Plantage Dok

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

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
2023-12-07 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 / 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.

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 ✨

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

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

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

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.

Performance NOT A REAL GIRL. BUT STILL A GIRL by AiR Petra Banke
2024-01-20 20:30 - 21:00, 2024-01-21 16:00 - 16:30 | 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 - MOLK Night
2024-01-25 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

Vegan Meals by chef Lips

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

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

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

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

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
2024-02-21 18:30 - 21:30
Wasteless Wednesday diner
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Trivia Night

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

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)

Dok Night 'Schrikkelrock' met Troubled en Acid Hammer
2024-02-29 18:00 - 23:00 | 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

Water.Land.Justice. Tour with "Les Soulevements de la Terre"
2024-02-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Dokzaal
✊❤️‍🔥📢 Les Soulevements de la Terre will be in Amsterdam next week! At their stops across the NL, Germany, and the Czech Republic, they will provide insights into their experiences, strategies and forms of organization.
In France, the @soulevements.de.la.terre (“uprisings of the earth”) movement is successfully fighting against destructive industrial infrastructure and for social justice. It is supported by a strong base of over 100,000 small farmers, trade unionists, activists and residents of contested territories.
Despite the extreme state repression against them, the “Uprisings of the Earth” are an inspiring example of collective resistance. You may have seen the impactful pictures of the people protesting against the mega-bassines in Saint-Soline.
🌱 This is a great opportunity to learn from the experiences of this strong grassroots alliance, and to discuss and connect with activists across borders in the struggle for land & water justice.
📌 Dokhuis (Plantage Doklaan 8), Amsterdam
– VOKU from 18h (10€)
– discussion with SdlT at 19:30h (free)

'Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence' - book launch, talk
2024-02-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT:
‘Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence’
// free of charge // vegan food served from 19:00 at Dokhuis Gallerie
To our community resisting militarism, occupation, genocidal regimes and systems of power and violence:
Join us for the launch Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence, a new collection of essays on the systems and technologies of surveillance, control, and violence behind oppressive border regimes around the world.
With an introduction from editor Mizue Aizeki.
Matt Mahmoudi and Luke Naylor-Perott will share the research about ever-growing surveillance network which is entrenching the Israeli government’s control over Palestinians, and helps to maintain Israel’s system of apartheid.
Stop The War on Migrants will tell us more about how they use mapping connections of the military and border industrial complex as an activist tool
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In the name of “smart” borders, states like the U.K., the U.S., and Israel have increasingly turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory deployed against the Global South, across borderlands, routes of migration, and within their own borders. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centres, and more, all to more “efficiently” categorise and control human beings and their movement.
These technologies rarely capture widespread public attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world, scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence from organisers, scholars, and journalists such as Harsha Walia, Ruha Benjamin, Marwa Fatafta, Arun Kundnani and many more shed light on this threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it.
Free entrance!

Dok Night - expo Alex Winters' opening + performance, film Meis Vranken (MOLK)
2024-03-07 19:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
our usual vegan eten en bar
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! opening van Alex Winter’s tentoonstelling A «DRAWING A DAY»,
!! een film screening «De Ochtend» in de zaal van Meis Vranken [gehost door MOLK factory]
!!! daarna een live performance van Alex «Live Soundtrack for a Drawing»

Dok Night: benefiet voor Gaza / muziekavond in de Dokhuiskelder w/Amarins Maan, Gdvrdgdvr, Méla & co.
2024-03-14 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
eten @ 18:45
Vegan meal by Mody! Proceeds from the dinner will be sent to Gaza. Rice and Bamia Stew will be served from Sundown at 18:45. *Please bring CASH for the food. You cannot donate for the cause or the food by bankcard, sorry. Drinks can be paid for by bankcard. (It’s complicated, don’t even start;)*
Marwa Mezher will display her artwork and designs in the space. In our daily lives, we carry diverse narratives, and that’s how Marwa aim to communicate with others through her designs and illustrations. Ongoing Exhibition by Alex Winters on display too.
All the food profit will be donated to a campaign supporting healthcare workers across Gaza and its northern region, amidst the complete collapse of the healthcare system and the interruption of salaries.
No reservation is needed.

muziek @ 19u30
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, Elèni (ud, voice), Anastasis (guitar) and Giannis (baglamas) 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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Dok Night - SOY CUBA 1964 (I am Cuba) Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov + Si Paton
2024-03-21 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dok night with …
Symbiopsychotaxicinema in the Dokzaal
SOY CUBA 1964
(I am Cuba)
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
141 minutes
In Spanish with English subtitles
“Don’t avert your eyes. Look! I am Cuba. For you, I am the casino, the bar, hotels and brothels. But the hands of these children and old people are also me!” – Yevgeni Yevtushenko
This unique collaboration between Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes are Flying), and poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko dramatizes the conditions that led to the 1959 Cuban revolution. Originally made in 1964, it was re-released in 1995 through the combined efforts of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. It has some of the most amazing cinematography in the history of cinema.
I Am Cuba is set in the late 1950s when a bunch of students, workers, and peasants organized to overthrow the corrupt regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. The film is divided into four sequences. The first depicts the American gambling casinos and brothels in Havana. The next part shows a farmer burning his sugar cane when he learns he is going to lose his land to the American United Fruit company. Another part describes the suppression of students and dissenters at Havana University, and the final sequence shows how government bombing of mountain fields induced farmers to join with the rebels in the mountains. The final scene is a march into Havana to proclaim the revolution. This film has become a classic in film history, and what makes it so great is that it is not only revolutionary in its theme, but also in its wonderful incandescent style. The narration was written by Russian poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko.
Photographed in black and white and using acrobatic camerawork, some of the shots and distorted camera angles are so staggering they are virtually unbelievable. In one sequence, the camera lifts off from a hotel rooftop, takes in the Havana skyline, descends several floors, winds its way through the poolside party-goers, and then takes you for a swim in the pool in one continuous shot. (Paul Thomas Anderson loved this shot so much he made a tribute to it in Boogie Nights). Audacious and imaginative, I Am Cuba is a revelation. Filmed with true visionary poetry, it transcends the genre of political filmmaking and reaches a pinnacle of cinematic art….pure exhilarated cinema in its highest form.
‘A fever dream, a plunging rollercoaster ride, a cinematographer’s hallucination, a love song to the power of cinema.”

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.

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vegan meals by Susie Creamcheese
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music performance by Si Paton in the basement

Si Paton is a composer, bassist, academic and general smart mouthed antagonist. He has completed his PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire under the supervision of Ed Bennett and Seán Clancy, researching composition for improvising large ensembles searching for a shared musical language between different stylistic origins. He has previously studied electric bass and jazz composition at University of West London with Paul Westwood and Eddie Harvey. He has played in groups – most notably the math-rock band Selectric, the trans-atlantic no wave outfit Phame, and his duo with drummer Rob Nettleship – done composition based projects, and regularly performs solo improvised sets. His solo performances have seen him tread the waters between free jazz, noise, avant-rock, contemporary classical and performance art. You might find him being a dedicated disciple of free jazz one minute, and then the next rolling around on the floor, playing his bass with a screwdriver, reciting wrestling promos, or engaging in staring contests with audience members. You never quite know what exactly you’re going to get and the unpredictableness is what makes his music stand out.

Dok Night
2024-03-28 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭!presents:
T’IJU T’IJU + MYUNÉ + DJ PUSSYRITA
we present T’iju T’iju’s debut album, which is jointly released by two labels: @esc.rec -affiliated with @deperifeer– and MOLK Records.
We celebrate this release at MOLK Nights in Amsterdam, with a kaleidoscope of performances by Myuné @myune.e, DJ PussyRita @rrrrrrri7a and of course T’iju T’iju himself with guest musicans @joost_wesseling & @giuseppedoronzotorarec
We eat vegan Korean food and a printmaking corner will be availeble by @mai_prints!
19:00 food
20:30 live concerts
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𝐓’𝐈𝐉𝐔 𝐓’𝐈𝐉𝐔
is a solo project of Jochem van Tol aka @jotoandthesunshines (SOON, Silverbones, The Paper Ensemble)
1: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, is his first debut solo release.
T’iju T’iju is armed with an abundance of modular synth sketches and stories which never saw the daylight before. With his endless collection of recordings from his ongoing project The Paper Ensemble @the.paperensemble , field recordings and recently his bedroom clarinet play, T’iju T’iju takes you on an experimental sonic ride.
Music composed and recorded by Jochem van Tol
Mixed by Sam Jones – @studiojoneski
Mastered by Uwe Teichert, Elektropolis
For fans of: 1950’s dutch oldies of electronic music like Jan Boerman,
Mid-‘90’s solo work of Mark Hollis (Late Talk Talk) and current superstars like Bjork.
Released by:
MOLK Records and @esc.rec
C&P 2024
#tapemusic
#soundart
#arp2600
#grasshopper
#spiritanimal
