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the next 60 days, as the galleries announce themWednesday 7 October
An evening of piano music in the Concertgebouw, the famous 19th-century concert hall.
The zoo shows off its newly renovated historic aquarium building and diverse marine life.
A hands-on music-making session where children and beginners can experiment with unusual electronic and acoustic instruments.
Amateur and experienced performers take to the stage for an open-mic evening of personal tales, folklore, and spoken word.
Two pianists play romantic classics and neoclassical favourites in the Concertgebouw's Main Hall.
Amsterdam's outdoor ice rink in Watergraafsmeer, with its long speed-skating track, opens again for the season from 10 October.
Aardman's wordless clay-animated sheep (Shaun the Sheep in English) causes chaos on the farm again in this family screening, suitable from age six.
Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire, with Peter Sellers in three roles, about generals who blunder their way into nuclear war.
The conductorless Dutch string orchestra performs with violinist Liza Ferschtman, under a title that recalls Janáček's string quartet 'Intimate Letters'.
A guided walking tour visiting the secluded courtyard almshouses tucked behind the streets of the Jordaan.
An outdoor nature workshop showing children how food travels from seed to plate through gardening and cooking activities.
A scripted and improvised sketch comedy show about life ruled by algorithms and technology, from Amsterdam's long-running English-language comedy theatre.
Mikhail Kalatozov's visually breathtaking 1964 Soviet-Cuban propaganda drama is celebrated for its virtuosic, long-take mobile camera work.
The Amsterdam string orchestra teams up with Dutch violinist Liza Ferschtman for a programme built around the theme of intimate letters.
The new project of Cameron Picton, former bassist and singer of the London experimental rock band black midi.
Drag queen Shae G'Day hosts a free night of drag at Lellebel, Amsterdam's long-running drag bar on Utrechtsestraat.
One of the Concertgebouw's free lunchtime concerts, this time marking Black Achievement Month, the October celebration of Black achievement in the Netherlands.
A children's workshop for Children's Book Week based on Het Muizenhuis, Karina Schaapman's picture books set in a hand-built mouse house.
The singer-songwriter from Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India plays gentle acoustic songs in Nyishi, Hindi and English.
My New Band Believe is the project of Cameron Picton, formerly of the London experimental rock band black midi. geo supports.
A theatrical piece exploring toxic masculinity and modern misogyny through the prism of online influencer Andrew Tate.
Organ and classical musicians give daytime performances beneath the vaulted ceiling of the historic canal-side church.
A hands-on craft session on colouring fabric with plant-based dyes made from flowers, leaves and other botanical materials.
The Dutch singer, known for her Dutch-language versions of Jacques Brel's songs, returns with another programme of his chansons.
Iranian-Dutch storyteller Sahand Sahebdivani, a founder of Mezrab, shares a storytelling show with Raphael Rodan.
The maritime museum's programme for Children's Book Week, the annual Dutch celebration of children's books held each October.
A daily happy hour at the hotel's Prins & Aap bar that introduces jenever, the Dutch juniper spirit that came before gin.
An evening about television culture, from the 1980s oil-dynasty soap Dallas to HBO's media-empire drama Succession.
Toddlers and preschoolers can burn off energy on the trampolines alongside a parent.
A wood-fired mobile sauna session set up for relaxation and community warming.
A performance at the Amsterdam University of the Arts; 'Een jihad van liefde' is also the title of Mohamed El Bachiri's memoir about losing his wife in the 2016 Brussels attacks.
A workshop series inviting musicians of all levels to play and improvise together.
A community kitchen evening serving Indonesian home-cooked food.
A relaxed introduction to watercolour painting for complete beginners, with wine, in a studio in the Jordaan.
A children's theatre performance designed for toddlers and young kids at the boutique puppet and story theatre.
For Kinderboekenweek, the authors of Welterusten Beertje / Goodnight Bear read it in Dutch and English, followed by free activities for children.
An English-language pub quiz at the Oedipus brewery in Noord, moved from its original September date.
The Dutch piano trio of Hannes Minnaar, Maria Milstein and Gideon den Herder plays Romantic chamber music alongside a work by Scottish composer James MacMillan.
An autumn boat trip through the waterways of the large park and woodland on Amsterdam's southern edge.
Audience seating for the recording of Eva Jinek's current affairs talkshow at De Hallen.
Taste Before You Waste, the Amsterdam food-rescue group, hosts a weekly communal meal cooked from surplus food saved from going to waste.
A show by De Warme Winkel, the Amsterdam theatre collective known for anarchic, playful and self-referential performances.
An English-language comedy show from Derek Mitchell, looking at Dutch habits and life in the Netherlands through an outsider's eyes.
A relaxed, neighbourly concert served with coffee and Dutch apple pie.
The title is Indonesian for 'young coconut'; the venue is a Zuidoost theatre known for community-rooted performances.
A hands-on class in mosaic, the craft of making images and patterns by setting small pieces of tile or glass into a surface.
A dance piece by the Serbian-born, Amsterdam-based choreographer Dunja Jocić, made with the dance company Orbita | Spellbound.
A concert by Evelyn Dupuy at the former church on the Weteringschans that is one of the city's main pop venues.
A dinner with philosophical discussion that uses Plato's allegory of the cave to think about robots and artificial intelligence.
A pub quiz-style bingo where songs are played and you mark off titles or artists on your card as you recognise them.
The Slovenian pianist and composer, based in Amsterdam and known for her spacious improvised jazz, plays an evening of solo piano.
A talk on narcissism: how it works, how to recognise it and how it affects the people around a narcissist.
Aardman's stop-motion sheep returns in a family film screened in the run-up to Halloween.
A storytime for children aged two and up, with stories read aloud and brought to life with music by a performer called the TofProf.
An activity for children about learning from nature and turning into a shape-shifting ninja, run by the children's programme at the OCCII squat venue.
Tales from the Magical Garden is a gentle stop-motion film in which three siblings make up stories with their grandfather after their grandmother dies. Suitable from age six.
A try-out night where comedians test new material in front of an audience, with doors opening at 19:30.
Despite the Amsterdam name, this tasting tour is held in Zaandam, the town just north-west of the city known for its green wooden Zaan houses.
A hands-on workshop where you make your own skincare and personal care products from natural ingredients.
A guided tour of the museum's storage depot, showing parts of the collection that are not on display; it is listed as sold out.
A free performance of Edmond Rostand's 1897 classic about the eloquent Cyrano, who writes love letters to Roxane for his handsome but tongue-tied friend Christian.
An open session at the library for tabletop gaming, which can include board games, role-playing adventures and painting miniature figures.
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A band that mixes indie pop, pop rock and soft rock.
Supermercator's film night shows Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960 film L'Avventura, in which a woman vanishes on a Mediterranean island and her friends search for her.
The 17th-century church on the Eastern Islands opens its doors to visitors as part of a programme of special buildings open to the public.
A community life drawing session where you draw from a live nude model, usually without an instructor, so all levels are welcome.
A monthly neighborhood flea market offering pre-owned clothes, homeware, and bric-a-brac.
Freshly cooked Surinamese home-style meals served to local residents at a community dinner table.
An informal morning meet-up for people wanting to practice and improve their conversational Dutch.
A retrospective examining the Austrian director known for his unflinching, controversial docudramas exploring the darker fringes of European society.
Children aged 8 to 12 write their own stories or poems and turn them into art at OBA Osdorp.
An open community workshop day where locals can use shared tools and get help with their DIY repair or craft projects.
A student-led reading-aloud session designed to encourage a love of books and stories among young children.
An informal meetup for non-native speakers to practise everyday Dutch conversation over coffee.
An informal gathering spot with drinks and snacks next to the children's nature playground in Amsterdam-Noord.
A hands-on workshop exploring communication, postal history, and creative design.
An experimental choral performance exploring vocal harmonies and celestial, ambient soundscapes.
An interactive theatre piece about what happens when someone who thinks or lives very differently suddenly becomes your neighbour.
A casual squash evening open to players of every standard, organised by a Meetup group for people who want games and company rather than league play.
An evening of making collages by cutting up and gluing together magazines, paper and found images, usually with materials shared at the table.
A public discussion on how tourism could give more back to Amsterdam residents than it does today.
Midweek drinks near Vijzelgracht for expats and long-term residents who want to meet people and make friends.
An animated family film featuring a grumpy fish and a hyperactive sea dragon.
A community sewing workshop where visitors can work on textile projects, learn machine skills, and mend clothes.
Participants make their own scrubs, serums and deodorant from oils, butters and ordinary kitchen-cupboard ingredients.
A hands-on craft class in which you string beads into your own jewellery or decorative pieces.
Relaxed evenings of modern light-strategy board games in the Oostenburg neighbourhood room on the first and third Monday, with beginners welcome.
A morning of reading aloud for toddlers and their parents, based on the Howtotalk approach to talking with children.
Named after a Dutch nursery rhyme, this is a session for children aged two and up, with rhymes, songs and clapping games alongside a parent or carer.
An informal creative workshop where young children learn basic painting and drawing techniques using various art materials.
A meetup group plays Blood on the Clocktower, a social deduction game similar to Werewolf, where a storyteller leads players hunting for a hidden demon among them.
An evening of board games at a café where you can drop in, join a table and play with other people.
A games café, an informal evening of playing board and card games with whoever turns up.
A Dutch language lesson followed by an informal café session where learners practise speaking Dutch.
A Brazilian drummer leads his own band, which most likely draws on Brazilian rhythms and jazz.
A Dutch family film in which the Pieten have to save Pakjesavond, the Sinterklaas present night, after a huge snowstorm brings the country to a halt.
A read-aloud session for children aged five and up, combined with a creative activity based on the story.
A gong bath is a sound meditation in which participants lie down while gongs are played around them; this one focuses on balancing the chakras.
A relaxed, queer-friendly evening of making things, with no rules or expectations, as a break from busy everyday life.
A quieter evening in a living-room-style café, for people who find ordinary bars too loud and busy and would like to meet new people.
A relaxed creative session that combines painting on canvas with conversation, hosted by the hotel together with the NOCKNOCK studio.
Dutch stand-up comedian Nienke Plas performs a show whose title is Dutch slang for 'a piece of cake'.
Two comedians share the bill for a stand-up show whose title means 'double'.
An introductory evening on the Embassy's Ritman Library, the collection of hermetic, mystical and esoteric books housed in this Keizersgracht canal house.
An open jam session at Amstelveen's pop venue, where musicians can bring their instruments and join in.
The Dutch novelist and columnist Alma Mathijsen performs spoken word at the musician-run venue.
A story hour for young children, with books read aloud at the neighbourhood second-hand shop.
Volunteers help with planting at De Ceuvel, a creative site on a former shipyard where plants are being used to clean the polluted soil.
A shared neighbourhood dinner where local residents eat together at this community centre in Slotermeer.
A look at what freedom means now that cities are growing denser, after decades in which the car stood for independence and access.
An open stage where amateur and professional musicians take turns playing chamber music, from duos to small ensembles, for an informal audience.
A discussion on how to make the city's buildings and public spaces truly accessible to everyone.
An informal shared brunch where people from the community meet over food.
A library session for children aged six and up that uses games and play to encourage reading.
A series of workshops at Biko where you gather and share personal stories about life in Amsterdam Oost.
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An exhibition at the historic artists' society on the Rokin, with a Dutch title that roughly means 'tree beings'.
The title means 'The Metabolism of Loss', which points to work about how grief and loss are absorbed and processed over time.
A relaxed drop-in session where you make something with your hands alongside other creative people, with no pressure to produce anything finished.
A chance to meet the Dutch illustrator and children's author Milja Praagman, whose picture books include Heel de wereld.
A stage show at the Leidseplein theatre, whose programme mixes cabaret, comedy, musicals and drama.
An energetic weekly dance class teaching street dance basics to children aged seven to ten.
An introductory dance and rhythm class tailored for young children aged four to six.
A playful movement and dance session designed for toddlers aged two to four.
An affordable, weekly changing plant-based lunch served in the cultural centre's relaxed café.
A social crafting meetup for people in Amsterdam South who want to meet new people while making things together.
Participants bring old family photographs and embellish them with decorative embroidery stitches.
A regular club gathering to play matches on traditional Dutch shuffleboards.
An informal evening dedicated to playing tabletop and board games over drinks.
TMARO brings a roots- and rhythm-focused live set to the small Cinetol club as part of a 2026 tour.
A free, informal meetup for practising spoken English, building confidence and meeting new people.
A group work session where people bring laptops, put their phones away and focus quietly together, here at the bar of the Eye Filmmuseum.
A stage show at Amstelveen's municipal theatre whose title plays on the English phrase for gibberish and the skipping-rope game.
A lecture examining the Canon of the Netherlands, the official list of key topics in Dutch history, and asking who decides what counts as history.
A night at the Oud-West bar and small venue known for indie, punk, experimental gigs and cult film screenings.
A theatre performance whose Arabic subtitle means roughly "are you at ease?", staged at Frascati, which presents new and emerging theatre makers.
A live radio show combined with an open philosophical conversation.
A monthly shared meal at the Keizersgrachtkerk, where people from the neighbourhood and congregation eat together.
A pink-themed group 5km run with bootcamp exercises, organised with the Run2Day running shop.
A joint night between Doka's own culture programme and Muziekkring, mixing the two groups' music programmes.
An exhibition sharing community stories, recycled treasures and sustainable making from the neighbourhood hub.
A guided mindfulness session at the local library, with simple meditation and attention exercises for reducing stress.
A drop-in session where visitors can bring questions about local or family history and get help looking into the past.
A presentation of work by Farah Coppola, open until 30 October.
Two acts share the bill on a joint tour, at a cultural venue in a former cinema on the Tolstraat.
A drop-in session where you can bring questions, photos or family stories about the history of Amsterdam-Oost to the neighbourhood library.
Dutch horn player and scholar Herman Jeurissen teaches a horn masterclass at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and also presents a book.
An anniversary party celebrating PACT+, marking its milestone with a festive gathering at PACT Amsterdam.
Drop-in hours with the Belastingwinkel, a free advice service that helps residents with tax returns, benefits and letters from the tax office.
A theatre performance at Frascati, the Nes theatre that presents work by new and emerging makers.
A theatre show at Diemen's riverside theatre, named for a couple's planned evening out together.
A programme of cultural activities from the Cultuurbouwers initiative at Post Oost, the neighbourhood community centre in a former post office.
A guided meditation session at the library, focused on breathing, attention and relaxation.
A story-reading session for children aged five and up at the library.
A group conversation over high tea about following your own dreams, the choices along the way, and daring to be truly visible.
A guided session for singles, built around facilitated exercises meant to encourage more honest and playful connection. Booking is free, but confirming a place costs $59.
A Dutch class for highly educated newcomers that combines the Duolingo app with Nederlands in Gang, a well-known Dutch textbook for fast learners.
A quiet café at billiard café Hermes on Ceintuurbaan where people can meet and play games without shouting over the noise.
An anniversary event marking 25 years of Pact+.
Team Laika play a live show at Scala; the listing gives no further detail about the act.
A session for partners and others close to someone with dementia, about small practical ways to keep everyday life pleasant.
A regular weekly yoga class led by Claudia.
A shared reading group where a story or poem is read aloud together, then discussed informally by the group.
An evening built around the spritz, the Italian aperitivo usually made with prosecco, a bitter liqueur and soda.
A martial arts class introducing defensive techniques and discipline for children aged eight to ten.
A community walking club setting out across Amsterdam-Noord with both brisk and leisurely pace groups.
A free neighbourhood fitness and gentle exercise class for women looking to stay active and meet others.
An informal drop-in gathering offering coffee, conversation, and a warm community welcome.
A club where participants read a book aloud together and talk about it, often used by people practising their Dutch.
An outdoor fitness session tailored for older adults looking to build strength, mobility, and stamina.
An informal morning gathering for locals to drop in for a free cup of coffee and conversation.
An accessible yoga session led by Fabio, focusing on stretching, breath, and relaxation.
French speakers and learners gather for an informal conversational practice session.
The second session of Klik & Tik, a basic course for people with little or no experience of using a computer or the internet.
A casual neighbourhood social with tea, coffee, and open conversation in the local social centre.
A quiet drop-in session for children and learners to choose a book from the shelves and practice reading.
An informal after-work drinks evening for people in marketing, run by the Amsterdam networking group better known for its breakfast meetings.
A weekly community gathering focusing on neurodiversity, co-regulation, and mental health through guided shared exercises.
The Marketing Breakfast Club Amsterdam's monthly after-work drinks for marketing professionals, held at Café de Geit on Wolvenstraat.
A local librarian reads illustrated children's stories aloud during an informal drop-in session for young kids and parents.
A read-aloud session for children aged two and up, built around the picture book 'Welterusten beertje' (Goodnight, Little Bear).
A concert in Paradiso's smaller upstairs hall.
A slow yoga class in which poses are held for several minutes, at the museum and library of mystical and hermetic texts in the Huis met de Hoofden.
The second session of a beginners' course covering the basics of Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel and Outlook.
A peaceful, guided mindfulness walk focusing on sensory awareness, breathing, and experiencing nature at an unhurried pace.
A casual gathering for freelancers, remote workers, and students to work alongside one another inside the central public library.
A community gathering hosted by Woonruimte Coöperatief, a cooperative housing initiative.
An outdoor community fitness session offering low-impact group exercise routines suitable for local residents of all fitness levels.
An evening in De Kring's in-house programme at the long-running members' club for artists and creative professionals.
The launch of a book whose title translates as 1000 Days, 1000 Questions, held at an independent neighbourhood bookshop.
Local volunteers gather to cultivate vegetables, share gardening knowledge, and support community food production in the park.
A regular get-together for people living with dementia, their families and carers, with a talk on a theme and time for conversation.
The title presumably refers to 7 October 2023, the date of the Hamas-led attack on Israel; the listing gives no further detail.
A weekly group fitness class focusing on core strength, flexibility, and controlled breathing.
An advanced Afro-dance rehearsal group open by invitation to experienced dancers aged sixteen and over.
An informational exhibition from the Dutch central bank on the development, function, and privacy aspects of a European digital currency.
A casual Wednesday afternoon drop-in for neighbourhood residents to stop by for tea, coffee, and a chat.
A political education session examining the uprisings, political dynamics, and aftershocks of the 2011 Arab Spring.
A monthly drop-in session at the city archives on open government, which means more than just sharing documents, held first Wednesdays from 10.00 to 12.30.
A weekly social knitting circle where neighbours bring their current needlework projects to craft and chat together.
A mobile outreach bus visits local schools during Safety Week to host discussions with teenagers.
A fully booked makerspace session exploring 3D modeling and digital fabrication.
The landmark survey brings together the Japanese artist's signature polka dots, Infinity Mirror Rooms, and monumental soft sculptures.
Around 80 works lent by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including Matisse's La Blouse roumaine, shown alongside paintings by Rothko, Picasso and Barnett Newman.
The annual showcase of the world's most compelling award-winning photojournalism and documentary photography returns to Amsterdam.
The monthly open-air design market brings makers, artists and food stalls to the museum lawns.
A month of family activities at the national museum, including Story Rescuers, a new family quest that sends visitors on a secret mission through the collection.
An interactive science and technology exhibition focusing on the history, physics, and programming behind video games.
A free guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition, the annual showcase of the year's prizewinning photojournalism, on until 25 October.
Stalls selling artisanal produce, hot food and handmade goods rotate through the city's parks on Sundays.
The science museum's hands-on floor lets visitors experiment with everyday engineering, household technology, and clean energy.
A major retrospective by the renowned photographer known for monumental landscapes, portraits and atmospheric explorations of human impact.
Over 150 monumental street art murals, painted on-site by international artists, fill a former shipyard warehouse.
Citywide arts festival staging performances, tours, and special events across various participating Amsterdam museums.
An exhibition showing the commercial textile patterns, garments, and decorative fabrics designed by the pop artist in the 1950s and 1960s.
An exhibition on Henri Matisse, the French painter known for his bold colour, his Fauvist work and his late paper cut-outs.
Hands-on workshops, games, and maritime activities designed for children and families.
A digital projection show rendering the Dutch master's fantastically detailed depictions of heaven, hell and sin into large-scale animations.
An exhibition for children featuring the intricate, detail-rich illustrations of Dutch picture-book maker Charlotte Dematons.
An animated digital installation bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novella and its philosophical meditations on life to light.
Dance event pioneers ID&T present a sensory labyrinth of light, sound, and interactive technology in the Elementenstraat warehouse.
The exhibition explores the pop artist's commercial textile designs from the 1950s and 1960s, printed with novelty patterns and playful motifs.
This edition honours Lou Lichtveld, also known as Albert Helman, a Dutch-Surinamese writer, composer, organist, politician and resistance fighter.
Local independent makers, designers, and craftspeople sell handmade wares inside the former tram depot.
Direct conversations and oral histories shared with survivors of the Holocaust.
The festival organisers stage a walkthrough experience using lasers, lights, and electronic soundscapes across several rooms.
Original stencils, screen prints, and authenticated indoor works by the elusive Bristol street artist are on permanent display.
The national museum displays textiles, costumes, and everyday garments highlighting traces of wear and historical repairs.
Sinfonia Rotterdam plays well-known hits live while 180-degree projected visuals surround the audience.
The painter's former home displays etching and drawing techniques to show how Rembrandt pushed the boundaries of his craft.
The photographer presents vivid, stylised portraits celebrating the fashion and contemporary identity of people from Xinjiang.
The contemporary Spanish-Dutch painter presents new works in dialogue with Francisco de Goya's iconic etchings, Los Disparates.
Alan J. Pakula's 1976 Watergate drama, with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as reporters Woodward and Bernstein, shown in a 4K restoration.
STRAAT explores the fundamental visual elements of graffiti culture, from lettering and tags to rhythm and line work.
Morning yoga session held surrounded by Vincent van Gogh's masterworks.
A family exhibition exploring magic, illusions and ritual in Jewish culture and folklore.
A 4K restoration of Studio Ghibli's 2010 animated film, adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, about a tiny girl living secretly beneath the floorboards of a house.
An immersive digital experience that recreates the streets and canals of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
A practical painting and drawing class focused on composition, colour and expressive brushwork inspired by Vincent van Gogh.
Visitors walk together through a virtual reconstruction of 17th-century Amsterdam, choosing their own route and seeing everyday life of the time; part of History Month.
Sculptures by the Dutch modernist, known for his stark geometric forms in steel, leather, and found materials, are installed across the museum's open-air grounds.
A free 2.1 km walk through the centre past 34 sculptures by 64 artists, all carved from felled Amsterdam city trees, with a public vote for a favourite.
Outdoor art route placing site-specific sculptures and installations along the walking paths of the Amsterdamse Bos.
A family-friendly interactive exhibition exploring mythology, nature, and the symbolic wisdom of ravens across different world cultures.
A behind-the-scenes guided tour through the costume departments, stages, and rehearsal halls of the opera house.
Crate-digging market inside the covered passage of De Hallen, featuring independent record vendors selling vinyl across multiple genres.
Daniel Szalai presents 166 hens of the Novogen breed, a commercial egg-laying hen, as 166 individuals, at Droog's space on Staalstraat.
Outdoor cooking activities for children using fresh produce harvested directly from the site.
October is the national History Month, with history outings for children across the country, including a dark church, the Boevenbus and the Romans.
A chance to explore Muiden, the small fortified town east of Amsterdam with star-shaped ramparts and the medieval Muiderslot castle.
A holiday workshop where a child aged seven or over and an adult make their own piece of electronic music together.
The private museum showcases street works, prints, and stencils by the elusive British artist.
Learn the fundamentals of silkscreening and print your own custom design onto t-shirts in this hands-on studio session.
Visitors on the fortress island can observe licensed ornithologists capturing, measuring, and banding wild birds for ongoing scientific research.
A brief, family-friendly Dutch-language opera performance staged on the platform of an Amsterdam metro station.
The idiosyncratic Dutch jazz guitarist and composer plays an intimate set in the historic former stock exchange.
An exhibition marking the city's 750th anniversary, tracing Amsterdam's history through key moments and archival records.
A broad survey of modern and contemporary art, design, and photography from the museum's permanent holdings.
Illusionist Rico Weeland stages an intimate evening of magic, mentalism, and storytelling.
Interactive light and digital installations invite visitors into responsive, mirror-filled rooms.
The presentation examines clothing from 1640 to 1930 that bears physical signs of wear, tailoring, mending, and daily life.
An outdoor and community exhibition presented in collaboration with Middle East Archive, a digital platform documenting everyday life and visual culture across the region.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the concert hall's architecture and acoustics before attending the free midday performance.
A retrospective dedicated to the influential Indonesian-Dutch industrial and interior designer best known for designing Schiphol Airport's original interiors.
Heather Lenz's 2018 documentary traces the life and career of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, from conservative post-war Japan to global contemporary stardom.
DJs play deep house and electronic sets on the twentieth floor of the A'DAM Tower overlooking the city.
Drawing in the Royal Palace on Dam Square as part of October drawing month, inside Jacob van Campen's 17th-century former city hall.
An exhibition celebrating early trailblazers and foundational works in digital and video installation art.
An exhibition tracing decades of LGBTQIA+ community life, activism, pride celebrations, and resilience across Amsterdam.
The Anglo-French comedian, known for her online videos about cultural differences, looks at her mother's life choices in a new stand-up show.
An outdoor photography exhibition in Amsterdam West presented by Foam and the digital storytelling platform Middle East Archive.
The exhibition examines the global supply chains of cocoa, sugar, and palm oil behind the beloved Dutch breakfast staple.
Sightseeing boats navigate the moat and outer waterways surrounding the star-shaped fortress town.
An urban nature event exploring the wildlife that shares the city, including how animals adapt to winter.
An exhibition featuring the Congolese artists' cooperative CATPC, exploring post-colonial ecology, labour, and restitution.
A guided tasting session exploring the culinary customs and flavours of the Dutch Renaissance in the castle grounds.
The contemporary art museum's basement level hosts large-scale room projections, light works, and screen-based installations.
A three-part performance that joins Portuguese fado song with Kathak, the classical North Indian storytelling dance.
The acclaimed Dutch children's book illustrator exhibits her intricately detailed drawings.
The French electronic world music project known for 1990s hits like 'Sweet Lullaby', which won a Grammy for the album 'Boheme'.
Organist Ere Lievonen and flautist Raymond Honing explore the Fokker organ, whose 31-tone tuning opens up sounds beyond conventional keyboards.
Sightseeing boat cruises along the scenic Vecht river past historic estates and tea houses.
Historical reenactors demonstrate traditional musket-firing and military drills inside the Naarden fortress museum.
Exhibition dedicated to the people, history, and traditions of Amsterdam's landmark seventeenth-century Portuguese Synagogue.
Ornithologists demonstrate the process of catching, ringing, and releasing migratory birds stopping over on the fortress island.
A hands-on workshop in cutting and spraying stencils, a classic street art technique, at the street art museum in NDSM.
American photographer Norman Gershman's portraits of Albanian Muslims who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust, honouring besa, a traditional promise of protection.
Forest biologist Nico leads a guided nature walk through the Amsterdamse Bos.
A three-day workshop where you make your own pair of jeans, from pattern to cutting to sewing, guided by House of Denim's master tailor.
The American artist examines identity, gender, and celebrity culture through self-portraiture that mimics glossy fashion shoots and consumer advertising.
A solo show by the Amsterdam painter known for large, vivid canvases about Black identity and life in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
A weekend of activities exploring how sound, colour and taste cross over in sensory perception.
Toddlers and young children get free-jumping access to the trampolines during a session tailored for little ones.
The exhibition highlights textile designs and fabric works created by artists linked to the mid-century avant-garde Cobra movement.
A hands-on leatherwork workshop where you cut, stitch and finish a leather bag of your own to take home.
Wednesday creative workshops for children aged five and up, run by Motherhood Amsterdam until 16 December.
A hands-on workshop guiding participants through traditional cold-process soapmaking using natural ingredients.
The Dutch sisters behind De Sekszusjes use a game-show format to discuss sex, challenge myths and share practical information.
A dedicated cinema programme spotlighting seminal films from the 1990s.
A retrospective examining the turbulent life and intensely emotional, colourful paintings of the Dutch modern expressionist.
A hands-on workshop introducing the textiles, dressing traditions and etiquette of the Japanese kimono.
Al Nisa (Arabic for 'the women') is a photography exhibition with Foam, based on Middle East Archive's latest publication.
Akim Moiseenkov creates imaginative concerts designed to engage both children and adults.
An exhibition of outsider art, meaning work by self-taught artists outside the art world, many of whom have experience of psychiatric care.
Audio stops created for the museum's Body Stories research programme, which you can listen to in the Rijksmuseum app as part of History Month.
An indoor jump session on connected trampolines and obstacle courses.
Professional artists set up stalls on the Spui square every Sunday to sell paintings, prints, and ceramics directly to passersby.
A guided bicycle ride along city canals and neighbourhood streets covering local history and architecture.
Graduating second-year resident artists from the prestigious post-academic institute exhibit their work in the historic Ateliers building.
An interactive photo exhibition for the Month of History that sets the past of the fortress island Pampus alongside its present.
Showcase spotlighting cutting-edge graduate collections from the Netherlands' top fashion academy alumni.
An interactive, multi-sensory tour of the museum designed specifically for blind and visually impaired visitors.
An exhibition at STRAAT, the large street art and graffiti museum in a former shipyard warehouse on the NDSM wharf in Noord.
Guests share family-style platters prepared with local and sustainable produce at this countryside restaurant venue.
The museum investigates the origins, artist, and identity of the sitter in an enigmatic Golden Age portrait.
A small-group salon boat tour departs from the five-star hotel along the Amstel river.
Kijk maar eens goed! shows work by Charlotte Dematons, the illustrator known for detailed picture books like The Yellow Balloon that reward close looking.
An exhibition exploring the closely entwined life, thoughts, and literary oeuvre of Franz Kafka.
Turkish actors Şevket Çoruh and İlker Ayrık in a comedy about two actors trying to stage Hamlet with little more than a few planks.
Display of the freshly conserved sixteenth-century altarpiece depicting the descent from the cross in the attic church.
A hands-on ceramics class teaching throwing and shaping clay on the potter's wheel.
The Dutch fashion photographer presents two decades of imagery documenting the standout graduation show for rising designers.
Large-scale sculptures by the influential Dutch constructivist and modernist are placed throughout the museum's outdoor grounds.
Instructors teach basic clay shaping and texturing techniques to help you sculpt an object, figure, or abstract form.
An informal board game meetup designed to help Dutch language learners practice their speaking skills while playing games.
A free language workshop and informal café where learners practice spoken Dutch together in a relaxed setting.
An exhibition exploring the realities of independence struggles across Africa, Suriname, and the Caribbean.
An introductory walkthrough of the photography museum's current exhibitions led by an in-house guide.
An informal conversation circle where Dutch learners of all levels chat over coffee to build their everyday speaking confidence.
Practice Dutch, English, Spanish, and other languages over drinks in an informal mixer.
Musician Iris Oltheten introduces young children to rhythm, singing, and instruments through play.
An exhibition exploring the complex debates, ethics and practices surrounding the restitution of colonial-era heritage items.
A thematic walkthrough exploring the collection and modern art history through LGBTQIA+ perspectives.
Taxidermy duo Sinke & Van Tongeren present their theatrical, Old Master-inspired arrangements of exotic preserved birds and animals.
Comedian Rami Nima hosts an evening of stand-up comedy featuring up-and-coming and established acts.
The French string quartet, celebrated for their Russian repertoire, performs works by Weinberg, Prokofiev, and Beethoven.
As part of the Month of History, the fortress island in the IJmeer looks at how weeks of isolated island life affected the body and mind of the people stationed there.
The museum displays patterned skirts and wearable textiles designed by key painters and sculptors of the post-war CoBrA movement.
The celebrated British tenor and his longtime collaborative pianist perform nineteenth-century lieder by Wolf and Schubert.
A hands-on craft session covering the practical techniques, ingredients, and chemistry needed to create natural bar soaps.
An open-air secondhand market selling pre-loved clothes, homeware, and garden finds.
Folk, a piece by choreographer Dunja Jocic for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, a contemporary dance company from Rome.
An exhibition named after hagelslag, the chocolate sprinkles the Dutch eat on bread, built around the idea of building a new world together.
A craft class on upcycling, which means turning old or discarded materials into new and useful objects.
A queer club night focused on upbeat pop tracks and electronic dance anthems in the Houthavens.
Children aged eight and up can explore coniferous tree species from around the globe across the botanical garden.
The Dutch alto saxophonist, known for the New Cool Collective and his own groups, plays jazz at the private arts club on Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen.
Interactive play and sensory learning activities designed for young children.
The documentary follows Dutch-Caribbean artists who use dominoes as a way to think about life; the evening also includes a game of dominoes.
An architectural model exhibition exploring the extensive future urban development plans for Amsterdam's northern docklands.
A storytelling show with music about where polarisation comes from and the strength of brotherhood between friends who choose each other.
The Viennese indie band, fronted by Sophie Lindinger, plays raw-guitar songs that move between grunge, post-punk and pop.
A vocal group from the Dutch TV talent show One & Only, where they finished third after covering Miguel's 'Sure Thing' and Tevin Campbell's 'Can We Talk'.
Composer Kate Moore turns ideas about landscape and long-distance walking into contemporary music, performed here with Herz Ensemble.
A group exhibition of fifteen emerging artists from Belgium who explore home and community through art, rituals and spirituality.
The city's largest city farm, in Westerpark, which has recently gone through a lot of changes and renovation.
An exhibition exploring gender transformation, performance, and shifting bodily identity through archaeological artefacts and contemporary culture.
An interactive exhibition space exploring archaeological discovery, material culture, and how finds are catalogued.
A guided behind-the-scenes tour of the striking modern concert hall on the IJ waterfront.
Self-taught pianist Sem Kramer, who can't read music and improvises everything between classical and jazz, celebrates his birthday and the release of The Flow, Vol. 1.
Ceramicist Anita Kluge leads a hands-on clay modelling workshop blending craft and storytelling.
A pop-up preview of outsider art: work by self-taught makers outside the official art world, often people with experience of psychiatric illness.
The Texas psychedelic band started out with psych-pop and moved towards trippier, more experimental sounds, but its DIY roots still show.
Exhibition of photography by the Dutch-Uruguayan artist known for her portraits exploring gender, identity, and memory.
The visual artist presents installations and performances reflecting on post-colonial history, identity and Caribbean heritage.
An interactive audio-visual walking tour around Amsterdam East designed for children aged seven and up.
The South African artist Wim Botha, known for sculptures carved from stacked books, wood and other unlikely materials, shows at Stevenson's Amsterdam space.
Two free Waternet audio tours, one through the city centre and one through the Amsterdam Waterleidingduinen dunes, tell the history behind a glass of tap water.
An annual festival in Maastricht that presents a selection of the year's Dutch dance productions.
A self-guided walking route detailing maritime history and architectural landmarks around the Oosterdok docklands.
Part of NDSM's XPO exhibition series, this show uses the selfie to explore identity, connection and community.
Photography exhibition exploring personal reflections, tributes, and diverse cultural perspectives on mortality.
A creative workshop designed to introduce young children to looking at and making art.
An exhibition at the museum of funeral culture exploring the relationship between traffic, transit and mortality.
A guided tour open to all of the Stadsschouwburg, the city theatre on the Leidseplein that dates from the 1890s.
A festival exploring how tourism can help make the city more liveable, inclusive and future-proof.
An exhibition exploring the intersection of Lutheran faith, openness, and queer community history in Amsterdam.
The first listed work, Manu Mpasi’s “Le Monologue de l’Aube,” reflects on living between different worlds as part of a three-work performance bill.
Hands-on clay modelling workshop guiding participants through basic sculpting and shaping techniques.
A temporary display exploring how the Dutch look for love, companionship, and connection through historical and modern media.
An exhibition on the Liga Nieuw Beelden, the 1950s Dutch association that brought abstract art, architecture and design together, held in sculptor André Volten's former studio.
An architectural look at Haven-Stad, Amsterdam’s developing port-city district, which could eventually add up to 70,000 homes.
An evening devoted to fresh oysters and paired drinks at the hotel's bar.
A monthly dance afternoon on the last Sunday, with swing classics and familiar Dutch and international favourites for anyone who likes to dance.
The University of Amsterdam’s archaeology museum displays ancient glassware from Roman, Egyptian, and Mediterranean collections.
A guided walk from the historic Red Light District house highlighting influential women in the city's social history.
Explore the striking Amsterdam School architecture of the historic shipping headquarters, now a luxury hotel, during this regular Sunday package.
A bock beer tour, tasting the dark, malty seasonal beers that appear in Dutch bars every autumn.
The Dutch designer displays playful sculptures and everyday design objects repurposed from obsolete collectables and materials.
Gunther von Hagens's exhibition of plastinated human bodies, focusing on the anatomical science of happiness and wellbeing.
The Dutch-Brazilian net artist, known for using websites as canvases, presents his book-based and printed projects.
Nine contemporary artists of Moluccan descent examine their roots, shared heritage and cultural identity through varied media.
A showcase celebrating contemporary creative voices and heritage across the Moluccan diaspora in the Netherlands.
An exhibition exploring the movement, culture and sensory experience of swimming through contemporary art.
The Dutch textile artist is internationally acclaimed for her tactile wool felt works dyed with heritage plants she cultivates herself.
Photographer Tomás Mauro presents a participatory project connecting strangers through portraits and written notes.
An exhibition exploring the history and lived experiences of the Moluccan community in Amsterdam seventy-five years after their arrival in the Netherlands.
An open-air photography exhibition displayed along the boulevard at the Sloterplas.
A discussion exploring themes of identity, displacement, and community.
The university heritage museum displays ancient glassware alongside recent research into classical glassmaking techniques.
A group presentation featuring work by established names of modern and street-influenced art.
The museum surveys the intense, psychological canvases and watercolours of the Dutch Expressionist painter.
The renowned South African visual activist presents photographic portraits documenting Black LGBTQIA+ communities.
A retrospective survey dedicated to the Dutch artist best known for his minimalist wire sculptures, drawings, and luminous cityscape silhouettes.
The Vienna-born, Dubai-raised singer-songwriter performs his emotional, classically influenced pop.
A guided physical movement workshop connecting participants to the natural environment of the Sloterplas lake.
Experimental ensemble Jam With Humans stages an evening of interactive music and improvisation inside an independent bookshop.
The emerging photographer presents work examining memory, personal archives and unseen perspectives of family life.
An open creative studio session where you choose a medium and work at your own pace with hands-on materials.
A retrospective examining the foundational 1970s and 80s work of the seminal Dutch video-art distribution and research platform.
An immersive digital light and projection experience that surrounds visitors with life-sized prehistoric creatures in their ancient habitats.
Artist Miquel Hervás Gómez leads a hands-on workshop transforming publication waste into fresh handmade sheets of paper.
The Dutch pioneer of internet art presents digital works examining how computational materials interact with physical space.
Portraits and personal histories chronicling the community surrounding Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue.
A personal storytelling session recounting experiences and legacies connected to the Holocaust.
An outdoor sculpture garden exhibiting contemporary three-dimensional artworks amidst landscaped grounds.
Artists in the NDSM shipyard explore self-portraiture, digital image manipulation, and narcissism in modern culture.
Practical studio session introducing ceramic glazing techniques, finishes, and colour application for pottery.
Named after Baudrillard's phrase about simulation, later quoted in The Matrix, at the Amsterdam centre for debate, film and culture.
Textile artist Claudy Jongstra pairs her signature felted, raw wool pieces with works by guest artists exploring sustainable material processes.
A karaoke night at CREA, the University of Amsterdam's cultural centre, where anyone can take the mic and sing.
The exhibition examines how artists assemble cut paper, found imagery, and photographs to build composite visual narratives.
An open jam session where musicians bring their instruments and join in on stage, at the Leidseplein rock and blues bar.
A guided architectural tour of Jan Duiker's iconic modernist sanatorium complex in Hilversum.
Guided tours exploring the city archives and the monumental 1920s architecture of the former bank building on Vijzelstraat.
A guided walking and sketching excursion exploring the surrounding streets with drawing materials in hand.
A tactile scale model allows visitors to experience the architecture of the waterfront and the Arcam building through touch.
A community creative making session hosted at the contemporary art space in Amsterdam-Noord.
An interactive photography exhibition in which visitors take part rather than only look at the pictures.
A performance about how traditions in Suriname’s Maroon communities continue to change over time.
The South African sister duo play loud, confrontational punk rock at the Lijnbaansgracht blues bar.
An exhibition showcasing contemporary visual art and cross-disciplinary projects from the Low Countries.
The weekly queer night at this long-running squat bar has no people's kitchen dinner this time, and a WTF meeting takes its place.
Contemporary artists explore selfhood and belonging in a collaborative group exhibition.
A walking trail themed around animals, aimed at children and families.
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An exhibition on how nature and culture relate, at the stacked-container art space on the former NDSM shipyard in Noord, running until 11 October.
An exhibition dedicated to the mid-century rescue and reconstruction of historic wooden windmills and houses along the Zaan.
A library display of plates and food stories from people in Nieuw-West, showing the cooking traditions found across the neighbourhood.
The trio Bammetje Drie plays a late-night mix of punk rock, funk and ska, with stories about Amsterdam life, at the blues bar.
Retrospective covering the long career of the celebrated Haarlem painter known for his atmospheric still lifes and studio interiors.
The celebrated Dutch sculptor shows expressive works crafted from handblown glass, textile, and ceramics.
An exhibition by Dina Danish, the Cairo-born, Amsterdam-based artist whose playful work deals with language, translation and misunderstanding.
During Accessibility Week the museum focuses on making its building and stories easier to reach for visitors with disabilities.
An exhibition at Droog, the Dutch design label known for conceptual, witty takes on everyday objects.
A programme at the Amsterdam centre for debate, film and journalism, which usually pairs a screening or presentation with discussion.
An exhibition at the museum of Lutheran history exploring the heritage and resilience of the queer community.
An interdisciplinary afternoon exploring art publications and cinema at the canal-house art space.
Interactive community project exchanging handwritten postcards with library visitors to explore social connections.
Participants in a four-day training demonstrate and playtest prototype serious games designed to explore urban planning and civic challenges.
An exhibition of work by the artist Tycho at the museum devoted to the history of Amsterdam's canal ring.
A showcase exploring micro-housing, modular design, and efficient urban living solutions at Haarlem's architecture centre.
A visual arts exhibition spotlighting local creative talent and community stories.
A performance by Dizzi Geetha, a queer Sri Lankan artist living in the Netherlands who works as a theatre maker, composer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ.
The Dutch painter and illustrator displays works celebrating female bodies, desire, and bodily vulnerability through soft, vibrant color.
The Dutch artist, a co-founder of the Nul movement, is celebrated for his serial assemblages of found and discarded everyday objects.
An exhibition exploring life and permanence through printmaking and graphic arts.
Four young performers sing Dutch and French songs in an intimate cabaret-style concert.
An exhibition reflecting on family, memory loss, and grief at the national museum dedicated to funeral heritage.
An exhibition considering the intersection of natural ecology and human epochs at the NDSM-based art space.
A discussion of the choices and challenges involved in using district heating as a sustainable alternative to individual electric heat pumps.
The Dutch artist displays whimsical ceramic creatures and eccentric character sculptures.
The contemporary art gallery hosts an exhibition exploring myth, memory, and material culture.
A conversation about why people are eating less meat and dairy, from animal welfare and health to climate concerns and food.
Community repair event where volunteers help fix broken household appliances, clothing, electronics, and bicycles.
An evening built around the spritz, the Italian aperitivo cocktail of prosecco, bitter liqueur and soda.
A four-session series in which the same small group meets repeatedly to get to know each other.
View a private collection of paintings, sculptures, and etchings housed in a historic building beside the Munttoren.
A display of freestyle brushwork on Chinese rice paper, exploring dynamic floral forms and vivid color.
The Dutch-Uruguayan photographer shows portraits exploring identity, gender and cultural belonging in the museum's project space.
Take a self-guided 90-minute walking route exploring the history and architecture around the Oosterdok basin.
The Dutch fine art photographer presents contemplative black-and-white prints examining emotional resonance, ageing, and natural transition.
Part of the Oogstweken, a workday that opens with a walk, a story and time to notice the surroundings, as a way to reconnect with nature.
An exhibition exploring personal roots, collective memory, and future visions through contemporary art and research.
A photography and art exhibition exploring local urban stories and community life around the park and neighbourhood.
The improvising ensemble performs a live set blending free jazz and theatrical elements to launch their new record.
Borrowing Orwell's Animal Farm maxim, this group exhibition gathers contemporary work addressing power structures and human-nonhuman hierarchies.
The Copenhagen-based artist plays melancholic, collage-like pop pieces built from his 2024 debut on Posh Isolation.
French painter Lou Ros and South Korean artist Sanghyuk Kim present expressive mixed-media paintings and figurative works.
Drop-in guided tours offer a closer look at the Amstelveen museum's modern art collections.
Explore the long career of the Haarlem painter and watercolourist through works preserved from his studio on the Spaarne.
Marinka Reuten shows subtle, atmospheric works evoking dappled sunlight filtering through trees.
A live booking at Bourbon Street, the late-opening music bar off the Leidseplein that has bands on most nights, mainly blues, rock and soul.
A show at Scala, a combined food bar and small theatre in the Van Hallstraat, running until 9 October.
The Dutch ceramic artist displays his imaginative, brightly colored sculptural creatures.
Koentact opens its doors for free trial lessons, language level assessments, and an introduction to its teaching methods.
The German painter presents atmospheric, layered landscapes that blur the line between real wilderness and internal psychological spaces.
The gallery devoted to outsider, neurodivergent, and non-normative artists presents a collaborative mixed-media exhibition.
The Beijing-born visual artist and designer exhibits work engaging with physical exercise, discipline, and historical iconography.
Polish artist Mikołaj Sobczak presents work interrogating historical narratives, queer resistance, and national mythmaking.
The university gallery explores how artists and scientists interpret different dimensions of perception and truth.
A museum docent leads a walk through the photography exhibition highlighting young creative talent.
Lady Marmalade hosts an open-mic and spoken-word night inviting audiences to listen and speak up.
The veteran Dutch conceptual artist and biologist displays poetic works assembled from dried leaves, earth, and found natural elements.
The Dutch artist presents vividly coloured, apocalyptic drawings and paintings populated by sci-fi, occult, and cosmic imagery.
The Cuban artist presents conceptual work examining digital culture and alternative distribution networks outside formal online systems.
Pakistani contemporary artists Amra Khan, Naira Mushtaq, and Sehr Jalil show work questioning gender, ritual, and societal norms.
An exhibition exploring the design, social life, and evolution of public pavement space in post-war Amsterdam.
A group exhibition engaging with queer identity, memory and imagined futures in dialogue with the museum's historic religious setting.
The Dutch artist exhibits her monumental, intricately detailed charcoal drawings inspired by untamed nature and human psychology.
A preview of a show that uses live music, storytelling and poetry to portray Puglia as a small-scale picture of the Mediterranean.
A joint exhibition pairing Lou Ros's deconstructed figurative painting with Sanghyuk Kim's contemporary artistic practice.
MarxismNL's conference of talks and debates on Marxist politics, its title taken from Walter Benjamin's image of revolution as pulling the emergency brake.
A party night at DB55 going by the name STOMP.
The Dutch chamber group marks Valentine's Day with an intimate classical performance.
An audio-guided walking tour exploring the neighbourhood through women's voices, personal histories and urban memories.
The historic artists' society mounts a group exhibition centered on green themes, ecology, and nature.
A printmaking exhibition presented by the Grafein foundation showcasing diverse contemporary relief, intaglio, and screen-printing techniques.
An exhibition at the Verwey Museum, Haarlem's museum of the city's history and art, running until 25 October.
Joenoes Polnaija, Tara Hetharia and Jefta Tanate present Kelapa Muda, whose title is Malay for 'young coconut'.
Contemporary artists challenge the rigid botanical classification systems established by 18th-century taxonomist Carl Linnaeus.
A programme about rest and slowing down at W139, the long-running artist-run space on the Warmoesstraat.
Leo Vroegindeweij and Ruth Meijer present sculpture and painting exploring form, memory, and perspective along the canal.
A historical exhibition or walking route dedicated to the Weesp cocoa manufacturer and innovator C.J. van Houten.
A performance at Frascati, the Amsterdam stage for experimental theatre and dance by younger makers.
A historical presentation tracing traditional women's clothing, headwear, and customs of Volendam.
The opening of a new exhibition of work by artist Daniel Jacoby.
The Dutch co-founder of the Nul movement displays his signature assemblages made from discarded mass-produced everyday objects.
The Dutch artist shows her large-scale, intricate charcoal drawings exploring the intersections of lush vegetation and urban human presence.
Annemarie Libbers facilitates an intimate creative writing and lyrical composition session.
The Dutch sculptor shows new geometric, spatial works fashioned from industrial iron and steel.
The Croatian contemporary artist re-examines modernist heritage, institutional memory, and collective history through painting and display structures.
A visual art exhibition exploring botanical forms and verdant textures on view near Oosterdok.
A contemporary art exhibition exploring personal, collective, and sensory representations of memory.
A small display on how the smelly, unhealthy 19th-century city gave rise to the belief that nature and fresh air are good for body and mind.
A local networking evening and speed-dating session organised for city-centre residents.
A close-up narrative cabaret performance centred on rumour, conversation, and storytelling in the venue's bite-sized theatre format.
In this hosting series, Rozenstraat hands its space to artist Daniel Jacoby, whose practice centres on video, animation and installation.
The French artist exhibits delicate ceramic sculptures alongside drawings that blend organic shapes with architectural forms.
An exhibition of work by Tino Rademaker in Helicopter's art café.
A high-intensity interval training session outdoors in the Amsterdamse Bos.
A repair and craft session teaching participants how to pulp and recycle old paper into new sheets.
An event called 'Tegenvoeters', Dutch for antipodes or opposites, held in the Garnalenkerk.
A portrait exhibition showcasing the varied history and residents of Haarlem across the centuries.
An exhibition at a small contemporary art gallery on the Lijnbaansgracht, near the Leidseplein end of the canal belt.
Artists Mia Weiner and Johnny Mae Hauser explore physical form and connection through collaborative contemporary works.
An exhibition on local history reflecting on everyday village life and disrupted heritage.
An exhibition of artwork depicting the historic defensive gates that once guarded the perimeter of Haarlem.
Swimming classes tailored for children and adults with physical disabilities or chronic conditions.
The Italian artist installs a project drawing on dystopian fiction, linguistic shifts, and alternative historical narratives in the gallery's project space.
An exhibition tracing the environmental and economic histories of petroleum extraction and cotton farming.
A library exhibition tracing local histories and personal memories through shared narratives.
A two-person dialogue between painter Han Schuil and installation-focused artist Ricardo van Eyk.
Emerging artist Klaartje van Essen presents new sculptural and installation work developed during her De Ateliers residency.
The central bank showcases pieces from its corporate art collection exploring unexpected perspectives and hidden details.
A critical exhibition revisiting how social background and class privilege shape the careers and institutions of the contemporary art world.
A development programme for Zuidoost residents under 30 looking to build practical skills and professional networks.
Dutch abstract painter Paul Drissen shows geometric, collage-based paintings that balance modernist order with playful, provisional forms.
A weekly student-focused club night spanning hip-hop, house and R&B on Leidseplein.
A gallery group show probing land, material, and ecological uncertainties through contemporary painting and sculpture.
The artist-run space presents a collaborative exhibition exploring how personal and collective trauma are held and recalled.
The project room hosts a companion contemporary installation focused on transformation and growth.
Artists Amra Khan, Naira Mushtaq, and Sehr Jalil present works exploring history, memory, and how objects outlive their original functions.
A community storytelling workshop focusing on sharing and illuminating personal narratives.
Prints and drawings by the Dutch artist exploring mortality and the human body, displayed in the funeral museum's cafe.
An art dealership presents works by female artists, available with trial home placements.
A dual exhibition pairing sculptural earthworks with folded textile compositions.
An exhibition of surviving drawings, crafts, and memorabilia by the two sisters from the well-known regional industrial family.
A group exhibition examining how human presence, touch, and collective memory reverberate across material objects.
An art exhibition focused on luminous and colourful visual works.
The third chapter, “Making the Wave,” completes a three-part series preceded by “Floating on the Wave” and “Riding the Wave.”
A screening at the Westerpark cinema best known for championing Dutch film.
An exhibition exploring the varied artistic output of four creators from a single family.
Open outdoor play sessions for children at the local Erfgooiers playground.
An architectural exhibition examining post-war reconstruction urbanism and its contemporary renovations in Haarlem's Parkwijk.
A professional development workshop focused on career direction and leadership strategies for women.
Banned Books Week is an annual US campaign, started in 1982, that draws attention to attempts to censor or remove books from libraries and schools.
A shared brunch for the Equals community at its canal-house base on the Keizersgracht.
A pavement-facing window exhibition space hosts an open-ended art installation.
The independent project space hosts a contemporary visual art exhibition.
A neighbourhood library presents an exhibition of work by the artist.
Anne Cappendijk presents an artistic exploration of public grief rituals, commemoration and everyday losses.
An afternoon when members of the Equals community work side by side in a shared space.
Thursday 8 October
The well-loved Dutch duo perform their show 'Bal op het dak', mixing hits like 'Het regent zonnestralen' with album tracks and new songs.
Families explore the Rijksmuseum through riddles, scents and drawing, as an introduction to highlights from its collection.
The American jazz pianist and composer, known for his trio The Bandwagon and his score for Selma, plays a solo recital.
The French pianist, a noted interpreter of Messiaen and Ligeti, joins the British composer and conductor George Benjamin, himself a Messiaen pupil, for a French-themed programme.
The harp-led indie-folk project known for songs set in its own fantasy storyworld, with support from Canadian theatrical folk singer Ben Caplan.
A large-scale dance party; 'bal' is the Dutch word for a ball or dance night.
A chance to hear the new record by the Dublin post-punk band Fontaines D.C. played in full at the Utrechtsestraat record shop.
Shostakovich's satirical 1959 operetta, also known as Cheryomushki, about Muscovites scheming to get flats in a new housing estate.
A staging for ages ten and up of Shostakovich's satirical operetta about Moscow residents trying to get new flats in a housing estate.
The long-running ensemble mixes fast-paced improv games, sketches, and video comedy sparked by audience suggestions.
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Drop-in divination sessions using card reading inside the canal-side museum dedicated to hermetic philosophy and free thought.
Masayuki Suo's acclaimed 1996 comedy-drama follows a buttoned-up Tokyo accountant who secretly takes up ballroom dancing.
The French saxophonist, known for viral videos playing live sax over house and electronic tracks, plays the music venue by Amstel station.
A guided evening walk to look for moths, which are usually drawn in with lamps and white sheets, in the city's large woodland park.
The German-Dutch cabaret singer and performer, known for his flamboyant David Bowie tribute Starman and his take on Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
A guided evening walk to see moths, which are usually attracted to lamps and white sheets so you can look at them up close.
A quieter, low-stimulus visit to Artis's museum of microbes, meant for people who find noise and crowds overwhelming.
Nottingham indie band Panchiko, known for a 2000 EP that became a cult favourite online after it turned up in a charity shop, play a sold-out bill.
The American TikTok personality turned pop singer brings her camp, queer-leaning dance-pop to the stage.
The London trio known for brooding, slow-building indie rock, sharing the bill with Everett Dolphin.
Argentine digital artist Andrés Reisinger, known for surreal, soft-toned 3D interiors and his pink fluffy Hortensia chair, shows dreamlike digital worlds.
A public session on whether humans could ever live on Mars, and what science says about the obstacles.
Stand-up from Mike Rice, hosted by Comedytrain, Amsterdam's long-running stand-up comedy collective.
The French saxophonist, known for playing live sax over house and electronic tracks, brings his European tour here; the listing says it has moved to another location.
A small yoga class in a studio among reeds and trees with views over the water, at De Ceuvel, the eco-workspace on a former shipyard in Noord.
The opening night of the week: a film screening, then a panel on the Stolen Generations, the Aboriginal children forcibly taken from their families in Australia.
A talk by Jan Pieter van der Schaar, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam, on cosmology and how the universe came to be.
The electronic music duo, known for melodic, cinematic house and downtempo productions, performs live.
Namibian-Dutch singer-songwriter Shishani performs as a duo with Ernst Vranckx, in a programme titled Family Affair.
The Dutch post-punk band from Dokkum, signed to the American label Sub Pop, known for their sharp, energetic guitar songs.
A theatrical piece exploring toxic masculinity and modern misogyny through the prism of online influencer Andrew Tate.
A guided walk through the city to places connected with objects in the Amsterdam Museum's collection.
A welcoming fundamentals class focusing on boxing basics and self-defence for the queer community.
A painting class for all levels, with drinks, snacks and soft jazz, pitched as a social evening or art date.
A 90-minute workshop for any level in which William Sutton teaches how to perform Shakespeare.
Mike Leigh's bleak, darkly funny film follows David Thewlis as an articulate drifter roaming London, a role that won him Best Actor at Cannes.
The Manchester singer-songwriter performs her soul and R&B songs at a sold-out show.
A workshop on the psychology of phishing, looking at why even well-informed people fall for fraudulent emails and messages.
Audience seating for the recording of Eva Jinek's current affairs talkshow at De Hallen.
Michigan's Wolf Eyes, veterans of the US underground noise scene, headline a noise bill with Cuntroaches and THOHH.
A show by De Warme Winkel, the Amsterdam theatre collective known for anarchic, playful and self-referential performances.
The Brazilian accordionist and singer Nonato Lima plays Brazilian music at this Brazilian-Dutch theatre.
A voku, short for Volksküche, is a cheap communal vegan dinner, followed here by a live set from Moukliomos Drom.
A stand-up comedy set by Kostya Pushkin at this English-language comedy venue.
The Homesick, a band from Friesland on Sub Pop, play their angular, psychedelic-leaning post-punk, with de rivier opening.
A hands-on workshop in castanet playing and sevillanas, the lively Andalusian folk dance closely related to flamenco.
A bonus screening in a Brazilian film series: a documentary about Ouvidor 63, a São Paulo high-rise occupied by artists.
The Volkskrant journalist and columnist, best known for his cycling novel Ventoux, talks about his writing.
A double bill of indie acts, billed as enchanting and melancholy but with a glittering edge.
A children's show for ages one to five about the world of butterflies.
A live set by Kiss Facility at Paradiso, the former church on the Weteringschans that is now a major concert venue.
Four lectures on Muslim-ruled medieval Spain, from an introduction to its architecture and music, which can be attended singly or as a series.
A film screening followed by a conversation about colonialism, slavery and restorative justice.
An informal meetup where expats play board games together in a gaming bar.
Free after-work drinks for expat women, organised by AIC at the bar inside the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel.
A monthly king-of-the-court squash competition, where winners stay on court and challengers rotate in, run by the Amsterdam Social Squash Meetup group.
The Dutch artist explores textiles, flags and the industries behind political symbols, here taking the United Nations as his subject.
A new performance at Frascati, the Nes theatre that presents new and experimental theatre and dance by emerging makers.
An edition of the ArtiShock series about henna, the plant dye used for body art in South Asian, Middle Eastern and North African traditions.
Czech New Wave director Jiří Menzel's gentle, Oscar-nominated comedy about village life, centred on a slow-witted helper and the truck driver he works with.
An evening at the Nes theatre, which focuses on new and experimental performance by young makers.
Dutch newspaper Trouw presents its annual ranking of the country's most sustainable initiatives in an evening-long programme, ending with this year's number one.
An immersive audiovisual screening pairing the British band's music with large-format digital visuals projected across walls and floors.
An informal meetup where Dutch language learners can practice their conversational skills with native speakers and peers.
A hands-on digital learning workshop where young people practice tech and design skills.
A book signing for Lucy en Donker, which won the Gouden Penseel, the Dutch prize for the best illustrated children's book.
Musicians take turns on stage for an open, unscripted jazz session at the neighbourhood piano bar.
An audio walking tour of De Pijp exploring public space through the perspectives and stories of local women.
An event about grief and the odd, sometimes funny ways it shows up in everyday life.
The Dutch comedian brings a solo stand-up and cabaret show, performed in Dutch.
A pub quiz night, where teams answer rounds of general knowledge questions over drinks at this neighbourhood café.
A talk about finding your personal style, and your identity, between Caribbean and Dutch cultures.
A jazz evening built around improvisation, featuring Graziella Hunsel Rivero, at the cultural centre on the VU University campus.
A screening of The Beloved, framed by a 'how do I read a film?' session that helps viewers look more closely at how a film is made.
A discussion about people who have been refused the right to stay but cannot be deported.
A collage workshop about living between different places and the memories that come with them.
A performance by LOE. at the cultural venue and garden behind the EYE film museum in Noord.
A light-hearted theatre performance meant to leave the audience in a good mood, at the creative community hub on the NDSM wharf.
A talk series on classic philosophers, this time Tocqueville, the French political thinker and historian best known for Democracy in America.
An evening at Frascati, the theatre on the Nes known for young makers and experimental performance.
A guided walking tour through the neighbourhood with an audio narrative highlighting women's voices and histories.
A jazz night led by Graziella Hunsel Rivero, held at a venue on the VU university campus.
A double bill in Tolhuistuin's club room; the listing says it is sold out.
A talk by her biographer on Charley Toorop, the Dutch painter known for stark, realist portraits and daughter of the Symbolist Jan Toorop.
A residency series featuring the trio of Avishai Darash, the Israeli-born jazz pianist and composer.
The Dutch comedian and cabaret performer brings his stage show to the small theatre in the Uilenstede student housing complex in Amstelveen.
An Amsterdam-based duo singing Irish, Scottish and American folk songs in close two-part harmony.
A monthly life drawing evening, sketching from a live human model.
Nina Rompa presents her new release Hoog in concert, joined by the string ensemble 3Violas.
A conversation between the three named guests about where art and science meet, held at the VU's gallery for exactly that kind of crossover work.
An after-work drinks gathering for expat women who want to meet new people and make friends in Amsterdam.
An exhibition or workshop exploring the intersection of neurological research, brain function, and creative visual expression.
A community dinner cooked and served at the long-running Westerpark neighbourhood cultural centre.
An informal meetup over coffee for practising Spanish conversation at any level, led by Denisse.
The rainbow flag is raised at the entrance of the district office for Coming Out Day, and everyone is welcome.
Neighbours cook and eat soup together, with performances including one by an IJburg saxophone quartet.
A presentation of work by students at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, which trains dancers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and architects.
An informal evening for women who have recently moved to the city and want to make female friends over a glass of wine, organised by Amsterdam Socials.
A programme in Outline's series of contemporary and experimental music.
A short talk on climate policy and what is happening on it in national politics in The Hague.
The twelfth edition of a jazz concert series at A Lab, the creative workspace in Amsterdam-Noord, this time featuring The Hook.
A discussion event on the future of freedom at Griffioen, the cultural centre on the VU campus.
A live music night at Amstelveen's pop venue.
Weekly seasonal sessions for children aged 18 months to three, with painting, threading, kneading and making a snack; drop-ins are welcome.
An informal meetup over coffee for practising Dutch conversation, led by Lucas.
An introduction to Gyrokinesis, Juliu Horvath's movement method of flowing, rhythmic spinal exercises done seated and standing, with a two-for-one offer.
A shared bill of four bands: Bandje Bandje, Finn, FAAM and the Strolling Ones.
A session on 'shadow work', the Jungian idea of facing repressed parts of yourself, at the museum and library of esoteric and Hermetic texts.
A theatre lecture, a talk delivered as a performance, in which Jeroen Hendrikse looks at comedy that has something to say.
An informal afternoon of handicrafts such as sewing, knitting or drawing, organised by a group for meeting new people in Amsterdam South.
A mixed evening of live performances.
A presentation of work by Farah Coppola, open until 30 October.
An open mic night where new and aspiring comedians try out material; doors open at 19:30.
A workshop that uses mindfulness and self-compassion exercises to help people treat themselves more kindly.
A performance by Gijs Gedraaid, a singer-songwriter who writes and sings in Dutch.
A children's book quiz for pupils in group 5 and up (around age eight), held during the 2026 Children's Book Week.
A gig on the moored ship in Noord that hosts small concerts and club nights.
A practice group where people tell stories and give talks in front of others to build confidence in public speaking.
A showcase performance; a signature show is usually the piece a company considers most typical of its style.
A concert in Paradiso's smaller upstairs hall.
The launch of a jazz book collection at the Bijlmerplein public library branch, linked to ZOJazz, Amsterdam Southeast's local jazz programme.
Team Laika play a live show at Scala; the listing gives no further detail about the act.
A live music performance at Soop, a neighbourhood cultural centre.
A try-out, meaning an early preview of a show still being developed, from the duo Joey & Dave; the title means 'keep it light'.
Community clinic appointments offering traditional acupuncture and cupping therapy.
A group Nordic walking session through Amsterdam-Noord's central park.
A community writing course offering guidance and exercises for participants looking to develop their creative writing skills.
A women's peer support circle for open conversation and shared experiences.
A chamber music recital for cello and piano.
A quiet group session dedicated to mindfulness and guided relaxation practice.
An eclectic live music evening featuring local experimental ensemble Oktopedians.
A club night with a line-up of acts.
A night of live pop and rock covers at the Leidseplein music bar.
A seminar on foresight, the methods organisations use to explore possible futures and plan for them, hosted by the Dutch IT cooperative for education and research.
A photo session for professional portrait headshots of the kind used on LinkedIn and company websites.
Language Corner Amsterdam runs a free one-hour English conversation session led by one of its teachers, open to all levels.
A library book discussion about Dit is AI, a Dutch book explaining artificial intelligence, where readers talk through the book together.
A themed club night at the Leidseplein nightclub.
A new weekly class for pregnant and postpartum mothers, led by Alessandra, combining movement, breathwork and guided relaxation.
A neighbourhood session on diet, exercise and staying healthy as you age, held in a local buurtkamer, a community living room for residents.
A stage performance whose title is the phrase theatre people use to wish performers good luck.
A course on steering your career, finding a work-life balance that suits you, and understanding what holds you back when making choices.
A conference asking whether Dutch and European law is slowing the energy transition, with legal and climate specialists discussing the question.
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Members of the historic artists' society Arti et Amicitiae meet for informal drinks, with a lecture.
Author Kelly van Kempen signs copies of her latest book, 'Hotel Zweefkees', at the children's bookshop Casperle.
A talk at the bookshop about Gestolen Geluk, held in Dutch.
A weekly community lunch in De Pijp serving toasties, homemade soup, and a place to meet neighbours.
A talk by Herinarivo Rakotomanana on directing, part of the Film Academy's series of lectures by working artists.
A guitar duo recital in a church in Haarlem-Schalkwijk.
A research team presents early results from its COMCRIM project at the University of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research institute.
Artist Daniel Jacoby talks about his work with Dana Linssen, the Dutch film critic and former editor of De Filmkrant.
An evening of bridge and board games held by Stadsdorp Slotervaart Noord, a neighbourhood network of older residents who organise activities together.
A stage show at the small theatre in Amsterdam Zuid.
During Safety Week, a neighbourhood bus and coffee cart stop in the area so residents can drop by, have a coffee and raise their concerns.
An event for people looking for work or further training, where you can meet a range of employers.
A group outing to visit the Gerardus Majellakerk, organised under the Caravan of Love name.
An over-18s night; the title is the French word for 'memory'.
An informal drinks gathering, or borrel, around the Proxy Choir.
An afternoon open house where visitors can drop in, look around and ask about what PACT Amsterdam offers.
A community-focused afternoon of practical workshops and discussions aimed at personal development and career planning.
An informal drop-in session for anyone curious about local volunteer opportunities organized by Versa Welzijn.
An open weekly surgery with the local community police officer and municipal neighbourhood team.
A discounted food or drink offer at the neighbourhood café and bar in Amsterdam Oost.
An informal consultation hour offering feedback and advice for emerging musicians and performers.
Students provide free homework support and a quiet study space for local children.
A mutual aid and legal support drop-in hour held at the historic anarchist social centre.
An informal drinks evening for newcomers and prospective members at the long-standing members' club for artists and creatives.
A Dutch-language theatre show at the theatre in Diemen; the title is a casual Dutch way of complaining about a lot of fuss.
A networking meeting for anyone running, or planning, an initiative to make Amsterdam-Noord a better and more enjoyable place.
A live music gig in a neighbourhood café.
An information evening for people thinking of training as secondary school teachers through the University of Amsterdam's programmes.
Zuidas's area brokers, the municipality's neighbourhood contacts, hold a drop-in session at the market for questions about the area or to share ideas.
A drop-in session where the municipality's area broker answers residents' questions about the neighbourhood or helps them with problems.
A drop-in consultation for local residents to ask questions or share ideas about the neighbourhood.
A meeting of the church council, the body that runs the affairs of this Keizersgracht congregation.
The landmark survey brings together the Japanese artist's signature polka dots, Infinity Mirror Rooms, and monumental soft sculptures.
Around 80 works lent by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including Matisse's La Blouse roumaine, shown alongside paintings by Rothko, Picasso and Barnett Newman.
The annual showcase of the world's most compelling award-winning photojournalism and documentary photography returns to Amsterdam.
The monthly open-air design market brings makers, artists and food stalls to the museum lawns.
A month of family activities at the national museum, including Story Rescuers, a new family quest that sends visitors on a secret mission through the collection.
An interactive science and technology exhibition focusing on the history, physics, and programming behind video games.
A free guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition, the annual showcase of the year's prizewinning photojournalism, on until 25 October.
Stalls selling artisanal produce, hot food and handmade goods rotate through the city's parks on Sundays.
The science museum's hands-on floor lets visitors experiment with everyday engineering, household technology, and clean energy.
A major retrospective by the renowned photographer known for monumental landscapes, portraits and atmospheric explorations of human impact.
Over 150 monumental street art murals, painted on-site by international artists, fill a former shipyard warehouse.
Citywide arts festival staging performances, tours, and special events across various participating Amsterdam museums.
An exhibition showing the commercial textile patterns, garments, and decorative fabrics designed by the pop artist in the 1950s and 1960s.
An exhibition on Henri Matisse, the French painter known for his bold colour, his Fauvist work and his late paper cut-outs.
Hands-on workshops, games, and maritime activities designed for children and families.
A digital projection show rendering the Dutch master's fantastically detailed depictions of heaven, hell and sin into large-scale animations.
An exhibition for children featuring the intricate, detail-rich illustrations of Dutch picture-book maker Charlotte Dematons.
An animated digital installation bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novella and its philosophical meditations on life to light.
Dance event pioneers ID&T present a sensory labyrinth of light, sound, and interactive technology in the Elementenstraat warehouse.
The exhibition explores the pop artist's commercial textile designs from the 1950s and 1960s, printed with novelty patterns and playful motifs.
This edition honours Lou Lichtveld, also known as Albert Helman, a Dutch-Surinamese writer, composer, organist, politician and resistance fighter.
Local independent makers, designers, and craftspeople sell handmade wares inside the former tram depot.
Direct conversations and oral histories shared with survivors of the Holocaust.
The festival organisers stage a walkthrough experience using lasers, lights, and electronic soundscapes across several rooms.
Original stencils, screen prints, and authenticated indoor works by the elusive Bristol street artist are on permanent display.
The national museum displays textiles, costumes, and everyday garments highlighting traces of wear and historical repairs.
Sinfonia Rotterdam plays well-known hits live while 180-degree projected visuals surround the audience.
The painter's former home displays etching and drawing techniques to show how Rembrandt pushed the boundaries of his craft.
The photographer presents vivid, stylised portraits celebrating the fashion and contemporary identity of people from Xinjiang.
The contemporary Spanish-Dutch painter presents new works in dialogue with Francisco de Goya's iconic etchings, Los Disparates.
Alan J. Pakula's 1976 Watergate drama, with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as reporters Woodward and Bernstein, shown in a 4K restoration.
STRAAT explores the fundamental visual elements of graffiti culture, from lettering and tags to rhythm and line work.
Morning yoga session held surrounded by Vincent van Gogh's masterworks.
A family exhibition exploring magic, illusions and ritual in Jewish culture and folklore.
A 4K restoration of Studio Ghibli's 2010 animated film, adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, about a tiny girl living secretly beneath the floorboards of a house.
Shostakovich's 1959 comic operetta, originally Moscow, Cheryomushki, about a housing shortage, speculators and love, sung in English and suitable for ages 10 and up.
An immersive digital experience that recreates the streets and canals of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
A practical painting and drawing class focused on composition, colour and expressive brushwork inspired by Vincent van Gogh.
Visitors walk together through a virtual reconstruction of 17th-century Amsterdam, choosing their own route and seeing everyday life of the time; part of History Month.
Sculptures by the Dutch modernist, known for his stark geometric forms in steel, leather, and found materials, are installed across the museum's open-air grounds.
A free 2.1 km walk through the centre past 34 sculptures by 64 artists, all carved from felled Amsterdam city trees, with a public vote for a favourite.
Outdoor art route placing site-specific sculptures and installations along the walking paths of the Amsterdamse Bos.
A family-friendly interactive exhibition exploring mythology, nature, and the symbolic wisdom of ravens across different world cultures.
A behind-the-scenes guided tour through the costume departments, stages, and rehearsal halls of the opera house.
Crate-digging market inside the covered passage of De Hallen, featuring independent record vendors selling vinyl across multiple genres.
An introduction to graffiti and the stories behind well-known street art, at the street art museum in a former NDSM shipyard hall.
Daniel Szalai presents 166 hens of the Novogen breed, a commercial egg-laying hen, as 166 individuals, at Droog's space on Staalstraat.
October is the national History Month, with history outings for children across the country, including a dark church, the Boevenbus and the Romans.
A chance to explore Muiden, the small fortified town east of Amsterdam with star-shaped ramparts and the medieval Muiderslot castle.
A holiday workshop where a child aged seven or over and an adult make their own piece of electronic music together.
The private museum showcases street works, prints, and stencils by the elusive British artist.
Learn the fundamentals of silkscreening and print your own custom design onto t-shirts in this hands-on studio session.
Visitors on the fortress island can observe licensed ornithologists capturing, measuring, and banding wild birds for ongoing scientific research.
A brief, family-friendly Dutch-language opera performance staged on the platform of an Amsterdam metro station.
The idiosyncratic Dutch jazz guitarist and composer plays an intimate set in the historic former stock exchange.
An exhibition marking the city's 750th anniversary, tracing Amsterdam's history through key moments and archival records.
A broad survey of modern and contemporary art, design, and photography from the museum's permanent holdings.
Illusionist Rico Weeland stages an intimate evening of magic, mentalism, and storytelling.
Interactive light and digital installations invite visitors into responsive, mirror-filled rooms.
The presentation examines clothing from 1640 to 1930 that bears physical signs of wear, tailoring, mending, and daily life.
An outdoor and community exhibition presented in collaboration with Middle East Archive, a digital platform documenting everyday life and visual culture across the region.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the concert hall's architecture and acoustics before attending the free midday performance.
A retrospective dedicated to the influential Indonesian-Dutch industrial and interior designer best known for designing Schiphol Airport's original interiors.
Heather Lenz's 2018 documentary traces the life and career of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, from conservative post-war Japan to global contemporary stardom.
DJs play deep house and electronic sets on the twentieth floor of the A'DAM Tower overlooking the city.
Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Tim Curry star in this musical 1996 Muppets adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel.
Drawing in the Royal Palace on Dam Square as part of October drawing month, inside Jacob van Campen's 17th-century former city hall.
An exhibition celebrating early trailblazers and foundational works in digital and video installation art.
An exhibition tracing decades of LGBTQIA+ community life, activism, pride celebrations, and resilience across Amsterdam.
The Anglo-French comedian, known for her online videos about cultural differences, looks at her mother's life choices in a new stand-up show.
An outdoor photography exhibition in Amsterdam West presented by Foam and the digital storytelling platform Middle East Archive.
The exhibition examines the global supply chains of cocoa, sugar, and palm oil behind the beloved Dutch breakfast staple.
Sightseeing boats navigate the moat and outer waterways surrounding the star-shaped fortress town.
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Children learn about life in space through hands-on experiments, surrounded by more than 100 aircraft and helicopters at the aviation museum in Lelystad.
An urban nature event exploring the wildlife that shares the city, including how animals adapt to winter.
An exhibition featuring the Congolese artists' cooperative CATPC, exploring post-colonial ecology, labour, and restitution.
A guided tasting session exploring the culinary customs and flavours of the Dutch Renaissance in the castle grounds.
The contemporary art museum's basement level hosts large-scale room projections, light works, and screen-based installations.
The Offline Club hosts a phone-free afternoon of rooftop, pool and sauna time, where guests hand in their devices to talk, read or relax.
A three-part performance that joins Portuguese fado song with Kathak, the classical North Indian storytelling dance.
Hiba Salameh leads a listening session that traces Palestine's history through its music and recorded sound.
The acclaimed Dutch children's book illustrator exhibits her intricately detailed drawings.
The French electronic world music project known for 1990s hits like 'Sweet Lullaby', which won a Grammy for the album 'Boheme'.
Actor and singer Maarten Heijmans, known for playing Ramses Shaffy, teams up with musician Xander Vrienten on a music theatre show whose title means 'Waiting for Death'.
Organist Ere Lievonen and flautist Raymond Honing explore the Fokker organ, whose 31-tone tuning opens up sounds beyond conventional keyboards.
Sightseeing boat cruises along the scenic Vecht river past historic estates and tea houses.
Historical reenactors demonstrate traditional musket-firing and military drills inside the Naarden fortress museum.
Exhibition dedicated to the people, history, and traditions of Amsterdam's landmark seventeenth-century Portuguese Synagogue.
Ornithologists demonstrate the process of catching, ringing, and releasing migratory birds stopping over on the fortress island.
A hands-on workshop in cutting and spraying stencils, a classic street art technique, at the street art museum in NDSM.
American photographer Norman Gershman's portraits of Albanian Muslims who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust, honouring besa, a traditional promise of protection.
Forest biologist Nico leads a guided nature walk through the Amsterdamse Bos.
A talk on the Big Bang and how universes can come into being, by Jan Pieter van der Schaar, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam.
The American artist examines identity, gender, and celebrity culture through self-portraiture that mimics glossy fashion shoots and consumer advertising.
Piano duos play music for two pianos and four hands, from Bach and Schubert to the minimalists Philip Glass and Steve Reich, plus new work, at venues around the city.
A solo show by the Amsterdam painter known for large, vivid canvases about Black identity and life in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
A weekend of activities exploring how sound, colour and taste cross over in sensory perception.
Toddlers and young children get free-jumping access to the trampolines during a session tailored for little ones.
The exhibition highlights textile designs and fabric works created by artists linked to the mid-century avant-garde Cobra movement.
A hands-on leatherwork workshop where you cut, stitch and finish a leather bag of your own to take home.
Wednesday creative workshops for children aged five and up, run by Motherhood Amsterdam until 16 December.
A hands-on workshop guiding participants through traditional cold-process soapmaking using natural ingredients.
The Dutch sisters behind De Sekszusjes use a game-show format to discuss sex, challenge myths and share practical information.
A dedicated cinema programme spotlighting seminal films from the 1990s.
A retrospective examining the turbulent life and intensely emotional, colourful paintings of the Dutch modern expressionist.
A hands-on workshop introducing the textiles, dressing traditions and etiquette of the Japanese kimono.
Al Nisa (Arabic for 'the women') is a photography exhibition with Foam, based on Middle East Archive's latest publication.
Akim Moiseenkov creates imaginative concerts designed to engage both children and adults.
An exhibition of outsider art, meaning work by self-taught artists outside the art world, many of whom have experience of psychiatric care.
Audio stops created for the museum's Body Stories research programme, which you can listen to in the Rijksmuseum app as part of History Month.
An indoor jump session on connected trampolines and obstacle courses.
Professional artists set up stalls on the Spui square every Sunday to sell paintings, prints, and ceramics directly to passersby.
A guided bicycle ride along city canals and neighbourhood streets covering local history and architecture.
Graduating second-year resident artists from the prestigious post-academic institute exhibit their work in the historic Ateliers building.
An interactive photo exhibition for the Month of History that sets the past of the fortress island Pampus alongside its present.
Showcase spotlighting cutting-edge graduate collections from the Netherlands' top fashion academy alumni.
An interactive, multi-sensory tour of the museum designed specifically for blind and visually impaired visitors.
An exhibition at STRAAT, the large street art and graffiti museum in a former shipyard warehouse on the NDSM wharf in Noord.
Guests share family-style platters prepared with local and sustainable produce at this countryside restaurant venue.
The museum investigates the origins, artist, and identity of the sitter in an enigmatic Golden Age portrait.
A small-group salon boat tour departs from the five-star hotel along the Amstel river.
The castle estate opens its historic gardens and parkland to showcase seasonal spring and summer blossoms.
Kijk maar eens goed! shows work by Charlotte Dematons, the illustrator known for detailed picture books like The Yellow Balloon that reward close looking.
An exhibition exploring the closely entwined life, thoughts, and literary oeuvre of Franz Kafka.
Turkish actors Şevket Çoruh and İlker Ayrık in a comedy about two actors trying to stage Hamlet with little more than a few planks.
Display of the freshly conserved sixteenth-century altarpiece depicting the descent from the cross in the attic church.
Leiden's annual international film festival, screening new feature films from around the world at venues across the city.
A hands-on ceramics class teaching throwing and shaping clay on the potter's wheel.
The Dutch fashion photographer presents two decades of imagery documenting the standout graduation show for rising designers.
Large-scale sculptures by the influential Dutch constructivist and modernist are placed throughout the museum's outdoor grounds.
Instructors teach basic clay shaping and texturing techniques to help you sculpt an object, figure, or abstract form.
An informal board game meetup designed to help Dutch language learners practice their speaking skills while playing games.
A free language workshop and informal café where learners practice spoken Dutch together in a relaxed setting.
An exhibition exploring the realities of independence struggles across Africa, Suriname, and the Caribbean.
An introductory walkthrough of the photography museum's current exhibitions led by an in-house guide.
Musicians are invited to bring their instruments and sit in with the blues club's house band.
An informal conversation circle where Dutch learners of all levels chat over coffee to build their everyday speaking confidence.
Practice Dutch, English, Spanish, and other languages over drinks in an informal mixer.
An exhibition exploring the complex debates, ethics and practices surrounding the restitution of colonial-era heritage items.
A thematic walkthrough exploring the collection and modern art history through LGBTQIA+ perspectives.
Taxidermy duo Sinke & Van Tongeren present their theatrical, Old Master-inspired arrangements of exotic preserved birds and animals.
Comedian Rami Nima hosts an evening of stand-up comedy featuring up-and-coming and established acts.
The French string quartet, celebrated for their Russian repertoire, performs works by Weinberg, Prokofiev, and Beethoven.
As part of the Month of History, the fortress island in the IJmeer looks at how weeks of isolated island life affected the body and mind of the people stationed there.
The museum displays patterned skirts and wearable textiles designed by key painters and sculptors of the post-war CoBrA movement.
The celebrated British tenor and his longtime collaborative pianist perform nineteenth-century lieder by Wolf and Schubert.
A hands-on craft session covering the practical techniques, ingredients, and chemistry needed to create natural bar soaps.
An open-air secondhand market selling pre-loved clothes, homeware, and garden finds.
Folk, a piece by choreographer Dunja Jocic for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, a contemporary dance company from Rome.
An exhibition named after hagelslag, the chocolate sprinkles the Dutch eat on bread, built around the idea of building a new world together.
A craft class on upcycling, which means turning old or discarded materials into new and useful objects.
A queer club night focused on upbeat pop tracks and electronic dance anthems in the Houthavens.
Children aged eight and up can explore coniferous tree species from around the globe across the botanical garden.
The Dutch alto saxophonist, known for the New Cool Collective and his own groups, plays jazz at the private arts club on Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen.
A guided interior tour through Hilversum's iconic modernist town hall designed by architect Willem Marinus Dudok.
Interactive play and sensory learning activities designed for young children.
An overnight gong ceremony in which gongs are played for hours while listeners lie down and let the sound wash over them.
The documentary follows Dutch-Caribbean artists who use dominoes as a way to think about life; the evening also includes a game of dominoes.
An architectural model exhibition exploring the extensive future urban development plans for Amsterdam's northern docklands.
A storytelling show with music about where polarisation comes from and the strength of brotherhood between friends who choose each other.
The Viennese indie band, fronted by Sophie Lindinger, plays raw-guitar songs that move between grunge, post-punk and pop.
A vocal group from the Dutch TV talent show One & Only, where they finished third after covering Miguel's 'Sure Thing' and Tevin Campbell's 'Can We Talk'.
Composer Kate Moore turns ideas about landscape and long-distance walking into contemporary music, performed here with Herz Ensemble.
A group exhibition of fifteen emerging artists from Belgium who explore home and community through art, rituals and spirituality.
The city's largest city farm, in Westerpark, which has recently gone through a lot of changes and renovation.
An exhibition exploring gender transformation, performance, and shifting bodily identity through archaeological artefacts and contemporary culture.
An interactive exhibition space exploring archaeological discovery, material culture, and how finds are catalogued.
A guided behind-the-scenes tour of the striking modern concert hall on the IJ waterfront.
Self-taught pianist Sem Kramer, who can't read music and improvises everything between classical and jazz, celebrates his birthday and the release of The Flow, Vol. 1.
Ceramicist Anita Kluge leads a hands-on clay modelling workshop blending craft and storytelling.
A pop-up preview of outsider art: work by self-taught makers outside the official art world, often people with experience of psychiatric illness.
The Texas psychedelic band started out with psych-pop and moved towards trippier, more experimental sounds, but its DIY roots still show.
Exhibition of photography by the Dutch-Uruguayan artist known for her portraits exploring gender, identity, and memory.
The visual artist presents installations and performances reflecting on post-colonial history, identity and Caribbean heritage.
An interactive audio-visual walking tour around Amsterdam East designed for children aged seven and up.
The South African artist Wim Botha, known for sculptures carved from stacked books, wood and other unlikely materials, shows at Stevenson's Amsterdam space.
Two free Waternet audio tours, one through the city centre and one through the Amsterdam Waterleidingduinen dunes, tell the history behind a glass of tap water.
An annual festival in Maastricht that presents a selection of the year's Dutch dance productions.
A self-guided walking route detailing maritime history and architectural landmarks around the Oosterdok docklands.
Part of NDSM's XPO exhibition series, this show uses the selfie to explore identity, connection and community.
Photography exhibition exploring personal reflections, tributes, and diverse cultural perspectives on mortality.
A creative workshop designed to introduce young children to looking at and making art.
An exhibition at the museum of funeral culture exploring the relationship between traffic, transit and mortality.
A guided tour open to all of the Stadsschouwburg, the city theatre on the Leidseplein that dates from the 1890s.
A festival exploring how tourism can help make the city more liveable, inclusive and future-proof.
An exhibition exploring the intersection of Lutheran faith, openness, and queer community history in Amsterdam.
The first listed work, Manu Mpasi’s “Le Monologue de l’Aube,” reflects on living between different worlds as part of a three-work performance bill.
Hands-on clay modelling workshop guiding participants through basic sculpting and shaping techniques.
A temporary display exploring how the Dutch look for love, companionship, and connection through historical and modern media.
A chance to see an art collection shown in the Muntstaete building and its depot, a place not usually open as a gallery.
An exhibition on the Liga Nieuw Beelden, the 1950s Dutch association that brought abstract art, architecture and design together, held in sculptor André Volten's former studio.
An architectural look at Haven-Stad, Amsterdam’s developing port-city district, which could eventually add up to 70,000 homes.
An evening devoted to fresh oysters and paired drinks at the hotel's bar.
A monthly dance afternoon on the last Sunday, with swing classics and familiar Dutch and international favourites for anyone who likes to dance.
The University of Amsterdam’s archaeology museum displays ancient glassware from Roman, Egyptian, and Mediterranean collections.
A guided walk from the historic Red Light District house highlighting influential women in the city's social history.
Explore the striking Amsterdam School architecture of the historic shipping headquarters, now a luxury hotel, during this regular Sunday package.
A bock beer tour, tasting the dark, malty seasonal beers that appear in Dutch bars every autumn.
The Dutch designer displays playful sculptures and everyday design objects repurposed from obsolete collectables and materials.
Gunther von Hagens's exhibition of plastinated human bodies, focusing on the anatomical science of happiness and wellbeing.
The Dutch-Brazilian net artist, known for using websites as canvases, presents his book-based and printed projects.
Nine contemporary artists of Moluccan descent examine their roots, shared heritage and cultural identity through varied media.
A showcase celebrating contemporary creative voices and heritage across the Moluccan diaspora in the Netherlands.
An exhibition exploring the movement, culture and sensory experience of swimming through contemporary art.
The Dutch textile artist is internationally acclaimed for her tactile wool felt works dyed with heritage plants she cultivates herself.
Photographer Tomás Mauro presents a participatory project connecting strangers through portraits and written notes.
An exhibition exploring the history and lived experiences of the Moluccan community in Amsterdam seventy-five years after their arrival in the Netherlands.
An open-air photography exhibition displayed along the boulevard at the Sloterplas.
A discussion exploring themes of identity, displacement, and community.
The university heritage museum displays ancient glassware alongside recent research into classical glassmaking techniques.
A group presentation featuring work by established names of modern and street-influenced art.
The museum surveys the intense, psychological canvases and watercolours of the Dutch Expressionist painter.
The renowned South African visual activist presents photographic portraits documenting Black LGBTQIA+ communities.
A retrospective survey dedicated to the Dutch artist best known for his minimalist wire sculptures, drawings, and luminous cityscape silhouettes.
The Vienna-born, Dubai-raised singer-songwriter performs his emotional, classically influenced pop.
An informal session offering a chance to meet artists and bio-designers currently working in the waterfront lab's studios.
A guided physical movement workshop connecting participants to the natural environment of the Sloterplas lake.
Experimental ensemble Jam With Humans stages an evening of interactive music and improvisation inside an independent bookshop.
The emerging photographer presents work examining memory, personal archives and unseen perspectives of family life.
An open creative studio session where you choose a medium and work at your own pace with hands-on materials.
A retrospective examining the foundational 1970s and 80s work of the seminal Dutch video-art distribution and research platform.
An immersive digital light and projection experience that surrounds visitors with life-sized prehistoric creatures in their ancient habitats.
Artist Miquel Hervás Gómez leads a hands-on workshop transforming publication waste into fresh handmade sheets of paper.
The Dutch pioneer of internet art presents digital works examining how computational materials interact with physical space.
Portraits and personal histories chronicling the community surrounding Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue.
A personal storytelling session recounting experiences and legacies connected to the Holocaust.
A relaxed art class for beginners, designed so that no drawing or painting experience is needed.
An outdoor sculpture garden exhibiting contemporary three-dimensional artworks amidst landscaped grounds.
Artists in the NDSM shipyard explore self-portraiture, digital image manipulation, and narcissism in modern culture.
Practical studio session introducing ceramic glazing techniques, finishes, and colour application for pottery.
A retrospective examining the modernist architecture and town planning of Hilversum's influential municipal architect Willem Marinus Dudok.
Named after Baudrillard's phrase about simulation, later quoted in The Matrix, at the Amsterdam centre for debate, film and culture.
Textile artist Claudy Jongstra pairs her signature felted, raw wool pieces with works by guest artists exploring sustainable material processes.
The Milanese rapper, a long-standing name in Italian hip-hop, performs live.
A karaoke night at CREA, the University of Amsterdam's cultural centre, where anyone can take the mic and sing.
The exhibition examines how artists assemble cut paper, found imagery, and photographs to build composite visual narratives.
An open jam session where musicians bring their instruments and join in on stage, at the Leidseplein rock and blues bar.
A guided architectural tour of Jan Duiker's iconic modernist sanatorium complex in Hilversum.
Guided tours exploring the city archives and the monumental 1920s architecture of the former bank building on Vijzelstraat.
A guided walking and sketching excursion exploring the surrounding streets with drawing materials in hand.
A tactile scale model allows visitors to experience the architecture of the waterfront and the Arcam building through touch.
A community creative making session hosted at the contemporary art space in Amsterdam-Noord.
As the title suggests, a piece that looks at grief and loss through humour.
An interactive photography exhibition in which visitors take part rather than only look at the pictures.
A performance about how traditions in Suriname’s Maroon communities continue to change over time.
An exhibition showcasing contemporary visual art and cross-disciplinary projects from the Low Countries.
Contemporary artists explore selfhood and belonging in a collaborative group exhibition.
A walking trail themed around animals, aimed at children and families.
An exhibition on how nature and culture relate, at the stacked-container art space on the former NDSM shipyard in Noord, running until 11 October.
An exhibition dedicated to the mid-century rescue and reconstruction of historic wooden windmills and houses along the Zaan.
A library display of plates and food stories from people in Nieuw-West, showing the cooking traditions found across the neighbourhood.
Retrospective covering the long career of the celebrated Haarlem painter known for his atmospheric still lifes and studio interiors.
The celebrated Dutch sculptor shows expressive works crafted from handblown glass, textile, and ceramics.
An exhibition by Dina Danish, the Cairo-born, Amsterdam-based artist whose playful work deals with language, translation and misunderstanding.
During Accessibility Week the museum focuses on making its building and stories easier to reach for visitors with disabilities.
An exhibition at Droog, the Dutch design label known for conceptual, witty takes on everyday objects.
A programme at the Amsterdam centre for debate, film and journalism, which usually pairs a screening or presentation with discussion.
An exhibition at the museum of Lutheran history exploring the heritage and resilience of the queer community.
A run of neighbourhood restaurant evenings on four dates at The Beach, Notweg 38, in the Tuinen van West area.
An interdisciplinary afternoon exploring art publications and cinema at the canal-house art space.
Interactive community project exchanging handwritten postcards with library visitors to explore social connections.
A performance by theatre maker Ehsan Hemat about the body, at the Flemish cultural centre in the city centre.
Participants in a four-day training demonstrate and playtest prototype serious games designed to explore urban planning and civic challenges.
Ms. Lauren and guests including Bao G, Essi Chia and Houss take over the café at the Noord skate park for a night of DJ sets.
An exhibition of work by the artist Tycho at the museum devoted to the history of Amsterdam's canal ring.
A showcase exploring micro-housing, modular design, and efficient urban living solutions at Haarlem's architecture centre.
A visual arts exhibition spotlighting local creative talent and community stories.
A performance by Dizzi Geetha, a queer Sri Lankan artist living in the Netherlands who works as a theatre maker, composer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ.
The Dutch painter and illustrator displays works celebrating female bodies, desire, and bodily vulnerability through soft, vibrant color.
Karaoke night at the old Zeedijk café, long known as a jazz bar, with an emphasis on classic songs.
The Dutch artist, a co-founder of the Nul movement, is celebrated for his serial assemblages of found and discarded everyday objects.
An exhibition exploring life and permanence through printmaking and graphic arts.
An exhibition reflecting on family, memory loss, and grief at the national museum dedicated to funeral heritage.
An exhibition considering the intersection of natural ecology and human epochs at the NDSM-based art space.
A discussion of the choices and challenges involved in using district heating as a sustainable alternative to individual electric heat pumps.
The Dutch artist displays whimsical ceramic creatures and eccentric character sculptures.
The contemporary art gallery hosts an exhibition exploring myth, memory, and material culture.
A conversation about why people are eating less meat and dairy, from animal welfare and health to climate concerns and food.
Community repair event where volunteers help fix broken household appliances, clothing, electronics, and bicycles.
A four-session series in which the same small group meets repeatedly to get to know each other.
View a private collection of paintings, sculptures, and etchings housed in a historic building beside the Munttoren.
A display of freestyle brushwork on Chinese rice paper, exploring dynamic floral forms and vivid color.
The Dutch-Uruguayan photographer shows portraits exploring identity, gender and cultural belonging in the museum's project space.
Take a self-guided 90-minute walking route exploring the history and architecture around the Oosterdok basin.
The Dutch fine art photographer presents contemplative black-and-white prints examining emotional resonance, ageing, and natural transition.
Part of the Oogstweken, a workday that opens with a walk, a story and time to notice the surroundings, as a way to reconnect with nature.
An exhibition exploring personal roots, collective memory, and future visions through contemporary art and research.
A photography and art exhibition exploring local urban stories and community life around the park and neighbourhood.
The improvising ensemble performs a live set blending free jazz and theatrical elements to launch their new record.
Borrowing Orwell's Animal Farm maxim, this group exhibition gathers contemporary work addressing power structures and human-nonhuman hierarchies.
The Copenhagen-based artist plays melancholic, collage-like pop pieces built from his 2024 debut on Posh Isolation.
French painter Lou Ros and South Korean artist Sanghyuk Kim present expressive mixed-media paintings and figurative works.
Drop-in guided tours offer a closer look at the Amstelveen museum's modern art collections.
Explore the long career of the Haarlem painter and watercolourist through works preserved from his studio on the Spaarne.
Marinka Reuten shows subtle, atmospheric works evoking dappled sunlight filtering through trees.
A live booking at Bourbon Street, the late-opening music bar off the Leidseplein that has bands on most nights, mainly blues, rock and soul.
A show at Scala, a combined food bar and small theatre in the Van Hallstraat, running until 9 October.
The Dutch ceramic artist displays his imaginative, brightly colored sculptural creatures.
Koentact opens its doors for free trial lessons, language level assessments, and an introduction to its teaching methods.
The German painter presents atmospheric, layered landscapes that blur the line between real wilderness and internal psychological spaces.
The gallery devoted to outsider, neurodivergent, and non-normative artists presents a collaborative mixed-media exhibition.
The Beijing-born visual artist and designer exhibits work engaging with physical exercise, discipline, and historical iconography.
Polish artist Mikołaj Sobczak presents work interrogating historical narratives, queer resistance, and national mythmaking.
The university gallery explores how artists and scientists interpret different dimensions of perception and truth.
A museum docent leads a walk through the photography exhibition highlighting young creative talent.
A weekly club night spotlighting driving underground techno and electronic DJs on Rembrandtplein.
Lady Marmalade hosts an open-mic and spoken-word night inviting audiences to listen and speak up.
The veteran Dutch conceptual artist and biologist displays poetic works assembled from dried leaves, earth, and found natural elements.
The Dutch artist presents vividly coloured, apocalyptic drawings and paintings populated by sci-fi, occult, and cosmic imagery.
The Cuban artist presents conceptual work examining digital culture and alternative distribution networks outside formal online systems.
Pakistani contemporary artists Amra Khan, Naira Mushtaq, and Sehr Jalil show work questioning gender, ritual, and societal norms.
An exhibition exploring the design, social life, and evolution of public pavement space in post-war Amsterdam.
A group exhibition engaging with queer identity, memory and imagined futures in dialogue with the museum's historic religious setting.
The Dutch artist exhibits her monumental, intricately detailed charcoal drawings inspired by untamed nature and human psychology.
A preview of a show that uses live music, storytelling and poetry to portray Puglia as a small-scale picture of the Mediterranean.
A joint exhibition pairing Lou Ros's deconstructed figurative painting with Sanghyuk Kim's contemporary artistic practice.
MarxismNL's conference of talks and debates on Marxist politics, its title taken from Walter Benjamin's image of revolution as pulling the emergency brake.
The second edition of Ruimschoots, held at Het Vrijpaleis, a self-organised cultural free space run by artists and activists.
A funk band plays live at the Leidseplein-area music bar, which has bands on most nights.
The Dutch chamber group marks Valentine's Day with an intimate classical performance.
An audio-guided walking tour exploring the neighbourhood through women's voices, personal histories and urban memories.
The historic artists' society mounts a group exhibition centered on green themes, ecology, and nature.
A performance by theatre maker Ruth Borg at Frascati, the Amsterdam stage for experimental theatre and dance.
A printmaking exhibition presented by the Grafein foundation showcasing diverse contemporary relief, intaglio, and screen-printing techniques.
An exhibition at the Verwey Museum, Haarlem's museum of the city's history and art, running until 25 October.
Joenoes Polnaija, Tara Hetharia and Jefta Tanate present Kelapa Muda, whose title is Malay for 'young coconut'.
Contemporary artists challenge the rigid botanical classification systems established by 18th-century taxonomist Carl Linnaeus.
A programme about rest and slowing down at W139, the long-running artist-run space on the Warmoesstraat.
Leo Vroegindeweij and Ruth Meijer present sculpture and painting exploring form, memory, and perspective along the canal.
A historical exhibition or walking route dedicated to the Weesp cocoa manufacturer and innovator C.J. van Houten.
A historical presentation tracing traditional women's clothing, headwear, and customs of Volendam.
The opening of a new exhibition of work by artist Daniel Jacoby.
The Dutch co-founder of the Nul movement displays his signature assemblages made from discarded mass-produced everyday objects.
A group session on running form from Amsterdam running crew 020.RC, together with Shokz, the maker of open-ear sports headphones.
The Dutch artist shows her large-scale, intricate charcoal drawings exploring the intersections of lush vegetation and urban human presence.
Herinarivo Rakotomanana gives a talk about their practice and how they approach directing work whose outcome cannot be fully controlled.
Annemarie Libbers facilitates an intimate creative writing and lyrical composition session.
The Dutch sculptor shows new geometric, spatial works fashioned from industrial iron and steel.
The Croatian contemporary artist re-examines modernist heritage, institutional memory, and collective history through painting and display structures.
A visual art exhibition exploring botanical forms and verdant textures on view near Oosterdok.
A contemporary art exhibition exploring personal, collective, and sensory representations of memory.
A small display on how the smelly, unhealthy 19th-century city gave rise to the belief that nature and fresh air are good for body and mind.
A guest night featuring MUZUNGU, an act named after the Swahili word for a foreigner.
A local networking evening and speed-dating session organised for city-centre residents.
A close-up narrative cabaret performance centred on rumour, conversation, and storytelling in the venue's bite-sized theatre format.
In this hosting series, Rozenstraat hands its space to artist Daniel Jacoby, whose practice centres on video, animation and installation.
A relaxed afternoon of board games for people recovering from burnout, a low-pressure way to be social again.
The French artist exhibits delicate ceramic sculptures alongside drawings that blend organic shapes with architectural forms.
An exhibition of work by Tino Rademaker in Helicopter's art café.
A high-intensity interval training session outdoors in the Amsterdamse Bos.
A repair and craft session teaching participants how to pulp and recycle old paper into new sheets.
An event called 'Tegenvoeters', Dutch for antipodes or opposites, held in the Garnalenkerk.
A portrait exhibition showcasing the varied history and residents of Haarlem across the centuries.
An exhibition at a small contemporary art gallery on the Lijnbaansgracht, near the Leidseplein end of the canal belt.
Artists Mia Weiner and Johnny Mae Hauser explore physical form and connection through collaborative contemporary works.
An exhibition on local history reflecting on everyday village life and disrupted heritage.
An exhibition of artwork depicting the historic defensive gates that once guarded the perimeter of Haarlem.
Swimming classes tailored for children and adults with physical disabilities or chronic conditions.
The Italian artist installs a project drawing on dystopian fiction, linguistic shifts, and alternative historical narratives in the gallery's project space.
An exhibition tracing the environmental and economic histories of petroleum extraction and cotton farming.
A club night playing urban, Latin and party tracks in the city centre.
A library exhibition tracing local histories and personal memories through shared narratives.
A two-person dialogue between painter Han Schuil and installation-focused artist Ricardo van Eyk.
Emerging artist Klaartje van Essen presents new sculptural and installation work developed during her De Ateliers residency.
The central bank showcases pieces from its corporate art collection exploring unexpected perspectives and hidden details.
A critical exhibition revisiting how social background and class privilege shape the careers and institutions of the contemporary art world.
A development programme for Zuidoost residents under 30 looking to build practical skills and professional networks.
Dutch abstract painter Paul Drissen shows geometric, collage-based paintings that balance modernist order with playful, provisional forms.
DJs play an upbeat mix of hip-hop, R&B and chart hits on Rembrandtplein.
A weekly student-focused club night spanning hip-hop, house and R&B on Leidseplein.
A gallery group show probing land, material, and ecological uncertainties through contemporary painting and sculpture.
The artist-run space presents a collaborative exhibition exploring how personal and collective trauma are held and recalled.
A mid-week club night spinning R&B, hip-hop and house in the main hall of the Rembrandtplein venue.
The project room hosts a companion contemporary installation focused on transformation and growth.
Artists Amra Khan, Naira Mushtaq, and Sehr Jalil present works exploring history, memory, and how objects outlive their original functions.
A community storytelling workshop focusing on sharing and illuminating personal narratives.
Prints and drawings by the Dutch artist exploring mortality and the human body, displayed in the funeral museum's cafe.
An art dealership presents works by female artists, available with trial home placements.
A dual exhibition pairing sculptural earthworks with folded textile compositions.
An exhibition of surviving drawings, crafts, and memorabilia by the two sisters from the well-known regional industrial family.
A group exhibition examining how human presence, touch, and collective memory reverberate across material objects.
A beginners' improv course taught in Italian, covering the basics of making up scenes on the spot.
An art exhibition focused on luminous and colourful visual works.
The third chapter, “Making the Wave,” completes a three-part series preceded by “Floating on the Wave” and “Riding the Wave.”
A screening at the Westerpark cinema best known for championing Dutch film.
An exhibition exploring the varied artistic output of four creators from a single family.
Open outdoor play sessions for children at the local Erfgooiers playground.
An architectural exhibition examining post-war reconstruction urbanism and its contemporary renovations in Haarlem's Parkwijk.
A professional development workshop focused on career direction and leadership strategies for women.
Banned Books Week is an annual US campaign, started in 1982, that draws attention to attempts to censor or remove books from libraries and schools.
A pavement-facing window exhibition space hosts an open-ended art installation.
A try-out of Achter De Noten. A try-out is a preview performance of a new show before its official premiere.
The independent project space hosts a contemporary visual art exhibition.
A neighbourhood library presents an exhibition of work by the artist.
Anne Cappendijk presents an artistic exploration of public grief rituals, commemoration and everyday losses.
A morning of shared co-working for members of Equals, a community and workspace on the Keizersgracht.
Friday 9 October
An exhibition on the Rotterdam-born Abstract Expressionist who moved to New York and became famous for his raw, gestural paintings, including the Woman series.
The Canadian pop-punk band, known for 2000s hits like Welcome to My Life and I'm Just a Kid, play live.
The cultural centre's signature Friday night features an open programme of oral storytelling from local and visiting tale-tellers.
The zoo marks Purple Friday, the Dutch day when people wear purple to support LGBTQ+ young people, with a celebration of love in all its forms.
The Groningen indie-pop band, known for warm, melodic songs sung in English, plays Paradiso's main hall.
Richard Gadd's true story of being stalked, which started as a one-man stage show before it became the hit Netflix series.
A Latin music party with dancing spread across three floors.
A concert exploring tango and how far it can be stretched, from its traditional roots to more contemporary forms.
A hands-on cooking class led by a Japanese host, making ramen from scratch, with solo participants welcome.
The American band best known for their 1998 hit 'Kiss Me', fronted by singer Leigh Nash.
An interactive English-language session of songs, nursery rhymes, and picture books for young children.
A guided tour through the 17th-century canal house museum, celebrating a century of the city collection.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 Paris fairy tale, with Audrey Tautou as a shy café waitress who secretly meddles in the lives of the people around her.
The Dutch string orchestra, with violinist Liza Ferschtman and double bassist Rick Stotijn, plays music named after Janáček's 'Intimate Letters' quartet and Stravinsky's Suite Italienne.
The German-Dutch cabaret singer and performer, known for his flamboyant David Bowie tribute Starman and his take on Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
The Dutch singer and rapper behind hits like 'Smoorverliefd' and 'Reünie', known for his heartfelt Dutch-language pop.
An improvised musical, where performers make up the story and songs on the spot from audience suggestions, plus a set from Telltaled Trio.
A guided tour of the work of Henri Matisse, the French painter known for bold colour and his late paper cut-outs.
A hands-on introduction to foley, the craft of recording everyday sound effects like footsteps and rustling clothes in sync with film footage.
'Ambyar' is Javanese slang for heartbroken, made famous by Didi Kempot's sad campursari songs, so expect Indonesian music to sing along to.
An improvised comedy show at the English-language comedy theatre where performers make up scenes on the spot, often from audience suggestions.
A single-session beginners' pottery workshop where each person makes one handmade piece.
Youth theatre company De Toneelmakerij and DOX stage Lewis Carroll's story for ages eight and up, directed by Paul Knieriem.
A ceramics class where you choose glazes and apply them to plates, cups or bowls, which are then fired in a kiln.
A theatrical piece exploring toxic masculinity and modern misogyny through the prism of online influencer Andrew Tate.
The Berlin post-hardcore band, fronted by singer Maria Lessing, known for emotional, heavy songs that mix clean and screamed vocals.
A first edition of a kaseko party, celebrating Suriname's brass-and-drum-driven dance music, led by John Oldenstam with Edje Rust.
A hands-on session modelling and sculpting objects from clay, open to beginners.
The Glasgow band play indie rock with a post-punk edge and politically outspoken lyrics in Paradiso's smaller upstairs hall.
A social dance night built around samba de gafieira, the partnered ballroom samba that grew up in Rio de Janeiro's dance halls.
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Individual intuitive card consultations held in the historic canalside library.
Participants learn bead embroidery techniques to customise and repair second-hand garments.
The local market's resident sommelier leads an informal tasting of selected bottles paired with small bites.
A stage version of Richard Yates's 1961 novel about a suburban couple's falling-apart marriage, which was filmed in 2008 with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
The latest edition of Document Nederland, the Rijksmuseum's long-running photography commission recording Dutch society, this time about energy and the energy transition.
Around 25 booksellers set up stalls on the square selling second-hand and antiquarian books, prints, posters and magazines.
A walk you take on your own while listening to a recording, built around women's voices and stories.
Chef Alessandra, who grew up in Puglia, shows you how to make taralli, the crunchy ring-shaped savoury biscuits of her home region, and then you taste them.
The London band mixes jazz instruments with electronic production, making groove-led music that sits between a jazz gig and a club set.
A tango trio led by Argentine pianist Juan Pablo Dobal, with Gustavo Cabrera and Santiago Arias, plays in the intimate pianola museum.
A throwback party built around hits from past decades.
Relaxed games of riichi mahjong, the Japanese version of the Chinese tile game, at the public library and hosted by a Japanese language and culture group.
Musicians play live experimental computer music and noise in the Vondelbunker, a volunteer-run space inside a former nuclear shelter under the Vondelpark.
An adventurous jazz bill headlined by New York vocalist Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, known for fiery avant-garde jazz with harmonium and voice.
A session where you help make a national collective artwork that commemorates the Dutch history of slavery.
A guided tour of Het Zandkasteel, the former NMB bank headquarters in Zuidoost, built in the organic style by architects Alberts & Van Huut.
The Italian appliance brand SMEG hosts an afternoon workshop at its showroom on baking with sourdough.
Jona van Loenen looks at the enormous wealth held by the baby boomer generation and what it means for the generations that follow.
An eighties party night built around hits from that decade.
Soundpainting is a sign language for live composition, created by Walter Thompson, in which a conductor uses gestures to direct performers as they improvise.
A living-room style session from The Right to Ambivalence, a project exploring Black hair care that began with conversations in Amsterdam's East African community.
Fans can get their copy of the new release signed by DI-RECT, the rock band from The Hague behind hits like "Times Are Changing".
A week of events about Indigenous liberation at OT301, the Overtoom cultural centre in a former squat.
A lunchtime concert by the piano duo Rosa & Glukhovskiy, part of a festival devoted to music for two pianists.
A concert at the organ-focused venue, with a free lunch served before it starts.
A compact twenty-minute performance blending personal storytelling and humour about relocating from southern Italy to the Netherlands.
An organ concert at a venue in a former church in Oud-West that holds several organs; the title suggests a journey from hymn tunes to more experimental sound.
An author visit for children at the bookshop, part of Kinderboekenweek, the annual Dutch children's book week.
An immersive audiovisual screening pairing the British band's music with large-format digital visuals projected across walls and floors.
A communal neighbourhood dinner where local residents eat together in the former schoolhouse gym.
A communal vegan dinner served at the independent cultural centre.
A hands-on workshop exploring the modes, rhythms, and performance traditions of Eastern Mediterranean folk music.
Dries Verhoeven and Rieke Vos, makers of The Fortress for the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, discuss what art can still mean in a world adrift.
A dance party for people aged forty and over at the Amstelveen music venue.
A film screening presented by Asian Movie Night with the WYSIWYG and Indeks collectives, at the volunteer-run cinema in the Wilhelmina Pakhuis.
A talk with Marwa Omari, who reviews and recommends books on BookTok, the reading community on TikTok.
A sound bath is a relaxation session where you lie down and let sound wash over you, and this one is built around hip-hop.
A DJ night at Canvas, the seventh-floor bar and club at the top of the Volkshotel with views over the city.
An intimate jazz performance at a private address in the Jordaan, organised by Henry Hay, whose phone number is given for contact.
Interactive science-themed play classes for babies and toddlers, who come with a parent or carer.
The meteorologist and TV weather presenter and the HvA professor of behaviour change talk about why people so often act against what they know about climate.
An informal social evening in the Zuidas business district, run by a Meetup group that brings together people with Asian and African connections and anyone else interested.
A screen-free evening of relaxation and self-care for body and mind, hosted by TOC at the LUSH shop on Kalverstraat.
A show at Podium Mozaïek, the Bos en Lommer venue in a former church that programmes theatre, music and dance.
An audio film, meaning a story told in sound alone, about Federico García Lorca, the Spanish poet and playwright murdered in 1936, at the city's poetry centre.
The British pianist and organist, known for bringing jazz improvisation to the church organ, performs with Southern Bodies.
A party at Strandzuid, the city beach and events venue next to the RAI.
An evening of food, music and storytelling at Zaal 100, a small community venue in Amsterdam West.
A talk and discussion on the gap autistic people face in work, care and everyday life, the kind of social-issues programme Pakhuis de Zwijger hosts.
A live music night featuring jazz guitarist Jacob Artved.
Poetry readings by Levina van Winden, Pieter de Bruijn Kops, Layla Silbernberg and David Meijers.
A show at Podium Mozaïek, the Bos en Lommer stage in a former church; the title is the Dutch word for a skylight.
The launch of a new Dutch translation of Lady Nijō's confessions, a 13th-century Japanese court lady's frank memoir of life at the imperial court.
A party concept that starts and finishes early, for people who want a full night of dancing and still get home at a reasonable hour.
An informal after-work gathering where expats and Dutch locals meet, talk and network over drinks.
An edition of the Have You Met series looking at the right to ambivalence, meaning the freedom to hold mixed or conflicting feelings.
Organ recital by the Dutch organist Ben van Oosten, known for his recordings of French Romantic organ music by Widor, Vierne and others.
The Flemish poet and performer Maud Vanhauwaert, a former city poet of Antwerp, shares the stage with Roan Kasanmonadi.
A session for toddlers aged two and up and their parents or carers, with picture books read aloud while children sit on a lap.
A look at how HIV and AIDS have affected different communities, told through personal stories more than forty years after the epidemic began in the US and Europe.
A live music night of punk and rock bands at the NDSM wharf venue.
A stand-up comedy show in which Said El Hassnaoui finds the humour in love.
The fourth instalment of a talk series at the maritime museum, this one with Sedrig Verwoert as guest.
Dutch writer and artist Dirk Vis, who writes about technology and digital culture, presents Spiritmaking/Maak Geest and Study Trip at the art bookshop.
A shared soup meal where strangers sit down together and get talking.
A monthly informal drinks evening for entrepreneurs, professionals and anyone who likes meeting new people and trading ideas.
Floris Kegel, Vergilius and Fietsband play a night of bands using improvisation to take their music in new directions.
A screening of the Dutch drama about Nina and Eli as their parents divorce, suitable for ages six and up.
Labasheeda, a long-running Amsterdam art-rock band known for its angular guitar, violin and post-punk edge, plays at Helicopter's Treehouse.
A morning yoga practice open to beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
A guided morning session of gentle meditative movement and breathwork.
A community gardening session where volunteers can tend vegetables and help maintain the site.
A regular volunteer work morning carrying out practical nature management and conservation tasks in the woods.
Singing lessons led by the Dutch jazz singer and theatre maker Astrid Seriese.
A late-night electronic music party running through the early morning hours.
A community gardening afternoon tending to the shared plots at the self-managed cultural community in Amsterdam-Noord.
An informal social gathering hosted in the hostel lounge for travellers and locals to connect.
A performance presented by Resonated Harmonies at the Torpedo Theater, a small theatre in the old city centre.
The Leidseplein live music bar hosts its regular rock night featuring loud cover bands and classic anthems.
Kleintjekunst runs a free weekly play atelier where babies, toddlers and their parents explore clay, water, fabric and other materials.
The opening of a new exhibition at W139, the long-running artist-run space for contemporary art in the city centre.
Two new productions open on the same evening at the Flemish arts centre in the city centre.
Michiel Lieuwma appears in De Balie's Plein Publiek series at the Leidseplein centre for debate, politics, film and culture.
A discussion about the ethical questions raised by technology and how far criticism of it can actually go.
A performance by Joanne Telesford at the Meervaart, the large theatre in Nieuw-West.
A band whose name nods to 'Wayfaring Stranger', the traditional American folk song.
A programme at Pakhuis de Zwijger, the Amsterdam talks and debate centre, built around the idea of 'stubborn optimism'.
A club night with DJ sets from Drabes, Nosso, Omari and Steph Andrew, held under the Soft Focus name.
A theatre show at Bellevue, the Leidsekade venue known for cabaret, comedy and smaller theatre productions.
A group work session where people bring laptops, put their phones away and spend set periods on focused work alongside each other.
Cannibale Royale, the Amsterdam restaurant chain known for grilled meat and burgers, holds a dinner event at its Rozengracht branch.
An extreme metal bill with two Italian bands and one Dutch band, including the Italian depressive black metal act Afraid of Destiny.
A presentation of work by Farah Coppola, open until 30 October.
A talk and debate on the future of the Dutch social security system and who it should protect.
A padel tournament open to all levels; padel is a doubles racket sport, a cross between tennis and squash, played in a walled court.
In a gong bath you lie down while gongs are played around you, and a cacao ceremony means sharing a ceremonial cacao drink, here timed to the new moon.
A jam session, where musicians drop in and improvise together, held as a clubhouse gathering at Kindervreugd.
A relaxed music night in the Meervaart's smaller studio space, set up like a café.
A club night with an over-20s door policy at the Rembrandtplein club and restaurant.
A concert for older visitors at the public library; the title is Spanish for 'romances of the soul'.
A guided tour of Amsterdams GOED's temporary solar park on Strandeiland, with its 4,264 solar panels.
A concert in Paradiso's smaller upstairs hall, the Bovenzaal.
Team Laika play a live show at Scala; the listing gives no further detail about the act.
The name is Dutch slang for 'house party' (fissa means party), so expect a casual night out.
A library event in Weesp, which became part of Amsterdam in 2022, about the many cultures found in the town.
Community sessions offering Japanese shiatsu bodywork, working along traditional meridian channels.
An informal coffee morning where neighbours drop in, meet one another and chat.
An accessible group exercise session designed to get local neighbours moving together.
A community peer-support group offering fresh mothers a shared space to talk about postpartum life.
Local women gather for an informal afternoon of embroidery and social conversation.
A relaxed social walk through the park aimed at local residents.
A brisk, guided fitness walk through the North Amsterdam park designed for outdoor exercise.
An informal weekly gathering for activists, hackers, and the local community to connect over open-source tech.
Two acts share a live music bill at De Kring, the artists' society club near Leidseplein.
A regular underground club night dedicated to techno and tech house.
Amsterdams GOED and Robin Doet host a meeting on sharing locally generated power within an energy community, and no prior knowledge is needed.
A free event at the neighbourhood theatre in a former bathhouse on the Boerhaavestraat in Oost.
A neighbourhood bingo with prizes, at two euros per card, paid in cash.
Students from baritone Pierre Mak's singing class at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam perform oratorio repertoire.
A simple shared soup meal, the kind of low-key gathering where people drop in to eat and talk.
A theatre show whose title translates as 'Enough About Me'.
Yoga nidra, or 'yogic sleep', is a guided deep-relaxation practice done lying down, with a teacher talking you through your body and breath.
A free event under the Groundless Society name at Het Dorp.
Spanish language lessons for adult learners, held at a branch of Amsterdam's public library.
A social morning gathering tailored for Chinese residents aged fifty and over.
Neighbours gather for an informal morning of hot drinks, sweet treats, and casual chat.
An evening gathering with worship and fellowship at the local church.
A series of group meetings in Ganzenhoef, Zuidoost, about building personal strength and supporting one another.
T.B.A. means “to be announced,” so the listing has not yet identified the event.
Vrankrijk's weekly punk night at the long-running squatted bar is closed on 9 October because of ADM Fest.
The landmark survey brings together the Japanese artist's signature polka dots, Infinity Mirror Rooms, and monumental soft sculptures.
Around 80 works lent by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including Matisse's La Blouse roumaine, shown alongside paintings by Rothko, Picasso and Barnett Newman.
The annual showcase of the world's most compelling award-winning photojournalism and documentary photography returns to Amsterdam.
The monthly open-air design market brings makers, artists and food stalls to the museum lawns.
A month of family activities at the national museum, including Story Rescuers, a new family quest that sends visitors on a secret mission through the collection.
An interactive science and technology exhibition focusing on the history, physics, and programming behind video games.
A free guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition, the annual showcase of the year's prizewinning photojournalism, on until 25 October.
Stalls selling artisanal produce, hot food and handmade goods rotate through the city's parks on Sundays.
The science museum's hands-on floor lets visitors experiment with everyday engineering, household technology, and clean energy.
A major retrospective by the renowned photographer known for monumental landscapes, portraits and atmospheric explorations of human impact.
Over 150 monumental street art murals, painted on-site by international artists, fill a former shipyard warehouse.
Citywide arts festival staging performances, tours, and special events across various participating Amsterdam museums.
An exhibition showing the commercial textile patterns, garments, and decorative fabrics designed by the pop artist in the 1950s and 1960s.
An exhibition on Henri Matisse, the French painter known for his bold colour, his Fauvist work and his late paper cut-outs.
Hands-on workshops, games, and maritime activities designed for children and families.
A digital projection show rendering the Dutch master's fantastically detailed depictions of heaven, hell and sin into large-scale animations.
An exhibition for children featuring the intricate, detail-rich illustrations of Dutch picture-book maker Charlotte Dematons.
An animated digital installation bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novella and its philosophical meditations on life to light.
Dance event pioneers ID&T present a sensory labyrinth of light, sound, and interactive technology in the Elementenstraat warehouse.
The exhibition explores the pop artist's commercial textile designs from the 1950s and 1960s, printed with novelty patterns and playful motifs.
This edition honours Lou Lichtveld, also known as Albert Helman, a Dutch-Surinamese writer, composer, organist, politician and resistance fighter.
Local independent makers, designers, and craftspeople sell handmade wares inside the former tram depot.
Direct conversations and oral histories shared with survivors of the Holocaust.
The festival organisers stage a walkthrough experience using lasers, lights, and electronic soundscapes across several rooms.
Lewis Carroll's story of Alice falling down the rabbit hole, told through dance, music and projected images for children aged 8 and up.
Original stencils, screen prints, and authenticated indoor works by the elusive Bristol street artist are on permanent display.
The national museum displays textiles, costumes, and everyday garments highlighting traces of wear and historical repairs.
Sinfonia Rotterdam plays well-known hits live while 180-degree projected visuals surround the audience.
The painter's former home displays etching and drawing techniques to show how Rembrandt pushed the boundaries of his craft.
The photographer presents vivid, stylised portraits celebrating the fashion and contemporary identity of people from Xinjiang.
The contemporary Spanish-Dutch painter presents new works in dialogue with Francisco de Goya's iconic etchings, Los Disparates.
Alan J. Pakula's 1976 Watergate drama, with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as reporters Woodward and Bernstein, shown in a 4K restoration.
STRAAT explores the fundamental visual elements of graffiti culture, from lettering and tags to rhythm and line work.
Morning yoga session held surrounded by Vincent van Gogh's masterworks.
A family exhibition exploring magic, illusions and ritual in Jewish culture and folklore.
A 4K restoration of Studio Ghibli's 2010 animated film, adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, about a tiny girl living secretly beneath the floorboards of a house.
Shostakovich's 1959 comic operetta, originally Moscow, Cheryomushki, about a housing shortage, speculators and love, sung in English and suitable for ages 10 and up.
An immersive digital experience that recreates the streets and canals of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
A fixed lunch arrangement served at the fortress island of Pampus, accessible by ferry across the IJmeer.
A practical painting and drawing class focused on composition, colour and expressive brushwork inspired by Vincent van Gogh.
Visitors walk together through a virtual reconstruction of 17th-century Amsterdam, choosing their own route and seeing everyday life of the time; part of History Month.
Sculptures by the Dutch modernist, known for his stark geometric forms in steel, leather, and found materials, are installed across the museum's open-air grounds.
A free 2.1 km walk through the centre past 34 sculptures by 64 artists, all carved from felled Amsterdam city trees, with a public vote for a favourite.
A club night at the skate café, headlined by a live set from the German rapper and singer Ace Tee, known for the 90s-style R&B hit Bist du down?, plus a long list of DJs.
Outdoor art route placing site-specific sculptures and installations along the walking paths of the Amsterdamse Bos.
A family-friendly interactive exhibition exploring mythology, nature, and the symbolic wisdom of ravens across different world cultures.
A behind-the-scenes guided tour through the costume departments, stages, and rehearsal halls of the opera house.
Crate-digging market inside the covered passage of De Hallen, featuring independent record vendors selling vinyl across multiple genres.
An introduction to graffiti and the stories behind well-known street art, at the street art museum in a former NDSM shipyard hall.
Daniel Szalai presents 166 hens of the Novogen breed, a commercial egg-laying hen, as 166 individuals, at Droog's space on Staalstraat.
October is the national History Month, with history outings for children across the country, including a dark church, the Boevenbus and the Romans.
A chance to explore Muiden, the small fortified town east of Amsterdam with star-shaped ramparts and the medieval Muiderslot castle.
A holiday workshop where a child aged seven or over and an adult make their own piece of electronic music together.
An open rehearsal for the orchestra's Friends, with the American pianist Emanuel Ax playing music by film composer John Williams.
The private museum showcases street works, prints, and stencils by the elusive British artist.
Learn the fundamentals of silkscreening and print your own custom design onto t-shirts in this hands-on studio session.
Visitors on the fortress island can observe licensed ornithologists capturing, measuring, and banding wild birds for ongoing scientific research.
A brief, family-friendly Dutch-language opera performance staged on the platform of an Amsterdam metro station.
The idiosyncratic Dutch jazz guitarist and composer plays an intimate set in the historic former stock exchange.
An exhibition marking the city's 750th anniversary, tracing Amsterdam's history through key moments and archival records.
A broad survey of modern and contemporary art, design, and photography from the museum's permanent holdings.
Illusionist Rico Weeland stages an intimate evening of magic, mentalism, and storytelling.
Interactive light and digital installations invite visitors into responsive, mirror-filled rooms.
The presentation examines clothing from 1640 to 1930 that bears physical signs of wear, tailoring, mending, and daily life.
An outdoor and community exhibition presented in collaboration with Middle East Archive, a digital platform documenting everyday life and visual culture across the region.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the concert hall's architecture and acoustics before attending the free midday performance.
A retrospective dedicated to the influential Indonesian-Dutch industrial and interior designer best known for designing Schiphol Airport's original interiors.
Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Tim Curry star in this musical 1996 Muppets adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel.
Drawing in the Royal Palace on Dam Square as part of October drawing month, inside Jacob van Campen's 17th-century former city hall.
An exhibition celebrating early trailblazers and foundational works in digital and video installation art.
An exhibition tracing decades of LGBTQIA+ community life, activism, pride celebrations, and resilience across Amsterdam.
The Anglo-French comedian, known for her online videos about cultural differences, looks at her mother's life choices in a new stand-up show.
An outdoor photography exhibition in Amsterdam West presented by Foam and the digital storytelling platform Middle East Archive.
The exhibition examines the global supply chains of cocoa, sugar, and palm oil behind the beloved Dutch breakfast staple.
Sightseeing boats navigate the moat and outer waterways surrounding the star-shaped fortress town.
Children learn about life in space through hands-on experiments, surrounded by more than 100 aircraft and helicopters at the aviation museum in Lelystad.
An urban nature event exploring the wildlife that shares the city, including how animals adapt to winter.
An exhibition featuring the Congolese artists' cooperative CATPC, exploring post-colonial ecology, labour, and restitution.
A guided tasting session exploring the culinary customs and flavours of the Dutch Renaissance in the castle grounds.
The contemporary art museum's basement level hosts large-scale room projections, light works, and screen-based installations.
An evening of casual painting using glow-in-the-dark acrylics while enjoying a glass of wine.
A three-part performance that joins Portuguese fado song with Kathak, the classical North Indian storytelling dance.
Hiba Salameh leads a listening session that traces Palestine's history through its music and recorded sound.
The Friday of a festival that grew out of the former ADM squat in the western harbour, known for DIY art, music and alternative culture.
The acclaimed Dutch children's book illustrator exhibits her intricately detailed drawings.
The French electronic world music project known for 1990s hits like 'Sweet Lullaby', which won a Grammy for the album 'Boheme'.
Actor and singer Maarten Heijmans, known for playing Ramses Shaffy, teams up with musician Xander Vrienten on a music theatre show whose title means 'Waiting for Death'.
Organist Ere Lievonen and flautist Raymond Honing explore the Fokker organ, whose 31-tone tuning opens up sounds beyond conventional keyboards.
Sightseeing boat cruises along the scenic Vecht river past historic estates and tea houses.
Historical reenactors demonstrate traditional musket-firing and military drills inside the Naarden fortress museum.
Exhibition dedicated to the people, history, and traditions of Amsterdam's landmark seventeenth-century Portuguese Synagogue.
Ornithologists demonstrate the process of catching, ringing, and releasing migratory birds stopping over on the fortress island.
A hands-on workshop in cutting and spraying stencils, a classic street art technique, at the street art museum in NDSM.
American photographer Norman Gershman's portraits of Albanian Muslims who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust, honouring besa, a traditional promise of protection.
Forest biologist Nico leads a guided nature walk through the Amsterdamse Bos.
The American artist examines identity, gender, and celebrity culture through self-portraiture that mimics glossy fashion shoots and consumer advertising.
Piano duos play music for two pianos and four hands, from Bach and Schubert to the minimalists Philip Glass and Steve Reich, plus new work, at venues around the city.
A solo show by the Amsterdam painter known for large, vivid canvases about Black identity and life in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
A weekend of activities exploring how sound, colour and taste cross over in sensory perception.
Toddlers and young children get free-jumping access to the trampolines during a session tailored for little ones.
The exhibition highlights textile designs and fabric works created by artists linked to the mid-century avant-garde Cobra movement.
A hands-on leatherwork workshop where you cut, stitch and finish a leather bag of your own to take home.
Wednesday creative workshops for children aged five and up, run by Motherhood Amsterdam until 16 December.
The Scottish artist best known for The Islanders, a long-running project that maps an imaginary island through drawings, sculpture and text.
A hands-on workshop guiding participants through traditional cold-process soapmaking using natural ingredients.
The Dutch sisters behind De Sekszusjes use a game-show format to discuss sex, challenge myths and share practical information.
A dedicated cinema programme spotlighting seminal films from the 1990s.
A retrospective examining the turbulent life and intensely emotional, colourful paintings of the Dutch modern expressionist.
A hands-on workshop introducing the textiles, dressing traditions and etiquette of the Japanese kimono.
Al Nisa (Arabic for 'the women') is a photography exhibition with Foam, based on Middle East Archive's latest publication.
Akim Moiseenkov creates imaginative concerts designed to engage both children and adults.
An exhibition of outsider art, meaning work by self-taught artists outside the art world, many of whom have experience of psychiatric care.
Audio stops created for the museum's Body Stories research programme, which you can listen to in the Rijksmuseum app as part of History Month.
An indoor jump session on connected trampolines and obstacle courses.
Professional artists set up stalls on the Spui square every Sunday to sell paintings, prints, and ceramics directly to passersby.
A guided bicycle ride along city canals and neighbourhood streets covering local history and architecture.
Graduating second-year resident artists from the prestigious post-academic institute exhibit their work in the historic Ateliers building.
An interactive photo exhibition for the Month of History that sets the past of the fortress island Pampus alongside its present.
Showcase spotlighting cutting-edge graduate collections from the Netherlands' top fashion academy alumni.
An interactive, multi-sensory tour of the museum designed specifically for blind and visually impaired visitors.
The Weesp craft brewery holds its own Oktoberfest-style celebration of beer, in the spirit of the Munich festival.
An exhibition at STRAAT, the large street art and graffiti museum in a former shipyard warehouse on the NDSM wharf in Noord.
Guests share family-style platters prepared with local and sustainable produce at this countryside restaurant venue.
The museum investigates the origins, artist, and identity of the sitter in an enigmatic Golden Age portrait.
A small-group salon boat tour departs from the five-star hotel along the Amstel river.
The castle estate opens its historic gardens and parkland to showcase seasonal spring and summer blossoms.
Kijk maar eens goed! shows work by Charlotte Dematons, the illustrator known for detailed picture books like The Yellow Balloon that reward close looking.
An exhibition exploring the closely entwined life, thoughts, and literary oeuvre of Franz Kafka.
Turkish actors Şevket Çoruh and İlker Ayrık in a comedy about two actors trying to stage Hamlet with little more than a few planks.
Display of the freshly conserved sixteenth-century altarpiece depicting the descent from the cross in the attic church.
A fair of zines and prints built around jugaad, the South Asian idea of resourceful improvisation and making do with what you have.
A clothing swap where you bring clothes you no longer wear and trade them for someone else's, instead of buying new.
Leiden's annual international film festival, screening new feature films from around the world at venues across the city.
A hands-on ceramics class teaching throwing and shaping clay on the potter's wheel.
The Dutch fashion photographer presents two decades of imagery documenting the standout graduation show for rising designers.
Large-scale sculptures by the influential Dutch constructivist and modernist are placed throughout the museum's outdoor grounds.
Instructors teach basic clay shaping and texturing techniques to help you sculpt an object, figure, or abstract form.
An informal board game meetup designed to help Dutch language learners practice their speaking skills while playing games.
A free language workshop and informal café where learners practice spoken Dutch together in a relaxed setting.
An exhibition exploring the realities of independence struggles across Africa, Suriname, and the Caribbean.
An introductory walkthrough of the photography museum's current exhibitions led by an in-house guide.
Musicians are invited to bring their instruments and sit in with the blues club's house band.
An informal conversation circle where Dutch learners of all levels chat over coffee to build their everyday speaking confidence.
Practice Dutch, English, Spanish, and other languages over drinks in an informal mixer.
British trance DJ and producer Thrillseekers plays a seven-hour set from open to close.
An exhibition exploring the complex debates, ethics and practices surrounding the restitution of colonial-era heritage items.
A thematic walkthrough exploring the collection and modern art history through LGBTQIA+ perspectives.
Taxidermy duo Sinke & Van Tongeren present their theatrical, Old Master-inspired arrangements of exotic preserved birds and animals.
Comedian Rami Nima hosts an evening of stand-up comedy featuring up-and-coming and established acts.
The French string quartet, celebrated for their Russian repertoire, performs works by Weinberg, Prokofiev, and Beethoven.
As part of the Month of History, the fortress island in the IJmeer looks at how weeks of isolated island life affected the body and mind of the people stationed there.
The museum displays patterned skirts and wearable textiles designed by key painters and sculptors of the post-war CoBrA movement.
The celebrated British tenor and his longtime collaborative pianist perform nineteenth-century lieder by Wolf and Schubert.
A hands-on craft session covering the practical techniques, ingredients, and chemistry needed to create natural bar soaps.
A record release party with Soundway Records, the London label known for reissuing tropical and Afro-Latin music, with several DJs and a live set from Juny Martina.
An open-air secondhand market selling pre-loved clothes, homeware, and garden finds.
An exhibition named after hagelslag, the chocolate sprinkles the Dutch eat on bread, built around the idea of building a new world together.
An evening of self-care with phones put away, run together with Lush, the handmade cosmetics and bath products brand.
A craft class on upcycling, which means turning old or discarded materials into new and useful objects.
A queer club night focused on upbeat pop tracks and electronic dance anthems in the Houthavens.
Children aged eight and up can explore coniferous tree species from around the globe across the botanical garden.
The Dutch stand-up comedian, known from the Comedytrain circuit, brings his solo show to the Nieuw-West theatre.
A guided interior tour through Hilversum's iconic modernist town hall designed by architect Willem Marinus Dudok.
An open mic night on the hotel rooftop, where anyone can sign up to play a few songs.
A swap event where people bring art, design pieces and collectible objects and trade them with others instead of buying and selling.
Interactive play and sensory learning activities designed for young children.
An overnight gong ceremony in which gongs are played for hours while listeners lie down and let the sound wash over them.
The documentary follows Dutch-Caribbean artists who use dominoes as a way to think about life; the evening also includes a game of dominoes.
An architectural model exhibition exploring the extensive future urban development plans for Amsterdam's northern docklands.
The Viennese indie band, fronted by Sophie Lindinger, plays raw-guitar songs that move between grunge, post-punk and pop.
A vocal group from the Dutch TV talent show One & Only, where they finished third after covering Miguel's 'Sure Thing' and Tevin Campbell's 'Can We Talk'.
Composer Kate Moore turns ideas about landscape and long-distance walking into contemporary music, performed here with Herz Ensemble.
A group exhibition of fifteen emerging artists from Belgium who explore home and community through art, rituals and spirituality.
New work by Scottish artist Charles Avery, known for The Islanders, his long-running project imagining a fictional island through drawing, sculpture and text.
The city's largest city farm, in Westerpark, which has recently gone through a lot of changes and renovation.
An exhibition exploring gender transformation, performance, and shifting bodily identity through archaeological artefacts and contemporary culture.
An interactive exhibition space exploring archaeological discovery, material culture, and how finds are catalogued.
A karaoke night at Casablanca, a Zeedijk bar known for karaoke, where you can sing alone or with a group.
A guided behind-the-scenes tour of the striking modern concert hall on the IJ waterfront.
Self-taught pianist Sem Kramer, who can't read music and improvises everything between classical and jazz, celebrates his birthday and the release of The Flow, Vol. 1.
Ceramicist Anita Kluge leads a hands-on clay modelling workshop blending craft and storytelling.
A pop-up preview of outsider art: work by self-taught makers outside the official art world, often people with experience of psychiatric illness.
Buttechno, the Russian producer Pavel Milyakov known for lo-fi techno and ambient, plays live alongside DJs Andy Garvey and Lara Renner.
The Texas psychedelic band started out with psych-pop and moved towards trippier, more experimental sounds, but its DIY roots still show.
Exhibition of photography by the Dutch-Uruguayan artist known for her portraits exploring gender, identity, and memory.
The visual artist presents installations and performances reflecting on post-colonial history, identity and Caribbean heritage.
An interactive audio-visual walking tour around Amsterdam East designed for children aged seven and up.
The South African artist Wim Botha, known for sculptures carved from stacked books, wood and other unlikely materials, shows at Stevenson's Amsterdam space.
Two free Waternet audio tours, one through the city centre and one through the Amsterdam Waterleidingduinen dunes, tell the history behind a glass of tap water.
A self-guided walking route detailing maritime history and architectural landmarks around the Oosterdok docklands.
Part of NDSM's XPO exhibition series, this show uses the selfie to explore identity, connection and community.
Photography exhibition exploring personal reflections, tributes, and diverse cultural perspectives on mortality.
A creative workshop designed to introduce young children to looking at and making art.
An exhibition at the museum of funeral culture exploring the relationship between traffic, transit and mortality.
A guided tour open to all of the Stadsschouwburg, the city theatre on the Leidseplein that dates from the 1890s.
An exhibition exploring the intersection of Lutheran faith, openness, and queer community history in Amsterdam.
The first listed work, Manu Mpasi’s “Le Monologue de l’Aube,” reflects on living between different worlds as part of a three-work performance bill.
Hands-on clay modelling workshop guiding participants through basic sculpting and shaping techniques.
A weekly social dance night featuring salsa, bachata, and reggaeton.
A temporary display exploring how the Dutch look for love, companionship, and connection through historical and modern media.
A chance to see an art collection shown in the Muntstaete building and its depot, a place not usually open as a gallery.
An exhibition on the Liga Nieuw Beelden, the 1950s Dutch association that brought abstract art, architecture and design together, held in sculptor André Volten's former studio.
An architectural look at Haven-Stad, Amsterdam’s developing port-city district, which could eventually add up to 70,000 homes.
An evening devoted to fresh oysters and paired drinks at the hotel's bar.
A monthly dance afternoon on the last Sunday, with swing classics and familiar Dutch and international favourites for anyone who likes to dance.
A pub-style music quiz where teams answer questions about songs and artists over drinks.
The University of Amsterdam’s archaeology museum displays ancient glassware from Roman, Egyptian, and Mediterranean collections.
A guided walk from the historic Red Light District house highlighting influential women in the city's social history.
Explore the striking Amsterdam School architecture of the historic shipping headquarters, now a luxury hotel, during this regular Sunday package.
A bock beer tour, tasting the dark, malty seasonal beers that appear in Dutch bars every autumn.
Bram Bakker, the Dutch psychiatrist and author who argues for exercise as part of mental health care, explores how to move smarter with Fabio D'Agata.
The Dutch designer displays playful sculptures and everyday design objects repurposed from obsolete collectables and materials.
A programme of short films about cycling, from the touring Big Bike Film Night series.
Gunther von Hagens's exhibition of plastinated human bodies, focusing on the anatomical science of happiness and wellbeing.
The Dutch-Brazilian net artist, known for using websites as canvases, presents his book-based and printed projects.
Nine contemporary artists of Moluccan descent examine their roots, shared heritage and cultural identity through varied media.
A showcase celebrating contemporary creative voices and heritage across the Moluccan diaspora in the Netherlands.
An exhibition exploring the movement, culture and sensory experience of swimming through contemporary art.
The Dutch textile artist is internationally acclaimed for her tactile wool felt works dyed with heritage plants she cultivates herself.
Photographer Tomás Mauro presents a participatory project connecting strangers through portraits and written notes.
An exhibition exploring the history and lived experiences of the Moluccan community in Amsterdam seventy-five years after their arrival in the Netherlands.
An open-air photography exhibition displayed along the boulevard at the Sloterplas.
A discussion exploring themes of identity, displacement, and community.
A festival-style bill of metal bands playing live.
The university heritage museum displays ancient glassware alongside recent research into classical glassmaking techniques.
A group presentation featuring work by established names of modern and street-influenced art.
The museum surveys the intense, psychological canvases and watercolours of the Dutch Expressionist painter.
The renowned South African visual activist presents photographic portraits documenting Black LGBTQIA+ communities.
A retrospective survey dedicated to the Dutch artist best known for his minimalist wire sculptures, drawings, and luminous cityscape silhouettes.
The Vienna-born, Dubai-raised singer-songwriter performs his emotional, classically influenced pop.
An informal session offering a chance to meet artists and bio-designers currently working in the waterfront lab's studios.
A guided physical movement workshop connecting participants to the natural environment of the Sloterplas lake.
Experimental ensemble Jam With Humans stages an evening of interactive music and improvisation inside an independent bookshop.
The emerging photographer presents work examining memory, personal archives and unseen perspectives of family life.
An open creative studio session where you choose a medium and work at your own pace with hands-on materials.
A retrospective examining the foundational 1970s and 80s work of the seminal Dutch video-art distribution and research platform.
An immersive digital light and projection experience that surrounds visitors with life-sized prehistoric creatures in their ancient habitats.
Artist Miquel Hervás Gómez leads a hands-on workshop transforming publication waste into fresh handmade sheets of paper.
The Dutch pioneer of internet art presents digital works examining how computational materials interact with physical space.
Portraits and personal histories chronicling the community surrounding Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue.
A personal storytelling session recounting experiences and legacies connected to the Holocaust.
An outdoor sculpture garden exhibiting contemporary three-dimensional artworks amidst landscaped grounds.
Artists in the NDSM shipyard explore self-portraiture, digital image manipulation, and narcissism in modern culture.
Practical studio session introducing ceramic glazing techniques, finishes, and colour application for pottery.
A retrospective examining the modernist architecture and town planning of Hilversum's influential municipal architect Willem Marinus Dudok.
A DJ night with two selectors at Radio Radio.
Named after Baudrillard's phrase about simulation, later quoted in The Matrix, at the Amsterdam centre for debate, film and culture.
Textile artist Claudy Jongstra pairs her signature felted, raw wool pieces with works by guest artists exploring sustainable material processes.
The Milanese rapper, a long-standing name in Italian hip-hop, performs live.
The exhibition examines how artists assemble cut paper, found imagery, and photographs to build composite visual narratives.
A guided architectural tour of Jan Duiker's iconic modernist sanatorium complex in Hilversum.
Guided tours exploring the city archives and the monumental 1920s architecture of the former bank building on Vijzelstraat.
A guided walking and sketching excursion exploring the surrounding streets with drawing materials in hand.
A tactile scale model allows visitors to experience the architecture of the waterfront and the Arcam building through touch.
A community creative making session hosted at the contemporary art space in Amsterdam-Noord.
An interactive photography exhibition in which visitors take part rather than only look at the pictures.
A performance about how traditions in Suriname’s Maroon communities continue to change over time.
An exhibition showcasing contemporary visual art and cross-disciplinary projects from the Low Countries.
Contemporary artists explore selfhood and belonging in a collaborative group exhibition.
A walking trail themed around animals, aimed at children and families.
An exhibition on how nature and culture relate, at the stacked-container art space on the former NDSM shipyard in Noord, running until 11 October.
An exhibition dedicated to the mid-century rescue and reconstruction of historic wooden windmills and houses along the Zaan.
A library display of plates and food stories from people in Nieuw-West, showing the cooking traditions found across the neighbourhood.
Retrospective covering the long career of the celebrated Haarlem painter known for his atmospheric still lifes and studio interiors.
The celebrated Dutch sculptor shows expressive works crafted from handblown glass, textile, and ceramics.
A ten-hour marathon set from Nina de Koning, hosted by Plaatwerkerij in the former school building on the Postjeskade.
An exhibition by Dina Danish, the Cairo-born, Amsterdam-based artist whose playful work deals with language, translation and misunderstanding.
During Accessibility Week the museum focuses on making its building and stories easier to reach for visitors with disabilities.
An exhibition at Droog, the Dutch design label known for conceptual, witty takes on everyday objects.
A club night at Club UP; qori is the Quechua word for gold.
A programme at the Amsterdam centre for debate, film and journalism, which usually pairs a screening or presentation with discussion.
An exhibition at the museum of Lutheran history exploring the heritage and resilience of the queer community.
A run of neighbourhood restaurant evenings on four dates at The Beach, Notweg 38, in the Tuinen van West area.
An interdisciplinary afternoon exploring art publications and cinema at the canal-house art space.
Interactive community project exchanging handwritten postcards with library visitors to explore social connections.
A performance by theatre maker Ehsan Hemat about the body, at the Flemish cultural centre in the city centre.
Participants in a four-day training demonstrate and playtest prototype serious games designed to explore urban planning and civic challenges.
Ms. Lauren and guests including Bao G, Essi Chia and Houss take over the café at the Noord skate park for a night of DJ sets.
The Rum Punch party teams up with Shannergy for a night at the former gasworks site in Westerpark.
A techno night in OT301, the former squat turned cultural centre on the Overtoom.
An exhibition of work by the artist Tycho at the museum devoted to the history of Amsterdam's canal ring.
A showcase exploring micro-housing, modular design, and efficient urban living solutions at Haarlem's architecture centre.
A visual arts exhibition spotlighting local creative talent and community stories.
An indie night with three guitar bands, including Goodbye from the UK, in the small living-room-style venue on the Frederik Hendrikstraat.
A live band at Maloe Melo, the small Jordaan bar known for blues, roots and rock'n'roll.
A performance by Dizzi Geetha, a queer Sri Lankan artist living in the Netherlands who works as a theatre maker, composer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ.
Niall McGuigan plays at Mulligans, the Irish pub on the Amstel known for nightly live Irish and folk music.
The Dutch painter and illustrator displays works celebrating female bodies, desire, and bodily vulnerability through soft, vibrant color.
The Doppelgang collective chooses the DJs for a night at Shelter, the underground club beneath A'DAM Toren.
The Dutch artist, a co-founder of the Nul movement, is celebrated for his serial assemblages of found and discarded everyday objects.
An exhibition exploring life and permanence through printmaking and graphic arts.
An exhibition reflecting on family, memory loss, and grief at the national museum dedicated to funeral heritage.
An exhibition considering the intersection of natural ecology and human epochs at the NDSM-based art space.
A discussion of the choices and challenges involved in using district heating as a sustainable alternative to individual electric heat pumps.
The Dutch artist displays whimsical ceramic creatures and eccentric character sculptures.
An evening of music with Lucite in the Werkplaats, the Volkshotel's ground-floor space.
The contemporary art gallery hosts an exhibition exploring myth, memory, and material culture.
A conversation about why people are eating less meat and dairy, from animal welfare and health to climate concerns and food.
A group show by Sint Lucas, one of Amsterdam's oldest artists' associations, in the former baggage hall on the KNSM island.
Community repair event where volunteers help fix broken household appliances, clothing, electronics, and bicycles.
A four-session series in which the same small group meets repeatedly to get to know each other.
View a private collection of paintings, sculptures, and etchings housed in a historic building beside the Munttoren.
A club night playing Latin grooves, soulful house, and global party rhythms.
A display of freestyle brushwork on Chinese rice paper, exploring dynamic floral forms and vivid color.
The Dutch-Uruguayan photographer shows portraits exploring identity, gender and cultural belonging in the museum's project space.
Take a self-guided 90-minute walking route exploring the history and architecture around the Oosterdok basin.
The Dutch fine art photographer presents contemplative black-and-white prints examining emotional resonance, ageing, and natural transition.
Part of the Oogstweken, a workday that opens with a walk, a story and time to notice the surroundings, as a way to reconnect with nature.
An exhibition exploring personal roots, collective memory, and future visions through contemporary art and research.
A photography and art exhibition exploring local urban stories and community life around the park and neighbourhood.
The improvising ensemble performs a live set blending free jazz and theatrical elements to launch their new record.
Borrowing Orwell's Animal Farm maxim, this group exhibition gathers contemporary work addressing power structures and human-nonhuman hierarchies.
The Copenhagen-based artist plays melancholic, collage-like pop pieces built from his 2024 debut on Posh Isolation.
French painter Lou Ros and South Korean artist Sanghyuk Kim present expressive mixed-media paintings and figurative works.
Explore the long career of the Haarlem painter and watercolourist through works preserved from his studio on the Spaarne.
Marinka Reuten shows subtle, atmospheric works evoking dappled sunlight filtering through trees.
A show at Scala, a combined food bar and small theatre in the Van Hallstraat, running until 9 October.
The Dutch ceramic artist displays his imaginative, brightly colored sculptural creatures.
Koentact opens its doors for free trial lessons, language level assessments, and an introduction to its teaching methods.
The German painter presents atmospheric, layered landscapes that blur the line between real wilderness and internal psychological spaces.
The gallery devoted to outsider, neurodivergent, and non-normative artists presents a collaborative mixed-media exhibition.
The Beijing-born visual artist and designer exhibits work engaging with physical exercise, discipline, and historical iconography.
Polish artist Mikołaj Sobczak presents work interrogating historical narratives, queer resistance, and national mythmaking.
The university gallery explores how artists and scientists interpret different dimensions of perception and truth.
A museum docent leads a walk through the photography exhibition highlighting young creative talent.
A weekly club night spotlighting driving underground techno and electronic DJs on Rembrandtplein.
Lady Marmalade hosts an open-mic and spoken-word night inviting audiences to listen and speak up.
The veteran Dutch conceptual artist and biologist displays poetic works assembled from dried leaves, earth, and found natural elements.
The Dutch artist presents vividly coloured, apocalyptic drawings and paintings populated by sci-fi, occult, and cosmic imagery.
The Cuban artist presents conceptual work examining digital culture and alternative distribution networks outside formal online systems.
Pakistani contemporary artists Amra Khan, Naira Mushtaq, and Sehr Jalil show work questioning gender, ritual, and societal norms.
An exhibition exploring the design, social life, and evolution of public pavement space in post-war Amsterdam.
A group exhibition engaging with queer identity, memory and imagined futures in dialogue with the museum's historic religious setting.
The Dutch artist exhibits her monumental, intricately detailed charcoal drawings inspired by untamed nature and human psychology.
A week-long group road trip through Europe that starts from Amsterdam, organised by a meetup group for travellers.
A preview of a show that uses live music, storytelling and poetry to portray Puglia as a small-scale picture of the Mediterranean.
A joint exhibition pairing Lou Ros's deconstructed figurative painting with Sanghyuk Kim's contemporary artistic practice.
DJs RED 87 and Project 89 play back-to-back, taking turns at the decks, at Madam's late-night event.
The artists' society hosts a fluor-themed gathering of the Painters Club.
MarxismNL's conference of talks and debates on Marxist politics, its title taken from Walter Benjamin's image of revolution as pulling the emergency brake.
The second edition of Ruimschoots, held at Het Vrijpaleis, a self-organised cultural free space run by artists and activists.
Photographs by Clementine van der Bent, born 1993 and trained at Academie Minerva and the Fotoacademie, linking the changing seasons to our inner emotional life.
A funk band plays live at the Leidseplein-area music bar, which has bands on most nights.
The Dutch chamber group marks Valentine's Day with an intimate classical performance.
An exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae, the historic artists' society on the Rokin.
An audio-guided walking tour exploring the neighbourhood through women's voices, personal histories and urban memories.
A discussion about the ethics of technology and how far criticism of it can actually go.
The historic artists' society mounts a group exhibition centered on green themes, ecology, and nature.
A performance by theatre maker Ruth Borg at Frascati, the Amsterdam stage for experimental theatre and dance.
A printmaking exhibition presented by the Grafein foundation showcasing diverse contemporary relief, intaglio, and screen-printing techniques.
An exhibition at the Verwey Museum, Haarlem's museum of the city's history and art, running until 25 October.
Contemporary artists challenge the rigid botanical classification systems established by 18th-century taxonomist Carl Linnaeus.
A programme about rest and slowing down at W139, the long-running artist-run space on the Warmoesstraat.
An exhibition in Loods 6, a former shipping warehouse on the KNSM island in the Eastern Docklands that is now used as an exhibition space.
Friday singing lessons in swing, led by Dutch jazz singer Astrid Seriese.
An informal meetup for mothers in the city centre to meet other mums and make new friends.
Leo Vroegindeweij and Ruth Meijer present sculpture and painting exploring form, memory, and perspective along the canal.
A dance night playing hits from across several decades.
A DJ night at Bret, the bar and club near Sloterdijk station, with a back-to-back set from Mia Cecille and Zeynep.
A historical exhibition or walking route dedicated to the Weesp cocoa manufacturer and innovator C.J. van Houten.
A historical presentation tracing traditional women's clothing, headwear, and customs of Volendam.
The opening of a new exhibition of work by artist Daniel Jacoby.
The Dutch co-founder of the Nul movement displays his signature assemblages made from discarded mass-produced everyday objects.
The Dutch artist shows her large-scale, intricate charcoal drawings exploring the intersections of lush vegetation and urban human presence.
Annemarie Libbers facilitates an intimate creative writing and lyrical composition session.
A live set at the late-night Leidseplein-area music bar known for blues, rock and soul bands.
The Dutch sculptor shows new geometric, spatial works fashioned from industrial iron and steel.
The Croatian contemporary artist re-examines modernist heritage, institutional memory, and collective history through painting and display structures.
A visual art exhibition exploring botanical forms and verdant textures on view near Oosterdok.
D Stone takes over the decks for a night at the club near Sloterdijk.
A contemporary art exhibition exploring personal, collective, and sensory representations of memory.
A small display on how the smelly, unhealthy 19th-century city gave rise to the belief that nature and fresh air are good for body and mind.
A guest night featuring MUZUNGU, an act named after the Swahili word for a foreigner.
A guest night featuring MUZUNGU, an act named after the Swahili word for a foreigner.
A night under the VOLTEX name at Toekomstmuziek, a small venue for experimental and electronic music.
A Friday dance night at the artists' society club, with music from Mr. Swift and MCecile.
An event under the Future Heroes name at Denim City, the denim workshop, school and lab in De Hallen.
A local networking evening and speed-dating session organised for city-centre residents.
A close-up narrative cabaret performance centred on rumour, conversation, and storytelling in the venue's bite-sized theatre format.
In this hosting series, Rozenstraat hands its space to artist Daniel Jacoby, whose practice centres on video, animation and installation.
Sissi's regular Friday DJ night, with a back-to-back set from styn and DJ Fucci.
A club night for an over-20s crowd at the Leidseplein nightclub.
An exhibition at the artists' society on the Rokin, opening on Friday evening 9 October at 7pm.
The French artist exhibits delicate ceramic sculptures alongside drawings that blend organic shapes with architectural forms.
An exhibition of work by Tino Rademaker in Helicopter's art café.
A performance by the two named artists at Scala, a small foodbar and theatre on the Van Hallstraat.
A high-intensity interval training session outdoors in the Amsterdamse Bos.
A repair and craft session teaching participants how to pulp and recycle old paper into new sheets.
An event called 'Tegenvoeters', Dutch for antipodes or opposites, held in the Garnalenkerk.
A portrait exhibition showcasing the varied history and residents of Haarlem across the centuries.
An exhibition at a small contemporary art gallery on the Lijnbaansgracht, near the Leidseplein end of the canal belt.
Artists Mia Weiner and Johnny Mae Hauser explore physical form and connection through collaborative contemporary works.
An exhibition on local history reflecting on everyday village life and disrupted heritage.
An exhibition of artwork depicting the historic defensive gates that once guarded the perimeter of Haarlem.
A programme at De Balie, the Amsterdam venue for film, debate and journalism on current social and political issues.
Swimming classes tailored for children and adults with physical disabilities or chronic conditions.
The Italian artist installs a project drawing on dystopian fiction, linguistic shifts, and alternative historical narratives in the gallery's project space.
An exhibition tracing the environmental and economic histories of petroleum extraction and cotton farming.
A club night playing urban, Latin and party tracks in the city centre.
A library exhibition tracing local histories and personal memories through shared narratives.
A weekly club night focused on commercial house music.
A two-person dialogue between painter Han Schuil and installation-focused artist Ricardo van Eyk.
Emerging artist Klaartje van Essen presents new sculptural and installation work developed during her De Ateliers residency.
The central bank showcases pieces from its corporate art collection exploring unexpected perspectives and hidden details.
A critical exhibition revisiting how social background and class privilege shape the careers and institutions of the contemporary art world.
A development programme for Zuidoost residents under 30 looking to build practical skills and professional networks.
Dutch abstract painter Paul Drissen shows geometric, collage-based paintings that balance modernist order with playful, provisional forms.
DJs play an upbeat mix of hip-hop, R&B and chart hits on Rembrandtplein.
A gallery group show probing land, material, and ecological uncertainties through contemporary painting and sculpture.
The artist-run space presents a collaborative exhibition exploring how personal and collective trauma are held and recalled.
The project room hosts a companion contemporary installation focused on transformation and growth.
Artists Amra Khan, Naira Mushtaq, and Sehr Jalil present works exploring history, memory, and how objects outlive their original functions.
A community storytelling workshop focusing on sharing and illuminating personal narratives.
A guided walking group for seniors looking to stay active and meet neighbours in the park.
Prints and drawings by the Dutch artist exploring mortality and the human body, displayed in the funeral museum's cafe.
An art dealership presents works by female artists, available with trial home placements.
An exhibition at the art space puntWG, opening on Friday 9 October from 17:00 to 21:00.
A dual exhibition pairing sculptural earthworks with folded textile compositions.
A hockey tournament hosted by Amsterdam Dynamics.
An exhibition of surviving drawings, crafts, and memorabilia by the two sisters from the well-known regional industrial family.
A group exhibition examining how human presence, touch, and collective memory reverberate across material objects.
A performance at CC Amstel, a neighbourhood cultural centre that hosts small theatre, music and community events.
A beginners' improv course taught in Italian, covering the basics of making up scenes on the spot.
An art exhibition focused on luminous and colourful visual works.
A theatre performance by Mika de Pee whose title translates as 'Spring caught fire'.
The third chapter, “Making the Wave,” completes a three-part series preceded by “Floating on the Wave” and “Riding the Wave.”
A screening at the Westerpark cinema best known for championing Dutch film.
A session in Doka's studio series featuring the artists Moxes and 36framez.
An exhibition exploring the varied artistic output of four creators from a single family.
Open outdoor play sessions for children at the local Erfgooiers playground.
An architectural exhibition examining post-war reconstruction urbanism and its contemporary renovations in Haarlem's Parkwijk.
A professional development workshop focused on career direction and leadership strategies for women.
Banned Books Week is an annual US campaign, started in 1982, that draws attention to attempts to censor or remove books from libraries and schools.
A pavement-facing window exhibition space hosts an open-ended art installation.
A try-out of Achter De Noten. A try-out is a preview performance of a new show before its official premiere.
A club night called Wild Out at Club Prime.
The independent project space hosts a contemporary visual art exhibition.
A neighbourhood library presents an exhibition of work by the artist.
Anne Cappendijk presents an artistic exploration of public grief rituals, commemoration and everyday losses.
Saturday 10 October
The Philadelphia singer and poet, a leading voice of neo-soul since her 2000 debut Who Is Jill Scott?, performs live.
Mystery Ensemble plays music from Tim Burton's films, many of them scored by Danny Elfman, such as Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, in a church.
An Eredivisie league match between Ajax and N.E.C. from Nijmegen at Ajax's home stadium.
For the school holidays the science museum adds extra workshops, the Chain Reaction show and an AI Challenge on telling real from fake.
The 39th edition of the race in which rowing crews in longboats compete through the canals of the city centre.
The British singer-songwriter of Italian descent brings his soulful, retro-tinged pop, including songs from his Italian-language album Europiana, to the main hall.
Moldovan violinist Alexandra Conunova joins the Athens State Orchestra and Hannah Kim for Skalkottas, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns and Shostakovich.
A concert of music from Tim Burton's films, much of it written by his longtime composer Danny Elfman, played in a church setting.
Children's singer Dirk Scheele brings Dikkie Dik, the ginger cat from Jet Boeke's picture books, to the stage in a sing-and-dance show for toddlers aged two and up.
The American singer-songwriter, formerly known as Smog, known for his deep baritone and spare, wry, literary songs.
Free children's activities across Zuid, including a look inside the fire station, theatre, crafts at the city farm and clay modelling at the festival hub.
Guide Huib Ramaer leads a walk for the Muze van Zuid festival to a house concert by pianist Elizaveta Bokhina in the Wolkenkrabber, Amsterdam's 1930s high-rise.
A chance to see Circus Odesa, the Ukrainian youth circus that moved to Amsterdam after Russia's invasion, and meet its performers.
The Japanese turntablist and producer, a pioneer of moody, abstract instrumental hip hop since the 1990s.
A race through Amsterdam's canals that starts near the 1928 Olympic Stadium.
A free autumn half-term market in the Passage at De Hallen, where makers and dealers sell art, design and vintage pieces.
An afternoon of activities and an exhibition showing visitors how life at a fire station works.
Pedro Almodóvar's latest Spanish-language film, whose title means Bitter Christmas, screening as part of PAFF.
Three drag performers known from the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise share a live show at Westergas.
Part of Winter Vondelland, an early taste of winter in Vondelpark with games, live music, poffertjes and snert, the thick Dutch pea soup.
A rowing club on the Amstel lets visitors climb into a rowing boat and try the sport on the water.
A Van Gogh Museum programme that uses Vincent's life and letters to start conversations about mental health, run with the Dutch mental-health organisation MIND.
The American photographer and filmmaker, who documented New York subway graffiti and co-wrote the book Subway Art, signs books at the street art museum.
The Malian band, formed in Bamako by musicians who fled conflict in the north, plays desert blues mixed with rock and funk.
An evening looking through telescopes at planets and stars from the hotel near the RAI; in clear weather Saturn's rings may be visible.
The Belgian photographer, known for his stark black-and-white portraits, shows his photographs of the North Sea, its coast and the people who live by it.
Street theatre for families, held outdoors at Cinema The Pulse.
Participants learn the basics of fragrance blending and create their own custom scent from botanical ingredients.
A staging for ages ten and up of Shostakovich's satirical operetta about Moscow residents trying to get new flats in a housing estate.
The long-running ensemble mixes fast-paced improv games, sketches, and video comedy sparked by audience suggestions.
An outdoor nature play and discovery group for toddlers and young children.
Hands-on outdoor crafting and building activities for children at the sprawling nature playground.
A private hands-on pottery class where couples can try wheel throwing together and pick up their fired work later.
Stargazing on a hotel rooftop, one of the recommended events during 24 uur Zuid.
AMInal is a walkabout street theatre act built around Nal, a big, soft monster that children will want to touch, hug and follow.
Dealers in rare and old books, manuscripts, maps and prints set up in the seventeenth-century Zuiderkerk.
A day at the zoo about the African penguin, with children's activities.
For 24 uur Zuid, the Vondelpark teahouse goes 'Winter Vondelland', with wintry games and snert, the thick Dutch split-pea soup.
A guided autumn boat excursion navigating the waterways and woodland canals of the Amsterdam Forest.
A guided tour of the anatomical collection, looking at how doctors used to think and operate, and how the patient's role has changed over the centuries.
A night of funk music with dance battles, freestyle cyphers, dance showcases and food, returning to Felix Meritis.
Kintsugi is the Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery with lacquer and gold so the cracks stay visible, and here you try it yourself.
A guided walk departing from the Homomonument traces the history of LGBTQ+ emancipation and activism across central Amsterdam.
A golf contest at the Birdies golf venue where you play against other golfers and golf pros, with cava and oysters, and no golf experience needed.
Markus Schleinzer's black-and-white drama starring Sandra Hüller as a 17th-century woman who lives disguised as a man, screening in the PAFF festival.
Improvised comedy, where performers make up scenes and characters on the spot, usually from audience suggestions, in the big hall on the NDSM wharf.
Stargazing from the nhow hotel by the RAI, one of Amsterdam's tallest buildings.
A celebration of Asian and Filipino culture with a private screening of the film Forgotten Island, Filipino food, games and stalls from other Asian makers.
The De Pijp city farm puts its guinea pigs centre stage, with petting and grooming plus creative activities for young and old.
A hands-on leatherworking class where you cut, stitch and assemble your own leather bag.
The Saturday session of a hands-on class where a Japanese host shows you how to make rich chicken ramen from scratch.
Roller skating to disco and dance music played by DJ Leroy Rey.
A party night built around dance and pop hits from the 1990s.
An edition about Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, known for unsparing films that mix documentary and fiction, such as Dog Days and the Paradise trilogy.
Hammond organist and pianist Sven Figee and jazz pianist Peter Beets join the Dutch big band The New Jazz Orchestra.
A percussion workshop using Rhythm with Signs, a hand-sign language for directing improvised music, created by Argentine composer and percussionist Santiago Vazquez.
A market held in the run-up to Amsterdam Dance Event, the city's big annual electronic music festival and conference.
English-language stand-up from comedians from around the world, with cocktails at the bar.
An English-language stand-up comedy night with a line-up of international comedians.
GRRRimlach is a children's show with circus elements about two old friends, playfully exploring ageing, loss and care for young audiences.
A walk run by the museum in De Dageraad, the Amsterdam School housing complex, looking at a century of the city's housing shortage.
FEBO, the Dutch snack chain known for its wall vending machines, hides golden stickers under snacks between 13:00 and 18:00, with a chance to win every hour.
Ang Lee's 1995 Jane Austen adaptation, with Emma Thompson, who also wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay, and Kate Winslet as the Dashwood sisters.
An activity at the children's farm in De Pijp that combines time with the guinea pigs and making things.
A hands-on library session where children aged six and up design their own constellation.
Street performers on Museumplein, one of the recommended events during 24 uur Zuid.
A theatrical piece exploring toxic masculinity and modern misogyny through the prism of online influencer Andrew Tate.
At the contemporary art centre de Appel, participants look into the life of their grandmother and find ways to tell her story.
An evening programme at the library, part of 24 Uur Zuid, a day of round-the-clock events across Amsterdam Zuid.
A free collage workshop and a talk on Black queer history with Anne Krul, mo futures and Nychenda Fecunda.
The first roda de samba from the Saravá Samba Project: an informal Brazilian samba circle where musicians play around a table and everyone sings along.
Three-a-side basketball, a fast half-court game that started on American playgrounds, played on Museumplein.
A read-aloud of stories about Anansi, the trickster spider of West African and Caribbean folklore, with musical accompaniment by Coleta.
A puppet show for children and their parents at the Voorleesgarage, a garage that has been turned into a place for reading aloud.
A bookbinding workshop for children at the museum of the Amsterdam School architecture movement, housed in Michel de Klerk's Het Schip building.
A film programme in the 24H Zuid festival, which fills Amsterdam Zuid with events for a day, showing films made in or about the district.
A chamber quartet concert at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, the waterfront hall for classical and contemporary music.
Hungarian director László Nemes's film about Jean Moulin, the French Resistance leader, screening as part of PAFF.
For one evening, museums and cultural venues across The Hague stay open late with special programmes, so you can visit several in one night.
The Scottish blues-rock band led by guitarist and singer Alan Nimmo, known for heavy riffs and soulful vocals in the Free and Bad Company tradition.
Tour the historic municipal theatre on Leidseplein, going backstage to visit the dressing rooms and wings.
A running club and the outdoor sportswear brand Salomon pair a group run with a dance party.
A screening of Coexistence, My Ass!, a documentary about comedian and activist Noam Shuster-Eliassi, followed by a conversation with her.
Grant Gee's drama about the jazz pianist Bill Evans, set around the time his bassist Scott LaFaro died, with Anders Danielsen Lie as Evans.
A hands-on crafting session using vintage beads to design and make custom jewellery.
An interactive family show at OBA Oosterdok during the autumn half-term, for children aged four and up.
A weekly Saturday afternoon drag-hosted bingo with cash prizes at this long-running gay bar.
Part of the Concertgebouw's series for young Dutch classical talent, this one featuring Thijs Willers.
An Argentine tango event in a church, organised by visual artist Marijke de Vries, who has run tango activities for 30 years.
A children's theatre performance designed for toddlers and young kids at the boutique puppet and story theatre.
ARTZUID, known for its outdoor sculpture route in Zuid, runs a children's clay and plaster modelling workshop during the school holidays.
A guided tour of Berlage's 1900 building for the diamond workers' union, a landmark of early Dutch modern architecture.
A boat trip through Amsterdam's canals with Blue Boat Company, one of the city's canal cruise operators.
A pop-up shop for Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week where you can browse and buy from small independent fashion labels and join creative workshops.
Part of the international CPR awareness day, with a chance to learn chest compressions and how to use a defibrillator.
A talk on tattooing in medieval Europe, held at the Ramses Shaffy Huis, a residence for older artists named after the Dutch singer.
A jazz quartet joined by John Engels, the veteran Dutch drummer who played with Chet Baker and many visiting American greats.
A party for lesbian and queer women; the name translates roughly as 'Rather Lesbians'.
Late-night stand-up comedy with sets from Dutch comedians Kor Hoebe, Alex Ploeg and Nabil.
A chance to visit the ecological sculpture garden that artist Rein Kooyman is creating at the INDEBT Foundation, part of a new cultural space in De Pijp.
A tour from the Zuidas information centre around Amsterdam's main business district, which is being rebuilt above and around the A10 motorway.
A hands-on craft session where you make your own bar of soap, held in a café that serves waffles and coffee.
The veteran Dutch singer, actress and cabaret performer, known for decades of theatre songs including work by Annie M.G. Schmidt, gives a song programme.
A hands-on workshop in West African music, followed by live music in the café.
A market at Treehouse NDSM whose name comes from Christina Rossetti's Victorian poem about goblins selling enchanted fruit.
A show-and-tell evening where people bring and talk about witchy objects, rituals, crafts or practices that matter to them.
A harvest festival held by the local community vegetable garden group in Buikslotermeer, Noord.
Violinist Maria Milstein and her sister, pianist Nathalia Milstein, give a duo recital built around nostalgia and tragedy.
A high-energy theatre show that celebrates Egyptian culture while telling a new, contemporary story.
A children's activity for ages four and up in which the library becomes a place of stories, imagination and play.
A social road-bike ride of about 50 kilometres through quiet, green parts of Amsterdam, with coffee and a snack at the shop afterwards; bring your own bike.
Part of Cinekid, Amsterdam's children's film and media festival: children aged three and up watch a short film, then draw and make streamers and edible drawings.
A behind-the-scenes look at Huize van Wely, the Dutch family patisserie and chocolatier known for handmade chocolates and cakes.
A running event that starts and finishes at the 1928 Olympic Stadium.
Paint your own ceramics with Sofia James Pottery in Lila's canal house, with brunch or aperitivo included.
A workshop on taking pictures with instant cameras such as Polaroids, which print each photo straight after it is taken.
A hands-on session making kimchi, the Korean fermented cabbage dish, at a neighbourhood community living room.
Alexander Gershberg, the cook behind Abundant, leads a cooking workshop in the bookshop on Saturday 10 October at 15.00.
A music workshop for all ages, led by Judith Sijp of De Muziekzolder, where participants build swinging rhythms and chords together through songs.
A beginners' group for padel, a fast doubles racket sport that mixes tennis and squash and is played on a small court with glass walls.
Veteran Dutch house and techno DJ Michel de Hey plays alongside AAT and Simon Kidzoo.
Several stand-up comedians take turns on stage in a line-up show at Amsterdam's long-running comedy club; doors open at 21:30.
Pathé's autumn family programme brings new big-screen adventures for Sinterklaas, Shaun the Sheep, Wiebe and other children's film favourites.
A market with stalls selling art, design pieces and vintage goods.
For Maroon Day, a tasting of Amba Nature herbal teas looks at how Maroon knowledge of herbs, the body and wellbeing has been passed down through generations.
Going by its title, which means 'real men don't cry', this Play Mental event takes on men, emotions and mental health.
A children's theatre play for ages four and up by Teatro Munganga, programmed as part of the 24 Uur Zuid neighbourhood festival.
An evening of spoken word and performance hosted by Right About Now Inc., an Amsterdam platform for young makers.
A concert built around Ramses Shaffy, the Paris-born singer of Dutch chanson classics such as 'Laat me', at the house named after him.
A tour of an exhibition by Eszter Szakács and Tirdad Zolghadr, revisiting a 2006 art project on social class in the art world 20 years later.
Marcel van Engelen presents Amsterdam in miniature at the World Trade Center.
A guided walk through Amsterdam Zuid's Amsterdam School architecture, the expressive brick style of the early 20th century that Museum Het Schip is devoted to.
A session of the social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower, in which players bluff and try to find the hidden demon in their village.
A club night aboard the Veronica Schip, the former pirate radio ship now moored in Amsterdam as an event venue.
A hands-on Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week workshop where you turn handkerchief fabric into a halter top you can wear.
Argentine tango dancing in the Willem de Zwijgerkerk.
An evening about death and dying, meant to get people thinking and talking openly with each other about it.
A children's gardening club where young participants learn to grow vegetables and plants outdoors.
A West African hand-drum workshop at De Boshalte, a neighbourhood foundation that runs weekly activities for local people of all ages and backgrounds.
A programme in song about Monne de Miranda, the Amsterdam alderman of the 1920s and 1930s who was murdered by the Nazis in 1942.
A monthly event that combines dancing to music with books and reading.
The group plays Argentine folk, classical and jazz; their name comes from the Italian-Spanish slang once spoken by immigrants in Buenos Aires.
A visiting choir sings old and new choral pieces, including works by Miškinis, Stopford and Hagenberg, in the 17th-century Westerkerk.
A guided session of breathing exercises used for relaxation and stress relief, held at the waterfront venue in NDSM, Noord.
A children's storytime where a forest ranger reads aloud in the Amsterdamse Bos.
An exhibition or tour at the Bruggehuisje, a former bridge-keeper's house, about public space from street art to pavement tiles.
A session on how tarot links its four suits to the classical elements: wands to fire, cups to water, swords to air and pentacles to earth.
A bill of three bands and a DJ at OCCII, the former squat venue on the edge of the Vondelpark known for underground and DIY music.
An immersive audiovisual screening pairing the British band's music with large-format digital visuals projected across walls and floors.
An introduction to the vinyl cutter at the library's makerspace, where you design and cut your own stickers or iron-on images.
An indoor family entertainment venue offering group games and activities.
The community workshop opens to visitors interested in learning crafts, woodworking, and hands-on making.
A game of Blood on the Clocktower, the social deduction game, played with a custom script that combines characters from different editions.
The market master leads a tour of ZuiderMRKT, covering the market's history, its mission, its traders and their products.
Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg, the Israeli piano duo based in Berlin, give an intimate salon concert in a former pumping station.
A poetry writing workshop followed by an open mic, where anyone can sign up to read their own work.
Live jazz comes to the student cultural centre's café as part of the touring Cotton Jazz series.
An informal evening for young professionals and expats in their twenties and thirties to meet in De Pijp.
A guided outdoor tour exploring the monumental modern sculptures by Carel Visser installed in the Rijksmuseum gardens.
Learn to make natural soap, from choosing your own scent and design to mixing and pouring it.
A programme of short films at Cinema The Pulse, a new Zuid cinema linked to Bar Restaurant Lucy, which opened less than a year ago.
A public guided tour of the theatre, run together with the Amsterdam Museum.
A discussion at contemporary art centre de Appel about who the art world is really open to and who gets left out.
A touring screening from the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, which brings cinema from Central and Eastern Europe to Dutch audiences.
A party evening for Coming Out Day, the annual day supporting LGBTQ+ people who come out about their sexuality or gender identity.
Poet and teacher Paula Breuning leads a writing workshop followed by an open mic at Labyrinth, a soul food and poetry bar near Vondelpark.
A family film about Yugly, said to be the world's ugliest dog and, oddly, also the cutest.
An early-morning yoga session in De Thomas church, with breath-led poses set to calm music, as part of the 24 uur Zuid neighbourhood programme.
A drop-in session for working with plaster and clay at Buurthuis Lydia, which is acting as the festival's central hub.
A hands-on workshop where you mix, colour and scent your own bars of soap to take home.
A week of events in solidarity with Indigenous peoples' struggles for land, rights and self-determination.
A hands-on session working with clay, meant as a slow, mindful break from screens and busy thoughts.
A board game marathon at the library, part of 24 Uur Zuid, a day of round-the-clock events across Amsterdam Zuid.
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A hands-on craft session at Treehouse NDSM, a creative hub in Amsterdam-Noord, offered at two places for the price of one.
Stories about the Diamantbuurt, the Zuid neighbourhood whose streets are named after gemstones, told at the Cinetol cultural centre on Tolstraat.
A walk through the Zuidas botanical garden among its bamboo and ferns.
A group walk in the Amsterdamse Bos with phones put away, where you talk with others along the way about letting go.
The Amsterdam Neighbourhood Film Festival comes to Cinetol with films and stories from city neighbourhoods, plus music and poetry.
Mike Bartlett's darkly funny two-hander about an employee whose manager takes a growing interest in her relationship at work.
An event at the Vondelbunker, the volunteer-run cultural space in a Cold War bunker beneath a bridge in the Vondelpark.
A chamber orchestra concert in the seventeenth-century Oosterkerk, under the title 'Symphony of Chaos'.
A British choir from Cambridge sings in the Engelmunduskerk, one of the oldest churches in the Netherlands.
A concert by an artist called Babs at Paradiso, the old church turned pop venue near Leidseplein.
A long session of board games at the neighbourhood branch of Amsterdam's public library, where anyone can join a table.
The opening of an exhibition at Melkweg, which runs its own gallery space alongside its concert halls.
A hands-on introduction to the library's vinyl cutter, a machine that cuts letters and shapes from sticky vinyl for stickers, signs and textile prints.
A theatre show at MidWest whose title refers to Hoogovens, the big steelworks at IJmuiden.
A stage performance at Black Cat Theatre; the Dutch title means The Sea.
A wine tasting at the Zuid branch of B.J. de Logie, an Amsterdam wine merchant that has been trading since 1848.
The first Queer Parenthood Conference brings together queer parents, prospective parents and supporters to share knowledge and build community, and a podcast launches alongside it.
In Hanan's workshop you make a small hand-embroidered bag and learn embroidery and crochet techniques, and no experience is needed.
A talk about the history of the Havenstraat, the Zuid street best known for its old tram depot and the museum tram line.
A relaxed evening for meeting new people over a drink, with non-alcoholic options and a few tickets still left.
André Manuel, the Achterhoek cabaret artist known for raw, anarchic and politically sharp shows, presents his twentieth solo programme.
A workshop from the Nieuwe Academie voor Schrijven, a Dutch writing school, on writing sensual and erotic scenes.
A meditation session held in the quiet of a church, open to visitors.
An event at Treehouse NDSM, the creative hub of studios in Amsterdam Noord, built around silk and ink.
A singer-songwriter who plays guitar and piano herself, mixing pop, soul, jazz and folk with influences from 1970s songwriters.
An early morning group bike ride through quiet streets and green spaces in Zuid, organised by the cycling community Ride Out Amsterdam.
A monthly concert series where some of the more than 100 musicians based at Treehouse play intimate sets.
A family weekend with an open play studio where children and parents can explore creative activities together.
Music made without written scores, so players learn by ear, at Buurthuis Lydia community centre.
A tribute to Tristan Keuris (1946–1996), the Dutch composer known for richly scored orchestral and chamber music.
A prize presentation at Perdu, the small Amsterdam venue for poetry and experimental literature.
The film meetup group celebrates two years with food and drinks, a screening of Digger and a party; everyone is welcome.
A social evening for wine lovers, organised by The Foodie Fellowship with Tasty Talks; tickets are sold through the official website.
Jenst and Anna Schreit play DJ sets at Canvas, the Volkshotel's rooftop bar and club.
A performance at Splendor, the former bathhouse run as a concert venue by a collective of Amsterdam musicians.
A triple bill of Dutch bands at The Cave, the long-running basement rock and metal bar.
A concert in the IJ-Salon series at the Muziekgebouw, the waterfront hall devoted largely to contemporary and new music.
A social meetup for playing backgammon, the old two-player game of dice and strategy, at a café.
A screening of the documentary SAMEN, presented with Cinetree, the Dutch arthouse streaming platform, followed by a talk.
An open stage in the Willem de Zwijgerkerk, where anyone can sign up to perform music, poetry or other short acts.
A double bill on Zonzij, Tolhuistuin's garden-side stage.
The Apeldoorn-based ensemble of winds, percussion and rhythm section, a long-time champion of new Dutch music, plays this venue built around its organs.
A live music night in Paradiso, the former church that is one of the city's best-known concert halls.
A beginners' craft session where you make a decorative ribbon rosette to wear as a brooch or accessory.
A monthly gathering where players sit down to tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons.
A philosophy discussion group where anyone can join an open dialogue about big questions on life and the world, with no lecture and no debating.
The eighteenth edition of an evening of one-act plays, where several short theatre pieces are performed back to back.
Roel and Jos Maalderink share the stage in Verbroedering, a title meaning 'fraternisation', at the theatre on the Uilenstede student campus.
A free exchange where visitors can drop off usable secondhand items or pick up clothes, books, and household goods.
A look at the artworks in and around the Buitenveldert shopping square, for people who usually walk past them on their way to the shops.
An evening of poetry readings in an informal salon setting.
A chamber concert by a four-piece ensemble in a small salon setting.
Monthly calisthenics workshops from Black Men Talk and Kings Island, combining bodyweight training with connection between Black men.
A knitting afternoon at the yarn shop working on the second clue of a mystery knit-along, where the pattern is revealed one instalment at a time.
A club night for the harder end of dance music, as the name suggests.
A guided walk through Huis te Vraag cemetery built around questions, with stories told along the route.
An event organised by 3x3 Unites in the area around Museumplein.
A school-holiday workshop for children at Jeugdland, the adventure playground in Amsterdam Oost.
A mixed bill of musicians sharing the stage under the Many Voices banner, with Gong Tirta, Lisa Graciano and guests, plus Ruth & Werner van de Vrede.
An open stage hosted by Mengelmoes, where anyone can sign up to perform music, poetry or other short acts.
An event at Cinetol, the small cultural venue in Buitenveldert that hosts concerts, film and theatre.
The Van der Pek branch library marks Kinderboekenweek, the yearly Dutch celebration of children's books, with reading activities for kids.
A group work session where people bring laptops, put their phones away and spend set periods on focused work alongside each other.
An independent neighbourhood bookshop is the setting for an event about books and the stories in them.
A screening in the PAFF festival programme, under a title that refers to Baruch Spinoza, the 17th-century philosopher born in Amsterdam.
Ozzy Jones hosts a night of cold wave, the minimal, synth-led strand of early-1980s post-punk, with guest Sach.
Musician Ritsko performs with a group of fellow players at Toekomstmuziek, the small music venue in Amsterdam Noord.
A conversation club for practising spoken Spanish.
An English-language community yoga class themed around finding grace and balance through autumn and life's changes.
An open podium where HJS dancers and others take turns performing short dance pieces on stage.
A look around the Groen Gemaal, a volunteer-run garden in De Pijp where locals can garden together and find some peace.
A free library sewing studio with professional sewing machines and overlockers for mending or upcycling your clothes.
A walk and talk away from screens, this time about letting go of things or people, and how to say goodbye in a way that suits you.
A sing-along music session for children aged three and up, led by Mimi at the piano.
Young musicians perform at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam's chamber music hall.
A presentation of work by Farah Coppola, open until 30 October.
A loose, groove-focused live music session led by Janggo HutaBelanda.
An autumn series in the small former cinema on Haarlemmerplein, which hosts concerts, cabaret and other small-scale performances.
A theatre performance called 'Never Been Away', on the small stage inside the Vrijburcht housing complex on IJburg.
A solo performance by Mark Waumans at the old gasworks in Westerpark, now a cultural park.
A free party where the SIDERAL and Syntax Error collectives join forces for a night of electronic music.
An introductory photography course held in the camera shop, for people who want to get a better grip on the basics.
Neighbours get together to play music at a local community living room, a drop-in space for people living nearby.
A presentation by the collective Curatorium at San Serriffe, the Amsterdam bookshop and project space focused on art and design publishing.
Hello Goodbye play an intimate live set in the style of a studio session.
A gig by the band Navigate, with hunk as the support act.
Issam Zemouri presents his work Fade Out at the Bos en Lommer theatre known for its culturally diverse programme.
Held in the Willem de Zwijgerkerk, this event invites visitors to share what is on their mind.
A walk in the woods with a group conversation, without phones, about how to get better at letting go.
A feature film screening as part of the PAFF film festival programme.
Dutch actor and entertainer Clous van Mechelen performs with Olga de Meij in a café set, with Walther de Graaff appearing as a guest.
An event featuring Abigaël Ama at the Staalstraat home of Droog, the Dutch conceptual design label.
Tin Castle is shown as part of the Paff film programme at this Westerpark arthouse cinema.
A group walk in the park for mothers with babies in strollers.
A French-language feature screening as part of the PAFF film festival programme.
Ege Şahin, a Turkish composer and improviser based in The Hague, makes electronic music about how we experience sound and how listeners can take part.
A relaxed weekend coffee meetup run by the Amsterdam Socials group for anyone hoping to meet new people in the city.
Young people run the programme themselves at this neighbourhood community centre.
A live set by Daan Herweg in the café's regular programme of small concerts.
Team Laika play a live show at Scala; the listing gives no further detail about the act.
An evening party; soirée is French for an evening gathering.
The Beloved is shown as part of the Paff film programme at this Westerpark arthouse cinema.
A talk giving a look at the day-to-day working life of a leading lawyer.
A storytelling session for children at the public library, where stories are read aloud, invented or acted out together.
A spiritual gathering based on tantra, which usually combines meditation, breathwork and guided exercises in connection and intimacy.
The Dutch art critic and journalist Edo Dijksterhuis talks about his book 'U bent hier' ('You Are Here').
A concert in Paradiso's smaller upstairs hall, the Bovenzaal.
Community clinic appointments offering traditional acupuncture and cupping therapy.
A live recording of the Dutch current affairs radio talk show and public debate program.
An evening named after the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa.
Hospice Kuria, which gives end-of-life care to people in their final weeks, opens its doors so the public can see the house and meet staff.
An event at The All Out in Zuid.
A programme at CC Amstel, the neighbourhood community centre, that looks at places people consider important to them.
A club night open only to people aged 21 and over.
The community garden opens its gates to visitors and neighbours.
Local volunteers meet to collect litter and tidy the streets of the Indische Buurt, starting from Kindervreugd.
Recreational full-court pickup basketball, where the 15 to 20 players who turn up split into teams and play informal games.
A performance at Scala, a small theatre with a foodbar on the Van Hallstraat in Amsterdam-West.
Iris plays a live set with invited musician friends in this neighbourhood cultural café.
An evening with food and drinks where you can listen to participants in a creative community coaching programme, meet them and cheer them on.
A chance to see the work of Youth Centre De Rijn, where local young people meet, relax and develop talents through activities like debating and music-making.
Collection day for No Waste Army boxes, which are packed with surplus food that would otherwise be thrown away.
A library session that combines reading in Polish with art activities, aimed at children and families from the Polish-speaking community.
A Ukrainian-language event from the community group Adventure Club (Klub Pryhod), whose title means 'the story behind the frame'.
Neighbours get together for a big litter clean-up of the Willibrordusbuurt from 15:00 to 17:00, with drinks afterwards.
Samuel Kiel plays live with fellow musicians in the café's small-scale music programme.
A gathering in Zuid that, as the title suggests, is built around asking and exploring questions.
A read-aloud session for young children at the public library, built around a story about a little pig.
An open meeting of the volunteer-run social centre in Oost, where anyone can come and help decide how the space is run.
A neighbourhood clean-up where local residents get together to tidy their streets.
A mobile advice desk on Plein '40-'45 with information about saving energy and making your home more sustainable.
A meeting just for young people, run by Combiwel's neighbourhood youth workers.
A respite support service offering a welcome space for individuals to recover and take a break.
An intensive study session covering advanced Tibetan Buddhist meditation techniques and deity yoga practices.
This programme has been cancelled.
A closed, private event held at the historic Zeedijk venue.
The landmark survey brings together the Japanese artist's signature polka dots, Infinity Mirror Rooms, and monumental soft sculptures.
Around 80 works lent by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including Matisse's La Blouse roumaine, shown alongside paintings by Rothko, Picasso and Barnett Newman.
The annual showcase of the world's most compelling award-winning photojournalism and documentary photography returns to Amsterdam.
The children's film and media festival brings international premieres, workshops for toddlers and an interactive MediaLab play area for ages 3 to 14.
The monthly open-air design market brings makers, artists and food stalls to the museum lawns.
A family festival inspired by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, with her dot-sticker Obliteration Room, a light installation to dance in and crafts; booking ahead is advised.
A month of family activities at the national museum, including Story Rescuers, a new family quest that sends visitors on a secret mission through the collection.
The huge NDSM flea market moves indoors, with around 600 stalls of second-hand clothes, furniture and other finds.
An interactive science and technology exhibition focusing on the history, physics, and programming behind video games.
A free guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition, the annual showcase of the year's prizewinning photojournalism, on until 25 October.
Stalls selling artisanal produce, hot food and handmade goods rotate through the city's parks on Sundays.
The science museum's hands-on floor lets visitors experiment with everyday engineering, household technology, and clean energy.
The IJ-Hallen is a huge flea market held in the former shipyard halls at NDSM, where hundreds of stalls sell second-hand goods.
A major retrospective by the renowned photographer known for monumental landscapes, portraits and atmospheric explorations of human impact.
Over 150 monumental street art murals, painted on-site by international artists, fill a former shipyard warehouse.
Citywide arts festival staging performances, tours, and special events across various participating Amsterdam museums.
An exhibition showing the commercial textile patterns, garments, and decorative fabrics designed by the pop artist in the 1950s and 1960s.
An exhibition on Henri Matisse, the French painter known for his bold colour, his Fauvist work and his late paper cut-outs.
Hands-on workshops, games, and maritime activities designed for children and families.
A digital projection show rendering the Dutch master's fantastically detailed depictions of heaven, hell and sin into large-scale animations.
An exhibition for children featuring the intricate, detail-rich illustrations of Dutch picture-book maker Charlotte Dematons.
An animated digital installation bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novella and its philosophical meditations on life to light.
Dance event pioneers ID&T present a sensory labyrinth of light, sound, and interactive technology in the Elementenstraat warehouse.
An exhibition about disco, the dance music and club culture that came out of Black, Latino and queer scenes in 1970s New York.
The exhibition explores the pop artist's commercial textile designs from the 1950s and 1960s, printed with novelty patterns and playful motifs.
This edition honours Lou Lichtveld, also known as Albert Helman, a Dutch-Surinamese writer, composer, organist, politician and resistance fighter.
At this Amersfoort zoo, visitors follow a survival trail past dinosaur models while helping the Dinoranger find a missing baby dinosaur.
Jochem Myjer, one of the best-known Dutch cabaret comedians and famous for his hyperactive, physical storytelling, brings his show 'Net alsof' ('Just Pretend').
Local independent makers, designers, and craftspeople sell handmade wares inside the former tram depot.
Direct conversations and oral histories shared with survivors of the Holocaust.
The festival organisers stage a walkthrough experience using lasers, lights, and electronic soundscapes across several rooms.
A show by the New York-based American artist known for layered black-and-white paintings, silkscreens and text works built around his idea of 'Black Dada'.
Lewis Carroll's story of Alice falling down the rabbit hole, told through dance, music and projected images for children aged 8 and up.
NEMO's programme for the autumn school holiday, with hands-on science and technology activities for children and families.
Original stencils, screen prints, and authenticated indoor works by the elusive Bristol street artist are on permanent display.
An autumn-holiday activity on the fort island about how the keepers' families once got through winter when the IJmeer froze over.
The national museum displays textiles, costumes, and everyday garments highlighting traces of wear and historical repairs.
A round-the-clock programme of more than 50 activities across Oud-Zuid, De Pijp, Buitenveldert/Zuidas and the Rivierenbuurt, running from 06:00 Saturday to 06:00 Sunday.
Sinfonia Rotterdam plays well-known hits live while 180-degree projected visuals surround the audience.
The painter's former home displays etching and drawing techniques to show how Rembrandt pushed the boundaries of his craft.
The photographer presents vivid, stylised portraits celebrating the fashion and contemporary identity of people from Xinjiang.
The contemporary Spanish-Dutch painter presents new works in dialogue with Francisco de Goya's iconic etchings, Los Disparates.
The Van Gogh Museum's autumn school holiday programme, with activities that help children and families explore Van Gogh's work.
Alan J. Pakula's 1976 Watergate drama, with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as reporters Woodward and Bernstein, shown in a 4K restoration.
STRAAT explores the fundamental visual elements of graffiti culture, from lettering and tags to rhythm and line work.
Morning yoga session held surrounded by Vincent van Gogh's masterworks.
A family exhibition exploring magic, illusions and ritual in Jewish culture and folklore.
A 4K restoration of Studio Ghibli's 2010 animated film, adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, about a tiny girl living secretly beneath the floorboards of a house.
A family autumn-holiday programme of nature, adventure and experiments on Pampus, the 19th-century fortress island in the IJmeer.
Shostakovich's 1959 comic operetta, originally Moscow, Cheryomushki, about a housing shortage, speculators and love, sung in English and suitable for ages 10 and up.
An immersive digital experience that recreates the streets and canals of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
A fixed lunch arrangement served at the fortress island of Pampus, accessible by ferry across the IJmeer.
A Bavarian-style beer festival at the taproom of Oedipus, the Amsterdam craft brewery in Noord.
Visitors walk together through a virtual reconstruction of 17th-century Amsterdam, choosing their own route and seeing everyday life of the time; part of History Month.
Sculptures by the Dutch modernist, known for his stark geometric forms in steel, leather, and found materials, are installed across the museum's open-air grounds.
A free 2.1 km walk through the centre past 34 sculptures by 64 artists, all carved from felled Amsterdam city trees, with a public vote for a favourite.
A club night at the skate café, headlined by a live set from the German rapper and singer Ace Tee, known for the 90s-style R&B hit Bist du down?, plus a long list of DJs.
A hands-on activity at the science museum where visitors try out artificial intelligence and test what it can and cannot do.
Outdoor art route placing site-specific sculptures and installations along the walking paths of the Amsterdamse Bos.
A family-friendly interactive exhibition exploring mythology, nature, and the symbolic wisdom of ravens across different world cultures.
A behind-the-scenes guided tour through the costume departments, stages, and rehearsal halls of the opera house.
Crate-digging market inside the covered passage of De Hallen, featuring independent record vendors selling vinyl across multiple genres.
An introduction to graffiti and the stories behind well-known street art, at the street art museum in a former NDSM shipyard hall.
Daniel Szalai presents 166 hens of the Novogen breed, a commercial egg-laying hen, as 166 individuals, at Droog's space on Staalstraat.
October is the national History Month, with history outings for children across the country, including a dark church, the Boevenbus and the Romans.
A chance to explore Muiden, the small fortified town east of Amsterdam with star-shaped ramparts and the medieval Muiderslot castle.
A holiday workshop where a child aged seven or over and an adult make their own piece of electronic music together.
An open rehearsal for the orchestra's Friends, with the American pianist Emanuel Ax playing music by film composer John Williams.
The private museum showcases street works, prints, and stencils by the elusive British artist.
Learn the fundamentals of silkscreening and print your own custom design onto t-shirts in this hands-on studio session.
Visitors on the fortress island can observe licensed ornithologists capturing, measuring, and banding wild birds for ongoing scientific research.
A brief, family-friendly Dutch-language opera performance staged on the platform of an Amsterdam metro station.
The idiosyncratic Dutch jazz guitarist and composer plays an intimate set in the historic former stock exchange.
An exhibition marking the city's 750th anniversary, tracing Amsterdam's history through key moments and archival records.
A Barbie-themed evening with a catwalk and a party at De Kring, the artists' society club near Leidseplein.
A broad survey of modern and contemporary art, design, and photography from the museum's permanent holdings.
Illusionist Rico Weeland stages an intimate evening of magic, mentalism, and storytelling.
Interactive light and digital installations invite visitors into responsive, mirror-filled rooms.
The presentation examines clothing from 1640 to 1930 that bears physical signs of wear, tailoring, mending, and daily life.
A guided tour for families past highlights of the Rijksmuseum collection.
An outdoor and community exhibition presented in collaboration with Middle East Archive, a digital platform documenting everyday life and visual culture across the region.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the concert hall's architecture and acoustics before attending the free midday performance.
A retrospective dedicated to the influential Indonesian-Dutch industrial and interior designer best known for designing Schiphol Airport's original interiors.
Drawing in the Royal Palace on Dam Square as part of October drawing month, inside Jacob van Campen's 17th-century former city hall.
An exhibition celebrating early trailblazers and foundational works in digital and video installation art.
An exhibition tracing decades of LGBTQIA+ community life, activism, pride celebrations, and resilience across Amsterdam.
The Anglo-French comedian, known for her online videos about cultural differences, looks at her mother's life choices in a new stand-up show.
An outdoor photography exhibition in Amsterdam West presented by Foam and the digital storytelling platform Middle East Archive.
The exhibition examines the global supply chains of cocoa, sugar, and palm oil behind the beloved Dutch breakfast staple.
The Saturday of the festival linked to ADM, the large squat in the western harbour that was evicted in 2019 and whose community keeps the festival going.
Sightseeing boats navigate the moat and outer waterways surrounding the star-shaped fortress town.
Children learn about life in space through hands-on experiments, surrounded by more than 100 aircraft and helicopters at the aviation museum in Lelystad.
An urban nature event exploring the wildlife that shares the city, including how animals adapt to winter.
The Berlin queer techno party, known for its nights at KitKatClub, brings its fetish-friendly club format to Amsterdam.
School holiday activities on Pampus, the island fort in the IJmeer that is part of the UNESCO-listed Defence Line of Amsterdam.
An exhibition featuring the Congolese artists' cooperative CATPC, exploring post-colonial ecology, labour, and restitution.
A guided tasting session exploring the culinary customs and flavours of the Dutch Renaissance in the castle grounds.
The contemporary art museum's basement level hosts large-scale room projections, light works, and screen-based installations.
An evening of casual painting using glow-in-the-dark acrylics while enjoying a glass of wine.
A three-part performance that joins Portuguese fado song with Kathak, the classical North Indian storytelling dance.
A day of hands-on play and discovery for families during the autumn school holiday at WOPL!, an indoor play centre for children aged one and up.
The miniature mouse world from Karina Schaapman's Mouse Mansion books marks its fifteenth birthday, and during the holidays visitors can also play bingo and paint a mouse door.
The acclaimed Dutch children's book illustrator exhibits her intricately detailed drawings.
The French electronic world music project known for 1990s hits like 'Sweet Lullaby', which won a Grammy for the album 'Boheme'.
Organist Ere Lievonen and flautist Raymond Honing explore the Fokker organ, whose 31-tone tuning opens up sounds beyond conventional keyboards.
Sightseeing boat cruises along the scenic Vecht river past historic estates and tea houses.
Historical reenactors demonstrate traditional musket-firing and military drills inside the Naarden fortress museum.
Exhibition dedicated to the people, history, and traditions of Amsterdam's landmark seventeenth-century Portuguese Synagogue.
Ornithologists demonstrate the process of catching, ringing, and releasing migratory birds stopping over on the fortress island.
A hands-on workshop in cutting and spraying stencils, a classic street art technique, at the street art museum in NDSM.
American photographer Norman Gershman's portraits of Albanian Muslims who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust, honouring besa, a traditional promise of protection.
Forest biologist Nico leads a guided nature walk through the Amsterdamse Bos.
A pottery painting workshop where you choose a ready-made ceramic piece and decorate it with glaze, then it is fired so you can keep it.
School holiday activities at STRAAT, the street art and graffiti museum in a former shipyard hall at NDSM.
The American artist examines identity, gender, and celebrity culture through self-portraiture that mimics glossy fashion shoots and consumer advertising.
A group exhibition of work by 45 artists that starts with photography and goes into other media, held at the NDSM shipyard in Noord.
Piano duos play music for two pianos and four hands, from Bach and Schubert to the minimalists Philip Glass and Steve Reich, plus new work, at venues around the city.
A solo show by the Amsterdam painter known for large, vivid canvases about Black identity and life in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
A weekend of activities exploring how sound, colour and taste cross over in sensory perception.
Toddlers and young children get free-jumping access to the trampolines during a session tailored for little ones.
The exhibition highlights textile designs and fabric works created by artists linked to the mid-century avant-garde Cobra movement.
A hands-on leatherwork workshop where you cut, stitch and finish a leather bag of your own to take home.
Wednesday creative workshops for children aged five and up, run by Motherhood Amsterdam until 16 December.
Bouldering is climbing low walls without ropes, over thick crash mats, and families get a discount during the autumn half-term.
The Scottish artist best known for The Islanders, a long-running project that maps an imaginary island through drawings, sculpture and text.
A hands-on workshop guiding participants through traditional cold-process soapmaking using natural ingredients.
The Dutch sisters behind De Sekszusjes use a game-show format to discuss sex, challenge myths and share practical information.
A dedicated cinema programme spotlighting seminal films from the 1990s.
A retrospective examining the turbulent life and intensely emotional, colourful paintings of the Dutch modern expressionist.
A hands-on workshop introducing the textiles, dressing traditions and etiquette of the Japanese kimono.
A NEMO programme about attention and distraction, looking at how your brain decides what to focus on.
Al Nisa (Arabic for 'the women') is a photography exhibition with Foam, based on Middle East Archive's latest publication.
Akim Moiseenkov creates imaginative concerts designed to engage both children and adults.
An exhibition of outsider art, meaning work by self-taught artists outside the art world, many of whom have experience of psychiatric care.
Audio stops created for the museum's Body Stories research programme, which you can listen to in the Rijksmuseum app as part of History Month.
The British house and techno DJ and producer plays one long set from start to finish.
An indoor jump session on connected trampolines and obstacle courses.
From 10 October the city archive shows Amsterdam Blue, the city's own blue-and-white earthenware and not the better-known Delft Blue.
Professional artists set up stalls on the Spui square every Sunday to sell paintings, prints, and ceramics directly to passersby.
A guided bicycle ride along city canals and neighbourhood streets covering local history and architecture.
Graduating second-year resident artists from the prestigious post-academic institute exhibit their work in the historic Ateliers building.
An interactive photo exhibition for the Month of History that sets the past of the fortress island Pampus alongside its present.
A Persian music and dance night featuring Bandari, the upbeat dance music of Iran's southern Gulf coast, alongside desert dance styles.
An interactive, multi-sensory tour of the museum designed specifically for blind and visually impaired visitors.
The Weesp craft brewery holds its own Oktoberfest-style celebration of beer, in the spirit of the Munich festival.
An exhibition at STRAAT, the large street art and graffiti museum in a former shipyard warehouse on the NDSM wharf in Noord.
Guests share family-style platters prepared with local and sustainable produce at this countryside restaurant venue.
The museum investigates the origins, artist, and identity of the sitter in an enigmatic Golden Age portrait.
An anniversary weekend at the small museum of the Mouse Mansion, the detailed doll's-house world of mice from Karina Schaapman's picture books.
A small-group salon boat tour departs from the five-star hotel along the Amstel river.
The castle estate opens its historic gardens and parkland to showcase seasonal spring and summer blossoms.
Kijk maar eens goed! shows work by Charlotte Dematons, the illustrator known for detailed picture books like The Yellow Balloon that reward close looking.
An exhibition exploring the closely entwined life, thoughts, and literary oeuvre of Franz Kafka.
Turkish actors Şevket Çoruh and İlker Ayrık in a comedy about two actors trying to stage Hamlet with little more than a few planks.
Display of the freshly conserved sixteenth-century altarpiece depicting the descent from the cross in the attic church.
A fair of zines and prints built around jugaad, the South Asian idea of resourceful improvisation and making do with what you have.
A clothing swap where you bring clothes you no longer wear and trade them for someone else's, instead of buying new.
Leiden's annual international film festival, screening new feature films from around the world at venues across the city.
A hands-on ceramics class teaching throwing and shaping clay on the potter's wheel.
The YUSU collective marks its sixth birthday with sound systems, a live set by Equalz and a long run of back-to-back DJ pairings.
Large-scale sculptures by the influential Dutch constructivist and modernist are placed throughout the museum's outdoor grounds.
Instructors teach basic clay shaping and texturing techniques to help you sculpt an object, figure, or abstract form.
An informal board game meetup designed to help Dutch language learners practice their speaking skills while playing games.
A free language workshop and informal café where learners practice spoken Dutch together in a relaxed setting.
An exhibition exploring the realities of independence struggles across Africa, Suriname, and the Caribbean.
An introductory walkthrough of the photography museum's current exhibitions led by an in-house guide.
A pirate-themed party at the café on the NDSM wharf.
An informal conversation circle where Dutch learners of all levels chat over coffee to build their everyday speaking confidence.
Practice Dutch, English, Spanish, and other languages over drinks in an informal mixer.
British trance DJ and producer Thrillseekers plays a seven-hour set from open to close.
An exhibition exploring the complex debates, ethics and practices surrounding the restitution of colonial-era heritage items.
A thematic walkthrough exploring the collection and modern art history through LGBTQIA+ perspectives.
Taxidermy duo Sinke & Van Tongeren present their theatrical, Old Master-inspired arrangements of exotic preserved birds and animals.
Comedian Rami Nima hosts an evening of stand-up comedy featuring up-and-coming and established acts.
The French string quartet, celebrated for their Russian repertoire, performs works by Weinberg, Prokofiev, and Beethoven.
As part of the Month of History, the fortress island in the IJmeer looks at how weeks of isolated island life affected the body and mind of the people stationed there.
The museum displays patterned skirts and wearable textiles designed by key painters and sculptors of the post-war CoBrA movement.
The celebrated British tenor and his longtime collaborative pianist perform nineteenth-century lieder by Wolf and Schubert.
A hands-on craft session covering the practical techniques, ingredients, and chemistry needed to create natural bar soaps.
A record release party with Soundway Records, the London label known for reissuing tropical and Afro-Latin music, with several DJs and a live set from Juny Martina.
An open-air secondhand market selling pre-loved clothes, homeware, and garden finds.
Halloween activities in Oostpoort, the shopping and residential area around the old Oosterpoort gate site in Amsterdam-Oost.
An exhibition named after hagelslag, the chocolate sprinkles the Dutch eat on bread, built around the idea of building a new world together.
Move Lab marks its first birthday with free rollerskating and a free workshop to a live DJ, and code 1JAAR gets half price on the exhibition.
A craft class on upcycling, which means turning old or discarded materials into new and useful objects.
A queer club night focused on upbeat pop tracks and electronic dance anthems in the Houthavens.
Children aged eight and up can explore coniferous tree species from around the globe across the botanical garden.
A weekly craft session making a tiny mouse door, inspired by Karina Schaapman's Mouse Mansion books, which are set among miniature mouse rooms.
The Dutch stand-up comedian, known from the Comedytrain circuit, brings his solo show to the Nieuw-West theatre.
A guided interior tour through Hilversum's iconic modernist town hall designed by architect Willem Marinus Dudok.
A hands-on workshop where children make their own jewellery.
Interactive play and sensory learning activities designed for young children.
The documentary follows Dutch-Caribbean artists who use dominoes as a way to think about life; the evening also includes a game of dominoes.
An architectural model exhibition exploring the extensive future urban development plans for Amsterdam's northern docklands.
The Viennese indie band, fronted by Sophie Lindinger, plays raw-guitar songs that move between grunge, post-punk and pop.
A vocal group from the Dutch TV talent show One & Only, where they finished third after covering Miguel's 'Sure Thing' and Tevin Campbell's 'Can We Talk'.
Composer Kate Moore turns ideas about landscape and long-distance walking into contemporary music, performed here with Herz Ensemble.
A group exhibition of fifteen emerging artists from Belgium who explore home and community through art, rituals and spirituality.
New work by Scottish artist Charles Avery, known for The Islanders, his long-running project imagining a fictional island through drawing, sculpture and text.
The city's largest city farm, in Westerpark, which has recently gone through a lot of changes and renovation.
An exhibition exploring gender transformation, performance, and shifting bodily identity through archaeological artefacts and contemporary culture.
An interactive exhibition space exploring archaeological discovery, material culture, and how finds are catalogued.
Improvised theatre, where performers make up scenes on the spot, often from audience suggestions.
A guided behind-the-scenes tour of the striking modern concert hall on the IJ waterfront.
Saturday-night karaoke at the long-running Zeedijk café known for jazz and singalongs, where anyone can get up and sing.
Self-taught pianist Sem Kramer, who can't read music and improvises everything between classical and jazz, celebrates his birthday and the release of The Flow, Vol. 1.
Ceramicist Anita Kluge leads a hands-on clay modelling workshop blending craft and storytelling.
A pop-up preview of outsider art: work by self-taught makers outside the official art world, often people with experience of psychiatric illness.
Buttechno, the Russian producer Pavel Milyakov known for lo-fi techno and ambient, plays live alongside DJs Andy Garvey and Lara Renner.
Rapido's FunHouse party celebrates 15 years.
The Texas psychedelic band started out with psych-pop and moved towards trippier, more experimental sounds, but its DIY roots still show.
A special session of Lindy hop, the swing dance born in 1920s and 1930s Harlem, led by Nils and Bianca.
A Rotterdam fair for collectible designer furniture, held in a former submarine construction hall at the RDM shipyard.
Exhibition of photography by the Dutch-Uruguayan artist known for her portraits exploring gender, identity, and memory.
The visual artist presents installations and performances reflecting on post-colonial history, identity and Caribbean heritage.
An interactive audio-visual walking tour around Amsterdam East designed for children aged seven and up.
The South African artist Wim Botha, known for sculptures carved from stacked books, wood and other unlikely materials, shows at Stevenson's Amsterdam space.
Two free Waternet audio tours, one through the city centre and one through the Amsterdam Waterleidingduinen dunes, tell the history behind a glass of tap water.
A self-guided walking route detailing maritime history and architectural landmarks around the Oosterdok docklands.
A certified barista teaches you how to make good espresso-based coffee at home, using SMEG's coffee machines.
Part of NDSM's XPO exhibition series, this show uses the selfie to explore identity, connection and community.
Photography exhibition exploring personal reflections, tributes, and diverse cultural perspectives on mortality.
A creative workshop designed to introduce young children to looking at and making art.
An exhibition at the museum of funeral culture exploring the relationship between traffic, transit and mortality.
A guided tour open to all of the Stadsschouwburg, the city theatre on the Leidseplein that dates from the 1890s.
Sites of Memory is an Amsterdam foundation that marks places linked to the city's colonial and slavery past; this is its Space of Becoming programme.
An exhibition exploring the intersection of Lutheran faith, openness, and queer community history in Amsterdam.
The first listed work, Manu Mpasi’s “Le Monologue de l’Aube,” reflects on living between different worlds as part of a three-work performance bill.
Hands-on clay modelling workshop guiding participants through basic sculpting and shaping techniques.
A temporary display exploring how the Dutch look for love, companionship, and connection through historical and modern media.
A chance to see an art collection shown in the Muntstaete building and its depot, a place not usually open as a gallery.
An exhibition on the Liga Nieuw Beelden, the 1950s Dutch association that brought abstract art, architecture and design together, held in sculptor André Volten's former studio.
An architectural look at Haven-Stad, Amsterdam’s developing port-city district, which could eventually add up to 70,000 homes.
An evening devoted to fresh oysters and paired drinks at the hotel's bar.
A monthly dance afternoon on the last Sunday, with swing classics and familiar Dutch and international favourites for anyone who likes to dance.
The University of Amsterdam’s archaeology museum displays ancient glassware from Roman, Egyptian, and Mediterranean collections.
A guided walk from the historic Red Light District house highlighting influential women in the city's social history.
Explore the striking Amsterdam School architecture of the historic shipping headquarters, now a luxury hotel, during this regular Sunday package.
A bock beer tour, tasting the dark, malty seasonal beers that appear in Dutch bars every autumn.
Bram Bakker, the Dutch psychiatrist and author who argues for exercise as part of mental health care, explores how to move smarter with Fabio D'Agata.
The Dutch designer displays playful sculptures and everyday design objects repurposed from obsolete collectables and materials.
A two-day fantasy and cosplay fair in Rijswijk.
Gunther von Hagens's exhibition of plastinated human bodies, focusing on the anatomical science of happiness and wellbeing.
The Dutch-Brazilian net artist, known for using websites as canvases, presents his book-based and printed projects.
Nine contemporary artists of Moluccan descent examine their roots, shared heritage and cultural identity through varied media.
A showcase celebrating contemporary creative voices and heritage across the Moluccan diaspora in the Netherlands.
An exhibition exploring the movement, culture and sensory experience of swimming through contemporary art.
The Dutch textile artist is internationally acclaimed for her tactile wool felt works dyed with heritage plants she cultivates herself.
Photographer Tomás Mauro presents a participatory project connecting strangers through portraits and written notes.
An exhibition exploring the history and lived experiences of the Moluccan community in Amsterdam seventy-five years after their arrival in the Netherlands.
An open-air photography exhibition displayed along the boulevard at the Sloterplas.
A discussion exploring themes of identity, displacement, and community.
A festival-style bill of metal bands playing live.
The university heritage museum displays ancient glassware alongside recent research into classical glassmaking techniques.
A group presentation featuring work by established names of modern and street-influenced art.
The museum surveys the intense, psychological canvases and watercolours of the Dutch Expressionist painter.
The renowned South African visual activist presents photographic portraits documenting Black LGBTQIA+ communities.
A retrospective survey dedicated to the Dutch artist best known for his minimalist wire sculptures, drawings, and luminous cityscape silhouettes.
The Vienna-born, Dubai-raised singer-songwriter performs his emotional, classically influenced pop.
An informal session offering a chance to meet artists and bio-designers currently working in the waterfront lab's studios.
A guided physical movement workshop connecting participants to the natural environment of the Sloterplas lake.
Experimental ensemble Jam With Humans stages an evening of interactive music and improvisation inside an independent bookshop.
The emerging photographer presents work examining memory, personal archives and unseen perspectives of family life.
An open creative studio session where you choose a medium and work at your own pace with hands-on materials.
A retrospective examining the foundational 1970s and 80s work of the seminal Dutch video-art distribution and research platform.
An immersive digital light and projection experience that surrounds visitors with life-sized prehistoric creatures in their ancient habitats.
Artist Miquel Hervás Gómez leads a hands-on workshop transforming publication waste into fresh handmade sheets of paper.
The Dutch pioneer of internet art presents digital works examining how computational materials interact with physical space.
Portraits and personal histories chronicling the community surrounding Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue.
A personal storytelling session recounting experiences and legacies connected to the Holocaust.
An outdoor sculpture garden exhibiting contemporary three-dimensional artworks amidst landscaped grounds.
Artists in the NDSM shipyard explore self-portraiture, digital image manipulation, and narcissism in modern culture.
Practical studio session introducing ceramic glazing techniques, finishes, and colour application for pottery.
A retrospective examining the modernist architecture and town planning of Hilversum's influential municipal architect Willem Marinus Dudok.
DJs LevyM and NOMIS play the late-night slot at the restaurant and bar at the top of A'DAM Tower.
A DJ night with two selectors at Radio Radio.
Named after Baudrillard's phrase about simulation, later quoted in The Matrix, at the Amsterdam centre for debate, film and culture.
A presentation on Pampus, the 19th-century fort island in the IJmeer that is part of the UNESCO-listed Defence Line of Amsterdam.
Textile artist Claudy Jongstra pairs her signature felted, raw wool pieces with works by guest artists exploring sustainable material processes.
The exhibition examines how artists assemble cut paper, found imagery, and photographs to build composite visual narratives.
A jazz club night in the New York style, with sets from Soul Jazz Mania, Taylor Burgess and the Lachy Hamilton Trio.
A guided architectural tour of Jan Duiker's iconic modernist sanatorium complex in Hilversum.
Guided tours exploring the city archives and the monumental 1920s architecture of the former bank building on Vijzelstraat.
Dutch producer and DJ Sansibar, known for fast electro and breakbeat, shares the night with LORI.
A guided walking and sketching excursion exploring the surrounding streets with drawing materials in hand.
A tactile scale model allows visitors to experience the architecture of the waterfront and the Arcam building through touch.
A community creative making session hosted at the contemporary art space in Amsterdam-Noord.
A bass music night held in solidarity with Palestine at the former squat and cultural centre on the Overtoom.
An interactive photography exhibition in which visitors take part rather than only look at the pictures.
A performance about how traditions in Suriname’s Maroon communities continue to change over time.
An exhibition showcasing contemporary visual art and cross-disciplinary projects from the Low Countries.
Contemporary artists explore selfhood and belonging in a collaborative group exhibition.
An exhibition at the Embassy of the Free Mind, the museum and library of hermetic philosophy, on how people understand themselves as part of nature.
A walking trail themed around animals, aimed at children and families.
An exhibition on how nature and culture relate, at the stacked-container art space on the former NDSM shipyard in Noord, running until 11 October.
An exhibition dedicated to the mid-century rescue and reconstruction of historic wooden windmills and houses along the Zaan.
A library display of plates and food stories from people in Nieuw-West, showing the cooking traditions found across the neighbourhood.
Retrospective covering the long career of the celebrated Haarlem painter known for his atmospheric still lifes and studio interiors.
The celebrated Dutch sculptor shows expressive works crafted from handblown glass, textile, and ceramics.
A ten-hour marathon set from Nina de Koning, hosted by Plaatwerkerij in the former school building on the Postjeskade.
An exhibition by Dina Danish, the Cairo-born, Amsterdam-based artist whose playful work deals with language, translation and misunderstanding.
An all-night dance party with DJs Kara Okay, Emmz and Pirate Radio, tipped as one of the highlights of 24 Uur Zuid.
During Accessibility Week the museum focuses on making its building and stories easier to reach for visitors with disabilities.
An exhibition at Droog, the Dutch design label known for conceptual, witty takes on everyday objects.
The Offline Club's phone-free gathering, here for World Mental Health Day with UNICEF's youth mental health coalition and aimed at Gen Z.
A club night at Club UP; qori is the Quechua word for gold.
An exhibition at the museum of Lutheran history exploring the heritage and resilience of the queer community.
A run of neighbourhood restaurant evenings on four dates at The Beach, Notweg 38, in the Tuinen van West area.
An interdisciplinary afternoon exploring art publications and cinema at the canal-house art space.
Interactive community project exchanging handwritten postcards with library visitors to explore social connections.
Participants in a four-day training demonstrate and playtest prototype serious games designed to explore urban planning and civic challenges.
The library opens a photo exhibition on queer life in Amsterdam, looking at the past, the present and the future.
The Rum Punch party teams up with Shannergy for a night at the former gasworks site in Westerpark.
A techno night in OT301, the former squat turned cultural centre on the Overtoom.
An exhibition of work by the artist Tycho at the museum devoted to the history of Amsterdam's canal ring.
A Halloween-themed party held in the garden space at De Fik.
A showcase exploring micro-housing, modular design, and efficient urban living solutions at Haarlem's architecture centre.
A visual arts exhibition spotlighting local creative talent and community stories.
An indie night with three guitar bands, including Goodbye from the UK, in the small living-room-style venue on the Frederik Hendrikstraat.
A live band at Maloe Melo, the small Jordaan bar known for blues, roots and rock'n'roll.
A performance by Dizzi Geetha, a queer Sri Lankan artist living in the Netherlands who works as a theatre maker, composer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ.
Niall McGuigan plays at Mulligans, the Irish pub on the Amstel known for nightly live Irish and folk music.
The Dutch painter and illustrator displays works celebrating female bodies, desire, and bodily vulnerability through soft, vibrant color.
A disco party with a tropical theme.
The Doppelgang collective chooses the DJs for a night at Shelter, the underground club beneath A'DAM Toren.
The Dutch artist, a co-founder of the Nul movement, is celebrated for his serial assemblages of found and discarded everyday objects.
KIKI Collective hosts a party at Ruigoord, the former squatted village west of the city that is now an artists' colony.
An exhibition exploring life and permanence through printmaking and graphic arts.
An exhibition reflecting on family, memory loss, and grief at the national museum dedicated to funeral heritage.
An exhibition considering the intersection of natural ecology and human epochs at the NDSM-based art space.
A discussion of the choices and challenges involved in using district heating as a sustainable alternative to individual electric heat pumps.
The Dutch artist displays whimsical ceramic creatures and eccentric character sculptures.
A day of volunteering with Serve the City, which supports homeless shelters, refugee centres, elderly homes and other community organisations.
An evening of music with Lucite in the Werkplaats, the Volkshotel's ground-floor space.
The contemporary art gallery hosts an exhibition exploring myth, memory, and material culture.
A conversation about why people are eating less meat and dairy, from animal welfare and health to climate concerns and food.
A group show by Sint Lucas, one of Amsterdam's oldest artists' associations, in the former baggage hall on the KNSM island.
A groove party at the late-opening live-music bar near Leidseplein.
Community repair event where volunteers help fix broken household appliances, clothing, electronics, and bicycles.
A four-session series in which the same small group meets repeatedly to get to know each other.
View a private collection of paintings, sculptures, and etchings housed in a historic building beside the Munttoren.
A club night playing Latin grooves, soulful house, and global party rhythms.
A club night playing Latin grooves, soulful house, and global party rhythms.
A display of freestyle brushwork on Chinese rice paper, exploring dynamic floral forms and vivid color.
The Dutch-Uruguayan photographer shows portraits exploring identity, gender and cultural belonging in the museum's project space.
Take a self-guided 90-minute walking route exploring the history and architecture around the Oosterdok basin.
The Dutch fine art photographer presents contemplative black-and-white prints examining emotional resonance, ageing, and natural transition.
Part of the Oogstweken, a workday that opens with a walk, a story and time to notice the surroundings, as a way to reconnect with nature.
An exhibition exploring personal roots, collective memory, and future visions through contemporary art and research.
A photography and art exhibition exploring local urban stories and community life around the park and neighbourhood.
The improvising ensemble performs a live set blending free jazz and theatrical elements to launch their new record.
Borrowing Orwell's Animal Farm maxim, this group exhibition gathers contemporary work addressing power structures and human-nonhuman hierarchies.
The Copenhagen-based artist plays melancholic, collage-like pop pieces built from his 2024 debut on Posh Isolation.
French painter Lou Ros and South Korean artist Sanghyuk Kim present expressive mixed-media paintings and figurative works.
Explore the long career of the Haarlem painter and watercolourist through works preserved from his studio on the Spaarne.
Marinka Reuten shows subtle, atmospheric works evoking dappled sunlight filtering through trees.
The Dutch ceramic artist displays his imaginative, brightly colored sculptural creatures.
Koentact opens its doors for free trial lessons, language level assessments, and an introduction to its teaching methods.
The German painter presents atmospheric, layered landscapes that blur the line between real wilderness and internal psychological spaces.
The gallery devoted to outsider, neurodivergent, and non-normative artists presents a collaborative mixed-media exhibition.
The Beijing-born visual artist and designer exhibits work engaging with physical exercise, discipline, and historical iconography.
Polish artist Mikołaj Sobczak presents work interrogating historical narratives, queer resistance, and national mythmaking.
The university gallery explores how artists and scientists interpret different dimensions of perception and truth.
A museum docent leads a walk through the photography exhibition highlighting young creative talent.
Lady Marmalade hosts an open-mic and spoken-word night inviting audiences to listen and speak up.
The veteran Dutch conceptual artist and biologist displays poetic works assembled from dried leaves, earth, and found natural elements.
The Dutch artist presents vividly coloured, apocalyptic drawings and paintings populated by sci-fi, occult, and cosmic imagery.
The Cuban artist presents conceptual work examining digital culture and alternative distribution networks outside formal online systems.
Pakistani contemporary artists Amra Khan, Naira Mushtaq, and Sehr Jalil show work questioning gender, ritual, and societal norms.
An exhibition exploring the design, social life, and evolution of public pavement space in post-war Amsterdam.
A group exhibition engaging with queer identity, memory and imagined futures in dialogue with the museum's historic religious setting.
The Dutch artist exhibits her monumental, intricately detailed charcoal drawings inspired by untamed nature and human psychology.
A night of DJs playing back-to-back, taking turns on the decks, in the club in the basement of A'DAM Tower.
A week-long group road trip through Europe that starts from Amsterdam, organised by a meetup group for travellers.
A preview of a show that uses live music, storytelling and poetry to portray Puglia as a small-scale picture of the Mediterranean.
A joint exhibition pairing Lou Ros's deconstructed figurative painting with Sanghyuk Kim's contemporary artistic practice.
DJs RED 87 and Project 89 play back-to-back, taking turns at the decks, at Madam's late-night event.
The second edition of Ruimschoots, held at Het Vrijpaleis, a self-organised cultural free space run by artists and activists.
Photographs by Clementine van der Bent, born 1993 and trained at Academie Minerva and the Fotoacademie, linking the changing seasons to our inner emotional life.
The Dutch chamber group marks Valentine's Day with an intimate classical performance.
An exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae, the historic artists' society on the Rokin.
A weekly street market in central Amsterdam selling fresh food and produce alongside other goods.
In an all-night-long set, the DJ Cincity plays the whole night at Lofi without other acts on the bill.
A party night at the long-running LGBTQ+ coffeeshop on Reguliersdwarsstraat.
The historic artists' society mounts a group exhibition centered on green themes, ecology, and nature.
A performance by theatre maker Ruth Borg at Frascati, the Amsterdam stage for experimental theatre and dance.
A printmaking exhibition presented by the Grafein foundation showcasing diverse contemporary relief, intaglio, and screen-printing techniques.
An exhibition at the Verwey Museum, Haarlem's museum of the city's history and art, running until 25 October.
A psychedelic trance party put on by the Psychedelic Rave organisers.
Contemporary artists challenge the rigid botanical classification systems established by 18th-century taxonomist Carl Linnaeus.
A programme about rest and slowing down at W139, the long-running artist-run space on the Warmoesstraat.
An exhibition in Loods 6, a former shipping warehouse on the KNSM island in the Eastern Docklands that is now used as an exhibition space.
Leo Vroegindeweij and Ruth Meijer present sculpture and painting exploring form, memory, and perspective along the canal.
The exhibition 'Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer' traces how this garden village, an early Amsterdam social housing district, came to be built for working families and later developed its green character.
A dance night playing hits from across several decades.
A blues band plays live at the Irish pub on Reguliersbreestraat.
A DJ night at Bret, the bar and club near Sloterdijk station, with a back-to-back set from Mia Cecille and Zeynep.
A historical exhibition or walking route dedicated to the Weesp cocoa manufacturer and innovator C.J. van Houten.
Hedda Stenberg hosts an evening with guests she has invited to perform alongside her.
A historical presentation tracing traditional women's clothing, headwear, and customs of Volendam.
The opening of a new exhibition of work by artist Daniel Jacoby.
The Dutch co-founder of the Nul movement displays his signature assemblages made from discarded mass-produced everyday objects.
An informal social evening of wine and conversation, set up for meeting new people.
The Dutch artist shows her large-scale, intricate charcoal drawings exploring the intersections of lush vegetation and urban human presence.
Annemarie Libbers facilitates an intimate creative writing and lyrical composition session.
A live set at the late-night Leidseplein-area music bar known for blues, rock and soul bands.
The Dutch sculptor shows new geometric, spatial works fashioned from industrial iron and steel.
A school-class activity in which pupils follow a trail through the microbe museum to discover which microbes live in the human body.
The Croatian contemporary artist re-examines modernist heritage, institutional memory, and collective history through painting and display structures.
A filmmaking workshop at the public library, run as part of the Love Thy Neighbour 2026 project.
A visual art exhibition exploring botanical forms and verdant textures on view near Oosterdok.
D Stone takes over the decks for a night at the club near Sloterdijk.
A contemporary art exhibition exploring personal, collective, and sensory representations of memory.
A small display on how the smelly, unhealthy 19th-century city gave rise to the belief that nature and fresh air are good for body and mind.
A club night themed around vintage and throwback music.
A guest night featuring MUZUNGU, an act named after the Swahili word for a foreigner.
A night under the VOLTEX name at Toekomstmuziek, a small venue for experimental and electronic music.
A two-artist exhibition pairing work by Juliette de Graaf and Cleo Campert at a small gallery in De Pijp.
An event under the Future Heroes name at Denim City, the denim workshop, school and lab in De Hallen.
A local networking evening and speed-dating session organised for city-centre residents.
A live band playing rock, blues and pop-rock at the long-running Leidseplein-area blues bar.
A close-up narrative cabaret performance centred on rumour, conversation, and storytelling in the venue's bite-sized theatre format.
In this hosting series, Rozenstraat hands its space to artist Daniel Jacoby, whose practice centres on video, animation and installation.
Visitors step into an authentic period interior illustrating daily domestic life for a family across generations.
A club night for an over-20s crowd at the Leidseplein nightclub.
An exhibition at the artists' society on the Rokin, opening on Friday evening 9 October at 7pm.
The French artist exhibits delicate ceramic sculptures alongside drawings that blend organic shapes with architectural forms.
Doka teams up with the Sin Señal collective for a night of DJ sets by Hannecart, Luna Ludmila and Sima K.
An exhibition of work by Tino Rademaker in Helicopter's art café.
A performance by the two named artists at Scala, a small foodbar and theatre on the Van Hallstraat.
A high-intensity interval training session outdoors in the Amsterdamse Bos.
A repair and craft session teaching participants how to pulp and recycle old paper into new sheets.
An event called 'Tegenvoeters', Dutch for antipodes or opposites, held in the Garnalenkerk.
A portrait exhibition showcasing the varied history and residents of Haarlem across the centuries.
An exhibition at a small contemporary art gallery on the Lijnbaansgracht, near the Leidseplein end of the canal belt.
Artists Mia Weiner and Johnny Mae Hauser explore physical form and connection through collaborative contemporary works.
An exhibition on local history reflecting on everyday village life and disrupted heritage.
An exhibition of artwork depicting the historic defensive gates that once guarded the perimeter of Haarlem.
A programme at De Balie, the Amsterdam venue for film, debate and journalism on current social and political issues.
Swimming classes tailored for children and adults with physical disabilities or chronic conditions.
The Italian artist installs a project drawing on dystopian fiction, linguistic shifts, and alternative historical narratives in the gallery's project space.
An exhibition tracing the environmental and economic histories of petroleum extraction and cotton farming.
A library exhibition tracing local histories and personal memories through shared narratives.
A weekly club night focused on commercial house music.
A two-person dialogue between painter Han Schuil and installation-focused artist Ricardo van Eyk.
Emerging artist Klaartje van Essen presents new sculptural and installation work developed during her De Ateliers residency.
The central bank showcases pieces from its corporate art collection exploring unexpected perspectives and hidden details.
A critical exhibition revisiting how social background and class privilege shape the careers and institutions of the contemporary art world.
A development programme for Zuidoost residents under 30 looking to build practical skills and professional networks.
Dutch abstract painter Paul Drissen shows geometric, collage-based paintings that balance modernist order with playful, provisional forms.
A gallery group show probing land, material, and ecological uncertainties through contemporary painting and sculpture.
The artist-run space presents a collaborative exhibition exploring how personal and collective trauma are held and recalled.
The project room hosts a companion contemporary installation focused on transformation and growth.
Artists Amra Khan, Naira Mushtaq, and Sehr Jalil present works exploring history, memory, and how objects outlive their original functions.
A community storytelling workshop focusing on sharing and illuminating personal narratives.
A guided walking group for seniors looking to stay active and meet neighbours in the park.
Prints and drawings by the Dutch artist exploring mortality and the human body, displayed in the funeral museum's cafe.
An art dealership presents works by female artists, available with trial home placements.
An exhibition at the art space puntWG, opening on Friday 9 October from 17:00 to 21:00.
A dual exhibition pairing sculptural earthworks with folded textile compositions.
An exhibition of surviving drawings, crafts, and memorabilia by the two sisters from the well-known regional industrial family.
A group exhibition examining how human presence, touch, and collective memory reverberate across material objects.
A performance at CC Amstel, a neighbourhood cultural centre that hosts small theatre, music and community events.
A club night hosted jointly by two electronic music collectives.
A beginners' improv course taught in Italian, covering the basics of making up scenes on the spot.
An art exhibition focused on luminous and colourful visual works.
A theatre performance by Mika de Pee whose title translates as 'Spring caught fire'.
The third chapter, “Making the Wave,” completes a three-part series preceded by “Floating on the Wave” and “Riding the Wave.”
A screening at the Westerpark cinema best known for championing Dutch film.
An event at FUSE, the creative space on the NDSM site in Amsterdam-Noord, whose title plays on the writer's saying 'kill your darlings'.
A session in Doka's studio series featuring the artists Moxes and 36framez.
An exhibition exploring the varied artistic output of four creators from a single family.
A club night for people aged 21 and over; its name is Dutch for 'lost'.
Open outdoor play sessions for children at the local Erfgooiers playground.
An architectural exhibition examining post-war reconstruction urbanism and its contemporary renovations in Haarlem's Parkwijk.
A professional development workshop focused on career direction and leadership strategies for women.
Banned Books Week is an annual US campaign, started in 1982, that draws attention to attempts to censor or remove books from libraries and schools.
A pavement-facing window exhibition space hosts an open-ended art installation.
A club night called Wild Out at Club Prime.
The independent project space hosts a contemporary visual art exhibition.
A neighbourhood library presents an exhibition of work by the artist.
Anne Cappendijk presents an artistic exploration of public grief rituals, commemoration and everyday losses.
Binnenstebuiten is Dutch for 'inside out', the title of this programme at the Blokloods.
An event whose name is Dutch for left field.
Sunday 11 October
The New York band led by Julian Casablancas, whose 2001 debut Is This It set off the early-2000s garage rock revival.
An open-air market selling artisanal food, drinks, and handmade goods from independent producers.
An open-air creative building area where children can construct huts and woodwork with real tools.
The cult Manchester band, known for their raw, chanted 2011 debut Go Tell Fire to the Mountain, back on stage after splitting up in 2012.
Fritz Lang's 1927 silent science-fiction classic gets a live score from vocal ensemble Wishful Singing, drummer Yonga Sun, clarinettist Steven Kamperman and Jorrit Westerhof.
The cult Manchester band behind the 2011 album Go Tell Fire to the Mountain, known for howled vocals and church-organ-heavy indie rock, plus a DJ set in the club.
The Dutch public broadcaster's symphony orchestra plays a programme of well-known classical favourites.
Children and parents build life-size jointed cardboard puppets, then dance with them to live piano music led by Brazilian artist Raquel Diniz.
A live score by Wanderwelle for Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926 Japanese silent film, an avant-garde nightmare set in a mental asylum.
British recorder player Sarah Jeffery, known for her Team Recorder YouTube channel, plays a space-themed half-term family concert for children aged two and up.
A monthly family gathering that explores world cultures through live music; October's Spanish theme brings a flamenco show and workshop, crafts, tapas and drinks.
A staging for ages ten and up of Shostakovich's satirical operetta about Moscow residents trying to get new flats in a housing estate.
Children search for seasonal plants and trees across the botanical gardens using a visual bingo card.
The long-running ensemble mixes fast-paced improv games, sketches, and video comedy sparked by audience suggestions.
A dynamic vinyasa flow session taught indoors with wide glass views across the IJ waterfront.
A guided bus tour of buildings in the Amsterdam School style, the expressive brick architecture of the 1910s–30s that Het Schip itself represents.
Children aged eight and up act as art researchers at the Rijksmuseum, looking closely at works to uncover clues and expose fakes.
As part of the Piano Duo Festival, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker comes to life through piano duet music and live sand art, for children aged seven and up.
A performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, his collection of preludes and fugues in every major and minor key and a cornerstone of keyboard repertoire.
An outdoor market on the large square in front of the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk, and entry is free.
A roda de samba, the Brazilian tradition of musicians and singers gathered in a circle, led by Lilian Vieira of Zuco 103 with Ana Beck and Viviani Godoy.
A guided climb up the tower of Amsterdam's oldest building, a medieval church in the Red Light District, with views over the city and beyond.
A children's session where kids learn to take apart and fix broken things.
A programme on the Sobibor extermination camp, where around 34,000 Jews from the Netherlands were murdered and prisoners staged an uprising in October 1943.
A big show at the Zuidoost arena, which holds around 17,000 people and is the city's main stop for major touring acts.
A family show for ages nine and up that starts in a miniature city and grows into a large-scale adventure.
A musical show for children aged 6 and up, with two accordionists and three dancers performing on a revolving stage.
A long-running Sunday afternoon tradition of live jazz sessions in a classic literary café on the canal.
The Mongolian-born jazz pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar presents her project weaving Mongolian folk melodies into contemporary jazz.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of Drive My Car, made this French-language drama starring Virginie Efira.
A roda de samba is a Brazilian tradition in which musicians sit in a circle and play samba while people gather round to sing and dance.
The long-running Zaandam band known for wild brass-band music that mixes punk, pop and theatre, often setting Dutch poetry to music.
A presenter-led show in the ARTIS zoo planetarium about where water can be found in our solar system and further out in space.
The Dutch singer-songwriter plays her intimate, piano-led songs in the record shop on Utrechtsestraat.
An outing in the Amsterdamse Bos, the big woodland park on the city's southern edge, organised around queer perspectives.
A monthly family session for children aged four to ten exploring Spanish culture through live flamenco music, singing, dancing, crafts and food.
A festival screening with English subtitles of what appears to be Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Norway-set drama, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve.
The Australian singer-songwriter, known for mellow acoustic hits such as So Beautiful and Better Days, plays a show co-presented by Paradiso.
A creative family afternoon about Mexico's Day of the Dead, the festival for honouring and remembering deceased relatives.
A theatrical piece exploring toxic masculinity and modern misogyny through the prism of online influencer Andrew Tate.
A stage version of Lewis Carroll's story about a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a world of strange creatures and nonsense logic.
A concert of Beatles songs, from the band's early pop hits to their later studio-era recordings.
An afternoon music trivia quiz named after The Strokes' debut album.
A screening of the father-daughter drama The Beloved with English subtitles, followed by drinks and a chance to meet other internationals.
A cinema visit adapted for toddlers and preschoolers, mixing film with play, here with sign language and a picture-book wolf story about two wolves becoming friends.
The Sunday of the festival run by the ADM community, the long-running squatters' collective known for its former shipyard site in the western docks.
A lecture on medieval tattooing, such as the marks pilgrims had made in Jerusalem, and whether tattoos were seen as protective or as tainting.
Musicians gather for an informal afternoon of traditional Irish folk tunes at the waterfront pub.
The Amsterdam rapper Adje, a fixture of Dutch hip-hop for many years, plays the main hall.
An evening of Lindy Hop, the energetic partner swing dance that began in 1920s and 1930s Harlem.
Children draw dramatic sea voyages in this hands-on creative session inspired by the museum's maritime collection.
A free, open-to-all community flamenco choir rehearsal in Buitenveldert.
A hands-on clay workshop where you make functional ceramics such as cups and bowls, with two places for the price of one.
A guided architecture tour exploring the landmark Amsterdam School building now operating as the Grand Hotel Amrâth.
An informal, drop-in evening of casual chess matches inside the subterranean cultural centre.
The first heat of the Amsterdam Kleinkunst Festival, a long-running competition for new talent in Dutch cabaret and theatrical song.
A relaxed Sunday afternoon of acoustic swing and French chanson inside the canal-side brown café.
A family show for ages four and up about the English outlaw who robbed the rich to give to the poor, told with acrobatics, music and humour.
A children's theatre performance designed for toddlers and young kids at the boutique puppet and story theatre.
Lance Hammer's drama with Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay, about a family coping with a mother's dementia.
Dancers go head to head in battles, taking turns to outdance each other in front of judges and a crowd.
An interactive show for ages eight and up that puts the audience's inner world centre stage.
A children's craft session for ages six and up where kids design and make their own constellation.
A puppet show for children aged three and up, performed by the touring puppet company Theatergroep Winterberg.
The festival closes with the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo, the Israeli husband-and-wife team of Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg.
Offline Club, the Amsterdam-born phone-free gatherings, hosts a craft session where people make things together without screens.
Andrey Zvyagintsev, director of Leviathan and Loveless, returns with a drama about infidelity and violence in present-day Russia.
A double bill of two short theatre pieces, one about having an expat father and one about a mother leaving for Mars.
A children's session that combines reading in Spanish with art-making.
A food hall near Museumplein that puts independent food and drink stalls under one roof.
A city walk with the Stadslezers walking club, looking at the cameras, sensors and systems that quietly record life in public space.
A social salsa evening where people come to dance with partners and anyone else in the room.
A walk around the free-spirited artists' village of Ruigoord, combining wild-plant foraging with poetry.
A theatre show for children aged four and up, at the small theatre on the Uilenstede student campus in Amstelveen.
A Sunday improv show where the performers build one long piece from improvised scenes and storylines, at Amsterdam's long-running English-language comedy theatre.
Megan Fleur Haakman and Joost Botman present a programme about Joni Mitchell, named after the Canadian songwriter's 1969 album Clouds.
The miniature museum based on Karina Schaapman's handmade mouse-house books turns 15 and celebrates with a programme of activities over the autumn half-term.
A market where independent makers sell their handmade goods directly to visitors.
Shrinky Dinks are plastic sheets you draw on and then heat, which makes them shrink and harden; here you turn them into keychains, badges and jewellery, with materials provided.
Photographer Marte Visser leads visitors through the 17th-century Sephardic synagogue, talking about her work in relation to the building.
The premiere of a theatre show for toddlers aged two and up.
Australian singer-songwriter Pete Murray, known for mellow acoustic hits like 'So Beautiful' and 'Better Days', plays with Brett Wood; the listing says it is sold out.
The Melbourne trio known for moody, cinematic pop that draws on trip-hop and soul.
A weekly Sunday-afternoon family workshop at the national film museum, where children aged six and up learn the tricks behind film.
A selection of highlights from this year's festival programme, shown again at the Westerpark arthouse cinema.
A fundraising day in the Nieuw-West parkland with a flea market, a raffle and a choir.
A drawing session with a live model, usually without an instructor, at the artist-run gallery in the OT301 building on the Overtoom; places must be booked.
A music theatre show for ages four and up about small sorrows and big adventures.
A clothes swap: bring clothes you no longer wear and take home something someone else brought.
A festival screening of the film, which appears to be the First World War drama by Belgian director Lukas Dhont, maker of Girl and Close.
The John Adams Institute brings American writers and thinkers to Amsterdam for talks, and this evening is about new neighbours and changing communities.
An edition of FATU with a Rotterdam theme, named after the city's 010 phone code.
A noise and extreme experimental bill led by the Japanese noise artist Kazumoto Endo, with acts from France, the Czech Republic, Finland and Belgium.
For the Netherlands' annual children's book week, a session on how characters in stories come to life.
Hands-on workshops at the International Festival of Illustrated Children's Books (IFIKZ) MaakMeeFestival, trying out the many things you can make with paper.
A screening of Idrissa Ouédraogo's 1992 Burkinabé film about a man who returns to his village with stolen money, shown for Black Achievement Month.
A lighthearted gathering centered around Japanese knotweed, highlighting its unexpected culinary and practical uses by the lake.
A family trail through the University of Amsterdam's heritage museum, teaching children about stars and planets as they go.
A Sunday concert of music by Joseph Haydn, the Austrian classical composer often called the father of the symphony and the string quartet.
Half-term activities at the Zaandam museum about the Zaan region's industrial and trading past, beside the windmills of the Zaanse Schans.
A hands-on session making an autumn wreath, held in the Tuinen van West parkland in Nieuw-West.
An interactive storytelling session designed to introduce children to books and creative tales.
Over a homemade meal, strangers of different generations share stories and views on belonging and what connects them, hosted by Silvers.
A puppet-theatre story about an unusual bird.
A show for children aged two and up based on Dikkie Dik, the ginger cat from Jet Boeke's popular Dutch picture books.
A first-round heat of the long-running competition for new Dutch cabaret and kleinkunst talent, in which young acts perform short sets for a jury.
Prizes go to the best façade gardens, the narrow planted strips along house fronts that residents look after on their pavements.
An energetic band led by a gifted pianist whose classical training shows clearly in the music.
Dutch-language stand-up from Esther van der Voort about motherhood; the show title means 'Mum is just winging it too'.
A gallery inside a historic canal house dedicated entirely to vibrant, contemporary animal-themed artwork.
As the name suggests, a session built around deliberately doing nothing, held at the Volkshotel in the former Volkskrant newspaper building.
A concert of MPB, the Brazilian popular song tradition that grew out of bossa nova, at the small Torpedo Theater.
A concert presented as a ceremony, where music is used for meditation and ritual rather than just performance.
A storytelling role-playing game where players make up an adventure together, hosted by an expat social group.
An evening devoted to Yuliy Kim, the Russian bard whose guitar-accompanied songs were a key part of the Soviet-era singer-songwriter tradition.
The Amsterdam Expat Meetup Group gathers in De Pijp on Sunday evenings to swap stories and unwind before the week starts, and Dutch speakers are welcome too.
A clothing swap: bring clothes you no longer wear and trade them for something else.
An interactive puppet performance designed for young children and families.
A look at how planners once imagined the future of Watergraafsmeer, the district that includes the 1920s concrete housing experiment Betondorp.
The poet Han van der Vegt and fellow performers tell a space-age story about the misadventures of a spaceship called Exorbitans.
A 90-minute hands-on workshop in which you learn to fold three origami models, with an introduction to mindfulness.
A squash tournament limited to beginners and lower-level players, so newer players can compete against people of a similar standard.
A follow-up discussion linked to the School for Peace, the Jewish-Palestinian dialogue programme at Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam.
An informal meetup where people bring their own art supplies and draw or paint together at a restaurant.
A live jazz programme held in the Javaplein branch of the public library.
Learners of Dutch practise the words and tune of a Dutch song before a group sing-along.
An evening of singing along to familiar songs and taking turns at the karaoke mic in a neighbourhood café.
Russian-language stand-up from comedian Javid Kurbanov, whose show title means 'The Country of Our Childhood'.
A 75-minute sound bath, where you lie back and relax while instruments such as gongs and singing bowls are played around you.
A show at Theater Vrijburcht, the small theatre in the Vrijburcht housing complex on IJburg.
Two short performances in one evening.
An open jam session where musicians drop in and play together at Mezrab, a cultural house known for storytelling and music nights.
A workshop at the University of Amsterdam's cultural centre about getting comfortable with making mistakes and learning from them.
A meditative sound session timed to the new moon, where participants lie down while gongs are played around them.
A workshop where musicians of all kinds get together to improvise music as a group.
Grand Cru is the show by Aimabele Schoften, whose name translates roughly as 'Amiable Scoundrels'.
A spoken-word and poetry programme at Ruigoord, the artists' village on the city's western edge.
A feature film screening as part of the festival programme at the Westerpark arthouse cinema.
A Foodie Fellowship dinner of Uzbek cooking, a Central Asian tradition known for plov, kebabs and dumplings.
Photographer Marte Visser accompanies an artist tour through the works on display.
A look behind the scenes at Paradiso, paired with a look at what is coming up.
Make a beaded hairstick in the style worn with hanfu, the traditional clothing of China's Han people.
A group dog walk for expats and their dogs, organised by an international community meetup group.
A concert by Camille Jansen at the Buitenveldert venue, with Fiona Fiasco playing first.
An art session for children at De VerbroederIJ community space.
Miguel Martinez plays at the Engelbewaarder's long-running Sunday jazz afternoon, a tradition at this Kloveniersburgwal café.
Shares its name with Marcel Carné's 1945 French film about theatre life in 19th-century Paris; Huis de Pinto is a 17th-century merchant's house, now a library.
An album release concert, where the new recording is played live at the musician-run Splendor.
Trainers lead a group fitness session combining cardio and bodyweight exercises in Oosterpark.
A networking and co-working meet-up for purpose-driven freelancers, founders, and creative entrepreneurs.
A community gaming evening of Magic: The Gathering and board games for women, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans, and agender players.
A Socrates Café is an open philosophy discussion; attendees bring questions and the group picks the topic on the day.
A performance by Dutch playwright and theatre-maker Justus van Oel; the title means piano lesson.
A weekly Sunday afternoon gathering for Arabic speakers and anyone interested in Arabic culture to socialise over drinks and snacks.
The Leidseplein rock bar closes out the weekend with live bands playing funk, rock, and soul.
A chamber music concert by the Kalami Trio in Huis de Pinto, a 17th-century merchant's house on Sint Antoniesbreestraat.
A social meet-up built around eating cake and conversation on a Sunday.
The tenth edition of an event about games, held around the theme 'tightrope of hope'.
A screening of this 2025 Spanish-language film, followed by a question-and-answer session.
A women's wellbeing session that treats the menstrual cycle as four inner seasons and looks at how energy and mood change through it.
The vocal ensemble Aurora Vocis sings music by Palestrina, the 16th-century Italian master of Renaissance sacred polyphony.
Aram Lee, Merapi Obermayer and the audience activate 350,000 Leaks (Griefs) in a performance; the title gives the standard climate settings for museum storage.
A performance in the CrossOver series at Badhuistheater, a small theatre in a former public bathhouse in Amsterdam Oost.
A performance by MAGU in the intimate setting of a theatre café.
A participant-led philosophical discussion of basic human questions, where the organisers guide the conversation rather than lecture.
A theatre show telling the story of a courageous young girl called Annetje.
The Preacher Men mark twelve years together with an anniversary tour.
Camembert is shown as part of the Paff film programme at this Westerpark arthouse cinema.
Dutch novelist Bert Natter gives a talk combined with live piano music from Marcel Worms, with a discount for members of the Amsterdam public library (OBA).
Two jazz groups share the bill: Fee Aaij's Joker quartet and the quartet of Eloi Pascual.
A day of family constellations, a therapeutic method from Bert Hellinger in which participants stand in for someone's relatives to explore family patterns.
A concert showcasing young up-and-coming classical musicians in a 17th-century canal-district merchant's house.
A group work session where people put their phones away and work quietly together, held at NIO House, the lounge of the Chinese electric car brand.
A Sunday jazz set from Thijmen Schoute's piano, bass and drums trio in the brewery's tasting room.
A concert by Larynx, a vocal ensemble, in the historic English Reformed Church on the Begijnhof.
A social group run to kick things off, organised by running club SRC with the outdoor and trail footwear brand Salomon.
A reflective community gathering or musical performance inside the historic canal house church.
A screening in the PAFF festival programme at Het Ketelhuis, the arthouse cinema in Westerpark.
A closing event, or finissage, marking the last day of the two exhibitions Ons Geloof is Liefde and We Carry Forward.
An open stage night with three performers, including Barbara Breedijk and Lourens Lente with his band VLOEI.
A performance whose French title means grandmother's memories.
A Sunday-morning poetry session at the Athenaeum bookshop on the Spui.
De Bloesjes play an outdoor set at the campsite on Zeeburgereiland.
A launch of the latest double issue of OEI, the Swedish journal of experimental poetry and art, with editor Rowan McNaught.
A monthly social group run in Amsterdam Noord that starts from Stretch&Fold.
Caravan of Love visits the Assadaaka community, bringing people together through a shared meeting at Podium Genieten.
The hostel bar hosts a casual evening movie screening.
The adventurous TryTone musicians' collective hosts an evening of contemporary composed and improvised music.
The city archive's screening room, where films and footage from its collections are shown.
A mixed church concert pairing violin and piano with La Notte, a five-voice male vocal group.
A theatre performance whose title promises that its central character, Valerie, will lay herself bare.
A concert at Splendor, the former bathhouse in the Plantage run as a venue by a collective of Amsterdam musicians.
A concert by the Karelia Quartet, a four-player ensemble, at Droog's design space in the old centre.
A book club discussion of Madeline Miller's bestselling novel, which retells the Trojan War and the Iliad through Patroclus's love for Achilles.
A live jazz night in the bar of De Boule De Boule.
MAGU, billed as South American, brings flavours of that continent to De Roode Remise.
The Hera Quartet, a four-player chamber ensemble, gives a concert at this neighbourhood community centre in Buitenveldert.
A double bill of two acts at the volunteer-run music venue in Amsterdam West.
Speed dating for gay and LGBTQ+ singles under the Naarden Pride banner, where people rotate through short one-on-one conversations.
An exhibition at Taets, the art and events venue on a former industrial site in Zaandam.
An event marking a twelve-year anniversary.
An evening social gathering tailored specifically for senior women.
A Sunday morning worship gathering with the local church community.
A Catholic church service held in the cemetery chapel.
The landmark survey brings together the Japanese artist's signature polka dots, Infinity Mirror Rooms, and monumental soft sculptures.
Around 80 works lent by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including Matisse's La Blouse roumaine, shown alongside paintings by Rothko, Picasso and Barnett Newman.
The annual showcase of the world's most compelling award-winning photojournalism and documentary photography returns to Amsterdam.
The children's film and media festival brings international premieres, workshops for toddlers and an interactive MediaLab play area for ages 3 to 14.
The monthly open-air design market brings makers, artists and food stalls to the museum lawns.
A month of family activities at the national museum, with a digital game, workshops, guided tours and scavenger hunts.
A family festival inspired by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, with her dot-sticker Obliteration Room, a light installation to dance in and crafts; booking ahead is advised.
A month of family activities at the national museum, including Story Rescuers, a new family quest that sends visitors on a secret mission through the collection.
The huge NDSM flea market moves indoors, with around 600 stalls of second-hand clothes, furniture and other finds.
An interactive science and technology exhibition focusing on the history, physics, and programming behind video games.
A free guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition, the annual showcase of the year's prizewinning photojournalism, on until 25 October.
Stalls selling artisanal produce, hot food and handmade goods rotate through the city's parks on Sundays.
The science museum's hands-on floor lets visitors experiment with everyday engineering, household technology, and clean energy.
The IJ-Hallen is a huge flea market held in the former shipyard halls at NDSM, where hundreds of stalls sell second-hand goods.
A major retrospective by the renowned photographer known for monumental landscapes, portraits and atmospheric explorations of human impact.
Over 150 monumental street art murals, painted on-site by international artists, fill a former shipyard warehouse.
Citywide arts festival staging performances, tours, and special events across various participating Amsterdam museums.
An exhibition showing the commercial textile patterns, garments, and decorative fabrics designed by the pop artist in the 1950s and 1960s.
An exhibition on Henri Matisse, the French painter known for his bold colour, his Fauvist work and his late paper cut-outs.
Hands-on workshops, games, and maritime activities designed for children and families.
A family-friendly Sunday programme of creative workshops and cultural activities for all ages.
A digital projection show rendering the Dutch master's fantastically detailed depictions of heaven, hell and sin into large-scale animations.
An exhibition for children featuring the intricate, detail-rich illustrations of Dutch picture-book maker Charlotte Dematons.
An animated digital installation bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novella and its philosophical meditations on life to light.
Dance event pioneers ID&T present a sensory labyrinth of light, sound, and interactive technology in the Elementenstraat warehouse.
An exhibition about disco, the dance music and club culture that came out of Black, Latino and queer scenes in 1970s New York.
The exhibition explores the pop artist's commercial textile designs from the 1950s and 1960s, printed with novelty patterns and playful motifs.
This edition honours Lou Lichtveld, also known as Albert Helman, a Dutch-Surinamese writer, composer, organist, politician and resistance fighter.
At this Amersfoort zoo, visitors follow a survival trail past dinosaur models while helping the Dinoranger find a missing baby dinosaur.
A family Sunday at the museum for Día de Muertos, the Mexican festival that remembers the dead with altars, marigolds and decorated skulls.
Jochem Myjer, one of the best-known Dutch cabaret comedians and famous for his hyperactive, physical storytelling, brings his show 'Net alsof' ('Just Pretend').
Local independent makers, designers, and craftspeople sell handmade wares inside the former tram depot.
Direct conversations and oral histories shared with survivors of the Holocaust.
The festival organisers stage a walkthrough experience using lasers, lights, and electronic soundscapes across several rooms.
A show by the New York-based American artist known for layered black-and-white paintings, silkscreens and text works built around his idea of 'Black Dada'.
Lewis Carroll's story of Alice falling down the rabbit hole, told through dance, music and projected images for children aged 8 and up.
NEMO's programme for the autumn school holiday, with hands-on science and technology activities for children and families.
Original stencils, screen prints, and authenticated indoor works by the elusive Bristol street artist are on permanent display.
An autumn-holiday activity on the fort island about how the keepers' families once got through winter when the IJmeer froze over.
The national museum displays textiles, costumes, and everyday garments highlighting traces of wear and historical repairs.
Sinfonia Rotterdam plays well-known hits live while 180-degree projected visuals surround the audience.
The painter's former home displays etching and drawing techniques to show how Rembrandt pushed the boundaries of his craft.
The photographer presents vivid, stylised portraits celebrating the fashion and contemporary identity of people from Xinjiang.
The contemporary Spanish-Dutch painter presents new works in dialogue with Francisco de Goya's iconic etchings, Los Disparates.
The Van Gogh Museum's autumn school holiday programme, with activities that help children and families explore Van Gogh's work.
Alan J. Pakula's 1976 Watergate drama, with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as reporters Woodward and Bernstein, shown in a 4K restoration.
STRAAT explores the fundamental visual elements of graffiti culture, from lettering and tags to rhythm and line work.
Morning yoga session held surrounded by Vincent van Gogh's masterworks.
A family exhibition exploring magic, illusions and ritual in Jewish culture and folklore.
A 4K restoration of Studio Ghibli's 2010 animated film, adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, about a tiny girl living secretly beneath the floorboards of a house.
A family autumn-holiday programme of nature, adventure and experiments on Pampus, the 19th-century fortress island in the IJmeer.
Shostakovich's 1959 comic operetta, originally Moscow, Cheryomushki, about a housing shortage, speculators and love, sung in English and suitable for ages 10 and up.
An immersive digital experience that recreates the streets and canals of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
A fixed lunch arrangement served at the fortress island of Pampus, accessible by ferry across the IJmeer.
A Bavarian-style beer festival at the taproom of Oedipus, the Amsterdam craft brewery in Noord.
A family tour of the Rijksmuseum told as theatre, built around a story about a present.
Visitors walk together through a virtual reconstruction of 17th-century Amsterdam, choosing their own route and seeing everyday life of the time; part of History Month.
Sculptures by the Dutch modernist, known for his stark geometric forms in steel, leather, and found materials, are installed across the museum's open-air grounds.
A free 2.1 km walk through the centre past 34 sculptures by 64 artists, all carved from felled Amsterdam city trees, with a public vote for a favourite.
A hands-on activity at the science museum where visitors try out artificial intelligence and test what it can and cannot do.
Outdoor art route placing site-specific sculptures and installations along the walking paths of the Amsterdamse Bos.
A family-friendly interactive exhibition exploring mythology, nature, and the symbolic wisdom of ravens across different world cultures.
A behind-the-scenes guided tour through the costume departments, stages, and rehearsal halls of the opera house.
Crate-digging market inside the covered passage of De Hallen, featuring independent record vendors selling vinyl across multiple genres.
An introduction to graffiti and the stories behind well-known street art, at the street art museum in a former NDSM shipyard hall.
Daniel Szalai presents 166 hens of the Novogen breed, a commercial egg-laying hen, as 166 individuals, at Droog's space on Staalstraat.
October is the national History Month, with history outings for children across the country, including a dark church, the Boevenbus and the Romans.
A chance to explore Muiden, the small fortified town east of Amsterdam with star-shaped ramparts and the medieval Muiderslot castle.
A holiday workshop where a child aged seven or over and an adult make their own piece of electronic music together.
An open rehearsal for the orchestra's Friends, with the American pianist Emanuel Ax playing music by film composer John Williams.
The private museum showcases street works, prints, and stencils by the elusive British artist.
Learn the fundamentals of silkscreening and print your own custom design onto t-shirts in this hands-on studio session.
Visitors on the fortress island can observe licensed ornithologists capturing, measuring, and banding wild birds for ongoing scientific research.
A brief, family-friendly Dutch-language opera performance staged on the platform of an Amsterdam metro station.
The idiosyncratic Dutch jazz guitarist and composer plays an intimate set in the historic former stock exchange.
An exhibition marking the city's 750th anniversary, tracing Amsterdam's history through key moments and archival records.