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 October edition of Soirée Ciné will feature the film, […]

To mark the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura has organised this concert along with some readings. This event will feature Edoardo Coen, the actor, along with Andrea Coen on the piano. This duo are internationally appreciated and offer an unprecedented journey to discover Pier Paolo Pasolini: poet, […]

Performance: Stravinsky’s masterpiece, Petrouchka, inspired choreographers Elisabeth Borgermans and Thomas Vantuycom to undertake a new dance creation featuring nine young people between the ages of 15 and 24. However, the starting point is not the original staging from 1911 but an in-depth reading of the music. Stravinsky’s penchant for contrast, rhythm and speed is typical […]

In the first event organised by Platform Spaans, the first Dutch network devoted to promoting Spanish language and culture, professor Francisco Moreno Fernández will give a lecture on the value and position of the Spanish language in the world (with simultaneous Dutch translation). The event will include a workshop discussing relevant matters surrounding Spanish language […]

A Gaspar Noé film about Alzheimer's? The director of Irreversible, Enter the Void and Lux Æterna never ceases to amaze. Even more unexpected: Dario Argento plays the husband of a psychiatrist with dementia (Françoise Lebrun). The split-screen projection reflects the separate worlds of the two protagonists. The film will be followed by a Q&A with […]

Leïla Slimani presents her latest novel, Regardez-nous danser (Kijk ons dansen), which tells the tale of her mother, who grew up on a poor farm but would later become Morocco's first female gynaecologist. The Prix Goncourt winner, Leïla Slimani (1981) was born in Morocco and moved to Paris at the age of 17 to study […]

Are you interested in AI-applications for translation? Then do not miss the workshop “The power of AI in the translation service of the European Commission” on 8 November 2022! This second workshop in the series “Language and technology: a successful combination” focuses on the rapidly developing technology of “semantic similarity”, which allows to detect similarities […]

In collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in The Hague, the Musica Antica da Camera foundation will organise a concert by lute player Miguel Rincón (1979) entitled Sones del Nuevo Mundo (Sounds of the New World), showing how South America influenced the music of important Spanish composers from the 18th century, such as Gaspar Sanz, […]

The Alliance Française d'Amsterdam is launching its Cercle de lecture! Are you passionate about literature? Would you like to discuss literature with French speakers? Join us for our first Cercle de lecture. The theme of this first meeting will be Annie Ernaux, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday 6 October 2022. […]

Passages en passant is a series of exhibitions in the corridor of the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, in which the works of two artists engage in dialogue with each other. This format is intended as a space for exchange with and through the works, as a conversation starter and as a meeting place for interested parties. Lucie […]

For his project, Ergänzungsskulpturen, Dresden-based artist, Moritz Liebig, made numerous temporary additional sculptures during his residency in Rotterdam. To this end, he added ephemeral, figurative supplements of various materials to artworks in public spaces, with the aim of recontextualizing these works and artistically expanding existing content. The temporary interventions were documented photographically.The first results of […]

Come along to a wine tasting night with Martial Mignet, owner of Château L’Argilus du Roi, to discover the Saint-Estèphe, a rich, well-structured, fruity wine from the Médoc region in France. The wine tasting takes place at the Alliance Française in The Hague on Friday 2 December 2022, 18:00-20:00. Tickets can be purchased here.

After notallwhowanderarelost (2014) and Liedje voor Gigi (2018), Benjamin Verdonck has created a choreography for life-sized figures, an unusual planetarium made out of adhesive tape, strings and cardboard. ‘Things’ have played an important role in Benjamin Verdonck’s theatre work for some time now. But while he previously acted as a sceneshifter who manipulated these objects, […]

The Christmas concert is an annual event organised by the Czech Centre Rotterdam. This year´s edition marks the end of the Czech EU presidency and the programme is highlighted by a string quartet featuring: Natálie Kulina – violin, Francisca Portugal – violin, May Bardsley – viola and Emma Warmelink – cello. It will take place […]

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 December edition of Soirée Ciné will feature the film, […]

Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, conductor of the ensemble Música Temprana, offers a musical lecture, with a visual presentation, sound clips and a live performance of the music composed by the indigenous people and the Jesuits in the missions in Bolivia and Paraguay during the reigns of Charles II and Charles IV. The reforms of […]

Attend a free webinar on Art Nouveau with Alliance Française lecturer, Giulia Francheschini, to learn more about this fascinating movement which dominated European arts throughout the 19th and 20th century. The webinar has been organised by the Alliances Françaises of Portugal, Spain, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Accueil de la Haye. You can reserve […]

On December 16 and 17, de Brakke Grond presents RIGHTABOUTNOW INC. the RIGHTABOUTNOW INC. Festival 2022. The opening of the festival on December 15 will take place in Bar Bario. The RIGHTABOUTNOW Festival is a platform for remarkable new artists from different disciplines that reflect the polyphony of the city. In these times of enormous […]

The Hache Collective, whose members live in the Netherlands, Chile and Spain, has explored themes such as decentralised approaches to composition, the musicality of movement and methods of ensemble work focused on the individual since 2018. Hache perceives itself as a group of individuals who work together and look for methods of co-creation in which […]

In an almost empty world, two men stand, surrounded only by a few inanimate objects: a bucket, flour, a branch, a chair, a garden hose. Apocalyptic, futuristic, ritualistic, comical, cosmic and prehistoric images emerge. We watch two men trying to make something out of nothing. A reflection on how man is constantly trying to shape […]