Plantage Dok

SOLO for BARRE
2026-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokzaal
dance and text : Julyen Hamilton
music recorded : the late Barre Phillips

deur: 19h, show 19.30h.

An unusual and particular event with dance and the music of the renowned bass player Barre Phillips.
The first bass player to make a solo bass cd/record; a master of the bass and one who has influenced (and still does) so many musicians and dancers.

Barre and I played together in many line-ups but most significantly as a duo, performing
all over Europe – also in the States.

Ever since we were first introduced (a few days before our first performance together) it was clear that were understood something deep and direct about how the other worked and performed. Some unique and instant reading of each other´s timing and sense of phrasing…how and where to be onstage, in space and time while making dance and music in the moment.

We dedicated each our arts directly to the mind of the moment, its instant inspiration, bringing with us
each our decades of experience and love for this art-form.

Barre passed away a couple of years ago, so ´the next gig with Barre´ is no longer directly possible.
I never thought i would wish even to dance live to his recorded music…but now the simple wish to do so
is here….so here will be this “Solo for Barre”.

julyenhamilton.com

DansDok
2026-03-14 20:00 - 23:45 | Dokhuis
Dag DansDokdansers,
De lente zit weer in de lucht, hoog tijd om op vrolijke zonnige klanken te komen dansen.
De avond zal worden verzorgd door onze huis-DJ’s, die er weer enorm veel zin in hebben!
Let op: De entree kan alleen contant worden betaald.
Moet je nog even pinnen? Dat kan op de Plantage Middenlaan 28 (ATM) naast de Hollandsche Schouwburg. Een drankje bij de bar kan contant en ook met pin.

MIRJAM ELHAJLI (US), ROBERT EDMONDSON (US), SCOOPS OF GLORY (BRX)
2026-03-15 19:30 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
KREATIE AKTIVATIE ASSOCIATIE PRESENTEERT…
MIRJAM ELHAJLI (US), ROBERT EDMONDSON (US), SCOOPS OF GLORY (BRX)

On Sunday, March 15th, we’re organizing something very special for you at Dokzaal… Some amazing musicians and artists coming to Amsterdam from all over the place! Come share your very local presence with us!

Dokzaal, Plantage Doklaan 8-12

🌻 MIRIAM ELHAJLI 🌻

“A haunting voice” – The New York Times

Miriam Elhajli is a singer-poet, musicologist, and geographer of Venezuelan and Moroccan heritage based in Flatbush, Brooklyn. A part of the avant-garde and folkloric communities of New York City, she has performed with artists such as Anne Waldman, Shahzad Ismaily, Raven Chacone, Blake Mills, Victor Campbell, and Orquesta Akokán.

She has performed locally at Lincoln Center, The Whitney Museum, Joe’s Pub, and the Noguchi Museum alongside farms, basements, and friends homes. Elhajli is a band member of local punk, cumbia, and noise bands and is releasing her fifth album this year on Numina Records, a label she founded to aid in the documentation of women’s music and poetics in the Maghreb and around the world.

Elhajli works as a researcher at The Association For Cultural Equity founded by Alan Lomax, and as a public school teacher at Citylore, a non-profit in Manhattan dedicated to documenting folklore and oral histories.

Website

Bandcamp
Instagram

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🍨 SCOOPS OF GLORY 🍨

After the success of Happy Fuji News, Santé Loisirs Pictures brings you a new movie edited live with more than 500 original woodblock prints (including commercials)..
🍨 SCOOPS OF GLORY 🍨
Out December 7, 2025

Directed and live-edited by Bob Nichols
Original Soundtrack by Raphaël Desmarets

Pitch: “A performance artist turned mayor sparks a war among ice-cream shops after the passing of a controversial bill.”

Voice actors: Cammisa Buerhaus, Luke Csehak, Jason Harvey, Lukas May-Floor, Amanda Psyhojos, Pit Bukowski, Joseph Thomas, David Satalov, Suvi Karjalainen, Andrew Baker, Kaylee Sabatino, Monya Beutelspacher, Elaine Williams, Jen Johnson & Nadya Now.
Duration: 45min
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Language: English (no subtitles)
Letterboxd

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🌞 Robert Edmondson 🌞

https://edmondson.bandcamp.com/album/strange-durations
https://edmondson.bandcamp.com/track/greeting-to-saud-brother-mccoy-tyner-2
https://www.edmondsonmusic.com
Robert Edmondson’s limited solo output continues to hone his interest in singular harmonic development, and the friction between melody and meaning. Due out in the beginning of March, his first solo release, The Waltz, interrogates his addiction to 3/4 time.
He is one half of the songwriting duo with his brother, Edmondson, whose follow up record, Bughouse, will be released in April. He is also a member of improvisational electro-jazz group, A Family Portrait. Robert teaches music in Gainesville, FL.

Foto-expositie Common Ground
2026-03-18 07:00 - 21:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
COMMON GROUND is een foto-expositie die door erfgoedstudenten ter ere van IHLIA en de Queer-geschiedenismaand is georganiseerd en geeft je een kijkje in het uitgaansleven van de LHBTI+ gemeenschap in Nederland.
Vier individuen nemen je mee met verhalen van hun ervaringen en favoriete locaties, samen met historische context over deze belangrijke plekken voor hen. Zo ontwaken zij herkenning en herinnering in het publiek.

Dok Night - live music by GDVRDGDVR & Die Apokalyptischen Vier!
2026-03-19 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.
18u open
19u Vegan Food
20:30 live music in the basement by GDVRDGDVR & Die Apokalyptischen Vier!
GDVRDGDVR is een losgeslagen folkduo dat haar akoestische gitaren heeft verruilt voor een basic drumkit en een distorted bass. En dan kijken wat er gebeurd. Lichtvoetige thema’s in een loodzwaar jasje en vice versa. Met volop hardnekkige melodieën die voorbijgedenderd zijn voordat je er erg in hebt.
Het debuutalbum, ‘Songs in the Key of GDVRDGDVR’ (in het najaar van 2022 verschenen bij URUSAI Records), bevat een half uur lang 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”). Een nieuw album is in de maak, as we speak.
Een recensent verwoordde het treffend: “GDVRDGDVR sounds like it’s a duo of 18 year olds recording their first songs. This is all enthusiasm, not holding back and not spending more that a split second on what someone else might find of what they are doing. On top of it all, behind it all, are the songs. The pop feel, the harmonic prowess and the fun, loads of it!”

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Die Apokalyptischen Vier! Zusammen gleich een nummer beginnen können ze nicht. T einde ist ook immer zoek. Maar man o man wat gaan die Vier dafur.

Lokaal x Impro Jam x Space is the Place
2026-03-20 18:30 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
Dinner: 18:30 (10€)
Concert starts 20:30 / Jam afterwards

Space is the Place presents a travelling series IMPRO JAM, tonight as part of Lokaal @ Plantage Dok.
A meeting point to explore free improvisation and experimental music through collaboration, curiosity, and spontaneous music-making. Bring
your instruments, dancers welcome!

OPENING GROUP: Beatrice Sberna (voice), Uldis Vitols (bass), Ab Baars (saxophone, clarinet), Nasim Lopes-Palacios Navarro (drums).

For years, De Ruimte has been the home of the fantastic Impro Jam series: a meeting place to explore free improvisation and experimental music through collaboration, curiosity, and spontaneous music-making. The series was initiated in 2014 by saxophonist Ada Rave. Each event starts with a fixed group of artists, after which other musicians are welcome to join with their instruments and jam together on stage. We are proud to announce a new, short series of Impro Jams at various locations in Amsterdam and Utrecht.

Dok Night - STADSKNIETJES & Benefit dinner by Het Laatste Avondmaal
2026-03-26 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.
18u Open
19u Benefit Dinner by Het Laatste Avondmaal
20u30 STADSKNIETJES
Eco-feministisch duo STADSKNIETJES brengt een zinderende ode aan het lichaam. Aan de ongetemde levenslust. Aan het kostbare, warmbloedige leven dat door onze aderen raast.

STADSKNIETJES combineert erotiserende teksten met sensuele surf-western gitaar (denk roadtrip).In absurdistische beeldtaal werpt zij haar opzwepende Zachtivistische boodschap op eigenzinnige wijze de wereld in.Invloeden: Patti Smith, Aldous HardingSTADSKNIETJES dat zijn kunstenaar Jetske Verhoeven en gitarist Shannon Westcott. Zachtivisten van het eerste uur!​

Wasteless Wednesday – dinner by TBYW
2026-04-01 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-04-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
From waste to taste!

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

First-come first-served basis

Dok Night - DISHES album release show! & opening exhibition Hidden Faces by Viktor Lantosh
2026-04-02 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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Plantage Dok homies Dishes’ first full length album ‘Drama’ is out on vinyl on April 2nd!
Dishes is a melodic punk quintet based in Amsterdam. Since their formation in 2021, they’ve been honing their own particular take on a genre which feels both contemporary and ageless. The melodies stick and the lyrics punch up in a way that feels relevant to how the world looks today.
‘Drama’ is their debut full length album: 10 tracks of driving, anthemic and wistful indie powerpoppunk out on Subroutine records.
‘Drama’ is a soundtrack for these strange, dark times filled with endless newsfeeds. As we keep scrolling and our consensus-reality dissolves around us, Dishes reminds us: we can only get through this together; what we need is community, connection, and self-organization.
Support for this album release show comes from the lovely weird hardcore punk crew M.U.G. from Rotterdam!
Come early to eat a 2 course vegan meal by Chef Lips.
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Opening of the monthly exhibition Hidden Faces by Viktor Lantosh
A debut exhibition revealing the unseen characters living in our everyday surroundings Amsterdam-based emerging photographer Viktor Lantosh is set to launch his first-ever exhibition this April, presenting a captivating visual project titled “Hidden Faces”. Through this series, Viktor invites viewers into a world where ordinary objects and architectural details quietly shape emotions, personas, and expressions—faces that remain invisible until someone looks closely enough to notice them.
A photographer shaped by personal transformation
Viktor rediscovered photography after a long hiatus of roughly 15 years in February 2025, in the midst of a profound personal shift. After deciding to quit smoking—an act that he describes as regaining his “inner freedom” —he began to experience the world around him with renewed clarity. He experienced creative awakening: he found himself drawn to the subtle beauty of everyday life, especially the blooming plants that, for him, symbolized rebirth and the cyclical resilience of nature. This moment marked the first spark of what would later become his artistic voice. From there, Viktor naturally gravitated toward street photography, architectural compositions, and travel imagery, focusing especially on:
“Motion & emotion” in street scenes, capturing human–human and human–animal interactions
The interplay between architecture and nature, unusual structural details, and visual rhythms
Atmospheric cityscapes and story-filled travel moments.
About the “Hidden Faces” project
“Hidden Faces” is the result of roughly one year of photographic exploration across Amsterdam and beyond. The series reveals how non-living objects can form expressive “faces” that seem to watch over the city. Viktor hopes attendees will approach the exhibition with curiosity—open to discovering something playful, unexpected, even whimsical in their everyday urban environment: “I want people to step out of their daily routines and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around us hold stories… all we need is a moment of attention to see them.”

Newspaper Feature – HET PAROOL
Alongside this exhibition, the complete series of “Hidden Faces” will also appear in the print edition of HET PAROOL on 7 April 2026, bringing the project to a broader public audience.

Dok Night- Dokhuis AiR presents: Human. VPN/someplace_els & benefit dinner for Gaza
2026-04-09 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or …
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.

Monthly exhibition Hidden Faces by Viktor Lantosh
About the “Hidden Faces” project
“Hidden Faces” is the result of roughly one year of photographic exploration across Amsterdam and beyond. The series reveals how non-living objects can form expressive “faces” that seem to watch over the city. Viktor hopes attendees will approach the exhibition with curiosity—open to discovering something playful, unexpected, even whimsical in their everyday urban environment: “I want people to step out of their daily routines and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around us hold stories… all we need is a moment of attention to see them.”

Human.VPN/someplace_else (dance graffiti) by Marina Orlova (Try out)
2026-04-09 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-23 20:00 - 22:00 | Dokzaal
Immersive hybrid dance and digital performance that connects topics of virtual presence, border politics and psychological dissociation.

VPN is a technology used to misrepresent digital location. Dissociation is a coping mechanism of emotional detachment from reality. Information society makes it easy to feel that we are witnessing events happening elsewhere. It is hard not to become emotionally affected, especially for people with migrant backgrounds and those around them. Doomscrolling blends real and virtual worlds. “Human.VPN” is a metaphor for the mismatch between one’s emotional and physical geolocation.
Two dancers interact with a projection of a digital map that is operated live. By relating their bodies to it, they create physical, digital and fictional trajectories, offering the audience to montage with their own experiences of geopolitical presence/abscence.
This project is a “collective geography self-study” focusing on global interconnectedness and suggesting to use shared geopolitical disorientation and ‘not knowing’ to create togetherness.
The performance is followed by facilitated discussion with the audience.

Choreographer, performer: Marina Orlova
Performer, collaborator: Valeryia Le
Dramaturgical advisor, performer: Asya Deinekina
Sound designer, performer: Arieh Chrem
Advisor, collaborator: Maria Mavridou
Research collaborator: Xdzunúm Danae Trejo Boles
Producer: Marina Orlova, co-producers: Irina Prostakova, Nils Rottgardt, Frascati Producties, Orangerie Theater.
Development support: Un-Label Studio, The Grey Space in the Middle, 4bid gallery, Plantage Dok.
Financial support: crowdfunding campaign at Voordekunst, Cultuurfonds, WE Jansen Fonds.
Big thanks to: Irina Orlova, Frederike Manders, Sonia Kazovsky, Burkhard Körner, Martina Novak, Ulrike Neumann, YuJing Liu and all the donors of the crowdfunding campaign that made this project possible.

Marina Orlova (1987) is an independent dance/theatre maker, tech-dramaturg and AI researcher based in Amsterdam. She received education in sociology in Moscow and in experimental choreography at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.
Marina works with topics of human-AI relationships, mental health, migration and border politics. She creates interdisciplinary performances that combine her background in sociology, curiosity for technology, choreographic methodologies and lived knowledge of marginalised communities. Marina mediates between engineering logic and theatrical devices, using technology as metaphor and mirror to societal issues. She works within aesthetics of absurdism, tragicomedy and autofiction.
Marina’s theatre performance “I’m a Robot and I need Therapy” was presented at Frascati Theater in Amsterdam, Veem House for Performance, Flam Festival, Next Level Festival in Dortmund, Worm Rotterdam. Her lecture-performance “Why robots need therapy” was presented Next Nature Digital Wellness Show; Society 5.0 Festival; de Balie; Mesh Festival (Basel); Korzo Theater; Iterations Symposium; and in various academic settings.
Marina’s artistic practice also includes writing, teaching and facilitating a support group for “artists in distress”.
https://marina-or-not.github.io/

Benefit supporting legal costs for survival of gender violence
2026-04-10 17:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
On the 10th of April, we are organising a Voku and a music concert evening to support our comrade, who is a survivor of gender violence and needs financial support for the legal costs. It will start with eating together, and then a performance by a hip-hop artist, FIG Thief, will follow. He is an MC as well as a DJ on the turntables, who plays a wide range of genres, ranging from underground hip-hop from the roots to more experimental hybrid trip-hop sounds. The performance will have guest appearances by other artists with acoustic instruments and poetic interventions.

The event is organized by Bad For The Egosystem, a collective that focuses on arts and ways to mediate our curiosity through different modes of expression. They aim to transcend the boundaries between us, the social settings, and the formalities that reproduce distinctions rather than fruitful frictions.

Wasteless Wednesday – dinner by TBYW
2026-04-15 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-04-22 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-04-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With surplus food from our partner grocery shops in the Javastraat, that would have gone for waste, our professional cooks and food ambassadors present the most environmentally conscious, healthy, delicious, vegan choice for your get together with friends and the neighbourhood.
In salvaging food and using it for our dinners we reduce food waste, but we also take the opportunity to share our story with you and show you creative ways to deal with your (imperfect) produce, hopefully inspiring you to implement a less wasteful behaviour at home.

First-come first-served basis

Dok Night- SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA
2026-04-16 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 open
19 Vegan Food by JAER Kitchen
20:30 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.

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Monthly exhibition Hidden Faces by Viktor Lantosh
About the “Hidden Faces” project
“Hidden Faces” is the result of roughly one year of photographic exploration across Amsterdam and beyond. The series reveals how non-living objects can form expressive “faces” that seem to watch over the city. Viktor hopes attendees will approach the exhibition with curiosity—open to discovering something playful, unexpected, even whimsical in their everyday urban environment: “I want people to step out of their daily routines and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around us hold stories… all we need is a moment of attention to see them.”

Fundraiser to launch the Sisters to Sisters project in Ethiopia
2026-04-19 15:00 - 20:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dinner, Art & music.
..more info is coming soon..

Dok Night - Dokhuis AiR presents: Human. VPN/someplace_else
2026-04-23 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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Monthly exhibition Hidden Faces by Viktor Lantosh
About the “Hidden Faces” project
“Hidden Faces” is the result of roughly one year of photographic exploration across Amsterdam and beyond. The series reveals how non-living objects can form expressive “faces” that seem to watch over the city. Viktor hopes attendees will approach the exhibition with curiosity—open to discovering something playful, unexpected, even whimsical in their everyday urban environment: “I want people to step out of their daily routines and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around us hold stories… all we need is a moment of attention to see them.”

MOLK Night
2026-04-25 20:00 - 23:30
MOLK NIGHT presents
Josh Berman Trio (Chicago – US) with Jason Roebke and Chris Corsano
James McClure 4t (Cape Town – SA)

Record release concert “A dizziness from the unsaid”
Molk Records

Doors: 20:00
Concert: 20:30

Dok Night- Benefit dinner by Het Laatste Avondmaal
2026-04-30 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dok Night
2026-05-07 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-05-14 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-05-21 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-05-28 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-04 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-11 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-18 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-25 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.
More info about the program is coming soon…
