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
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]
Radical Sunday School: Anarchist Sex Ed, Radical (&) Queer Mingle
Sunday December 15, 2024, Radical Sunday School: Anarchist Sex Ed. Doors open at 17.30, we start sharp at 18.00! Radical (&) Queer Mingle (the after Sex Ed. Session) from 20:00. 
From the moment we entered schools and churches, we have been limited. We have been deprived of the endless possibilities of sex, gender, and relationships; forced to consider cis/hetero/mono/amatonormativity as the standard – and everything else as perversion.
In tonight’s Sex Ed session we ask ourselves: How has the dominant educational system prevented us from learning about our bodies, our relationships, and the full spectrum of gender, sex, and sexuality? What have we missed by only seeing the same old boring cis/hetero/mono/amatonormative perspectives on sexual experience? What would an anarchist approach to sex education look like? And much more…
Let’s learn about sex together!
From 20:00, Radical (&) Queer Mingle (the after Sex Ed. Session)
You survived the education — now it’s time for the after party. From theory to practice, join us for a night of radical love, queer liberation, and unabashed joy. No cops, no cops in your heads, no shame, no binary, no masters (unless consensual, of course), no cameras allowed!
What to bring: your full, authentic self, something to share, revolutionary spirit (but hold the tankies), dancing shoes — or just go barefoot for the revolution.
Music: come by with an instrument in hand for the Radical (&) Queer Open mic/jam session!
Remember, pleasure is resistance, community is power, every kiss is a riot.
We promote safe sex, come, grab and share Radical Sunday School flavored goodies!
Full accessibility info available. Care team on-site — reach out if you need.
Let’s make magic together. See you in the glow of liberation!
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
Solidarity voku for our comrades in Peru fighting against mining companies
Thursday December 12, 2024, Solidarity voku for our comrades in Peru fighting against mining companies. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Gira Holanda warmly invites you to this benefit voku. We will share this meal in solidarity with our comrades from Perú, in the region of Cajamarca, who are and have been resisting for years against the violence of mining companies, such as Goldcorp and Newmont. These corporations seek to profit from the land and water of local communities, extracting gold and other minerals from the Andean mountains, leaving behind holes on the earth, desertified soil, and polluted water and wind.
With this dinner we aim to provide a little financial help to our comrades who are resisting there, and who have had to flee to Europe to protect themselves, and to create a little moment of awareness of the violence that mining involves. Mining for our technologies and our luxury in the “Global North”.
¡AGUA SÍ, ORO NO!
WATER YES, GOLD NOT!. […Lees verder]
Solidarity Voku for Palestinian Family in Gaza
Monday December 9, 2024, Solidarity Voku for Palestinian Family in Gaza. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.
Join us for our Voku raising funds for our friend’s family’s GoFund Me to flee the Zionist genocide in Gaza. Their story can be found here: Fundraiser by Talat and Fadwa Hussein : Help my family get out of the scourge of war in Gaza. […Lees verder]
Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Ecstasy of Angels (Kōji Wakamatsu, 1972)
Sunday December 8, 2024, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Ecstasy of Angels * 1972 * (天使の恍惚, Tenshi no kōkotsu) * Directed by Kōji Wakamatsu * 89 minutes * In Japanese with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.
Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu was a wild cat, and was the primary director that fused together radical politics along with transgressive sexuality. He had made a link between these two things that was, in a way, revolutionary. He didn’t believe in breaking down barriers only on a single issue or theme, but through an explosion of freedom he sought to destabilize Japan’s colonized, regulated, conservative society that was imposed by America after World War II.
These were wild days in Japan, with student protests, occupations, psychedelic music and a lot of experimentation. This movie is a byproduct of that time, a snapshot of his zeitgeist, a call for freedom. It is a pink political flick, meaning it’s politically charged. The story is about a group of left-wing revolutionaries who break into a US military Depot to steal weapons and ammunition. As they make their getaway they come into a conflict with soldiers, leaving some Americans dead. The movie takes off from there.
Right around the time when Kōji Wakamatsu made this movie, he went to the Palestinian territories and filmed a radical left-wing group training there, he was instantly put on a blacklist by three major organizations – the Japanese government, Interpol, and the American government. In fact, he was banned from entering the United States for the rest of his life.
Wakamatsu is a great example of guerilla filmmaking, knocking out radical, imaginative films, and all budgets. In fact, Wakamatsu said the reason he became a film director in the first place was because “in movies, you can kill as many police officers as you want and not get caught.”
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
Radical Sunday School: Nationalism and Invented Traditions
Sunday December 8, 2024, Radical Sunday School: Nationalism and Invented Traditions. From 18:00 till 20:00.
Coming just in time for the end of Sinterklaas, Radical Sunday School invites you to join us as we learn a bit about invented traditions, and the way they shape how we look at ourselves and our communities. We’ll be sitting down to chat with a scholar of nationalism about not only the silly aspects of ridiculous holidays and made-up cuisine, but also the darker connections between these nationalist projects and the recent rise of the far right in Western politics. Join us this Sunday as we learn about the stories we tell ourselves, the myth of “tradition”, and the joys of cultural diversity!
Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/
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