Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Careful (Guy Maddin, 1992)

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday February 9, 2025, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Careful (1992) * Directed by Guy Maddin * 100 minutes * In English * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.

An Icelandic folk tale tells of a 19th-century village buried deep in the mountains whose inhabitants have to literally hold their breath and keep from making any lively movements out of fear of triggering an avalanche. This visionary Canadian director’s films have a look all of their own; blending surrealism with German style expressionism. Careful is filmed in a bright Technicolor style that’s visually dazzling. Like his other films (My Winnipeg, The Saddest Music in the World) this film is a bizarre adventure that is just as imaginative with its aesthetics as it is with its storyline and philosophical musings. The grainy slightly faded style of his films, complete with scratches, make them appear from another era.
Bathed in lurid tints that are stunning, this film comes off as a kind of old movie from another planet. The twisted picturesque landscapes look like they jumped out of a Salvador Dali painting. If you are looking for a disturbing candy-colored dark comedy, then this is the film for you. Because even though the villagers live their lives trying to keep quiet and not make much noise out of deadly fear, sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences.

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: How to Run a Community Dinner

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday February 9, 2025, Radical Sunday School: How to Run a Community Dinner. From 18:00 till 20:00.Have you ever been to a community dinner or “Voku”, and heard the people say “Do you also want to do a Voku?” But how do you actually do that? Where do you start?
Vokus are volunteer run dinners where they usually raise money for some cause, group or person in need. In many places this looks like a 3 course meal for around 50 people.
This Sunday at Radical Sunday School we are hosting a knowledge sharing session where experienced cooks from different social centers and to-be new cooks can gather and learn from each other.
We will talk about: where to get started, joining to help out, portion control and quantity estimates, skip, food safety, allergies, kitchen safety and cleaning. And much more!!

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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All Crafts Are Beautiful

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday February 9, 2025, All Crafts Are Beautiful, from 14:00 till 18:00.

Doe deze zondag met ons mee voor All Crafts Are Beautiful! Er is een tijd om samen de barricades op te gaan en er is een tijd om samen te komen om het samenkomen. Kom en breng je eigen handwerkproject mee of leer nieuwe vaardigheden van anderen zoals breien, haken, repareren enz. Vanaf 14:00 tot 18:00, elke tweede zondag van de maand. Joe’s Garage is op de begane grond en heeft een steile ramp bij de entree. De toilet is erg smal. Qua zitplekken is er 1 comfortabele bank en verder zijn er veel houten stoelen en tafels. Tijdens dit evenement wordt er binnen niet gerookt.

Join us this Sunday for All Crafts Are Beautiful! There is a time to go on the barricades together and the is a time to come together for the sake of coming together. Come and bring your own craft project or learn new skills from others like knitting, crocheting, repairing etc. All Crafts Are Beautiful is from 14:00-18:00 every second sunday of the month. Joe’s Garage is on the ground floor and has a very steep ramp at the entrance. The toilet is very narrow. There is one comfy couch and there are a lot of wooden chairs and tables. During this event there is no smoking inside.

All Crafts Are Beautiful https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/all-crafts-are-beautiful

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Joe’s Garage open assembly

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Assembly

Saturday February 8, 2024, Joe’s Garage open assembly, from 19:00 to 20:30

Get involved at Joe’s Garage, a squatted social center. Come along to figure out how you could contribute to such a space. Joe’s Garage always needs active participants to remain open. Such a monthly meeting is also the moment to discuss your proposals, get to know each others, share tasks, plan the coming weeks.

Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Friday February 7, 2025, Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music. From 20:00 to 23:30.

This is a weekly open practice session of east Mediterranean music, in which we play genres such as rebetiko and Greek/Balkan/Turkish/Middle Eastern folk music. Together we explore the melodic pathways, rhythms (e.g. 9/8, 7/8. 5/4) and harmonies of, as well as connections between these musical traditions. We gather to have fun playing music together, to share musical knowledge and experience, and improve our skills on our instruments. We welcome interested newcomers to join in, regardless of musical experience, and using any kind of instrument (strings, percussion, wind, voice).

Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli

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Benefit Dinner for Keizersgracht 318

By: börek - February 2nd, 2025  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Monday February 3, 2025, Benefit Dinner for Keizersgracht 318. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Benefit Voku for De Grachten Rat squat, Keizersgracht 318. De Grachten Rat is getting evicted on February 15th and need support. The court case will cost the rats over 3,000 euro! Keizersgracht 318 is squatted since July 2020, it had been squatted a first time in 2015
https://en.squat.net/tag/keizersgracht-318/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/de-grachten-rat […Lees verder]

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Cinema Italia: Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)

By: börek - February 2nd, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday February 2, 2025, Cinema Italia: Cinema Paradiso * 1988 * Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore * 173 min * In Italian with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30. After the film, please engage in sharing comments, ideas, and inspiration with the host(s) of the evening!

The public image of this film is that of a portrait of a neorealist Sicily in the past, with a vein of nostalgia. And a homage to cinema, for the many citations of classics, especially American films. But it is much more than that. Cinema Paradiso tells the story of cinema as a unique experience: in each projection, the projected film is only part of the story; the audience plays an essential role in the experience, transforming the film, and even a role plays the projectionist, often forgotten. In the latter, this film tells us about a form of art and poetry that disappeared with digitalization. In the background, many political messages, such as those of the Communists in Sicily, were at the margins of a society where poverty was an everyday reality. This makes us question what we are ready to sacrifice to escape misery.

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: How to Make Friends, Putting the Social Back in Socialism

By: börek - February 2nd, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday February 2, 2025, Radical Sunday School: How to Make Friends, Putting the Social Back in Socialism. From 18:00 till 20:00.Do you ever feel lonely? Do you feel like you don’t know how to make friends? Do you wish you could find communities to support you? In this very practical edition of Radical Sunday School, we’re going to learn some individual strategies for talking to strangers and making new friends. While we’re at it, we’ll learn about how loneliness is a systemic problem of class society, how friendship can change the world, and how anyone who wants to start a social revolution needs to learn how to say “hello, my name is…”

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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