Radical Sunday School: Open Session, Theory & Practice

Sunday February 23, 2025, Radical Sunday School: Open Session, Theory & Practice. From 18:00 till 20:00.In this year’s second open session of Radical Sunday School, we wanted to reflect on what the activist community’s relationship with “theory” and “practice” is. How can RSS play a better role in supporting our community as we try to make the world better?

We have had sessions in the past that we feel have been a bit too “theoretical”, and so we want to hear from all of you: What does it mean to be “too theoretical”? What’s the right balance between theory and practice when it comes to radical education? What would your ideal RSS class look like?

This session is also an opportunity to get to know the collective, ask what we’re trying to work on, and how you can get involved yourself!

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

Aki Kaurismäki night: Shadows in Paradise (1986) & Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)

Saturday February 22, 2025, Aki Kaurismäki night: Shadows in Paradise (1986) & Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994) * doors open at 19:00 * first film starts at 19:30 * second film starts at 21:00 * free entrance.

Shadows in Paradise (Varjoja paratiisissa, by Aki Kaurismäki, 1986, 1h 14m, in Finnish with English subtitles) – movie effectively set the template for the maestro’s singular style. Punctuated with bursts of primary colors, this beautiful wisp of a film finds a delicately negotiated optimism amid the ruins of its dashed dreams… An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana, by Aki Kaurismäki, 1994, 1h 5m, in Finnish with English subtitles) – Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana – who are clearly interested in the two men, despite the language barrier. But what are the chances of getting a response from men who prefer staring at vodka bottles to talking?

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

Aman molli: Rebetiko concert with Kostas P. & Panos T.

Friday February 21, 2025, Aman molli: Rebetiko concert with Kostas Patsis & Panos Tsamouras, door opens at 20:00, music from 20:30.

Aman molli and Joe’s Garage are hosting a rebetiko concert with Kostas Patsis (Bouzouki, vocals) and Panos Tsamouras (Guitar, vocals). They met at a rebetiko jam session where their musical connection became apparent: a shared love for Greek urban folk (rebetiko/laiko) of the early post-war era (40s & 50s). They strive to preserve the essence of the original recordings while at the same time injecting their own musical character into the songs and experimenting with original compositions.

Aman Molli https://radar.squat.net/en/aman-molli

Benefit dinner to support the Barrio Bravo popular autonomous gym project

Thursday February 20, 2025, Benefit dinner to support the Barrio Bravo popular autonomous gym and its future sport climbing wall. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The Barrio Bravo Popular Autonomous Gymnasium is located in the Cuxtitali neighborhood, on the eastern part of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Cuxtitali is one of the oldest neighborhoods, founded by the first indigenous settlers used by the conquistadores for the construction of the city. For always maintaining its own identity and an attitude of community self-care, it has long been called “Barrio Bravo” (Untamed District). A legacy of that old pride continues today and is expressed in the popular cultural manifestations of the neighborhood, in the community self-management of the drinking water source and in the struggle to defend the territory and forests that surround this area. Despite its extraordinary example of popular organization for the urban context of San Cristóbal, the neighborhood of Cuxtitali encounters the social difficulties characteristic of the Chiapas context, marked by historical structural inequities: low wages, low schooling, insecurity, exploitation of its people and resources, institutional abandonment and, especially in the last three years, the dramatic incidence of drug trafficking groups and organizations that have subjugated the city and the entire region. In this context, sports, health, coexistence and community can create the physical, mental and political space for the young people of the neighborhood to have healthy and constructive alternatives and feel relief from the alienation of today’s society, which in San Cristóbal sees in them only the future cheap labor for the bars of the various walkways of the city at the service of tourists or, worse, as the basic forces of increasingly violent criminal groups. It is a long-term ambition, just like any social project that also wants to radically transform the unjust social relations imposed by capitalism.

The Barrio Bravo Gym opened its doors on May 3, 2021 and since then has received more than 200 students (mostly children between 5 and 15 years old) and offered courses in 9 sports disciplines: KungFu, Calisthenics, Parkour, Boxing, Contemporary Dance, Yoga, Polynesian Dance, Kenpo and Capoeira. The plan is to raise funds to be able to build a wall and open a climbing course for the children of the Gym. We see the climbing wall as a link between the body and the territory; An element to reconnect with nature, with new people, to regain confidence in the body by recognizing the abilities that each one has. It’s like a window to see beyond violence, a great tool to overcome bad times. A wall is a first encounter with a sport that can take young people to new places, which they didn’t know existed. The wall has the power to help them free their mind and body.

https://tekio.org.mx/red-beta-libre.php
https://nodosolidale.noblogs.org/ […Lees verder]

Proxy Cafe: Speed Comp and sharing Vol 1

Wednesday February 19, 2025, Proxy Cafe: Speed Comp and sharing Vol 1. Door opens at 18:00.

Come and show your music skills at the first event of “Speed Comp and sharing”, which is an evening where you will be given a bunch of samples, some instructions, a limited amount of time and you’ll have to make a track!
After that we are going to show each other our tracks and explain how we did it.
The first episode is open to all musicians with any kind of electronic instrument and software, although opensource software or/and running on Linux is preferred. 🙂
– 18:00 Opening
– 19:00 Food
– 20:00 Start workshop
– 21:00 End workshop
– 23:00 Door closed

Proxy Cafe, a place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, to follow or give a workshop, share skills. Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat, a drink around a pizza!
Free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.
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Proxy Cafe, Amsterdam https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/proxy-cafe
https://proxycafe.puscii.nl/

Voku in solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners

Monday February 17, 2025, join our vegan Voku dinner in solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Currently, at least 1,245 people are imprisoned following the mass resistance to the illegitimate 2020 elections. Yet another illegitimate presidential election has just begun, and we can expect more politically motivated arrests.
Although we cannot directly contact political prisoners, we can still support them financially. Donations will go towards (food) parcels, legal fees, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, and other necessities. As the situation in Belarus is not improving, the least we can do is continue supporting those who are serving time for trying to change that. […Lees verder]

Movie Night: Za dvoma zaytsiamy – Chasing Two Hares (Viktor Ivanov, 1961)

Sunday February 16, 2025, За двома зайцями * Za dvoma zaytsiamy * Chasing Two Hares * directed by Viktor Ivanov * 1961 * 77 minutes * in Ukrainian with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * film starts at 20:30

This comedy is an adaption of play by Mykhailo Starytsky that tells the story of Svyryd Holokhvistyi, a barber who tries to get rich by marrying a wealthy bourgeois woman, Pronia Sirko, while at the same time courting a poor, beautiful girl, Halia. The story raises the problem of social inequality and ridicules the life of Ukrainian Russified bourgeoisie in Kyiv.
The title of the movie is “Za dvoma zaytsiamy” which means the “to chase two rabbits”. In English, they use the phraseology – “to chase two birds” a person’s desire to do two things at once and result is rhetorical.
The film was shot in Ukrainian at the Dovzhenko Film Studios, as it was originally rated second category and was planned to be shown only in the Ukrainian SSR. Later, when the movie gained huge popularity, it was partially re-dubbed into russian by the same actors, and was launched in all-Union distribution. The original soundtrack in Ukrainian was long thought to be lost, but was found in the Mariupol film fund in 2013. On October 27, 2013, the film with the original Ukrainian-language was presented to the public in Kyiv.

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: Why does everyone hate the NL?

Sunday February 16, 2025, Radical Sunday School: Why does everyone hate the NL? From 18:00 till 20:00.In this session, we will talk about what it is like to be a foreigner in the Netherlands, about making connection to the land and the people, especially when at heart you don’t believe in borders and nations. We will also talk about what it is like for Dutch people to see so many people from elsewhere come and go and how to share the beautiful parts of their country and culture. Together we will think about what we can do to enjoy living here and try to find an answer to “Why would anybody want to live here?”.

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