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.
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
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]
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
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/
Thursday January 30, 2025, Benefit Dinner for a Mountain-Workshop at Mas L’ombra. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
We will cook a multi-coarse meal; on donation, to help us build a workplace hidden in a mountain valley. We are a group of youngsters that recently acquired a piece of forest/mountain land, in our quest for a more ‘nature centered’ life of learning, sharing and freedom. This spot is called Mas L’ombra, located in a small valley in the mighty Pyrenees, southern France.
So now, in order to continue building beautiful things over there, we are striving to build an amazing workshop this summer! And we could really use some extra cash to do so…. in order to buy some wood, roofing and tools.
Therefore, we would love for you to come have some bites with us and support our cause! Hope to see you Thursday! […Lees verder]
Monday January 27 2025, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit dinner supporting a friend from Kenya. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
We are SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity), an Amsterdam-based cooking collective with the goal of transforming rescued food into tasty vegan dishes, which are then used to support national and internation initiatives.
On this Monday’s dinner we want to raise funds for David, a friend from Kenya who finds himself in a difficult family situation and needs financial support to continue with his studies. He is 25 and wants to become a civil engineer to support his village in Vihiga, Western Kenya. His dream is to build and renovate houses, transforming them into safer homes for families to live in.
He started studying building and construction at Kisumu university last year, but when his family passed away, he could not afford it anymore.
Help us enable David to go back to university by enjoying this amazing three course vegan meal!!
SKRAPS (Soup Kitchen for Radical Actions and Political Solidarity) : https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/skraps-solidarity-kitchen […Lees verder]
ANYTHING GOES! Music,… more… 
