Voku for African refugees in Turkey

Thursday February 13, 2025, Voku for African refugees in Turkey. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

As we all know, climate justice is also social justice which extends to fights for refugees and other displaced people to have everything they need to be able to live a dignified life and not go through the horror that they escaped again. The cause for which we will be raising money during this Voku is exactly about this dimension of climate justice, more specifically – educational rights of African refugees in Izmir, Turkey.
If you join us on the 13th of February for a donation-based dinner, your money will go to Imece Initative – an NGO based in Izmir, Turkey, working since 2014 to create collective solutions for disadvantaged groups and refugees. The organisation’s primary focus is on empowering women and equipping them with vocational skills to build sustainable futures. One of their key projects also include an educational centre in Basmane – one of Izmir’s most densely populated immigrant areas – where they work closely with African refugees – one of the most marginalized and invisible communities in Turkey. Many lack access to basic rights and resources, leaving them unseen and unsupported.
The educational centre is in desperate need of money due to the limited amount of support it’s been getting from external donors in the past months. Hence, any bigger donations will also be very much appreciated but even a standard donation counts and can do a lot of good. […Lees verder]

Voku to support families in Gaza who lost their homes during the genocide

Monday February 10, 2025, Voku to support families in Gaza who lost their homes during the genocide. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Jerusalem-Gaza Mutual Aid Collective – We are a group of Jewish activists raising funds each month to help ten Gazan families with no income to meet their basic needs – for food, clothes, medicine, fixing tents, transport for fleeing danger. This support also enables these families to organise small but essential projects to benefit their community: running pop up food kitchens; repairing neighbours’ tents; entertaining their children. We raise funds via local and international Palestine solidarity networks, and the Gazans who the funds go to know that the financial support is also an expression of our political solidarity with them/ – because none of us are free until all of us are free. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Careful (Guy Maddin, 1992)

Sunday February 9, 2025, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Careful (1992) * Directed by Guy Maddin * 100 minutes * In English * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.

An Icelandic folk tale tells of a 19th-century village buried deep in the mountains whose inhabitants have to literally hold their breath and keep from making any lively movements out of fear of triggering an avalanche. This visionary Canadian director’s films have a look all of their own; blending surrealism with German style expressionism. Careful is filmed in a bright Technicolor style that’s visually dazzling. Like his other films (My Winnipeg, The Saddest Music in the World) this film is a bizarre adventure that is just as imaginative with its aesthetics as it is with its storyline and philosophical musings. The grainy slightly faded style of his films, complete with scratches, make them appear from another era.
Bathed in lurid tints that are stunning, this film comes off as a kind of old movie from another planet. The twisted picturesque landscapes look like they jumped out of a Salvador Dali painting. If you are looking for a disturbing candy-colored dark comedy, then this is the film for you. Because even though the villagers live their lives trying to keep quiet and not make much noise out of deadly fear, sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences.

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: How to Run a Community Dinner

Sunday February 9, 2025, Radical Sunday School: How to Run a Community Dinner. From 18:00 till 20:00.Have you ever been to a community dinner or “Voku”, and heard the people say “Do you also want to do a Voku?” But how do you actually do that? Where do you start?
Vokus are volunteer run dinners where they usually raise money for some cause, group or person in need. In many places this looks like a 3 course meal for around 50 people.
This Sunday at Radical Sunday School we are hosting a knowledge sharing session where experienced cooks from different social centers and to-be new cooks can gather and learn from each other.
We will talk about: where to get started, joining to help out, portion control and quantity estimates, skip, food safety, allergies, kitchen safety and cleaning. And much more!!

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

All Crafts Are Beautiful

Sunday February 9, 2025, All Crafts Are Beautiful, from 14:00 till 18:00.

Doe deze zondag met ons mee voor All Crafts Are Beautiful! Er is een tijd om samen de barricades op te gaan en er is een tijd om samen te komen om het samenkomen. Kom en breng je eigen handwerkproject mee of leer nieuwe vaardigheden van anderen zoals breien, haken, repareren enz. Vanaf 14:00 tot 18:00, elke tweede zondag van de maand. Joe’s Garage is op de begane grond en heeft een steile ramp bij de entree. De toilet is erg smal. Qua zitplekken is er 1 comfortabele bank en verder zijn er veel houten stoelen en tafels. Tijdens dit evenement wordt er binnen niet gerookt.

Join us this Sunday for All Crafts Are Beautiful! There is a time to go on the barricades together and the is a time to come together for the sake of coming together. Come and bring your own craft project or learn new skills from others like knitting, crocheting, repairing etc. All Crafts Are Beautiful is from 14:00-18:00 every second sunday of the month. Joe’s Garage is on the ground floor and has a very steep ramp at the entrance. The toilet is very narrow. There is one comfy couch and there are a lot of wooden chairs and tables. During this event there is no smoking inside.

All Crafts Are Beautiful https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/all-crafts-are-beautiful

Joe’s Garage open assembly

Saturday February 8, 2024, Joe’s Garage open assembly, from 19:00 to 20:30

Get involved at Joe’s Garage, a squatted social center. Come along to figure out how you could contribute to such a space. Joe’s Garage always needs active participants to remain open. Such a monthly meeting is also the moment to discuss your proposals, get to know each others, share tasks, plan the coming weeks.

Aman molli: Practice of east Mediterranean Music

Friday February 7, 2025, 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

Benefit Dinner for Keizersgracht 318

Monday February 3, 2025, Benefit Dinner for Keizersgracht 318. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Benefit Voku for De Grachten Rat squat, Keizersgracht 318. De Grachten Rat is getting evicted on February 15th and need support. The court case will cost the rats over 3,000 euro! Keizersgracht 318 is squatted since July 2020, it had been squatted a first time in 2015
https://en.squat.net/tag/keizersgracht-318/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/de-grachten-rat […Lees verder]