Theatre: David of hoe we ons bedacht hebben

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, Amsterdam

De Brakke Grond brings you a performance on David Foster Wallace, the author, his addiction, genius, insecurity, depression and hyperawareness by three different theatre companies: De NWE Tijd, De KOE & Hof van Eede (in Dutch).

Film: Eine Handvoll Wasser (Deutsches Kino)

Filmhuis Lumen Doelenplein 5, Delft

(DE 2020) Length: 94 min. Director: Jakob Zapf Language: German with English subtitles Konrad (Jürgen Prochnow), 85, is mostly in a bad mood. And now his daughter wants to adopt the children of her lesbian girlfriend. Thurba (Milena Pribak), 10, runs away from the police who want to deport her family. But that is only […]

Literary Theatre Monologue with Lucia Vita: Questo é stato

Keizersgrachtkek Keizersgracht 566, Amsterdam

Based on the book of the same name by Piera Sonnino (Il Saggiatore, 2004) Stage adaptation and direction Lorenzo Costa Producer: Enrico Carretta On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on January 27 in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Amsterdam presents the literary theater […]

Exhibition: Passages en passant

Goethe-Institut Rotterdam Westersingel 9, Rotterdam

Passages en passant is an exhibition series in the hallway of the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, in which the works of two artists enter into a dialogue with each other. Passages en passant is intended to invite people to exchange ideas with the works on display and to talk to each other. In the third exhibition in […]

Podcast: Czech Next Wave

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Czech Next Wave is a podcast produced jointly by the Czech Centres network and Radio Prague International. Its aim is to introduce listeners around the world to emerging, exciting and highly talented young Czechs in various areas of the arts and beyond. The latest episode is an interview with actress Martha Issová. You might know […]

Cabaret show: The Orange Danger – The Dutch are coming

Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Herengracht 470, Amsterdam

Director: Ralf Lohr Piano: Guido van de Meent Co-Director: This Maag What happens when, due to the rise in sea level, 17 million orange-dressed climate refugees drive into Germany with their caravans? Are the Germans then ready to take in their beloved Dutch? The Orange Danger - The Dutch are coming is the first German […]

Artists’ talk with Francesco Candeloro

Istituto Italiano di Cultura Keizersgracht 564, Amsterdam

As part of the exhibition ALTERNE VISIONI, a project in Amsterdam that shows the work of two artists, the Francesco Candeloro (1974) and Marc Philip van Kempen (1979),the Istituto Italiano di Culture and Breed Art Studios are organising an artists' talk with Franceso Candelore. Francesco Candeloro was born in Venice in 1974. Light and colour, […]

DutchCulture on Tour: Brabant edition

Kunstloc Brabant Burgemeester Brokxlaan 1000, Tilburg

Together with Kunstloc Brabant, DutchCulture is organising a new DutchCulture on Tour: Brabant edition, on Tuesday 22 February. Artists, designers and cultural professionals from Brabant are welcome to learn more about international cultural collaboration. There will be advisors present from who you can get insights and knowlege on specific countries, European funding, mobility, heritage and […]

Lecture: Melancholy and the end of the world

Instituto Cervantes (Utrecht) - Salón de Actos / Conferentiezaal Domplein 3, Utrecht

“La Melancolía y el Fin del Mundo” is a sensory journey to 15th century Spain through music. In this lecture, the artistic director of the ensemble Música Temprana, Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, the singer Luciana Cueto and the visual artist Patricia Werneck Ribas bring the sounds of the court of los Reyes Católicos to […]

Online film screening: Fever at Dawn

Embassy of Hungary - online

From 23 February to 24 February, the Hungarian film Fever at Dawn (Hajnali láz) will be available online to all those who are interested and live in The Netherlands (the film has English subtitles). Fever at Dawn tells the true story of a love born in the strangest of circumstances between two long-suffering survivors of […]

Live documentary: LAND

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, Amsterdam

A live, multimedia documentary about a small Belgian migrant community in Detroit. With LAND, radio maker Katharina Smets, video maker Ingrid Leonard & sound artist Inne Eysermans (together: The Space Between) focus on a small Belgian migrant community in Detroit. Their ancestors left Belgium in the hope of a better life. They play curls and […]

€10 – €15

Restructure and Connect II by Transartists/AiR Platform NL

Gemaal op Zuid Pretorialaan 141, Rotterdam

AiR Platform NL invites artists-in-residence organisers to join 25 February 2022 for a meeting at Gemaal op Zuid in Rotterdam. After the online programme Restructure and Connect that took place on 26 June 2021, we will now get together to deepen the discussion, exchange practices and get inspired. This meeting is focused on the future […]

Performance: Dance of the Seven Veils

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, Amsterdam

In Dance of the Seven Veils, director Aïda Gabriëls invites musicians Colin H. Van Eeckhout (CHVE, Amenra), Pieter-Jan Van Assche (Innerwoud) and soprano Astrid Stockman to fiddle with the deeply human figure of Salomé, the biblical princes and femme fatale. Within a theatrical total work of art, dancer German Jauregui immerses into their ecstatic soundscape, […]

€10 – €15

Children’s activity: Birthday every day

Instituto Cervantes (Utrecht) - Salón de Actos / Conferentiezaal Domplein 3, Utrecht

The children's theatre company Theater Stuiter presents an adaptation of the classic Spanish play 'Life is a dream' for children from four years old onwards. This version of the story introduces children and young people to the Golden Age of Spanish literature and in particular to one of the key writers of the time, Calderón […]

Dance: Faun

Plein Theater Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

Inspiried by the ballet "L!apres midi d!un faun" originally choreographed by Nijinski in 1912, maker Giacomo Della Marina aims at giving life to a contemporary faun. Society struggles to accept non conformist bodies and personalities that choose different paths, whether they concern choices around gender and sex, shape, work, role, ethnicity, beliefs, age,… Not abiding […]

€14 – €16

Discussion: Consent Law

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No blurred lines with a consent law? This year’s International Women’s Day Nordic Breakfast Discussion will focus on consent law. Most citizens today consider rape as “sex without consent”. Yet, for years the worldwide legislation did not match this public opinion – until now. In 2022, several Nordic countries have implemented consent laws in their […]

Discussion: Climate action in Higher Education

TivoliVredenburg Vredenburgkade 11, Utrecht

Following COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 we are bringing together students, staff and policy makers in the UK and the Netherlands for an international panel discussion. Join on us on Wednesday 09 March 2022 at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht for an interactive panel discussion. The event will serve as an opening to the dialogue between Dutch […]

An evening on pacifist literature

Deutsche evangelische Kirche Den Haag Bleijenburg 3b, Den Haag

The Embassy of Austria in The Hague is presenting an evening on pacifist litertaure together with the Peace Palace, the Dutch-German society, and the International Joseph Roth Society. Three authors (Bertha von Suttner, Andreas Latzko and Józef Wittlin) will be discussed by experts on their writing. PROGRAMME: Jeroen Vervliet: Introduction Daria Bouwman on Bertha von […]

Performance: Zuidpool

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, Amsterdam

In the work of Maria Stepanova (1972), war means, even more than the struggle for power and land, the struggle for language. The stake of that struggle is its possession and control; and thus by extension the collective consciousness of a community that shares that language. She finds that her language, and with it her […]

€12 – €17