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COMMUNISTS ONSCREEN PAGE 4 FEMINISTS IN BATHTUBS PAGE 4 SYLIVIA LOUD AND KRISTEL CLEAR PAGE 5 PAUL CHAN’S SHADOW PLAY PAGE 11

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Inside: Music, Film, Art and Events

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ATTACHMENTS Contents: On the cover ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

Features Bathtub race . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Rode Bioscoop . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sylvia Kristel . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Transnational Institute . . . 6 Jimmy Rosenberg. . . . . . . . 7

Going out Short List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Paul Chan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Clubs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Gay & Lesbian . . . . . . . . . . 15 Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Freedom Writers. . . . . . . . 19 Film Times. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Plus The Glutton . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Eefje Wentelteefje . . . . . . 22

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AROUND TOWN

Red=not dead A 90 years dormant cinema is reborn.

By Luuk van Huët There’s no denying Amsterdam harbours some of the classiest old cinemas in the land. The lavishly decorated Tuschinksi opened in 1921, while The Movies on Haarlemmerstraat has been in business since 1912. With their nostalgic charms, they’ve resisted the onslaught of the airconditioned multiplexes.

But announcing the re-emergence of a cinema that hasn’t been in business for 93 years could still be seen as a somewhat odd decision, which is why we asked Felix Strategier, artistic leader of Theatergroep Flint, to explain the master plan behind the all-new Roode Bioscoop on Haarlemmerplein7.

Strategier relates the unusual history of the Red Cinema: ‘In 1913, there were a couple of cinemas in Amsterdam known as “white cinemas”, in which films were given a Christian subtext by their explicateur, who served as the film’s live narrator. This gave the leading socialist frontman of the time, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, the idea of starting a “red cinema”, which showed exactly the same footage but framed in a socialist-anarchist context. Where the white cinema commented on footage of a landlord’s castle by saying something along the lines of “the landlord knows what’s best for his people,” the famous red explicateur Heijman Croiset countered with “the people are rising up against injustice!”

‘The message depended on the rhetorical talents of the explicateur, which was one reason for the cinema’s short lifespan. Once you see the trick, you’re not so easily fooled, so the original Roode Bioscoop only lasted a couple of months.’

When Strategier and his theatre group moved into the building in the 1980s, it

had been home to everything from a flower shop to a gambling den, but from then on, the Bioscoop regained its public function. Strategier explains: ‘We did show some silent films in the Eighties, but we mainly used the space as a stage for diverse shows: music, theatre, even puppetry. Now we’re ready to put the Roode Bioscoop on the map, make it the place to be, so going back to our heritage seemed appropriate.’

Bringing the Bioscoop back into the cinematic fold doesn’t necessarily mean the return of ideology to the big screens.

Strategier soothes frightened top hatwearing tycoons: ‘Out of respect for our roots, we’ve programmed some magnificent, rarely seen [political] films for our first month, but if you want to know how diverse we really are, ask our programmers.’

One of those programmers is no stranger to cinephiles worth their sodium, as Jeffrey Babcock regularly seeks out screen gems, ranging from the littleknown to the extremely obscure, for De Nieuwe Anita, Overtoom 301 and iLLUSEUM. Babcock lays out the programming method of the revamped Red like this: ‘There are three to four people involved in programming, each of them coming from a completely different background, ranging from a young film-maker from the Film Academie, to someone more involved with the technical difficulties.

We first pick a generic theme for each month and then come up with relevant films.

‘The first theme is revolution, which encompasses Soy Cuba, but also Sweet Movie, which deals with sexual politics.

Next month, the theme will be documentary, and Let’s Get Lost, on Chet Baker, and the classic Harlan County USA are scheduled to be screened.’ As is his custom, Babcock functions as a walking film encyclopaedia who will introduce each screening by relating fun facts and anecdotes to the audience.

Visitors who fear the fiery celluloid self-destruction which sometimes terminated screenings in the pioneering days of film need not worry. Strategier assures us: ‘The cinema is a combination of nostalgic, intimate surroundings with a modernised

projection unit and an up-to-date screen.’

To draw attention to the rebooted Roode Bioscoop, the programmers are planning a special event. Strategier notes: ‘This summer, we’ll organise a monthlong festival focused on theatre music, featuring big names, to fulfil our promise to play a crucial role in Amsterdam’s cultural scene. While the film programming is a new card up our sleeve, we’re also planning to make the most of the multifunctional quality of our venue, just as there used to be live performances at the Tuschinski back in the day.’ www.roodebioscoop.nl

Splish splash= cash Bathtub race cleans up for feminist charity.

By Dara Colwell ‘Luckily, most of my friends are the crazy kind,’ said Benedicte Lochtenberg, decked out in a wetsuit, with a broad smile. ‘Most people wouldn’t be willing to sit in a bath in the winter.’

What Lochtenberg really meant was that most folk wouldn’t be eager to slip into a bathtub in the middle of a canal in winter. Yet that’s exactly what happened on 3 March, when 88 ladies competed in a tub race along the otherwise sleepy Lijnbaansgracht, a first in Amsterdam history.

Lochtenberg organised fundraiser effort for Mama Cash, the local non-profit women’s fund which is running an 88-day campaign—hence the curvy, well-rounded number of participants. The event also drew a healthy number of supporters and

curious onlookers lured by the site of bobbing baths, women in wetsuits with rubber ducks, and cheesy quayside music—not your typical tourist fare (at least, not before Queen’s Day).

‘I’m in this for the fun and the money,’ said Janine Beulink, a team captain and one of Lochtenberg’s friends, who said paddling along the canals immediately appealed to her. ‘I felt like doing something completely weird that I’ve never done before,’ she said, admitting it took some effort to find women willing to join her. ‘No one wanted to fall in the canal and get soaked. Amsterdam’s not exactly known for its quality water.’ As for raising money, Beulink, who has donated to Mama Cash in the past, said: ‘If the euros we earn from sponsoring go straight to women who will do important things with them, then I’m happy. I really believe, when you can help, you must.’

Mama Cash’s Campaign 88 Days, which kicked off in December on International Human Rights Day, culminates on 8 March, International Women’s Day. Initiated to raise funds and awareness, the campaign highlights a wider, if unreported, trend. In a time when around 700 billion euros are being spent annually on weapons and war, women’s organisations worldwide are facing a funding crisis, with 50% reporting that they receive less financial backing than they did five years ago.

‘The money’s there, the question is: where’s it going?’ said Ingrid Verver, Mama Cash’s PR officer, sporting a blue wig.

At Mama Cash, the answer is clear.

The charity solely subsidises women’s groups, often financing small-scale projects like Ponton, a Polish organisation that teaches teens about sexual behaviour and birth control—education that country’s government won’t back. Or projects like the South African Transformative Human Rights Unit, which uses comic books to fight social prejudice towards HIV-infected women. Finally, there’s also Femina, a monthly newspaper supplement published by a lawyer’s

Swing swing together.

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MARC DRIESSEN

The silver screen turns to scarlet.

union in Azerbaijan, to educate women about their professional rights.

Although the women’s movement has shifted attitudes and promoted emancipation over the decades, many—often older—feminists warn that all battles have not been fought and won. In the Netherlands, for example, the bread-earner economy still persists: a third of all women work in part-time jobs, often marginal and low-paid, and the Dutch lag behind the rest of Europe when it comes to women in managerial positions (a mere 7% versus 11%), according to the European Professional Women’s Network.

‘Women actually make much better entrepreneurs. They take much more responsibility, they’re more cautious about spending money, and are much more capable of making a difference,’ says Sascha Bloemhoff, also a team captain and a financial consultant who completed her graduation project on microenterprise in Nicaragua. ‘Because Mama Cash is geared towards women and focuses on them as a target group, I think it’s worthwhile contributing to that.’

Let’s hope the race raised significant funds towards that goal. Last year, the campaign brought in 133,000 euros overall, which went to fund projects such as aiding a group of female Peruvian fastfood workers to form a union to combat sexual harassment.

‘I’ve been very fortunate to grow up in the Netherlands. I went to university and had more than enough money to make my own choices, but not everyone has that—not even other groups of women who live here,’ says Lochtenberg. ‘I think being happy is about being able to choose: that’s why I’m trying to raise money for other women.’ As for holding another bath relay race next year, Lochtenberg said it’s possible—after placing an ad on Marktplaats.nl, she struck a goldmine. ‘Now I have too many tubs,’ she laughs. ‘And this is a fun way to get people involved in something that’s much more serious.’ www.88days.mamacash.org

Kristel clear Emmanuelle speaks out as Sylvia again.

By Sophia Kornienko Near my house I recently saw a poster depicting a young woman’s profile, strangely familiar, with ‘NAAKT’ written across it in block letters. Of course, I knew who it was. It was a classic brand in a new wrapping, delivered fresh from France, where the posters started appearing late last year. Many of us don’t remember the woman’s real name, yet forever preserved in our collective memory is the long Emmanuelle—not even a name any more, but an echo of first sexual experiences and the late sexual

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revolution. If the film had been made 30 years later, Emmanuelle would have been a computer game character, maybe a manga girl.

In reality, Sylvia Kristel is 54, lives in a modest apartment in an attic (‘Amsterdam feels like an old shoe. It’s fantastic!’) and does not believe in cosmetic surgery (‘In France they leave you no choice, but in Holland they do.’). She recently lost her beloved partner and overcame cancer.

The Dutch translation of her Frenchlanguage autobiography Nue has just been published and is soon to come out in several other languages. Kristel has acted in over 50 films, many by famous directors, worked as an industrial designer and even made cartoons—but the world remembers her for a single role.

‘It’s weird that people tell me that all my photographs are like dead images. It is, of course, because I’m scared, like a rabbit in front of headlights, you know?’

She says in a clinically lit room in Utrecht’s Louis Hartlooper Complex, where she had been reading Pieter Boddaert’s erotic poetry. For nearly a year she dictated her history into a microphone, working on her life story with Jean Arcelin. ‘I thought this writer was quite capable of describing disaster in a poetic manner,’ she says of the Frenchman. ‘I mean, in the background you can hear the violins.’

The idea of publishing the book in France first came from her friend Bessel Kok. He told Kristel she shouldn’t give priority to Holland because, as he

claimed, ‘The Dutch don’t like you.’ But putting the book together with Arcelin was gruelling, Kristel says. ‘I’d never visited an analyst or a psychiatrist before!

What I didn’t realise is that during the promotional tour that follows, they dig into the book, and I’m sitting there with a red face, because I’m shy, I’m timid. It was bad enough telling the writer, but it’s very bad when journalists ask you questions like: “So was it true, did Emmanuelle really make you frigid for three years?” It was utterly painful.’

Kristel says she finds it confusing that she’s only associated with that film. When she started filming, she thought it was going to pay for ‘a nice holiday in Thailand’. She’d never even expected Emmanuelle to see daylight because there was so much censorship in Europe.

However, the film ran for 13 years on the Champs-Élysées, and became so famous that it was included in Paris tours for Japanese tourists. ‘First they went to see the Eiffel Tower,’ says Kristel, ‘then the Arc de Triomphe. And then they went to see Emmanuelle.’

Yet it was not the sexual revolution— of which she had become the emblem—that made Kristel happy. ‘What made me happy was that serious directors now, all of a sudden, wanted to work with me,’ she says, reeling off an impressive list of names including Claude Chabrol, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Walerian Borowczyk.

At the same time, something—either the success Kristel had, or the pressure of

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becoming iconic—turned her to alcohol and drugs. ‘I think it was very stupid of me to let Hugo Claus, the father of my child Arthur, go. He was a very stable intellectual presence in my life. He was a kind of my Svengali.’ In her book, Kristel describes how she fell for ‘this imbecile— oh sorry—this brilliant English actor’ who introduced cocaine into her life.

‘When I arrived in LA, it was a social thing to do. It was like the happy few that did this occasionally as a recreational drug. But I am an addict, and I guess it is genetically determined. My parents were both addicts, of alcohol in particular, and I have inherited this. And it is also a known fact that you replace one addiction with another, so the moment I stopped doing coke, I’d pick up drinking.

The moment I stopped drinking, I’d start eating chocolate. It’s some default in my brain.’ Then Kristel got hooked on (the considerably less harmful) painting, and continued until Freddy de Vree, her ‘companion and inspiration’ for 12 years, died.

‘All of a sudden he got ill, then I got cancer, then he died and, to tell you the truth, I did very little painting. Instead of that, I immediately threw myself into memoirs. Because death all of a sudden came too close to me,’ Kristel says, her avatar staring from the posters, immortal.

Naakt by Sylvia Kristel and Jean Arcelin is published by De Bezige Bij.

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TRANSCENDING BORDERS The Amsterdam branch of the Transnational Institute isn’t afraid of taking on great themes and big problems to make the world a better place to live— one placard at a time.

BY DARA COLWELL PHOTOS BY HENK WILDSCHUT f it’s axiomatic to say the world is complex—culturally, sociologically, economically, ecologically and politically—the folks at Transnational Institute (TNI), an international network of activist scholars based in Amsterdam, like it that way. ‘In the Eighties, one-issue organisations were fashionable, but TNI always resisted that. It’s important to make connections because there are no separate issues,’ says Fiona Dove, its director for the past 12 years.

As an organisation, TNI is nearly impossible to pigeonhole, mostly because it has fingers in countless foreign pies. On any given day, TNI focuses on drug trafficking, democracy, militarism, nuclear weapons, international and bilateral trade, environmental degradation, water justice and alternative regionalisms—and that’s just for starters. ‘As I see it, we’re on the cutting edge of many global issues,’ says Dove, a South African schooled in trade unions, and who appears nicely tanned from a two-week stint in Nairobi at the World Social Forum. ‘Our role is to challenge people to think and be open to critical questioning.

It’s fascinating, passionate work.’

And so is TNI’s history. The institute got its start as an initiative spawned by American progressives hungering for an international space to challenge US policy in Vietnam. Convinced that global problems required global solutions, they invited Latin American and European

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intellectuals—Jean-Paul Sartre included—to join their ranks. In 1973, the organisation solidified its purpose in a Paris restaurant, and soon after found digs in Amsterdam, long considered a Valhalla for freedom and social tolerance.

Since then, the institute has committed itself to providing critical intellectual analysis for progressive social movements, organising events, photo exhibitions and film screenings, and publishing books and hundreds of policy briefs on ‘sticky’ issues.

TNI’s first major project came about unexpectedly when its second director, Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, was assassinated in Washington DC in 1976.

The death of Letelier, a leading critical voice against Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorial regime, immediately caused international scandal and, up until 9/11, was considered the most infamous act of international terrorism to take place on US soil. Letelier’s murderers were linked directly to the CIA—which caught wind of the assassination plans two months before—and, of course, to Pinochet.

TNI’s immediate role was to keep Letelier’s memory alive and bring Pinochet to justice for complicity in his murder. While Pinochet was never convicted—the exiled dictator died in Britain in 2006 under house arrest, having never faced trial for his brutal 16-year regime—TNI has continued pressing for international legal accountability.

‘The wider framework we’re promot-

ing here is that you can’t simply be an international leader and act with impunity. There should be an international network in place to hold leaders known to commit large-scale human rights violations to account,’ says Oscar Reyes, TNI’s communications officer. According to Reyes, a young, highly articulate former lecturer at the University of Essex in the UK, this idea is currently being tested in Germany, where several civil rights legal groups have accused former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes, stemming from the treatment of prisoners held in Iraqi and Cuban military jails. ‘We need to hold leaders accountable, especially when they’re not being held accountable in their own countries,’ he says.

This notion is particularly relevant now, considering the recent release of The Last King of Scotland, a film trailing the rise of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

Amin, a former army commander who staged a coup to avoid arrest for misappropriating army funds, seized power and slaughtered 500,000 people during his regime, according to Amnesty International figures. He fled to exile in Saudia Arabia, but was never prosecuted for his crimes, a poignant fact the film fails to mention—perhaps because it might stir a wider political debate over how governments selectively turn a blind eye. Compare Saddam Hussein, who was captured and executed in a record three years, to Pol Pot, the Cambodian leader

who killed 1.5 million people, and died peacefully under house arrest in Thailand 20 years after his bloody regime had ended.

As TNI pushes for legal liability against humanitarian crimes, it is simultaneously promoting analysis of the current wars the world is facing, especially the elusive War on Terrorism. It will soon launch a book, Selling U.S. Wars, the title a play on America’s active global role, examining the strategies used to justify war.

‘We’re looking not just at the Iraq war, but wars we’ve seen in the last decade or so,’ says Dove, listing a number of factors that typically pre-empt military intervention: invading an undemocratic state to make it democratic (‘A total contradiction—what’s the logic behind killing a million people and destroying a country’s social fabric in order to “create democracy”?’); massacres, such as Kosovo, that demand humanitarian intervention; concerns such as weapons of mass destruction that indicate a need for regime change; or America’s notion that it has a unique, universalising role in restoring human rights to failed states. ‘All of these are being used to distort what’s really going on and the public is being conned,’ says Dove.

According to Reyes, wars used to be simpler: one country versus another. Now they’re complex, and the ‘enemy’ isn’t so easy to identify, remaining either invisible or impossible to pin down, potentially

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everywhere or just around the corner.

‘This kind of threat actually fuels terrorism and allows states to get away with more. It’s a twisted logic,’ he says, mentioning Osama bin Laden, whom, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, America pursued to Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime that supported it.

Bin Laden was never found and since then, military intervention has led to civil war and famine. And yet the ‘enemy’ persists—only ‘elsewhere’.

The war in Afghanistan has directly bled into another one of TNI’s projects, the ongoing, all-encompassing war on drugs. Battered by fighting and a scarcity of resources, Afghanistan’s living standards now rate amongst the lowest in the world. In order to survive, many Afghan farmers have returned to growing opium, a bumper crop trailing back to the country’s Soviet days. Last year, Afghanistan’s opium harvest reached a record high,

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according to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crimes, which snagged the attention of the international community, who called for aggressive efforts to eradicate the crop. However, few alternative livelihoods currently exist for Afghans, civil war and famine ravage the country and its infrastructure is seriously wanting.

‘These are poor farmers we’re talking about. When their crops are destroyed and they don’t have opium to offer as credit, they sell their daughters,’ says Dove, adding that it’s crucial to understand the bigger picture of anti-drug operations. ‘One has to understand there are no quick-fix solutions and much bigger consequences for the locals.’

Proving how interrelated issues are, Afghanistan’s booming opium trade has affected neighbouring Pakistan’s efforts to control the spread of HIV, as addicts continue switching from smoking opium to injecting it as heroin. Ironically, the

TNI HIGHLIGHTS FIVE IMPORTANT ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN UNDER-REPORTED IN WORLD NEWS Carbon trading: A market-based solution to climate change, carbon trading is a system where countries or individual companies that cannot meet emission targets (set by the Kyoto Treaty) can buy credit from those that beat theirs—in other words, offer a guilt payment. The first such project happened in the US in 1989, when Applied Energy Services planted 50 million trees in Guatemala in exchange for building a 183 megawatt coal-fired power station. Problem: the non-native trees actually caused land degradation.

‘It’s more important to tackle serious problems like over-consumption than displacing those payments to carry on polluting,’ says TNI communications officer Oscar Reyes.

Trade agreements: Trade agreements are technically complex, mired with jargon and difficult to decipher, but they’re what puts food on the table. The organisation responsible for trade is the World Trade Organization, whose stated aim is to promote free trade and stimulate economic growth. Many critics argue, however, that the WTO is biased toward rich countries and multinational corporations, undermines labour standards, and

makes decisions behind closed doors with absolutely no democratic accountability. Until the massive Seattle street protests in 1999, the WTO typically avoided political scrutiny, ‘but this is politics done in the language of economics,’ says Reyes. The ongoing issue: accountability for concerns health, safety and environment that are routinely ignored.

America and AIDS: The US government has consistently damaged efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS on a global level through the pressure it puts on the UN agencies engaged in this issue. This is not just a question of abstinence policies (the official US policy is ABC—Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condom use’—but in practice the first two of these are stressed most heavily), but also its approach to pragmatic, harm-reduction measures like needle exchanges to help reduce the spread of the disease among IV drug users. There is considerable evidence that these measures work—yet in 2005, the US threatened to withdraw funding from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime if it supported this approach, and pushed instead for ‘zero tolerance’. This is a major issue: injection-drug use accounts for the major-

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US, the only country in the world to explicitly ban government money for needle exchanges, threatened to withdraw funds from the UN’s own needle exchange programmes—which brought TNI into the picture. ‘The plain stupidity of this is just incredible,’ says Dove, explaining that TNI helped argue the case for needles and lobbied the World Health Organization and other UN drug agencies to take the matter seriously. ‘When the European Union went to its next agency meeting, it was a unanimous decision to go the harm-reduction route—because the social costs were worse,’ says Dove.

Of TNI’s other causes, climate change, biofuels and water justice are high on the agenda. Its book, Reclaiming Public Water, which examines alternatives to privatisation, is an extremely successful advocacy tool and has been translated into 13 languages. TNI also helped establish the organisation Carbon

Trade Watch to monitor the impact of pollution trading on environmental justice and highlight the interconnectedness of climate change issues, while it is busy promoting participatory democracy worldwide.

There’s a lot to do when you’re taking on the world, but this is exactly what makes Dove tick. ‘It’s a pleasure feeling your work supports your principals and the sense that you’re doing something meaningful for the world,’ she says. ‘It’s a privilege to work for love rather than just making a living.’

Reyes feels the same about TNI: ‘There’s a lot to learn from each other and those engaged in the social struggle for a better world. There’s a great deal of wisdom here—not just within these walls—but in the conversations we have.

I believe in what we do.’

ity of HIV cases in China, Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, Nepal, the Baltic states and all of Central Asia, as well as much of Southeast Asia and South America. The US has also sought to attach strict ideological conditions to AIDS funding it gives to national governments.

instant 60% price increase. This resulted in popular opposition from poor residents: Bolivia saw successive ‘water wars’ until Bechtel was forced to leave (the company then demanded 50 million US dollars from Bolivia—and tried to use a Bilateral Investment Treaty between the Netherlands and Bolivia to do this, having first shifted the company registration of Aguas de Tunari to the Netherlands—but it was forced to drop the case).

Water privatisation and the return of public water: Over a billion people worldwide cannot reach or afford clean water. Over two million people, mainly children, die every year because they have unclean drinking water, while poor sanitation is a major cause of disease for millions more. In the 1990s, the World Bank, IMF and regional development banks (cheered on by the water corporations) pushed privatisation as the only solution to meet development goals and improved water supply, but it has failed to deliver. Instead of seeing access to drinking water and sanitation as a basic right, a pre-condition for a dignified livelihood, they sought to impose ‘full cost recovery’ mechanisms, charging a market rate for water. Water was seen not as a basic resource, but as an exploitable commodity. Subsidies were scrapped, and prices were hiked. In Bolivia, for example, the arrival of Bechtel (through its Aguas de Tunari subsidiary) in Cochabamba heralded an

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World Social Forum and alternatives to corporate-driven globalisation: There are significant organising efforts to create political alternatives to globalisation. The largest of these is the World Social Forum, first held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001, which has just met for the seventh time in Nairobi, Kenya. It is timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum, the annual meeting of corporate leaders and heads of state in Davos, Switzerland. The WSF is a space to discuss alternatives and create strategies that will bring them closer.

It has also encouraged initiatives across a range of issues—from alternative media to networks on water justice, human rights and climate change. Despite this, the Davos meeting still attracts more than 10 times the press coverage.

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RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON

Jimmy Rosenberg, the next Django, signed a million-dollar contract at 15.

Then everything went wrong.

BY ANDRÉ DRYANSKY PHOTO BY SIMON WALD-LASOWSKI ‘That’s what the family told me, but I got lucky and found him the first time,’ explains Jeroen Berkvens, director of Jimmy Rosenberg—de vader, de zoon & het talent. Berkvens, who also made a documentary on Nick Drake, walked into the Rosenberg caravan in Helmond in December 2003, and Jimmy just happened to be there. The result is this 80-minute documentary on a 26-year-old Sinto from Brabant, a virtuoso of gypsyjazz guitar with a tragic history.

‘You never know where he is,’ Berkvens continues. ‘As we speak now, where is he? Is he with his father? Is he with his mother? Is he with friends? Has he disappeared? Is he in jail? Has he found success? Is he coming back? These are the questions you keep asking all over again about this guy who is sitting on an enormous heap of talent.’

Rosenberg was scheduled, theoretically, at any rate, to fire up a few riffs after the avant-premiere of the film at Paradiso on 5 March. Everybody kept their fingers crossed, because even his manager and friend, Tony Williams, a British gent who drives a mauve Bentley, has trouble keeping track of his whereabouts. The last anyone heard, Jimmy had gone back to live with his mother in Asten, Brabant, after a stint in a Brussels psychiatric ward where, speaking in the film, he says he at last found time to rest and listen to the birds. Living up to his reputation—to expect the unexpected—Rosenberg did

indeed show up. With his brother, he played a 50-minute set which Paradiso’s programmers called ‘sublime’.

Rosenberg’s genius is not that of the virtuoso who descends from on high to grace his audience when the occasion presents itself. His music is all about feeling, pain and poetry. It is swing, just like the music of Jimmy’s distant cousin Django Reinhardt (1910-1953), whose riffs Jimmy learned to play with two fingers at the age of nine, simply by listening to a tape.

According to Berkvens, Jimmy is the heart and soul of the renowned Dutch gypsy-swing group the Rosenberg Trio— without even being a member of the band, or at least, not since he was a kid.

Explaining how his film got started, Berkvens continues: ‘A lot of people ask me if he’s from the Rosenberg Trio, but this is the real deal: the trio just do it the correct way—they know how to deal with the industry and they got in touch with the producer of my film. My producer told me something that immediately rang a bell: I remembered seeing this little kid on Dutch television.

Jimmy, who barely could touch the strings, who was not looking at them, who was playing fast, looking up at the sound boom.’

By the time Jimmy was nine, his community thought that a new Django had been born. By 12, he was performing with jazz legends such as Stephane Grapelli and Les Paul. At 15, Jimmy signed a million-dollar contract with Sony. He

proceeded to buy (and wreck) a Mercedes 500 that could do 320 in 46 seconds, and also gave away thousands of guilders at a time to people on the streets.

When he was 18, Rosenberg’s father, Macky, murdered his son-in-law for abusing his daughter, and was sent to prison.

Rosenberg fell into a well of despair, heroin and mental instability. As Rosenberg says at the start of the film, in a voice in which you can almost hear tears: ‘Ik ben heel kwetsbaar, weet je?’ He’s vulnerable, yes—or maybe just all too human.

Berkvens says: ‘Jimmy is very passionate in creating simple things to enjoy, things from the heart. That’s what really matters; the rest is bullshit. But somehow, the bullshit in his life took over and there was less and less room for the beauty. His addiction gives him less room to create the things he wants: music, a simple life with his wife and children.’

In the film we see that, of his three brothers, only one leads a stable life. His younger brother took an acid trip and never came back; his older one was damaged by cocaine; Rosenberg himself is estranged from his wife and three children. But in the film, when the family gets together and plays, the beauty seems to sweep all the suffering away.

Macky Rosenberg, a man of great self-discipline, who Berkvens claims never touched a drop of alcohol, loves his son dearly—so much so that he would prefer to smash his own arms up than see him fall into the claws of dope.

At the same time, Rosenberg Senior smiles at Jimmy for crying uncontrollably the day he went to prison for six months, for knocking a man’s eye out at Heerlen train station—after all, that’s nothing compared to his dad’s eight years behind bars. In the film, the day of Macky Rosenberg’s release is the climactic moment.

Yet freedom also brings terrible sadness for Macky, when he sees what has happened to his son. As a child prodigy in 1989, Jimmy played at the swing festival in Samois-sur-Seine, the town where Django Reinhardt is buried. The event is a magnet for Sinté and Manouche musicians from all over the north of France, Belgium and the Netherlands. But this time, Jimmy can’t make the trip his father longed for so strongly. Instead, he is in a psychiatric hospital.

We see Macky standing there, in front of Chez Fernand, where Jimmy once played, on an idyllic river bank, with the summer sun setting behind him. The words he utters are shocking: ‘A man who cannot say no to [drugs] is less than a woman... He is no man. He is a weakling.’

But the pain in his face says far more than his words in this paradoxical story of father and son.

Jimmy Rosenberg—de vader, de zoon & het talent opens Thursday at Het Ketelhuis and Rialto; Jeroen Berkvens is interviewed on 10 March at 16.00 screening, Rialto.

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Eric Staller, Friday, Sugar Factory

Symposium: Ecologie=Economie

THURSDAY 8 MARCH Multidisciplinary: Women in Paradise I love women, me. It’s no lie. And Marynka Nicolai, who thought up an ingenious way celebrating the female form—intellectually speaking, of course—is someone we should therefore wholeheartedly support. The event in question is Women in Paradise, part of International Women’s Day, a global celebration of empowerment and equality helping ‘the people (women and men) of Amsterdam join in praise and celebration for the collective spirit of independent women who work hard in developing lives and careers for themselves’. Every room of Paradiso will be filled with myriad female artists, musicians, intellectuals and philosophers discussing, observing and learning about all things female. Last year’s first installment was wildly successful, so the event returns, this time in a bigger and more intense fashion. What’s on the menu? Short films, chats, art showings, belly dancing and concerts, from the likes of Arzu Kokeng, Lena Tenaglia, Rae Witvoet, Nicolai herself and tons more. This diverse exhibition of talent, thought and community is unmissable for both genders. See www.womeninparadise.nl. (Shain Shapiro) Paradiso, 20.30, €17 + membership.

FRIDAY 9 MARCH Art: WassinkLundgren In its rapid and bumpy development towards a healthy economy capable of leading the world, China still has its fair share of poverty. During their recent travels to China, photographers Thijs Groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren studied the daily rituals of trash scavengers on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai. By collecting and returning empty bottles, these apparently normal people try to earn enough money to make it through the day. The 24 scavengers depicted in this exhibition do not appear to be hopeless but rather, to be working hard to improve their situation while looking for a better way of living in the near future. The exhibition WassinkLundgren—Empty Bottles is accompanied by a publication of all the photographs, with contributions by Hans Moleman, foreign correspondent in China for De Volkskrant and Floris-Jan van Luyn, former foreign correspondent in China for NRC. WassinkLundgren themselves are regular contributors to Volkskrant Magazine, NRC Next and Amsterdam Weekly—for which they won a European Newspaper Award in the Front Page category. (Marinus de Ruiter) Foam (Sun-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00). Until 11 April.

The creators of Museumnacht are back and this time they’re electric! Tonight’s N8salon Energetica, despite its rather hefty-sounding title, is actually a fun evening of film screenings, discussions, musical performance (by French sound artist Pierre Bastien), ‘Fair Wear’ fashion shows, photos and organic snacks for peckish patrons.

The serious theme behind the fun is finding alternative solutions to provide clean energy for the city, but achieving that aim by more creative means than simply sitting down and talking about it. A night out at this museum will merge the intellectual with the party animal, to create a mini Museumnacht-like experience that borrows from everything that makes n8 the best night of the year. (Shain Shapiro) EnergeticA, 20.00, €7/€10.

Book launch: Eric Staller While there are plenty of inspired freaks out there in our fair city, few have created something as universally iconic as artist/inventor Eric Staller did in 1985 with his Lightmobile, a Volkswagen Beetle covered with 1,659 computerised lightbulbs. Since moving to Amsterdam from New York in 1994, he has continued to produce numerous ‘urban UFOs’ that invariably induce a drop of the jaws in witnesses: whether it is Bubbleheads (a bicycle for four on which the riders wear lit-up blobs on their head), or the Conferencebike, a circular cycle for seven that promotes inter-human blob communication. Just check out his website (www.ericstaller.com) to be convinced. Tonight, many of his works will be on hand as he presents his new book, Out of My Mind. He will be joined by quirky film-maker Sietske Tjallingii (www.misst.com), ridiculous costumiers Nepco (www.nepco.nl) and mutant DJs Batman and Robin. Ah, a good ol’ regular freakfest—we’ve all been missing one of those. (Steve Korver) Sugar Factory, 21.00, free (€8 after 22.00).

SATURDAY10 MARCH Dance: Monisa Nayak And here’s another nifty thing about the Tropentheater (in case you’ve seen my earlier panegyrics to that exemplary hall): it gives newcomers a chance. In addition to presenting leading performers from around the world, the Trop opens its stage to emerging talents, providing them with invaluable exposure to the West, and us with unforeseeable exposure to exhilaration. Monisa Nayak, for example, is an up-and-comer in the world of Kathak, the North Indian classical dance marked by rapid steps, vertiginous spins and a great elegance of gesture. She’s earned praise for the precision

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and the ebullience of her performances throughout India and the Middle East, but is still relatively unknown in the Netherlands. Assisted by four musicians, the New Delhibased Nayak will present a programme that moves from mythological subjects to purely abstract dancing, tracing the sources of Kathak and sketching possible futures.

The evening should provide a fine introduction to this stunning language of movement—and to one of its most able new practitioners. (Steve Schneider) KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €16.

SUNDAY11MARCH Quiz: Murphy’s Quiz Night Final Question: Which world’s biggest quiz and trivia event sponsored by a well-known stout-brewing enterprise will take place on 11 March in an Amsterdam entertainment venue where it is prohibited to enter the main hall with any bags and/or food items?

Answer: The Murphy’s Quiz Night Official World Championships Final 2007. Yes, 300 pub quiz teams in matching polo shirts (one hopes and expects) are gearing up to outwit each other with their general knowledge skills, all for the prize of being, er, champions. It costs €35 to sign up your team, or for €29 less, you can simply come and witness the tense climax. Extra tension will be provided by the tightened security measures at Heineken Music Hall, where you will be handed with a transparent plastic bag to transport your personal belongings into the hall (presumably aimed at preventing a terrorist attack, quiz nights having been major al-Qaeda targets in the past.) (Jane Cavanagh) Heineken Music Hall, 13.00, €6.

Jazz: Pat Martino Quartet It’s tough enough to become a world-conquering guitarist even once. Yet, Pat Martino has done it twice. In 1980, after putting together a roaring career that saw him recording prodigiously and topping polls, Martino underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm and emerged with virtually total amnesia. He forgot everything about playing the guitar, and so had to teach himself all over again. Now he’s back at the top of his game—and the top of his field—charging through all the idiosyncratic chording and parallel structuring that helped him, in what was literally an earlier life, explode the possibilities of his instrument. Currently touring with a quartet, Martino has lost none of his swiftness and ferocity, and has become, for a new generation of musicians, a one-of-a-kind inspiration. Prepare yourself for a concert that, in no uncertain terms, should be unforgettable. (Steve Schneider) Bimhuis, 21.00, €22.

TUESDAY13 MARCH Party: Bal der Geweigerden Every year, at the start of Boekenweek, the foundation for the promotion of Dutch literature, CPNB, organises the Boekenbal, a literary shindig in the Stadsschouwburg.

National television asks the arriving celebs silly questions, writers get drunk and take pieces of the scenery home. It’s for invitees only, which compelled a group of rejected writers to organise an alternative ball in nearby Paradiso; Peter Smit thought up the name ‘Ball of the Rejected’ for it, after he was rejected by the Boekenbal more times than he’d care to remember. The theme of this sixth Salon des Refusés is ‘Turkije in de EU.NU’, since Turkey is the main victim of rejection at the Ball of European Nations. People like Nilgün Yerli, Bart Tromp, Atilla Aytekin and Theodor Holman will speak about why (or why not) Turkey should (or shouldn’t) become part of the European family. Afterwards, you can dance to Jazz Juice and DJ Graham B, to name but a few. And if you don’t feel like boogying? Bring a book with you. (Floris Dogterom) Paradiso, 20.30, €15.

WEDNESDAY14 MARCH Rock: Kristin Hersh Starting as it does with Throwing Muses in 1983, and obtaining indie cult status over the ensuing years, music by Kristin Hersh could never be described as ‘easy’. It’s partly her throaty voice, partly the intensity of lyrics, and partly her almost mathematical style of complex chord progressions. But once you break through its surface, the experience can lead to obsession. Accidentally heading on a solo career arc in 1994 with the release of Hips and Makers, she flipped her sound from distorted indie rock to sparse acoustic, resulting in the haunting—though overplayed—‘Your Ghost’ with Michael Stipe. Since then, her career has fluctuated like mood swings. Whether playing solo acoustic, Appalachian folk, the familiar complex rock of Throwing Muses, or the heavier assault of yet another band, 50 Foot Wave, she maintains a lyrical ferocity and joyful/painful insight into adult relationships. Yet it all gives way onstage to charming stories and hypnotic performances.

Tonight promoting her new ‘band’ album, Learn to Sing Like a Star, it’s a rare chance to experience her solo works with strings and backing rhythms. (Steven McCarron) Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €16 + membership.

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Amsterdam Weekly Chan sheds his ‘3rd light’ (2006).

Paul Chan dances between art and activism, but strikes his personal self out of the picture.

OPPOSING SHADOWS EXPOSING LIGHTS

By Marinus de Ruiter For his exhibition Lights and Drawings, Hong Kong-born, American-based artist Paul Chan has translated the ancient art form of shadow play to the digital media age. Instead of using puppets or paper silhouettes to create shadows on an illuminated screen, Chan uses video projectors to cast his instantly captivating and somewhat disturbing shadow imagery onto the floors and walls of the Stedelijk Museum CS. Chan’s series of seven shadow works, called Lights, form the larger part of an overview exhibition which also contains charcoal drawings, collages and smaller digital works. Rather than presenting a story, Lights confronts the

viewer with a deluge of familiar images derived from recent history and consumer culture.

The overflow of images is similar to the animations Chan made before this show. My Birds... Trash... The Future from 2004, for instance, portrays desolate landscapes with cartoon-like characters derived from art, literature and popular culture. These earlier animations are colourful and very crude in their graphic design, as Chan deliberately based them on the very direct visual communication of internet pop-ups. With Lights, he has achieved an even more basic way of representation. On the phone from his New York studio Chan explains why he chose to work with shadows instead of more concrete images.

‘We look at shadows in a non-hierarchical way,’ he says. ‘A shadow can be projected on any surface and it doesn't need to have the perspective that we would normally want pictures to have. So an upside-down shadow of a tree still looks like a tree. There’s an elasticity to that, as opposed to the mediated images around us, which constantly force the viewer to see things determined by certain vectors and perspectives.’

‘1st Light’, created in 2005, is projected in a trapezoid shape on the floor, resembling light coming through a window. Silhouettes of telegraph poles and lampposts appear in the projection, followed by a swarm of birds. Gradually, all kinds of objects, from mobile phones and iPods to bicycles and cars, start floating upwards. Then people start falling down, one by one and, eventually, in hordes.

Characteristic of his shadow works, ‘1st Light’ could be interpreted as a new Fall of Man, an apocalyptic vision inspired by the image of people jumping off the Twin Towers on 9/11. Although his shadow works have religious connotations, these are only present because as an American the artist cannot ignore the influence of religion.

‘I don’t have much belief in faith,’ says Chan. ‘What I do believe in is looking at new ways to reinterpret, and even mistranslate, what we imagine as history into another form and I think that’s what art is for. Art is a sovereign place in which things can be up for grabs again.’

He continues: ‘In this age of extremes, people want answers. Answers may not be the thing we need right now.

Religion has certainly provided an opportunity to answer a lot of things people are afraid of. I’m very anxious not to see religion being used as an answer, but as a question, much like contemporary art, contemporary philosophy and contemporary politics.’

Before Chan became an artist he had a long history of political activism; he was involved in union-organising in Chicago and anti-globalisation work. In 2003, he

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made a film reflecting daily life in Iraq, as a representative of the Nobel Peace Prizenominated group Voices in the Wilderness, who had been protesting against the Iraq sanctions since 1996.

Recently, he’s been doing work with Lynne Stewart, the first lawyer in the US convicted of aiding terrorism.

Chan’s political films and texts can be clearly distinguished from his art. There is, however, a sense of lightness in both sides of his work, despite the artist’s serious intentions. In his filmed conversation with Stewart, which can be viewed on Chan’s website, nationalphilistine.com, the artist jokes around with the lawyer, and in Lights the shadows often look comical and, again, cartoonish, in the way they float around.

‘What I’m invested in is an aesthetic of disarmament,’ says Chan. ‘What you call “lightness” reminds me of my favourite quote by Paul Valery, who said: “One should be light as a bird, not like a feather”. There’s a flexibility and a sense of surprise that comes out of an aesthetic that can use anything around it to transform. Just because you’re political, it doesn’t mean you can’t be as surprising and as cruel and as funny as people who are considered non-political. Disarmament means, among other things, a disarming of the sense of power that we all long for, either politically or aesthetically.’

Activism can be hazardous at times, and this is why Chan made a conscious decision to keep pictures of himself out of the media. However, complete anonymity is not an option. ‘I have a stake in the pubic debate about what it means to make art today and how it connects to philosophy and politics,’ he says. 'What you do is what's called a dance: you do the best that you can to intervene in this debate in any way you can, while keeping yourself safe, knowing that the public image is a double-edged sword.'

Paul Chan: Lights and Drawings, 9 March-10 June, Stedelijk Museum CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911; Paul Chan lecture, 8 March, 15.00, 11, Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999, reservations: desk@stedelijk.nl

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Turntable Music, see Friday

MUSIC Send listing suggestions at least two weeks in advance to agenda@amsterdamweekly.nl.

Thursday 8 March Opera: Arminio Combattimento Consort present this lesser-known Handel opera. Stadsschouwburg, 19.30, €21-€41 Classical: RIAS Kammerchor, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées A choral programme featuring Brahms’ Song of Destiny, Alto Rhapsody and Bruckner’s Third Mass in F; conducted by Philippe Herreweghe. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €40/€50 Jazz: BassDrumBone The trio comprising trombonist Ray Anderson, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Gerry Hemingway first formed in the ’70s. There have been many breaks and solo adventures since, but their 30th anniversary sees new album The Line Up packed with all the ballads, expressive blues and funk grooves you’d expect. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Jazz: Doek Wollo’s World: with the players Wolter Wierbos, Jodi Gilbert, Tristan Honsinger, Fred LonbergHolm and Wilbert de Joode. OT301, 21.00, €7 Hiphop/Jazz: Illicit Organic hiphoppers from Utrecht who know how to work the groove. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €8.50 Pop/Rock: Le Club Suburbia With experimental indie pop from Appie Kim, the remnants of De Nieuwe Vrolijkheid; Dusty Blinds; and reggae-slanted post punk from eclectic Americans The Jai-Alai Savant. OCCII, 21.00, €5 Singer-songwriter: Rahburt Price Raw punk and blues, all from an acoustic perspective. Skek, 21.30, free Rock: Rain Experience Epic psychedelic rock led by hotly tipped young Serbian guitarist Davor. Bourbon Street, 22.00, free before 23.00

Friday 9 March Jazz: Lunch Concert With students from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Bethaniënklooster, 12.30, free Folk: Mi & L’au Austere experimental daydream folk from the Finnish-French duo. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €7 + membership Opera: Madama Butterfly De Nederlandse Opera’s take on the hugely popular Puccini opera. Het Muziektheater, 20.00, €20-€85 Classical: Behind the Notes Celebrating 50 years of playing piano, Englishman Kelvin Grout joins forces with baritone vocalist Maarten Koningsberger to present a satirical view of life; featuring works by Brahms, Wolf and Schumann. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €27.50 Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Works

by Britten, Adès, Ives, Bernstein and the world premiere of Dean’s The Lost Art of Letter Writing; with violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann and conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €30 Classical: Holland Symfonia A Gustav Mahler feast featuring a trio of his works, plus Rob Zuidam’s Trance Symphonies in its entirety. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25

Electronica: Turntable Music A night of experimental turntable music featuring Martin Tetrault (Canada) & Ignaz Schick (DE), Maria Chavez (US) and DJ Sniff (JP/NL). STEIM, 20.30, €5 Hiphop/R&B: Wanted GRAP’s hiphop and R&B talent contest. Winston Kingdom, 20.30, €5 Jazz: Funky Friday A funk, soul, jazz, Latin, house experience, tonight featuring special guests Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) and Benny Sings. P60, Amstelveen, 21.00, €14 Jazz: Mercan Dede meets Ceza A Turkey Now event that brings Dede’s band Breath—purveyors of Turkish folk, contemporary jazz and electronica—together with Turkish rap star Ceza. Bimhuis, 21.00, sold out Pop: Platland Folk quartet reworking their favourite pop and rock numbers. Entry price includes a CD. Zaal 100, 21.00, €10 Reggae/Dancehall: Tanya Stephens One of the most influential women in reggae over the last decade, whose most recent album, Rebelution, continues the revolution. Melkweg, The Max, 21.30, €18 + membership World: Herb Spectacles A big yeehaw! for mariachi, Dutch style. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Rock: Little Barrie This English band may sound familiar, but they’ve been plucking their favourite moments from the last 40 years of rock ’n’ roll, recycling them into a tight, energetic package. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €10 + membership Rock: Puts Marie Trashy sax pop from Switzerland.

Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €5 Soul: Spectalious Soul dance power. Club Meander, 22.00, €4

Saturday 10 March Classical: The Three Ladies of Ferrara With sopranos Claron McFadden and Aleksandra Anisimowicz, and mezzo-soprano Talitha van der Spek performing selections from Luzzasco Luzzasch. Noorderkerk, 14.00, €10 Classical: Coen Stuit A special performance from clarinettist Stuit. Performing works by Schumann, Bruch, Bernstein and Brahms, with accompaniment from violist Elka Berberich, cellist Anne Meike Burgel and pianist Jaap Kooi. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €15 Pop/Rock: Benni Hemm Hemm Ah, those Icelandic musicians and their love of soundscapes. Unlike many of his peers, however, Benedikt H Hermannsson twists the concept, moving away from sparse narratives and ethereal landscapes to instead create layers of noise united in languid slices of dreamy pop. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 18.30, €6 + membership Classical: Symfonisch Blaasorkest ‘De Amsterdamse Tramharmonie’ Joined by former Centerfold singer Laura Fygi and violinist Lisanne Soeterbroek, the 101-year-old local ensemble put on a French classical programme. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €20 Classical: Het Orkest With the Amsterdam orchestra performing Dvorák’s 8th Symphony and Brahms’ 2nd Symphony. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €15 Jazz: Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions Saxophonist Ersahin was born in Stockholm, raised in Istanbul and came of musical maturity in New York. Tonight’s result is a highly original blend of traditions, electronics and jazz. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Rock: Planeausters Velvet Underground-style psychedelic indie rockers from Berlin. Support from Utrecht rock ’n’ roll band Mr Love and the Stallions.

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Patronaat, Haarlem, 21.00, €14 Folk: Les Hommes Fatals A new light-hearted brass band playing European folk. KHL Koffiehuis, 21.30, €5 Experimental: Muziek Kapot Moet! Psychedelia and experimental bravado, with sets from Dinosaurs With Horns (US), Little Howlin’ Wolf (US) and ROT (BE).

OCCII, 21.30, €5

Sunday 11 March Classical: Ivo Janssen Piano recital featuring toccatas by Bach, as well as contemporary composers like Louis Andriessen, Michiel Borstlap, Leo Samama and Christina Viola Oorenbeek. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 14.15, €26.50 Classical: De Van Swieten Society Featuring cellist Job ter Haar and fortepianist Bart van Oort. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €15 Classical: Yoshiko Ieki A solo harpsichord recital featuring works by Bach, Rameau, Böhm, Purcell and Sweelinck. English Reformed Church, 15.15, €17 Jazz: Studio Pelotonic Grooves, jazz and improvisations performed by Pelotonic and their special guests.

Badcuyp, Bovenzaal, 15.30, free Gospel: Gospel Club Night Featuring a live jam session with gospel hiphoppers Result plus much more.

The party runs until 22.00. Club Meander, 16.00, €7.50 Pop/Rock: The Earlies Melodic psychedelic pop for a Sunday afternoon. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 16.00, €10 + membership Heavy: Saxon Brit ’80s-style heavy metal, so dig out your drainpipe denim and band patches. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €25 + membership Classical: Radu Lupu A piano recital from this Romanian master, performing Schubert’s Sonata in A, Brahms’ Ballads, Beethoven’s 18th Sonata and a selection from Debussy’s Préludes, Book Two. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €49 Contemporary: Nieuw Ensemble ‘Wordplay, fairy tales and nonsense’: a programme built around the works of Korean composer Unsuk Chin, who studied in Hamburg under Ligeti. There’s additional works from IlRyun Chung, Stravinsky, Sun-Young Park and more.

Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20 Jazz: Pat Martino Quartet The world-renowned Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer has recorded hoards of legendary Blue Note albums, the most recent of which is Remember—a tribute to Wes Montgomery. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €22 Singer-songwriter: The Weak and the Strong Acoustic cinematic soundscapes. Skek, 21.00, free Rock: Brakes Brighton’s answer to Blues Brother Castro? Sometimes. But they occasionally strip away the indie rock ’n’ roll riffage to leave behind melodious pop with hints of country. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.30, €10 + membership Jazz: Ready for Freddy Fresh grooves from Jos de Haas (New Cool Collective), Stefan Schmid (Zuco 103), Alex Oele (Yinka), Stefan Kruger (Zuco 103) and special guests. Badcuyp, Bovenzaal, 21.30, €5

Rock: Golden Earring The wrinkled old rockers head to the circus. Carré, 20.00, €15-€35 Big band: Konrad Koselleck Big Band Joining Koselleck tonight are vocal stars and Edison winners Lils Mackintosh and Hind, and expressive tap dancer/percussionist Peter Kuit. Sugar Factory, 20.00, €9 Opera: Madama Butterfly (See Friday) Het Muziektheater, 20.00, €20-€85 Classical: Evening Song Featuring works by Peter van Onna, Goce Kolarovski and Jeff Hamburg. Uilenburger Synagogue, 20.15, €15 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Joined by renowned German cellist Alban Gerhardt, the philharmonic will tear through a memorable Russian programme, including Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante, Stravinsky’s Divertimento Le baiser de la fée and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Fantasy Overture’ from Romeo and Juliet. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €30 World: Beata Palya & Friends Last year this Hungarian singer appeared at the Amsterdam Roots Festival, leaving an indelible impression. Despite her youth, she specialises in folk, Roma and Magyar traditions, as well as classical vocal techniques from India and Persia. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Jazz: Biggles Big Band Casablanca Muziek, 21.00, free Jazz: Christian Scott Last year this young talent of a trumpeter from New Orleans released his debut album Rewind That. Causing a fair storm in the process, his warm tones are now highly sought after. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €12 + membership Pop: Sheila E & C.O.E.D. ‘The Divine Diva Tour’ sees the funky pop icon and drummer joined by Rhonda Smith, Kat Dyson, Cassandra O’Neal and Candy Dulfer.

Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €25 + membership Rock: Subbacultcha! Indie noise rock from Bonne Aparte, Eva Braun and Pfaff vs Buster Keaton. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €6 Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Electro-acoustic live sets featuring Gert-Jan Prins’ Afregel Salon, Soirée Modification. OT301, 21.30, €4 Experimental: k-Tsjoem: Transformed Dreams evening Taking part in tonight’s party are Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip (UK, hiphop/electronica), Death From Above 1976 (NL, a Dutch take on DFA 1979) and DisinVectant (UK, abstract hiphop/electronica). Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €6 + membership

Tuesday 13 March Pop: Nelly Furtado A slick professional. For better or for worse, Furtado’s transformed herself from bird-like innocent to slutty pop tart in recent times. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €35 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Monday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €30 Contemporary: Ives Ensemble In ‘The Silence of the Oracle’, the ensemble tackle the Dutch premiere of Sciarrino’s 6 Quintetti and the world premiere of PietJan van Rossum’s Attendre longtemps, je suis sans identité. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20 World: The Karnatic Lab Led by Ned McGowan and Gijs Levelt. Badcuyp, Bovenzaal, 20.30, free Big band: New Generation Big Band Funky grooves, big beats, roaring horns... there’ll be no stopping this 18-piece big band tonight, who’re in full party mode as they unleash their debut album Had je Wat?. Special guests include Pete Philly & Perquisite and Senna Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €15 + membership Reggae: Turbulence, Gyptian, Queen Ifrica An explosion of peace, love and happiness from the reggae world this evening. The three main sets feature Turbulence, Gyptian and Queen Ifrica with the C Sharp Band.

For vinyl, the Empress Messenjah Sound will be in the house. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €16 + membership

Wednesday 14 March Classical: Lunch Concert A sample of tonight’s main performance. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 12.30, free Lucky Fonz III Singer-songwriter: Lucky Fonz III Acoustic-y goodness from the Grote Prijs 2006 winner. With Belgian band The Tellers. Patronaat, Haarlem, 22.00, free

Monday 12 March Folk: Chris & Carla Uplifting yet stripped-down folk and country from Chris Eckman and Carla Torgerson, better known from rockier band The Walkabouts. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €10 + membership

Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is at the helm this evening, while Chinese pianist Lang Lang is special guest, as the RCO perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 in G and Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen suite.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €52.50 Contemporary: Asko Ensemble A Proms aan ’t IJ performance entitled ‘Cerebral Music’, featuring new works by Palinckx, Mayke Nas and Yannis Kyriakides.

Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20 Americana: El Pino and the Volunteers Alt-country goodies from Rotterdam. Also with Check One Two.

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14 Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €7 + membership Rock: 3xLive Featuring the heavy experimental grooves of twin bass-packing outfit Lushus, raw punk pop from The Tommies and experimental reggaetinged rock from Zylinderkopf. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5

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Jazz: IKKI Wild Amsterdam power jazz, with special guest trumpeter Bryan Davies. Zaal 100, 21.00, €5

Thursday 8 March

Rock: Kristin Hersh Throwing Muses’ frontwoman solo. See Short List. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €16 + membership Jazz: Marc Ribot Trio The American jazz guitarist Ribot has performed with the likes of Elvis Costello, Tom Waits and John Zorn. In his rough and ready Ceramic Dog project he’s joined by bassist Shazad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Hiphop: Soundclash: Pete Philly & Perquisite vs Beef Soulful hiphop versus Holland’s answer to UB40.

Who will win the battle? Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €10 + membership

De Dixo An eclectic mix of urban, electro, pop and rock, with a live set by Boogie Parkers for good measure. Club Meander, 22.00-03.00, €4 Electrorated! All your Electrorated faves from Terry Toner, Groove Addicts, Eva Maria, Willy Vanilli & Dexter St Jock and Julia vs Claire. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €5 Poppourri Student Night Pop hits for students who like the smell of air freshener first thing in the morning.

Club 8, 22.00-03.00, €5 Flex YourSpace Featuring a set by Shane Shu. Flex Bar, 22.00-late, €5

Poptrash Three decades’ worth of rock, electro and hiphop with The Punchout DJs. In view of all Melkweg’s celebrations this week, there’s an extra live set from IAMX. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €5 ¿Que Pasa? Latin-crossover night with reggae, folk, ska, punk and mestizo. Tonight’s party also features a live set from ska/reggae outfit Babylon Circus. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.00-late, €7

8-14 March 2007 party, with many young talents providing beats. Catacomb Studio, 22.00-04.00, €8 Ground Sound Drum & bass and jungle, with Sublect 13 straight outta the United Kingdom, joined by DJ’s Kredo B2B Detail and Terminal State. Lenny Len mans the microphone. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €6

Dirty Disco Studio 80, 23.59-late, €8

PiV Special Colourful and bonkers indie rave from Ebony Bones (UK), plus the usual PiV DJ team. Flex Bar, 22.00-late, €7

Friday 9 March

Rauw With a live set from Digitalism (Kitsune, Hamburg) and DJs Cajuan (Kitsune, Hamburg) and Joost van Bellen. 11, 22.30-04.00, €15

Discocult An international DJ platform with a high-flying, trendsetting, free-styling mix of electro house, electro breaks, electro hiphop, new disco and humour. Guest of honour is Berlin-based DJ Kentastic, and for those who venture in early, you get a performance by New York artist Eric Staller and friends.

Sugar Factory, 21.00-05.00, €8/€10 De Schillenhut #2 A (literally) underground dance

Go!Crunc With Mike Scot, Fedor Limjoco, Denniz, La Niña, Sunnery James and Leon Benesty. Panama, 23.00-04.00, €15 Retro Deluxe Pop, rock and dance—retro style. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €10 ADHD Sessions The techno sessions take a diversion by way of London tonight, with special guests Mark Broom and Rue East. But there’ll also be plenty of locals, including Stephan de Wit, Pinxt and Dia.chro.na. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, €10 Knockout The return of the reggae and dancehall night, with DJs Herbalize-it, Kilo and MBA. Melkweg, The Max, 23.59-late, €12 + membership

Saturday 10 March Molotov Cocktail Lounge #8 Salon USSR presents a night of ‘anarchodisco’ and electro punk with surprises a plenty. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00-late, €5 Plan West An eclectic cacophony of ‘near-hits’. Also with a live set from Impossible Situations. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €6 Ratio? With DJs Marcus Worgull and Melon, plus an ‘Open Wound’ video performance by Arnout Hulskamp. 11, 22.00-04.00, €12 Sneakerz With Erick E, Baggi Begovic and Bryan Dalton. Panama, 22.00-04.00, €15 Epicentre A goth cyber fetish night. Studio 80, 22.00late, €7.50 Molotov & The DirtyDirtyDirty Electro and hiphop sound clashes. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €15 Earth Featuring regulars Onno, Perre, Francesco Pico, MC P-Pholl and performers Cherry on Top and Benchellal. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €12.50 Jetset With DJs Roog, Ricky Rivaro, Jean, Graphix and Rishi Romero. The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €15 Passion vs The Funk Brothers Electro and clubhouse from The Funk Brothers and Sensara. Odeon, 23.0005.00, €10 Multigroove: The Delicate Sound of Thunder Oldstyle electro for those who survived the acid scene—or those too young when it hit. Paradiso, 23.30-05.00, €22.50 Gemengd Zwemmen A new night. Two rooms of noise. The Max sees classic Britpop, while in the Oude Zaal, you can expect a mix of new indie, pop, rock and dance tunes. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €8

Sunday 11 March E.N.D. Electronation’s new weekly club night.

Tonight’s party features sets from Lauhaus, David Labeij and Raymon Hollander (Delsin). Bitterzoet, 21.00-03.00, €5/€8 A: Event 02 Cutting-edge electro, analogue chaos, dubstep, drum & bass and breakcore. There’s live sets from Geiom and Boxcutter and a wealth of DJs. Easing the party into its groove, short films and an AV set open the night. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00-late, €10 + membership WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Tonight with Phil Horneman and Urvinson on the decks, Bernice van Leer and Renske Taminiau on vocals, and Tony Roe on keys. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8.50

Monday 12 March Cheeky Monday Jungle and drum & bass night. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6

Tuesday 13 March HipHopClub With live sets from Bizz.Banascus and Pimp-a-clawz, plus DJs Switch, Vic, Abstract, Lovesupreme, Cypfer and Rachid Larouz. Studio 80, 22.00-late, €5

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GAY& LESBIAN Thursday 8 March Everyone A night for, naturally, everyone hosted by Nicholas Carther and featuring Jodee, Brian S, Lin, Gene Farris, Natarschia, MC Nova and unexpected live acts. Exit, 23.00-04.00, €5

Friday 9 March Vrouwenavond Popular, free and very lesbian. DJ Voytec is on the decks tonight, entertaining gay girlies and their friends with ’70s and ’80s tunes and contemporary products of the hit factory. Café Sappho, 21.00-03.00, free Twisted Club Tunes With the vampirically named DJ Lestat on the decks all night. PRIK, 22.00-03.300, free

Saturday 10 March Twisted House Tunes This evening, DJ Bo is the allnight selecter. PRIK, 22.00-03.300, free

Sunday 11 March GGD goes clubbing Another chance to get your hep B jab, free of charge. Thermos Day Sauna, 15.00-19.00, Dolle Dolly Parton Party and Bingo A week before the Grand Dame of country music steps onto the stage in Zwolle and the gays are going ape. PRIK taps into the zeitgeist with this celebration of the woman and her works—and some bingo. Parton’s hits will be played all night (and it ain’t all kitsch—the woman has written some seriously good songs), there’s a quiz for obsessives and Zsa Zsa Gaybar hosts her second prize bingo night. PRIK, 20.00, free

WassinkLundgren, Art, see Opening

Festival: Een Bijzonder Goede Vrijdag This festival features theatre and dance works and previews from Joachim Robbrecht, Rob List & Diego Gil, Bram de Sutter, Laura van Dolron, Inari Salmivaara, Gabriella Maiorino, Pere Faura, Jan Langedijk and Marjolijn van Heemstra. With so much going on during the day, including mealtimes, the overspill of events takes place in Danswerkplaats Amsterdam.

In Dutch. For full schedule and information see www.theatergasthuis.nl. Gasthuis, (Fri 14.30 23.00), €12/€17.50 Theatre: One Theaterworks Amsterdam presents a series of one-acts showcasing our struggle to reach out for contact with, and comfort from, our fellow humans. Featuring three shorts by American playwrights, presented by a mix of Dutch and American artists. In English. De Cameleon, (Fri, Sat 20.30), €15 Comedy: Stand-up Comedy Show Starring Holland’s own Steven Stol and Johan van Gulik New Zealander Bob Maclaren (NZ). In English and Dutch. Comedy Café, (Fri, Sat 21.00), €15 Music/Theatre: Onegin Het Toneelhuis’ multimedia musical adaptation of Aleksandr Pushkin’s classic novel Eugene Onegin. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Sat, Sun 20.15), €11.50-€22.50

De Trut A jolly good club night whose cheapness belies its quality, filled with those who refuse to let the weekend stop just yet. De Trut, 23.00-04.00, €1.50

Music/Dance: Wonderland #5 A performance for all the family, with Makiko Ito, Sylvain Meret, Alexandra Manasse and Katie Duck, and musicians Hilary Jeffery and Richard Scott. OT301, (Sun 16.00), €4

Monday 12 March

Dance: Monisa Nayak Star of Kathakali dance. See Short List. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €16

Whatever you want, you get! Bring along a CD, DVD or mini-disc, and DJ Hans will play it. Lellebel, free

Tuesday 13 March Movie Night Tonight’s screening is Latter Days, C Jay Cox’s film about a party animal who falls in love with a Mormon. PRIK, 19.00, free

Wednesday 14 March Transgender Cafe Miss Felicia Six hosts a night for girls of all genders. Limited changing facilities.

Lellebel, free F*cking Pop Queers Queers love pop, and this is where they get their fill. Expect Madonna and electro, urban and indie, new and classic. Studio 80, 23.0005.00, free before 00.00, €5 after

STAGE Opening Dance: She Moves Amsterdam’s dance community is uniting to throw a benefit to raise funds for the Mama Cash Campaign 88 Days. The programme will consist of choreography by Krisztina de Châtel, Andrea Leine and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, performances by Katie Duck’s Magpie Music and Dance Company and Het Nationale Ballet dancers Igone de Jongh, François Rousseau and Julie Gardette, plus many more projects and some surprises. Podium Mozaïek, (Thur 20.15), €20 Dance: Falling Angels A cracking triple play by Nederlands Dans Theater including: Quintett by American choreographer William Forsythe; a new work by Crystal Pite; and Jirí Kylián’s unique dance work Falling Angels, inspired by Steve Reich’s Drumming. Het Muziektheater, (Thur, Sat, Sun 20.15), €18-€32.50

Ongoing Theatre: Victoria Canadian actress Dulcinea Langfelder plays the role of a heroine trapped in a wheelchair who’s lost her memory, her cat, control of her life... and her bladder. Combining traditions like mime, song and dance. In English. Theater Bellevue, (Thur 20.30), €18.50 Trans.Form Canadian choreographer Andre Gingras presents a performance inspired by the evolutionary development of humans and the metamorphosis of the human body. De Brakke Grond, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €14 Music/Theatre: Ctrl+Alt+Del An adventurous musical comedy performance by duo Geen Familie, inspired by—and featuring—the internet. In Dutch.

Theater Bellevue, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €10.50 Theatre: Jetlag A compact comedy by a cast of 14.

No, it’s not alcoholism, at least not upfront. They’re just dealing with the end of a long summer and the downfall of their precious beer garden, resulting in a hazy form of beer-less jet lag. In Dutch. Frascati, (ThurSat, Mon-Wed 20.30), €14 Theatre: Dakhemelruimte Inspired by Nescio’s novels The Sponger and Young Titans, Monk conclude their Titanen trilogy, presenting together all three chapters—’Dak’, ‘Hemel’ and ‘Ruimte’. In Dutch.

Frascati, (Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 21.00), €12 Performance: Placebo vs ’t Slippertje A theatresport battle. In Dutch. Crea Theater, (Fri 20.30), €6 Comedy: Amsterdam Underground Comedy A new fortnightly series that sees the best of the Comedytrain comedians on a bill with a surprise headliner from the UK or US. In English. Toomler, (Sun 20.30), €13.50 Comedy: In Your Face! Comedy improv show. In English. Comedy Café, (Sun 21.00), €13 Performance: Leids Cabaret Festival The final of the amateur talent contest. Who’ll be the next big star of Lowlands cabaret? In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Tues 20.30), €12

ART Opening André Villers Photos from the eight years the artist spent in Southern France. Some are taken in the studio of Picasso, whom he befriended there. Jan van der Togt Museum (Thur-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen, opens Thursday, until 15 April Cinéma de Bricolage A protest to the polish of Hollywood films, this exhibition is all about self-made special effects. How paper clips, rubber bands and the like can be used to evoke brave new worlds on camera. In collaboration with Horse Move Project Space.

Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), opens Thursday, until 18 March Istanbul Images Four photo reports highlighting elements of contemporary Turkey. Contributors include: Dandyland, Streetlab, European Children’s Eyes and Leaps of Faith. Pakhuis de Zwijger (Mon-Sat), opens Thursday, until 3 April Patrizia Casamirra: Women in Wartime Taken in Guatemala, Palestine, Rwanda and Bosnia, these photos comprise a series of stories of women who suffered in war and who are today active in human rights promoters. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), opens Thursday, until 8 April Lights & Drawings Art and activism, illumination and shadows. See article on p. 11. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 10 June WassinkLundgren: Empty Bottles The latest exhibition by the photographer duo, taking a concentrated look at the daily ritual of China’s refuse collectors. See Short List. Foam (Sun-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 11 April Beauty Unrealized The sixth part of this exhibition focuses on cinematic images and the possibilities that exist to cross the boundaries between cinema and other media, as well as to break the limits of the cinematic medium itself. This week openings: installation work Impecunious Kid Eating Ambergris

by Adam Avikainen and film projection The Chittendens by Catherine Sullivan. Public Space with a Roof (Daily 15.00-19.00), opens Saturday, until 17 March Brave New World Works by contemporary Spanish, Russian and Dutch artists, who level criticisms at Western society and its democratic system in a disturbing, ironic or sarcastic manner. Participating artists include El Perro (SP), AES+F (Russia) and the Dutch artists Marc Bijl, Jeroen Jongeleen and Renzo Martens. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 3 June David Goldblatt: Intersections ‘Intersections’ is the term Goldblatt (1930) uses for the human and ideological crosscurrents that make up South African society and that he captures in his photos—sharp yet subtle images of the nation. It was only after technical developments in digital photography allowed him to achieve the same depth and graphical expression in colour as he could in black-and-white that he embarked upon a new, multi-hued journey. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 28 May Dorothée Meyer: Yokus Mahalleler A new solo exhibition from German photographer Meyer, who captures Istanbul’s suburbs and city streets. A challenge to viewership, her photos range from large diptych works featuring sweeping, high-angle views of building blocks, to small images displaying details of street furniture. Motive Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 14 April

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Post-punk star Steven Brown will perform at the opening on 14 March at 19.00. iLLUSEUM (Sat, Sun 15.00-21.00, Wed from 19.00), opens Wednesday, until 14 April

Museums The Girlfriend Experience Martin Butler presents four human avatars to play with. Log in at home to control your character of choice—direct the avatar, explore the space and challenge him or her. The four participants can also be observed live in Mediamatic three nights a week. Mediamatic (Wed-Fri 18.00-23.00), closing Friday Collectors in St Petersburg A celebration of the cosmopolitan nature of early 20th-century St Petersburg, when the city was so prosperous that its art scene flourished and expansive collections were born. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), closing Sunday French Passion During the early 20th century, private collectors in the Netherlands acquired many masterpieces by painters including Monet, Daubigny, Cézanne and other famed French artists. This exhibition provides an overview of the pieces united at the time. Centraal Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), Utrecht, closing Sunday Just In Time The annual Municipal Art Acquisitions exhibitions allow for an overview of cultural activity in Amsterdam in the areas of visual art, photography, design and applied arts. Each year the show pivots on one discipline—or a combination of various disciplines—and works are acquired from it for the Stedelijk Museum collection. Stedelijk Museum CS (Fri-Wed 10.00-18.00), closing Sunday Affichetentoonstelling A chance to view impressive selections from the Filmmuseum’s mammoth collection of old film posters from across the decades.

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Making use of dissected corpses in a range of poses, real foetuses and a large selection of human organs, the collection aims to educate and remind us how remarkable the human body is. Beurs van Berlage (Thur-Sat 10.00-22.00, Sun-Wed 10.00-18.00), until 15 March Kees de Kort A tribute to 40 years of painting, illustrating and designing by the Dutch artist. His work shows biblical inspiration but also a great fascination with animals. Bijbels Museum (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 18 March August Sander: People of the 20th Century A representative selection of vintage prints from the German photographer’s (1876-1964) world-famous project.

Proposing to chart the entire structure of society of his day, the result was a sociological project, a historical document and a photographic masterpiece. Foam (SunWed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 21 March Eva’s Story Showing paintings of Erich and Heinz Gieringer made while they were in hiding from the Nazi prosecutors. Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.0017.00), until 6 April Beauty and the Bead: From Madonna to the Maasai This first exhibition ever to focus on beads as a worldwide phenomenon features beaded costumes from every epoch and all corners of the earth. Tropenmuseum (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 13 May Mapping the City This group exhibition focuses on the relationship between artists and the city from 1960 to the present day, with Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Stanley Brouwn, Matthew Buckingham, Philip Lorca diCorcia and many more. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 20 May

Moderniteit in de Tropen: Architectuur in Nederlands-Indië In the beginning of the 20th century, architects working in the Dutch East Indies created a unique style that combined their Dutch background with local traditions and influences from modern American architecture. This collection features photographs, drawings and maquettes from Indonesia between 1850 and 1950. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 3 June

Galleries Between Dog and Wolf Chrystel Lebas’ new body of work, created between 2003 and 2006, comprises photographs taken at twilit forests in England, Germany, Finland, Japan and her native France. Gallery Vassie (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), closing Saturday Minimalpop A travelling group exhibition curated by Petra Bungert, director of CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) in Brussels, and German artist Tilman, featuring the works of many international artists. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday 34,5 m2 The works of photographic duo WassinkLundgren typically come from a sociological standpoint, with globalisation as central theme. This exhibition presents pictures taken in China, showing posters and advertising boards that seem to form an almost artificial reality. De Balie, closing Sunday Oskar Nilsson/Mattijs van den Bosch Nilsson presents Hello Noir/(secret supper)/Memories from Provance, a series of paintings bubbling with personal mythology and home-made symbolism. Moroccan-born artist Van den Bosch shows paintings of street scenes and working men, created over the last couple of years. De Praktijk (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 March

Eva Besnyö: Unknown Photos Work by Eva Besnyö (1910-2003) has featured in countless publications and exhibitions. Yet after her death, many still unknown and previously unpublished photos were discovered in her archive. This exhibition presents a selection of these photos, underscoring her reputation as one of the greatest photographers in the Netherlands. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 20 May

Sbandieratori Parade, see Saturday

EVENTS Thursday 8 March Party: The Moon Temple An installation, workshop, lecture and concert. De Cameleon, 18.30, €25 Poetry/Music: The Open Stanza A mishmash of poetry, spoken word, music and performance by an international collection of literary guests. This edition’s special presenters are Signe Tollefsen and a Berlin collective featuring Fiona Mizani, Moon, Jeroen Niewland, James Harris and Lance Anderson. In English.

Sugar Factory, 19.00, €5 Discussion: Vrouwelijke Solidariteit An International Women’s Day event celebrating 35 years of Opzij.

Guests include Christien Brinkgreve, Heleen Mees and Anneliese Bergman, plus six-piece jazz band Alice in Dixieland. In Dutch. Felix Meritis, 20.00, €7.50 Party: Women Inc Amsterdam’s weekly resource for women celebrates Women’s Day with live music, poetry, comedy, dancing and—alas—speed dating.

But keeping with tradition, there’s also a discussion programme. In Dutch. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 20.00, free

Ten Klooster: A Man With Two Lives Showing over 50 works by the Indonesian-Dutch artist Ten Klooster, varying from paintings to wood engravings. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 20 May Robert Capa: Retrospective Taking a broad look at the work of Robert Capa (1913-1954), the legendary war photographer and founder of modern photojournalism. His photos of the Spanish Civil War and D-Day are etched in everyone’s memory and have shaped our image of the 20th century. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 20 May

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Konstruierte Landschaften Konstruierte Landschaften Dramatic landscape paintings by Aquil Copier, with particularly vivid views from the sky. Saskia de Maree’s paintings represent an industrialised culture, but captured in bright and bold colours, a new perspective is offered. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 24 March Blackmail The artists of Red Stamp Gallery present a series of photographs, collages and 3-D objects, all erotically charged and with a focus on fetishism and the female body. With works by Christian Zanotto, Simone Lucietti, Ketra, Damien Boyall and Sonia Arata. Chiellerie (Wed-Sun 14.00-18.00), closing 1 April

Multidisciplinary: Women in Paradise International Women’s Day jamboree. See Short List. Paradiso, 20.30, €17 + membership

Friday 9 March Multidisciplinary: LAB01 A new cultural party that embraces street theatre, cabaret, fashion, art and performances by talented young musicians. BG, 19.00-02.00, €5, free before 20.00 Symposium: Ecologie=Economie An ecological salon raising important issues while entertaining. See Short List. EnergeticA, 20.00, €7/€10 Projectlaunch: Cool Media Hot Talk Show A new series of DIY talk shows in which the public, via web-

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8-14 March 2007 site, decides which topics, speakers and ultimate scenarios will comprise the programme taking place in the performance space of De Balie. See www.coolmediahottalk.net. In English. De Balie, 20.30, free

ly coordinated observations and interdisciplinary scientific research on the Earth’s polar regions. In Dutch and English. De Balie, 20.30, €6

Book presentation: Eric Staller: Out of My Mind A night of magic, performance art and film screenings.

See Short List. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €8/free before 22.00

Sunday 11 March

Saturday 10 March Sbandieratori Parade A colourful traditional Italian parade featuring flag bearers and wavers, drummers and trumpeters. Beginning at Museumplein, the festivities travel through Oud-Zuid with a finale and feast at the Hilton Hotel. Museumplein, 14.00, free Discussion: Climate Change in De Balie Two days of climate talks, keeping in line with what the environmentally-oriented have dubbed 2007. International Polar Year oversees an intensive burst of international-

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 AdK Actuele Kunst Prinsengracht 534, 320 9242 Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134 Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries Bilderdijkstraat 165C, 412 1772 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078 Beurs van Berlage Damrak 277, 530 4141 BG Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 626 2256 Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Bourbon Street Leidsekruisstraat 6-8, 623 3440 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Café Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 De Cameleon 3e Kostverlorenkade 35, 489 4656 Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452 Casablanca Muziek Zeedijk 26, 06 1220 0519 Catacomb Studio Haarlemmerstraat 124C, 622 1772 Centraal Museum Nicolaaskerkhof, Utrecht, 030 236 2362 Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Comedy Café Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971 Compagnietheater Kloveniersburgwal 50, 520 5320 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 Crea Theater Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400

Quiz: Murphy’s Quiz Night Final The ultimate pub quiz contest with 300 teams from 12 countries competing to be the very best. In English and Dutch. See Short List. Heineken Music Hall, 13.00, €6 Art/Film: The Secret Ordeal of Beauty Film screenings curated by Francesco Bernardelli. Public Space with a Roof, 14.00-21.00, free Literature: Het Voorwoord Readings and interviews with the likes of: Arthur Japin, Jan Siebelink, Hassan Bahara, Joost Zwagerman, Aart Staartjes, Niels ’t Hooft, Esther Jansma, Kees van Kooten, Arjen Lubach, Marcel Möring, Tommy Wieringa, Lidewijde Paris, Manon Uphoff, Thomas Verbogt, Jacq Vogelaar and

Cruise Inn Zuiderzeeweg 29, 692 7188 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676 De Trut Bilderdijkstraat 165 Dwaze Zaken Prinshendrikkade 50, 612 4175 EnergeticA Hoogte Kadijk 400, 422 1227 English Reformed Church Begijnhof 48, 624 9665 Exit Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, 625 8788 Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324, 626 2321 Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Galerie Fons Welters Bloemstraat 140, 423 3046 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Gallery Vassie 1e Tuindwarsstraat 16, 489 4042 Gasthuis Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 54, 683 8494 Grimm Fine Art Hazenstraat 24, 422 7227 Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 iLLUSEUM Witte de Withstraat 120, 770 5581 Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, Amstelveen, 641 5754 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 KHL Koffiehuis Oostelijke Handelskade 44, 779 1575 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 KochxBos Gallery 1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 3-5, 681 4567 Koninklijke Schouwburg Korte Voorhout 3, The Hague, 070 356 5348 De Kring Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 7-9, 623 6985 Lellebel Utrechtsestraat 4, 427 5139

Aukelien Weverling. There’s also music and an awards ceremony for the Jan Campert Prizes. Koninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague 15.00, €15

17 the problems you face upon reaching 30. Odeon, 20.00, €7

Discussion: Climate Change in De Balie (See Saturday) In Dutch. De Balie, 15.30, free

Discussion: 70/80 Morele Seks Sexual morality in 2007: what’s your point of view? In Dutch. De Balie, 20.30, €6

Film: Sprocket Sounds This month featuring short films and newsreels from World War II shown on four projectors. OT301, 20.30, €4

Party: Bal der Geweigerden The Salon des Refusés thumbs its nose at the Boekenbal. See Short List. Paradiso, 20.30, €15

Monday 12 March

Party: Bladenbal The underground magazine thumbs its nose at all the other balls with their own little edition of lit, art and music. De Kring, 22.0004.00, €5

Film: Broeinest With screenings of The Strategy of the Snail and La Estrategia del Caracol. In Spanish with subtitles. Plantage Doklaan 8-12, 20.00, free

Tuesday 13 March

Wednesday 14 March

Workshop: Thirtiers Dilemma A workshop about

Lecture: Human Rights Watch Guests from the organisation talk about their roles in Darfur and Chechnya. In English. Verzetsmuseum, 19.30, free

Lexion Avenue Overtoom 65, Westzaan, 0900-BelLexion

PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321

Lloyd Hotel Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 419 1840

Public Space with a Roof Overtoom 301, 06 1117 4239

Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592

RAI Europaplein 22, 549 1212

Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901

Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400

Meervaart Meer en Vaart 300, 410 7777

Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551

Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181

SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953

METIS_NL Lijnbaansgracht 316, 638 9863

Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311

Motive Gallery Elandsgracht 10, 330 3668

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455 Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200 De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911 STEIM Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, 622 8690 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

Noorderkerk Noordermarkt 44, 626 6436

Teylers Museum Spaarne 16, Haarlem, 023 516 0960

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301

Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711

Thermos Day Sauna Raamstraat 33, 623 9158

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400

P/////AKT Zeeburgerpad 53, 06 5427 0879

Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

P60 Stadsplein 100A, Amstelveen, 023 345 3445 Pacific Parc Polonceaukade 23, 488 7778

Uilenburger Synagogue Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91, 427 8347

Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444

Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288

Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 570-596, 645 5941

Upstream Gallery Kromme Waal 11, 428 4284

Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680

Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535

Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858

Volta Houtmankade 334-336, 628 6429

Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810

Vous Etes Ici Lijnbaansgracht 314, 612 7979

Plantage Doklaan 8-12 Plantage Doklaan

W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434

Podium Mozaïek Bos en Lommerweg 191, 580 0380

Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380

The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866

Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127

De Praktijk Lauriergracht 96, 422 1727

The Zebra Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 14, 330 5266

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La Vie en rose

FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed

by Lisa Alspector (LA),Shyama Daryanani (SD), Angela Dress (AD),Don Druker (DD),Sven Gerrets (SG),Laura Groeneveld (LG),Andrea Gronvall (AG),John Hartnett (JH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Anne Jongeling (AJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),Vincent Moritz (VM),Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP), Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR),Bregtje Schudel (BS),Mark Wedin (MW) and Albert Williams (AW).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

Festival Vittorio De Seta retrospective Sicilian film-maker Vittorio De Seta makes fiction in a sober documentary style.

Lettere dal Sahara (2006) tells the story of a Senegalese student living illegally in Italy. Banditi a Orgosolo (1961) is an understated drama about a shepherd in a remote Sardinian village who resorts to thievery when his flock dies.

In Un uomo a meta (1966), a young writer suffering from a nervous breakdown looks back on the crises in his life.

L’invitata (1969) stars Michel Piccoli in a subtle story of marriage and adultery. In Italian with Dutch subtitles.

Filmmuseum

New this week Freedom Writers Idealistic teacher Hilary Swank gets her students’ attention by having them read about the Holocaust. See review on p. 19. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Hannibal Rising It’s sad when an author sells his soul to Hollywood. Michael Crichton did it with The Lost World (the sequel to Jurassic Park), and Thomas Harris—creator of Hannibal Lecter—has done it with this

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Hannibal Rising

prequel. Here we are witness to the genesis of this evil genius. Unfortunately, his birth isn’t that impressive.

Gaspard Ulliel (Audrey Tautou’s beloved in Un long dimanche de fiançailles) lacks the poise and sophisticated menace Anthony Hopkins lent the character.

Even while brutally slaying policemen, Hopkins remained graceful. Ulliel’s cruel butchery is often downright silly. (BS) 117 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Jimmy Rosenberg—de vader, de zoon & het tal-

ent Who knew that down a flat country road, in a group of Sinti caravans in a dead-end corner of a nondescript Brabant town, lives one of the Netherlands’ greatest musicians? See article on p. 8. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto Music & Lyrics After years of playing shy romantic leads, heart-throb, Hugh Grant is becoming an expert in portraying big spoilt children. In About a Boy he lived off the royalties of one popular Christmas song; in Music & Lyrics he recycles the golden oldies of a boy band called Pop (also the sound the hipbone makes during their trademark dance move). Like every other romantic comedy, this one is predictable, but the film is saved by Grant’s mild self-mockery, the chemistry between Grant and co-star Drew Barrymore and the hilarious video at the beginning of the movie. (BS) 104 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski La Vie en rose Any director would have had a hard time adapting Edith Piaf’s eventful life—filled with neglect, disease and death—into a 140-minute movie, yet Olivier Dahan eschews any pretence of coherence.

Seemingly at random, he jumps through time, barely differentiating between important and less relevant events. We get to see the winning match of Piaf’s lover, boxer Marcel Cerdan, but not her role in the French resistance. Both Piaf and Marion Cotillard (giving a remarkable, fragile performance as ‘The Little Sparrow’) deserve better. In French with Dutch subtitles. (BS) Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski

Still playing Blood Diamond Just like the previous effort of director Edward Zwick, The Last Samurai, this film is a hackneyed action flick bearing a preachy message. It may look splendiferous on the big screen, and the intentions are noble, but the underlying tone is condescending

and exclusively occidental. The only redeeming factor is Leonardo DiCaprio, who shines as a morally conflicted Rhodesian mercenary (LvH) 143 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

The Death of Mr Lazarescu The hospital scenes in this award-winning Romanian film are a far cry from the heroics we’ve become used to from ER. When the sixty-ish Dante Remus Lazarescu is brought in complaining of headaches and vomiting, he doesn’t exactly get run over by surgeons who want to make him better. Their attitude is disinterested at best: ‘You feel sick because you have been drinking.’ Director Cristi Puiu displays a fair amount of gallows humour, but at the same time paints a very disturbing picture of a broken-down health care system. After 150 minutes and four different hospitals, we’re just as exasperated as the ambulance nurse who sees the man dying before her eyes but isn’t able to give him the care any human being deserves. In Romanian with Dutch and French subtitles. (BS) Filmmuseum Dreamgirls This soapy showbiz saga chronicles the turbulent era when black music (and the aspirations it expressed) crossed over to the cultural mainstream.

Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson and Anika Noni Rose are the Supremes-like trio, Jamie Foxx their unscrupulous producer, and Eddie Murphy is an oldfashioned R&B star who can’t make the transition to a smoother style. (AW) 123 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Flags of Our Fathers Perhaps only the clout of director Clint Eastwood and co-producer Steven Spielberg could have brought us a movie about how the most inspirational photo of World War II—four GIs raising the flag at Iwo Jima—was mendaciously exploited to sell war bonds. It’s a noble undertaking, and Eastwood is stylistically bold enough to create a view of combat based mainly on images that are clearly manufactured. (JR) 132 min. Kriterion Flandres Shy Démester lives a dull life on a farm. His only pleasure is occasional sex with free-spirited Barbe.

Disaster strikes when he and a few of his friends are called up to serve in a (nameless) war. They commit and undergo unspeakable crimes, leading to subtle but profound changes in the protagonist’s personality.

In French with Dutch subtitles. (MP) Rialto

Five-Word Movie Review

WHAT’S UNDER THE KILT, THEN? Last King of Scotland The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

The Illusionist In 1900s Vienna, the magician Eisenheim (Edward Norton) appears capable of the greatest feats, from slowing the movement of an object in mid-air to making an orange tree grow instantaneously from a newly planted seed. His wizardry confounds both Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell) and Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti), who, despite growing admiration, is ordered to shut him down. Trapped in a corner, Eisenheim hires a group of Chinese assistants and begins to dabble in the spirit world. When an apparition of the late Duchess Sophie van Teschen (Jessica Biel), his childhood love as well as the Prince’s betrothed, manifests itself onstage, the problems begin to get out of hand. Suddenly, both the monarchy and the magician are in danger. A romantic love story and intriguing political thriller, directed by Neil Burger, with score by Philip Glass. (JH) 110 min.

The Movies Kicks Albert ter Heerdt’s newest film is made up of various interlocking stories set against the backdrop of contemporary middle-class Amsterdam. It all revolves around the shooting of a young Moroccan rap artist called Redouan, said to have been racially motivated. Redouan’s death causes increasing friction between the Moroccan and Dutch community. In the middle of the emotional turmoil is Redouan’s brother Said (Mimoun Oaïssa), a professional kickboxer with a Dutch girlfriend, who feels he must choose between the two worlds he lives in. In Dutch and Arabic with Dutch subtitles. (LG) 112 min. Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Special screenings Het Amsterdamse lied in de film Expect a high nostalgia quotient in this two-part compilation of short films and musical fragments, all with songs celebrating Amsterdam. In Dutch. Filmmuseum Bully In a tragicomically widening circle, several disaffected teens in suburban south Florida become enmeshed in a volatile struggle that had initially concerned only two of them—a boy and his bully. This 2001 reality-based film, has the persuasiveness of a docudrama. And the tone—a combination of earnestness and gallows humour—is strangely appropriate, and it suits director Larry Clark well. (LA) 112 min.

Melkweg Cinema Gummo Written and directed by Harmony Korine, who wrote Kids, this poetically disjointed narrative (1997) also follows young people engaged in nihilistic activities and has an ambiguous relationship to both documentary and fiction film-making—but none of the earlier movie’s prurience or condescension.

Killing cats is a pastime and source of income for two boys (Jacob Reynolds and Nick Sutton) who sniff a lot of glue in a town identified as Xenia, Ohio. Crooned ballads and metal music enhance scenes of perversely enchanting power, and a voice-over tells us in gory detail how a tornado devastated Xenia years before, as if to explain the strangely passive violence in a town where everyone’s reason for existence seems to be breaking taboos. (LA) 95 min. De Nieuwe Anita

In the Mood For Love Wong Kar-wai’s brooding

chamber piece from 2000, about a love affair that

never quite happens, is claustrophobically set in adjacent flats in 1962 Hong Kong. It focuses on a newspaper editor and a secretary (Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, the sexiest duo in Hong Kong cinema) who discover that their respective spouses are having an affair on the road. Wong, who improvises his films with the actors, endlessly repeats his musical motifs and variations on a handful of images, rituals and short scenes (rainstorms, cab rides, stairways, tender and tentative hand gestures), while dressing Cheung in some of the most confining (though lovely) dresses imaginable. In Cantonese, French, Mandarin and Spanish with Dutch subtitles.

(JR) 98 min. Kriterion

Io non ho paura Ten-year-old Michele plays with

his friends on the lush maize-covered plains of southern Italy. One day, he meets a mysterious figure in a ruined house. As he investigates the matter, he learns of the local grown-ups’ links to the mystery, and this visually stunning fairy tale of a film takes on a grim twist. Io non ho paura is an insightful study of a child confronted with the sometimes unpleasant world of adults. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (AJ) 108 min. Pathé ArenA

L’humanité

The most disputed and reviled prizewinner at Cannes in 1999, this brave, ambitious, difficult and highly memorable second feature by Bruno Dumont (La vie de Jésus) follows the police investigation of a rape-murder, sticking mainly to an oddball detective’s assistant who lives with his mother and hangs out with a female neighbour he silently

loves and her loutish boyfriend. Dumont clearly views this sad sack as a Dostoyevskian hero, and though the stylisation of the character is sometimes more than he can handle, the mulish persistence of the pacing, precise and sensuous grasp of the locations and brutish physiognomy of some of the characters are gripping and moving. In French with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 148 min. Rialto

Pi Max (Sean Gullette) sees everything in terms of

numbers in this distressing existential horror story (1998) that’s also a science fiction thriller. He spends all of his time feverishly searching for order in chaos, analysing the stock market and scrutinising the digits of pi for patterns. We’re sucked into his spiralling selfdestruction—or messianic self-sacrifice—as he passionately argues about the value of mathematical and numerological studies with his former mentor, who’s given up his own research after suffering a stroke. Montages stress discrete shots of symbolic and abstract images even as powerfully logical associations seem to be forged. Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, this is a seductive movie about alienation. (LA) 84 min. De Balie Il Posto Ermanno Olmi’s 1961 film is a wry, sensitive look at the petty, frequently amusing strategies people devise to achieve the equally petty, equally amusing rewards of an indifferent society. Using nonprofessional actors to great effect, Olmi tells the thinnest of stories, a young man’s move into his first job, with compassion and more than a little humour.

In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (DD) 93 min. Rialto

Sweet Movie Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev set out to shock the bourgeoisie with this 1974 scatalogical extravaganza featuring everything from food fights to shit baths—and did such a thorough job of it that he didn’t work again for six years. Though much of the content is scandalous, the title is ultimately an accurate one—the sensibility behind the images is innocent, enthusiastic and childlike. Some scenes were filmed in Amsterdam. In English. (DK) 95 min.

De Roode Bioscoop Wassup Rockers Larry Clark returns to the semidocumentary strategy of Kids (1995) for this woolly comedy about seven Latino skate punks in South Central LA. The director met some of the teenage boys while doing a photo shoot and based his script on their lives, which makes for some genuine moments in the movie’s first half. Yet unlike the amateur cast of Kids—which included such future professionals as Rosario Dawson, Chloë Sevigny and Leo Fitzpatrick—these guys can’t act. In the second half, Clark makes an abrupt turn into wacky but more conventional fish-out-of-water comedy as the rockers journey to Beverly Hills and have a tough time getting home; weirdly reminiscent of A Hard Day’s Night, this part is more digestible but betrays the realism of the earlier scenes. (JJ) 105 min.

Melkweg Cinema Het Wonderlijke leven van Willem Parel Cabaretier Wim Sonneveld plays himself in this 1955 musical comedy, filmed on location in Amsterdam. In Dutch.

89 min. Filmmuseum

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19 Yeah, come right here and tell me that 2Pacalypse Now is a better album than Ready to Die!

Director Richard LaGravenese tells a familiar story, but also possesses what so many before have lacked: sincerity.

IT’S A HARD-KNOCK LIFE

By Bregtje Schudel Young teacher Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) might have to get a reality check.

She begins her first year at a ‘voluntary integrated’ high school with big ideals and noble motives. She has her education plan ready and regards the school’s multiculturalism as an exciting challenge.

Unfortunately, her students don’t appear as enthusiastic as she might have hoped.

FILM TIMES Thursday 8 March until Wednesday 14 March Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Pi Fri, Sat 20.30 Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Grbavica Fri 20.30 Marie-Antoinette Thur 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Babel daily 21.45 Das Leben der Anderen daily 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 11.00 Notes on a Scandal daily 16.30, 19.30, Sun also 11.15, 14.00 The Queen daily 16.15, 19.30, 22.00, Sun also 11.00, 13.45 La Vie en rose daily 15.45, 18.45, 21.45.

For them, school is just an insignificant break from the real world, a place where you can die at any time. Yet Erin finally gets their attention by listening and by teaching them about the Holocaust.

Admittedly, this synopsis doesn’t sound too promising. It’s a story that has been told many times. Horrifying scenes à la Dangerous Minds immediately spring to mind; that 1995 film was also based on a true story, one involving ex-marine

Our Daily Bread Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.15, Sun 17.45, 21.50, Wed also 21.50 Ub Iwerks: De hand achter de muis Sun, Wed 14.00 Un uomo a metà Sat 19.30, Sun 17.15 Vittorio De Seta retrospective Thur-Sun Het Wonderlijke leven van Willem Parel Wed 19.30.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Anna Sat 15.00 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Blind daily 19.15 Gebroken Rood Sat 13.00 Jimmy Rosenberg--de vader, de zoon & het talent Thur-Sat, MonWed 16.15, 21.45, Sun 21.45 Kicks daily 19.45 Kilkenny Cross Sat 13.00 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 14.45 Das Leben der Anderen Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 16.00, 19.00, 21.30, Sat, Sun 19.00, 21.30, Sat also 16.30, Sun also 12.00, 14.45, Wed also 13.15 Ober Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.45, Sun 13.00 Red Road Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.00, Sun 12.30 Zwartboek daily 21.15.

KIT Tropentheater, Grote Zaal Mauritskade 63, 568 8500 The Mark of Cain Wed 20.00.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Harem Suare Tues 20.30.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Apocalypto Fri 20.30 Ernst, Bobbie en de geslepen Onix Sat 13.30, Sun 12.00 Happy Feet Sat 15.30, Sun 14.00 The Science of Sleep Thur, Tues, Wed 20.30 Zwartboek Thur 15.00, Sun 16.15.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 An Inconvenient Truth daily 18.00 Buddha's Lost Children Sat, Sun 15.30 Flags of Our Fathers daily 17.00 In the Mood For Love Sun 13.30, Mon 22.00 Letters from Iwo Jima daily 19.35, Sun also 12.15 Little Miss Sunshine Thur-Mon, Wed 22.15, Sat, Sun also 15.00, Fri, Sat 0.15 Perfume:The Story of a Murderer Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 22.00 The Science of Sleep daily 20.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Little Miss Sunshine Thur 21.30, Fri, Tues 19.00, Fri also 21.00 Romance and Cigarettes Thur 19.00, Tues 21.00.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Bully Tues, Wed 20.00 Wassup Rockers Thur-Mon 20.00.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 12:08 East of Bucharest Thur-Sat, Wed 17.45, 19.45, 21.45, Mon 17.45, Tues 17.45, 19.45, 21.30 Het Amsterdamse lied in de film Tues 19.30, 21.45 Banditi a Orgosolo Sun 19.30 The Death of Mr Lazarescu Mon 20.15 Korte films van Vittorio De Seta Sun 16.00 L'invitata Fri 19.30 Lettere dal Sahara Thur 19.30, 22.00 Lights in the Dusk Fri, Sat 22.00 Lorange & Co Sun, Wed 13.45

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Gummo Mon 20.30.

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Der Todesking Tues 22.00 Nekromantik Tues 20.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 Arthur en de Minimoys Fri 13.30, Sat, Sun, Wed 12.10, 14.20, 16.35, Sat, Sun also 10.00 Beestenboel daily 12.10, 14.15, 16.20, Sat, Sun, Wed also 13.25, Sat, Sun also 10.10, 11.10

LouAnne Johnson/Michelle Pfeiffer teaching the riff-raff real values by bribing them with sweets and trips to amusement parks and by educating them with Bob Dylan. The idea behind Freedom Writers may be the same, but its execution is very different. Erin does try to teach them poetry through rap, but immediately gets booed off the stage for presuming to know more about Tupac than they do. Instead, she finds a new ‘pioneering’ method—by actually listening to what they have to say.

When they finally go on an excursion, the destination isn’t an amusement park, but a museum of tolerance. Even their dinner in a fancy restaurant has educational value: they’re accompanied by Holocaust survivors who tell them about the War. Another big difference is that this time the director also lays blame on the education system. Most teachers and school boards have given up on the prob-

lematic cases and don’t see any point in educating them. They see not their environment but the children themselves as the main problem. So why bother? ‘We’re housing them until they’re old enough to disappear,’ Erin accurately points out.

Freedom Writers often borders on the sentimental, but redeems itself with strong acting, especially from two-time Academy Award-winner Swank and the young actors who play her students. The events and dialogue (taken from The Freedom Writers Diary and interviews) ring true. There are recognisable light touches, like when a teacher asks an African American student to share ‘their’ perspective on The Color Purple, or when one student mistakes The Diary of Anne Frank for a novel and continually pesters Erin with questions like: will Anne and Peter get together? When will Anne ‘smoke’ Hitler?

The Diary of Anne Frank plays a large part in this film and, in the Netherlands, the movie is being heavily promoted by the Anne Frank Fonds. They even started a project at schools in Zuidoost to get students reading the book, going to the Achterhuis and seeing this film. It’s a noble cause, but its educational value might just prove to be its biggest problem.

Freedom Writers certainly feels more honest than Dangerous Minds, but misses the sensationalism—and a haunting theme song by Coolio—to lure its target group into cinemas. While it makes great material for school classes, it probably won’t reach much further.

Freedom Writers opens Thursday at Pathé ArenA and Pathé de Munt.

Blood Diamond daily 15.30, 21.15, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.20 Casino Royale daily 14.55, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 11.50 The Departed daily 17.45, 21.00, Thur, Mon, Tues also 14.15, Fri also 12.30 Dreamgirls daily 15.50, 18.40, 21.40, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.00 Ernst, Bobbie en de geslepen Onix Thur, Mon, Tues 12.35, Fri 15.45, Sat, Sun, Wed 12.25, 14.10, 15.55, Sat, Sun also 10.40 Flushed Away (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.25, Sat, Sun also 11.00 Freedom Writers daily 12.45, 15.35, 18.35, 21.20, Sat, Sun also 10.05 The Good Shepherd Thur-Mon, Wed 20.30 Hannibal Rising daily 13.20, 16.00, 19.00, 21.50, Sat, Sun also 10.35 Happy Feet (NL) Fri-Sun, Wed 12.45, Sat, Sun also 10.20 The Hitcher daily 22.00 Io non ho paura Tues 13.30 Kicks daily 14.00, 16.30, 19.20, 21.55, Sat, Sun also 11.30 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 12.15 The Last King of Scotlanddaily 15.10, 18.00, 20.45, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.25 Music & Lyrics daily 11.55, 14.20, 16.45, 19.10, 21.35 Nehle Pe Dehla daily 18.25 Night at the Museum daily 12.00, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, Sun, Wed also 21.20 Night at the Museum (IMAX) daily 13.10, 15.45, 18.45, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 21.20, Sat, Sun also 10.30 Norbit Sat 21.30 The Prestige daily 21.25 Pursuit of Happyness daily 18.50, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 16.10, Thur, Mon also 13.30 Smokin' Aces daily 18.40 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Son Osmanli daily 18.00 La Vie en rose daily 13.45, 17.15, 20.15, Sat, Sun also 10.45.

Letters from Iwo Jima Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.10, Sat 20.10 Music & Lyrics Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.15, 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sat 10.15, 12.45, 15.15, 17.45, 20.30, 23.15, Sun also 10.45 Night at the Museum Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.10, 14.40, 17.10, 19.40, Sat 10.45, 13.15, 15.45, 18.30, 23.25 Norbit Sat 23.35 The Prestige Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.40, 17.40, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 20.40, Sat 11.05, 13.50, 19.20, 22.20 Pursuit of Happyness Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.30, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.50, 15.40, Fri also 12.10, Sat 14.40, 17.20, 23.25, Sun, Wed also 15.50 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Tenacious D:The Pick of Destiny Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.25, Sat 18.45 ’N Beetje Verliefd Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.30, Sat also 17.00.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 Arthur en de Minimoys Sat 10.40, 13.10, Sun, Wed 12.40, Sun also 10.10 Babel Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.20, 15.20, 20.50, Sat 11.40, 15.00, 21.30 Beestenboel Fri 14.50, Sat 10.15, 12.20, 14.45, Sun 11.00, 13.10, 15.30, Wed 12.30 Blood Diamond Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.05, 18.10, 21.20, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.05, Sat 15.40, 19.00, 22.15 The Departed Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.30, 17.00, 20.30, Sat 12.30, 16.00, 20.15, Sun also 10.15 Dreamgirls Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.00, 18.00, 21.00, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.00, Sat 10.40, 13.30, 16.30, 19.30, 22.30, Sun also 12.15 Ernst, Bobbie en de geslepen Onix Fri 14.45, 16.40, Sat 10.55, 12.50, Sun, Wed 12.10, 14.00, Sun also 10.20 Freedom Writers Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.00, 15.45, 18.45, 21.30, Sat 11.30, 14.30, 17.15, 20.00, 23.00, Sun also 10.20 The Good Shepherd Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.30, 16.15, 20.00, Sat 10.50, 14.15, 18.00, 22.00 Hannibal Rising Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.15, 15.15, 18.15, 21.15, Sat 11.00, 13.45, 16.45, 19.45, 22.45 The Hitcher Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 22.10, Sat 21.15 Kicks Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.45, 16.30, 19.15, 22.00, Sat 10.30, 13.00, 15.30, 18.15, 20.50, 23.30, Sun also 10.15 The Last King of Scotland Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.50, 20.45, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.05, Thur, Mon-Wed also 14.50, Sat 17.00, 19.50, 22.40

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Bamako Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 17.45, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 21.45, Sat 13.15, 18.45, Sun also 15.30 Flandres daily 21.00, Sun also 15.45 Into Great Silence Sun 11.15 Jimmy Rosenberg--de vader, de zoon & het talent Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 20.00, Sat 16.00, Wed also 15.30 L'humanité Fri, Sat 23.00 Das Leben der Anderen Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.15, 22.00, Sat 21.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 16.15, Sat, Sun also 13.00 Il Posto Sun 11.00 Les Poupées Russes Fri 16.00 Ten Canoes daily 19.00, Sat, Sun also 13.30 The Way I Spent the End of The World Sat, Wed 15.45, Sun 11.30.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Arthur en de Minimoys Sat, Sun, Wed 13.15 Beestenboel Sun 12.10, Wed 13.30 Dreamgirls daily 17.45, Fri, Sat, Mon also 12.00, 14.50, Sun also 12.15 Ernst, Bobbie en de geslepen Onix Sun, Wed 15.30 The Good Shepherd daily 20.45 Das Leben der Anderen daily 12.00, 15.00, 18.10, 21.20 Match Point Thur, Tues 13.30 Miss Potter Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 13.45 Music & Lyrics daily 12.30, 15.15, 18.15, 21.00 Notes on a Scandal daily 19.15, 21.45, Thur-Tues also 16.45, Thur, Sat-Tues also 14.30, Thur, Sat, Mon, Tues also 12.15 The Prestige daily 21.30 The Queen daily 16.15, 19.00 La Vie en rose daily 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 21.10.

De Roode Bioscoop Haarlemmerplein 7H, 625 7500, Sweet Movie Sun 20.30.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 After the Wedding Thur-Sun 19.00 Forever Sun 14.00 Manuale d'amore Mon-Wed 19.00 Perfume:The Story of a Murderer daily 21.15 Zwartboek daily 16.15.

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Having a ball at Club 8 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruijterweg 56B, 685 1703 Open Daily 14.00-03.00 Cash, PIN My phone rang.

‘Be there,’ warned my informer, ignoring my petulant whine as I started a litany of cheap excuses not to join a get-together at Club 8.

Outside it looked so dismal. Icy rain spattered against the window pane. Gusts of wind blew litter around like tumbleweed. You needed big balls to venture forth on a night like this. Club 8? Never heard of it.

Moaning aloud, your glutton sallied forth into the blustery weather. Typical me: I got really lost. OK, OK: trams 7, 12, 13, 14 and bus 15 run conveniently near the venue. I didn’t know that at the time, so wandered off in quite the wrong direction. At last, I arrived, cursing my stupidity at not reading the directions I’d been emailed (which basically said: start at the Westerkerk and keep going until you get there).

You need an oxygen mask to climb the stairs (I passed an exhausted Sherpa and his team gasping for breath on the way up). On and on I panted, cursing every step, until finally I reached my destination. A door, from which I read the house rules. A behaviour code, a clear and definite message. Why not? Club 8 is fun and a non-conflict zone. So leave the hardware at home, see?

Wow! Look at all the pool tables! An excellent venue for a misspent youth. The huge space held maybe 30 tables, all green baize under lowslung lights. Mostly guys hunched over their cues,

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON After drinks and some borrelhapjes, the majority wanted to go off and hustle. Your Glutton, of course, wanted to go off and guzzle. The waiter handed me a menu. posing like Greek and Roman statues as they aimed to pot their shots.

Good music hammered out over the speakers. I located the pool party I was to join, near

the bar.

After drinks and some borrelhapjes, the majority wanted to go off and hustle. Your Glutton, of course, wanted to go off and guzzle. The

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warm, efficient waiter handed me a menu; he also pointed out a blackboard of daily specials as he guided me to the sectioned-off eetcafé part of the hall. I was also very pleased to note I could finish my repast ‘on a high note’ as it were. Good.

I was joined by a friend who wanted a Club 8 Burger. It was big and came with all the trimmings.

The menu is a crowd-pleaser with many choices: salads, wraps, burgers, sandwiches, and a couple of specials like a Philly Cheese Steak.

I went for the peanut soup (€3.50) for starters; it was surprisingly good. Big tender chunks of chicken breasts simmered in a very tasty, hot, spicy broth, with crushed peanuts. It was served with some Turkish bread.

For my main, I decided to ignore the many pastas on offer and go for Cypriot pork stew with coriander, herbs and mashed potato, which cost a reasonable €8.50.

The grinning chef plonked down a piping hot plate in front of me. I squealed with excitement as I looked carefully at the dish: this was a huge portion, prepared with love. The pork cubes were aromatic, soft and tender, and cooked with onions, coriander, thyme, honey and other special ingredients. The thick, rich gravy was delicious, forming a moat around the high potato mound (good mash, well-seasoned) sitting in the plate’s centre.

The others returned to eat. I enjoyed watching them as they dug into different specials. To keep them company, I asked for a dessert, recommended to me by the barman.

My chocoholic special arrived, a monster creation for just €4.20. My smile grew. I tucked into an enormous mound of chocolate ice cream with a gooey toffee-chocolate sauce. This was studded with pieces of brownie and whipped cream. ’Nuff said. Whatever your game is, Club 8 is great. Now form an orderly cue.

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RENT OFFICE SPACEThe Cooperative WWDW offers office space for rent A’dam West.

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22 schweig, walnut finish with inlay and brass details. In beautiful condition with only one previous owner. Asking €1600. For more information contact jhokin@hotmail.com.

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8-14 March 2007 S/W repair, data recovery, wireless, cable/ADSL installation and computer lessons from friendly and experienced Microsoft professional for reasonable price.

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Help with purchasing the right MAC. Contact Sagar at7791926.

PC/NETWORK EXPERT Friendly, Microsoftcertified,12+yearsexperience,willsolveanySW/HWproblem incl virus/spyware removal, data recovery, networking, ADSL/cable/wirelessinstallation, backups, consulting & upgrading. Matan: 06 2714 6026.

COURSES STILL LOOKINGfor the right yoga class? Think you are too creaky?

At Studio Body & Mind, Herculesstraat109, it’s not about tying yourself in knots but feeling good in your own body. Trial class thru Feb. only €5. Find a lttle time for yourself & boost your winter energy. More info at www.peakexperience.nl.

HEALING WORKSHOPSStarting Mar in Mirror Center in A’dam Oost. Il Cielo offers foot reflexology, craniosacral workshops and holistic massage courses.

Interested? Check courses/programs on www.ilcielo.org or call 06 3004 9738. Treatments reimbursed by health insurance.

SINGING LESSONS On Prinsengracht, beautiful atmo-

sphere. Classical voice training, breathing techniques, vocalization, scales, etc. For beginners and professionals. From classic to jazz, pop or rock, all styles of singing. Good prices + free introduction lesson. Contact Michael on 320 2095 or ajara77@yahoo.com.

Ayurveda lectures, meditation, chanting and healthy diet.1 hour from A’dam, 25-28 May. For more information contact nicolas@planet.nl or 06 5176 4621.

STEM IN BEWEGING Voor wie: Iedereen die nieuwsgierig is naar demogelijkhedenvanstem,zang & beweging en die op zoek is naar diepgang in het werken met de stem. Contact info@steminbeweging.nl.Aanmelden.Voor meerinformatiekijkopwww.steminbeweging.nl of bel 419 8389.

VOICE-OVERS Learn a comprehensive overview of the voice-over industry with monthly workshops held in A’dam.

For more information visit www.voicetake.com.

IYENGAR YOGA CLASSES with certified Iyengar yoga teacher Cristina Libanori, Tues 19.30 to 21.00 at Training Centrum, Europaplein127 near RAI. Tram 4 (stop Dintelstraat). €8 p/class; with yoga strippenkaart €7.50.

Individual therapeutic classes arranged by appt at €20/hr. cristina@the-wheel-ofyoga.com/773 5307.

BABY WEARING has been the way to carry babies since the beginning of mankind, making parenthood a lot easier. There is much more to baby wearing than most people in the Western world are aware of. How can we benefit from the ancient tradition? For more infromation email info.sabina@gmail.com.

SPRING RETREAT Yoga and Ayurveda in daily life. Dive deep into your yoga practice and learn about the Indian art of healing.

Two daily hatha yoga classes,

DRAWING AND PAINTING workshops by professional artist, various techniques, all styles. For info call6813067/joneiselin@hetnet.nl.

VOCAL COACHINGSinger-songwriter offers vocal coaching confidence and song writing skills sessions. Call 06 5210 1547 or visit www.dvoradavis.com.

DANCE YOURSELF FIT! Improve posture,flexibilty,stamina&general well-being. Western & AfroBrazilian dance styles set to rich mixofmusic.Beginnerswelcome.

Taught in NL & ENG by Sarah Kate. €55 for 10 lessons. Mon 10.15-11.15, Haarlemmerstr 132.

Wed 19.45-20.45, Elandsgracht 70. More info: 06 1546 1776.

begin! Ahora puedes aprender a tocar piano! O6 2745 8027.

INTRO WORKSHOP DSLR Learn to love your digital camera. If you have digital SLR and want to spend a weekend learning how to make it work, attend our introduction to digital workshops on 17 &18 Mar or 21 & 22 April. See www.JohnHindmarsh.com/travelworkshop.htm or email John@ JohnHindmarsh.com or phone 06 2127 6246.

YOGAYOGA.NLoffersHatha,Iyengar and Vinyasa Flow classes.

Daily morning and evening, in English,inA’damclosetoJordaan.

Also classes in the weekend: 3 on Sat as well as monthly Sun workshops. Visit www.yogayoga.nl or call 688 3418.

COURSE IN MIRACLES Are you interested in an English study group on the Course In Miracles?

Join a new group beginning in March. Call 06 4798 0501 for information.

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NIA CLASS Weekly NIA classses in Mirror centre. Every Thur 19.45-21.00 and Fri14.00-15.15.

8 class card €70. Single class €10. To register, email jeroendewit@mirrorcentre.nl or visit www.nianow.com.

LANGUAGE EXCHANGE Native Japanese speaker who moved from Germany recently looks for tandem partner to learn Dutch or native English speaker to improve her English. If you are interested in learning Japanese or German please contact chao25hi@hotmail.com.

PIANO LESSONS Experienced pianist and teacher from Latin America available to teach Spanish- and English-speaking persons. If you ever thought of studying piano and didn´t do it, now is a good opportunity to

LEARN SPANISH! Do you want to learn or improve your Spanish with professional native?

Speaking, grammar, etc. What you want! Private €20 and group (2-3) €15 each. Phone 06 4384 5642. Y habla español!

MOBILE DUTCH Still getting to grips w/ Dutch? Download a handy translator for your mobile phone@ www.steape.com.

Available in17 languages each product has about 100 handy phrases & comes w/ both text & sound so your pronunciation is flawless! Steape is cheaper, lighter & more fun than traditional phrase books!

LEARNING DUTCH? JOOST WEET HET! €7/hr. 2x2 hrs/wk.

Don’t go to sleep in wintertime, improve your Dutch at Joost Weet Het! Courses on all levels and real quality. Visit our website www.joostweethet.nl or call us at 420 8146 or email info@ aprenderholandes.nl.

INTENSIVE DUTCH COURSES at Joost Weet Het! €7/hr, 4x4 hrs/wk. We have an unconventional and very clear learning method. Fun classes, emphasis on conversation and inexpensive!

Visit www.joostweethet.nl or call us at 420 8146 or email info@ aprenderholandes.nl.

DUTCH LESSONS A'DAMImprove conversation/professional purpose/studies/NT2.Alsoonline.Min individualrate€15/hr.Adults&children. Also intensive courses. Min intensive: 15 hrs = €215.55. Mon tillSun.10.00-21.00.http://home.tiscali.nl/stylusphant/indexdutch.html, excellentdutch@hotmail.com or call 06 3612 2870.

IMPROVE YOUR DUTCH!Link Taal Studio, a professional way to learn Dutch, private lesssons, small groups, intensive course, etc., starting every week, Vijzel-

23 gracht 53. Contact linktaalstudio@gmail.comor0641339323.

PERSONALS SEEK ROMANTIC sensual lady who likes life, enjoys talking & laughing, not afraid to show her emotions. Good listener, music lover, clever, witty, compassionate. I am Jewish man model,1951 (168cm/70kg), in excellent condition. You should be 4557, live in or near A’dam and be non-smoker. Email si-si@37.com.

GOOD-LOOKINGEX-MARINE 36 y.o. masculine clean-cut allAmerican type. Blond hair, blue eyes, d/d free. 5’11, 180 lb, solid muscular build, hairy chest, very horny. Friendly, warm and honest. No drugs. €100/hr. No text messages or withheld numbers. Kevin: 06 2936 4660.

SINGLE GAY GUY 41 y.o. looking for new mates and maybe more.

Contact by mail: u.b.41@hotmail.com.

NEW EXPERIENCES Good-looking, straight 26 y.o. looking for man and woman to share one night experience for the 3 of us.

You have to be good-looking, clean, nice and friendly. Email 25.prince@gmail.com EROTIC MASSAGE Very beautiful, sportief Turkish masseur 25 y.o, 185cm, 87kg. Brown skin, hairy, sexy sporty body, romantic, friendly. Top well hung.

Would like contact with boys and gentlemen for erotic relaxing massage and more. Call Memeet 06 4156 0575.

SEEKING A COOL CREW Just moved to A’dam, keen to meet

cool people in town. I’m one who feels after-work beers is mandatory. Also want to get fit & def likes clubbing/gigs. Like rock/indie bands but also into house/trance scene. Be cool to meet up w/ anyonewhowantstomaketheeffort. nick_saisanas@hotmail.com.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ORIGAMI ARTIST Do you make origami? Want to demonstrate?

Amsterdam Weekly is looking for outgoing paper-folding artists. Please get in touch immediately. Email monique@amsterdamweekly.nl.

CREATIVES! Open invitation for international creatives in A’dam to BSUR OPEN 2007. Mix ‘n’ mingle/informal drinks/inspirational meet and greet/short movie Brand Iconics (10 min). Thur 8 March from 17.00-19.00. RSVP to beasyouare@bsur.com.

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AANBIEDINGEN ONLINEDe leukste aanbiedingen op het net. Met infoovertelefoons,vakanties,computers en andere aanbiedingen die gratis zijn. Ga naar http://aanbiedingenophetnet.startspot.nl/.

IS IT YOUR BIRTHDAY? Then let's celebrate it together. I am an artist and interested in meeting you on your birthday. Please send email to birthday.project@yahoo.com and I will mail you the details. Greetings, Philip.

FRIDAY NIGHT CURRY CLUB Monthly Fri night event for avid curryloversinA'damcenter.Taste fresh regional cuisine from India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Come along, have a beer, meet some

people, enjoy the curries and have a great night out. Visit www.abfabdining.com or call 06 4322 3338.

IMAGES Looking for newspapers, magazines or photos. Anything with images printed on paper. Need big quantity for art project. If you know where to find some or if you have some, I will pick them up for ?. Email comeonmyaddress@yahoo.ca or call 06 1532 0120.

MEET NEW PEOPLE, explore A’dam & have a good time! Great & diverse mix of internationals and locals. Several events each week. More than 1100 members, 100% fun & 100% free.

Check the website for upcoming events: www.meetin.org.

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WALLPAPER Leftover wallpaper wanted for art project, no matter in what state or shape! Email mandrauw@hotmail.com.

TOY INSTRUMENTS I'm looking for your old battery-powered toy instruments.Ifyouhavegotsome unusedoneslyingaround,Iwould gladly pick them up. Thanks. Contact Jakob on 06 4231 4747 or polyphake@ xs4all.nl.

VEHICLES WANT TO BUY BOAT Looking for a canal boat. Must seat 6 people. Possibility to fit outboard motor (also want to buy). Looking to spend up to €600. Phone 06 4513 7582.