Bella Ciao dinner & party, live music, antifascist karaoke

Friday April 25, 2025, Bella Ciao dinner & party. Let’s celebrate Italy’s Liberation day together. Door opens at 16:00, food served from 19:00.

April 25th marks Italy’s National Liberation Day, a celebration of the country’s freedom from the nazi-fascist occupation.
80 years ago, on this very day, the partisans of the Italian Resistance regained control of Northern Italy, bringing an end to twenty years of fascist oppression and five years of war.
For two years, the partisans fought under the Italian tricolor flag, standing against the black flags of the fascists and the swastikas of the nazis.
Celebrating April 25th means remembering that struggle for freedom and democracy and defending the values of Italy’s anti-fascist Constitution that was born from that struggle.
To celebrate these ideals we’re hosting a Bella Ciao dinner and party. There will be great food, live music, and an antifascist karaoke – a chance for everyone to grab the mic and sing the songs that inspired the fight for freedom.

Volkseten Vegazulu & Rebetiko live with Les Cormorans

Thursday April 10, 2025, Volkseten Vegazulu & Rebetiko live with Les Cormorans. Food served from 19:00, music from 20:00, no reservation.

The grand reunion of Les Cormorans will take place at Joe’s Garage, Amsterdam on thursday April 10 from 20:00. Les Cormorans are: Tasos Kofodimos (voice, guitar, lute), Giorgos Pop (oud, bouzouki), Yvonne Melissa (violin, voice). You will hear rebetiko songs along with a wide variety of favorites from Heimerinoi Kolimvites, Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Papazoglou, and who knows what else. […Lees verder]

Radical Sunday School’s second birthday party

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
As part of our celebration we are hosting an Open Podium! Every radical soul is welcome to take the stage, front and center, and express themselves! 🖤 ANYTHING GOES! Music, poetry, spoken word, theatre, comedy, stories, essays, two minute RANTS, drag – you name it! No microphone – not amplified – bring your own equipment – Joe’s Garage is intimate enough! Time limit of 5-7 minutes for each performance to give everyone the chance to take the stage.

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

Aman molli: Concert of rebetiko from Piraeus and Smyrna (Eirini Zogali, Yvonne Melissa, Panos Tsamouras)

Saturday 14 December 2024, Aman molli: Concert of rebetiko from Piraeus and Smyrna (Eirini Zogali, Yvonne Melissa, Panos Tsamouras). The doors will open at 8pm, and music will start at 9 pm.

Three talented young musicians, Eirini Zogali, Yvonne Melissa and Panos Tsamouras, present a repertoire of rebetiko from Piraeus and Smyrna. Favorite compositions from the beginning of the 20th century will be performed.
Eirini Zogali was born in 1997 in Corinth, Greece. Her relationship with music started at the age of 7 with the classical guitar. This first contact led her to audition for the music school of her hometown, in which she graduated in 2015 with a new instrument in hand, the bouzouki.
In 2019, when starting a semester as an exchange student in the Codarts Conservatoire in Rotterdam, Eirini also joined Aman Molli events, performing numerous times at Joe’s Garage and later giving Rebetiko workshops. Since September 2024 based in Athens, Eirini is back for a few dates in Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Amsterdam.

Eirini Zogali: bouzouki, oud, voice
Yvonne Melissa: violin, voice
Panos Tsamouras: guitar, voice

Eirini Zogali https://joesgarage.nl/archives/tag/eirini-zogali
Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli

SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: benefit dinner supporting the Iku community in Colombia. Concert by Catsnout

Monday September 30, 2024, SKRAPS solidarity kitchen: Benefit dinner supporting the Iku community in Colombia in reclaiming their ancestral land. Concert by Catsnout. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music from 8:30pm.

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 international initiatives.
This Voku is dedicated to the Iku people, an indigenous community from Colombia currently striving to acquire ancestral land. Their goal is to reclaim their territory, and build a space to educate young students and nurture future mamos and sagas (spiritual leaders). By doing so, they aim to preserve their ancestral wisdom and actively deconstruct colonial heritage.
In this Voku, we hope to support them in reclaiming their land, and we invite you to join us in this endeavour.

After the dinner, there will be a concert by the band Catsnout who writes about themselves: “hello, we make fun yelling heartfelt anti-folk. Welcome to our acoustic experiment in Joe’s Garage, bring your flutes please!” The show will start around 20:30. […Lees verder]

Amsterdam BANGS Joe’s Garage! VoKu + Performances

Thursday 19 September 2024, Amsterdam BANGS Joe’s Garage! VoKu + Performances Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Come by Joe’s Garage for a three course vegan meal on donation from 19:00, as a fundraiser for Palestine Mutual Aid. After, enjoy some banging free shows! Clowning, music, theatre! All in one!

Rango Starr will perform a synth piece, telling a story of an ancient uprising, in the form of a black bloc turned cop clown hilarity.
Radio Plantsoen feat. Madame Favorella and G.G. Axum are performing a JA! Redux.
A spoken word performance on a video and music base. Inspired by the project Ja! by Simon Vinkenhoog & Spinvis Combo
Zaza is going to do something, too:
‘My Shy Colors Raging Dreams’,
It will be soft-eery and a tiny bit absurd, wuuuhuuuuuuu

Amsterdam BANGS is a politically charged joyride taking place all over Amsterdam during September 19th to 22nd. Get ready for a BANGING theatre and performance festival, organised by anarchists, artists, and activists, to take over not just traditional venues, not just the squats, not just the streets, not just your local Albert Heijn, not just your ING help desk but even your own home. BANGS is non-hierarchically and self-organised: anyone can propose their show, wherever they want, create any workshop or performance, so long as it’s non-commercial and BANGING. Stages are kept behind gates, giving space only to certain voices. We want Amsterdam to be our stage and hear the voices of many! We wish for soft, loud, ludicrous, experimental performance art and activism to take over the city and shake it up! Have the city become our playground.

Amsterdam BANGS
info [at] amsterdambangs [dot] nl
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/amsterdam-bangs
https://amsterdambangs.nl/ […Lees verder]

Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

Friday September 6, 2024, Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music. From 20:00.

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). Bring your instruments and your best mood!
Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli

Voku benefit Woningsdag w/ live music: Lyngfarer and Ancient Hostility (anarcho folk)

Monday July 22, 2024, Voku benefit Woningsdag w/ live music: Lyngfarer and Ancient Hostility (anarcho folk). Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music from 8pm.

The benefit money will go to the costs of Woningsdag, every year while the country celebrates Koningsdag we celebrate Woningsdag because the urgency to get everyone housing is more important than Monarchy. Last Woningsdag, on April 27, 2024, a building got squatted in the city center (Gravenstraat 26-28). We still have some unpaid costs and that’s why we have a benefit.

There will be live music performance as well with Lyngfarer and Ancient Hostility, the anarcho folk night from Joe’s this summer:
Lyngfarer https://lyngfarer.bandcamp.com/
“Lyngfarer is the quiet and pensive stuff that Magnus Nymo from Norway writes. It lives in the fog between medieval lore and anarchist dbeat classics but is quiet enough to be a lullaby. Magnus started performing as Lyngfarer in 2015 and has since then hung out and toured around Europe, Scandinavia, Ireland and the US and UK.”
Ancient Hostility (anarcho folk): “Harmony singing and drones from members of All In Vain and Dawn Ray’d, singing songs about heartbreak and resistance.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g27Bhsxzrvc […Lees verder]