Dok Night
2024-05-09 18:00 - 23:00, 2024-05-23 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

SOLOFEST: CRAIG TABORN, ALISTAIR PAYNE, LUCIJA GREGOV
2024-05-12 15:30 - 20:00 | Dokzaal
Music 15.30-18.00 h; food 18.15 h
Entree sliding scale: pay what you can!
We would like to welcome everybody.

LINE-UP
Craig Taborn, Alistair Payne, Lucija Gregov

Space is the Place presents a new splashing afternoon concert event in Plantage Dok, a beautiful underground venue in the middle of Amsterdam, opposite Artis. Probably the most progressive, exciting, intriguing pianist in the world Craig Taborn performs an always thrilling soloset. Also on the bill solo’s of two of the biggest improvising talents around: Alistair Payne (trumpet) and Lucija Gregov (cello).

CRAIG TABORN
New York pianist Craig Taborn consistently captivates audiences with his performances. Fans of jazz, contemporary classical, and electronic music admire his detailed exploration of the piano’s sound. Especially since his solo album Avenging Angel, he’s been recognized as one of the best jazz pianists alive by The New York Times, de Volkskrant, and more. Ten years after this landmark solo album, Taborn released a second, Shadow Play, on ECM Records, recorded live at the Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus. Taborn gained recognition through collaborations with James Carter and Roscoe Mitchell, and he’s worked with peers like Vijay Iyer, Chris Potter, and Dave King, drummer for The Bad Plus.

LUCIJA GREGOV
Lucija Gregov is a cellist, improviser, and sound artist whose work describes and explores new sonic landscapes, integrating analogue synthesizers and field recordings into her compositions along the way. By engaging in interdisciplinary and often community-oriented work, she pushes traditional cello boundaries, creating a dynamic approach to her improvisation and sound art.

ALISTAIR PAYNE
Alistair Payne is a prominent figure in the Dutch jazz scene. Originally from Scotland, the trumpeter operates beyond established norms. His use of extended techniques is a natural part of his playing, where he embraces both physical and mental challenges. While he rarely performs solo, this promises to be a memorable event.

Dok Night - info-praatje van Yuval Dag / Mesarvot
2024-05-16 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
info-praatje van Yuval Dag die actief is voor Mesarvot.
“Mesarvot is een netwerk van anti-occupation activisten ui Israel dat tot doel heeft jonge tegenstanders van militaire dienstplicht te ondersteunen en het publieke debat over dit onderwerp aan te wakkeren.”
https://hetactiefonds.nl/actie/mesarvots-anti-militaire-activisme-als-verzet-tegen-de-israelische-bezetting-van-palestina/
Suzy kookt en het belooft een mooie en inspirerende avond te worden!
eten 18:00 | programma 20:00

claire rousay + Ben Boye
2024-05-23 19:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
In collaboration with Molk Factory, Subbacultcha is hosting claire rousay and Ben Boye on May 23rd at Dokzaal.
claire rousay is a singular artist, known for challenging conventions in experimental and ambient music forms. rousay masterfully incorporates textural found sounds, sumptuous drones and candid field recordings into music that celebrates the beauty in life’s banalities. Her music is curatorial and granular in detail, deftly shaped into emotionally affecting pieces. With deep ties to Chicago, Ben Boye is an elusive L.A. musical figure whose presence is quietly known among the independent music culture in the United States. His contributions are subtle yet integral to dozens of widely acclaimed recordings over the last decade. He is a musician’s musician who’s gorgeous, contemplative approach to sound is both delicate and powerful. He will be presenting his first solo debut in Europe with claire (on chromatic autoharp, piano and electronics).
Molk Factory is an artist-run platform with room and facilities for experimentation, interdisciplinary collaborations and social commitment. In their unique church hall de Dokzaal, they create space for musically innovative projects and transform it to a multimedia meeting place. Located in the center of Amsterdam in the cultural working complex of Plantage Dok. Molk Factory offer space for forgotten and overlooked traditions as well as new artistic visions from the margins
Tickets for are free for Subbacultcha members and (€16 online – €20 door) for non-members. Please make a reservation by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with ‘claire rousay’ in the subject line + your name in the email. Tickets can be purchased here. Not a member yet? Sign up here.

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Building A Better Reality : A Benefit Compilation by Ben Boye

Dok Night | Stakattak & Ponyclub Tartiflette
2024-05-30 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Live music by Stakattak & Ponyclub Tartiflette (suggested donation €10)
Vegan food from 18:30 (bring cash pls)

PONYCLUB TARTIFLETTE
‘De ‘free punk’ van dit Amsterdamse duo is chaotisch, knotsgek, noisy en freaky. Alles mag, alles kan en een rempedaal is afwezig. De muziek schiet alle kanten op, de gitaar maakt weirde capriolen, de vocalen zijn in your face en de drums komen rechtstreeks uit de garage.’ OPDuvel/Gonzo Circus
STAKATTAK
‘Het Brusselse Stakattak is een verfrissend geschift drum-gitaar-zangtrio dat is opgerezen uit de as van de trashpop-sensatie Shetahr. Denk: korte songs met knoerten van weerhaken, absurdistisch-geëngageerde teksten en vooral een podiumact waar menig vuurbal een voorbeeld aan kan nemen.’ Stijn Buyst/Gonzo Circus

Met een expo van Rogier Smal

C.A.L.L F.E.S.T.I.V.A.L.
2024-06-01 15:00 - 23:30 | Dokzaal
AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENING OF CREATIVE MUSIC
CHICAGO–AMSTERDAM–LONDON–LOS ANGELES
FEATURING: Ben Lamar Gay | Ben Boye | Matthew Lux | Frank Rosaly | Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti | Marta Warelis | Ruth Goller | Bex Burch | Laurel Pardue | Elisabeth Coudoux | Lucija Gregov | Mola Sylla | Mary Oliver | Giuseppe Doronzo | Oscar Jan Hoogland | Jochem Van Tol | Jacob Maskell-Key | DJ King Hippo (Iarc) | DJ
Entree sliding scale: pay what you can! We would like to welcome everybody.
Tickets from € 13,50 // 19,50 // 29,50 (support us!)
Dinner € 13,50
Co-organised by SITP, Molk Factory, International Anthem Recordings
Amsterdam, we’re calling you! Mark the advent of June for C.A.L.L F.E.S.T.I.V.A.L. with the finest artists from the experimental impro-scene–both locally and internationally renowned. Initiated by Frank Rosaly and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, the day-long festival includes a stunning 17 artists (and more to be confirmed) from the circles surrounding Space is the Place, MOLK Factory, and the International Anthem Recordings label.
Expect radical combinations of musicians that’ll cross musical swords together for the first time. Confirmed artists are no other than Ben LaMar Gay, Ben Boye, Matthew Lux, Frank Rosaly, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Marta Warelis, Ruth Goller, Bex Berch, Laurel Pardue, Elisabeth Coudoux, Lucija Gregov, Molla Sylla, Mary Oliver, Giuseppe Doronzo, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Jochem van Tol, and DJ King Hippo (IARC).
Multiple sensory courses will be served in the historic Plantage Dok building throughout the day–both through John Pastinaak’s trusted cooking skills and a pop-up record store where you can get exclusive gems first-hand from the many artists.

See you on the first of June!

Dok Night | BENEFIET voor de gearresteerden bij de Gaza solidariteitsprotesten
2024-06-06 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Benefietavond voor de gearresteerden bij de Gaza solidariteitsprotesten met vegan eten en de vertoning van Kill zone: Inside Gaza. Een documentaire door 12 Palestijnse filmmakers over de laatste 200 dagen in Gaza.
Donatie suggestie 5 – 10 €

Dok Night | KB_Presents: Impro+Song=Love!!!
2024-06-13 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open
19:00 Vegan Food by Mody: Bamia (ocra stew) with rice and green salad / € 8 / cash only
20:30 KB_ Presents: Impro+Song = LOVE!!!

Wendy Eisenberg + Beatrice Sberna & Gabriel de Oliveira
Connecting expressions of impro-songwriting from New York to Amsterdam; a workshop + concert
evening.
In a previously unheard constellation, rising NYC impro star Wendy Eisenberg and emerging
creative musicians from the European scene promote an encounter of improviser-songwriters of
diverse backgrounds. Invited by collective-label KB_, Eisenberg joins impro-folk-art-punk duo
Beatrice Sberna & Gabriel de Oliveira for an EU tour throughout mid-June, developing new
material in diverse settings. Together they promise an evening of cathartic improvisation and sonic
narratives touching themes of life, death, adulthood, youth, fear, joy, the art scene, the supernatural
and more.
Bassist Alessandro Fongaro and drummer Sun-Mi Hong (both on awarded projects Pietre, Sun-Mi
Hong Quintet, Ambergris) will play an opening set in duo for the evening.
Before the concert, Wendy will facilitate a workshop on their practice merging songwriting and
improvisation and give insight into their solo and ensemble approach – bring your instruments and
ears!

Wendy Eisenberg
Over the last five years Wendy Eisenberg has been keeping listeners guessing. Nominally an improvising guitarist, they don’t recognize any musical limitations, perpetually finding ways to
apply a deeply exploratory practice to a wide variety of contexts. Eisenberg plays solo guitar as well as banjo in both acoustic and electric settings, warped post-punk songs in the trio Editrix,
delicately dangerous guitar music in the critically acclaimed Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, country-free jazz in the band Darlin’, with Lester St. Louis and Ryan Sawyer, febrile post-Prime Time free
jazz in Strictly Missionary, and punk-prog in a trio with Trevor Dunn and Ches Smith. As Eisenberg told fellow guitarist Nick Millevoi in an interview for Premier Guitar in 2021, “I need to be
in a punk band at the same time as I need to be playing free improv, at the same time as I need to be playing songs. All at the same time—otherwise none of the practices will work for me.”
Their musical range isn’t a glib manifestation of eclecticism, but a genuine artistic essence.
Eisenberg has collaborated with a disparate array of musicians from all points along the creative
music spectrum, including Bill Orcutt, Allison Miller, Shane Parish, Francisco Mela, Carla Kihlstedt,
John Zorn, and Caroline Davis. They have released music on Astral Spirits,Tzadik, VDSQ, Ba Da
Bing! Records, Exploding In Sound, Garden Portal, Feeding Tube, Out of Your Head, and Dear Life
Records, and performed everywhere from intimate basements to international festivals including
Moers, Le Guess Who? and Big Ears. They also write words about music and other things, and have
published work in John Zorn’s Arcana series, The Contemporary Music Review, Talkhouse, and
Sound American
Beatrice Sberna & Gabriel de Oliveira
At once adventurous and solid, candid and mysterious, the unprecedented sound of Beatrice Sberna & Gabriel de Oliveira has recently drawn attention in the Dutch creative music scene, echoing in several collaborations and a budding reputation. The duo’s music is an uncompromising expression of impro-songwriting influenced by Italian cantautori and Brazilian “folk” traditions, contemporary pop and jazz, all with a slight punk ethos and heartfelt delicacy. While deeply rooted in their native traditions, the pair nevertheless reaches for a new, mixed sound that transposes the expected voice-and-guitar settings. Following their independent EP Verão é Neve (2021), they now prepare to release a debut LP, revealing a body of work sculpted over the years. In it, they are joined by an unique ensemble of acclaimed and rising names, including Sun-Mi Hong, Alessandro Fongaro, Federico Calcagno
and Ketija Ringa-Karahona and collaborate with featured artists in the league of David Binney and Binkbeats. Their previous work has been commissioned by Kunstinstituut Melly and Le Guess Who?, and includes collaborations with Yamandú Costa, Emanuele Maniscalco, Toninho Horta, and The Klittens.
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Wendy Eisenberg – electric guitar, voice
Beatrice Sberna – voice
Gabriel de Oliveira – 8-string and electric guitars, viola de cocho, voice
Alessandro Fongaro – double bass
Sun-Mi Hong – drums
This event is supported by Space is the Place and is part of “KB_ Presents”, the collective’s official live program for the 2024 season, funded by the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst.

Dok Night | Opening Exhibition AiR Nseabasi Akpan
2024-06-20 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
18:00 bar open
19:00 Vegan Food by Suzy Creamcheese / 2-courses for €8-10

Opening Exhibition ‘A Visual Diary’ by Nseabasi Akpan
The Nigeria photographer, Nseabasi Akpan, has documented the lives of many individuals during his travels through Africa where he facilitated photography workshops and motivational talks for young people.
Nseabasi goes beyond taking photos; he builds connections with his subjects, learns about their lives, and shares their stories. Through his photography, he aims to educate, entertain, and highlight social injustices, givingLv voice to those who might otherwise go unheard.
From the vibrant streets of Ibadan to the picturesque canals of Amsterdam, join Nseabasi Akpan on this visual storytelling as he brings a piece of Ibadan to Amsterdam, sharing stories of life, love, art and everything in between.
Nseabasi Akpan lives and work in Ibadan, Nigeria.

World's Appreciated Kitsch presents: Time X Heist/Snake Eater/GU at Dokhuis Galerie
2024-06-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Dokhuis
TIME X HEIST (straight edge hardcore, Denver/Colorado, USA)
First European tour for the Colorado Straight Edge band Time X Heist, which features members of XdeadbeatX, Energy, and Spirits/Test of Time.’TIME X HEIST bring some of the finest hardcore coming out of USA at the moment. Fast paced, hard hitting 80s inspired straight edge youth crew from a band fresh onto the scene. TIME X HEIST captures the true essence of the straight edge lifestyle while delivering simple, yet brilliant punk/hardcore.’ (Loudmouth Records). https://timexheist.bandcamp.com
SnakeEater (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Snake Eater is here to kick colonial ass. With their brand of in-your-face grindy hardcore punk, they’re a fresh face in the scene. Consisting in part of ex-members of melodic hardcore act ‘to live among wolves’, they’re here and ready to fight. Their first demo is coming soon!
Gu (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Gu is hard-hitting Hardcore Punk from Amsterdam. Consisting of scene veterans from across Europe, Gu brings fast & intense music, like Hardcore should be. https://guhxc.bandcamp.com/album/gu-demo-2023
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Doors: 19.30Bands: 20.00Suggested donation: 8-10€ (no pre-sale, cash only)
Plantage Dok – Plantage Doklaan 8-12, 1018CM, Amsterdam

Last Dok Night before the summer break
2024-06-27 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Paniek en Veren: ganzenvergassingen in Nederland
2024-07-13 19:00 - 22:00 | Dokzaal
SAVE THE DATE!
Op zaterdag 13 juli organiseert Animal Rights een info-avond over ganzenvergassingen in Nederland. Deze zal plaatsvinden bij Plantage Dok in Amsterdam!
Tijdens deze avond wordt er een presentatie gegeven door campagnecoördinator Aysis Plet over ganzenvergassingen in Nederland.
LET OP! DE AVOND IS GRATIS, MAAR RESERVEREN IS VERPLICHT!
Tickets om een plekje te reserveren kan je hier vinden: https://www.animalrightsshop.nl/a-88481560
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Ook dit jaar moeten de ganzen in Nederland er weer aan geloven. Niet enkel aan het gebruikelijke afschot of het verjagen, maar ook aan de terugkerende vergassingen.
Soms met wel duizend tegelijk, worden deze gevoelige watervogels in een fuik bijeen gedreven en om het leven gebracht door CO2 gas.
In de periode dat de vergassingen plaatsvinden, van mei tot en met juli, zijn de meeste ganzen in de rui. Hierdoor kunnen ze niet wegvliegen en zijn ze extra kwetsbaar.
Al in 2008 stelde de Partij voor de Dieren vragen in de Tweede Kamer over de ganzenvergassingen, die sinds 2004 regelmatig worden uitgevoerd in Nederland.
Sinds 2015 voert Animal Rights actie tegen ganzenvergassingen. Dit door middel van juridische procedures, demonstraties en voorlichting.
Er zal ook een gastspreker aanwezig zijn tijdens de presentatie, maar wie dat is houden we nog even geheim!
Reserveer je plek via de webshop, en we zien je op 13 juli!

Wasteless Wednesday Dinner
2024-09-04 19:00 - 21:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With surplus food from markets and stores, that would have gone to waste, our volunteers cook the most environmentally conscious dinner. Come with friends or alone and join the community. Stay after dinner and join the performance or event for the night.
🌱 Dinner is vegan and donation-based.
By Taste Before You Waste

Dok Night |
2024-09-05 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.
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18.00 Bar open
19.00 Vegan Food /// 2-course meal for 7 – 10 €

Monday Crust Extravaganza
2024-09-09 20:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Rope Or Guillotine & World’s Appreciated Kitsch present
>> a Monday Crust Extravaganza <<

with:
FLOWER (New York City, USA)
‘Those of you who have not discovered FLOWER, take notice. If you’ve ever been nostalgic about good old crusty days and the only band left you dream to see reformed is NAUSEA … well … FLOWER tick all the boxes. They are from New York City, they play crusty punk, they are young and they sound and write music similarly to NAUSEA (but they also take a heavy influence from ANTISECT, SACRILEGE & other greats)’ – Sanctus Propaganda
https://flowernewyorkcity.bandcamp.com/
STRESSSYSTEEM (Groningen, NL)‘Eva from Dutch punks MAKILADORAS has the vocal duty in this incredibly brutal band that delivers an incredibly tight and fast performance of loud, heavy music that encompasses crust, D-beat, and thrash with some vicious riffing, pummeling beats, and a voice that cuts through with clarity and anger. It’s an absolute blast. A must.’ – MRNR
https://stresssysteem.bandcamp.com

Doors at 20.00Bands at 20.30Donation: 8 euros (cash only – at the door)Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam

Wasteless Wednesday Dinner
2024-09-11 19:00 - 21:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With surplus food from markets and stores, that would have gone to waste, our volunteers cook the most environmentally conscious dinner. Come with friends or alone and join the community. Stay after dinner and join the performance or event for the night.
🌱 Dinner is vegan and donation-based.
By Taste Before You Waste
3- Course Wasteless Vegan Dinner @19:00 & Musical performance by Raul Waltemath @20:00

Dok Night - Anti-deportation benefit dinner
2024-09-12 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.
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Come enjoy delicious food, good company and support direct action against deportations.
Every day people are threatened with deportations from the Netherlands to countries they deliberately left and don’t want to go to. The dinner is in support of activists taking action against these racist practices.
Solidarity actions are helping with legal procedures that may stop the deportation, supporting people to stay out of the hands of deportation agencies and standing up on deportation flights. The latter form of action is a costly method. So come and bring some cash in exchange for a nice meal and learn more about how to stop a deportation.
Bamia Stew “Okra”, Rice and a Green Salad by @mahmmoudie and friends!
Abolish the borders for freedom of movement for all.

Doors and bar open 18:00
Food starts 19:00

Anti-Afval Avond door Taste Before You Waste
2024-09-15 17:00 - 20:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lets reduce food waste together! Join this educational and fun evening!
Special: Alon of Alon’s pickles will be joining TBYW at dokhuis on Sunday to share his knowledge on fermentation. Not to be missed!
By Taste Before You Waste
Program:
17:00 Doors open17:30 – 18:30 – Fermentatie-introductie door Alon’s Pickles (Engels)18:30 – 20:00 – Keuken open18:30 – 20:00 – Bezoek andere stands voor andere speelse, afvalloze activiteiten
Need to register: https://www.tastebeforeyouwaste.org/event-details/anti-afval-avond

Wasteless Wednesday Dinner
2024-09-18 19:00 - 21:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With surplus food from markets and stores, that would have gone to waste, our volunteers cook the most environmentally conscious dinner. Come with friends or alone and join the community. Stay after dinner and join the performance or event for the night.
🌱 Dinner is vegan and donation-based.
By Taste Before You Waste

3- Course Wasteless Vegan Dinner @ 19:00 & Performance by Band – Mother Johnson @20:00

Dok Night - Live Music Oldseed & Film FOTOGRAFIA 1973 Directed by Pál Zolnay
2024-09-19 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.
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18.00 Bar open
19.00 Vegan Food /// 2-course meal for 7 – 10 €

20.00 Oldseed in the basement
oldseed is the proof. They still exist, the nomadic artists on the road less travelled.
oldseed continues the tradition of the thoughtful folk singers yet with the enthusiasm of the diy spirit. With a powerful and dynamic voice, the Canadian-born musician, who lives in Germany between tours, sings stories that tell of a life lived with honesty.
oldseed’s music lets the audience feel what we need to feel; to understand that we learn so much more from our failure than our success. This is to be celebrated.
The music is deceptively simple, dynamic and intense.
oldseed writes songs that cut deep and directly into the heart.
oldseed brings an evening full of compelling, insightful songs from over 20 years on the road that will resonate with audiences everywhere.

If you like honest, powerful and compassionate music, oldseed is a master class.

20.30 Film screening
FOTOGRAFIA 1973
Directed by Pál Zolnay
82 minutes
In Hungarian with English subtitles

In some circles this obscure Hungarian film has been compared to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow up… because it is about the act of taking photographs. But where Antonioni’s film maps the attempt to photograph the modernity of the hip 60s, this Hungarian crew goes backward to photograph the villagers living deep in the countryside, some of whom have never even been photographed in their lives. In the end, this film questions our entire process of ‘imaging’ ourselves.
Lingering somewhere between a documentary and a feature film, it examines with a critical eye how we relate to photographs in general – something profoundly needed in our present world of selfies and the flood of images that bombard even our private lives. All these images surround and influence us, but we barely understand them… and this rare movie helps us to take the first few steps in doing that. The cinematography of the film itself is incredible, in that old crafted sort of way, when b&w photography in the east bloc was still an art form. A few of the images are enough to blow you away, and shatter all your expectations of a documentary.
What I love most about this film, besides its poetic quality, are some of the villagers who reject photography outright, and even hate it. No way they will allow themselves to be captured and framed. Also, we see other people who don’t know how to behave in front of a camera… you can see their eyes are more detached and calm – which is incredibly refreshing in our present Instagramed world where everybody knows how to ‘act’ when their picture is being taken. In this movie the act of taking a photograph is rare and almost holy.
The soundtrack to the film is a quiet masterpiece, made by one of the photographers who strums his acoustic guitar loosely as they walk through the landscape, knocking out lyrics about life and death off the top of his head. It gives the entire movie a sharp bittersweet tone.
Adventurous, lucid, poignant, lyrical, thought-provoking, piercing, philosophical. Haunting images of a time we have forgotten… images that we need to dig up again in order to remember what we have lost. An obscure gem of Hungarian cinema with a post-60s East Bloc mood.

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.

Slackrr (UK) + Zakmes + Get Sad
2024-09-20 19:30 | Dokhuis
BURNING FIRE AGENCY Presents:
SLACKRR
The Southampton based pop-punk band Slackrr proved with 600 + shows in 5 years time a successful constantly touring band. The band released a album and EP and the band is picked up by: BBC 1, Kerreng! Radio and Rocksound. With shows on Isle of Wight, The fest (Florida USA), supports shows for: Spunge, Popes of Chilitown, The Smoking Popes, Bronnie and now Punkrock Factory. The Band is ready to take over Europe and this time NL as well!
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ZAKMESZakmes is a Utrecht-based solo project by Zakaria Messaoudi, who pretty much takes all tasks upon himself from production to songwriting to recording to mixing. A mix between Emo, Pop, Pop Punk and electronic music with a unique twist. With that sound he stands at the pedestal of the Lowlands emo movement. You can expect honest lyrics, melodic guitar riffs, and melancholic sounds, and mosh pits with friends. Live, Zakmes is backed by his band.
‘Like this. Zakmes takes heavy inspiration from bands and artists like: Blink 182, American Football, Tigers Jaw, Title Fight, Modern Baseball, Nothing Nowhere, and Tiny Moving Parts. Even though Zakmes is emo & pop-punk at its core he doesn’t mind genre bending. a rap verse here, a jazz guitar solo there, a Drum & Bass drum part here and again.
It feels like: Being happy, falling in love AND out of love, meeting friends, playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 At Midnight, missing friends, dealing with life, dealing with death, skateboarding on summer evenings, walks on fall afternoons, laughing, crying, moshing, dancing, hugging, and doing ALL of that with your 4 best friends in the 90’s and early 2000’s.
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GET SADEager to expand the alternative emo/post-hardcore horizon in the Netherlands, Amsterdam based rockband Get Sad started experimenting with combining different genres and sounds they’ve admired since theywere in their early teen years.The result is a compelling, energetic blend of genres such as Pop-Punk, Post-Hardcore and shoegaze. “Let’s get sad together, and make this world a better place.”
(listen)

SHOW WILL START AT 19:30 AND WILL END AT 22:30SUGGESTED DONATION €8-10Cash preferred!

Wasteless Wednesday Dinner
2024-09-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With surplus food from markets and stores, that would have gone to waste, our volunteers cook the most environmentally conscious dinner. Come with friends or alone and join the community. Stay after dinner and join the performance or event for the night.
🌱 Dinner is vegan and donation-based.
By Taste Before You Waste

3- Course Wasteless Vegan Dinner @19:00 & Performance by Singer Tanya Lupin @20:00

Workshop: End of the World Drawing Club by comic artist HX
2024-09-26 16:00 - 18:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
16.00 – 18.30 Workshop: End of the World Drawing Club by comic artist HX
Welcome to the (POST)APOCALYPTIC COMIC WORKSHOP.
MadMax, climate catastrophy, Putins on their bears, the attack of the Hell Hound Poodles,
did Trump really need to stage a coup and try out all the buttons… so many ends, so little
time!!
In this workshop we channel our end of the world feels into comics and drawings with
fun exercises. In The End I’ll show you how to make your own Mini-Zine – an actual
multi-page zine folded from one(!!) paper.
The workshop is suitable for experienced cartoonists and beginners alike. Accessibility
information and other specifications can be clarified on demand.
End is nigh, let’s draw together!
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max. 12 participants
suggested donation € 15 – 30 /// cash only
All drawing materials are provided
You can sign up for the workshop by sending an e-mail to: illustration.henna@gmail.com
Feel free to stay after the workshop and continue to draw, the bar is open till 23:00
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BIO: Henna Räsänen (HX) is a Berlin-based non-binary and queer comic artist whose work explores social norms through offbeat, prickly humor. Their comics depict subcultures and queer communities in a rapidly eroding world. In HX’s stories dark and troubled noir waltzes with urban topographies, tracking currents and illustrating utopias.
Their comics are mostly published in English language. In 2024 they worked as the Curator of the Comic Invasion Berlin Festival’s International Focus Exhibition at neurotitan gallery. They teach comic workshops that center on norm critical practices, the character of (urban) spaces and the attempt on finding hope in the middle of the current climate catastrophe.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/hennarasanen
Instagram: @henna.rasanen

Dok Night - Exhibition: HX - Pages from “Weltuntergang - a post-apocalyptic queer adventure” graphic novel + Workshop: End of the World Drawing Club
2024-09-26 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.
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16.00 – 18.30 Workshop: End of the World Drawing Club by comic artist HX
Welcome to the (POST)APOCALYPTIC COMIC WORKSHOP.
MadMax, climate catastrophy, Putins on their bears, the attack of the Hell Hound Poodles,
did Trump really need to stage a coup and try out all the buttons… so many ends, so little
time!!
In this workshop we channel our end of the world feels into comics and drawings with
fun exercises. In The End I’ll show you how to make your own Mini-Zine – an actual
multi-page zine folded from one(!!) paper.
The workshop is suitable for experienced cartoonists and beginners alike. Accessibility
information and other specifications can be clarified on demand.
End is nigh, let’s draw together!
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max. 12 participants
suggested donation € 15 – 30 /// cash only
All drawing materials are provided
You can sign up for the workhsop by sending an e-mail to: illustration.henna@gmail.com
Feel free to stay after the workshop and continue to draw, the bar is open till 23:00
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18.00 Bar open
19.00 Vegan Food /// 2-course meal for 7 – 10 €
19.00 – 21.00 Opening Exhibition: HX – Pages from “Weltuntergang – a post-apocalyptic queer adventure” graphic novel

Set in Berlin after an extreme climate catastrophe, the upcoming graphic novel focuses on exploring community and group dynamics, and the challenges of survival from queer perspectives.
How does a community look like after a disaster? How do we survive together with limited resources? How do people move from place to place without a constant distribution of fossil fuels? The comic brings the political tensions of Northern Europe into focus in a carnivalesque way, and discusses issues important to queer communities: where to get vital medications, such as hormones, which are a requirement for life for many trans* people? How are gender and sexual norms changing as the post-apocalyptic society changes?

With quirky humour the graphic novel tackles current issues: the looming environmental crisis and the rise of the far-right violence in Northern Europe.

First part available as a zine in the event among other comics!
BIO: Henna Räsänen (HX) is a Berlin-based non-binary and queer comic artist whose work explores social norms through offbeat, prickly humor. Their comics depict subcultures and queer communities in a rapidly eroding world. In HX’s stories dark and troubled noir waltzes with urban topographies, tracking currents and illustrating utopias.
Their comics are mostly published in English language. In 2024 they worked as the Curator of the Comic Invasion Berlin Festival’s International Focus Exhibition at neurotitan gallery. They teach comic workshops that center on norm critical practices, the character of (urban) spaces and the attempt on finding hope in the middle of the current climate catastrophe.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/hennarasanen
Instagram: @henna.rasanen

20.00 – 20.40 Performance Early Warning System tryout no.2 by Agat Sharma

The Early Warning System project aims to turn the human body into a sensor that can predict extreme geological and weather events. We will look at recent developments in animal monitoring systems and the enhanced capacity of radio tags to collect rich telemetric data from space. We also consider the adivasi idiom ‘jo naachi so baachi‘ – those who dance will survive, as an alternate method to sense the rhythms and patterns of the Earth.

During the tryout we juxtapose the two approaches to telemetry, namely, ‘becoming sensor’ and ‘mounting sensor’. We will start to think together, how to reconcile these approaches or prepare ourselves to mourn the loss of one in the interest of the other.
This is an early tryout of the project and a peek into its research process. The project will premiere in 2026.

Wasteless Wednesday Dinner
2024-10-02 19:00 - 21:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With surplus food from markets and stores, that would have gone to waste, our volunteers cook the most environmentally conscious dinner. Come with friends or alone and join the community. Stay after dinner and join the performance or event for the night.
🌱 Dinner is vegan and donation-based.
By Taste Before You Waste

3- Course Wasteless Vegan Dinner @19:00 & Performance by DJ Botti @20:00

Dok Night
2024-10-03 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Expositie Open Oost - atelierroute centrum oost
2024-10-04 11:00 - 2024-10-06 18:00 | Dokzaal
Met veel plezier nodigt het kunstenaarscollectief centrum oost jullie
uit voor een inspirerend en feestelijk weekend! Van 4 t/m 6 oktober
organiseren wij een open atelierroute en centrale expositie in de
prachtige Dokzaal op Plantage Doklaan 8 – 12 in Amsterdam.
Dit jaar vieren we iets speciaals: 25 jaar open ateliers op de Oostelijke Eilanden,
Kadijken en het Entrepotdok.

Gedurende drie dagen presenteren meer dan 40 talentvolle kunstenaars hun
werk, variërend van abstract en figuratief schilderwerk tot keramiek,
textiel, beeldhouwwerk en fotografie. Er is voor elk wat wils en veel
kunstwerken zijn te koop. Daarnaast kun je deelnemen aan verschillende
workshops en de kunstenaars persoonlijk ontmoeten.

We nodigen jullie van harte uit voor de feestelijke opening op vrijdag 4
oktober!

We zijn trots en vereerd dat Stadsdeelbestuurder van Amsterdam Centrum
Lotte Terwel (PvdA, portefeuille kunst en cultuur) deze speciale avond
officieel gaat openen om 17.00 uur. De avond wordt opgeluisterd met
livemuziek van de energieke rock/pop coverband Streetflowers. Uiteraard
zorgen we voor een hapje en drankje.

Wij kijken ernaar uit jullie te verwelkomen en samen dit bijzondere
jubileum te vieren!

* Vrijdag 4 oktober: Feestelijke opening van 17:00 tot 21:00 uur,
Dokzaal, Plantage Doklaan 8-12
* Zaterdag 5 oktober & zondag 6 oktober:
Open ateliers en centrale expositie Dokzaal van 11:00 tot 18:00 uur

Feestelijke opening Open Oost - atelierroute centrum oost
2024-10-04 17:00 - 21:00 | Dokzaal

Wasteless Wednesday Dinner
2024-10-09 19:00 - 21:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With surplus food from markets and stores, that would have gone to waste, our volunteers cook the most environmentally conscious dinner. Come with friends or alone and join the community. Stay after dinner and join the performance or event for the night.
🌱 Dinner is vegan and donation-based.
By Taste Before You Waste

3- Course Wasteless Vegan Dinner @19:00 & Event/ Performance @20:00 (TBA)
