Radical Sunday School’s second birthday party

By: börek - March 31st, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday April 6, 2025, Radical Sunday School’s second birthday party. From 12:30 till 23:00.Radical Sunday School is turning two! Since April 2nd 2023, we have been hosting all types of workshops, discussions, and skill shares almost every week for two years, and WE WANT TO CELEBRATE!
Come join us for a whole day programme! Get cozy at Joe’s and join us for lunch, two amazing workshops, dinner, and an open podium – a day and night you cannot forget.
Thank you to everyone who has been with us and who is curious to see what we do!
Drop in and out whenever – for the workshops, for the food, for the open podium, for the company. We are so happy to celebrate our second year with all of you!

Programme:

12:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 16:00 FIRST SESSION
Theatre of the Oppressed – The ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ is a method that allows us to express, manifest, and tackle social oppression. During this workshop, we’ll play, and through playing we research, grow and share perspectives on the personal worldly.
We’ll work with the theme of the day, ‘Communal learning’ and research what that could look like by and through playing theater together.
There’s absolutely no theater experience needed, the workshop facilitator will guide you through the workshop.

16:30 – 18:30 SECOND SESSION
Communal Learning: Confronting Hierarchies Together – Even when we say we’re against all forms of oppression, our radical spaces still have hierarchies. Some people talk more. Some experiences count more. Perspectives are disregarded. Voices go unheard.
What does it mean for those voices to go unheard? How do we actually create room for those on the margins? Let’s cut through the academic bullshit and contradictions, and have an honest conversation about how to actually listen and learn – on how to actually center marginalized voices.
We’ll discuss historical, cultural practices together: practices of learning, of community, and of dialogue, that may help us to learn from and with one another. To create a space where power is genuinely shared, not just talked about.

19:00 DINNER
20:00 OPEN PODIUM

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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NBK Benefit VoKu

By: börek - March 30th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday March 31, 2025, Benefit for No Border Kitchen Lesvos. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. […Lees verder]

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Movie Night: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)

By: börek - March 30th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday March 30, 2025, Movie Night: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) * 94 minutes * In German with English Subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30.

In search of El Dorado, in the mid-16th century, a gold-crazed contingent of Spanish conquistadors goes deep into the Peruvian rain forest, lead by Pedro de Ursúa (famed Portuguese filmmaker Guerra), second-in-command Lope de Aguirre (Kinski), Brother Gaspar (Negro), a rotund nobleman Fernando de Guzmán (Berling), among others, two females, Inés (Rojo), Ursúa’s wife and Florés (Rivera), Aguirre’s teenage daughter, and many Indian slaves. Most of the time, the team steers their route on rafts, but comes in for successive adversities in the hands of the unfathomable nature mother, one raft trapped by an eddy among the rapids causes a horrific aftermath, just when Ursúa commands to abort the scouting mission and backtrack, Aguirre precipitates a mutiny, keeps a wounded Ursúa as prisoner and puts Guzmán on the throne as the emperor of the new kingdom, because he firmly believes, they will find the gold, then their mission continues.

Story-wise, the film is pretty garden-variety, and decidedly trimmed down to the nexus, Aguirre and co. are real historical personages, the expedition and mutiny are true happenings, but Herzog fictionalizes their journey en route and the grim wind-up. Barely landing their feet on solid soil, the conquistadors are singled out one by one by unseen enemies hidden in the forests through poisoned arrows, often proceeded by dead silence.

However, in Herzog’s method, the suspense and dreadfulness is toned down by his dispassionate temperament, which would be made into great play in his equally robust documentary track record. Merely watchful and often centering on Kinski’s distinctively fierce and emotive visage, the camera expends more time perusing the biome’s vista (the ship snagged on top of a tree is a coup de maître of the then young filmmaker, flagging up its powerful metaphoric impact and ludic whimsy) than engaging in the narrative proceedings as their ill-fated destiny lurking ahead, until the final majestic 360-degree twirling shot sending the megalomaniac stranded with numerous skittish monkeys on the raft, paranoid, bereft and dream-dashed.

In any fair sense, the film is less potent as a character analysis of an outrageous madman than a gorgeous landscape porn, utterly otherworldly for those outsiders, but Kinski still hounds you with his muted aggro, lunacy and repugnance (by dint of Herzog’s tactful maneuver, who deliberately lets Kinski rip in his more frenetic performance, but saves the actual shots for the moments when he is abated or simply worn out), which would go beyond the pale in Fitzcarraldo, but here, the final impression is much more balanced and nuanced.

One cannot finish the review without mentioning the acclaimed score composed by the West German avant-garde band Popol Vuh, it is unearthly but not intrusive, a bespoke incident music which leaves its repercussions long after the film reaches its finish-line.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Voku benefit for Huis Vrederiks

By: börek - March 27th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday March 27, 2025, Voku benefit for Huis Vrederiks. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

Huis Vrederiks was squatted on December 30, 2024. Since then, people have been living there and a social centre, Begane Grond, has been established. Come and eat with us to help raise funds for Huis Vrederiks. Your donations go to electricity and plumbing costs!

Huis Vrederiks, Frederiksplein 52, Amsterdam
https://en.squat.net/tag/huis-vrederiks/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/begane-grond […Lees verder]

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Lonely Collective Day Cafe

By: börek - March 24th, 2025  Filed under: Poster archive

Wednesday March 26, 2025, Lonely Wednesdays revamped, 15:00-20:00

After a hiatus of the great past edition, Lonely Wednesdays return to Joe’s on a (semi-)regular basis to serve as a Third Space for all who miss somewhere else to hang out that isn’t work, home, or the bar. Come with a book, or your favorite game, snacks, or nothing at all; tell your friends, see who shows up, chat with strangers; chill in the garden, snoop around the freeshop, or just zone out. This time we open 15:00-20:00 or so, next installments TBD (suggestions and volunteers welcome!)
As with the last edition, the aim is to keep it non-alcoholic so that everyone can level. (Herbal) teas and coffee and snacks will be served. Event is free, donations appreciated!
Lonely Collective Day Cafe https://lonely.squat.net/

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Exile on Pretoriusstraat

By: börek - March 24th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday March 24, 2025, Exile on Pretoriusstraat: The ZZW Collective cooks again. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

Zuiderzeeweg Rafelrand https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/zzw-rafelrand
[…Lees verder]

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Cinerevolt: Here and Elsewhere (Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard, 1976)

By: börek - March 23rd, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday March 23, 2025, Cinerevolt: Here and Elsewhere (Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard, 1976) * 53 minutes * In German with English Subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30.

Commissioned by the Arab League to produce a film on the Palestinian Revolution, Godard and Gorin’s plans were upended by the Black September. Godard, now working with Miéville, transformed the original footage into a scathing self-critique—paralleling the lives of a French and a Palestinian family.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Radical Sunday School – Necropolitics: Who lives and dies in a state of exception?

By: börek - March 23rd, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday March 23, 2025, Radical Sunday School – Necropolitics: Who lives and dies in a state of exception? From 18:00 till 20:00.The norm is televised genocide, illegal mining and occupation. This system of marking specific bodies as kill-able and national sovereignty as “the right to kill” is as old as capitalism and colonialism itself.

Defining a state’s freedoms in such terms normalizes mass slaughter in distant lands, but it also props up justifications for places like Guantanamo Bay and organizations like Frontex here in the belly of the beast.

Who among us have limited rights, and what laws justify the hierarchies between different kinds of political identities?

In a Europe where the “working classes” and “stateless” people are quickly sliding into the category historically reserved for “savages” in the Dutch “Golden Age”, such questions help us anticipate who among us will be dragged off without a warrant to preserve “democracy”.

This session will break down musty academic concepts like necropolitics and the state of exception to explain how war in the 21st century has changed to keep pace with capital’s ever-growing need for blood and materials.

No prior knowledge needed.

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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