor-slash-purpose joining forces to combat reality in the truest sense.
https://smirk1.bandcamp.com

DISHES (Amsterdam & Leiden, Netherlands)
Amsterdam and Leiden based band. Doing dishes playing punk.
If you are fan of catchy melodic punk rock songs, with a good dose of social criticism thrown in the mix, then this is for you!
https://dishes.bandcamp.com

+ DJ set by Apostolis Wak after the bands

Global Climate Jobs Conference
2023-10-06 - 2023-10-08 | Dokzaal
The Conference Program
At the 2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference, we will bring together everyone who wants to take part in the challenging but pressuring task of building social power to stop climate change. We want to move from policy discussions to action. We seek to set a conference for frank and ambitious discussions on working-class organizing, alliance and movement building and political strategy, towards Climate Jobs and Ecological Unionism.
In this conference, we will build on three pillars of questions:

Program: What is the progressive agenda and policy proposals to face the multiple social and climate crises? What does a political program compatible with climate science and driven towards social justice looks like?
Strategy: What do these political proposals mean to our movements and organizations strategically? What is the left plan for power? What do different organizations need from each other to build strong alliances? How will we organize to win?
Narrative: How will we communicate our agenda? How do we show people what we are fighting for? How can we gain broad support for progressive proposals?

And these will be structured in 3 kinds of sessions: Panel Discussions (interventions by invited speakers), Plenary Sessions (open and facilitated discussions with all of the participants), and Parallel Sessions (workshops session or focus discussion proposed by participants and organizations).
The Panel Discussions will set the key questions and present some key experiences and learning, from which the parallel sessions can build on. The parallel sessions will then further develop some of the content. And plenary sessions will be used to share, amongst all participants, some of the main discussions and conclusions coming out of the parallel sessions.
On the final day (narrative) the workshop session will be focused on real cases for implementation of the learning from the previous days, and to take forward key discussions and proposals. The plenary will then allow participants to share the results of the implementation sessions.
For program, info and tickets visit: https://www.globalclimatejobs.org/conference-2023/

Encounter with delegates from the Indigenous National Council (CNI) and the Center of Human Rights Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba) - Mexico
2023-10-09 19:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
How can the struggle from indigenous communities in Mexico concern us? Which are the invisible threads that weave together the struggles?During this event we will welcome the delegation of the Indigenous National Council (CNI) and the Center of Human Rights Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba) to share their stories of struggle.This event is a continuation of the Zapatista Journey for Life that happened in the Netherlands two years ago, and organized by Gira Holanda.Because whenever there is oppression there is resistance, the CNI and Frayba are traveling through Slumil K’ajxemk’op, the Land that Does Not Surrender, the Europe from Below, to weave and strenghten networks of solidarity in defense of life, here and there.During this evening we invite collectives, organizations and individuals to gather and to continue weaving networks of solidarity in defense of life. We will create a space where the delegation can share their words, struggles and perspectives; and where these can be mirrored and resonated by the struggles and realities lived in the Netherlands. Besides the dialogue, questions and contributions, there will be music, drinks, and merchandise tocollect funds to support the tour of delegation members from Mexico to the Netherlands, and throughout Europe.Check the instagram post from Gira Holanda for further details on the importance of this gathering: https://www.instagram.com/giraholanda/?hl=fr&img_index=1Program of the evening:7.00-7.30 – Welcome 7.30-8.45pm – Open space for CNI and Fraybe delegates to share their stories8.45-9pm – Break9-10pm – Facilitated discussion and Q&A 10-11pm – Cumbia (Dj tba)Please amplify, sharing is caring! We hope to see you there!

Dok Night Koshari
2023-10-12 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Koshari,
Untitled art
& Tarab

Starting from 18:00 we will have ( Koshari ), one of Egypt’s tasty national dishes made by Mody.
Marwa Mezher will display her artwork and designs in the space.
A compiled list of Arabic Tarab songs will be played for you throughout the night.

Dok Night | Symbiopsychotaxicinema
2023-10-19 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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19:00 Vegan Food (€ 10 / cash only)
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20:30 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.

TRINITY AND BEYOND 1995
Directed by Peter Kuran
93 minutes
In English

Of course the hit summer movie Oppenheimer was a huge production, but in some ways all that hugeness skirted behind many details, was beating around the bush, and wasn’t really dealing with the core issues. In that way it was a bit like “the sound in the fury, in the end signifying nothing”. This documentary was collected together by Peter Kuran, the guy who did all the special effects on the first Star Wars movie. It is considered by many to be the best film dealing with the development and testing of the atomic bomb.
Today people are no longer haunted by the prospect of a nuclear war, even though we are closer to it than ever before in history. Somehow the commodity culture and overwhelming consumerism of the society we live in, with all its bright colors and its rapidly moving messages, prevents people from really focusing on, and understanding the bigger picture. And in that way the idea of a nuclear war seems remote and is trivialized. If we’re not careful, then it won’t only be our minds that are a mess, but our entire existence will be blasted to the wind. This movie intends to change our current mindset, and help us understand what a powerful force of nature a nuclear explosion really is. The immensity of what we see is staggering.
This acclaimed flick dives into the beginnings of the creation of the nuclear bomb, bringing in declassified archival material that wasn’t available until recently. For director Peter Kuran this was not a commercial project, but a personal one. One of his aims was to expose footage that had been hidden for 50 years, but also to preserve material that the United States government was intentionally allowing to deteriorate and therefore disappear forever. So one of the astounding things about this film is how much work was put into cleaning up the images and reviving them so that they have a new vitality and relevancy… the images don’t look old, worn out or dated, and in fact come close to a big budget studio production.
I should point out that the film meticulously covers, step-by-step, the development and production of these bombs along with their detonation. The point of the film is understanding the horror of this development, and doesn’t harp on images of human violence. Narrated by William Shatner (Star trek) it also features an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra that has a kind of explosive dark beauty to it.
This will be a high definition projection.

Free screening

Cultuur Festival + Expo
2023-10-22 12:00 - 21:00 | Dokzaal
ter viering van 750 jaar Amsterdam
Stitching Shafia’s Creativiteit presenteert
Cultuur Festival + Expo
Foods / Fashion / Clothes / Henna / Fun
Gratis entree

Thursday Dok Night
2023-10-26 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
delicious vegan meals by Suzie Creamcheese

Instant Composers Pool Krokettenfestijn - BIMHUIS & Space Is The Place
2023-10-29 16:00 - 19:00 | Dokzaal
Een spectaculaire middag in de Dokzaal met legendes uit de Nederlandse impro-scene.

Space is the Place presenteert in samenwerking met het BIMHUIS een spectaculaire middag in de Dokzaal, een verborgen parel in het centrum van Amsterdam. Het ICP Orchestra, de godfathers van de improvisatiemuziek in Amsterdam, spelen nog steeds met Han Bennink aan het roer en doen dit al 56 jaar met toewijding, inventiviteit en lef. Op het programma staan verder nog jonge, sterke muzikanten met een voorliefde voor de ICP-esthetiek en na afloop de befaamde huisgemaakte kroketten van John Pastinaak en Luc Ex.
ICP
De ICP, een van de meest creatieve groepen in de moderne jazz, werd in 1967 in het leven geroepen door drummer Han Bennink & pianist/componist Misha Mengelberg. Hoewel Mengelberg in 2017 overleed, worden zijn composities levend gehouden door een vaste bezetting.
Michael Moore saxofoon/klarinet, Ab Baars saxofoon/klarinet, Tobias Delius tenorsax, Joost Buis trombone, Thomas Heberer trompet, Mary Oliver viool/altviool, Guus Janssen piano, Ernst Glerum bas, Han Bennink drums
SUN-MI HONG & ALISTAIR PAYNE
Trompet en drums vormen een ongebruikelijke bezetting. Alistair Payne en Sun-Mi Hong laten het echter volkomen natuurlijk klinken door hun fantasierijke spel. Beide muzikanten zijn groot fan van het ICP-orkest.
MARTA WARELIS SOLO
Marta Warelis is een Poolse pianiste, die met haar voorliefde voor improvisatie en experiment voortdurend zoekt naar nieuwe geluiden en invloeden. Haar werk haalt inspiratie uit diverse genres, van cumbia en Angolese dansmuziek tot jazz en westerse klassieke muziek.
REINIER BAAS & JORIS ROELOFS
Basklarinettist Joris Roelofs staat bekend om zijn sublieme techniek en samenwerking met New Yorkse en Nederlandse topmusici. Naast zijn eigen muziekprojecten is Joris voorzitter van de afdeling klarinet (jazz) aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam en promoveert hij aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Reinier Baas (1985) is een gitarist, componist en artiest uit Nederland met een eigenzinnig oeuvre. Vanmiddag vormen deze muzikanten een duo en spelen oa stukken van het Instant Composers Pool Orchestra.
Tickets voor het concert en krokettenmaltijd hier verkrijgbaar.
https://www.bimhuis.nl/agenda/instant-composers-pool-kroketten-festijn/
https://spaceistheplace.eu/website/

Dok Night - Open for food and drinks ** MUSIC NIGHT AND BENEFIT ARE CANCELLED **
2023-11-02 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dok is open tonight for food and drinks starting at 18u. Check here for the latest news.
The music night and benefit are CANCELLED because of the storm.

eten @ 18u / muziek @ 19u30 / toetjes door Miss Whips
benefietgeld gaat via autonome netwerken naar Gaza

Intiem en intimiderend. Een ontmoetingsstek voor muzikanten en een ontsmettingsplek voor doorgedragen zielen. Aan tafel na het eten, op het podium en in je hoofd.
Ditmaal met Smyrneika Rebetika, zang en snaar,
en walvisgezang op z’n maans;
en gitaarloze folk, losgeslagen en hard,
en ruimte voor iets spontaans.

Amarins Maan is singer songwriter. Jarenlang trad ze met een eigen band op, maar dat is inmiddels alweer even geleden. De afgelopen jaren was ze met verschillende voorstellingen in het theater te zien. Toch begonnen het weer te kriebelen om met haar eigen muziek op een podium te staan. Amarins wisselt Engels en Nederlandstalige liedjes af. Net als in haar schrijfwerk voor theater en film ziet ze het maken van muziek als een manier om verhalen te vertellen. Dromerige liedjes over zingende walvissen, het waaien van de wind, een oude man met een jonge jenever en dromen over hoe het is om een wolk te zijn.

Drawing by Jonathan Pieter Post-Uiterweer.
Emerging in the 1920s, Rebetiko tells stories of the rural exodus and Greeks uprooted during the Greco-Turkish War’s 1922 population exchange. The merging of cultures resulted in a musical cross-fertilization that rapidly spread through the burgeoning suburbs of Athens, Thessaloniki, and Piraeus. Rebetiko lyrics touch upon themes of exile, heartbreak, suffering, and social exclusion. Under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas, Rebetiko was branded as immoral, and its proponents (rebetes) were imprisoned, instruments were smashed, and songs were censored. Despite all of this, Rebetiko flourished, was extensively recorded, and is nowpopular once more, with its themes remaining highly relevant today.
In the summer of 2022, Méla (voice) and Johannes (lavta/bouzouki) delved deep into the soul of Rebetiko at Music Village, Agios Lavrentios, Greece. They now regularly jam with the Aman Molli open collective workshop at Joes Garage. This evening, Eleni (ud, voice), Anastasis (guitar) and Giannis (baglama) will join us. We invite you all to join us and embrace the spirit of the rebetes. Όλοι ρεμπέτες του ντουνιά!

GDVRDGDVR (spreek uit: gōdvèrdėgōdvér) is een losgeslagen folkduo dat haar akoestische gitaren heeft verruilt voor een basic drumkit en een distorted bass. En dan kijken wat er gebeurd. Als je er een label aan wilt hangen, noem het dan vooral minimalistisch post-post-punk-sluge-wave-garage wat ze maken. Lichtvoetige thema’s in een loodzwaar jasje, hardnekkige melodieën die voor je er erg in hebt voorbijgedenderd zijn.
Het debuutalbum, ‘Songs in the Key of GDVRDGDVR’ (in het najaar van 2022 verschenen bij URUSAI Records), bevat een half uur vol melodieus minimalisme met onnavolgbare teksten en scherpe tot zoetgevooisde harmonieën geperst op uniek inktzwart vinyl. Het 16-track album is opgenomen en geproduceerd door Ottoboy (the Oneman Trashband) en gemixt en gemasterd door Petrushka Morsink (Cords, Ottodelic, Trushkadelic). Het artwork van de LP is inderdaad een work of art, gemaakt door underground comic artist Maia Matches (Stadstekenaar van Amsterdam 2019, “Bitch Knows Best”).
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Dia de MuertXs benefiet
2023-11-04 17:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
Mexican artists, mexican food
dead altar, carinas contest,
dead make up, Collective Carpe Diem Band!

TᕼE ᗪᗩY Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪEᗩᗪ: with Ancestor Cacao, Celebrating Life in solidarity with the Heart of the World and Zapatista land
A Fiesta to honour the Cacao plant and food, remember ancestral wisdom and celebrate LIFE together!
ᑕEᒪEᗷᖇᗩTIOᑎ TᕼE ᗪᗩY Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪEᗩᗪ
Saturday 4th November @Dokhuis (€12 entrance fee presale €15 at the door)
* ℙℝ𝕆𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕄𝕄𝔼 *
Doors open at 17.00 hr
Dinner served at 18.00 hr
Music and theatre performances starts at 19.00 hr
* 𝔻𝕀ℕℕ𝔼ℝ 𝕄𝔼ℕ𝕌 𝕠𝕗 𝕄𝕖𝕩𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝔽𝕠𝕠𝕕 *
Tamales + Salad +beans+mole
Suggested donation €10
Cacao Drink € 3,50
Meal + Cacao drink €12,50
All food is vegan
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BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-mexican-day-of-the-dead-solidarity-event-dia-de-muertos-729277818587?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
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𝕊ℙ𝔼ℂ𝕀𝔸𝕃 ℙℝ𝕆𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕄𝕄𝔼 𝕠𝕟 ℕ𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 4
~Actual Situation at the Heart of the World and in Zapatista Land
~Mexican music: Son Huasteco by Zorzal
~Mexican Dance Jalisco grupo Colibri
~ Shaman performance
~ Mariana en Jamal Mexican Songs
~ Abya Yala, Women s Choir
~ Mexican Dance Veracruz grupo Colibri
~Colectivo Carpe Diem. Latinoamerican music with influences of pop, rock, reggae and balcan music.
Colectivo Carpe Diem
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093678317663
~ DJ Lobo
Dead Altar to make offers for your beloved ones who have past away.
Face painting on donation
Video Exhibition of the Heart of the World Project.
All funds collected in these event are dedicated to Land Liberation at the Heart of the World and the Zapatista Land in Mexico, see below for more info.
This event is made possible thanks to the work of many volunteers, without them this event would not be possible.
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The funds raised from solidarity meals and cultural events directly support indigenous communities to buy back and liberate ancestral land within their territory on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia and to support the struggle which continues to go on in Zapatista land, Mexico with the Mexican Government.
In the Sierra Nevada the Arhuacans, the Kogui, the Wiwa and the Kankuama have demarcated their original land with a Black Line, they call this territory the ‘Heart of the World’. In 2013 heart was also named the most important concentration of threatened biodiversity on Earth. In this Heart of the World you have all climates, from Snow mountains to Tropical Forest and the Caribbean Sea.
For these Indigenous Peoples if the Heart of the World dies, Planet Earth dies. These Indigenous Peoples want to recover and return these lands to their natural state so they can continue making offerings to Mother Earth in their Ancestral Land. This keeps the land intact and helps the Earth to keep her balance. For the Indigenous peoples from the Sierra Madre we are the Younger Siblings who don’t want to listen.
We invite you to LISTEN, and share, and eat, and drink, and remember, and celebrate in solidarity!
Our team’s longer term goal is to promote the exchange between Zapatistas, the Tzotzil, Tzetzal, Chol, Zoque, Tojolabal, who have an autonomous- self determined Indigenous Land in Mexico and the Indigenous Peoples from Sierra Nevada, Colombia through our emergent Foundation Pluriversity.

Dok Night Benefit dinner for ELSC
2023-11-09 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Benefit dinner for ELSC
Thursday night 9th November 2023

The genocide in Gaza is being live-streamed before our eyes while we are witnessing the imperialist forces (USA, UK, EUROPE) not only turning their backs on the Palestinian’s lives and rights, but also actively supporting the criminal actions of Israel.

Furthermore, they are systematically pushing the silencing and persecution of Palestinian voices, solidarity and activism on their territories. Demonstrations are getting banned and hundreds of protesters are being arrested in Germany, France and other countries just for calling to stop the genocide and putting an end to the atrocious crimes of the settler apartheid state.

(ELSC) European Legal Support Center is providing free legal support to Palestinian rights advocates in Europe whose rights are being violated every day and monitoring/documenting all forms of repression against them. The rise of oppression in Europe is causing them to be overloaded with many cases, and our support is urgently needed.

Dinner made by Mody (@mahmmoudie )
– Egyptian Moussaka
– Lentil soup

> Please bring cash for the food, atm nearby!. All the profit will be donated to (ELSC)
Location: Plantage Doklaan 8, 1018 CM Amsterdam. Share and looking forward to seeing you Thursday.

“Justice for Palestine: we will not be deterred nor silenced”

CAVERNOUS concert performance
2023-11-11 19:30 - 22:30 | Dokzaal
The mouth as a cave, the body as a site of horror — CAVERNOUS is an experimental event at the intersection of concert and performance.
19:30 – 20:00 Doors20:00 – 21:30 Performances by Moa Holgersson, Thalia Livingstone, Show Pony21:30 – 22:30 Snailaway DJ-set
Xiomara Virdó – scenography
Nell Schwan – costume design
Juli Frodermann – music for Thalia Livingstone
Nina Kay & Tatiana Rosa – live visuals & scenography for Show Pony
Tickets: https://billetto.nl/e/cavernous-Tickets-879630
–CAVERNOUS is an event dedicated to the notions of feminist horror. Exploring spilling, leaking, ‘loud women’, resonant architecture, and the use of the mouth, ear and body as sites of hysteria, danger and pleasure. The evening features all new and site-specific work by a team of female-identifying artists with cross-disciplinary practices rooted in live performance. Imagining the space of Dokzaal as a body orifice or a reverberation chamber, all contributors tap into an emotionally charged landscape through embodiment: the silencing of femme voices, failed attempts at being heard and soft transgression.
Moa Holgersson is a visual and performance artist and the curator of CAVERNOUS. She will perform an adaptation and expansion of a series of compositions made under the moniker FRÖ/The Lure. Navigating a set of solidified liquids, her primary weapon to pierce through a crowd is her voice: singing, growling, screaming, calling — Moa stretches the different registers and archetypes connected to femme vocalisation.@animalofcenter
Thalia Livingstone is a dancer, choreographer, curator and ex-architect working at the intersection of many things, attempting to share the ungraspable. Her work seeks to outline the illusive, often surfacing themes of neuro-divergence and feminism.For this piece, Thalia has assigned herself a mission: to understand what it really is that she is trying to say. And to say it.Despite the objective seeming impossible to complete, Thalia prepares. Using the tools at hand, she attempts to recruit allies through seduction, communicate her needs through text, and train her body rigorously — only to encounter obstruction after obstruction.Holding a bouquet of failed attempts, she endures… but will she hit her target before her tank is empty?@thalia_aliaht
Show Pony is the experimental pop persona of double bassist, singer and composer Laura Nygren. During CAVERNOUS she will present I May Fall Into the Sound, an audio visual work exploring the disappearing island of Massancummock through the gaze of her memory and fantasy. Together with visual artists Tatiana Rosa and Ninay Kay she has constructed a fanciful version of Massancumock. The audience witnesses real time decay of the place through musical memories and field recordings.Massancummock is a tiny island, home to the endangered roseate tern, off the coast of Guilford, Connecticut, USA. It is projected to disappear into the surrounding sea by 2026. The trio uses the island as a lens for witnessing communal physical erosion — whether the loss of our home, body or planet.@show_pony__
Snailaway explores the topics of memory, trauma and out-of-body experiences through film, writing, music and performance, by following methodologies of somatics and body-politics, borrowing tactics of mental health therapy, as well as consciousness-expanding practices such as psychedelics and non-duality.Inside of the morphing space of Dokzaal, Snailaway/Frederique Pissuise will play a contagious DJ-set to close the evening of CAVERNOUS, utilising storytelling and somatic trance.@frederique_pisuisse
Xiomara Virdó is a visual artist and performer based in Amsterdam. Her sculptural practice in glass, steel and rubber is informed by high temperatures, proximity to danger, phase transition of matter and her long standing relationship to dance.@xiomaravirdo
Graphic design by Tomás Queiroz @glabr.a
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This event is made possible by the support of Mondriaan Fonds & Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

World's Appreciated Kitch & Rope or Guillotine | Chain Whip
2023-11-13 20:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
World’s Appreciated Kitch & Rope or Guillotine will deliver you another insane punk show in the centre of Amsterdam.
Chain Whip
https://chainwhip.bandcamp.com/album/14-lashes
“Like a door opening to an alternate universe where Suburban Mutilation released the most influential hardcore LP of the 80s, and DOA were conveniently disappeared so the melody cum velocity and Richard Nixon-esque gargle of Joey Shithead could be reimagined in the various voids of the Twenty-teens as tidy new hc punk lp by CHAIN WHIP. Not fast enough to only be brutal, but not modest enough to be anything but pummelling. Full of burly, crunchy, tight corners, this is the musical equivalent of thrifting an Eames chair — you recognize it a mile away, it’s still a classic, and it’s just landed in our laps for next to nothing.”
– Jonah Falco
Traumatizer
New hardcore band from Amsterdam and Haarlem, crazy shit. dbeat in your face. folks from Asbest boys and Burlers.
Blind Ambition
Another new band from Amsterdam with folks you might know from Vitamin X and Betercore. Hardcore punks a gogo!
Monday night, lets go!
No pre-sale

Dok Night | Symbiopsychotaxicinema & art by Yehudit Mizrahi Dar
2023-11-16 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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Art work by Yehudit Mizrahi Dar

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19:00 Vegan Food by susie Creamcheese (€ 10 / cash only)
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20:30 Symbiopsychotaxicinema
WINTER ADE 1989
Directed by Helke Misselwitz
116 minutes
In German with English subtitles

After World War II, documentary filmmaking was extremely strong in the former East block – in countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia and the GDR. In some ways, documentaries offered more grounding – they were dealing with real life and what was really happening on the streets, in contrast to Hollywood feature films that were always fantasies. That is certainly true of this particularly rich and complex film. Made just one year before the Berlin Wall was brought crashing down, it gives us a piercing image of the situation in East Germany in the late ’80s.

Here we sink into the heart of that culture, as a female filmmaker gets on a train and travels the length and breath of her country. She stops off at different cities and villages and explores the stories of how women are living in the GDR. We see how their living conditions were unsurprisingly more limited than in the West, since the GDR was in no way a colonialist nation raking in profits from other lands. And although the role of women was by far better off in the GDR in contrast to their counterparts in West Germany, still by the late 80s a kind of stagnation had settled in.

Director Helke Misselwitz travels to the Baltic coast, to the Czechoslovakian border, and to East Berlin. She finds a lot of disillusionment in the women she interviews who cross her path, but she also finds optimism. We meet women from all walks of life, and all different ages – from an 83-year old, to a couple of runaway punks in Berlin. Insightful and playful (we even visit a doll hospital along the way), this is a terrific time capsule, a vivid and lively snap-shot of a time and place that is now totally lost to us.
