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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monday 12 October
The North Carolina rapper, known for albums like 2014 Forest Hills Drive and his introspective storytelling, plays the arena.
The American rapper J. Cole tours his album The Fall-Off, playing songs from across his long hip-hop career.
The American R&B and pop singer behind 'Location', 'Young Dumb & Broke' and 'Talk' performs in Amsterdam.
A family drawing workshop inspired by the iconic, playful style of Dutch illustrator Fiep Westendorp.
A market held in front of the Noorderkerk in the Jordaan since 1627, known for its Monday flea market and Saturday farmers' market.
The Dutch pop singer, known for hits like 'Groter dan ik' and her outspoken lyrics, presents her new album live.
The actor best known from The X-Files and Californication performs as a singer-songwriter, playing his folk-rock material.
Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire, with Peter Sellers in three roles, about generals who blunder their way into nuclear war.
A boxing gala in memory of Ben Bril, the Amsterdam Jewish boxer who fought at the 1928 Olympics and survived the Holocaust.
A theatrical family tour of the Rijksmuseum, led by the characters Izzy and Ot, for children aged four and up.
The Montreal singer of Haitian descent blends jazz, soul and blues, known for her award-winning album trilogy tracing African American musical history.
Public skating and courses at Amsterdam's large outdoor ice rink in Watergraafsmeer.
The 1980 office comedy in which Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton get revenge on their sexist boss.
A high-energy, absurd and confrontational dance and theatre piece about losing your grip, for ages 10 and up.
Autumn holiday art and craft activities in the studio at Muiderslot, the medieval castle in Muiden.
A theatre show whose content stays secret until the last moment, and which the makers say they will deny afterwards.
Learn the traditional Japanese textile arts of boro mending and decorative sashiko stitching in this hands-on craft workshop.
An autumn holiday workshop where children make a painting out of clay instead of paint.
A guided tour exploring the architecture and history of the seventeenth-century former town hall on Dam Square.
Professional comics and up-and-coming talent test out new material at this weekly English-language comedy night.
The quirky venue pairs an indie film screening with a social textile craft night.
A children's theatre performance designed for toddlers and young kids at the boutique puppet and story theatre.
A hands-on music and movement session designed for toddlers aged 18 months to four years.
Audience seating for the recording of Eva Jinek's current affairs talkshow at De Hallen.
A classical and electric guitar duo plays a programme running from Bach and Debussy to minimalists Reich and Glass and jazz pianists Hamasyan and Mehldau.
A sensory theatre show by Wonderland Collectief made for babies aged six months to one year and their parents, staged during the autumn school holiday.
A walking tour through central Amsterdam visiting sites connected to legendary musicians and historic music scenes.
An interactive dance and music experience made for very young theatregoers.
An open bluegrass session where musicians bring their instruments and play together, along with a performance by Shells & Lilies.
A discussion of how war stories, from Homer's Iliad to today, are told and retold.
An additional performance by Free Finga at Cinetol.
A lunch cooked by neighbourhood cooks Habiba and Farideh, with a chance to talk about the programme of Framer Framed's Noord branch.
Semi-finals of the city's competition for up-and-coming Amsterdam bands and acts, held in Paradiso's small upstairs hall.
BCCO, the Berlin techno collective and label, teams up with Transition for a night of hard, dark techno.
An introductory class on the great philosophers at Alain de Botton's School of Life, using their ideas to question your own habits of thought.
A shared meal where people from the neighbourhood sit down and eat together, a way to meet the people who live around you.
A guitar duo pairing classical and electric guitar at Splendor, the musicians' collective housed in a former bathhouse.
A voku, or people's kitchen, is a cheap communal meal, usually vegan, cooked by volunteers; this one supports Joe's Garage.
A Dutch family film in which Daan promises to get his crush the most epic present ever, and has to work out how.
GroenLinks-PvdA MP Lisa Westerveld takes part in a public conversation about what freedom means in the Netherlands.
A drop-in language café for Dutch learners from beginner to intermediate levels looking to practice conversational skills.
A library performance for children aged four and up, part of the Spot Aan theatre series.
Eye's film programme for very young children shows short films built around searching and finding.
For the Week of the English Book, the international author A.T. Qureshi talks about The Baby Dragon Tulip Farm and signs copies.
A talk on Meister Eckhart, the medieval German Dominican theologian and mystic known for his sermons on the soul's direct union with God.
Casual sports, games, and exercise sessions organised specifically for girls in West.
A movement workshop using music and dance steps to stimulate memory and cognitive health.
An open-level yoga class hosted at the Dapperbuurt community centre.
A guided Buddhist meditation session open to newcomers and experienced practitioners without advance booking.
A solo set connected to the poet Mary Oliver, followed by a trio, at Huis de Pinto, the library and cultural venue in a 17th-century mansion.
A talk on food insecurity: why some people cannot reliably get enough to eat, and what can be done about it.
A high-energy dance fitness class set to Latin and world rhythms, held at the community pavilion in Noord.
Performers try out for the Amsterdam Kleinkunst Festival in ten-minute auditions; kleinkunst is the Dutch tradition of cabaret and song theatre.
A children's film in Dutch, part of the cinema's family programme.
Artists Suzy Blok and Melisa Diktaş talk about their work and how they make it, with time for questions from the audience.
A communal singing session welcoming vocalists of all skill levels to sing together in an intimate studio space.
A day for trying out different kinds of exercise, with a fitness test to help you find the activity that suits you.
A group social run organised with Shokz, the maker of bone-conduction sports headphones.
A free, community-led outdoor fitness workout open to all ages and fitness levels.
Casual dining and drinks served at the community venue at Het Groene Veld.
Tuesday 13 October
The North Carolina rapper, known for albums like 2014 Forest Hills Drive and his introspective storytelling, plays the arena.
The American singer, who has been a defining voice of neo-soul since her 1997 debut Baduizm, in a show billed as an intimate experience.
The South African singer, whose amapiano-flavoured hit 'Water' won a Grammy, brings her mix of pop and R&B to the stage.
The American singer known as the queen of neo-soul, behind Baduizm, 'On & On' and 'Tyrone', plays Carré.
The science museum explores the history, design, and culture of video games with interactive displays.
Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film, starring Tom Cruise.
The Ghanaian singer known for the global hit 'Shake It to the Max (Fly)' brings her blend of Afrobeats and dancehall to Bitterzoet.
An outdoor adventure park with rope courses and climbing routes strung between the trees, suited to children and adults.
Eye's regular morning screening programme introduces young children aged two to six to light, sound, and moving images.
Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch joins the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, the period-instrument orchestra founded by Frans Brüggen, for Baroque music by Vivaldi, Handel and Bach.
A trip to Vuurtoreneiland, the small island in the IJmeer with a lighthouse and a fort that is part of the UNESCO-listed Defence Line of Amsterdam.
The Ghanaian-American singer, known for the Afrobeats and dancehall hit Shake It to the Max (Fly), performs live.
The Australian pop singer, who started releasing songs as a teenager, plays songs from his second album 'Kicking My Feet' and has announced its follow-up.
An escape room for families and teenagers, where a team solves puzzles together to get out before time runs out.
Young players who took part in the Royal Concertgebouw Competition give a free lunchtime concert for children aged six and up in the Kleine Zaal.
The Denver band mixes indie rock with Eastern European, mariachi and gypsy-punk influences and is known for its Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack.
A festival for the youngest children, from age two, with activities and performances pitched at toddlers and their parents.
Dodgeball played across linked trampolines, organised by a casual social meetup group at the trampoline park.
An autumn holiday show for ages three and up, based on Levina van Teunenbroek and Charlotte Bruijn's picture book about a knight with no bottom.
A convention about robots, held in a large sports hall in Zuid that is normally used for basketball.
This Chicago brass band mixes street-band rhythms with hip-hop, reggae and soul.
Artists work in public inside the ARTIS-Groote Museum, the zoo's museum about people and nature, drawing inspiration from the natural world.
The saxophonist and flautist Cochemea Gastelum, long a member of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, plays spiritual jazz and funk drawing on his Indigenous heritage.
The American stand-up comedian, once a regular on Chelsea Lately, known for comedy drawn from family life, performs at the English-language comedy theatre.
An indoor play space where toddlers, preschoolers and their families play together.
The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra opens a rehearsal of quiet, subtle orchestral music to the public at its home in a former domed church.
A French film from Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, the directing duo behind The Intouchables.
A children's show built around soap bubbles, staged by Amstelveen's dedicated puppet theatre.
An interactive theatre show full of imagination for children aged four and up, at the library during the autumn holiday.
English-language stand-up from three comedians, Vasu, Diego and Elena, who joke about coming from India, Italy and Transylvania.
Poranguí is a multi-instrumentalist known for ceremonial, meditative music built from live looping, voice, flutes and percussion, and this tour stop is sold out.
A children's show for ages three and up that uses humour, music and fantasy to tell the story of a knight who has no bottom.
An informal evening of tabletop and board games inside the hostel's public cafe.
A singles mixer over drinks, with ping-pong tables on hand to break the ice.
An autumn half-term detective game in which visitors hunt for clues among the city archive's records.
A children's theatre performance designed for toddlers and young kids at the boutique puppet and story theatre.
A Dutch-dubbed outing for Aardman's stop-motion sheep, in which Shaun and the flock face a mysterious creature on the farm.
A gathering to close Sonsbeek 2026, the recurring international art exhibition in Arnhem, co-hosted by the Hartwig Art Foundation.
Audience seating for the recording of Eva Jinek's current affairs talkshow at De Hallen.
Agnieszka Holland's unconventional biopic of Franz Kafka, moving between his life in Prague, his family and his writing.
A family show for ages four and up about what it is like to be a child in a big world.
Roze Filmdagen, Amsterdam's LGBTQ+ film festival, presents its monthly screening, here Lukas Dhont's First World War drama about two young soldiers.
Part of Dutch National Opera & Ballet's Flirt series for 16- to 30-year-olds, which pairs a performance with an evening programme for young audiences.
A library workshop where children aged six and up write and perform raps about their favourite animals.
İlker Çatak's drama, his follow-up to The Teachers' Lounge, about an artist couple in Turkey whose lives unravel under political pressure.
An evening at Mezrab, the East Amsterdam cultural house best known for its English-language storytelling and spoken-word nights.
The library's film-and-books series screens I, Robot, the 2004 Will Smith film loosely based on Isaac Asimov's robot stories.
A French film adaptation of Annie Ernaux's memoir A Girl's Story, about her first sexual experience at a summer camp in 1958 and its long aftermath.
A comic performance about vulnerability and strength, built around a clumsy, bungling title character.
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.
An edition of De Balie's Kennismakers series looking at scrolling, vaping and hustling, three habits shaping young people's lives today.
A weekly social gathering for the local LGBTQ+ community to meet and connect.
A free screening for young people of the film Zwijgrecht, followed by a talk with the director.
Student instructors lead playful outdoor movement and introduce basic sports skills to children.
A practical visual arts course covering core drawing and painting techniques to help develop your personal style.
Musicians gather for an open improvisation session on the city's premier jazz stage.
The first half of a French two-part film about Charles de Gaulle, covering his wartime years leading the Free French resistance from London.
A maths-themed activity for children at Jeugdland, a children's playground in Amsterdam-Oost.
A regular evening of board games where you can drop in, join a table and play with other people.
A comedy night held in the café at Studio K.
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