Movie night: The Joke (1969)

Sunday March 31st 2013, Movie night: The Joke (“Zert”, Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia, 1969, 89′). In Czech. Door open at 20pm, film begins at 21:00

The Joke, adapted from the debut novel of the same name by the famed Czech writer Milan Kundera, and directed by Jaromil Jireš, was one of the most politically charged movies to have come out of the Czech New Wave movement. That, combined with its subversive humour and sharp commentary on the then-totalitarian regime, ensured that it was promptly banned by the powers that by. […Lees verder]

Benefit Riseup

Do./Th. March 28th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Benefit Riseup, 19:00 pm.

Riseup Networks (riseup.net) is based in Seattle, and is an worldwide active autonomous tech collective that provides online communication tools for people and groups working on libertarian social change.
It offers secure private email accounts and mailing lists for many activist organisations. They provide free servers, bandwidth, and technical support to some other technology collectives around the globe, and host affordable co-locations for social justice organisations on over 30 servers.
Riseup is currently busy on developing an open source based online collaborative editor (etherpad) and multimedia chat services (jabber) and it’s own Personal VPN. It mainly develops and contributes to the development of different services, projects and free software that improves ones autonomy, privacy and security on the web. […Lees verder]

Roomtuintje Oostbos benefit

Mo./Ma. March 25th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Roomtuintje Oostbos benefit, 19:00 pm.

The Roomtuintje Oostbos garden gang will be dropping their shovels and picking up the serving spoons at Joe’s Garage. You can expect three courses of tasty vegan treats (mostly organic (bio) sourced) as always.
Roomtuintje Oostbos is a D.I.Y. Garden project which began in July 2012 in the Dapperbuurt of Amsterdam Oost, on land where formerly stood typical ‘Old Amsterdam’ social houses. The owner housing corporation De Key demolished the block with the intention of building modern apartments in 2009. Since that time it remained unused. The Roomtuintje Oostbos project is a temporary re-designation of land with the aim of allowing people the opportunity to make their own urban garden.
Donations will be going towards the ongoing Roomtuintje Oostbos project.
Visit http://roomtuintje.noblogs.org for more info. […Lees verder]

Movie Night: Micmacs

Sunday March 24th 2013, Movie night: Micmacs (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France, 2009, 105′). In French, with English subtitles. English subtitles. Door open at 20pm, film begins at 21:00.

Micmacs is a 2009 French comedy film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Its original French title is MicMacs à tire-larigot, (‘Non-stop shenanigans’). The film is billed as a “satire on the world arms trade. Micmacs links Keaton, Chaplin and Tati to the surreal, stylised worlds of Lynch, Burton and Gilliam and draws on everything from film noir to Sergio Leone. It is lit in a hallucinatory fashion, golden by day, dreamy by night, shot with lenses that happily disconcert the viewer. […Lees verder]

LaRage Benefit, Support the Squatting Scene

Mo./Ma. March 18th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, LaRage Benefit, Support the Squatting Scene, 19:00 pm.

“On January 27th, we squatted the Cornelis Drebbelstraat 35 which was empty over several years. Now we are living there and want to make great use out of it. How are we going to continue ?
The first priorities for the following time are repairing and fixing different things in the house, to make a usable, living place out of it.We are repairing the toilets, painting the walls and are trying to lay carpet in every room. This will be a lot of work, but at the same time we are thinking about activities which could be possible in the near future, to share this wonderful place with the neighbours, alternative people and everyone who is interested. We would like to offer you some coffee or tea with cookies and cake, make a small voku or do different short workshops.
But until we are at that point there are of course also financial points, we need new locks, paint for the walls, a lot of stuff for a voku viable kitchen and so on. Because of that we are inviting you to a wonderful meal at the Joe`s Garage. Thank you for your support, everyone is invited. Fascistic, racist or sexist opinions aren’t welcome!!!”
Squat LaRage http://larage.squat.net/
[…Lees verder]

Movie night: Repo Men

Sunday March 17th 2013, Movie night: Repo Men (Miguel Sapochnik, USA, 2010, 111′). Door open at 20pm, film begins at 21:00.

Imagine a near-future society where legalised corporate murder is the norm. This is the world of the Repo Men, who are authorised to repossess the organs of people who default on their repayments, with bloody and often fatal consequences. Darkly comic, slickly plotted and action-packed, this is a smart satire on the sometimes stark choice between having a conscience and collecting a paycheck. Based on the novel The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia. […Lees verder]

“How to be a Man – Deconstructing Masculinity” Workshop

Fri./Vri. March 15th 2013: Workshop, 18:30 pm
A real man is rational and calm.
A real man is strong.
A real man is focused.
A real man strives to be a role model.
A real man doesn’t look like a woman.
A real man does not behave like a woman.
A real man fights for his family and his country.
A real man is…
A real man does…

Being a “real” man ain’t easy. And not anyone can do it. But billions of people are sure trying very hard every day.
To discuss what mainstream masculinity is and how it affects men…and the rest of the world, as well as how we can promote more inclusive models of masculinity or masculinities, join the workshop! […Lees verder]

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Anarchists Against the Wall Benefit

Mo./Ma. March 11th 2013: Volkseten Vegazulu, Anarchists Against the Wall Benefit, 19:00 pm.

Anarchists Against the Wall [http://awalls.org/] is a group of Israeli, Palestinian and International activists that operate in opposition of the apartheid wall on the West Bank. They take part in the every weekly demonstration that is organized by the village in Bil’in. Taking advantage of the only fact that they are having Israeli passports they function as a human shield, reducing the violence performed by the Israeli soldiers. Every week they are beaten down and arrested and are now facing high legal debts to pay their lawyers to keep them out of prison. As we understand that the presence of Israeli and International activists are of an high importance in the struggle against the wall furthermore the liberation of Palestine we do now have the opportunity to raise some money on behalf of this work. […Lees verder]