Smart Project Space is hosting a sound music program titled Ambient Lullabies this weekend. Pay 15 Euros this Friday and Saturday and get some live ambient music + a bed for a cozy evening experience.
Check out the list of Musicians here.
Beds are limited so make reservations at reservations@smartprojectspace.net.
Mediamatic’s latest art show The Great Jerry Springer Rodeo opens this Friday March, 12 from 20.00 till 0.00 at Vijzelstraat 68.
Eight young infamous artists will show us their thoughts on fifteen years popular image culture. Interactive installations as a result. You can throw chairs or get back at your ex. Just let yourself go, feel no shame.
Participating Artists: Wayne Horse, Morcky Troubles, Ottograph, Leyp, Super Sule, SjocoSjon, Gestift en Lamelos.
Music by DJ’s Melly Mel, Cream & Zender
Show runs untill the 25th of April. Open daily from 13:00
I first discovered artist Johnny Kelly through his amazing video, procrastination. Now he has teamed up with the Dutch kids Show Het Klokhuis and created an amazing stop motion opening and closing title sequence. I love it. Behind the scenes making of this can be found here.
“Het Klokhuis” Opening titles from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
“Het Klokhuis” End titles from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
I hear the movie sucks really bad, but FYI Alice in Wonderland 3D is playing at the IMAX here in Amsterdam. I guess Johnny Depp in 3D is always nice?
On Tuesday March 8, OT301 will screen the 1964 Japanese Art -House film Woman in the Dunes.
Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic worldview of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eija Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert; when he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most bristling, unnerving, and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday Sisyphean struggle.
The screening costs 4 euros and the show starts at 20:30 hrs.
The Pretty female Dutch duo The Secret Love Parade will be performing their romantic pop music on Thursday evening, March 11 at the OCCII. Other performers are NewYX, Pony Pack, Katafreuffe, and Noise Problems. Show is only 6 euros and doors open at 21.00.
The 13th edition of Amsterdam’s gay and lesbian film festival, Pink Film Days opens this weekend at the Amsterdam Public Library. On March 8, the festival will move to The Ketelhuis theater in Westerpark and 100 films from 30 different countries will be screened until March 14. Check out the full program list here. Get your tickets here.
Burger Meester is not only unbelievably delicious but available at three different locations throughout the city and easy on the wallet (a feat here in Amsterdam). You can order a regular sized burger or a ‘mini’ for half the price, and the menu ranges from Lamb to Tuna and Pumpkin patties.
Having sampled the ‘Mini Trio’ for €10.50, I can confidently recommend the FetaBurger, Meester Biefburger and a PompoenBurger (pumpkin). Or if you’re opting for a healthy route, try their “Burger as a Main” where the burger patty can be served with a salad and no bun for €2 extra.
Check their addresses here, to find the closest one to home.
If you are reading this with no plans for this evening, go check out the LOMOGRAPHY FoamLab happening right now! Unfortunately the website is all in Dutch, but the basics are:
Friday, March 5 (TODAY)
from 20:00 to 00:00 at Foam
entrance is 5 euro.
There will be a screening of “The Lomo camera: Shoot from the hip” by Alex Graham, a Lomography playground (sounds fun) and some slideshows. Also, make sure to check out ‘Kako da ne’ spinning some hysterical balkan beats in the Foam Cafe.
Last Friday, Kind Regards hosted a new art show titled “Big Mother Earth” with artists Arnar Ásgeirsson, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Jan s. Hansen. The Danish and Icelandic artists exhibited sculptures, video installations, and drawings that made reference to fairytales and sagas along with with morality and dualism. Tonight, the same artists are having a Publication release. Come around 22.00 and DJ Bush Doof will spin some jams. Art, dj, and drinks! Map here.
Video of the Gallery works below:
Gallery View “Big Mother Earth” from Kind Regards on Vimeo.
