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What's on in Amsterdam: events this week

Saturday 24 October

Musicelectronic-dance
AMF Amsterdam
Johan Cruijff ArenA
Johan Cruijff Boulevard 1, 1100 DL, Amsterdam

Amsterdam Music Festival, the big EDM show of Amsterdam Dance Event, fills the stadium with 40,000 people for headline mainstage DJs.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
OUTWORLD – Klangkuenstler All Night Long
Ziggo Dome
De Passage 100, Amsterdam

The German DJ Klangkuenstler, known for fast, hard-edged techno, plays the whole night alone in the arena.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 23:00 - 06:00 Tags:Music
Familyopera-musicals
Cats
Carre

Andrew Lloyd Webber's dance-heavy musical based on T.S. Eliot's cat poems, the show that gave us the song 'Memory'.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Family
Musicelectronic-dance
Jeff Mills' Interpretation of Rembrandt's 'De Nachtwacht'
Amsterdam Dance Event
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills presents his musical response to Rembrandt's Night Watch, the 1642 masterpiece in the Rijksmuseum.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 12:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
The Gardens of Babylon: The Seekers of Light ADE 2026 - Saturday by Day
Westweelde
Klönneplein 4-6, Amsterdam

The Saturday daytime instalment of The Gardens of Babylon's yearly three-part Amsterdam Dance Event series, which returns to Westweelde.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 14:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
KitKatClub: Kinks of Berlin (2026)
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

Berlin's notorious KitKatClub, a hedonistic fetish-friendly techno club, brings its kink-positive party concept to Amsterdam for a night.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 21:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
ADE | SASHA B2B PATRICE BÄUMEL
Het Sieraad
Postjesweg 1, Amsterdam

Sasha, the Welsh progressive house pioneer, plays back-to-back with Patrice Bäumel, the Amsterdam-based German DJ known for melodic techno, in a former school building.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 13:00 - 21:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
PAUL VAN DYK
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

The German trance pioneer behind 'For an Angel' plays the whole night himself, from opening to closing, during Amsterdam Dance Event.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 18:00 - 18:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Sammy Virji Curates
Gashouder
Klönneplein 1, 1014 DD, Amsterdam

The British producer and DJ, known for bouncy UK garage and bass tracks, picks his own line-up for a night at the Westergas Gashouder.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 21:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Joris Voorn presents Trip To Galaxy - Awakenings
Amsterdam Dance Event

Joris Voorn, the Dutch DJ and producer known for melodic techno and house, presents his Trip To Galaxy concept with the techno organiser Awakenings.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 13:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Joris Voorn presents Trip To Galaxy - Awakenings ADE
SugarFactory
Kristalpromenade 7, Halfweg

Dutch DJ and producer Joris Voorn, a leading name in melodic techno and house, hosts a Trip To Galaxy night as part of Awakenings' ADE programme.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 13:00 - 21:30 Tags:Music
Familytours-walks
Nacht van de Nacht on Pampus
Forteiland Pampus
Herengracht to nr 33, Muiden

You sail from Muiden to the fortified island in the dark and walk the fort by candlelight, with stories about energy then and now, for the annual night against light pollution.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 19:00 - 22:00 Tags:Family
Musicelectronic-dance
AWAKENINGS ADE 2026

The Dutch techno brand, known for its large-scale warehouse and festival events, stages its Amsterdam Dance Event edition with a line-up of techno DJs.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
50:HERTZ X PAN-POT Presents "HUMAN" (CLUB TRAIN - Saturday Daytime Trip)
Amsterdam Dance Event

A daytime party on a moving train with the Berlin techno duo Pan-Pot and the 50:Hertz crew.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 11:45 Tags:Music
Stage & Screenopera-musicals
Cabaret
DeLaMar Theater
Marnixstraat 402, Amsterdam

Chantal Janzen plays Sally Bowles in Daria Bukvić's new staging of Kander and Ebb's musical, set in the Kit Kat Klub in Weimar-era Berlin.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicelectronic-dance
DEEP DISH ADE BOAT PARTY
Amsterdam Dance Event
Melissaweg 60, Amsterdam

The Grammy-winning Washington DC house duo of Sharam and Dubfire, famous for their remix of Dido's "Thank You", hosts a party on a boat.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 15:00 - 23:00 Tags:Music
Stage & Screendance
Swan Lake
Opera Ballet

Tchaikovsky's 19th-century ballet about Prince Siegfried and Odette, a woman under a curse that turns her into a swan.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 19:30 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicelectronic-dance
Audio Obscura ADE x The Moment by WhoMadeWho
Amsterdam Dance Event
Muyskenweg 39, Amsterdam

Amsterdam party organisers Audio Obscura team up with The Moment, the live-and-DJ concept of Danish electronic band WhoMadeWho.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 14:00 - 23:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
DJ Slimfit x ADE x Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder
Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder
Oudezijds Voorburgwal 38, 1012 GD, Amsterdam

DJ Slimfit plays inside the 17th-century canal house museum known for the Catholic church hidden in its attic.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 19:00 Tags:Music
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
Van Gogh Museum Workshop
Van Gogh Museum
Museumplein 6, 1071 DJ, Amsterdam

Weekly creative workshops for children exploring different painting and artistic themes inspired by Vincent van Gogh.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Workshops & Classes
Musicelectronic-dance
DGTL ADE | Lane This Never Happened

American producer Lane 8 brings his This Never Happened label night, known for its no-phones policy, to DGTL's ADE programme.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 15:00 - 21:30 Tags:Music
Art & Exhibitionsexhibitions
Adam Pendleton Some Wild Kind of Language
Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ, Amsterdam

A large show by the American artist known for black-and-white paintings, prints and installations built from text, language and fragments of protest history.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Art & ExhibitionsExhibitions
Deep Seeing Currents
Amsterdam Dance Event - ARTIS Aquarium
Middenlaan 38, Amsterdam

A deep-sea installation by Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic artist known for The Weather Project, set inside the ARTIS aquarium.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Out & AboutSport
Night Climbing at Fun Forest
Fun Forest Amsterdam
Bosbaanweg 3, 1182 DA, Amstelveen

Fun Forest's treetop climbing courses open after dark, so you climb the routes at night.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Out & About
Musicelectronic-dance
Tonno Disko & Friends Presents Armand van Helden
Amsterdam Dance Event
Hemkade 48, Amsterdam

The American house producer behind "You Don't Know Me", his famous remix of Tori Amos's "Professional Widow" and Duck Sauce plays a guest set.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 14:00 - 22:30 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Boris Brechja presents FCKNG Serious x Loveland
Amsterdam Dance Event
Danzigerkade 5, Amsterdam

The German producer, known for his melodic "high-tech minimal" sound and masked performances, brings his FCKNG Serious label together with Amsterdam party organiser Loveland.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 15:30 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Boris Brechja presents FCKNG Serious x Loveland
Theater Amsterdam
Danzigerkade 5, 1013 AP, Amsterdam

German producer Boris Brejcha, known for what he calls high-tech minimal and for performing in a mask, hosts his FCKNG Serious label with Dutch organiser Loveland.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 15:30 - 21:30 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Boys Noize presents
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

German producer Alexander Ridha, known for distorted electro and techno and his Boysnoize Records label, curates his own night.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 23:30 - 23:30 Tags:Music
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
Rijksmuseum Family Month
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

A month of family activities at the national museum, inviting children and parents to discover the stories behind works in the collection.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Workshops & Classes
Musicelectronic-dance
Dockyard Festival ADE 2026

Dockyard, the electronic music and techno festival brand, holds its own edition as part of Amsterdam Dance Event.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 13:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
GoldFish
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

The South African duo play live house music mixed with jazz, adding saxophone and other live instruments to electronic beats.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 18:30 Tags:Music
MusicElectronic / Dance
Slimfit x ADE x Our Lord in the Attic Museum - Saturday
Amsterdam Dance Event

DJ Slimfit's Saturday set at Our Lord in the Attic, the canal house museum with a 17th-century Catholic church hidden in its attic.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 19:30 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Into the Woods ADE Festival Saturday

The Saturday edition of the ADE festival from Into The Woods, the Dutch electronic music organiser known for its events in the forest.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 13:00 - 23:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Verknipt ADE Saturday
AFAS Live
Johan Cruijff Boulevard 590, Amsterdam

Verknipt, the Dutch organisation known for large hard techno events, takes over the big concert hall for Amsterdam Dance Event.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
DGTL | Lane 8 presents This Never Happened
Amsterdam Dance Event

American producer Lane 8 brings his melodic house label night, known for asking dancers to keep their phones away, in partnership with DGTL.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Dome Concerts presents: MAX COOPER 3D/AV - Feeling is structure
Amsterdam Dance Event
Pazzanistraat 37, Amsterdam

Max Cooper, the British producer known for pairing intricate electronica with scientific visuals, presents an immersive 3D audiovisual show under a projection dome.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 22:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
The Disco Express - Club Train by Night

A night-time disco party held on board a train, with the carriages used as a moving dance floor.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 23:00 - 04:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Adriatique All Night Long - Awakenings ADE
SugarFactory
Kristalpromenade 7, Halfweg

The Swiss duo Adriatique, known for melodic techno and their Siamese label, play the whole night at an Awakenings event during ADE.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 23:00 - 07:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
No Art ADE Festival 2026
SONA Events

A festival-style day of electronic music under the No Art banner, organised by SONA during Amsterdam Dance Event.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
No Art Festival (ADE)
Taets
Middenweg 62, 1505 RK, Zaandam

An electronic music festival at Taets, the arts and events venue on the former Hembrug military site in Zaandam, held as part of ADE.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 12:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
909 x Loveland
Amsterdam Dance Event
Moermanskkade 107, Amsterdam

A joint party from 909, the Amsterdam techno event named after Roland's drum machine, and Loveland, the long-running Amsterdam dance event organiser.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 12:00 - 22:00 Tags:Music
Film
Wicker
Het Ketelhuis
Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam

A dark fairy tale starring Olivia Colman as a lonely fisherwoman who has a husband woven out of wicker, played by Alexander Skarsgård.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 17:00 Tags:Film
Musicchoral
Nederlands Concertkoor and Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam: Dvořák's Stabat Mater
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

Two Amsterdam choirs perform Dvořák's large-scale setting of the medieval hymn about Mary at the cross, written after the deaths of his children.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 20:15 - 21:45 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
ADE | HUNEE B2B Stella Zekri B2B Suze Ijó
The Loft
Justaasweg 4, 4571 NB, Axel

Hunee, the DJ known for wide-ranging sets of disco, house and beyond, plays back-to-back with Stella Zekri and Suze Ijó.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 06:30 - 13:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Saturday day w/ Michel de Hey / Philou Louzolo & more
Thuishaven
Contactweg 68, Amsterdam

A daytime party led by Dutch DJ Michel de Hey, with a line-up of back-to-back sets including DJ Tennis, Benny Rodrigues and Burnski.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 13:00 - 23:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Armand van Helden ADE
Hemkade48
Hemkade 48, Zaandam

The American DJ and producer behind "You Don't Know Me" and the Tori Amos "Professional Widow" remix, also half of Duck Sauce.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 14:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
DGTL ADE | Shimza & Co
NDSM Loods
NDSM-Plein 85, Amsterdam

South African DJ Shimza, known for Afro house and Afro tech, leads DGTL's ADE event with guests in the former shipyard halls at NDSM.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 14:00 - 22:30 Tags:Music
Musicclassical
La Tempête with Bach, Mendelssohn & Brahms
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

La Tempête, the French ensemble led by Simon-Pierre Bestion and known for staged, atmospheric concerts, performs music by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 14:15 - 15:55 Tags:Music
Musicclassical
Candlelight: Disney Princess
Candlelight Concerts
Sloterdijk 4, Amsterdam

A live ensemble, usually a string quartet, plays songs from Disney princess films in a room lit by hundreds of candles.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 19:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
ADE AT PACIFIC - TOYTONICS
Pacific Amsterdam
Polonceaukade 23, Amsterdam

An Amsterdam Dance Event showcase from Toytonics, the Berlin label known for jazzy, funky, disco-tinged house.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 23:00 - 04:00 Tags:Music
Art & Exhibitionsmuseums
Abracadabra: Magic from Houdini to Klok at the Jewish Museum
Joods Museum junior
Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, 1011 PL, Amsterdam

A children's exhibition about stage magic and illusion, from escape artist Harry Houdini to the Dutch illusionist Hans Klok.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Musicelectronic-dance
Visual Frequencies at Nxt with Junction 2 x Mastery
NXT Museum
Asterweg 22, Amsterdam

London techno festival Junction 2 and Mastery bring club music to NXT Museum, Amsterdam Noord's museum of digital and new media art.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Music
Out & Aboutsport
020.RC RUNS FOR FREE A GIRL - CHARITY RUN & RAVE ON THE CANALS × STËLZ 0.0 × HOKA (ADE 2026)
Jimmy Woo
Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 18, 1017 RC Amsterdam

A charity run along the canals followed by a party, organised by an Amsterdam run club to raise money for Free a Girl, which fights child sexual exploitation.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 10:00 Tags:Out & About
Musicelectronic-dance
Franky Rizardo Presents: Flow
Gashouder
Klönneplein 1, 1014 DD, Amsterdam

Franky Rizardo, the Amsterdam DJ and producer known for groovy house and tech house, hosts his Flow event in the former gasholder at Westergas.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 12:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
DGTL ADE | Shimza & Co
Amsterdam Dance Event

Amsterdam festival brand DGTL hosts South African DJ and producer Shimza, a leading name in Afro house, and guests.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 14:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Madam invites: Detroit Love
Madam
Overhoeksplein 5, 1031 KS, Amsterdam

Carl Craig's Detroit Love, a touring showcase of Detroit techno and house, comes to the club at the top of A'DAM Tower.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 22:00 - 04:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
The World’s Longest Back-to-Back DJ Set hosted by Fosbury music studio
Amsterdam Dance Event
Prinsengracht 769, Amsterdam

An attempt at a record-length back-to-back DJ set, where DJs take turns at the decks without stopping, hosted by Fosbury music studio.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 23:59 Tags:Music
Art & Exhibitionsmuseums
Cobra: More than Human
Cobra Museum
Sandbergplein 1, Amsterdam

An exhibition looking at the postwar CoBrA artists, such as Karel Appel and Asger Jorn, through themes that go beyond the human figure.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Musicelectronic-dance
SONA Presents: Affairs by Vintage Culture [ADE]
SONA Events

Affairs is the event series of Vintage Culture, the Brazilian DJ and producer Lukas Ruiz, known for melodic, crowd-pleasing house music.

Time:Sat 24 Oct Tags:Music
Workshops & Classesclasses
ZERØBPM ADE | Three-Day Ambient Meditation Ritual
Amsterdam Dance Event
Irenestraat 36, Amsterdam

A three-day ambient programme during ADE that treats listening as meditation, with drifting, beatless sound meant for lying down and switching off rather than dancing.

Time:Sat 24 Oct, 07:30 Tags:Workshops & Classes
On view all week

Sunday 25 October

Familyopera-musicals
Cats
Carre

Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical, based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and home to the song 'Memory'.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Family
MusicClassical
Beethoven's Fifth by the Concertgebouworkest
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the one that opens with the famous four-note motif.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:15 - 16:15 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Verknipt ADE Sunday
AFAS Live
Johan Cruijff Boulevard 590, Amsterdam

The second of the Dutch techno organisation's two Amsterdam Dance Event shows at the Arena-area concert hall.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Music
Art & ExhibitionsExhibitions
Deep Seeing Currents
Amsterdam Dance Event - ARTIS Aquarium
Middenlaan 38, Amsterdam

A work by Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic artist known for large light and water installations such as The Weather Project, shown in ARTIS's historic aquarium.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Art & Exhibitionsmuseums
Family Tour: The Best of the Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

Families explore the Rijksmuseum through riddles, scents and drawing, as an introduction to highlights from its collection.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Familyfilm
Cinekid Festival
Pathé Amsterdam Noord
Buikslotermeerplein 2003, 1025 XL, Amsterdam

The international children's film and media festival offers premieres, workshops for toddlers and a hands-on MediaLab playground for ages 3 to 14.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 09:00 - 18:00 Tags:Family
Musicelectronic-dance
Reinier Zonneveld 8HRS Live x Loveland
Amsterdam Dance Event
Moermanskkade 107, Amsterdam

Dutch techno producer Reinier Zonneveld, known for hard-hitting live sets made on hardware, plays an eight-hour live set with the Amsterdam party organisers Loveland.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 13:00 - 22:30 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
DGTL | Folamour All Day Long
Amsterdam Dance Event

DGTL, the Amsterdam electronic festival brand, hands the whole event to Folamour, the French DJ from Lyon known for house steeped in disco, soul and funk.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
AWAKENINGS ADE 2026

The Dutch techno brand, known for its large-scale warehouse and festival events, stages its Amsterdam Dance Event edition with a line-up of techno DJs.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Music
Musicclassical
Concertgebouw Orchestra Brass Play Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

Brass players from the Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet score in an arrangement for brass ensemble.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 11:00 - 12:00 Tags:Music
Stage & Screenopera-musicals
Cabaret
DeLaMar Theater
Marnixstraat 402, Amsterdam

Chantal Janzen plays Sally Bowles in Daria Bukvić's new staging of Kander and Ebb's musical, set in the Kit Kat Klub in Weimar-era Berlin.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Stage & Screendance
Swan Lake
Opera Ballet

Tchaikovsky's 19th-century ballet about Prince Siegfried and Odette, a woman under a curse that turns her into a swan.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicelectronic-dance
DGTL ADE | Folamour All Day Long

Folamour, the French DJ and producer from Lyon known for disco- and soul-laced house, plays one extended all-day set for DGTL during Amsterdam Dance Event.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 15:00 - 22:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Speedy J presents STOOR Live - ADE 2026
Paradiso
Weteringschans 6, Amsterdam

The Rotterdam techno pioneer Jochem Paap plays live as STOOR, his rougher, improvised project built on hardware machines, during Amsterdam Dance Event.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 16:00 Tags:Music
Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
Discover Kusama's Polka-Dot World with Sara de Monchy
Stedelijk museum
Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ, Amsterdam

Theatre maker Sara de Monchy guides young visitors through Yayoi Kusama's signature polka-dot installations.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Familyfamilie, gathering, kids
Ruigkids
Ruigoord
Ruigoord 76, Amsterdam

A creative workshop afternoon tailored for children in the cultural village.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 12:00 Tags:Family
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
SoundLAB Workshop - For Children (7+) with Adults
Muziekgebouw
Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam

Children and accompanying adults experiment with unusual instruments and sound installations in the venue's dedicated workshop space.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 13:00 Tags:Workshops & Classes
Musicelectronic-dance
DGTL ADE FUSE
NDSM Loods
NDSM-Plein 85, Amsterdam

DGTL, the Amsterdam electronic festival known for its focus on sustainability, teams up with FUSE, Brussels' veteran techno club, for an ADE night.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 - 23:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Prophecy by Prospa - Awakenings ADE
SugarFactory
Kristalpromenade 7, Halfweg

Prospa, the British duo known for euphoric, rave-inspired house, host their Prophecy party as part of Awakenings' Amsterdam Dance Event programme.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 23:00 - 07:00 Tags:Music
Out & AboutSport
Night Climbing at Fun Forest
Fun Forest Amsterdam
Bosbaanweg 3, 1182 DA, Amstelveen

Fun Forest's treetop climbing courses open after dark, so you climb the routes at night.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Out & About
Art & Exhibitionsmuseums
Exhibition: Speel!
Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (voorheen Het Tropenmuseum)
Willemskade 22, Rotterdam

An exhibition on the stories and cultures behind well-known games from around the world, where visitors can also play them together.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Film
Digger
Het Ketelhuis
Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam

Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film, starring Tom Cruise.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 08:30 Tags:Film
Musicelectronic-dance
ADE | AUDIO OBSCURA – MICHAEL BIBI
The Loft
Justaasweg 4, 4571 NB, Axel

Audio Obscura's ADE night features Michael Bibi, the London tech-house DJ and producer behind the Solid Grooves label.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:30 Tags:Music
Workshops & Classesworkshops
Illustrating in the Fiep Lab
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

A family drawing workshop inspired by the iconic, playful style of Dutch illustrator Fiep Westendorp.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Workshops & Classes
Familytheatre
National Children's Theatre Week
De Krakeling, De Brakke Grond and Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

Several Amsterdam theatres put on family shows, workshops, treasure hunts and backstage tours for children aged 2 to 12.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Family
MusicElectronic / Dance
SCOOTER
Ziggo Dome
De Passage 100, Amsterdam

The German hard dance band fronted by H.P. Baxxter, behind 1990s rave hits like Hyper Hyper and How Much Is the Fish?, plays during Amsterdam Dance Event.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 20:00 - 23:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
50:HERTZ X COLYN & FRIENDS (CLUB TRAIN - Sunday Sunset Trip)
Amsterdam Central Station
Stationsplein 9, Amsterdam

Dutch melodic techno producer Colyn plays a four-hour set on a party train that leaves from Amsterdam Central and comes back to it.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Music
Art & ExhibitionsExhibitions
EINDER by Boris Acket
Amsterdam Dance Event - Centrale Markthal

Dutch artist Boris Acket, who makes large installations of moving fabric, light and sound, fills the Centrale Markthal with this work.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Familyfilm
Imagine Film Festival

Amsterdam's festival of fantastic cinema, with international horror, science fiction and fantasy films, including ten spooky picks for families with older children.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Family
Musicelectronic-dance
ADE | Audio Obscura – ADRIATIQUE b2b CLOONEE
The Loft
Justaasweg 4, 4571 NB, Axel

Audio Obscura hosts Swiss melodic techno duo Adriatique playing back to back with British tech house producer Cloonee.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 07:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Sunday Sessions - Awakenings ADE
SugarFactory
Kristalpromenade 7, Halfweg

Awakenings, the long-running Dutch techno brand behind the Spaarnwoude festival, hosts Sunday daytime sessions at the Leidseplein club during ADE.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 - 21:30 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
ADE | Todd Terry & Friends
Het Sieraad
Postjesweg 1, Amsterdam

The New York house producer behind classics like 'Something Goin' On' and the famous remix of Everything But The Girl's 'Missing' plays with guests.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 - 23:00 Tags:Music
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
SoundLAB Workshop - For Adults
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam

A hands-on session for adults in SoundLAB, a hidden lab with more than 100 interactive electronic and acoustic instruments to play and explore.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 15:00 - 16:30 Tags:Workshops & Classes
Musicclassical
Songs of Heaven and Earth - Barbara Hannigan + Bertrand Chamayou
Muziekgebouw
Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam

The Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan, known for championing contemporary music, sings songs with the French pianist Bertrand Chamayou.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 20:15 Tags:Music
Familytheatre
National Children’s Theater Week 2026
Various venues in Amsterdam

A nationwide week in which theatres put on children's and family shows, workshops, scavenger hunts and backstage tours for ages two to twelve.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Family
Musicelectronic-dance
Gashouder Presents: Josh Baker
Amsterdam Dance Event
Klönneplein 1, Amsterdam

British house and tech-house DJ and producer Josh Baker plays the Gashouder, the round former gasholder at Westergasfabriek.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:30 Tags:Music
Film
Wicker
Het Ketelhuis
Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam

A dark fairy tale starring Olivia Colman as a lonely fisherwoman who has a husband woven out of wicker, played by Alexander Skarsgård.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 16:15 Tags:Film
Musicclassical
Concertgebouw Orchestra Brass Section: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

The brass players of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform an arrangement of music from Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 11:00 Tags:Music
Food & MarketsMarkets
Pure Markt Park Frankendael
Pure Markt

An outdoor market of food producers, artisans and designers selling their own products among the trees of the park.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 11:00 Tags:Food & Markets
Musicelectronic-dance
Kids Rave - Daytime Event
Amsterdam Dance Event

A daytime dance party for children and their families, part of Amsterdam Dance Event, with club-style music played at child-friendly hours.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 12:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Intercell x Milion & SAIDAH Invites, closing
Warehouse Elementenstraat
Elementenstraat 25, Amsterdam

A closing party for Amsterdam Dance Event, with sets by techno DJs including SAIDAH in a warehouse in the Westpoort industrial area.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 16:00 - 01:00 Tags:Music
MusicClassical
Immersive Percussion in the NedPhO-Koepel
NedPhO-Koepel
Obiplein 4, 1094 RB, Amsterdam

A percussion concert designed to surround the audience with sound, held in the domed former church the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra uses as its rehearsal hall.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
The World’s Longest Back-to-Back DJ Set hosted by Fosbury music studio
Amsterdam Dance Event

An attempt at a record-length back-to-back DJ set, where DJs take turns at the decks without stopping, hosted by Fosbury music studio.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 23:59 Tags:Music
Workshops & Classesclasses
ZERØBPM ADE | Three-Day Ambient Meditation Ritual
Amsterdam Dance Event
Irenestraat 36, Amsterdam

A three-day ambient programme during ADE that treats listening as meditation, with drifting, beatless sound meant for lying down and switching off rather than dancing.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 07:30 Tags:Workshops & Classes
Familyoutdoors-nature
Public Day: Amsterdam's Birthday
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Vijzelstraat 32, Amsterdam

The city archive marks Amsterdam's birthday with mostly free activities and a chance to see the 1275 toll privilege, the oldest document to name the city.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 12:30 Tags:Family
Musicclassical
Friends of Chamber Music: Rhapsody in Blue
De Duif
Prinsengracht 754, Amsterdam

A chamber concert built around Gershwin's 1924 Rhapsody in Blue, the piece that brought jazz into the concert hall.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 16:00 - 17:15 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
Amsterdam Dub Event: Moritz von Oswald / Radikal Guru and others
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

Dub night with Moritz von Oswald, co-founder of Berlin's Basic Channel and a pioneer of dub techno, plus Polish dub producer Radikal Guru and others.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 18:00 - 18:00 Tags:Music
Familytheatre
Nationale KinderTheaterWeek
Theaters door heel Nederland

The national children's theatre week, with around 100 theatres offering children's shows, workshops and extras for families.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Family
Workshops & Classesworkshops
Discover Shodō - Calligraphy Workshop
Museum Cobra
Sandbergplein 1, Amstelveen

A hands-on workshop in shodō, the Japanese art of writing characters with brush and ink, at the Amstelveen museum devoted to the CoBrA art movement.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 Tags:Workshops & Classes
Stage & Screentalks-lectures
Aftershock: The Seismic Impact of Dubstep
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

A programme on dubstep, the bass-heavy sound that came out of south London in the early 2000s, and how far its influence reached.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 17:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicelectronic-dance
50:HERTZ X COLYN & FRIENDS (CLUB TRAIN - Sunday Sunset Trip)
Amsterdam Dance Event

Dutch melodic house and techno producer Colyn and guests play a Sunday sunset party on a club train with the 50:HERTZ crew.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 18:00 - 22:00 Tags:Music
Comedyimprov
The Famous Boom Chicago Improv Comedy Show
The Famous Boom Chicago Comedy Show
Rozengracht 117, Amsterdam

The long-running ensemble mixes fast-paced improv games, sketches, and video comedy sparked by audience suggestions.

Time:Sun 25 Oct Tags:Comedy
Familynightlife
Kids Rave - Daytime Event
Panama
Oostelijke Handelskade 4, Amsterdam

A daytime dance party with DJs aimed at children and their parents.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 12:00 - 20:00 Tags:Family
Stage & Screentheatre
De Kopenhagen Trilogie
ITA
Bespreekbureau Leidseplein 26, 1017 PT, Amsterdam

A stage adaptation of Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen's memoirs about growing up, writing, addiction and mental illness in Copenhagen.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicchoral
The AGK Sings Palmeri's Misatango
Dominicuskerk
Spuistraat 12, Amsterdam

A choir performs Argentine composer Martín Palmeri's Misatango, a setting of the Latin Mass in tango style, traditionally with bandoneon.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Music
MusicWorld / Folk
Sunday Live Brasil - Brazilian Trio Thijmen Schoute / Florean Kruijswijk Jansen / Floris van Elderen
Walhalla Brouwerij & Proeflokaal
Asterweg 2, 1031 HN, Amsterdam

An afternoon of live samba and bossa nova at the craft brewery's tasting room in Amsterdam-Noord.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 16:00 Tags:Music
MusicWorld / Folk
Orchestre Partout Jam
Mezrab
Veemkade 576, Amsterdam

Musicians with refugee and migrant backgrounds lead an open intercultural jam session blending styles from around the world.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Music
Musicelectronic-dance
ADE 2025 - Day One

The opening day of Amsterdam Dance Event, the city's yearly electronic music conference and festival spread across clubs and venues.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 23:59 Tags:Music
MusicPop / Rock
Sunday Selectors with Dave Clarke
Concerto
Utrechtsestraat 52-60, Amsterdam

Dave Clarke, the British techno DJ known as the Baron of Techno, and guests each bring five tracks and explain what they meant for their careers.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Music
Food & Drinkfood-events
Japanese Ramen Workshop in Amsterdam– Sunday 25 October, weekend activities
Ariana Nozemanstraat 58
58 Ariana Nozemanstraat, 1065 TS Amsterdam

A Japanese host teaches you to cook ramen in a hands-on cooking class.

Time:Sun 25 Oct, 16:30 Tags:Food & Drink
On view all week

Monday 26 October

Musicelectronic-dance
LOVELAND ADE SHOWS

The long-running Dutch dance promoter hosts multiple electronic music parties as part of Amsterdam Dance Event.

Time:Mon 26 Oct Tags:Music
Musichip-hop-rb
MÁS TIEMPO BY SKEPTA
The Loft
Justaasweg 4, 4571 NB, Axel

Más Tiempo is the house music party series from Skepta, the Tottenham grime MC who has moved into DJing and producing house.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 07:00 Tags:Music
Out & AboutSport
Night Climbing at Fun Forest
Fun Forest Amsterdam
Bosbaanweg 3, 1182 DA, Amstelveen

Fun Forest's treetop climbing courses open after dark, so you climb the routes at night.

Time:Mon 26 Oct Tags:Out & About
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
Rijksmuseum Family Month
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

A month of family activities at the national museum, inviting children and parents to discover the stories behind works in the collection.

Time:Mon 26 Oct Tags:Workshops & Classes
Theatre & DanceTheatre
Baby Reindeer - première
De Kleine Komedie
Amstel 56-58, Amsterdam

The première of a staging of Richard Gadd's autobiographical play about being stalked, which he later turned into the hit Netflix series.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 20:15 Tags:Theatre & Dance
Out & Aboutmarkets
Noordermarkt
Noordermarkt

A market held in front of the Noorderkerk in the Jordaan since 1627, known for its Monday flea market and Saturday farmers' market.

Time:Mon 26 Oct Tags:Out & About
Musicpop-rock
Popup Choir sings Taylor Swift
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

Children aged 10 and over learn Taylor Swift songs by ear, first in unison and then in three-part harmony, and the result is filmed.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 20:15 - 22:30 Tags:Music
Film
Wicker
Het Ketelhuis
Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam

A dark fairy tale starring Olivia Colman as a lonely fisherwoman who has a husband woven out of wicker, played by Alexander Skarsgård.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 16:45 Tags:Film
Film
European Outdoor Film Tour 26/27 - Moving Adventures
Meervaart
Meer en Vaart 300, Amsterdam

The touring E.O.F.T. programme of short outdoor adventure films returns, with climbing, paddling, skiing and expedition stories on the big screen.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 21:00 - 21:00 Tags:Film
Musicelectronic-dance
TARAKA & WAVY Present: GORDO Sunrise Set
IJland
Tt. Vasumweg 171, Amsterdam

GORDO is the tech-house alias of Guatemalan-American DJ and producer Carnage, here playing a set timed for sunrise.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 06:00 Tags:Music
Stage & Screentheatre
De Kopenhagen Trilogie
ITA
Bespreekbureau Leidseplein 26, 1017 PT, Amsterdam

Director Eline Arbo's stage version of Tove Ditlevsen's memoirs about growing up in working-class Copenhagen and becoming a writer.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 19:30 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicelectronic-dance
The Gardens of Babylon: The Seekers of Light ADE 2026 – Sunday
Westergas
Pazzanistraat 37, Amsterdam

The Gardens of Babylon is an event series known for organic and melodic house in elaborately decorated settings, and this is its Sunday edition at Westergas.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Music
ComedyComedy Night
Mezrab Comedy Open Mic
Mezrab
Veemkade 576, Amsterdam

Up-and-coming stand-ups and seasoned comics test out new jokes on the cultural venue's welcoming stage.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Comedy
Familyoutdoors-nature
Amsterdam's Birthday
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Vijzelstraat 32, Amsterdam

The city archive marks Amsterdam's birthday on 25 October, the date of the 1275 toll charter that first mentions the city, with free activities.

Time:Mon 26 Oct Tags:Family
Musicchoral
Complaints Choir – Complain Along, Sing Along!
Plan C
Smaragdplein 24, Amsterdam

A complaints choir collects people's everyday grievances and turns them into a song that everyone then sings together.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 19:00 Tags:Music
Stage & Screenfilm
Clue (4K Restoration)
LAB111
Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam

The 1985 comedy whodunit based on the board game, starring Tim Curry as the butler, returns in a 4K restoration with its famous alternative endings.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 12:05 - 13:39 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicpop-rock
Chanel Beads + urika's bedroom
Tolhuistuin
Tolhuisweg 3, Amsterdam

Chanel Beads, the hazy experimental pop project of New York musician Shane Lavers, shares a bill with urika's bedroom in the venue's club room.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 19:30 - 19:30 Tags:Music
Stage & Screenfilm
European Outdoor Film Tour 26/27
Meervaart
Meer en Vaart 300, Amsterdam

A touring selection of short documentaries about climbing, skiing, paddling and other outdoor adventure, shown on the big screen.

Time:Mon 26 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Art & ExhibitionsExhibitions
XENOPUNK VR by Transmoderna
NXT Museum
Asterweg 22, Amsterdam

A virtual reality work by the art collective Transmoderna at the museum for digital and new-media art.

Time:Mon 26 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
MusicClassical
Baby Concert (0–18 months)
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR, Amsterdam

A concert for babies up to 18 months, built around sound, colour and movement rather than sitting still and listening.

Time:Mon 26 Oct Tags:Music
On view all week

Tuesday 27 October

Comedystandup
Placebo
Ziggo Dome
De Passage 100, Amsterdam

The British alternative rock band led by Brian Molko, known for brooding, androgynous glam-tinged hits such as Pure Morning, Every You Every Me and The Bitter End.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Comedy
Musicsinger-songwriter
Brandi Carlile
AFAS Live
Johan Cruijff Boulevard 590, Amsterdam

The Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter behind 'The Story' and 'The Joke' brings her big-voiced Americana and folk-rock to the stage.

Time:Tue 27 Oct Tags:Music
Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
The New Aquarium
ARTIS
Plantage Kerklaan 38-40, Amsterdam

The zoo shows off its newly renovated historic aquarium building and diverse marine life.

Time:Tue 27 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Out & AboutSport
Night Climbing at Fun Forest
Fun Forest Amsterdam
Bosbaanweg 3, 1182 DA, Amstelveen

Fun Forest's treetop climbing courses open after dark, so you climb the routes at night.

Time:Tue 27 Oct Tags:Out & About
Film
Digger
Het Ketelhuis
Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam

Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film, starring Tom Cruise.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 08:30 Tags:Film
Musichip-hop-rb
Fresku & Metropole Orkest conducted by Simon Dobson
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

Eindhoven rapper Fresku, known for introspective, often humorous lyrics, performs with the jazz and pop orchestra Metropole Orkest under British conductor Simon Dobson.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 20:15 - 21:45 Tags:Music
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
Rijksmuseum Family Month
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

A month of family activities at the national museum, inviting children and parents to discover the stories behind works in the collection.

Time:Tue 27 Oct Tags:Workshops & Classes
Theatre & DanceTheatre
Baby Reindeer - première
De Kleine Komedie
Amstel 56-58, Amsterdam

The première of a staging of Richard Gadd's autobiographical play about being stalked, which he later turned into the hit Netflix series.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 20:15 Tags:Theatre & Dance
Art & Exhibitionsmuseums
Abracadabra in the Jewish Museum
Joods Museum junior
Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, 1011 PL, Amsterdam

A family exhibition on the secrets of stage magic and illusion, from Harry Houdini to the Dutch illusionist Hans Klok.

Time:Tue 27 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Theatre & DanceCabaret
Net alsof
Carre

The energetic Dutch comedian returns to the stage with his high-paced, family-friendly stand-up show.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Theatre & Dance
Film
Wicker
Het Ketelhuis
Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam

A dark fairy tale starring Olivia Colman as a lonely fisherwoman who has a husband woven out of wicker, played by Alexander Skarsgård.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 16:45 Tags:Film
Musicclassical
Spotlight on Lucie Horsch: Baroque with Altstaedt and Dunford
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch plays Baroque music with cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and lutenist Thomas Dunford.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 20:15 - 22:10 Tags:Music
Art & Exhibitionsmuseums
Free Entry for Amsterdammers
Oude Kerk
Oudekerksplein 23, Amsterdam

Amsterdam residents can visit the city's oldest building for free, a medieval church that now hosts contemporary art.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 13:06 Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Familyoutdoors-nature
Amsterdam's Birthday
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Vijzelstraat 32, Amsterdam

The city archive marks Amsterdam's birthday on 25 October, the date of the 1275 toll charter that first mentions the city, with free activities.

Time:Tue 27 Oct Tags:Family
Stage & Screentheatre
De Kopenhagen Trilogie
ITA
Bespreekbureau Leidseplein 26, 1017 PT, Amsterdam

A stage version of Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen's celebrated memoir trilogy about growing up poor in Copenhagen, becoming a writer and falling into addiction.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 19:30 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicclassical
French Chaos - Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw + Emmanuelle de Negri
Muziekgebouw
Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam

The period-instrument orchestra founded by Frans Brüggen plays French Baroque music with French soprano Emmanuelle de Negri.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 20:15 Tags:Music
Out & AboutTours & Walks
Guided Tour: Chez Matisse
Vrije Academie
Herengracht 368, Amsterdam

A guided tour of the work of Henri Matisse, the French painter known for bold colour and his late paper cut-outs.

Time:Tue 27 Oct Tags:Out & About
Stage & Screentalks-lectures
Music Lecture: Who Is …? David Bowie, the Insatiable Chameleon
Theater de Richel
Nwz. Voorburgwal 282, Amsterdam

A music lecture on David Bowie's restless changes of style and persona, from Ziggy Stardust to his final album Blackstar.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
MusicClassical
Baby Concert (0–18 months)
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR, Amsterdam

A concert for babies up to 18 months, built around sound, colour and movement rather than sitting still and listening.

Time:Tue 27 Oct Tags:Music
Stage & Screenfilm
The Matrix (English with Dutch Subtitles)
FilmHallen
Hannie Dankbaarpassage 12, 1053 RT, Amsterdam

The Wachowskis' 1999 science fiction landmark, with Keanu Reeves as a hacker who finds out his world is a computer simulation.

Time:Tue 27 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
On view all week

Wednesday 28 October

Comedystandup
Stevie Wonder
Ziggo Dome
De Passage 100, Amsterdam

The soul great plays all of 'Songs in the Key of Life', his 1976 double album with 'Sir Duke' and 'Isn't She Lovely', for its 50th anniversary.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Comedy
Musicclassical
Klaus Mäkelä Conducts Mahler 7 with the Concertgebouworkest
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

The young Finnish conductor, chief conductor designate of the Concertgebouworkest, leads Mahler's Seventh Symphony, the sprawling work whose two 'Nachtmusik' movements earned it the name 'Song of the Night'.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 20:15 Tags:Music
Stage & Screendance
Swan Lake
Opera Ballet

Tchaikovsky's 19th-century ballet about Prince Siegfried and Odette, a woman under a curse that turns her into a swan.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 19:30 Tags:Stage & Screen
Theatre & DanceTheatre
Open Stage Storytelling Night
Mezrab
Veemkade 576, Amsterdam

Amateur and experienced performers take to the stage for an open-mic evening of personal tales, folklore, and spoken word.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Theatre & Dance
Out & AboutSport
Night Climbing at Fun Forest
Fun Forest Amsterdam
Bosbaanweg 3, 1182 DA, Amstelveen

Fun Forest's treetop climbing courses open after dark, so you climb the routes at night.

Time:Wed 28 Oct Tags:Out & About
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
Rijksmuseum Family Month
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

A month of family activities at the national museum, inviting children and parents to discover the stories behind works in the collection.

Time:Wed 28 Oct Tags:Workshops & Classes
Film
Wicker
Het Ketelhuis
Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam

A dark fairy tale starring Olivia Colman as a lonely fisherwoman who has a husband woven out of wicker, played by Alexander Skarsgård.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 13:45 Tags:Film
Musicclassical
Canto Ostinato vs. The Netherlands from Above
Pathé Tuschinski
Reguliersbreestraat 26, 1017 CN, Amsterdam

Simeon ten Holt's hypnotic minimalist piano work is played live alongside aerial images from the documentary series The Netherlands from Above, in the Art Deco cinema.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Music
MusicClassical
Canto Ostinato vs. Nederland van Boven
Pathé Tuschinski
Reguliersbreestraat 26, 1017 CN, Amsterdam

Simeon ten Holt's hypnotic minimalist piano piece set against aerial footage from the VPRO documentary series that filmed the Netherlands from above.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 19:15 - 20:30 Tags:Music
Familysport
Jaap Eden Ice Rink
Jaap Eden IJsbaan
IJsbaan 365, Amsterdam

Public skating and courses at Amsterdam's large outdoor ice rink in Watergraafsmeer.

Time:Wed 28 Oct Tags:Family
Stage & Screentheatre
De Kopenhagen Trilogie
ITA
Bespreekbureau Leidseplein 26, 1017 PT, Amsterdam

Director Eline Arbo's stage version of Tove Ditlevsen's memoirs about growing up in working-class Copenhagen and becoming a writer.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 19:30 Tags:Stage & Screen
MusicPop / Rock
Ryan Beatty - Arms Over Armor Tour
Paradiso
Weteringschans 6, Amsterdam

The American singer-songwriter, known for soft, intimate pop and his work with Brockhampton, plays the main hall on his Arms Over Armor tour.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 19:30 - 19:30 Tags:Music
Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
Digital Family Game: Story Savers
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

Families with children aged eight and up solve an interactive story game together through the museum galleries.

Time:Wed 28 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
Out and About with Pim & Pom 3+
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

Young children follow a trail through the museum helping Fiep Westendorp's famous illustrated cats track down a runaway mouse.

Time:Wed 28 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
Couples Pottery Wheel Workshop: "Spin & Sculpt: A Creative Date for Two"
Atelier Kleie
43 Johan Broedeletstraat, 1064 AA Amsterdam

A private hands-on pottery class where couples can try wheel throwing together and pick up their fired work later.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 18:00 Tags:Workshops & Classes
Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
Painting & Etching Demonstration
Museum Rembrandthuis
Jodenbreestraat 4, 1011 NK, Amsterdam

Demonstrations of 17th-century painting and etching techniques in the restored studio where Rembrandt lived and worked.

Time:Wed 28 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Familyoutdoors-nature
Amsterdam's Birthday
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Vijzelstraat 32, Amsterdam

The city archive marks Amsterdam's birthday on 25 October, the date of the 1275 toll charter that first mentions the city, with free activities.

Time:Wed 28 Oct Tags:Family
Workshops & Classesworkshops
Light Tape Art Workshop with Max Zorn at De Wollen Gymzaal
De Wollen Gymzaal
Oosterparkstraat 227, Amsterdam

Max Zorn, the Amsterdam artist who makes backlit pictures from brown packing tape, teaches his technique.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 15:30 Tags:Workshops & Classes
Musicpop-rock
Girls In Hawaii
Paradiso
Weteringschans 6, Amsterdam

The Belgian indie rock band, formed in the early 2000s, plays the melancholic, melodic guitar songs it is known for.

Time:Wed 28 Oct Tags:Music
Food & Drink
Fresh Pasta Workshop & Tasting | Wednesday 28.10.26
La Bottega by Chiara's Food
201 Van Woustraat, 1074 AN Amsterdam

A monthly hands-on class in making fresh pasta with knives, pasta machines or rolling pins, followed by a tasting.

Time:Wed 28 Oct, 18:00 Tags:Food & Drink
On view all week

Thursday 29 October

Musicsinger-songwriter
Cat Power
Paradiso
Weteringschans 6, Amsterdam

The American singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, known for Moon Pix, The Greatest and her reworked covers, plays the main hall.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 20:30 - 20:30 Tags:Music
Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
Amsterdam in Motion
Amsterdam Museum
Museum Herengracht 603, 1017 CE, Amsterdam

A huge multimedia scale model of Amsterdam, billed as the largest of its kind of any city, showing how the city lives and moves.

Time:Thu 29 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Musicpop-rock
Melanie C
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls, who has since built a solo career in pop and dance music.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 19:30 - 19:30 Tags:Music
Stage & Screentalks-lectures
An evening with Fran Lebowitz
Meervaart
Meer en Vaart 300, Amsterdam

The New York writer and humorist known for Metropolitan Life and Netflix's Pretend It's a City, talking in her famously sharp way about city life, culture and manners.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 20:15 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicclassical
Aristo Sham Plays Brahms' Piano Sonatas
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

The Hong Kong-born pianist, winner of the 2025 Van Cliburn Competition, plays Brahms's three piano sonatas, all written in the composer's early twenties.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 20:15 - 22:10 Tags:Music
Talks & BooksTalks & Lectures
An evening with Fran Lebowitz - Fran Lebowitz
Meervaart
Meer en Vaart 300, Amsterdam

The famously sharp New York writer and humorist, subject of the Netflix series 'Pretend It's a City', holds forth on whatever she likes.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 21:15 - 22:45 Tags:Talks & Books
Stage & Screendance
Swan Lake
Opera Ballet

Tchaikovsky's 19th-century ballet about Prince Siegfried and Odette, a woman under a curse that turns her into a swan.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 19:30 Tags:Stage & Screen
Stage & Screenopera-musicals
Cabaret
DeLaMar Theater
Marnixstraat 402, Amsterdam

Chantal Janzen plays Sally Bowles in Daria Bukvić's new staging of Kander and Ebb's musical, set in the Kit Kat Klub in Weimar-era Berlin.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicclassical
Opening Concert: Shifting Borders - Raphaela Gromes, Abel Selaocoe + Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Muziekgebouw
Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam

German cellist Raphaela Gromes and South African cellist-singer Abel Selaocoe join the Amsterdam Sinfonietta string orchestra to open the season.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 18:30 Tags:Music
MusicClassical
Opening Concert: Shifting Borders Raphaela Gromes, Abel Selaocoe & Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR, Amsterdam

German cellist Raphaela Gromes and South African cellist-singer Abel Selaocoe join the string orchestra for a programme built around the pioneering French composer Marie Jaëll.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 21:00 - 22:15 Tags:Music
Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
The New Aquarium
ARTIS
Plantage Kerklaan 38-40, Amsterdam

The zoo shows off its newly renovated historic aquarium building and diverse marine life.

Time:Thu 29 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
MusicPop / Rock
Ella Eyre
Paradiso
Weteringschans 6, Amsterdam

The British singer with the big soul voice, known for singing on Rudimental's 'Waiting All Night' and DJ Fresh's 'Gravity', and for solo hits like 'If I Go'.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 20:30 Tags:Music
Out & AboutSport
Night Climbing at Fun Forest
Fun Forest Amsterdam
Bosbaanweg 3, 1182 DA, Amstelveen

Fun Forest's treetop climbing courses open after dark, so you climb the routes at night.

Time:Thu 29 Oct Tags:Out & About
Art & Exhibitionsmuseums
Exhibition: Speel!
Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (voorheen Het Tropenmuseum)
Willemskade 22, Rotterdam

An exhibition on the stories and cultures behind well-known games from around the world, where visitors can also play them together.

Time:Thu 29 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Stage & Screentheatre
Herman van Veen - Vandaag
Carre

The veteran Dutch singer, songwriter and clown, also known as the creator of Alfred J. Kwak, performs his show 'Vandaag' ('Today').

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
Rijksmuseum Family Month
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

A month of family activities at the national museum, inviting children and parents to discover the stories behind works in the collection.

Time:Thu 29 Oct Tags:Workshops & Classes
Musicclassical
Candlelight Concert: The Best of Ludovico Einaudi
Posthoornkerk
124-126 Haarlemmerstraat, Amsterdam

Music by the Italian pianist-composer known for his gentle, minimalist piano pieces, played in a church lit by candles.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 18:45 Tags:Music
Musicpop-rock
Marina Sena
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

The Brazilian singer from Minas Gerais who became a big name in the country's new pop with her sensual mix of MPB, axé and reggaeton.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 19:00 - 19:00 Tags:Music
Musicclassical
Academy of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Academy at 25
Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's training programme for young professional musicians marks 25 years with a concert by its current and former members.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 20:15 Tags:Music
MusicPop / Rock
Ella Eyre
Het Zonnehuis
Zonneplein 30, Amsterdam

The British singer, known for her soulful voice on Rudimental's 'Waiting All Night' and her own hits like 'Gravity', plays a live show.

Time:Thu 29 Oct, 19:45 - 22:00 Tags:Music
On view all week

Friday 30 October

Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
Amsterdam Museum Festival
Amsterdam Museum
Museum Herengracht 603, 1017 CE, Amsterdam

The Amsterdam Museum marks its 100th birthday with 100 days of activities around the city.

Time:Fri 30 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Musicclassical
Klaus Mäkelä Conducts Mahler 7 with the Concertgebouworkest
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

The young Finnish conductor, chief conductor designate of the Concertgebouworkest, leads Mahler's Seventh Symphony, the sprawling work whose two 'Nachtmusik' movements earned it the name 'Song of the Night'.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 20:15 Tags:Music
Stage & Screenopera-musicals
Cabaret
DeLaMar Theater
Marnixstraat 402, Amsterdam

Chantal Janzen plays Sally Bowles in Daria Bukvić's new staging of Kander and Ebb's musical, set in the Kit Kat Klub in Weimar-era Berlin.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Musicclassical
Respighi's World Premiere - Giovanni Sollima, Laura van der Heijden + Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam

Italian cellist-composer Giovanni Sollima and British cellist Laura van der Heijden join the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra for the first performance of a Respighi work.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 20:15 - 22:15 Tags:Music
Stage & Screenbooks-readings
Mezrab Friday Night Storytelling
Mezrab
Veemkade 576, Amsterdam

The cultural centre's signature Friday night features an open programme of oral storytelling from local and visiting tale-tellers.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Out & AboutSport
Night Climbing at Fun Forest
Fun Forest Amsterdam
Bosbaanweg 3, 1182 DA, Amstelveen

Fun Forest's treetop climbing courses open after dark, so you climb the routes at night.

Time:Fri 30 Oct Tags:Out & About
Stage & Screentheatre
Herman van Veen - Vandaag
Carre

The veteran Dutch singer, songwriter and clown, also known as the creator of Alfred J. Kwak, performs his show 'Vandaag' ('Today').

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Workshops & ClassesWorkshops
Rijksmuseum Family Month
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

A month of family activities at the national museum, inviting children and parents to discover the stories behind works in the collection.

Time:Fri 30 Oct Tags:Workshops & Classes
Musichip-hop-rb
D-Block Europe x French Montana
AFAS Live
Johan Cruijff Boulevard 590, Amsterdam

The London collective known for gritty UK road rap teams up with the Moroccan-American New York rapper behind 'Unforgettable'.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 20:00 Tags:Music
Musicclassical
Respighi's world premiere
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR, Amsterdam

Italian cellist-composer Giovanni Sollima and British cellist Laura van der Heijden join the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra for a recently completed Respighi cello concerto and Walton's Cello Concerto.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 15:00 Tags:Music
Festivalsfilm
Imagine Film Festival: Ghost In The Shell
LAB111
Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam

Mamoru Oshii's 1995 anime classic about a cyborg agent hunting a hacker, shown as part of the Imagine fantasy film festival.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 19:15 Tags:Festivals
Musicjazz-blues
Flat Earth Society: The Coltrane Mutations
Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10, Amsterdam

Peter Vermeersch's anarchic Belgian big band takes John Coltrane's music apart and puts it back together in its own wayward style.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 20:15 - 22:00 Tags:Music
Musicjazz-blues
Bill Stewart Trio ft. Larry Grenadier & Walter Smith III
Bimhuis
Piet Heinkade 3, Amsterdam

American drummer Bill Stewart, long known for his work with John Scofield, leads a trio with bassist Larry Grenadier and tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 20:30 - 22:20 Tags:Music
Stage & Screentheatre
The Jury Experience: Diamonds, Lies and a Body
The Jury Experience
Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam

Interactive theatre in which the audience acts as the jury in a staged murder trial about diamonds and lies, and decides the verdict.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 18:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Stage & Screenfilm
NOFX: 40 Years of Fuckin' Up (2026) + Q&A: El Hefe
Melkweg
Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

A screening of the 2026 documentary about the long-running California punk band NOFX, followed by a Q&A with El Hefe, the band's guitarist and trumpeter.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 19:00 Tags:Stage & Screen
Art & ExhibitionsMuseums
Out and About with Pim & Pom 3+
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

Young children follow a trail through the museum helping Fiep Westendorp's famous illustrated cats track down a runaway mouse.

Time:Fri 30 Oct Tags:Art & Exhibitions
Comedyimprov
The Famous Boom Chicago Improv Comedy Show
The Famous Boom Chicago Comedy Show
Rozengracht 117, Amsterdam

The long-running ensemble mixes fast-paced improv games, sketches, and video comedy sparked by audience suggestions.

Time:Fri 30 Oct Tags:Comedy
Familybooks-readings
English Storytelling and Songtime
OBA
Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam

An interactive English-language session of songs, nursery rhymes, and picture books for young children.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 10:00 Tags:Family
Out & Aboutmarkets
Sunday Market Amstel 1 — 30 oktober 2026 – Sunday Market
Amstel 1
Amstel 1 (Stopera), 1011 VW Amsterdam

An outdoor market of design, art, craft and food stalls on the Amstel next to the Stopera, free to enter.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 11:00 - 17:00 Tags:Out & About
Musicclassical
All Souls - Nederlandse Bachvereniging
Muziekgebouw
Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam

The Netherlands Bach Society, the period-instrument ensemble behind the All of Bach project, marks All Souls with music on death and remembrance.

Time:Fri 30 Oct, 20:00 - 22:00 Tags:Music
On view all week

1,845 events, concerts, exhibitions, markets and things to do in Amsterdam from Saturday 24 October to Friday 30 October, gathered from the venues and organisers and refreshed every morning. Pick a day or a type on the side to narrow it down. This guide is in English; some events are in Dutch or other languages.

This weekend: AMF Amsterdam at Johan Cruijff ArenA (Saturday), OUTWORLD – Klangkuenstler All Night Long at Ziggo Dome (Saturday) and Cats at Carre (Sunday).

Questions about what's on in Amsterdam

What's on in Amsterdam this weekend?

885 events are listed for the weekend. Among the highlights: AMF Amsterdam at Johan Cruijff ArenA (Saturday), OUTWORLD – Klangkuenstler All Night Long at Ziggo Dome (Saturday), Cats at Carre (Sunday), Beethoven's Fifth by the Concertgebouworkest at Het Concertgebouw (Sunday) and Verknipt ADE Sunday at AFAS Live (Sunday). Pick Saturday or Sunday on the side to see them all.

Are there free events in Amsterdam this week?

Yes. 66 of the listings this week are free, for example Free Entry for Amsterdammers at Oude Kerk (Tuesday), Public Day: Amsterdam's Birthday at Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Sunday) and Expats vs Holland: English Stand-up Comedy Amsterdam at Café De Plakhoek (Thursday). Tick "Free only" on the side to see just those.

What concerts are on in Amsterdam this week?

578 concerts and live music nights are listed, including AMF Amsterdam at Johan Cruijff ArenA (Saturday), Brandi Carlile at AFAS Live (Tuesday) and Cat Power at Paradiso (Thursday). Tick Music on the side for the full list.

How often is this calendar updated?

Every morning. The listings are gathered from the venues, organisers and ticket sites, and past events drop off automatically.