Global Climate Jobs Conference
2023-10-06 - 2023-10-08 | Dokzaal
The Conference Program
At the 2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference, we will bring together everyone who wants to take part in the challenging but pressuring task of building social power to stop climate change. We want to move from policy discussions to action. We seek to set a conference for frank and ambitious discussions on working-class organizing, alliance and movement building and political strategy, towards Climate Jobs and Ecological Unionism.
In this conference, we will build on three pillars of questions:

Program: What is the progressive agenda and policy proposals to face the multiple social and climate crises? What does a political program compatible with climate science and driven towards social justice looks like?
Strategy: What do these political proposals mean to our movements and organizations strategically? What is the left plan for power? What do different organizations need from each other to build strong alliances? How will we organize to win?
Narrative: How will we communicate our agenda? How do we show people what we are fighting for? How can we gain broad support for progressive proposals?

And these will be structured in 3 kinds of sessions: Panel Discussions (interventions by invited speakers), Plenary Sessions (open and facilitated discussions with all of the participants), and Parallel Sessions (workshops session or focus discussion proposed by participants and organizations).
The Panel Discussions will set the key questions and present some key experiences and learning, from which the parallel sessions can build on. The parallel sessions will then further develop some of the content. And plenary sessions will be used to share, amongst all participants, some of the main discussions and conclusions coming out of the parallel sessions.
On the final day (narrative) the workshop session will be focused on real cases for implementation of the learning from the previous days, and to take forward key discussions and proposals. The plenary will then allow participants to share the results of the implementation sessions.
For program, info and tickets visit: https://www.globalclimatejobs.org/conference-2023/

Encounter with delegates from the Indigenous National Council (CNI) and the Center of Human Rights Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba) - Mexico
2023-10-09 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
How can the struggle from indigenous communities in Mexico concern us? Which are the invisible threads that weave together the struggles?During this event we will welcome the delegation of the Indigenous National Council (CNI) and the Center of Human Rights Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba) to share their stories of struggle.This event is a continuation of the Zapatista Journey for Life that happened in the Netherlands two years ago, and organized by Gira Holanda.Because whenever there is oppression there is resistance, the CNI and Frayba are traveling through Slumil K’ajxemk’op, the Land that Does Not Surrender, the Europe from Below, to weave and strenghten networks of solidarity in defense of life, here and there.During this evening we invite collectives, organizations and individuals to gather and to continue weaving networks of solidarity in defense of life. We will create a space where the delegation can share their words, struggles and perspectives; and where these can be mirrored and resonated by the struggles and realities lived in the Netherlands. Besides the dialogue, questions and contributions, there will be music, drinks, and merchandise tocollect funds to support the tour of delegation members from Mexico to the Netherlands, and throughout Europe.Check the instagram post from Gira Holanda for further details on the importance of this gathering: https://www.instagram.com/giraholanda/?hl=fr&img_index=1Program of the evening:7.00-7.30 – Welcome 7.30-8.45pm – Open space for CNI and Fraybe delegates to share their stories8.45-9pm – Break9-10pm – Facilitated discussion and Q&A 10-11pm – Cumbia (Dj tba)Please amplify, sharing is caring! We hope to see you there!

Dok Night Koshari
2023-10-12 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Koshari,
Untitled art
& Tarab

Starting from 18:00 we will have ( Koshari ), one of Egypt’s tasty national dishes made by Mody.
Marwa Mezher will display her artwork and designs in the space.
A compiled list of Arabic Tarab songs will be played for you throughout the night.

Dok Night | Symbiopsychotaxicinema
2023-10-19 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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19:00 Vegan Food (€ 10 / cash only)
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20:30 Symbiopsychotaxicinema
Films for Those Who Care
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.

TRINITY AND BEYOND 1995
Directed by Peter Kuran
93 minutes
In English

Of course the hit summer movie Oppenheimer was a huge production, but in some ways all that hugeness skirted behind many details, was beating around the bush, and wasn’t really dealing with the core issues. In that way it was a bit like “the sound in the fury, in the end signifying nothing”. This documentary was collected together by Peter Kuran, the guy who did all the special effects on the first Star Wars movie. It is considered by many to be the best film dealing with the development and testing of the atomic bomb.
Today people are no longer haunted by the prospect of a nuclear war, even though we are closer to it than ever before in history. Somehow the commodity culture and overwhelming consumerism of the society we live in, with all its bright colors and its rapidly moving messages, prevents people from really focusing on, and understanding the bigger picture. And in that way the idea of a nuclear war seems remote and is trivialized. If we’re not careful, then it won’t only be our minds that are a mess, but our entire existence will be blasted to the wind. This movie intends to change our current mindset, and help us understand what a powerful force of nature a nuclear explosion really is. The immensity of what we see is staggering.
This acclaimed flick dives into the beginnings of the creation of the nuclear bomb, bringing in declassified archival material that wasn’t available until recently. For director Peter Kuran this was not a commercial project, but a personal one. One of his aims was to expose footage that had been hidden for 50 years, but also to preserve material that the United States government was intentionally allowing to deteriorate and therefore disappear forever. So one of the astounding things about this film is how much work was put into cleaning up the images and reviving them so that they have a new vitality and relevancy… the images don’t look old, worn out or dated, and in fact come close to a big budget studio production.
I should point out that the film meticulously covers, step-by-step, the development and production of these bombs along with their detonation. The point of the film is understanding the horror of this development, and doesn’t harp on images of human violence. Narrated by William Shatner (Star trek) it also features an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra that has a kind of explosive dark beauty to it.
This will be a high definition projection.

Free screening

Cultuur Festival + Expo
2023-10-22 12:00 - 21:00 | Dokzaal
ter viering van 750 jaar Amsterdam
Stitching Shafia’s Creativiteit presenteert
Cultuur Festival + Expo
Foods / Fashion / Clothes / Henna / Fun
Gratis entree

Thursday Dok Night
2023-10-26 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
delicious vegan meals by Suzie Creamcheese

Instant Composers Pool Krokettenfestijn - BIMHUIS & Space Is The Place
2023-10-29 16:00 - 19:00 | Dokzaal
Een spectaculaire middag in de Dokzaal met legendes uit de Nederlandse impro-scene.

Space is the Place presenteert in samenwerking met het BIMHUIS een spectaculaire middag in de Dokzaal, een verborgen parel in het centrum van Amsterdam. Het ICP Orchestra, de godfathers van de improvisatiemuziek in Amsterdam, spelen nog steeds met Han Bennink aan het roer en doen dit al 56 jaar met toewijding, inventiviteit en lef. Op het programma staan verder nog jonge, sterke muzikanten met een voorliefde voor de ICP-esthetiek en na afloop de befaamde huisgemaakte kroketten van John Pastinaak en Luc Ex.
ICP
De ICP, een van de meest creatieve groepen in de moderne jazz, werd in 1967 in het leven geroepen door drummer Han Bennink & pianist/componist Misha Mengelberg. Hoewel Mengelberg in 2017 overleed, worden zijn composities levend gehouden door een vaste bezetting.
Michael Moore saxofoon/klarinet, Ab Baars saxofoon/klarinet, Tobias Delius tenorsax, Joost Buis trombone, Thomas Heberer trompet, Mary Oliver viool/altviool, Guus Janssen piano, Ernst Glerum bas, Han Bennink drums
SUN-MI HONG & ALISTAIR PAYNE
Trompet en drums vormen een ongebruikelijke bezetting. Alistair Payne en Sun-Mi Hong laten het echter volkomen natuurlijk klinken door hun fantasierijke spel. Beide muzikanten zijn groot fan van het ICP-orkest.
MARTA WARELIS SOLO
Marta Warelis is een Poolse pianiste, die met haar voorliefde voor improvisatie en experiment voortdurend zoekt naar nieuwe geluiden en invloeden. Haar werk haalt inspiratie uit diverse genres, van cumbia en Angolese dansmuziek tot jazz en westerse klassieke muziek.
REINIER BAAS & JORIS ROELOFS
Basklarinettist Joris Roelofs staat bekend om zijn sublieme techniek en samenwerking met New Yorkse en Nederlandse topmusici. Naast zijn eigen muziekprojecten is Joris voorzitter van de afdeling klarinet (jazz) aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam en promoveert hij aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Reinier Baas (1985) is een gitarist, componist en artiest uit Nederland met een eigenzinnig oeuvre. Vanmiddag vormen deze muzikanten een duo en spelen oa stukken van het Instant Composers Pool Orchestra.
Tickets voor het concert en krokettenmaltijd hier verkrijgbaar.
https://www.bimhuis.nl/agenda/instant-composers-pool-kroketten-festijn/
https://spaceistheplace.eu/website/

Dok Night - Open for food and drinks ** MUSIC NIGHT AND BENEFIT ARE CANCELLED **
2023-11-02 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dok is open tonight for food and drinks starting at 18u. Check here for the latest news.
The music night and benefit are CANCELLED because of the storm.

eten @ 18u / muziek @ 19u30 / toetjes door Miss Whips
benefietgeld gaat via autonome netwerken naar Gaza

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, Eleni (ud, voice), Anastasis (guitar) and Giannis (baglama) 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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Dia de MuertXs benefiet
2023-11-04 17:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
Mexican artists, mexican food
dead altar, carinas contest,
dead make up, Collective Carpe Diem Band!

TᕼE ᗪᗩY Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪEᗩᗪ: with Ancestor Cacao, Celebrating Life in solidarity with the Heart of the World and Zapatista land
A Fiesta to honour the Cacao plant and food, remember ancestral wisdom and celebrate LIFE together!
ᑕEᒪEᗷᖇᗩTIOᑎ TᕼE ᗪᗩY Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪEᗩᗪ
Saturday 4th November @Dokhuis (€12 entrance fee presale €15 at the door)
* ℙℝ𝕆𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕄𝕄𝔼 *
Doors open at 17.00 hr
Dinner served at 18.00 hr
Music and theatre performances starts at 19.00 hr
* 𝔻𝕀ℕℕ𝔼ℝ 𝕄𝔼ℕ𝕌 𝕠𝕗 𝕄𝕖𝕩𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝔽𝕠𝕠𝕕 *
Tamales + Salad +beans+mole
Suggested donation €10
Cacao Drink € 3,50
Meal + Cacao drink €12,50
All food is vegan
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BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-mexican-day-of-the-dead-solidarity-event-dia-de-muertos-729277818587?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
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𝕊ℙ𝔼ℂ𝕀𝔸𝕃 ℙℝ𝕆𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕄𝕄𝔼 𝕠𝕟 ℕ𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 4
~Actual Situation at the Heart of the World and in Zapatista Land
~Mexican music: Son Huasteco by Zorzal
~Mexican Dance Jalisco grupo Colibri
~ Shaman performance
~ Mariana en Jamal Mexican Songs
~ Abya Yala, Women s Choir
~ Mexican Dance Veracruz grupo Colibri
~Colectivo Carpe Diem. Latinoamerican music with influences of pop, rock, reggae and balcan music.
Colectivo Carpe Diem
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093678317663
~ DJ Lobo
Dead Altar to make offers for your beloved ones who have past away.
Face painting on donation
Video Exhibition of the Heart of the World Project.
All funds collected in these event are dedicated to Land Liberation at the Heart of the World and the Zapatista Land in Mexico, see below for more info.
This event is made possible thanks to the work of many volunteers, without them this event would not be possible.
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The funds raised from solidarity meals and cultural events directly support indigenous communities to buy back and liberate ancestral land within their territory on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia and to support the struggle which continues to go on in Zapatista land, Mexico with the Mexican Government.
In the Sierra Nevada the Arhuacans, the Kogui, the Wiwa and the Kankuama have demarcated their original land with a Black Line, they call this territory the ‘Heart of the World’. In 2013 heart was also named the most important concentration of threatened biodiversity on Earth. In this Heart of the World you have all climates, from Snow mountains to Tropical Forest and the Caribbean Sea.
For these Indigenous Peoples if the Heart of the World dies, Planet Earth dies. These Indigenous Peoples want to recover and return these lands to their natural state so they can continue making offerings to Mother Earth in their Ancestral Land. This keeps the land intact and helps the Earth to keep her balance. For the Indigenous peoples from the Sierra Madre we are the Younger Siblings who don’t want to listen.
We invite you to LISTEN, and share, and eat, and drink, and remember, and celebrate in solidarity!
Our team’s longer term goal is to promote the exchange between Zapatistas, the Tzotzil, Tzetzal, Chol, Zoque, Tojolabal, who have an autonomous- self determined Indigenous Land in Mexico and the Indigenous Peoples from Sierra Nevada, Colombia through our emergent Foundation Pluriversity.

Dok Night Benefit dinner for ELSC
2023-11-09 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Benefit dinner for ELSC
Thursday night 9th November 2023

The genocide in Gaza is being live-streamed before our eyes while we are witnessing the imperialist forces (USA, UK, EUROPE) not only turning their backs on the Palestinian’s lives and rights, but also actively supporting the criminal actions of Israel.

Furthermore, they are systematically pushing the silencing and persecution of Palestinian voices, solidarity and activism on their territories. Demonstrations are getting banned and hundreds of protesters are being arrested in Germany, France and other countries just for calling to stop the genocide and putting an end to the atrocious crimes of the settler apartheid state.

(ELSC) European Legal Support Center is providing free legal support to Palestinian rights advocates in Europe whose rights are being violated every day and monitoring/documenting all forms of repression against them. The rise of oppression in Europe is causing them to be overloaded with many cases, and our support is urgently needed.

Dinner made by Mody (@mahmmoudie )
– Egyptian Moussaka
– Lentil soup

> Please bring cash for the food, atm nearby!. All the profit will be donated to (ELSC)
Location: Plantage Doklaan 8, 1018 CM Amsterdam. Share and looking forward to seeing you Thursday.

“Justice for Palestine: we will not be deterred nor silenced”

CAVERNOUS concert performance
2023-11-11 19:30 - 22:30 | Dokzaal
The mouth as a cave, the body as a site of horror — CAVERNOUS is an experimental event at the intersection of concert and performance.
19:30 – 20:00 Doors20:00 – 21:30 Performances by Moa Holgersson, Thalia Livingstone, Show Pony21:30 – 22:30 Snailaway DJ-set
Xiomara Virdó – scenography
Nell Schwan – costume design
Juli Frodermann – music for Thalia Livingstone
Nina Kay & Tatiana Rosa – live visuals & scenography for Show Pony
Tickets: https://billetto.nl/e/cavernous-Tickets-879630
–CAVERNOUS is an event dedicated to the notions of feminist horror. Exploring spilling, leaking, ‘loud women’, resonant architecture, and the use of the mouth, ear and body as sites of hysteria, danger and pleasure. The evening features all new and site-specific work by a team of female-identifying artists with cross-disciplinary practices rooted in live performance. Imagining the space of Dokzaal as a body orifice or a reverberation chamber, all contributors tap into an emotionally charged landscape through embodiment: the silencing of femme voices, failed attempts at being heard and soft transgression.
Moa Holgersson is a visual and performance artist and the curator of CAVERNOUS. She will perform an adaptation and expansion of a series of compositions made under the moniker FRÖ/The Lure. Navigating a set of solidified liquids, her primary weapon to pierce through a crowd is her voice: singing, growling, screaming, calling — Moa stretches the different registers and archetypes connected to femme vocalisation.@animalofcenter
Thalia Livingstone is a dancer, choreographer, curator and ex-architect working at the intersection of many things, attempting to share the ungraspable. Her work seeks to outline the illusive, often surfacing themes of neuro-divergence and feminism.For this piece, Thalia has assigned herself a mission: to understand what it really is that she is trying to say. And to say it.Despite the objective seeming impossible to complete, Thalia prepares. Using the tools at hand, she attempts to recruit allies through seduction, communicate her needs through text, and train her body rigorously — only to encounter obstruction after obstruction.Holding a bouquet of failed attempts, she endures… but will she hit her target before her tank is empty?@thalia_aliaht
Show Pony is the experimental pop persona of double bassist, singer and composer Laura Nygren. During CAVERNOUS she will present I May Fall Into the Sound, an audio visual work exploring the disappearing island of Massancummock through the gaze of her memory and fantasy. Together with visual artists Tatiana Rosa and Ninay Kay she has constructed a fanciful version of Massancumock. The audience witnesses real time decay of the place through musical memories and field recordings.Massancummock is a tiny island, home to the endangered roseate tern, off the coast of Guilford, Connecticut, USA. It is projected to disappear into the surrounding sea by 2026. The trio uses the island as a lens for witnessing communal physical erosion — whether the loss of our home, body or planet.@show_pony__
Snailaway explores the topics of memory, trauma and out-of-body experiences through film, writing, music and performance, by following methodologies of somatics and body-politics, borrowing tactics of mental health therapy, as well as consciousness-expanding practices such as psychedelics and non-duality.Inside of the morphing space of Dokzaal, Snailaway/Frederique Pissuise will play a contagious DJ-set to close the evening of CAVERNOUS, utilising storytelling and somatic trance.@frederique_pisuisse
Xiomara Virdó is a visual artist and performer based in Amsterdam. Her sculptural practice in glass, steel and rubber is informed by high temperatures, proximity to danger, phase transition of matter and her long standing relationship to dance.@xiomaravirdo
Graphic design by Tomás Queiroz @glabr.a
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This event is made possible by the support of Mondriaan Fonds & Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

World's Appreciated Kitch & Rope or Guillotine | Chain Whip
2023-11-13 20:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
World’s Appreciated Kitch & Rope or Guillotine will deliver you another insane punk show in the centre of Amsterdam.
Chain Whip
https://chainwhip.bandcamp.com/album/14-lashes
“Like a door opening to an alternate universe where Suburban Mutilation released the most influential hardcore LP of the 80s, and DOA were conveniently disappeared so the melody cum velocity and Richard Nixon-esque gargle of Joey Shithead could be reimagined in the various voids of the Twenty-teens as tidy new hc punk lp by CHAIN WHIP. Not fast enough to only be brutal, but not modest enough to be anything but pummelling. Full of burly, crunchy, tight corners, this is the musical equivalent of thrifting an Eames chair — you recognize it a mile away, it’s still a classic, and it’s just landed in our laps for next to nothing.”
– Jonah Falco
Traumatizer
New hardcore band from Amsterdam and Haarlem, crazy shit. dbeat in your face. folks from Asbest boys and Burlers.
Blind Ambition
Another new band from Amsterdam with folks you might know from Vitamin X and Betercore. Hardcore punks a gogo!
Monday night, lets go!
No pre-sale

Dok Night | Symbiopsychotaxicinema & art by Yehudit Mizrahi Dar
2023-11-16 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18:00 Bar open

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Art work by Yehudit Mizrahi Dar

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19:00 Vegan Food by susie Creamcheese (€ 10 / cash only)
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20:30 Symbiopsychotaxicinema
WINTER ADE 1989
Directed by Helke Misselwitz
116 minutes
In German with English subtitles

After World War II, documentary filmmaking was extremely strong in the former East block – in countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia and the GDR. In some ways, documentaries offered more grounding – they were dealing with real life and what was really happening on the streets, in contrast to Hollywood feature films that were always fantasies. That is certainly true of this particularly rich and complex film. Made just one year before the Berlin Wall was brought crashing down, it gives us a piercing image of the situation in East Germany in the late ’80s.

Here we sink into the heart of that culture, as a female filmmaker gets on a train and travels the length and breath of her country. She stops off at different cities and villages and explores the stories of how women are living in the GDR. We see how their living conditions were unsurprisingly more limited than in the West, since the GDR was in no way a colonialist nation raking in profits from other lands. And although the role of women was by far better off in the GDR in contrast to their counterparts in West Germany, still by the late 80s a kind of stagnation had settled in.

Director Helke Misselwitz travels to the Baltic coast, to the Czechoslovakian border, and to East Berlin. She finds a lot of disillusionment in the women she interviews who cross her path, but she also finds optimism. We meet women from all walks of life, and all different ages – from an 83-year old, to a couple of runaway punks in Berlin. Insightful and playful (we even visit a doll hospital along the way), this is a terrific time capsule, a vivid and lively snap-shot of a time and place that is now totally lost to us.

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

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

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

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exhibition by
Yehudit Mizrahi Dar

Dok Night
2023-11-30 18:00 - 23:00 | 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.
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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
