Proxy Cafe: Speed Comp and sharing Vol 1

By: börek - February 14th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

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/

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Voku in solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners

By: börek - February 14th, 2025  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

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]

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

By: börek - February 14th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

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

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Radical Sunday School: Why does everyone hate the NL?

By: börek - February 14th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

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/

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Voku for African refugees in Turkey

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

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]

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

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

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)

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

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

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Radical Sunday School: How to Run a Community Dinner

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

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/

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