Plantage Dok

Dok Night 'Schrikkelrock' met Troubled en Acid Hammer
2024-02-29 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
band night
Troubled
Catchy meerstemmige rock die op hun eigen manier dit weten te combineren met hardere experimentele rock.
&
Acid Hammer
instrumentele stoner metal uit Amsterdam!

vegan meals
by Suzie Creamcheese

exhibition
works by ‘de Collagist’ Mario Kolk

Punk in de kelder
2024-02-28 19:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
World’s Appreciated Kitsch presents:
CHAOTIC END (legendary crust/hardcore from Greece)
https://chaoticendgr.bandcamp.com
PARANOID STATE (post-hardcore from Netherlands)
https://paranoidstate.bandcamp.com
ASBEST BOYS (Haarlem’s finest)
https://geertruida.bandcamp.com/album/asbest-boys
Doors: 19.00
Bands: 19.30
Suggested donation: 8-10€ (no pre-sale, bring cash)

Taste before you Waste
2024-02-28 18:30 - 21:30
Wasteless Wednesday diner
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Music Performance by Fien Van Der Steen

Dok Night - MOLK Night
2024-02-22 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
More info is coming soon

Taste before you Waste
2024-02-21 18:30 - 21:30
Wasteless Wednesday diner
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Trivia Night

Dok Night - Symbiopsychotaxicinema _ DE CIERTA MANERA 1975 Directed by Sara Gómez
2024-02-15 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA in Plantage Dok
with
expo by de Collagist Mario Kolk
19:00 Vegan dinner by Suzie Creamcheese , €10 cash only
20:30 Free screening

DE CIERTA MANERA 1975

(One Way or Another)
Directed by Sara Gómez
77 minutes
In Spanish with English subtitles
This rarely screened film is a classic of Cuban cinema, nailed by an Afro-Cuban woman—Sara Gómez—who only made a few short documentaries and this single feature, in her short lifetime. She died at age 31 from complications involved with the birth of her child. Besides the personal tragedy of someone dying so young, it was also sad because she was such a bold original talent, and obviously had so much more to give.
This film is incredibly innovative and thoughtful… a radical mix between fact and fiction. The fiction part is a love affair between Mario and Yolanda who are very different from each other—a male factory worker and a female school teacher. But then there is the documentary edge that captures the entire world of Cuba in the 1970s. We see it all – the ground-level struggles to create a new society, the contradictions, the intense conversations of people on the street, their dreams and loves. All in a country still trying to define what is revolutionary, equal, and humane in terms of race, class and gender. In essence, the everyday reality of the ongoing Cuban revolution from a woman’s perspective.
A docu-film like this feels so free compared to anything being made today. It has these beautiful moments when it detours on a whim. It starts to explore one direction, and then suddenly shifts and takes off in another style that is purely documentary. Because it can suddenly jump tracks so quickly, it also captures a wider cross-section of the entire society. I also love the fact that our main character has flaws, and we often question her convictions. An incredible snapshot of a society that is trying to transform and reinvent everything.

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA
Plantage Doklaan 8-12
20:30 -> Free screening
19:00 -> Vegan dinner by Susie Creamcheese (€10,- cash only)

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.

Taste before you Waste
2024-02-14 18:30 - 21:30
Wasteless Wednesday diner

Grond-Bajesdorp Benefiet concert
2024-02-09 20:00 - 2024-02-10 01:00 | Dokzaal
Grond-Bajesdorp Benefiet concert
Presentatie van GROND met Live muziek, performance en kunst
Grond is een nieuw collectief van kunstenaars, activisten en chefs in het Bajeskwartier in Amsterdam Oost. Wij zijn onderdeel van het onlangs herrezen nieuwe Bajesdorp pand, met een nieuw blackbox theater, ateliers, tuinen en een kantine. Grond staat voor experiment, solidariteit en samenwerking. Met de stad, de buurt en met elkaar. We lanceren onze crowdfunding campagne vanavond in de Dokzaal, we hebben geld nodig voor apparatuur, meubels en het opzetten van de organisatie. Kom op 9 februari naar de Dokzaal voor een ontmoeting met de kunstenaars, en geniet van een avond met live muziek, performance, DJ sets en kunst!
Line up: o.a. kunstenaars collectief We Sell Reality, Dhroeh Nankoe, Robin Koek, Fani Konstantinidou, Jasna Veličković, Ivo Bol, Marc Nukoop, Cinzia Nistico.
Minimale donatie € 5
Deur open: 20:00
Aanvang: 20:30

Dokavond: Muziek in de Dokhuis kelder
2024-02-08 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
eten @ 18u / muziek @ 20u30 / / opening expo of de Collagist Mario Kolk
vegan food by Mody: benefietgeld gaat via autonome netwerken naar Gaza
met Almudena Rubio, Baque Flamingo, Spiros Matsoras & co.
muziek op donatie

Koshari, one of Egypt’s tasty dishes made by Mody
Benefit dinner to support the Healthcare workers in G.a.z.a
All the food profit will be donated to a campaign supporting healthcare workers across G.a.z.a and its northern region, amidst the complete collapse of the healthcare system and the interruption of salaries.

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.
20u30: Almudena Rubio
Political songs, love songs… Folk music? I have always thought that my songs, obviously not all, were love songs. But nothing farther! They are songs of heartbreak, of loss, of tireless struggle to survive a situation that oppresses us and hurts us. They are sad songs with incredible melodies that encourage us to fight and survive

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21u00: Baque Flamingo (Maracatu de Baque Virado)

Baque Flamingo is a collective founded in 2019 and we play Maracatu de Baque Virado, an afro-indigenous cultural manifestation from Recife – Brazil.
We play and sing to bring about change, connection and empowerment in ourselves and around us. For queer liberation, anti-racism, economic equality, feminism, environmentalism, and religious freedom.
We act in solidarity with communities that actively resist and build alternative ways of living and organizing. That is why it is so important to us to learn from Maracatu Nations in Recife/Brazil and support their continued manifestation and resistance.

22u00: Spiros Mastoras en co (Rebetika & more)

all evening:
opening exhibition of de Collagist Mario Kolk

Collages met absurde diepgang

Taste before you Waste
2024-02-07 18:30 - 21:30
Wasteless Wedenesdays
with Music Performance by Liberamente

Dok Night
2024-02-01 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Birthday Batch Bastiaan

Vegan Meals by chef Lips

Dansdok – dansen met dj DEEJAYNE
2024-01-27 20:00 - 2024-01-28 00:00 | Dokhuis
70-80-90-00’s tunes & een vleugje house
Kaartje aan de deur € 10 (graag gepast meenemen)
NB – noteer vast de volgende zaterdag 16 maart 2024 met DJ Gianni

Dok Night - MOLK Night
2024-01-25 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Performance NOT A REAL GIRL. BUT STILL A GIRL by AiR Petra Banke
2024-01-21 16:00 - 16:30, 2024-01-20 20:30 - 21:00 | Dokzaal
We warmly invite you to a new performance by Petra Banke, our current Artist in Residence.
‘NOT A REAL GIRL. BUT STILL A GIRL’
A dystopian fairytale by SciNonFi
In collaboration with Jan van Casteren en Maaike Hasselaar.

A cyborg girl is artiﬁcially kept alive by wires, in a world where nothing lives or dies. One day a plant starts to grow, shaking up the cyborgs grey but very comfortable life.

Photo: Isolde Woudstra

Dok Night - Symbiopsychotaxicinema --> MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT 1968
2024-01-18 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open
19:00 Vegan meals by Suzie Creamcheese
20:30 film screening by SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT 1968
(Memorias del Subdesarrollo)
Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
104 minutes
In Spanish with English subtitles

Once upon a time there was an event called the “Bay of Pigs”—an attempted overthrow of the Cuban government by the American CIA. It ended in utter disaster for the Americans, and caused the deaths of many Cubans. This semi-fictional movie made in Cuba, starts up just after this fiasco, and the constant threat of foreign invasion is still lingering in the air throughout the film. America’s attacks on Cuba should not be seen outside of the lens of colonization, because that’s exactly how the country was founded – people throwing out foreign corporations that were exploiting them and taking back their own land. Curiously, the only piece of Cuba still annexed by America is a place called Guantánamo Bay and it is still today being used as a torture chamber.
What we have here is our main character Sergio, an intellectual and an artist, who remains aloof to the backdrop of the social events that are unfolding. He is more interested in women and art than politics. But nevertheless, the post-revolutionary situation that was exploding in Cuba is the backdrop, and is vividly documented. This brings up a theme that runs through many of Cuban director Alea’s films—the conflict between personal desire and social urgency. Absorbing influences from European cinema, Alea’s style is free-wheeling – fusing fiction with documentary footage, poetic images, literary narration, flashbacks and montages of 1960s life in Havana.
Through the story of Sergio’s life we also see the early revolutionary days of Cuba, and the problems it faced. Sergio’s wife leaves him for a more secure life in the States, as do many of his friends and neighbors. So this is a fiction film, based on the book by Edmundo Desnoës, that directly addresses the real situation in Cuba during the heat of explosive turmoil… and the amazing result seems surprisingly open and honest, with a big question mark at the end about the future of Cuba. It’s considered by many to be the best Cuban film ever made, and one of the greatest films of the 1960s new wave era that was sweeping through Latin America.
This will be a high-definition screening.

Presented by Jeffrey Badcock
A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

Dok Night + Dokzaal/Subbacultcha
2024-01-11 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 bar open
with exhibition by Marina Metaal
18:30 Vegan meals by Suzie Creamcheese
with live music by Cato Fluitsma
20:30 concert in Dokzaal hosted by Subbacultcha

NO Dok Night
2023-12-28 18:00 - 23:00
sorry, this Thursday we are closed…

Thursday Dok Night
2023-12-21 18:00 - 23:00
come and reminisce the great anniversary party
with vegan meals by Suzie Creamchees

Plantage Dok 25-jarig jubileum FEEST
2023-12-16 12:00 - 2023-12-17 03:00
Plantage Dok is 25 jaar dit jaar – en dat gaan we vieren op 16 december. Het zal een groot feest worden met performances, lekker eten en veel kunst en muziek!
We nodigen je hierbij uit om vanaf 12 uur ‘s middags het glas te heffen met ons en de open ateliers te komen bezoeken. Meer dan 15 ruimtes in het pand zijn te bezoeken en is er ook elk uur een rondleiding (13:00, 14:00, 15:00 & 16:00) waar één van de Dokkers je meeneemt door het pand en vertelt over de geschiedenis, de gebruikers en alles wat er zoal gebeurt: een unieke kans om binnen te kunnen kijken in ons bijzondere pand!
Deze kunstenaars, ambachtslieden, muzikanten & activisten gaan hun ruimte openstellen en of rondleidingen geven: Lino Hellings, Aseed, All Included, The Joinery, Maurice Kraats, Ruud Dubel, Olga Micińska, Daan Simons, Jochem van Tol, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Janneke de Jong, Frank Rosaly, Rosa Ronsdorf, Annelinde de Jong, Questions Collective, Tessel Brühl, Roos Pollmann, Flavia Faas, Céline Talens, Eva Schippers & Alex Winters, Thekla Ahrens, Maaike Bol, Anna Cairoli, Paperjam, Aukje Koelstra, Meduse MagiQ, Alexandra Duvekot, Raphael Vanoli, Olivier Delebecque, Sonia Kazovsky, Pablo Dias, Ine Poppe, Sam Nemeth, Olga Middendorp, Jutta Hinterleitner, Julie Mollenhauer, Bastiaan Lips en onze Artist In Residence: Petra Banke. Her en der in het pand zullen gedurende de dag installaties te zien zijn en in-situ performances van Alex Winters en Electric Circus.
We zijn nu een kwart eeuw oud en daar zijn we echt heel trots op. Plantage Dok combineert al decennia lang talloze functies in eigen beheer en op eigen wijze. Vanaf de kraak in 1998, tot de aankoop in 2000 en alle ontwikkelingen daartussen en sindsdien hebben deze plek gemaakt tot wat het nu is: een solidaire gemeenschap waar kunst, cultuur, sociaal wonen, activisme en ambachten samenkomen in een bruisend geheel waar altijd wat te doen is. Op het feest willen we die rijkdom en verscheidenheid met jullie delen. De zaal en het cafe zullen worden gevuld met kunstwerken en performances van Dokkers, na het eten is het feest in zowel de Dokzaal, Dokhuis Galerie, Molk Factory en op andere verborgen plekken in het gebouw zoals bij Meduse MagiQ.
Vanaf 18:00 begint het diner en Meral Polat Trio bijt de spits af vanaf 19:00 in de Dokzaal.
De line up voor ‘s avonds bestaat vooralsnog uit Spill Gold, Meral Polat Trio, Lifeless Past, Han Bennink & Oscar Jan Hoogland, ZEA, Yodel Queen, Schwierige Franz, ‘Vrouwen zijn ok’-DJ Team en Rolodex en een bijzonder dansbare afsluiter met een politieke boodschap die zich ook goed leent om luidkeels meegezongen te worden. Tussen alle acts in verzorgen Dj Superinca, DJ Noralie, DJ ROOSPEEE en DJ Topo Monti de muzikale omlijsting. Het Berlijns/Amsterdams A/V collectief Mute zorgt voor het nachtprogramma zodat het Dok eraf gedanst kan worden. Kom feestvieren en neem gezellig mensen mee!

Programma:
In Molk:
15:00 ZEA (met Harald Austbø en Ineke Duivenvoorde)
17:00 Han Bennink & Oscar Jan Hoogland
In Dokzaal:
19:00 – 20:00 Meral Polat Trio
20:40 – 21:20 Spill Gold
22:15 – 23:00 Je Linkse Buurvrouw
Dokhuis Galerie Kelder Stage
20:00 – 20:30 rolodex
21:00 – 21:30 yodel.queen
21:45 – 22:15 schwierigefranz
23:15 – 0:00 lifelesspast
0:00 – 3:00 Mute
Meduse MagiQ
will host live performances by Ease Anaïs (18:00) en Raphael Vanoli and others (14:00)!
Keep an eye out for Open Artist Workspaces and Artist Tours around the building from 12:00 onwards ✨

Dok Night / SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA
2023-12-14 18:00 - 23:00
PETIT A PETIT 1970

(Little by little)
Directed by Jean Rouch
96 minutes
In French with English subtitles

Jean Rouch was a cinema-anthropologist who went to west Africa and fell in love with it. When he saw first-hand what colonization had done to the continent, he decided to dismantle those power games and created his own ethnographic field called ‘shared anthropology’. But for him, if he was going to be sincere, he knew that the real problem wasn’t in Africa but in his home country France. So he often returned to France and made films that were critical of the assumptions and arrogance of the European mindset. Because of his character, he didn’t do this in a dark and angry way, but reflecting what he loved in West African communities, he did it in a playful way.
In this movie he brings a group of his friends from Niger to Paris, including one of his favorite characters Damouré Zika. The fictional set up is that they want to come and look at building construction as businessmen, but the collective film actually is a critique of modern French life and capitalist society. As with all of this director’s films it’s a collaborative ‘shared’ effort and borders on the absurd and surreal. It is an example of another genre Jean Rouch launched, described as ‘docu-fiction’. This film was made spontaneously—little by little—as a collective… and therefore reflects a foreigner’s view on the insanity and ridiculousness of French culture and the modern world. You can bet it was also a deep learning experience for director Rouch as he went around the city he knew so well, and listened and learned from his friends and saw it through their eyes.
Jean Rouch’s films were groundbreaking culturally, and had a huge impact on cinema even though his name is rarely mentioned these days. Two of the five principal directors of the French New Wave of the 60s—Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette—both pointed to films of Jean Rouch as the principal influence that ignited the entire Nouvelle Vague. The fusing together of fiction and documentary, the use of handheld cameras, shooting in the streets, improvisation, independence and nonlinear editing were principal aspects of his work that would be picked up by the so-called ‘young Turk’ filmmakers.

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA
Plantage Doklaan 8-12
20:30
Free screening
Dinners are available from 19:00

Presented by Jeffrey Badcock
A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

Dok Night
2023-12-07 18:00 - 23:00
18:00
bar open
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19:00
vegan diner
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exhibition by
Yehudit Mizrahi Dar

Dok Night & Collectief Blauwdruk speelt Een ingebeelde ziekte
2023-11-30 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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Art work by Yehudit Mizrahi Dar

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19:00 Vegan Food Susie Creamcheese (€ 10 / cash only)

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20:30 – 22:00 Collectief Blauwdruk speelt Een ingebeelde ziekte
Vanwege het grote succes herneemt BLAUWDRUK haar geliefde bewerking van Molières Ingebeelde Zieke. Aangesterkt met gelauwerd actrice Maureen Teeuwen, duiken we in de schatkist van het Franse Baroktheater en schudden we deze leeg in de modder. Getooid met pruiken, gekleed in tutu’s en gewapend met medicinale volzinnen, gaan we aan de haal met het laatste stuk van de koning van de comédie, Molière.
Zie hier voor informatie en ticketverkoop.

Dok Night
2023-11-30 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dok Night | MOLK Night
2023-11-23 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
On Thursday November 23rd, we are hosting a night of Solidarity for Palestine
Come | Watch | Donate
Vegan food by artist and Chef Alejandra Lopez from 19:00
Film screening “Foragers” By Jumana Manna 21:00
All donations will go to doctors without borders
DONATION
from €5 to €…. what you can

FILM “Foragers”
by Jumana MannaForagers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme), and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants. For Palestinians, these laws constitute an ecological veil for legislation that further alienates them from their land while Israeli state representatives insist on their scientific expertise and duty to protect. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol, to courtroom defenses, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. By reframing the terms and constraints of preservation, the film raises questions around the politics of extinction, namely who determines what is made extinct and what gets to live on.

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exhibition by
Yehudit Mizrahi Dar

ML Buch + Kelora
2023-11-21 20:00 | Dokzaal
We’re excited to announce that ML Buch will gracing the Dokzaal stage this November 21st.
ML Buch is a composer, producer and singer who explores intimacy, space and (modern) love through her words and sound. Kelora will be providing support as they communicate emotional states through songwriting and digital sound-design.
Tickets are sold out and sadly, there are no more member spots available Subbacultcha members due to reaching max capacity.

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.

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

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.

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”
