Join plain language practitioners and enthusiasts from across the EU for an exciting programme of talks and workshops. Get inspired by the latest insights and practices in clear writing, and share your own views and experiences. Together, we’ll discover new ways of promoting a clear writing culture in Europe.

Pehmee aka The Soft Collective (Caroline Suinner and Meriam Trabelsi) will be in Amsterdam 24-26.5.2023! As a continuation of their Together Alone 2.0 workshops in London, they will bring Safer Spaces For Unhad Conversations to The Netherlands. The goal of the project is to create new possibilities, perspectives and a platform that provides a space […]

What does it mean to tell a story through the eyes of women? Through Her Eyes: The female gaze in German Cinema is a film series curated by the Goethe-Institut Netherlands. Over a period of five months, we present a selection of films that give an insight into women's cinematic work, from female perspectives, with […]

Special screening with climate activist and director Emmanuel Cappellin: faced with the reality of climate change and the depletion of resources, director Emmanuel Cappellin becomes aware that a collapse of our industrial civilisation is inevitable. In search of answers, he meets experts and scientists. The screening is in French, with English subtitles. The director Emmanuel […]

This approach results in a book that weaves together the perspectives of a multitude of entities and actors – humans being just one of many. The volume discusses the contradictory realities constructed by the current global economy as well as the power structures inherent in the production of knowledge and science: “The conflicts generated by […]

Between 4 July and 28 August, the Embassy of Hungary in The Hague is presenting the ‘Petőfi200 exhibition’ at the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA) to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the revolutionary, national hero and poet Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849). In the just 26 years of his lifetime, he wrote nearly 1,000 poems and had a […]

Join us for an hour of conversation in French in a friendly atmosphere! Are you French or French-speaking? Come and exchange in French with other French people, francophones and French learners. Are you a student? Come and exchange in French with other Francophones and French learners to practice the language. 06 Jul 2023, 6:00pm - […]

For the Bastille day, on 14 July, Virginie, teacher at the Alliance Française in Amsterdam who is specialized in portraits of forgotten women, will highlight those who contributed to the Revolution and who have been silenced by History. Friday 14 Jul 2023 - 12pm - 1:30pm Online Alliance Française Amsterdam

Alliance Française de La Have invites you to come and celebrate the Fête Nationale together on 14th July. The programme includes a French buffet prepared by Les Belles Saveurs, a francophile flea market and lots of other surprises.

The colour of the future? Cosmic Latte! In this radical performance, Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer Sonya Lindfors dreams of a world in which freedom, equality and black identity go hand in hand. Explore together with Afro-Finnish artists, pioneers in their field, an Afro-futuristic landscape featuring hip-hop, African cosmology, Bach and Sun Ra. location: Podium Mozaïek, Bos en […]

Let’s talk about fictions and friction, speculative practices and about why intersectionality is so f***ing hard! Let’s talk about the ghosts haunting our stages and the power of the stage as a miracle making machine! Sonya Lindfors (she/her) is an award winning Cameroonian – Finnish choreographer, facilitator and artistic director of antiracist and counterhegemonic art […]

Come and visit the exhibition by Evangelos KALOGEROPOULOS at the Alliance française in The Hague from 18th July 2023. Would you like to see The Hague in a different light? Painter Evangelo KALOGEROPOULOS will take you on a tour of Haagse Bos through his works. On 23th August 2023 at 7.15pm, we invite you to […]

Till 1 October 2023, the Van 't Lindenhout Museum presents the exhibition 'Destination: Hope' (in Dutch) about the Hungarian children trains. Between 1920 and 1930 – as part of a humaniatarian action – 30,000 Hungarian children came to the Netherlands for a short or longer period of time to recover from the trials they endured […]

The “Unbroken Ukraine Project” is a result of a natural collaboration between the humanist photographer Felipe Jácome and Svitlana Onipko, also a photographer and a dancer of the Hague-based United Ukrainian Ballet. The project seeks to contrast the strength, determination, and beauty of Ukrainian dancers with the senseless violence, brutality, and destruction caused by the […]

A poignant exhibition, War Diaries, will showcase the personal stories of children and teenagers who witnessed and documented the war in Ukraine. The exhibition aims to shed light on the deep trauma experienced by Ukraine's young generation. By showcasing 14 carefully selected stories with a balance of gender, age, region, and story type, the exhibition […]

On 27 August 2023, Van ‘t Lindenhoutmuseum in Nijmegen organizes a concert with Hungarian classical music. The concert recalls the collaboration between Hungarian violinist Zoltán Székely and Hungarian cellist Paul Hermann. Zoltán Székely came to the Netherlands in 1922 as part of an international humanitarian action called the children's trains. The concert takes place in […]

From 4 September (noon) until 16 October (noon), secondary schools all over Europe can register again for the yearly European translation contest Juvenes Translatores, organized since 2007 by the European Commission. The translation contest gives young people a taste of what it is like to be a translator, encourages them to learn foreign languages and […]

In the presence of H.E. Caterina GHINI, Ambassador of GREECE to the NETHERLANDS, Elle van RIJN, author of the book "A family and a Greek god", and other speakers to be announced shortly.

The Together Again Festival is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival held on the 8th of September at Helsinki Central Library Oodi and online. The festival is free and open to all! It’s a packed programme with an incredible list artists and cultural professional. The festival is hosted by writer and performer Jani Toivola. The programme […]

Día de muertos is one of the main celebrations in Mexico. On the 1st and 2nd of November, families get ready to honour and receive their deceased loved ones. According to this tradition, souls visit the world of the living once a year to see their family members, who wait for them with an altar full […]