What's On in Amsterdam on Saturday 7 November
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the next 60 days, as the galleries announce themSaturday 7 November
One night when museums across the city stay open late with special programmes, music and activities, all on a single ticket.
More than 40 museums and institutions stay open from 7pm to 2am with DJs, bands, dance performances, food and drinks.
For the city's yearly museum night, when museums open late with music and performances, this canal house with its hidden attic church takes part.
The Concertgebouworkest's incoming Finnish chief conductor leads Dvořák's dark, tightly argued Seventh Symphony, often called his finest.
Rederij Lampedusa runs canal trips in boats that once carried refugees across the Mediterranean, with guides telling migration stories; part of Museumnacht.
A family musical based on the story of the kidnapped Dalmatian puppies and Cruella de Vil, with songs, puppetry and humour.
The world's biggest cello festival runs for ten days, from Bach at breakfast to a late-night Cello Club Night, with recitals and the National Cello Competition.
A hands-on drawing studio inside the museum inspired by Rembrandt's etching and sketching techniques.
The veteran Dutch singer, songwriter and clown, also known as the creator of Alfred J. Kwak, performs his show 'Vandaag' ('Today').
The New Zealand comedian, known as Murray in Flight of the Conchords and from Our Flag Means Death, brings his physical, sound-effect-heavy stand-up.
Julia Wolfe's oratorio Fire in my mouth, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York that killed 146 mostly young immigrant garment workers.
Part of the touring Candlelight series, where musicians, usually a string quartet, play arrangements of pop hits by candlelight, here songs by Queen and ABBA.
Janzen returns as Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's musical set in a 1930s Berlin nightclub, in a new production directed by Daria Bukvić.
The veteran British DJ, a pioneer of progressive house, brings his long-running Bedrock label and club night, known for long, hypnotic sets.
Melkweg, the music and culture venue in a former dairy factory, joins Amsterdam's Museum Night, when cultural institutions open late with special programmes.
London producer Felix Manuel, known for the album Portrait With Firewood, plays a live set blending breakbeat, bass music and jazz-tinged piano.
British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cellist Ivan Karizna and Dutch violinist Liza Ferschtman join The Hague's Residentie Orkest for Haydn and Brahms.
A string quartet plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons concertos and a version of La Folia, the old dance theme many Baroque composers varied, by candlelight.
André Hazes Jr., son of the late levenslied icon, sings the Dutch-language ballads and singalongs of the levenslied tradition.
A sensory tour of Van Gogh's work through touch, sound and smell, aimed partly at blind and partially sighted visitors.
4,000 free trees are being handed out for gardens and balconies, and anyone who wants one can sign up.
The Flemish singer and actress, known from the youth series #LikeMe and Dutch-language pop hits like 'Atlas', plays the arena.
The American singer-songwriter, known for the 2024 hit Belong Together, plays acoustic-leaning folk-pop; only a waiting list is open.
Probably a stage version of Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, about three women in different eras linked by Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.
A new family musical for ages 8 and up, based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, about an orphan among London's street children.
Drop-in craft sessions for children among the miniature mouse scenes of Het Muizenhuis, the small museum built around the Mouse Mansion picture books.
Participants learn the basics of fragrance blending and create their own custom scent from botanical ingredients.
A children's craft workshop with Franziska Fiolka to make paper lanterns for Sint Maarten, when children carry lanterns door to door singing for sweets.
Magic tricks done with everyday office supplies like paperclips, pens and staplers, as part of Museumnacht.
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.
London band mixing klezmer, Balkan and Jewish folk with pop and electronics, known for the album Laughter Through Tears.
Demonstrations of 17th-century painting and etching techniques in the restored studio where Rembrandt lived and worked.
A Japanese host teaches a hands-on class in making ramen from scratch.
A guided autumn boat excursion navigating the waterways and woodland canals of the Amsterdam Forest.
The musical about Charles Addams's macabre cartoon family, in which daughter Wednesday falls for a perfectly normal boy.
Bach's Mass in B minor, his huge late setting of the full Latin Mass and one of the high points of choral music.
A special screening of Damien Hauser's Kenyan science-fiction film, set in a future Africa, where a filmmaker meets a woman claiming to be a princess.
Museum Night stop at the Suriname Museum, which covers the history, culture and diaspora of Suriname and its people.
The national volunteer day when people of all ages, families included, help maintain local nature areas by pruning, clearing and planting.
Climbing in the dark at this outdoor rope and climbing park, with a spooky Halloween theme.
An autumn walk through the Amsterdamse Bos, the large forest park on the city's southern edge.
An event about genetic modification at Mediamatic, an art centre known for mixing art with biology and food.
An evening salon exploring fairy tales, folklore, and esoteric stories inside the centre for hermetic philosophy.
A community celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, under the motto 'Celebrate the light, cherish the tradition'.
An English-language stand-up night at the American comedy theatre in the Jordaan, with several comedians each doing a set.
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 leatherworking class where you cut, stitch and assemble your own leather bag.
The Amsterdam journalist and author explains how the city became the place newcomers choose to move to today.
An Imagine festival screening drawing on La Llorona, the Latin American legend of the Weeping Woman, a ghost mourning her lost children.
This Imagine film takes its title from the wind phone, a disconnected phone box in Japan where people go to speak to dead loved ones.
An introductory session on the basics of Islam for people with no background knowledge, part of Museumnacht.
An absurdist family show for ages eight and up about chaos and paying attention; the title means "It's still quiet now".
An early-morning silent viewing through the modern and contemporary art galleries before regular museum hours.
A morning concert format that pairs music by Johann Sebastian Bach with breakfast, here performed by Stefano Bruno.
A flute concert for children aged five and up, inspired by Aardman's clay-animated inventor Wallace and his silent, long-suffering dog Gromit.
A short concert for babies up to 18 months and their parents, with live music in a relaxed setting where crawling and noise are fine.
English-language stand-up from comedians from around the world, with cocktails at the bar.
A phone-free social meetup at Stretch and Fold with time on the rooftop, by the pool and in the sauna.
The museum about Cornelis van Eesteren's post-war Nieuw-West garden cities hosts a bike-themed night, including decorating your own bicycle.
Mezrab's long-running English-language stand-up comedy night, at the Iranian-founded storytelling and cultural house.
A stage production about Sukarno, the independence leader who became Indonesia's first president.
Bring toys your children no longer play with and swap them for something new to you, at the city's waste and reuse centre.
A De Balie discussion about whether we have become trapped by our dependence on digital technology.
A retelling of the Norse myth in which the god Balder is killed by a mistletoe dart through Loki's trickery.
Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about three cinema ushers, staged by Amsterdam On Stage in the city's oldest cinema, which suits the story.
A theatre production whose title takes aim at Lolita, presumably Nabokov's novel and the way it shapes how young girls are seen.
Pergolesi's 1736 setting of the medieval hymn on Mary's grief at the cross, written for soprano, alto and strings and one of the best-loved Baroque sacred works.
Part of Imagine, Amsterdam's festival of fantasy, horror and science fiction cinema.
A warehouse sale in the Western port district offering houseplants, pots, and greenery at steep discounts.
An English-language guided tour taking visitors behind the scenes of Amsterdam's premier repertory theatre.
A walk through a greenhouse, looking at plants from different climates and continents around the world.
An interactive children's theatre show that puts your inner world of feelings and sensations in the spotlight.
Complimentary guided walks through the ethnographic galleries, introducing cultural collections from around the globe.
A daily happy hour at the hotel's Prins & Aap bar that introduces jenever, the Dutch juniper spirit that came before gin.
Marsh is a British producer and DJ known for melodic, emotive house and his releases on the Anjunadeep label.
A Museumnacht activity at the Amsterdam-Oost contemporary art space where visitors make a portrait that tells a story of their own.
The name is Dutch for 'shift work'.
A screening of The Peril at Pincer Point at Imagine, Amsterdam's festival of fantasy, horror and science fiction films.
An exhibition exploring the realities of independence struggles across Africa, Suriname, and the Caribbean.
French-Armenian cellist Astrig Siranossian and Hungarian cellist Ildikó Szabó join the young players of the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble for music from Hungary to Armenia.
Utrecht's Le Guess Who? festival teams up with OCCII, Antipode, Girls to the Front and Zalzala for a night named after The Fall's post-punk song.
A weekly Saturday afternoon drag-hosted bingo with cash prizes at this long-running gay bar.
A green-themed version of GeoGuessr, the game where players guess where in the world a photo was taken.
A screening at Imagine, Amsterdam's festival of fantasy, horror and science-fiction film, with the short film Factory Reset shown first.
Museum Night in Zuidoost at the Bijlmer Park Theater, a stage for the neighbourhood's diverse communities, pairing the area's history with music.
The Japanese jazz pianist, known for moving between jazz and classical music, plays with the trio from his album 'TRiNFiNiTY'.
A lineup of experienced stand-up comedians perform English-language or Dutch sets by the IJ.
La Chapelle Sauvage performs Pergolesi's 1736 setting of the medieval hymn on Mary's grief at the cross, written for two voices and strings, in the Posthoornkerk.
Dutch cellist Quirine Viersen and pianist Daniël Kramer give a concert for the very youngest, full of sound, colour and movement, with Kendra van Nes.
Art, food and talk about the December 1960 dike breach that flooded Tuindorp Oostzaan, the garden village in Amsterdam-Noord, forcing its residents to evacuate.
A free weekly karaoke night where anyone can take the mic, held at a queer bar on the Kerkstraat.
For Climate Week, children can build things out of thrown-away materials at Maakland, the building area of the Jeugdland adventure playground.
A tribute to Os Tincoãs, the Bahian vocal group whose harmonies drew on Afro-Brazilian candomblé music, at Amsterdam's Brazilian theatre.
The Berlin-born sex-positive, queer-friendly party, where dancing mixes with performance and dress codes lean towards fetish, nudity and self-expression.
A five-lesson course in painting your own life story in gouache, in the expressive style of Charlotte Salomon, whose painted series 'Life? or Theatre?' told her life story.
The museum's art library sells off books, a chance to pick up art publications and catalogues.
A presentation on art and the canal-house interiors of Amsterdam's Golden Age canal ring, at the annual art, antiques and design fair.
Paint your own ceramics with Sofia James Pottery in Lila's canal house, with brunch or aperitivo included.
A Climate Week workshop for children aged six and up on making paint from natural materials, held in the Jeugdlab hut at the Jeugdland adventure playground.
A guided walk from the Lloyd Hotel through the Eastern Docklands, tracing how the old port area became a showcase of contemporary Dutch architecture.
A beginners' group for padel, a fast doubles racket sport that mixes tennis and squash and is played on a small court with glass walls.
The Polish pop singer, known since the 1990s for hits like Typ niepokorny, marks three decades of performing.
Lars von Trier's 1984 debut feature opens his Europa trilogy: a hypnotic, sepia-toned noir in which a detective hunts a killer through a decaying, flooded Europe.
The authors' area of the Spellenspektakel games fair, where Dutch game designers show their own board and card games, organised by the Dutch Game Design Guild.
A clothing swap: bring clothes you no longer wear and take home someone else's.
A listening session built around the Vliegenbos, the old woodland park in Amsterdam-Noord, tuning in to the sounds of the forest.
John Carney's coming-of-age musical about a Dublin teenager in the 1980s who starts a band to impress a girl.
A Diwali-themed craft workshop for children aged 6 to 12 and their parents, part of the festival of lights celebrations in Zuidoost.
A drop-in activity during Museum Night where visitors make their own badges at the ethnographic museum, formerly the Tropenmuseum.
A stage production at Podium Mozaïek, the Bos en Lommer venue for theatre, music and stories from many cultures.
A children's music performance for ages five and up, and going by the title it centres on the recorder.
A hands-on class where you cut, stitch and finish your own leather cover for a notebook or journal.
A guided walk through Amsterdam Zuid's Amsterdam School architecture, the expressive brick style of the early 20th century that Museum Het Schip is devoted to.
Bring broken household items, clothes or electronics, and volunteers help you fix them yourself.
A talk on how violence has developed through human history and evolution, and what may explain it.
A session of the social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower, in which players bluff and try to find the hidden demon in their village.
The wind orchestra founded by Amsterdam tram staff takes on Stravinsky's Firebird, the 1910 ballet score built on a Russian fairy tale.
An underground hip-hop night with INSAYNO and Kuo x Restless Mind, in the volunteer-run bunker beneath a Vondelpark bridge.
A new theatre piece at Frascati, the Nes venue for experimental theatre, dance and performance by young makers.
The Polish pop singer, a chart regular since the 1990s, performs for a crowd that likely knows his hits.
A community fix-up day at a neighbourhood repair and making space by the IJ.
A samurai film shown as part of Imagine, Amsterdam's festival of fantasy and genre cinema.
The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, a leading Dutch string quartet, plays Mozart and Schubert in the grand nineteenth-century Posthoornkerk.
A messy-hands craft workshop where children make papier-mâché and also do crafts, clay modelling or slime from leftover materials.
A quiz named after the online slang 'touch grass', meaning get offline and go outside.
A Museumnacht programme whose title asks who or what is really done for the nation.
A stage show at DeLaMar, the large commercial theatre on Marnixstraat known for musicals, comedy and big Dutch productions.
The long-running British UK garage party brand brings its 2-step and speed garage sound to Paradiso.
The Amsterdam Dungeons & Dragons meetup group teams up with another tabletop group for a shared evening of role-playing games.
A workshop where you turn old bicycle inner tubes into a belt.
Exhibition in which three photographers look at a constantly changing Amsterdam, including Karlijn van Diepen's images of the city's edges in Nieuw-West and Weesp.
A screening at Imagine, Amsterdam's festival of fantasy, horror and science fiction film.
Jamaican roots reggae singer Mark Wonder, known for his spiritual, conscious lyrics, with DJ Rowstone in support.
Amsterdam-based Korean drummer Sun-Mi Hong opens her avant-garde jazz series with British pianist Kit Downes and saxophonist Jeremy Viner.
The Jamaican roots reggae singer, known for conscious lyrics and his album Working Wonders, performs live.
A drop-in session where kids can play apenkooi, the Dutch gym game of tag across an obstacle course of climbing equipment.
The Noorderkerk's concert series, mostly classical and chamber music, comes to the Posthoornkerk for this edition.
The Hmm, a platform for internet culture, runs a hands-on session building a cyberdeck, a portable DIY computer, apparently set up for mesh networking.
A Museum Night programme whose title refers to the Argonauts, the heroes of Greek myth who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.
A performance at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, the city's main repertory theatre on the Leidseplein.
A Museumnacht programme about plastic and the idea of healing, part of the night when Amsterdam museums stay open late.
A cooking session built around beans and pulses, held at Kaskantine, the sustainably built restaurant.
A social padel session followed by pastries; padel is a racket sport that mixes tennis and squash, played in doubles on a walled court.
A repair workshop where you learn to restring, adjust and fix up an old guitar.
An artwork at Mediamatic about a difficult, intimate relationship with plants and the wish to become plant-like.
A literary oracle night at this Zuidoost bookshop, where books seem to be on hand to answer your questions.
A screening at Imagine, Amsterdam's annual festival of fantastic film covering horror, science fiction and fantasy.
An immersive audiovisual screening pairing the British band's music with large-format digital visuals projected across walls and floors.
The community workshop opens to visitors interested in learning crafts, woodworking, and hands-on making.
An intensive risograph printing workshop dedicated to designing and publishing small-edition zines.
The title translates as 'Fool of the Unnameable': a performance held in the canal-side Keizersgrachtkerk church.
A communal vegan dinner served at the independent cultural centre.
Workshops and courses on recognising, growing and using medicinal and culinary herbs, run by an herb school based in the Poortgebouw.
An electronic dance party run jointly by the rave collectives Wooferland and The Rave Tribe.
A shared supper club dinner for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, organised by the Foodie Fellowship Meetup group.
A day given over to the harmonium, the bellows-pumped reed organ, at the Oud-West venue dedicated to organs and their music.
A fair for internationals living in the Netherlands, with exhibitors offering information on jobs, housing, education, healthcare and settling in.
A family film about Yugly, said to be the world's ugliest dog and, oddly, also the cutest.
Workshops where you make glowing lanterns or light sculptures for St Maarten, the 11 November tradition of children singing door to door with lanterns.
The French cellist, who won the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition, is the focus of this concert.
An upcycling workshop where you repair, sand or repaint an old piece of furniture.
Part of Museumnacht, Amsterdam's annual night when museums and cultural spaces stay open late; here a neighbourhood workshop joins in.
Telemann's 1725 comic intermezzo, in which a sharp-witted maid talks a rich, gullible bachelor into marriage and then takes charge of the household.
Open karaoke night at a long-standing Zeedijk bar in the old centre that is also known for live jazz.
A live programme in Paradiso, the former church on Weteringschans that is one of the city's main music venues.
A concert given by the festival's guest cellists, playing solo and together.
A creative climate-themed art workshop for children.
An evening about Shiraz, the Iranian city of the classical poets Hafez and Saadi, at Perdu, Amsterdam's venue for poetry and literature.
A showcase of debut shows by new theatre and cabaret makers.
A party night of pop and dance hits from the 2010s.
An art history lecture exploring the life, polka dots, infinity rooms, and vibrant motifs of the Japanese avant-garde artist.
A Climate Week workshop on fermenting food, such as making sauerkraut or kimchi, held by housing cooperative De Nieuwe Meent for residents of Amsterdam-Oost.
An event exploring underground culture, held in the Poorthuisjes, a pair of small gatehouse buildings.
A dinner menu at Mediamatic's restaurant that ties in with its programme on genetic modification and the food we eat.
A Museum Night session with Isabella Giacomelli built around archives and the people who keep them.
An informal gathering for book lovers, writers, and theatregoers featuring drinks, conversation, and literary culture.
Two artworks in Mediamatic's biotech programme, one about language models and one, whose Chinese title means a body not suited to new water and soil, about displacement.
A climate-themed workshop for children aged two to five, who take part together with their parents.
Two audio collectives team up for a night of electronic music at De Tanker.
A workshop in a wine bar where you cut and arrange images and words into a collage of your goals for the coming year.
Speed friending is like speed dating, but for making friends: short timed conversations with one person after another, run here by the SpeakTiger Meetup community.
An information evening about the situation in Afghanistan, held at the anarchist library.
An artwork at Mediamatic that uses plant pollination as a way of thinking about mixing, exchange and hybrid forms.
A concert in the Bovenzaal, the smaller upstairs room at Paradiso.
A breathing session for slowing down and catching your breath in the middle of Museum Night's busy programme.
A stage show whose title puns on mother lode, turning it toward the weight of fatherhood.
A regular club night of hip-hop, R&B, and club sounds at Westerpark.
A hands-on workshop on using your voice to tell stories aloud.
Various artists take part in this programme at Beautiful Distress, an arts organisation that works on mental health.
A screening of PH1SHed_ at Amsterdam's festival of horror, fantasy and science fiction film.
A talk and discussion marking the restoration of the Orgelpark's harmonium by Mustel, the Paris firm that made the finest instruments of this reed-organ type.
A seasonal autumn get-together at a neighbourhood community workshop where locals make and repair things.
Live music at the Irish pub on Amstel, with Job Alone joined by fellow musicians.
A volunteer-run eetcafé, meaning a cheap shared dinner in the squat-scene tradition.
One of the Museumnacht programmes, part of the night when Amsterdam museums open late with one-off events.
The Dutch rapper brings his 'Le Tour de Masque' tour to the Bovenzaal, Paradiso's smaller upstairs hall.
A social meetup for playing backgammon, the old two-player game of dice and strategy, at a café.
A talk introducing experienced storytellers and their craft of telling tales aloud to an audience.
A theatre performance by Daphne Gakes. Its Dutch title means 'inside out'.
Dutch cellist Doris Hochscheid plays with keyboard player Peer van den Berg, known for his organ and harpsichord work, in a programme of dance-inspired music.
A stand-up comedy set by Andrey Airapetov.
An artwork in Mediamatic's programme on biotechnology and genetic modification that questions the rules we apply to living things.
A tribute to Liselore Gerritsen, the Dutch singer-songwriter and lyricist known for her poetic chansons.
A podcasting class on oral history interviewing, which means recording people's own memories of past events.
An information session about supporting Afghan women, held at a volunteer-run library of anarchist books and literature.
A Meetup group dinner at a Chinese hot pot restaurant, where diners cook meat, vegetables and noodles in shared pots of simmering broth at the table.
The Frenzy party series marks its seventh anniversary with a weekender, a run of club nights over several days.
Volunteers help you install or troubleshoot Linux, often used to give older laptops a second life.
A free exchange where visitors can drop off usable secondhand items or pick up clothes, books, and household goods.
Broadcaster HUMAN hosts a live recording of its public debate show tackling urgent social and political issues.
An informal social gathering hosted in the hostel lounge for travellers and locals to connect.
Pianist Nick van den Bos plays live jazz standards at the cosy neighbourhood café.
Garage Noord is a club in a converted garage in Amsterdam-Noord, known for underground electronic and techno nights.
A poetry open stage built around spleen in Baudelaire's sense: melancholy, ennui and gloomy moods.
Monthly calisthenics workshops from Black Men Talk and Kings Island, combining bodyweight training with connection between Black men.
A hands-on session learning basic hand-embroidery stitches, with autumn motifs.
A theatre show by Dutch performer Thom Gerrits; the title means 'Only Tonight'.
A stage production at the Nieuw-West theatre; the Dutch title means carrying capacity, the strength to bear a load.
A party where two acts, Kraaklustig and FLŌD, each launch a new album.
A double bill of new work by young theatre makers from Frascati's Future Voices programme.
A live music session with The ISO Trio, built around groove-based playing.
Prospective students can explore the arts university's programmes in theatre, dance, music, film, fine art education, architecture and heritage.
The first meetup for families living in IJburg, a chance for parents and children to meet neighbours; places by RSVP only.
The Orgelpark's restored Mustel harmonium, a French reed organ, is formally inaugurated and played again.
An introductory workshop on consent-focused, mindful BDSM, aimed at men and people of other genders.
A poppy ceremony honouring Commonwealth war dead, held at the Amsterdam cemetery that contains Commonwealth war graves.
Volunteers spend the morning maintaining and planting the floating gardens along the Boerenwetering canal in De Pijp.
A relaxed workshop for painting and drawing in a sketchbook, open to all levels.
A double bill of Trio Tico and Aguabajo under the banner 'Where Space Meets Groove'.
An informal brunch for meeting new people; you book a seat through Socials by Detor, not Meetup, and the address arrives 24 hours beforehand.
A women's circle at the new moon, with a ceremonial cacao drink, slow held-pose yin yoga and live harp.
Prospective students can find out about the bachelor's and master's programmes at Amsterdam's large university of applied sciences.
A volunteer-run library of anarchist books, zines and periodicals, open to visitors who want to read, borrow or talk.
Young musicians perform at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam's chamber music hall.
A concert at Splendor, the musicians' collective that runs a small venue in a former bathhouse.
Jodi Gilbert performs with her group, whose name nods to the American folk song 'Wayfaring Stranger', at the Droog design space.
An upbeat club night focused on hip-hop, R&B, and danceable urban sounds for the over-21 crowd.
An introductory photography course held in the camera shop, for people who want to get a better grip on the basics.
A practical workshop offering techniques to overcome anxiety and deliver presentations with greater confidence.
The German cellist coaches young musicians in front of an audience in this public masterclass.
Bring an old computer to this Linux repair café to have Linux installed so it can be used safely again, or hand it in for collection.
A Dutch-language guided backstage tour exploring the stages, history, and inner workings of the municipal theatre.
A theatre production at the canal-side theatre on Leidsekade.
A Dutch-language stage play whose title means 'Unfriending'.
A screening of Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant at Imagine, Amsterdam's festival of fantasy, horror and science fiction films.
An intimate evening of electronic beats and deep dance grooves in Amsterdam Oost.
ANNASNEL hosts an evening of invited guests and collaborators.
A chess tournament run with De Volewijckers, a chess club from Amsterdam-Noord.
Music students who study with the teacher Yi-Bing Chu in Beijing present a concert programme.
An informal café meetup for internationals and locals in their twenties and thirties who want to meet new people over drinks.
A Dutch-language stage show whose title means 'Taken a Wrong Turn'.
A production at the Westergas site; the Dutch title is an expression meaning having lost one's way or being completely bewildered.
A Dutch class for highly educated newcomers that combines the Duolingo app with Nederlands in Gang, a well-known Dutch textbook for fast learners.
The regular Saturday club night at Club John Doe, near Leidseplein.
Frans Doedel performs with invited guests in this small theatre setting.
A stage show at the theatre by Amstel station; its title is the call made in draughts when a piece reaches the far row.
Community clinic appointments offering traditional acupuncture and cupping therapy.
A concert with two acts at the Concertgemaal, a former pumping station turned into an intimate music venue.
A production at the Nes theatre known for experimental work by young theatre makers.
A social running group for startup founders and entrepreneurs that meets at Café Conrad.
A neighbourhood market where IJburg residents meet, join the conversation and find out what they can do to keep the area safe and pleasant.
Laurens de Groot performs HUN, a theatre show whose Dutch title means them.
An afternoon of stories told aloud about life in Amsterdam's eastern districts.
An informal Appsterdam meetup where developers bring laptops to code and chat over coffee.
A stage show built around relationships and being together, going by its title.
A theatre show whose Dutch title means I am room 15.
A talk and discussion on spirituality, consciousness and human potential, hosted by a public-speaking practice group.
An evening at the bar of the Hans Brinker, one of the city's best-known budget hostels; the Spanish title means 'Simo's flavour'.
A brunch get-together for women; the name suggests a social club built around money, ambition and lifestyle.
A theatre performance; the Dutch title means 'Verdict'.
Neighbours harvest finished compost from the community bins and then clean up the surrounding streets together.
A club night called Blackout at Oliva.
A neighbourhood clean-up where local residents go out together to pick up litter in the area.
The title is Dutch for 'to the table', the call to sit down for a meal.
A networking meeting for VvEs, the Dutch owners' associations that run shared apartment buildings, where they can swap experience on maintenance and management.
A networking meeting for homeowners' associations (VvEs) that want to tackle maintenance problems or make their building more sustainable but don't know where to start.
A respite support service offering a welcome space for individuals to recover and take a break.
An intensive study session covering advanced Tibetan Buddhist meditation techniques and deity yoga practices.
An open day where prospective residents can look around Knightsbridge, a residential development in the Hyde Park area of Hoofddorp.
The landmark survey brings together the Japanese artist's signature polka dots, Infinity Mirror Rooms, and monumental soft sculptures.
The city's yearly night when dozens of museums stay open late with special programmes, music and activities, all on one ticket.
A walk-through exhibition that uses large projections and recreated artefacts to bring you into the world of the boy pharaoh, the pyramids and ancient Egyptian treasures.
Drawings and sketches by the Rotterdam-born Abstract Expressionist painter, shown alongside his famous Woman I, with lectures, an audio tour and drawing workshops.
An exhibition on Amsterdam's LGBTQ+ history, held in the former church on Dam Square as part of WorldPride Amsterdam.
The science museum's hands-on floor lets visitors experiment with everyday engineering, household technology, and clean energy.
Around 80 works lent by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, centred on Matisse's La Blouse roumaine, with paintings by Rothko, Picasso and Barnett Newman.
Eindhoven's annual light art festival, with light installations and projections along a walking route through the city centre.
Over 150 monumental street art murals, painted on-site by international artists, fill a former shipyard warehouse.
An exhibition showing the commercial textile patterns, garments, and decorative fabrics designed by the pop artist in the 1950s and 1960s.
An exhibition on Henri Matisse, the French painter known for his bold colour, his Fauvist work and his late paper cut-outs.
Hands-on workshops, games, and maritime activities designed for children and families.
A digital projection show rendering the Dutch master's fantastically detailed depictions of heaven, hell and sin into large-scale animations.
Utrecht's annual festival of adventurous music, booking experimental, global, jazz and underground acts across venues around TivoliVredenburg.
A guided visit through the world's oldest functioning Jewish library, housed beside the Portuguese Synagogue.
An animated digital installation bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novella and its philosophical meditations on life to light.
An exhibition about disco, the dance music and club culture that came out of Black, Latino and queer scenes in 1970s New York.
The veteran Dutch singer, songwriter and clown, also known as the creator of Alfred J. Kwak, performs his show 'Vandaag' ('Today').
For Amsterdam's Museum Night, museums stay open late with special programmes; the Waag is a 15th-century weigh house now home to a technology and society institute.
Museum Night opens the Artis museum of microbes after dark, with a programme built around the theme of time.
Photographs by the American Henry Chalfant, who documented New York subway graffiti and co-created the book Subway Art and the film Style Wars.
A look at the pigments and painting techniques Rembrandt used to get his famous light and texture, presented during Museumnacht.
A hands-on studio where visitors of all ages can make their own art, inspired by Van Gogh's techniques and work.
The Netherlands' largest board game fair, where visitors try out family games, children's games and other games and can buy them at a discount.
Local independent makers, designers, and craftspeople sell handmade wares inside the former tram depot.
Direct conversations and oral histories shared with survivors of the Holocaust.
The festival organisers stage a walkthrough experience using lasers, lights, and electronic soundscapes across several rooms.
An exhibition of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, the last great master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, known for his series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
A show by the New York-based American artist known for layered black-and-white paintings, silkscreens and text works built around his idea of 'Black Dada'.
An outdoor ice rink in front of the Rijksmuseum, with open skating sessions and skating lessons.
Museum Night at NEMO, the hands-on science museum in the green ship-shaped building by Renzo Piano, with a programme built around technology and connection.
Original stencils, screen prints, and authenticated indoor works by the elusive Bristol street artist are on permanent display.
The national museum displays textiles, costumes, and everyday garments highlighting traces of wear and historical repairs.
The painter's former home displays etching and drawing techniques to show how Rembrandt pushed the boundaries of his craft.
The photographer presents vivid, stylised portraits celebrating the fashion and contemporary identity of people from Xinjiang.
Tattooists from Schiffmacher & Veldhoen, the studio linked to veteran Dutch tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher, offer Rembrandt-themed tattoos to walk-ins daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
An exhibition on James McNeill Whistler, the American-born painter in London known for his Nocturnes and the portrait of his mother.
A practical class at the museum where you try painting for yourself, with brushes and paint.
A showcase examining the core movements and history of global street art inside the NDSM shipyard warehouse.
Morning yoga session held surrounded by Vincent van Gogh's masterworks.
A family exhibition exploring magic, illusions and ritual in Jewish culture and folklore.
An immersive digital experience that recreates the streets and canals of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
Amsterdam's annual late-night museum event comes to the National Maritime Museum, housed in the former naval storehouse on the Oosterdok, with special evening programming.
For Museum Night, the new-media art museum in Noord shows work from its Night Academy programme, with museums across the city open late.
Children and adults experiment with unusual custom-built instruments and create soundscapes together in this hands-on musical session.
A free 2.1 km walk through the centre past 34 sculptures by 64 artists, all carved from felled Amsterdam city trees, with a public vote for a favourite.
A yearly fair where dealers sell fine art, antiques and design, from old masters to contemporary work.
An evening celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, put together by Tara, Nikita and Lea.
Arti et Amicitiae, the artists' society on the Rokin founded in 1839, opens its galleries late for Amsterdam's citywide Museum Night.
A family-friendly interactive exhibition exploring mythology, nature, and the symbolic wisdom of ravens across different world cultures.
A behind-the-scenes guided tour through the costume departments, stages, and rehearsal halls of the opera house.
The Belgian photographer known for stark black-and-white portraits shows his photographs of the sea and the people who live by it.
Crate-digging market inside the covered passage of De Hallen, featuring independent record vendors selling vinyl across multiple genres.
The third edition of a party series on board the old Radio Veronica pirate radio ship, now a club moored on the IJ.
Adolphe de Meyer was a pioneering early-20th-century photographer known for soft-focus pictorialist images and for helping invent fashion photography at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
A seasonal winter ice rink in the seaside resort of Scheveningen in The Hague, open to the public for skating.
A drop-in art studio where children can make their own work, at the art museum in Laren known for its Dutch modernist collection.
The private museum showcases street works, prints, and stencils by the elusive British artist.
A daytime party with the New York house DJ and producer best known as half of Masters at Work with Louie Vega.
An exhibition marking the city's 750th anniversary, tracing Amsterdam's history through key moments and archival records.
A broad survey of modern and contemporary art, design, and photography from the museum's permanent holdings.
Interactive light and digital installations invite visitors into responsive, mirror-filled rooms.
An outdoor and community exhibition presented in collaboration with Middle East Archive, a digital platform documenting everyday life and visual culture across the region.
The Dutch comedian and cabaret performer does a solo show in Dutch at the small canal-side theatre that hosts the country's stand-up and cabaret.
Museum Night at Micropia, the ARTIS zoo's museum of microbes, the tiny life forms invisible to the naked eye.
Drawing in the Royal Palace on Dam Square as part of October drawing month, inside Jacob van Campen's 17th-century former city hall.
A big art, antiques and design fair with more than 110 dealers, focused on work from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
An exhibition celebrating early trailblazers and foundational works in digital and video installation art.
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