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.
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.
Ij Hallen is a huge monthly flea market in North Amsterdam. You take the free ferry from central station to the North of Amsterdam and then you end up in a warehouse with 500 stalls full of stuff. The pictures look like something straight from the 1970s which makes me even more intrigued. I hear you can snag some interesting stuff for cheap. The next opening is this weekend on Saturday, March 6 and Sunday March 7 from 9:00-16:30. The market will move outdoors on May 2.
I love this photograph. Photographer Jeff Phillips takes black and white street photographs and develops the film in his kitchen sink. This picture looks like it was taken in the forties with the women in hats and men wearing classic suits. The preserved historical architecture in this city makes it really easy to replicate historical happenings though I’m pretty sure this photograph was taken last year for a modern wedding. Really beautiful.
