Wasteless Wednesday - dinner by TBYW
2025-10-01 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokhuis
From waste to taste!

With surplus food from our partner grocery shops in the Javastraat, that would have gone for waste, our professional cooks and food ambassadors present the most environmentally conscious, healthy, delicious, vegan choice for your get together with friends and the neighbourhood.
In salvaging food and using it for our dinners we reduce food waste, but we also take the opportunity to share our story with you and show you creative ways to deal with your (imperfect) produce, hopefully inspiring you to implement a less wasteful behaviour at home.

First-come first-served basis

www.tastebeforeyouwaste.org

Dok Night - Expo by Swinehammered Art
2025-10-02 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.
18u bar open
19u Vegan food by Chef Lipsicus
And an exhibition by Swinehammered Art

Sophie Straat album release
2025-10-03 21:00 - 23:59 | Dokzaal
Protestzangeres Sophie Straat maakte een bliksemstart van haar carrière mee. Debuut EP ’T Is Niet Mijn Schuld’ (2020) won een Edison en voor debuutalbum ‘Smartlap Is Niet Dood’ (2023) volgden nominaties voor 3FM Awards, Edisons en de Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst.
EP ‘Gebroken Spiegels’ kwam in 2024 uit en bestaat uit één lang lied, opgenomen met het Metropole Orkest, volgens De Groene Amsterdammer “zeldzaam groots opgezet en gedurfd”. Binnen een paar jaar groeide Sophie Straat zo uit tot “het boegbeeld van de generatie twintigers die maatschappelijk betrokken is” (-Volkskrant) en verzamelde haar muziek meer dan vijftien miljoen streams.
De band maakte indruk op festivals van ITGWO tot BKS en van Wildeburg tot Lowlands en Pukkelpop (BE), maar ook met uitverkochte clubtours en eigen festival Protestfest; al twee jaar op rij in een volledig uitverkocht Paradiso, Amsterdam (deel 3 op 10 mei 2025).

Naast haar muziek maakt Sophie als multidisciplinair kunstenaar ook artwork, foto’s en films, zoals korte film ‘Mooier Als Je Lacht’ die om drie albumsongs draait.
Sophie Straat is hier om iets te vertellen met haar protestliederen, met als uiteindelijke doel om verandering teweeg te brengen. Want de wereld is kut en wordt alleen nog maar kutter, maar “de revolutie is niet meer te stoppen” (-De Standaard, BE).

Bang voor communisme, bang voor de Islam,
bang voor nieuwe tijden, dit kun je sowieso niet aan.
Ik wil zeggen dat het goed komt, maar denk eigenlijk van niet
Ik ben angstig voor de toekomst want ik zie alleen verdriet
Ze zeggen dat blaffende honden niet bijten, maar dat geloof ik niet
Want de stillen zijn de klos en er is niemand die het ziet.
-Sophie Straat – Gebroken Spiegels

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Dansdok
2025-10-04 20:00 - 23:59 | Dokhuis

Wasteless Wednesday - dinner by TBYW
2025-10-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-15 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-22 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dok Night - benefit dinner for Gaza by Ismail & friends + SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA
2025-10-09 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.
PROGRAMME
18u bar open
18u benefiet documentary screening
19u benefit dinner for Gaza by Ismail Ziada & Friends
20u30 Symbiopsychotaxicinema, a film evening presentd by Jeffrey Babcock
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BENEFIET DINNER+DOCU GAZA

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 | 18:00
“The Flood” is an Al Jazeera documentary about the 7th of October: the Al Aqsa Flood operation, from a Palestinian perspective
🍽️ Dinner | 19:00
Homemade dishes prepared by Ismail Ziada and friends
Menu
Soup of the day
Peas and carrots in tomato sauce, served with bulgur

FILM (SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA)
SKUPLJACI PERJA 1967
(I even met Happy Gypsies)
Directed by Aleksandar Petrović
85 minutes
Serbo-Croatian and Romani with english subtitles

This is considered to be one of the crucial ‘black wave’ movies coming out of Yugoslavia in the 1960s. These movies wanted to explore new ground and taboo topics. This one, in particular, centers on the lives of the Romani/gypsy community…. A community of people creating their own world outside of our well-regulated society. Unlike the films of Tony Gatlif and Emir Kusturica, this flick isn’t a colorful depiction of this community, but instead throws us into their everyday life in the Serbian countryside, but in a deeply rich way.
If the black-wave films from this era were anything, they were unsentimental, and their freshness and vitality comes from fully engaging with life on all levels. This film is filled with harsh realities, but also incredibly tender moments – it is lush, swirling with passion, and always riveting. The main character in many ways isn’t even likable… and he is not someone you are meant to identify with. This movie is more like a road trip that you have been privileged to take, where you meet unusual people you are touched by, not because you identify with someone, but rather because an incredible world unfolds. The film is like a breeze from the south, and for me it even has a kind of almost pagan mood. One of the most important movies to come out of former Yugoslavia, a real gem in terms of reflecting on, and capturing, the vitality of life.
It’s the kind of film that takes you by the collar and drags you into another world – one of ecstasy, harshness, poetry, poverty, real dilemmas, and magic. It won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1967, Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1967 and the Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

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.

TRANSCRIPT x MOLK image!
2025-10-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Dokzaal
TRANSCRIPT is a seasonal literary magazine, featuring literary essays, short stories, poetry, and everything in-between, edited by Daniël van der Winden and Iris Cuppen. ISSUE FOUR was printed in an edition of 100 copies, featuring writing and visual contributions by Andrea Chapela, Ella Frears, Jan van Tienen, Nicholas Jeeves, and Ade Hanft. On
TRANSCRIPT was born out of a desire to capture what has been said, or what has roughly been said; to copy what we hear, so we can hear again; to create an echo. Or, as Georges Perec wrote in Species of Spaces (1973): “to write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.”
Iris and Daniël will give an introduction to the magazine, followed by readings by Jan van Tienen and Henrik Kongsvoll Johansen, as well as a short intermezzo by Thomas & Jurgen. It will be possible to buy the fourth edition of TRANSCRIPT at the event.

TRANSCRIPT is a seasonal magazine, featuring literary essays, short stories, poetry, and everything in-between. ISSUE FOUR is our final issue, and we’d like to celebrate its launch with you.
​To do so, we’re teaming up with Molk, a collective of artists based in Amsterdam in the process of revamping the Chicago record label MOLK that Frank Rosaly initiated in 2005.
​Program:
​Doors open at 19:30, and the evening starts at 20:00. We finish around 21:15, and move on to drinks and music.

​Introduction by Iris Cuppen & Daniël van der Winden

​Readings by Jan van Tienen and Henrik Kongsvoll-Johansen

​Audiovisual intermezzo by Thomas & Jurgen

​On display: Rhythms of Time by Maiami, an artist drawn to the tactile world of analogue print making

​Performance by Molk, based on Rhythms of Time, using five Casios, time, and the graphic lines as guides

​Drinks and music to celebrate

​TRANSCRIPT Magazine: issue four
​Our final issue was printed in an edition of 100 copies, featuring writing and visual contributions by Andrea Chapela, Ella Frears, Jan van Tienen, Nicholas Jeeves, and Ade Hanft.
​The magazine will be for sale at the event.
​Tickets & RSVP
​Please RSVP! Entry fee is on a sliding scale: pay what you want at the door, anywhere between €5 and €10.
​

​More information
​Transcript:
​Edited and designed by Iris Cuppen & Daniël van der Winden, TRANSCRIPT was born out of a desire to capture what has been said, or what has roughly been said; to copy what we hear, so we can hear again; to create an echo. Or, as Georges Perec wrote in Species of Spaces (1973): “to write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.”
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​Molk:
​A collective of artists based in Amsterdam in process of revamping the Chicago record label MOLK that Frank Rosaly initiated in 2005. In addition, MOLK Factory creates a space that invites and offers a broader spectrum of initiatives and projects:

​MOLK Records: Digital releases, Cassettes, LPs, livestreams and a collection of new music and video work.

​MOLK Sessions: LIVE performative, sonic and visual work in our physical studio at Plantage Dok, in the center of Amsterdam.

​We aim to be home for the work of ourselves and peer artists from around the world who share our vision.
​
​Maiami:

​Maiami is an artist drawn to the tactile world of analogue print making. Her practice thrives on experimentation. For this particular print, she gave new life to discarded materials. She used recycled images, leftover patterns, and unused elements from previous works to make a composition about capturing and recording time. By repurposing what was once removed or overlooked, Maiami created a layered narrative of repetition and reinvention in which every print holds an echo of its past.

Listen to the Music – Jubileum concert
2025-10-11 19:30 - 23:30 | Dokzaal
11 oktober 2025
met aansluitend swingfeest
Dokzaal – Plantage Doklaan 8, A’dam
Entree: € 12,50 / € 7,50 (stadspas/CJP)
zaal open: 19:30 /
aanvang: 20:00 /
swingen: ca. 22:00 – 24:00
Voor reserveringen ga naar www.listentothemusic.nl of scan de QR-code

YOUNG ELDERS RESILIENCE
2025-10-12 | Dokzaal

Dok Night - live music by Sealf
2025-10-16 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.

Subbacultcha - Cement no.8: Jasmine Wood (AD93) + Mel Keane
2025-10-17 20:00 - 23:50 | Dokzaal
On October 17th we will be hosting the 8th edition of our beloved Cement series. This time around we have invited Jasmine Wood for a live rendition of parts of her ambient debut Piano Reverb (AD93) and newer works on grande piano. Mel Keane will join this evening filled with reverberations.
Jasmine Wood is American composer, producer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Wood initially developed her craft within the Pacific Northwest DIY scene, curating all-ages venues in her hometown Portland, Oregon, while writing and performing under the monikers ‘Haste’ and ‘Lota Leona’. This year she worked together with Pavel Milyakov aka Buttechno to reconceptualize two selected works from her ambient debut “Piano Reverb” (2024).
Mel Keane is a composer and visual artist from Dublin. Drawing from Ireland’s various musical histories, the post-emo online continuum, minimalist composition, and sound system culture, his practice explores how elements of inherited sound cultures can be embraced, rejected, repurposed, and fabricated. He has published music, primarily on Irish label wherethetimegoes, and performed live extensively across Europe under his birth name, as Frog of Earth, and as a member of Princ€ess (ensemble) and NECK (duo with Seán Being).
Jasmine Wood
﻿Piano
Reverb by Jasmine Wood
Mel Keane
Frog of Earth by Mel Keane
Tickets are free for Subbacultcha members and 14,60 for non-members. Please make a reservation by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with ‘Cement no.8′ in the subject line + your name in the email.

🍉 Fundraiser for Gaza 🍉
2025-10-18 18:00 | Dokzaal
As the genocide in Gaza continues, we refuse to stay silent. Join us for an evening of solidarity, community, and collective action to raise vital funds that go directly to families on the ground in Gaza.
An evening filled with Palestinian food, clothes market, storytelling, art, music and community.
Every euro raised is an act of defiance against complicity. We are not powerless, join us to show our support for the people in Gaza.
Please register here:
https://forms.gle/L5WKuZxPvmwnuaSh8
📅Saturday 18 October 2025
⏰Doors open: 18:00
📍Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam
This event is organised by friends and supported by @sawa_collective

CoreCore07
2025-10-21 19:30 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
More info coming soon!

Dok Night - Benefit dinner for Gaza by Ismail Ziada & Friends
2025-10-23 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

LOKAAL EDITION #5 COLLAB W/ TELL ME MORE, JOCHEM VAN TOL & ADE
2025-10-24 18:30 - 23:30 | Dokzaal
LOKAAL EDITION #5
COLLAB W/ TELL ME MORE, JOCHEM VAN TOL & ADE – HORST RICKELS, GIULIA PRINCIPE, FARZANÉ, LISETTE ROS, CARMEN JACI
24 October 2025
Doors open / Dinner: 18:30
Start: 20:30
Tickets: Sliding scale 8-20 euro
Tell Me More is a showcase evening for hosting experimental electronic nights in Amsterdam. Tell Me More nights encourage a dialogue between the audience and the artists. In this special night LOKAAL, Tell Me More, Jochem van Tol and Amsterdam Dance Events Arts & Culture team up to present an event of adventurous audio explorations and performance art.
HORST RICKELS has been a leading figure in theater since the 1970s, composing and formulating new principles for multimedia performances and sound design, as well as writing prize-winning music for ballet and film. An important aspect of his research is the study of special qualities of sound in relation to the natural and artificial environment. He has participated in many projects that aim to transform locations into soundscapes.
GIULIA PRINCIPE is an Italian multimedia artist and material researcher based in Amsterdam, who creates cross-disciplinary work on perception, science and ecology. Her work questions the edge of reality through interactive installations, photographs, and science-based processes. With a background in filmmaking, photography and digital imaging, she currently works as Head of Game and VFX department at SAE Institute Netherlands, while working on her research projects in Amsterdam.
LISETTE ROS is a Dutch conceptual and performance artist whose work delves into the intricate interplay between society, (queer) identity, and the human experience. Using her body as a medium for exploration, she unveils the underlying mechanisms that shape our daily lives while questioning societal norms in our daily routines. The visceral nature of her work reflects a deep-seated desire for understanding through the embodiment of feelings, vulnerabilities, flesh, and blood. Ros bleeds, breathes, wonders—an artist navigating the complex terrain of existence through her art.
FARZANÉ (Farzaneh Nouri), an Iranian sound artist, creative coder, and researcher based in the Netherlands, works at the intersection of experimental music and computer science. Her ongoing practice-based research focuses on embodied knowledge in human-computer free improvisation. Embracing AI’s fundamental otherness while establishing relational connections, her practice aims at creating tension and aesthetic discovery between artist and machine.
CARMEN JACI is a French-Canadian experimental music producer currently based in the Netherlands. Carmen uses hybrid sounds that merge acoustic instruments with synthesizers and vocal recordings. She constructs a unique sound language, employing a range of classical and electronic styles in a polished production reminiscent of pop music, whilst retaining a subtly humorous tone. As described by Musicworks magazine: “Although the music moves through countless changes … it doesn’t sound disjointed. On the contrary, there is a clear line that holds the composition together.”
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.
@lokaal.lokaal.lokaal

tickets here!

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

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 – 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

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

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

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.
Buy your ticket here

Websites:
https://www.instagram.com/contrast.__
https://www.instagram.com/creations_lunatico

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

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

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

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.
