Benefit voku for a new squatted social center in Rotterdam

By: börek - December 30th, 2024  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Monday December 30, 2024, Benefit voku for a new squatted social center in Rotterdam. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Last people’s kitchen of the year, to support comrades setting up a new squatted social center in Rotterdam. You already know De Edo and Catu, you’ll get to know another one soon.

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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Screening “De Zinkende Rafelrand”

By: börek - December 22nd, 2024  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday December 29, 2024, Screening “De Zinkende Rafelrand”, a film by Mirte Jepma (2024), 56 minutes, in Dutch with English subtitles. Screening and discussion with Mirte Jepma and Marijn van der Eyden. Doors open at 20.00, film starts at 20.30.

Screening “De Zinkende Rafelrand” De Zinkende Rafelrand is een documentaire over de eigenzinnige Baaibuurt in Amsterdam Oost die op 31 december 2024 zal verdwijnen. Het is een buurt met meerdere hechte gemeenschappen, creatieve werkplekken en vrijheid die vanaf 2025 ‘ontwikkeld’ zal moeten worden. Deze stadsvernieuwing betekent dat de Baaibuurt-West met 7 meter zand opgehoogd zal worden om de zinkende grond bouwklaar te maken voor traditionele woningbouw. Men noemt haar dan ook wel de Zinkende Rafelrand. Deze film vangt de verhalen, de gezichten en de plekken van een buurt die onder het zand dreigt te verdwijnen. De film combineert interviews met archiefmateriaal en documentaire beelden om een intiem portret te creëren van een verborgen buurt vol energie, angst maar ook hoop op een toekomst voor de stad Amsterdam waarin ook zij een plek hebben.

“The Sinking Fringe” is a documentary about the untamed Baaibuurt neighborhood in Amsterdam East that is bound to disappear on 31 December 2024. This neighborhood, a rich tapestry of free-spirited, tight-knit communities, will be ‘developed’ to remedy the housing crisis. This urban renewal plan requires raising the soil in the Baaibuurt-West by 7 meters of sand in order to prepare the sinking land for conventional urban housing. Hence, it is referred to as the Sinking Fringe. This film captures the stories, faces, and places of a neighborhood in danger of disappearing under the sand. The film combines interviews with archive footage to create an intimate portrait of a hidden neighborhood full of energy and fear but also hope for the future of the city of Amsterdam in which they, too, have a place. The Sinking Fringe is a call for action; what do we want our future cities to look like? For whom are we building? We hope this film can spark a debate on the values we aim to nurture in our cities.
Team: Mirte Jepma, Alberto Morbelli, Benjamin Vanderveen, Marijn van der Eyden.

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Antichrist(mas) – Fuck your Hallmark Holiday VoKu

By: börek - December 18th, 2024  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Wednesday December 25, 2024, Antichrist(mas) – Fuck your Hallmark Holiday VoKu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Another year of manufactured cheer, another season of capitalist ritual.
No more capitalist spectacle. No more lonely Christmas.
Are you alone this Christmas? Abandoned by a system that commodifies connection? Estranged from family structures that never truly supported you? Feeling the cold isolation engineered by neoliberal economies that strip away genuine human solidarity?
Tonight we cook together.
Bodies moving. Hands chopping. Strangers becoming community.
Reject the system that keeps us divided. Reclaim connection through collective cooking.
Everyone is welcome to cook, eat, clean or have fun. No hierarchy or religion. Just solidarity.
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Ukraine Support Voku [SOBER]

By: börek - December 18th, 2024  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Monday December 23, 2024, Ukraine Support Voku [SOBER]. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

This evening, we come together to cook, eat and raise money to support Solidarity Collectives, a group of Ukrainian anarchists fighting against the Russian invasion.
This is a SOBER EVENT, meaning we will have an alcohol/smoke-free evening. Please smoke on Steve Bikoplein if you need to smoke!
Solidarity Collectives: https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/ […Lees verder]

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Mutual Aid Exchange – Christmas Edition

By: börek - December 18th, 2024  Filed under: Mutual Aid

Saturday December 21, 2024, Mutual Aid Exchange – Christmas Edition, from 19:00 to 20:00.

It’s the time of the year when many people give and get presents from their loved ones. But a lot of what we buy and receive is material stuff we don’t really need. Let’s stop wasting our money and show some love for our community instead. Let’s sustain each other through mutual aid.

Do you have more than you need this Christmas season? Or do you or your loved ones need some mutual aid from the community? Let’s meet up, share our needs, and share our resources to find a way to uplift each other!

* This will be the first mutual aid exchange. Please show it some love. Let’s see how it goes and perhaps it can be a regular occurrence!

Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

By: börek - December 18th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Friday December 20, 2024, 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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Dutch Language Classes

By: börek - December 18th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Wednesday December 4, 11 and 18, 2024, Dutch Language Classes, from 19:00 to 21:00. A dutch class where all levels are welcome. Bring your questions!

Benefit No Border Kitchen and Announcement Documentary Screening by ZZW & friends

By: börek - December 15th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday December 16, 2024, Benefit No Border Kitchen and announcement documentary screening by ZZW & friends. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

This Voku was initiated as a supporting event for the Sunday screening of the documentary “De Zinkende Rafelrand” by Mirte Jepma, Alberto Morbelli, Benjamin Vanderveen, and Marijn van der Eyden, which will be shown at Joe’s on Sunday December the 29th. The film deals with the pending eviction of the Neighborhood “Baaibuurt West” in Amsterdam, an undefined space that has naturally grown and developed over the past 40 years and is home to several individual communities, big and small, many plant and animal species, and plenty of free birds. The purpose of the Voku is to get together, have some good food, and possibly tell some stories about our part of this city which we’ll have to leave behind on December 31st. All profits will be donated to No Border Kitchen.

Zuiderzeeweg Rafelrand https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/zzw-rafelrand […Lees verder]

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