Concert de Emma Peters

Melkweg Amsterdam

Join Emma Peters for her first concert in Amsterdam with Pa'dam!

Spotted thanks to the success of her YouTube channel, Emma is already listened to all over the world-the remix of her cover of Clandestina has exceeded 50 million streams on Spotify. Now she writes her own songs with the same spontaneous freshness

€19

INVESTIGATING ART – Art Central XL

Goethe-Institut Rotterdam Westersingel 9, Rotterdam

OPEN STUDIOS | PASSAGES EN PASSANT With Guillem Arquer, Benjamin Earl, Charli Herrington, Mingus Janssen, Kate Price, Daniela de Paulis, Merel Smitt and Nicola Unger. The Goethe-Institut is currently hosting five artistic research projects as part of the Goethe Investigating programme. The former library, event halls and staff room are now studios for short- term […]

Free

Canary Island Roots: The Timple and Guitar

Cervantes Institute Utrecht Domplein 3, Utrecht

The two performers, Pérez, on the timple, and Niz, on the guitar, will interpret a wide variety of music and genres, ranging from the purest roots of Canarian folklore to musical passages of Venezuelan, Argentinian and Cuban rhythms, as well as classic themes adapted to this small format. The timple, a traditional instrument from the […]

Free

Concert de Pierre de Maere

Melkweg Amsterdam

Join Pierre de Maere for his first concert in Amsterdam with Pa'dam!

Pierre de Maere, the new revelation from Belgium, continues his rise. The hostilities were launched in 2022 with the release of his first EP "Regrets Carried by a dazzling media and popular coverage and the success of his golden single "Un jour je marierai un ange"", Pierre de Maere is nominated at the 2023 Victoires de la musique in the categories "male revelation of the year" and "song of the year".

€22

(de) Wir haben es nicht gut gemacht. / (en) We did not do it well.

Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Herengracht 470, Amsterdam

An evening of conversation between Thomas Strässle (editor) and Barbara Mariacher, about the recently published exchange of letters between the Austrian poet, Ingeborg Bachmann, and the Swiss playwright, Max Frisch. The published correspondence, "Wir haben es nicht gut gemacht" (We did not do it well) paints a surprising, new picture of the relationship between the […]

Out The Frame

Melkweg Amsterdam

On 1 April 2023, a satellite edition of the ‘Out The Frame’ festival will take place in Amsterdam. 'Out The Frame' (a production by Belgian arts centre VIERNULVIER and All Eyes On Hip Hop) has been bringing the best of the underground to Ghent every year since 2018, ranging from mutated hip hop to experimental […]

€21.25

Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere / CAMPO – OUT OF THE BLUE

Frascati Nes 63, msterdam

Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere / CAMPO OUT OF THE BLUE "We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean." This statement is often heard when talking about the deep sea. Worldwide, only ten percent of the ocean floor has been mapped and explored. At a […]

€12 – €17

Installation: Maturation Station

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, Amsterdam

An audiovisual work in which various bodies come together in and around ethical shrimp and prawn production: a playful, critical dramedy. Maturation Station is an audiovisual work by visual artist, actress and theatre-maker Melissa Mabesoone that slithers through themes including the blue economy, aquaculture, reproduction & sensuality, care, consumerism, animal suffering and the fish and […]

Free

Soirée Ciné #15 : Tout le monde aime Jeanne

Cinema Het Ketelhuis Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam

Since September 2021, the Alliance Française in Amsterdam and Het Ketelhuis have been presenting Soirée ciné, a programme of French films that have not been released in the Netherlands, but which are very much worthy of being viewed. Every month, a new title is screened. The April edition of Soirée Ciné will feature the film, […]

Free – €11.50

Ontroerend goed – Funeral

Grote Zaal Amsterdam

Funeral is a collective ritual about the finiteness of things, created by Ontroerend Goed. It shall start, in the dark. We will greet each other and we will say goodbye. There will be singing and pretending. There will be light and room for darkness. We’ll light candles, we will eat and drink and celebrate our […]

€13 – €18

Reading by Mareike Fallwickl: “Die Wut, die bleibt” (The Rage that Remains)

Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Herengracht 470, Amsterdam

Author Mareike Fallwickl is coming to the Netherlands on the occasion of the German-Dutch translation competition. On April 18 and 19 she will talk about her work, novels in which women and the problems they have to deal with in today's world are in the center. How far is emancipation now? Is #MeToo still relevant? […]

Free

Concert: Silenzio Ovunque – Visur Tyla

Istituto Italiano di Cultura Keizersgracht 564, Amsterdam

Litouws Cultureel Centrum together with Istituto italiano di Cultura in Amsterdam presents a romantic spring concert “Silenzio Ovunque - Visur tyla”. With Gabrielė Žemaitytė (piano, Lithuania), Sterre Kooi (mezzo-soprano, Netherlands) and Rolfe Dauz (baritone, USA)The program includes songs and arias by G. Donizetti and G. Puccini, J. Sibelius, M. Biltzstein, E. Grieg, J. Gaižauskas, H. […]

Free

Exploring the Potential of Language Technology in Creative Writing and Translation

Utrecht University

On Tuesday 20 April 2023, from 13:00 to 17:00, DG Translation of the European Commission, in collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht and Drongo, is organizing the event "Exploring the Potential of Language Technology in Creative Writing and Translation". The event takes place at Universiteit Utrecht (University Quarter, City Centre). During this third workshop in the series […]

Free

Ciné-club #11 : Bob le flambeur

Cafe Brecht Weteringschans 157, Amsterdam

The Alliance française Amsterdam is happy to invite you to the Ciné-Club #11 in partnership with Institut Français and IF Cinéma, with the screening of the movie Bob le flambeur (1956), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The film is in French with English subtitles.

€5 – €7

Intensive Finnish Beginners’ Course

Online

Registration is now open for our new intensive Finnish beginners' course starting on the 6th of May 2023! The classes will be taught online by teacher Sanna Joutsijoki. The course fee is 500 EUR May: Saturdays 9:00-12:00 CET & Wednesdays 18:00 – 19:30 CET June: Tuesdays and Thursdays 18:00-21:00 CET & Saturdays 9:00-12:00 CET

€500

Who Pays the Bill? – FAIR P(L)AY x EUROPE DAY 2023

Het Nieuwe Instituut Nieuwe Instituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam

Who Pays the Bill? - Strategies for a Fair Environment for Cultural Workers in Rotterdam and Europe. 
 Celebrate Europe Day on May 9 with us. FAIR P(L)AY Cycle is coming to Rotterdam for its second edition, this time focused on young and emerging artists in the district’s creative scene.  
 FAIR P(L)AY is a […]

Free

First Strategic Dialogue on European Universities

Maastricht University

During the morning workshop sessions, participants with working experience on the topics that will be discussed and students interested in higher education policy will have the chance to share best practices on the common challenged identified during the pilot period (see policy brief European Universities Association). During the afternoon, the wider public is invited to […]

ROCKING SPACE

ARTIS PLANETARIUM

What if the Big Bang was a symphony of suave notes more than a deafening rumble? Hard to believe. But if life has surfaced from primordial soup, it may be a learned guess imagining that music, as we know and love it, has made its first steps coming out of that deafening jumble of cosmic […]

The Last Night of the World

Laaktheater

The Théâtre de l'Avalanche, the company of the Alliance Française de La Haye is pleased to present : The Last Night of the World. “In the middle of a changing world, in the not so distant future, a couple is torn apart by the question: "Can we do without the night? A "miracle pill" allows […]

#StopHatredNow 2023

#StopHatredNow is an intercultural and anti-racist platform organised in collaboration with several art and intercultural organisations. The platform strives to create discourse on diversity, inclusivity, power structures, otherness, and intersectionally feminist strategies. The event is is aimed at individual artists, cultural influencers, and institutions of art and culture, but anyone interested in the topics is […]

Free