What's On in Amsterdam on Thursday 12 November
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The Swedish pop singer, known for frank, hedonistic hits like "Habits (Stay High)", plays her electro-pop catalogue.
Chantal Janzen plays Sally Bowles in Daria Bukvić's new staging of Kander and Ebb's musical, set in the Kit Kat Club in Weimar-era Berlin.
A South Korean band that mixes traditional pansori singing with funk and pop, known worldwide for "Tiger Is Coming".
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Bach's St John Passion, his dramatic setting of the Gospel story of Christ's trial and crucifixion for choir, soloists and orchestra.
Music by the Italian pianist-composer known for his gentle, minimalist piano pieces, played in a church lit by candles.
A rapper from Casablanca who is one of Morocco's most-streamed artists, rapping in Darija over hard trap beats.
Eline Arbo, ITA's artistic director, stages Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, which links three women's lives to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.
A dark fairy tale starring Olivia Colman as a lonely fisherwoman who has a husband woven out of wicker, played by Alexander Skarsgård.
The 16th main event of TEDxAmsterdam has short talks by a range of speakers on what an economy and society beyond growth could look like.
An evening celebrating science, organised with the popular science magazine New Scientist.
The East London rapper and spoken-word artist, known for his Mercury-nominated album Reason to Smile, plays Paradiso's smaller upstairs room.
Laika's stop-motion adaptation of Colin Meloy's fantasy novel, about a girl who goes into a forest of talking animals to rescue her baby brother.
Joan Wasser, the American singer and multi-instrumentalist known for her soulful, genre-crossing songs, plays this sold-out show.
Adele's best-known songs arranged for a small classical ensemble, in the Candlelight series where concerts take place in rooms lit by hundreds of candles.
Families can explore 17th-century Amsterdam through a guided tour, a treasure hunt and other activities built around the city archive's Meesterwerk Amsterdam exhibition.
Drop-in divination sessions using card reading inside the canal-side museum dedicated to hermetic philosophy and free thought.
A private hands-on pottery class where couples can try wheel throwing together and pick up their fired work later.
An open-mic stand-up night where comedians poke fun at Dutch culture and life in the Netherlands.
The new film from Martin McDonagh, the writer-director of In Bruges, Three Billboards and The Banshees of Inisherin.
Filmmaker Julie Ng's documentary explores the history of the Chinese-Indonesian restaurant, a fixture of Dutch towns and high streets for decades.
Huun-Huur-Tu, the ensemble from Tuva in Siberia, perform traditional throat singing on horsehair fiddles and other folk instruments from the steppe.
Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans, a leading public voice during the COVID-19 pandemic, talks about how viruses can be both useful and dangerous.
Boom Chicago, the English-language comedy theatre whose former cast includes Seth Meyers and Jordan Peele, puts on improvised comedy built from audience suggestions.
Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, whose Spanish title means Bitter Christmas, from the director of All About My Mother and Pain and Glory.
An open day where teenagers and parents can try out TUMO, a free after-school programme in coding, design, animation and other digital skills.
A show about Max Woiski senior and junior, the Surinamese-Dutch father and son who brought Latin and Caribbean music to Dutch audiences.
Short, playful children's theatre for ages one to six, using visual storytelling and music.
Lance Hammer's drama with Juliette Binoche follows a family struggling to care for an elderly mother with dementia.
The street art and graffiti museum in a former NDSM shipyard hall opens late on Thursday evenings.
A social Meetup group gathers at Dynamo Atelier 77 so participants can customise and personalise their own clothes.
A record-shop session playing music by U2, the Irish rock band behind The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby.
A beginner-friendly bouldering session with free climbing shoe rental. Bouldering is climbing short walls without ropes, with crash mats below.
Los Angeles saxophonist Sam Gendel and bassist Sam Wilkes play the hazy, loose, groove-based duo music heard on their joint records.
A daily happy hour at the hotel's Prins & Aap bar that introduces jenever, the Dutch juniper spirit that came before gin.
An event on Baruch Spinoza, the 17th-century Amsterdam-born philosopher, at the house that holds a renowned library of hermetic and esoteric writings.
Lukas Dhont's First World War drama about young soldiers, from the Belgian director of Girl and Close.
A tribute to the Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson's trio, known for its virtuosic, hard-swinging jazz, played in the museum devoted to self-playing pianos.
London-based singer and producer of Ethiopian and Egyptian heritage, whose music blends R&B, electronic and dance influences.
An exhibition exploring the realities of independence struggles across Africa, Suriname, and the Caribbean.
A painting class for all levels, with drinks, snacks and soft jazz, pitched as a social evening or art date.
Alewya, the London-based Ethiopian-Egyptian singer and producer, mixes R&B, dance and Afro-influenced electronic music; this listing is for the waitlist.
Teatro Munganga, a Brazilian-Dutch company known for visual and physical theatre, tours its production Searching for Home to mark the show's tenth year.
A stage production at Frascati, the Nes theatre known for new and experimental work by young makers.
A meetup of the Dutch lockpicking hobbyist group TOOOL at Techinc, an Amsterdam hackerspace, where people practise opening locks as a sport and security interest.
An evening about animal welfare, freedom and the ways non-human animals communicate.
Sinterklaas makes his official arrival in Amsterdam by boat on Sunday 15 November, followed by a parade through the city.
A French-language drama from Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, the director of Drive My Car and Evil Does Not Exist.
Bring a book or piece of clothing to swap for another one, followed by the presentation of a sustainability prize.
Audience seating for the recording of Eva Jinek's current affairs talkshow at De Hallen.
A Leeds band who mix post-punk with electronic beats and deadpan, funny lyrics.
A Basque drama about an older gay man living freely in Gran Canaria who has to return to San Sebastián after a stroke and faces going back into the closet.
A club night with Adult DVD, the Leeds band known for electronic dance-punk, alongside Smudged.
An American pop singer-songwriter who broke through with the TikTok hit "See You Later (Ten Years)".
A weekly karaoke night at Casablanca, a long-running music bar on the Zeedijk in the old centre.
An evening lecture at the botanical garden that follows plants as travellers, looking at how species have moved, or been moved, around the world.
Sercan Öztürk plays Anatolian roots music in Mezrab's Magic Carpet Sessions, a series of music from Turkey and the wider region.
A film screening and conversation in which Thaeer Muhreez and Jamil discuss what freedom means after years of living in fear under a dictatorship.
Paradiso's indie series hosts YARD, a Dublin band who mix post-punk with harsh electronic beats.
An evening of talks and performances about masculinity, vulnerability and growing up as a Black man.
A talk in the museum's 'Bathtub' wing by Dominique Petit-Frère, co-founder of Limbo Accra, a Ghanaian studio that reimagines unfinished buildings and urban spaces.
A series of workshops teaching children Afro dance, the energetic styles that grew out of West African popular music.
In this 2024 film by Noah Segan, John Turturro plays a pickpocket whose routine theft lands him in serious trouble.
Novelist Adriaan van Dis and illustrator Jan Cleijne, known for his cycling comics, discuss De rat van Arras.
A raw musical theatre piece about two teenagers who feel like outsiders and find out, while stuck in detention together, that they have more in common than they thought.
A performance of Messiaen's 1945 song cycle for soprano and piano, a work about love and death that draws on Peruvian folk legend.
The London-based singer and producer of Ethiopian and Egyptian heritage mixes R&B, electronic music and rap; this show is sold out.
The opening of an outdoor exhibition that stays on the square in Amsterdam Oost until 27 November.
Singer and harpist Ekaterina Levental joins Ukrainian pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi for a recital at the musician-run venue.
An American musician on Sacred Bones whose albums Hyaline and Spike Field are known for hushed, haunting ambient folk.
An Amsterdam running club teams up with Vida Laranja for a choice of a 5K run or hot yoga, plus time to socialise afterwards.
An American R&B singer and songwriter with a smooth, soulful style.
A performance by the Dutch cabaret artist and comedian, who mixes stand-up storytelling with songs.
The first performance of a new piece about the personal and cultural meaning carried by hair.
An informal meetup where expats play board games together in a gaming bar.
Nico Boink's documentary, filmed from 1999, about the floating gardens that Provo-era artist Robert Jasper Grootveld built in the Entrepothaven.
Dutch cabaret performer Lisa Ostermann presents a solo show at the Amstel's classic home of comedy and cabaret.
An open stage where anyone can sign up to perform, and the audience puts money in a passed hat instead of paying for a ticket.
An immersive audiovisual screening pairing the British band's music with large-format digital visuals projected across walls and floors.
An interactive reading and singing session for toddlers aged two and up, designed to foster early language development.
A beginners' workshop led by Pauline Boué in watercolour ink, with mushrooms as the theme, held at a French-language bookshop.
A weekly social gathering for the local LGBTQ+ community to meet and connect.
A hands-on digital learning workshop where young people practice tech and design skills.
Musicians take turns on stage for an open, unscripted jazz session at the neighbourhood piano bar.
The Sicilian singer-songwriter Antonio Di Martino, who records as Dimartino, brings his Italian cantautore songs to the Amstelkerk.
An event about the horror genre at FLOOR, the public programme of talks, films and performances run by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Vue's large multiplex screens the latest Dutch Sinterklaas films, the family genre built around the Saint Nicholas holiday.
Workshops and courses on recognising, growing and using medicinal and culinary herbs, run by an herb school based in the Poortgebouw.
Framer Framed, a platform for contemporary art and decolonial practice, opens a presentation on belonging and home on 12 November at 16:00.
An open social evening at Waag, the technology-and-society lab in the medieval weigh house on Nieuwmarkt.
Candidates hoping to become Amsterdam's Night Mayor, an independent voice for the city's nightlife, debate their plans.
A punk triple bill with two German bands, Die Verlierer and Die Knöpfe, and the Amsterdam band Cavegirl; the listing says tickets are almost sold out.
The professional Dutch chamber choir Cappella Amsterdam sings a programme themed around the Dutch polder landscape.
A Dutch DJ and producer of punchy, club-focused house music.
A baking competition for comfort cakes, held in the chapel of the OLVG Oost hospital.
Free weekly beginner try-out classes in salsa and bachata, two Latin partner dances, held every Thursday.
An open stage where anyone can sign up to perform, whether music, spoken word or comedy, in front of an audience.
The Hmm, a platform for internet culture, takes its programme to RADIUS, an art and ecology centre in Delft.
A fundraising dinner at Plantage Dok, with the money going to relief for people in Gaza.
A wine tasting where the Young Wine Society presents the first release from BOW Wines, served at a toastie bar.
A performance piece by Irina Baldini, made with and danced by five performers, set in an imagined underworld.
An evening of live jazz under the Jazz Underground name.
A voku (a cheap communal dinner) raising money for Ghazal, followed by a night of anarchist-leaning folk music from three acts.
A live music night with the act YARD in one of Paradiso's halls, the former church that has long been Amsterdam's best-known pop venue.
An introductory session in storytelling, the craft of shaping and telling a story out loud to an audience.
A meal served with live music from the ensemble Kvintakord.
Comedian and actor Jordan Firstman's feature film, set in the world of nightlife and club promoters.
An evening of French chanson, the lyric-driven song tradition, looking back over four decades of songs.
American singer-songwriter Maria BC makes hushed, slow-moving music somewhere between ambient folk and slowcore; Coaster opens.
The American musician makes hushed, dreamlike songs that sit between slowcore, ambient and folk, heard on albums such as Hyaline and Spike Field.
A club night marking three years of the Mémoire party series, for over-18s only.
The launch of a book on the Turkish curator Vasif Kortun, founder of Istanbul's Platform Garanti and a key figure in thinking about art institutions.
The Dutch Game Design Guild's session where designers playtest each other's prototype board games and give feedback.
A relaxed craft meetup for beading and embroidery, organised by a social group for people who want to meet others in Amsterdam South.
A volunteer-run eetcafé, meaning a cheap shared dinner in the squat-scene tradition.
A podcasting workshop on how to build a suspenseful scene in audio storytelling.
A neighbourhood concert at the Kraaipan service point, where the apple pie in the title points to music served with coffee and cake.
An intensive course in the basics of music theory: scales, chords, harmony and how music is put together.
A talk in French at the French-language bookshop about women's burnout and what exhaustion shows about the way we work.
A pirate-themed theatre show named after NDSM, the former shipyard in Amsterdam-Noord.
A pub quiz hosted by Jim and Daan, where teams compete over rounds of trivia questions.
An evening at De Balie about poetry as a form of action.
A theatre piece by the performance collective Bureau Vergezicht, staged at Frascati's home for new Dutch theatre.
A talk or workshop imagining how relationships between people and AI systems might be designed and governed by 2040.
Three bands, Das Auge, Souls in Bondage and The Sky Is Falling, play live at Toekomstmuziek's Primo's night.
Carolijn Visser, the Dutch journalist and travel writer, talks about Broers, her book tracing the history of a family.
A weekly social craft circle where people bring their own knitting and crochet projects to work on together.
A social crafting meetup for people in Amsterdam South who want to meet new people while making things together.
A relaxed daytime lunch service inside the alternative cultural centre on the Overtoom.
An exhibition or workshop exploring the intersection of neurological research, brain function, and creative visual expression.
An event at SPUI25, the University of Amsterdam's public venue for talks and debates, about dreams and ambition.
A community dinner cooked and served at the long-running Westerpark neighbourhood cultural centre.
A live music night at Toekomstmuziek, a small Amsterdam venue for experimental and underground music.
A talk at the artists' society Arti et Amicitiae about the figure of the muse in art and how that role gets misread.
An academic symposium on the social and environmental harms of artificial intelligence, from bias and labour to energy use and emissions.
An informal meetup over coffee for practising Spanish conversation at any level, led by Denisse.
A fan-run book club reading books Harry Styles has praised, this time Alain de Botton's novel about what happens to a romance after the wedding.
A games night for Magic: The Gathering players in the Commander format, a popular multiplayer version played with 100-card single-copy decks.
A joint night from Deep Cut and Doka Culture; a deep cut usually means a lesser-known track dug out of an artist's catalogue.
A concert of tango music by the ensemble BandoVerde.
A stage production at Frascati, the theatre on the Nes known for new and experimental work by up-and-coming Dutch theatre and dance makers.
A performance at Podium Mozaiek, the Bos en Lommer venue for theatre, music and dance that reflects the city's many cultures.
A series of hands-on filmmaking workshops for young people, teaching practical skills for making their own films.
An informal meetup over coffee for practising Dutch conversation, led by Lucas.
A show titled after the Dutch expression for painstaking, meticulous labour, literally "monks' work".
An information session for parents and educators on how to spot young people being drawn into criminal exploitation, and what to do to prevent it.
A book launch at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam's archive of labour and social movements; the title means "a polder boy has been shot dead there".
A book club reading books Harry Styles has praised, this time Alain de Botton's novel about how love holds up over years of marriage.
A launch event for ZIYOD, a project by Ruyò, with Jononi Zulaikho and Zhanel Shakhan; ziyod is a Central Asian word meaning abundance.
The hotel's weekly jazz night, this time with three musicians from the local scene.
A five-lesson course in painting landscapes, aimed at helping you capture a favourite view on canvas.
A monthly open evening, organised through a Meetup group, where people take turns sharing stories and reading poems.
A touring show marking ten years of Searching for Home, in this small theatre space.
Live jazz in the café of Theater de Richel.
A concert to mark a fund committee's lustrum, or five-year anniversary, held in De Duif, a former church on the Prinsengracht.
A film screening at the arthouse cinema in Westergas; the Dutch title means 'Just Get Used To It'.
World Usability Day is a yearly global event in November about user-centred design; this edition looks at ethical AI and sustainability.
A Socrates Café is an open philosophical discussion; in this format the moderator brings a quote or question from a well-known philosopher to start the talk.
A Dutch-language stage play whose title means 'Unfriending'.
A relaxed meetup where people bring or start a craft project and work on it while chatting with others.
A concert by a musical duo in the Oosterkerk, a 17th-century church on Wittenburg in the eastern islands.
A film whose title means 'late bloomer', screening at the Westergas cinema that specialises in Dutch film.
A practice group where people tell stories and give talks in front of others to build confidence in public speaking.
The orchestra is starting its weekly rehearsals again, free for intermediate and advanced players who read music, and it is also looking for bass ukulele and percussion players.
A jazz set from Evita & Friends and Jazseko on the ZOJazz stage.
A live music night with Baba Laga at the late-night Marnixstraat bar known for its rock leanings and canal-side terrace.
A walk through the park for people dealing with loss, combining mindfulness with time outdoors.
A local film screening at the Linnaeus branch of Amsterdam's public library, meant for people from the surrounding neighbourhood.
A talk for product managers and tech leaders on moving from chasing growth numbers to leading teams by the results their work actually achieves.
A session in the 60/40 Playspace series, built around the idea of negative space.
A Dutch class for highly educated newcomers that combines the Duolingo app with Nederlands in Gang, a well-known Dutch textbook for fast learners.
A performance by the artist Mauro at Amstelveen's pop venue.
An amateur musical theatre company performs musical numbers on stage.
A theatre show whose title means "when being a father is a fight".
A group run for women organised with the activewear brand STRONGER, starting from Catcha.
A conversation evening where neighbours sit down together to talk about a shared theme.
A session for educators on how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are changing exams, assignments and assessment in higher education.
A live music performance at Soop, a neighbourhood cultural centre.
An evening in the Amsterdammers series about Amsterdam-Noord and the people who live there.
An intimate stand-up comedy night hosted in the cultural basement venue.
A live band night at Waterhole, the rock and blues bar near Leidseplein that has local bands playing most nights.
Community clinic appointments offering traditional acupuncture and cupping therapy.
A shared reading group where participants read a book together aloud at an accessible pace.
A group Nordic walking session through Amsterdam-Noord's central park.
A women's peer support circle for open conversation and shared experiences.
A chamber concert by a piano trio of violin, cello and piano, held in the chapel of the Amsterdam UMC hospital.
Fay Toxopeus performs her show Flash at the Roode Bioscoop, a small theatre on Haarlemmerplein.
A practical workshop covering essential personal development and daily life management strategies at the public library.
A community yoga class, generally open to all levels.
A quiet group session dedicated to mindfulness and guided relaxation practice.
The title suggests a session that brings storytelling together with weaving or textile craft; the listing gives no further detail.
An informal Russian- and Ukrainian-language tea evening and social gathering for conversation and meeting new people.
An eclectic live music evening featuring local experimental ensemble Oktopedians.
A show whose title means "love makes you deaf", a play on the saying that love is blind.
A library session for older people built around reading, writing and talking about language and literature.
An informal conversation session where people learning Dutch practise speaking with volunteers and other learners.
A Dutch-language stage show whose title means "The Launderette".
A live music performance in the theatre café of De Roode Remise.
The University of Amsterdam's careers fair, where students and recent graduates can meet employers and find out about jobs and internships.
A performance at Frascati, the Nes theatre known for new and experimental work by young makers, with a title about speaking up collectively.
A volunteer-run info café in Amsterdam's autonomous, DIY tradition, a place to drop in for drinks and talk.
A conversation about a story whose title means "At 23, Romy had her first birthday".
A Buddhist meditation class and talk on dealing with life's difficulties by seeing them as chances to grow.
A feature film screening in the cinema's current programme of arthouse releases.
Resto VanHarte, a neighbourhood restaurant that tackles loneliness, holds its yearly dinner to thank informal carers looking after sick or disabled loved ones.
A trio led by Joan Fort plays live in the setting of a lounge bar.
A theatre performance; the Dutch title means 'Verdict'.
The second meeting of a discussion group reading and talking through texts on how religious traditions approach dying and the end of life.
A casual Thursday drinks meetup for expats at a cocktail bar, a low-key way to meet other internationals.
An early-hours session with live music from Bacousta.
An afternoon of high tea and pampering, hosted by the care organisation Cordaan, to thank informal carers.
A weekly Thursday lunch with neighbours, usually toasties or homemade soup, sometimes something else.
An event at De Balie, the Leidseplein centre for debate, film, journalism and politics.
A social sewing session organised by a meetup group for meeting new people in Amsterdam South.
A meetup on how people from many professional backgrounds can move into AI by applying the skills they already have to real-world problems.
A classical duo of students from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam performs in a local church.
A Dutch-language stage show whose title translates as 'man with flaws'.
A university event that, going by its title, looks at work, employment and what people want from their jobs.
An evening of bridge and board games held by Stadsdorp Slotervaart Noord, a neighbourhood network of older residents who organise activities together.
A theatre performance whose Dutch title means 'Incomprehensibly Rich'.
A professional course in leading groups with emotional intelligence: noticing what goes unsaid and helping people feel safe enough to work together.
Drop in, no appointment needed, for advice on language classes, digital skills, volunteering and paid work in Nieuw-West.
An information session for self-employed people on how to build up a pension when no employer is doing it for you.
A theatre performance presented as a tribute to someone named Monne.
An inaugural lecture, the formal public address a newly appointed Dutch professor gives to mark taking up the chair, by Professor M. Luman.
A community-focused afternoon of practical workshops and discussions aimed at personal development and career planning.
An informal drop-in session for anyone curious about local volunteer opportunities organized by Versa Welzijn.
An open weekly surgery with the local community police officer and municipal neighbourhood team.
An informal consultation hour offering feedback and advice for emerging musicians and performers.
Students provide free homework support and a quiet study space for local children.
A university session, going by its title, on moving from working alone to working with others.
A mutual aid and legal support drop-in hour held at the historic anarchist social centre.
Het Herstelhuis, whose name means 'the repair house', sets up outside the Osdorp library.
A free outdoor exercise group that uses the new exercise bench outside the swimming pool to work on fitness, strength and balance.
A meetup bringing the ChemAI community, which works on AI in chemistry, together with founders building deep-tech companies.
Networking drinks for HR professionals at the Amsterdam office of Personio, a company that makes HR software.
An informal drinks evening for newcomers and prospective members at the long-standing members' club for artists and creatives.
A presentation of an Italian book on the emotional weight of words by Dino Petralia, the Sicilian anti-mafia prosecutor who later ran Italy's prison administration.
The third Dutch edition of the international public-sector reform movement brings government workers together to talk about breaking down silos and working as one government.
An Alzheimer café is an informal meeting for people living with dementia, their families and carers, combining expert information with conversation.
A walk-in session where advisers from the national anti-discrimination service listen to people who have experienced or witnessed discrimination and help them.
A peer support group for people affected by domestic violence, sexual violence or child abuse, and for those close to them.
An information session on building up savings and assets now to provide for the future.
Zuidas's area brokers, the municipality's neighbourhood contacts, hold a drop-in session at the market for questions about the area or to share ideas.
A public PhD defence, where the candidate answers questions on a thesis in stochastics, the mathematics of randomness, at the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science.
A three-day gathering on translation and how to resist translating word for word, held in Cluj, Romania, not Amsterdam, with the Institute of Network Cultures.
NZKG usually stands for the Noordzeekanaalgebied, the port and industrial area along the North Sea Canal, which this event at Taets appears to be about.
Carlo Fuselli defends his PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam, a formal public ceremony held at the Dutch national institute for subatomic physics.
A drop-in session where the municipality's area broker answers residents' questions about the neighbourhood or helps them with problems.
A library activity for older residents; the listing appears to mark the setup time for it.
The theatre is reserved on this date, most likely for a private booking rather than a public performance.
The landmark survey brings together the Japanese artist's signature polka dots, Infinity Mirror Rooms, and monumental soft sculptures.
An exhibition putting Frans Hals and Rembrandt side by side, the two great Dutch Golden Age portrait painters.
Drawings and sketches by the Rotterdam-born Abstract Expressionist painter, shown alongside his famous Woman I, with lectures, an audio tour and drawing workshops.
The seasonal outdoor ice rink set up in front of the Rijksmuseum, between the Concertgebouw and the Van Gogh Museum.
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.
Over 150 monumental street art murals, painted on-site by international artists, fill a former shipyard warehouse.
Citywide arts festival staging performances, tours, and special events across various participating Amsterdam museums.
An exhibition on Henri Matisse, the French painter known for his bold colour, his Fauvist work and his late paper cut-outs.
Hands-on workshops, games, and maritime activities designed for children and families.
A digital projection show rendering the Dutch master's fantastically detailed depictions of heaven, hell and sin into large-scale animations.
An animated digital installation bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novella and its philosophical meditations on life to light.
Dance event pioneers ID&T present a sensory labyrinth of light, sound, and interactive technology in the Elementenstraat warehouse.
An exhibition about disco, the dance music and club culture that came out of Black, Latino and queer scenes in 1970s New York.
DocLab is IDFA's programme of interactive, immersive and new-media documentary, where filmmakers and artists test what non-fiction storytelling can become.
An exhibition about the Egyptian boy pharaoh and his tomb, using large projections and replicas rather than original artefacts.
Photographs by the American Henry Chalfant, who documented New York subway graffiti and co-created the book Subway Art and the film Style Wars.
An exhibition focusing on Rembrandt's radical working methods, trial prints and inventive techniques with ink and copperplate.
Local independent makers, designers, and craftspeople sell handmade wares inside the former tram depot.
A group visit to the museum's exhibition on James McNeill Whistler, the American painter based in London who is best known for 'Whistler's Mother'.
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'.
Eindhoven's yearly light art festival, with installations and projections along a walking route through the city centre; note that this is in Eindhoven, not Amsterdam.
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.
A photography exhibition about graffiti culture, including life-size images of subway cars more than three metres high.
The photographer presents vivid, stylised portraits celebrating the fashion and contemporary identity of people from Xinjiang.
The contemporary Spanish-Dutch painter presents new works in dialogue with Francisco de Goya's iconic etchings, Los Disparates.
Carla Muijsers-Drukker tells the story of her experiences during the Second World War in the Holocaust museum's eyewitness series.
An exhibition of large, detailed Playmobil scenes built by diorama maker Oliver Schaffer, set up for both looking and hands-on play.
An exhibition on James McNeill Whistler, the American-born painter in London known for his Nocturnes and the portrait of his mother.
Hitchcock's 1959 chase thriller in a new 4K restoration, with Cary Grant as an adman mistaken for a spy, the crop-duster scene and the Mount Rushmore climax.
Work by Patricia Kaersenhout, the Dutch-Surinamese artist whose work deals with Black feminism, colonial history and the legacy of slavery.
STRAAT explores the fundamental visual elements of graffiti culture, from lettering and tags to rhythm and line work.
Morning yoga session held surrounded by Vincent van Gogh's masterworks.
A family exhibition exploring magic, illusions and ritual in Jewish culture and folklore.
A pay-what-you-want live role-playing game where the audience goes on a quest built around live music.
An immersive digital experience that recreates the streets and canals of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
This exhibition shows Amsterdam as 17th-century artists saw it, including famous places, buildings that are now gone and the stories behind the works.
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.
STRAAT, the street art museum at NDSM, teams up with Museum MORE, which collects modern realist art, for a show about claiming public space.
A sightseeing boat trip along Amsterdam's canals on Blue Boat Company's City Canal Cruise.
The British photographer known for Before They Pass Away, his portraits of Indigenous peoples around the world, tells the stories behind his pictures on stage.
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 private museum showcases street works, prints, and stencils by the elusive British artist.
Learn the fundamentals of silkscreening and print your own custom design onto t-shirts in this hands-on studio session.
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.
The presentation examines clothing from 1640 to 1930 that bears physical signs of wear, tailoring, mending, and daily life.
An outdoor and community exhibition presented in collaboration with Middle East Archive, a digital platform documenting everyday life and visual culture across the region.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the concert hall's architecture and acoustics before attending the free midday performance.
DJs play deep house and electronic sets on the twentieth floor of the A'DAM Tower overlooking the city.
An exhibition celebrating early trailblazers and foundational works in digital and video installation art.
An exhibition tracing decades of LGBTQIA+ community life, activism, pride celebrations, and resilience across Amsterdam.
Coming up
the bigger things in the weeks ahead
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