Benefit VoKu for The Freedom Theater in Jenin

By: börek - July 18th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 24 July 2023, Benefit for The Freedom Theatre in Jenin brutally attacked by the Israeli army. With video call with the theatre’s directors. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The Freedom Theatre is located in Jenin Palestinian refugees camp. For years the theatre has been working according to the principle of ‘resistance through art’. Its presence and activities are fundamental for the children, women and people of the camp. Their aim to change the narrative and to give human and artistic dignity to the people of Jenin is inspiring activists and artists not only in the occupied Palestinian territories but also around the world.

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Release concert by Johannes Karst (cello, voice)

By: börek - July 11th, 2023  Filed under: Muziek

Sunday 23 July 2023, Release concert by Johannes Karst (cello, voice). Door opening at 19:30, music from 20:30.

Johannes Karst is an interdisciplinary performer, improvisor and composer on the stage at Joe’s Garage, with his cello, for the release concert of his first album.
His artistic work and personal research are deeply interconnected and he searches for the reasons behind actions, thoughts and behaviors.
In his music he likes to create worlds with depth and layers that take the listener on a atmospheric journey and takes elements from folk, jazz and contemporary classical music.
His improvisations are raw and vulnerable, emotional with a hint of playful absurdity.
This album is not only a music album for me. It is a celebration – a celebration of life, beauty and of possibility.
Every piece on this album reflects a different part of my journey. Therefore every piece has its own unique world, its own sound and its own story to tell. But the pieces are not only an abstraction of my inner world. Through music, words and sound I want to show the beauty I experience around me. I want to share all the amazing details, complexity and the vast amount of colors that life can give us.

https://youtu.be/I98xrLTTKT4
https://www.johanneskarst.com/

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Benefit Voku in solidarity with the squatted neighbourhood of Prosfygika

By: börek - July 11th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 17 July 2023, Benefit Voku in solidarity with the squatted neighbourhood of Prosfygika. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

“Prosfygika”, or otherwise refugee homes, is a complex of residential flats built in 1930’s to house refugees resulting from the Asia Minor conflict between Greece and Turkey. The buildings are situated on a central avenue of Athens, surrounded on either side by the police HQ and the supreme court, in a heavily gentrified area . After years of abandonment, Prosfygika has been increasingly reclaiming its original purpose as many refugees, migrants, poor, greek and foreigner working class people have sought to resolve their need for housing by squatting the empty flats.

– Communıty of Squatted Prosfygıka https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/
– Info-night and benefit for Prosfygika in 2014 at Joe’s Garage https://joesgarage.nl/archives/9989
– Statement from Community of Squatted Prosfygika in November 2022: https://joesgarage.nl/archives/16341

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Live Hip Hop: Saint Nusu & Messy B.A.O.

By: börek - July 11th, 2023  Filed under: Muziek

Monday 17 July 2023, Live Music: Saint Nusu & Messy B.A.O. – Live Hip Hop at Joe’s Garage between 9pm and 10pm!

Vocalist Saint Nusu and Producer/DJ Messy B.A.O. from the UK will be performing a hip hop set at Joe’s Garage.
Expect soulful samples, eclectic production, and liberatory messaging formed in the lived experiences of both performers.
The performance will take place after the benefit voku and will occur between 9pm and 10pm.

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Who’s Singin’ Over There? (Slobodan Sijan, 1980)

By: börek - July 11th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 16 july 2023, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: WHO’S SINGIN’ OVER THERE? * 1980 * (Ko to Tamo Peva) * Directed by Slobodan Sijan * 83 minutes * In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles * Doors open at 20:30, intro & film start at 21:00.

This is as close to a perfect movie as you’re ever going to see. Ko to tamo peva has it all – historical significance, a great story that keeps you on the move from one event to the next, fabulous social commentary, a string of bittersweet comic moments, and to top it off, a fiery Balkan soundtrack. What more could you possibly want?

The story is simple…in an old, broken down bus en route to Belgrade, a diverse group of passengers have to put up with each other as the bus slowly makes its way through the rough country roads. Within the confines of this thin narrative, the director Slobodan Sijan paints a picture of a society torn by one war (World War I) and bracing itself for another, as the shadow of World War II looms over the countryside. Two of the passengers are Gypsy musicians who every once in a while will sing of their miserable life, and they also foresee the tragedy to come. Their songs are magical and work like a Greek reflecting upon the events as they are taking place.

Years later, another director, Emir Kusturica (Arizona Dream, Black Cat White cat) would make a big hit internationally with the wild characters and vivid story lines that he created in his films….but his sense of humor and style didn’t spark out of nowhere. He drew from a specific culture that was developing in the 70s and 80s in ex-Yugoslavia. Ko to tamo peva is the finest gem from that period. Tragically, it was never screened that much outside its home country, although it’s considered by many to be the best Yugoslavian movie ever made. And that might even be an understatement. In fact, the film is pure magic.

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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Cinema Italia: The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (Pierfrancesco Diliberto, 2013)

By: börek - July 8th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 9 july 2023, THE MAFIA KILLS ONLY IN SUMMER [LA MAFIA UCCIDE SOLO D’ESTATE] * Directed Pierfrancesco Diliberto (Pif) * 90 min * In Italian with English subtitles * doors open at 20:30, film starts at 21:00. After the film, please engage and share comments, ideas, and inspiration with the host(s) of the evening!

Mafia! You may have seen it in “The Godfather”, in “Goodfellas”, in “The Sopranos”, and you may think that you have seen it all, that you know what it looks like. But if you did, you would be wrong.

The real Mafia, in this case Sicilian “Cosa Nostra”, in this movie is told through the eyes of two children who turn young adults in the Palermo of the 1980s. Together they will experience the mafia phenomenon as it was lived in real lives in Sicily: an intricate relationship of things said and not said, of politics and common people, of journalists investigating, of absences at funerals, of the tireless work of judges and their ultimate sacrifice.

The key take away of this story on the Mafia war against the Italian State is not how strong crime is, but how noble the fight against it is, and how normal and extraordinary were the people who laid down their lives to defeat this cancer that has now spread, silently, all over Europe. In the end, you will want to learn and remember the names of the heroes of these real stories, from Rocco Chinnici to Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

A story that will make you laugh, will make you cry, will make you see a world of sweetness, of love, and of grief transpiring from the eyes of the child who tells it. Be careful, though: this movie will be shown in July – and Mafia only kills in Summer.

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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Benefit Voku for The Future

By: börek - July 2nd, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 3rd july 2023, Benefit Voku for The Future. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The signs of the times have been littering the doors of squat WC’s and the stands of book and magazine fairs. The signs of The Future Times, that is. Squatters from 2123 have travelled back in time to the year they believe could be a turning point in the war against environmental degradation and capitalist exploitation, to give us a fresh and urgent perspective from a drowned Amsterdam 100 years in the future. On the night of 7 July, the squatters of the future invite all forms of expression of frustration at the current state of the world to be demonstrated on Spui. But they will need a bit a funding to pull this off. The voku tonight will benefit these time travelling activists in their mission to turn the tides of history and rile up enthusiasm for creating change today!

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Movie night: The Uprising (Pravini Baboeram, 2019)

By: börek - July 2nd, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 2 july 2023, Movie night: The Uprising (Pravini Baboeram, 2019) * 94 minutes * Languages: English & Dutch * English subtitles * Doors open at 20:30, intro & film start at 21:00.

The Uprising is a documentary that connects colonialism to the common challenges that different communities of colour witness in contemporary society. The director analyses in nine written songs and with thirteen interviews how the heritage of colonialism is still rooted in nowadays society and how this heritage criminalises social/political struggles against racism. The struggles that are analysed in this documentary includes the struggle against blackface, the struggle for recognition of Dutch’s crimes in Indonesia, the fight for liberation of Palestine and the struggle for an inclusive society. The documentary ends with some suggestion for future resistance movements in order to create a new world of plurality and diversity. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/329425921

About the director:

Pravini Baboeram is an artist and activist from the Netherlands who use art to create social change. She holds a master degree in Media & Culture studies from UVA in Amsterdam. She has her own production label and was founder of several action against racism and cultural appropriation.

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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