Amsterdam Weekly: Vol 5 Issue 16, 17-23 April 2008

Volume 5, Issue 16

17 - 23 APRIL 2008 Tetris is so last week

‘Two basics: beers and laughs’ page 4

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Should I stay or should I go?

The fight to maintain diversity in Oost page 6

Director Tim Burton: call him an auteur not an asshole page 17 The future of news is advertising page 4 Yes, and… has it really been 15 years of Boom Chicago? page 4 CLUB: Electro glam straight from the Holy Land: Terry Poison p. 11 / FOOD: Sausage hunt p. 16 / SEX: Mister Big p. 18

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TOMAS SCHATS

Who will pay for information? Advertising?

Saving paper Giving newspapers the new biz.

By Robin Kawakami Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who eclipsed Bill Gates last month as the world’s richest man, according to Forbes’ annual survey, amassed his fortune by understanding trends. In 2006, he warned Berkshire Hathaway shareholders about the newspaper industry’s imminent demise, based on a trend he noted 15 years earlier.

‘Almost all newspaper owners realise that they are constantly losing ground in the battle for eyeballs,’ he wrote in a letter to shareholders at that time. ‘Simply put, if cable and satellite broadcasting, as well as the internet, had come along first, newspapers as we know them probably would never have existed.’

That prescient statement is clearly borne out by today’s print news industry: everywhere, papers are closing down, cutting back and rethinking their business strategies. Last weekend, De Balie and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision held a three-day conference called ‘Economies of the Commons’. One of the panels, ‘Uncommon Business Models’, brought together media and business

experts to discuss innovative ways of funding a creative commons: a place where the public has access to information—be it music, images or texts.

The panel looked at two case studies to show how companies can make money through technology and advertising.

Moderator Harry Verwayen, from Amsterdam-based think tank Kennisland, mentioned one of the afternoon’s key ideas: applying uncommon thinking— like the way piracy and peer-to-peer networks share information—to traditional problems.

The newspaper industry could benefit from such thinking. Last month, the Newspaper Association of America reported a €2.8 billion decline in advertising revenue from 2006 to 2007, a change of 9.4 per cent—the worst decline in more than 50 years. Tribune Company, the media conglomerate that owns major American newspapers like The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, reported an €8.1 billion debt at the end of 2007.

Dutch newspapers have also felt the strain, with European media conglomerate Mecom axing 80 positions at regional newspapers in the Netherlands earlier this year. The weblog ‘Newspaper Innovation’ reported that DAG and De Pers, two free daily newspapers, lost €10 and €20 million, respectively, in 2007. They both project more losses this year. And, lest we forget: Amsterdam Weekly faces its own fight for survival in 2008.

Many newspapers have embraced the

internet to sustain profitability. The New York Times, for example, abandoned its online subscription model last year to increase advertising revenue, and The Wall Street Journal is expected to follow suit this year.

Websites like Flickr and LinkedIn have learned to leverage user-generated content to boost profitability. Jonas Woost, head of music at online music company Last.fm, and Knewco CEO Jan Velterop, a leading expert on open access publishing, discussed new business models within their industries.

‘The natural state of information is open—free,’ said Velterop. ‘So how do you make money with information?’

He pointed to three potential sources of funding: reader, author, or third party.

After identifying traditional models like subscriptions and advertising, Velterop pronounced the statement that became the session’s mantra: ‘He who has the biggest interest is the one who pays.’

Mentioning Google Scholar, the search engine that allows users to access scholarly texts online, alongside direct links to Amazon and other retailers, Velterop discussed how advertising could fund academic publishing. ‘I suspect that the entire information world will somehow be supported by advertisers.’

Woost outlined Last.fm’s use of technology and user-generated content. The social networking site earns money in three ways: banner ads, affiliate links and subscriptions. The site ‘scrobbles’ songs: every time a user listens to a track, Last.fm’s software adds it to his/her profile; the user is then served up ads and links based on his/her musical preferences. Last.fm estimates that it scrobbles 210 songs every second, leading Woost to conclude: ‘Because everyone’s listening, Last.fm is perpetually monetised.’

The ‘uncommon business model’ boils down to advertising cloaked in new technology. When asked to comment on any detrimental effects that might accompany the advertising model, Velterop dismissed the notion. If people want quality information, he argued, they can pay for it. ‘People who want good information can get it now, more than ever,’ Velterop said. And people who want the ‘bad’ stuff? He reckons they ‘get what they deserve.’

But that is exactly the problem: with the need to generate advertising revenue, media are tempted to appeal to the lowest common denominator—a race to the bottom of content quality. These media claim that they are simply meeting the needs of different audiences. But we have to ask: at what cost? The ‘battle for eyeballs’ means that information will flow through a filter—this time, not so much the filter of news editors and journalists, but an advertising filter. Will information only become ‘free’ when it has been blessed by corporate cash? In this case, embracing advertising with such uncritical enthusiasm might yield innovative, uncommon business models, but it does not always serve the common good.

Booming Chicago Fifteen years of jokes and beers.

By Steve Korver A couple of weeks ago Amsterdam Weekly reached out to the Hells Angels for some advice about trademarks and brand-building. This week we’re reaching out to another club. A comedy club. One that is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month as a highly successful, English-language-fuelled business. ‘Boom Chicago paid a million euros in taxes last year,’ says executive producer Andrew Moskos as we drink beer in the sunshine on the theatre’s Leidseplein terrace. ‘So it’s safe to say we’re totally ingeburgerd.’

It’s a heartwarming story—especially since Boom Chicago was founded by Moskos on a stoned whim, back when he and a friend were passing through Amsterdam on a holiday and noticed a hole in the improvisational comedy market.

Today, Boom Chicago fills its 300-seat Leidseplein Theater most nights with smartass shows that incorporate suggestions from the audience. It’s a formula that Moskos learned back home in Chicago, Illinois, where he was inspired by Second City and trained at Improv Olympic.

‘We just started peddling these two basic things: beers and laughs,’ says Moskos. ‘And we were lucky that there was always an audience for the shows we wanted to do. We never had to go through any heavy inner battles about art versus commerce.’

‘Thank god for that,’ chimes in Rob AndristPlourde, a 12-year veteran Boom actor and improv teacher, who has joined us at the table.

Okay, beer is obviously always a good basis for a strong business model. But were they able to apply the laughs to the model as well? ‘Well, in a way,’ says AndristPlourde. ‘The basics of improv are to always remain positive and respond with a “Yes, and...” to whatever gets thrown your way, even if every fibre of your being is screaming Noooooooooo!

And on a business level I think we’ve tried every idea that’s come along.’

‘But just as on stage, some business ideas work better than others,’ deadpans Moskos.

Meanwhile these two Boomers also busied themselves with saying ‘Yes, and...’ to Dutch society at large. While they began as purveyors of ‘cheese, pot and pussy jokes’, as AndristPlourde describes it, they have long escaped the tourist/expat ghetto, both personally and professionally. ‘Sure, we’re still welcoming to tourists, but our shows are now aimed at the Dutch,’ says Moskos.

‘It wasn’t a conscious decision. We learned the language, started reading the papers, had Dutch children and became part of the culture,’ Moskos goes on. ‘And

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now we’re the ones complaining about all the fucking tourists. Just call it natural evolution.’

Over the last five years, Boom’s audiences have also shifted slightly, going from half Dutch to two-thirds. That may have to do with the popularity of the TV show De Lama’s, which has brought improvisational comedy to the Lowland masses. ‘Although they are obviously influenced by us, we don’t feel ripped off at all,’ says Moskos of the show. ‘You could say we introduced the grammar, but we ripped that off from elsewhere as well.’ Indeed, good comedy is like folk music: it belongs to the world.

During a decade and a half of taking the piss out of Amsterdam, these two Boomers have watched the city change.

‘I’ve seen two big shifts,’ says Moskos. ‘In beer and in police. Fifteen years ago, the beer price ratio was one to two: the cheapest place might sell a beer for 1.75 guilders while in the most expensive place it went for 3.50. (I should say that I’m not including bars featuring naked women in this observation.) But now that ratio is one to three. A whole new level of quality establishments has been laid over the top. And that’s been at the expense of the city’s underground. And let’s be careful with that: you don’t want to become Switzerland.’

‘Meanwhile the cops have gotten more petty,’ continues Moskos. ‘Before, it was about mature policing that focussed on the lessening of troubles. Remember those parties where the cops warned about bad ecstasy going around? Now they spend their time busting kids at Sensation parties for smoking joints and

people on the street for jaywalking.’

AndristPlourde professionally cuts the situation to its essence: ‘I totally agree. The counterculture is dead and the police have become the stereotyped pigs.’

‘I sometimes miss that Amsterdam,’ continues AndristPlourde. ‘I remember years ago seeing two men walking down the street arm in arm and going “Wow what a great city”. Okay, it turned out to be a cop and a guy in handcuffs, but my sentiment was real.’

‘Yes, and maybe they were just bondage sweeties,’ says Moskos, spinning it positive.

‘Actually, I knew we had really become part of the city when I got married a few years ago in the Filmmuseum,’ recalls Moskos. ‘My brother-in-law is a cop and was all smart in his uniform.

Before the main event, he went for a walk in the park and was stopped by two undercover cops to check if he was for real. These cops were pretending to be tourists and part of their disguise was our tourist magazine stuffed into their back pockets.’

So Boom Chicago’s future in the marketplace seems secure. But what can save Amsterdam from becoming Switzerland?

More cheap beer perhaps?

Both Boomers respond simultaneously: ‘We’d “Yes, and...” that!’

Boom Chicago’s latest live show, Last One to Leave the Planet, Turn Off the Lights! premieres 24 April. www.boomchicago.nl.

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THE WILD OOST

In March 2007, Danielle Spock found out by coincidence that stadsdeel Oost-Watergraafsmeer had approved a demolition permit for her apartment. Spock, who works in tourism and has been living in the building for 30 years, was shocked.

She started asking around and discovered that the housing corporation Ymere is planning to take down 63 houses in the Derde Oosterparkstraat and Vrolikstraat and replace them with about half as many senior and luxury apartments.

The residents of the blocks created a union to tell the stadsdeel council they didn’t want to leave, but soon found out that the stadsdeel’s civil servants had been working with Ymere to find the quickest way to push the permit through the system and that the stadsdeel had no intention of withdrawing its decision because it would delay the corporation’s schedule. Danielle was devastated by the news. ‘Nobody listens to the people who live here,’ she says. ‘We are seen as a necessary evil that is only interesting for the little bit of rent we pay.’

The gravity point of Amsterdam is moving across the Amstel to Amsterdam Oost. With European and ministerial

After years of struggle, Amsterdam Oost is finally thriving, with new businesses and renovations to the office boulevard running through the neighbourhood, Wibautstraat. But success comes at a price for the current residents, who are fighting to save aspects of their old ’hood.

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funding, the stadsdeel and city are changing this poor and largely non-white part of town into a magnet for the city’s creative and highly educated class, while housing corporations are using their central financial position to turn social housing into homes for those who want to live in De Pijp but can’t afford to. But long-term residents have started to rebel against the forced evictions and demolitions. The efforts are channelled through the squatted neighbourhood centre ’t

Blijvertje, which has fought its way into the economic development bureaucracy to demand that their concerns be addressed.

Danielle and her neighbours never had a sterling relationship with their landlord, but in the weeks leading up to the demolition permit application, Ymere started sending letters and making intimidating and patronising house calls.

Danielle: ‘They were telling us in a forceful manner that we all have to leave.

Because of the kind of language they were using and the feeling that it was a lost cause anyway, a large number of the tenants left.’

Danielle’s union, though, decided to take a tougher approach and invited squatters to occupy the apartments that had already been abandoned. Together they spent two months of 2007 renovating one of the ground floors and turned it into a social and cultural centre, which they called ’t Blijvertje. With 100 euros each, along with the furniture and supplies they found on the street, they built a bar, installed a few computers and connected a cosy gas heater.

Volunteers often joke about the cutesounding name of the place, ’t Blijvertje (‘the one who stays’)—since it is so different from the stereotype of the black-clad Amsterdam squatter—but it is aptly chosen for the laid-back living room atmosphere the group has created.

Renters, squatters and even anti-squatters regularly drop by to watch films or play Trivial Pursuit. And the regular performances by local bands such Caspian Hat Dance and Zibabu attract a stream of visitors from all over the city.

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What Oost is like When Danielle moved from Eindhoven to Amsterdam Oost 30 years ago, it was a very different place. ‘It was a ghost town,’ remembers Bart Top, who squatted there in the 1980s and now owns a renovated apartment on the Vrolikstraat. Because of a failed urban planning intervention, many of the original inhabitants had moved to Purmerend or Almere, and nobody had taken their places. Junkies were shooting up in empty buildings, while shop owners struggled to survive without customers.

‘When I moved here, some of my old neighbours didn’t want to be found dead here,’ says Lena de Haan, a community organiser who has lived in the Vrolikstraat for 20 years and is part of the renter’s union. ‘But there was always a lot to do, even in the bad times. Children were playing in the street and the neighbours kept an eye on them.’

Although policy makers still brand parts of the area a krachtwijk, which is governmental jargon for ‘problem district’, the people who live here say it’s lively, diverse and gezellig. Many of those who stayed in Oost during the bad times are first generation immigrants. Their heritage is reflected in the grocery stores, pet shops, internet cafes and other shops owned by people from an array of nationalities: Moroccan, Turkish, Iranian, Surinamese, Thai, Chinese and, of course, Dutch.

Although there isn’t much ethnic mixing behind closed doors, there is a lot of social interaction in the street. During the summer, everybody gathers in Oosterpark to play football, lounge around the makeshift Piramide cafe or simply lie on the grass. If you walk around with your shoelaces untied, five people will tell you to be careful.

What makes Oost special is the atmosphere, says Lena: ‘If I don’t feel like opening my curtains, someone will come to see if I’m okay. People aren’t intrusive, but they are involved.’

Boom town Of course, a good neighbourhood vibe doesn’t go unnoticed in Amsterdam for very long. Now that there are hardly any affordable houses left in De Pijp, people who want a gezellig environment for a first home are searching east of the Amstel.

According to Marcel Janssen of the Dienst O&S, Amerdam’s statistical bureau, Oost has become attractive for educated people from outside of Amsterdam. They are likely to be attracted even more by the new campus the Universiteit van Amsterdam is building on opposite sides of the Wibautstraat.

To spice up the mix, artists and cultural organisations are also showing considerable interest in Oost. In June 2007, Urban Resort moved into the former Volkskrant newspaper offices with dozens of graphic designers, artists, music producers and marketing agencies after housing corporation Het Oosten had invited them to occupy the building until it comes up with a permanent plan for what to do with it.

But long-term residents are concerned that these newcomers are changing the neighbourhood that they have cultivated through a long and difficult struggle. Lena and Danielle both emphasise that they don’t have a problem with new people coming to Oost, but as Lena says: ‘They work during the day and are tired at night, which means they are not so interested in a lot of social interaction.’ Danielle adds

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‘Everybody expresses their dissatisfaction with how things are going with social housing in general through our problem,’ says Danielle, ‘because of course we are not the only ones in this situation.’ she’s afraid that higher-income residents will be less enthusiastic about contributing to the eclectic neighbourhood mix: ‘Because they pay a lot of money to live here, they expect a lot of things and aren’t very interested in contributing something.’

Mrs Peelen, another one of the renters, feels the people moving in aren’t as considerate about neighbourhood rules. ‘It upsets me that these new people don’t know how to behave themselves,’ she says. ‘If you try to inform them about the garbage collection rules or the neighbourhood codes, they just say: “I’m paying my taxes, so I can do what I want”. People don’t even answer when you say hello.’

Rising housing prices are also driving out lower-income residents. ‘You see that every house that becomes available in the Vrolikstraat is renovated and sold for 280.000 euro or more, which none of us could afford,’ says Lena. ‘Everybody deserves a place to live, but there should be space for all kinds of people in this neighbourhood.’

Realtor Rob de Koning of Aemestelle Makelaars says that since the housing corporations started selling their stock, the housing market in Oost/Watergraafsmeer has become ‘extremely tense, especially for first-time buyers.’ He gives the recent example of a two-room apartment on Tilanenstraat with an asking price of 279,000 euro. It sold to a bidder for almost 300,000 euro. ‘Houses are sold above asking price, sometimes literally within five minutes.’

The houses that ’t Blijvertje want to save are going to be replaced by new apartments that will be rented out for approximately 800 euro a month. Eric van Kaam, the regional director of Ymere, is naturally very frustrated by the resistance to Ymere’s plans. ‘The mobilisation has already cost us a one-year delay, and it’s enough,’ he says. ‘We gave all the residents the guarantee that they can come back to their own street. I think we have accommodated all their wishes, except for cancelling the demolition.’

But he says they’re still moving ahead.

‘Ninety per cent of the people have already relocated,’ he says. ‘Now there’s a handful of people that are completely against the

demolition, but our plans are too far along to be stopped.’ Asked how the residents will be able to afford the higher rents, he answers that returning residents will be eligible for social housing benefits through Ymere.

‘Not all of us can claim social housing benefits,’ Danielle responds. ‘And why should Ymere rely on that anyway? What if these subsidies are cancelled? We can’t afford rents that are three or four times as high as we are paying now.’ Anyway, she says, ‘We don’t want our houses to be demolished. These new housing blocks are completely ruining Amsterdam’s character.

If I had wanted to live in one of those buildings, I could have stayed in Eindhoven.’

What about Wibautstraat?

The centrepiece of Oost’s regeneration is the four-lane Wibautstraat that runs through Oost. Kees van Ruyven of the city’s project management bureau says upgrading the Wibautstraat is one of the central city’s top priority development projects, along with the Zuidas and the IJ-oevers.

The plan is called Wibaut aan de Amstel and according to the project website, it will transform the ‘grey racing track to a green avenue that connects the surrounding neighbourhoods’. City alderman Maarten van Poelgeest envisions a lively street that will bring the quality of the stately homes along the Amstel river into the Wibautstraat and the rest of Oost.

Kees van Ruyven adds that he would especially like to see cultural organisations extend their presence from the city centre into Oost. He is very pleased with the new cultural breeding ground in the Volkskrantgebouw and secretly dreams that the contemporary arts centre De Appel, which is now in the centre of Amsterdam, will move to the Wibautstraat as well.

But Anton Baas, a well-known graphic artist and one of ’t Blijvertje’s squatters says, ‘People here are not interested in exhibitions and that kind of subsidised art.

They want something more improvised.’

Asked what kind of people he expects will be drawn in by this kind of culture, he says: ‘I think it will be people from the canal ring who are in the mood for something hip.’

Van Poelgeest doesn’t think the development along the Wibautstraat will have a negative effect on the current residents of Oost. ‘Building new houses doesn’t mean the old ones will disappear,’ he says.

Justus Uitermark, an urban sociologist working on his PhD at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and a volunteer at ’t Blijvertje, doesn’t find it logical that the city invests in projects like Wibaut aan de Amstel instead of protecting Oost’s vulnerable residents against the market forces that are driving them out of their neighbourhood. But, he says, ‘the dominant political opinion is that market forces are too strong for government intervention, and that it’s better to work with them than to go against them.’

Van Poelgeest does agree that the high demand for housing close to the city centre makes it hard for poor people to stay in Amsterdam. ‘I’m very much in favour of protecting a part of the social housing volume in neighbourhoods which experience a lot of pressure from the market,’ he says.

‘But it’s often complicated, because some places fall victim to their own success.’

Which, he adds, ‘isn’t a specific problem of Amsterdam Oost. It’s a problem of the whole 19th century ring.’

Towards a balanced plan The people of ’t Blijvertje have been successful in convincing the stadsdeel that Ymere is going against the residents’ wishes with demolition and that renovation instead of demolition is an option, contrary to Ymere’s claims. In July 2007 the stadsdeel council adopted a resolution that expressed doubts about the level of democracy in Ymere’s dealings with the people concerned, and called on Ymere and the residents to come up with a solution.

Under the chairmanship of high profile politician Felix Rottenberg and former National Ombudsman Nora Salomons, the renters are now negotiating with Ymere for a better plan. During this process they have attracted support from social housing experts and many other neighbourhood committees in Oost.

‘Everybody expresses their dissatisfaction with how things are going with social housing in general through our problem,’ says Danielle, ‘because of course we are not the only ones in this situation.’

Until Ymere gives in to their demands, the people of ’t Blijvertje refuse to leave Oost and promise to use their squat as a base for future resistance efforts. They want to stop the forces that drive out poorer people from areas like Oost.

‘We’re so sure about our case because we have experienced a lot of strange dealings and are within our rights,’ says Danielle. ‘We’re with our backs to the wall, but we don’t want to keep it at that. We want to make a positive contribution to this neighbourhood, and we do that by fighting for the preservation of this block.’

Baas, the graphic designer and squatter, is optimistic about the outcome: ‘I think our actions are showing the corporations that there’s a limit to what they can make people do. Until now, the stadsdeel and other officials always accepted what the housing corporations are doing, but we are changing that.’

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SHORT LIST

Zanzibara Festival, Thursday, KIT Tropentheater

THURSDAY17APRIL

FRIDAY18 APRIL

World: Zanzibara Festival

Festival: 4 Seasons Festival

And you thought you knew African culture. But this glorious four-day summoning of music and films from the Swahili-speaking lands of Eastern Africa—most being seen for the first time in Europe—will show how the region has incorporated and transformed influences from India and the Middle East. Among the highlights, tomorrow night the Kenyans Amina & Rasini will offer their updating of Taarab (a swirling, rhythmic traditional modality) with a stripped-down ensemble playing electric instruments. On Saturday, Tanzanian star Saidi Karoli will favour us with contemporary guitar-based urban dance tunes, and Sunday will see an afternoon of Sufi stylings, centred on the singing and percussion of the Kilimani Quasida Group. Most evenings launch with a movie or two (usually subtitled in English) and Saturday night wraps with an African Dance Party. Hats off once again to the Tropentheater for a worthy and entertaining expansion of our cultural parameters. For the full programme see www.tropentheater.nl. (Steve Schneider) KIT Tropentheater, various times and prices. Until Sunday. CANCELLED!

Ahhh, sleepovers: staying at a friend’s house overnight was one of childhood’s most exciting activities. A bit further into adolescence—at least a girl’s adolescence—came pyjama parties.

Then, moving on further, sleepovers evolved into crashing at someone’s house after a particularly wild party. And later, all this evolved yet again, into what is generally known as a one-night stand. One could say that this mini-festival goes back to the roots of the sleepover concept. First you go to a party that is full of exciting things: live bands and DJs (including Chris Carrier and Vincenzo de Bull), photography exhibitions, interactive games, live drawing, short films... And then, after having lots of fun, you needn’t go home! Instead, you can sleep over at Studio K with all your friends. How exciting! As the name suggests, the festival is scheduled to take place four times a year, with this spring edition being the kick-off. Just don’t forget to pack your fanciest sleepwear. (Sarah Gehrke) Studio K, 22.00, €12.50.

Festival: Springdance By the time this text is printed (if it is printed, that is), spring will hopefully have arrived at last. The season is thus called because it makes things spring. Flowers spring out of the ground. Waiters spring around on the re-opened terraces. People’s hearts spring because they’re falling in love. And dancers spring around on Utrecht’s stages, because over there spring means Springdance. This dance festival has an international reputation for being a platform for new developments in the world of contemporary dance. Many a new choreography has sprung out of the ground in Utrecht. So have new dancers, innovations, performances and cooperations. All very exciting—as everything is supposed to be in this most refreshing of all seasons. One of the festival’s most exciting features, Dialogue, gives twelve young budding upstarts the opportunity to work together and exchange new ideas, hopefully resulting in much more renewal. (Sarah Gehrke) Various times, locations and prices, Utrecht. Until 26 April.

SATURDAY19 APRIL Art: Nancy Spero—Spero Speaks The 82-year-old American artist, Nancy Spero, has always fought against the male-dominated bastion of modern art, where abstract painting ruled. She consciously chose art forms that were considered lower in the modernist hierarchy, like drawing, printing and collage. Her works are inspired by oft-ignored forms of expression such as folk art, comic art and children’s drawings. Especially since the wars of the 1960s, her images have expressed the violence of our times, from the atrocities of war to abuse of and injustice towards women all over the world. Spero’s drawings, prints and collages are loud and clear in their message, but the artist has never hesitated to express her opinions in other ways as well. Besides exhibiting exemplary works from her oeuvre, De Appel presents the publication Codex Spero: Selected Writings and Interviews 1950-2008, a ‘radical manifest’ that contains a choice selection of the artist’s personal notes and statements.

(Marinus de Ruiter) De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00). Until 22 June.

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Film: KLIT! wordt KLIK! Last September, the first edition of KLIT! Animation Festival Amsterdam took place and featured over 80 shorts from 11 different countries. There were even two Golden KLIT awards presented. Since that time, the organisation decided it would probably be in better taste to change the festival’s name to something less, um, controversial. And hence from this day forward this festival shall be called KLIK!, so this evening also acts as a mini-fest to celebrate the new name. Things begin at 20.30 with an introductory borrel; then from 21.00, over eight hours of top animation films will be screened and backed by DJs, old skool computer games, low tech VJs, tostis and yet more animation. Breakfast will be served to the diehards who make it through the night. (Steve Korver) Cavia, 20.30-05.00, €4.

Jazz: Tim Berne & Science Friction Saxophonist and bandleader Tim Berne has always made serious demands of the listener; his work demands total engagement, unspooling dense tangles of melodic improvisation.

In groups like the recently reunited Bloodcount, melodic lines danced around one another like hyperactive snakes, but his quartet Science Friction ups the ante with an equal dose of harmonic exploration. Berne’s tart, angular alto saxophone slashes through and darts within the kaleidoscopic harmonies of pianist Craig Taborn and electric guitarist Marc Ducret, while drummer Tom Rainey subdivides the off-kilter grooves like the funkiest mathematician you’ll ever meet. If you’re willing to surrender yourself to the onslaught you’ll probably feel drained by the end of the evening; your brain will be busy processing the information, but your body will keep you from realising it. (Peter Margasak) Bimhuis, 21.00, €16.

SUNDAY 20 APRIL Contemporary: Zapp String Quartet So what are these guys doing in the Bim? It’s all par for the course, as the Zapp String Quartet are as venturesome geographically as they are musically. Classically trained, the guys nevertheless improvise with the best of them and perform works from all over the outfield—pushing into prog rock, flamenco, electronica and world, as well as commissioning scads of new scores. To all of it they bring a winning mix of recklessness and discipline, along with an understanding that barriers are made to be broken. Tonight the Dutch group will be introducing their new CD, Particular, a typically polyglot offering whose title piece was written by jazz guitarist John Scofield. So do get to the Bim tonight and let yourself be taken somewhere else. (Steve Schneider) Bimhuis, 21.00, €14.

World: Contrabanda!—-Balkan Beats & Gypsy Grooves You might be tired from last night’s other Contrabanda! evening. But it’s more than worth dragging your dancing ass out again since Balkan beats are big for a reason. They are perfect for losing yourself in those ‘we eat, we drink and then we dance’ moments. And when served with the strongest of rakia, the hottest of peppers and roastiest of goats, these beats invariably induce a communal vortex of fierce frolicking. A true hoe-down. And tonight’s obvious highlight is Macedonia’s Esma Redzepova, the ‘Queen of the Gypsies’, who usually comes backed with many of her 80 adopted children… She’ll be followed by relative youngsters, Gipsy.cz and KAL, who have taken their gypsy roots more in the direction of the dance floor—just like Balkan beats godfather Shantel, who will close the evening with a Bucovina DJ set. (Steve Korver) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership.

MONDAY 21APRIL Rock: The Breeders One of the very few things one can actually say against the Pixies is that they didn’t let Kim Deal write enough songs. But even that turned out to be a good thing, because it made her form The Breeders: a band that gave us big-time girl band coolness plus a hefty batch of great songs. After taking nine years to follow the 1993 hit album Last Splash with Title TK, The Breeders have actually been a bit quicker this time. Mountain Battles was released the other week, and while responses have been mixed, it’s still delightful to see the Deal sisters back on stage. Singing along with a bass line never was that much fun in their absence. So everybody now: dum duh duh duh dum duh duh duh... I know you’re a can-non-ball! (Sarah Gehrke) Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, sold out.

Roots: An evening with Willie Nelson and family Ever been so desperate to get tickets to a sold out gig you’ll do anything to get in? Here’s my tale of woe. Arriving back from a trip I discovered one of my idols—Willie Nelson—was playing the next day. Panicked, I hatched a plan: email Willie and tell him about the time I met his wife at Kinky Friedman’s trailer at Echo Hill Ranch in the mid-’90s (honest to God— I wasn’t desperate enough to lie!) and see if I could be of use to him or his family while they were here, plus offer to pay for my ticket. Would you believe he responded?! Sweet as pie too. But it was unfortunately too late for the gig. But hey, there is always this one at the Melkweg to look forward to. Darn, I hope there’s still tickets left. (Kate Holder) Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €48 + membership.

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Straight from the Holy Land, Terry Poison brings electro with a honey and stiletto attitude.

TASTE THE POISON, STAY FOR THE VODKA CLUB Terry Poison at Moskow Diskow Sugar Factory, 18 April, 23.00, €12

By Isabel Serval

Tel Aviv’s sexiest electroclash act ever, Terry Poison, are performing their first show in Amsterdam on Friday, and they can’t wait to get here, says lead singer Louise Kahn.

‘We’re expecting some crazy dancing and a lot of good-looking boys out front.’

The show is to promote Terry Poison’s upcoming EP, 24h, which will be released in May. A trio at its core, the band is comprised of frontwoman Kahn, Gili Saar and Petite Meller, with help from producer Bruno Grife and DJ Oualid on the turntables.

Maybe the idea of three scantily-clad, stunningly beautiful girls dancing around on stage doesn’t sound musically promising. But their voices actually sound like

honey with an attitude and they’ve gained a stern reputation for producing deep and noisy neo-electro sounds with a high energy vibe that’s guaranteed to keep you on your feet.

The girls have never studied music formally, but whatever they lack in musical education, they make up for with the visual extravagance of their live shows, wearing anything from next-to-nothing to enormous paper masks or bunny ears, while both teasing and flirting with each other and their audience. And that’s not to say they can’t also play like possessed electro-rocking devils.

Norwegian-born Kahn, who is now 28, started performing in Tel Aviv clubs in 2004, together with her friend Noga Nezer, while studying photography and multimedia at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

They devised the riot grrrl act Cherry Poison, initially just for fun. But after self-proclaimed producer Grife introduced

himself one night in a club, Cherry became Terry—a fictional character invented, as they say, out of boredom: ‘She’s someone to blame for anything that goes wrong and looks exactly like you’d imagine her’—and the band got serious.

‘My friends and I were heavy clubbers at the time,’ says Kahn. ‘We observed that it was always just DJs playing and we craved visual excitement. We missed aspects of live music and we liked to be looked at. So we decided to get our own act performing in those clubs.’

After being an Air Force engineer in the Israeli army, Grife decided he would rather offer his services to the girls. Nezer went off to pursue a journalistic career and was replaced by former model and accomplished Israeli actress Gili Saar. Now, three years after their collaboration began, Terry Poison are performing in clubs across Europe, from Oslo to Budapest and back to their home-away-from-home, Paris, where they often collaborate with female French electro star Yelle.

Onstage, Kahn is the ‘madame’ of the group; simply impossible to ignore. The character of Sivan ‘Petite’ Meller is more like that of a baby doll—but she’s actually a philosopher in real life. That leaves Gili Saar playing up to whisky-induced drunkenness, wobbling on her stilettos and showing off her body.

The band’s performance style and look is clearly a big part of their appeal, and their funky couture and costumes

You’re poison running through my veins.

are provided by Israeli stylists Maayan Goldman & Hagar Ofir. But visuals are only part of the formula. What makes them really an act to remember is the interaction with the audience: ‘I really like to play on the persona’, says Kahn.

In Israel, Terry Poison are one of the only live electro acts around at the moment but the music and clubbing scene there is buzzing with new activity: ‘Israel is a crazy place because we’re like a little island in the middle of the Arab world. About eight years of Intifada created an artistic vacuum, but now I see a lot of creative stuff happening.

The club scene is wild, and people here have a tendency to go extra crazy to forget about what’s happening around them.’

She says the music her band produce helps people escape the political crises all around them and she stresses that their music doesn’t advocate any political message. ‘We take ourselves very serious musically, but, of course, in the end, we girls just love to have fun.’

And while Terry Poison is still very much part of the underground music scene, Kahn has no intention of staying there. ‘I want as much attention as I can get,’ she announces brazenly. ‘I’d like to make out with Madonna on television some day.’

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17-23 April 2008 World: Cumbiamba Afro Latina New dance night promoting invigorating sounds from Colombia, Venezuela and other Latin American countries with a strong Afro culture. Live guests are Miguel Osorio & La Parranda, plus DJs. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 22.00, €8

Sunday 20 April Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (See Friday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €45/€55 Salsa: Los Borrachos Del Barrio Spicy samba ensemble played by an international cast. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 15.00, €5 Latin/Jazz: Rumbatá Led by percussionist Jaime Rodríguez, Rumbatá plays a lot more than just salsa— though it’s a fun enough starting point for your Sunday evening. Sugar Factory, 18.30, €8.50 Punk: Angels and Airwaves Pop punk paradise for pups. The sharp mainstream sounds from this bunch are driven by former Blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, with help from former members of Rocket From The Crypt, Offspring and 30 Seconds to Mars. And yes, it sounds just like you’d imagine. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €17 + membership

The Breeders, see Monday

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Thursday 17 April Singer-songwriter: Ane Brun Spellbinding Norwegian songstress who specialises in emotionally raw acoustic pop. Support from Nina Kinert. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €16 + membership

World: Hollandse Rituelen Ritual music in contemporary Holland is the starting premise for an extensive multi-disciplinary programme in both the Bimhuis and Muziekgebouw. With diverse performances from Wendell Morrison, Ensemble Multifoon, Radio Kamer Filharmonie and numerous international soloists, such as Tomoko Mukaiyama, Eric Vaarzon and Borg Diem Groeneveld. Bimhuis, Muziekgebouw, 20.00, €12/€35 Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performing that Schumann great, Scenes from Goethe’s Faust. Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and featuring a host of top vocalists.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €45/€55

Jazz: Whatever You Want Dinner concert featuring experimental lounge sounds, blending authentic instruments with electronics. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 20.00, €4/€9 Classical: Quatuor Mosaïques Austrian quartet promising abstract works by Beethoven, Schubert and Lanner. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €35.50 Contemporary: Schönberg Kwartet Works by Wim Laman, Bartók and George Crumb. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20 Hiphop/R&B: Bloemetjes Buiten A girls-only edition featuring Ninthe, Talking Loud and Coco & The Walkers. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Ryan/Uitti/Parker Joel Ryan is able to take the sound of a few acoustic instruments and transform them on stage into a full orchestra through digital manipulation. Tonight he meets saxophonist Evan Parker, a central figure in the international improvisation network, and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, who can make her spontaneous inventions sound like classical sonatas or minimal music.

Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Rock: The Allegros Amsterdam rock ’n’ roll. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Tom Beek Quintet The sax man leads the ensemble through their new repertoire. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.30, €8 Singer-songwriter: AJ Roach Acoustic folk pop inspired from bible texts—but a tad more positive than 16 Horsepower used to be. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €7 + membership Pop/Rock: Club 3voor12 Live radio and TV session featuring sets from Keith Caputo, Nobody Beats the Drum and Blaudzun. Desmet Studios, 22.00, free, tickets: www.3voor12.nl

Friday 18 April Punk: Millencolin Swedish skate punk and pop.

Melkweg, The Max, 19.00, €16 + membership Rock: 65daysofstatic, Oceansize Two titans of the British underground. 65daysofstatic seamlessly blend instrumental post rock sounds with blistering drum & bass and electronics. Oceansize crank out melodic slabs of prog noise. Patronaat, Haarlem, 19.30, €12.50 Singer-songwriter: Adam Green Always happy to tread a thin line between charming and shambolic, shows from the former frontman of The Moldy Peaches are always unpredictable. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 19.30, €11 + membership

can blink and the roars are gutteral, but the super-fast guitar riffs attempt some semblance of melody. Support from Holland’s own math-metal kings, Textures.

Melkweg, The Max, 19.30, €15 + membership Opera: Koor en Orkest van De Koninklijke Muntschouwburg Impressive Belgians getting vocal for Rossini’s Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra. Julian Reynolds conducts. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €56.75/€67 Opera: Un ballo in maschera Verdi’s murderous blend of tragedy and comedy, with libretto by Antonio Somma. Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €15-€90 Electro rock: Subbacultcha! Wounded pet indie electro sounds from Belgium’s Kania Tieffer. Try not to have a fit. Support from The Wooden Constructions, who sound fairly post punky, but can they stand up to a strong wind? De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00, €6 Classical: Quatuor Mosaïques (See Thursday) Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €35.50 Classical: Violini Capricciosi A taste of Italian baroque. English Reformed Church, 20.15, €12.50

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs Blues: Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs This Brit has had a varied musical career to date. Starting off in an all-girl garage band called Thee Headcoatees, she’s since made her name as a sassy singer-songwriter with a love for folk and blues, while also guesting with bands like Rocket From the Crypt, Billy Childish and The White Stripes.

Patronaat, Haarlem, 20.30, €12.50

Classical: Amsterdam Sinfonietta Baroque passion, with works by Stravinsky, Bach, Händel and a world premiere by Marijn Simons. Gottfried von der Goltz is the concert master, with alto Christianne Stotijn and RCO oboe soloist Alexei Ogrintchouk. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25

Rock: The Black Box Revelation Belgian guitar rock. A solo tour this week bridges two separate bouts of supporting dEUS around Europe. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €8.50 + membership Electronica: De Grote Finale The final of the Dommelsch TWSTd DJ Contest is upon us after a gruelling 80 rounds around the nation. The four finger-twitching finalists, Wub, Dacato, Wesley Vibes & Mark Hertz and Jasper Wolff will be joined by previous winners, plus special guests DJ T. (Berlin) and Vince Watson (Glasgow). Melkweg, 22.00-late, €12 + membership Jazz: A New Acquisition Funky dance jazz to get you up for the weekend. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 23.00, €8

Saturday 19 April Classical: Royal Brass The brass players of the RCO step out on their own today to perform works by Gabrieli, Beethoven, Bach, Hindemith and Koetsier.

Noorderkerk, 14.00, €12 Classical: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Works by Rijnvos, Sibelius, Anderson and Lindberg. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €23.50/€28 Heavy: Arch Enemy When I was a teenager, death metal was anything but melodic. These days that’s apparently a viable concept, and with these wild Swedes (why is it always the Scandinavian and Nordic nations?), the bass drum still pulses faster than you

Classical: Grigory Sokolov Solo recital by this remarkable Russian pianist, featuring works by Mozart, Chopin and others. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €44/€55 Pop/Rock: 4xLive Post punk pop from Rotterdam’s mighty fine Politics. Support from Channah, Fabiana Dammers and Paulina Dubaj. Winston Kingdom, 20.30, €5 Big band: Petit Orchestre Orange American swing and dance music from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s.

Badcuyp, Noordpool, 20.30, €7 World: Contrabanda! Festival Balkan beats and gypsy grooves from Esma Redzepova, Gipsy.cz and Shantel. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership Singer-songwriter: Ian Britt Melodic pop from this Brit who’s also a Britt. KHL Koffiehuis, 21.00, €7.50 Big band: Jazz Warriors Casablanca Muziek, 21.00, free Contemporary: Zapp String Quartet One of the most adventurous Dutch ensembles, Zapp manage to make every genre their own, from ethnic music and avantgarde to the relentless grooves of jazz and rock. New album, Peculiar, contains mainly exclusive works by American and Canadian composers and musicians, including big names like jazz guitarist John Scofield, former Zappa member Mike Keneally and violinist Mark Feldman. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Monday 21 April

Heavy: The Real Amsterdam Underground Punk and hardcore from Cave Canem (DE), Vuur (BE) and Bombenalarm (DE). OCCII, 21.00, €5 Blues: P-A-U-L Detroit blues rock. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Heavy: Parkway Drive Thunderous hardcore and metalcore that’s let down by the shit band name. At least support bands Bury Your Dead, Suicide Silence and To Kill know the score. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.00, €15 + membership

Pop/Rock: DiscoverMe Live music contest for bands and singer-songwriters. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 19.00, €7 Surfin’ Bird Rock: Surfin’ Bird Not only one of the biggest surf hits ever, the original ‘Surfin’ Bird’ players, The Trashmen, will be on hand to knock it out live tonight. Support from The Neanderthals and homegrown heroes The Phantom Four. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €17.50 + membership Pop/Rock: 3xLive Quiet to loud guitar sounds from Masshysteri (Sweden), The Darko and Autoblonde.

Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6 Bluegrass: Oops-a-Daisies, The Pedro Delgados Time travel to the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s with bouts of old-time bluegrass and Americana. Vivacious stuff.

KHL Koffiehuis, 21.00, €6 Jazz: Tim Berne & Science Friction DIY jazz saxophonist Berne released his first records on his own label, and with his similarly melodic and avant-garde music he managed to win the hearts of the greats in the New York improv scene. These days, Science Friction are typically recognised as his best group for pure sonic adventures. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 World: Contrabanda! Festival Under the theme ‘Latin Connexion’, expect performances from New York salsa ensemble Spanish Harlem Orchestra, reggaeton from Ghetto Flow and música mestiza from Mala Vita. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.30, €22.50 + membership Experimental: MKM! Mind bending melodies and noise from Slasher Risk (US), Good Enough For You (Austria) and AM Square. OCCII, 21.30, €5

Rock: The Breeders Grunge seems so far away now that it’s weird to think of The Breeders being lumped in with that brigade, but ‘Cannonball’ really does date back to 1993 and can still cause a storm of motion at any indie disco. See Short List. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, sold out Americana: An evening with Willie Nelson and family Actually, there’s always the possibility this will be more about the family than Willie if he gets too baked on the tour bus. Still, everyone should catch this ‘outlaw country’ star at some point in their life, and with him turning 75 next week, you never know how much more he’ll wish to trek over to this continent. See Short List.

Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €48 + membership Funk: Bernie’s Lounge Playing music that’s made for dancing, these Amsterdammers tackle styles from Balkan to Brazilian, Afro to mambo, infusing their tunes with blasts of horns and spicy Latin percussion. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €8 Jazz: Duo Sean Bergin & Rogerio Bicudo The sax player and guitarist celebrate the launch of new CD A Tale of Three Cities with international jazz treats inspired

by Rio de Janeiro, Durban and Amsterdam. Bimhuis, 21.00, €10 Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Weekly concert series for new live electronic and acoustic music, now in a new location. Tonight: playful electro-acoustic duo Praed. SMART Project Space, 21.30, €5 Experimental: Old Time Relijun Bizarro indie noise from the K Records family. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.00, €6 + membership

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Tuesday 22 April

DJ Real presents El Barrio A ‘Latin Urban Eclectic Experience’. Paradiso, 23.59-05.00, €12

Classical: Main Street Singers Californian choir performing sacred works. English Reformed Church, 13.00, free

Saturday 19 April Club Fritz & Molotov One ticket, two parties: Club Fritz in Westerliefde and Molotov in Westerunie. So from electro and techno to hiphop the experts will be on hand. Westerunie, 22.00-04.00, €17

Opera: Un ballo in maschera (See Saturday) Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €15-€90 Soul/R&B: Angie Stone Slick nu-soul and R&B from the American starlet. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €39 Contemporary: Asko Ensemble & Schönberg Ensemble Celebrating the career of New York composer Elliott Carter, who turns 100 later this year. Additional works by Stravinsky and Goehr. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €20.50/€24.50

Sugar Factory

Jazz: Richard Bona World jazz pop headed by this renowned bassist from Cameroon. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20 + membership

CLUBS

Experimental: De Drie Boeddhas Pop poetry meets horns and dashes of jazz punk. Paradiso, Kelder, 21.00, €6.50 + membership

Thursday 17 April

Singer-songwriter: Open Mic Weekly podium for singers to share their tunes and hear their peers. Lots of international voices are heard, so you could be pleasantly surprised. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free Jazz: Pigalle 44 Gypsy jazz in a Django Reinhardt style. Casablanca Muziek, 21.00, free Folk: The Saw Doctors Ireland’s answer to The Proclaimers? From straight folk to comedy rock numbers, they certainly present a more authentic Irish vision than U2. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership Pop/Rock: Retribution Gospel Choir The more raucous side of slowcore indie icons Low, whose guitarist Alan Sparhawk leads this trio. They’ll be cranking up the amps and letting things get that bit more careless—no bad thing at all. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €7 + membership

Wednesday 23 April R&B: Mavis Staples A true R&B voice that’s been roaring, as well as soothing, since the ’60s. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €25 + membership Pop/Rock: Dommelsch Locals Only! Showcasing unsigned acts like Monokino and Monstertux. Sugar Factory, 20.00, free Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (See Friday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €45/€55 Pop/Rock: Gorki Belgian guitar pop. You’d be forgiven for thinking that there’s no other music happening across the border, but Gorki deal in melodic melancholy that has more in common with At the Close of Every Day than dEUS. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €15 + membership Pop/Rock: The Long Blondes English Britpop taking a bow to ’60s pop, new wave and post punk. Fronted by singer Kate Jackson, they offer up more glamorous perspectives from Sheffield than most of the scruffy indie boys who’ve been doing so well these past couple of years. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €11 + membership Blues: André Manuel & De Ketterse Fanfare The rootsy end of Nederpop. Paradiso, Kelder, 21.00, €8.50 + membership Jazz: Brokkenavond Corrie van Binsbergen’s playful night for musical partnerships. This edition features sets from BLO IV (led by Hans Hasebos) and Eric Vaarzon Morel & Albert van Veenendaal. Zaal 100, 21.00, €5

Club Rascal Indie disco monster feeding on a parade of colourful balloons that burst like bombs made of jazz and feathers to promote jaggy guitars and silly robot dancing. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 Hed Kandi ‘The Sparkling Spring Edition’ with the usual array of Hed Kandi internationals and local DJs and champagne vinegar. Hotel Arena, 22.00-04.00, €22.50 365Live! Featuring a three-hour set from Michel de Hey, with backing from Juan Sanchez, DJ Leama and a host of visual distractions. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €12

Gewoon Gastvrij House and minimal evening with spinning from Mr Minoz, Mike Ravelli and Brent Roozendaal. Club 8, 21.00-03.00, free

F*ckers With Benny Rodriques, Ricky Rivaro, Carita La Nina, Marc Benjamin, Victor Coral and loads more.

We, of course, favour ‘unf*ckers’. The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €15

Grande Chill Real el Canario & Edzon present their night of hiphop. With special guests. Bitterzoet, 22.00-03.00, €5

Fightclub Featuring Bobmo (Paris), Vance and Kid Reve. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €9

Poptrash Three decades’ worth of rock, electro and hiphop with The Punchout DJs and guests.

Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.00-05.00, €5 Wildvreemd 2.0 Freaky dance beats from Boge & Prause, David Labeij and Richard Parker. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10 WKND H0use mus1c 1n a11 1ts gl0r10us f0rms.

Studio 80, 23.00-late, €5 Noodlanding! A VJAcademy special for talented video performers. Paradiso, 23.30-04.00, €8

Friday 18 April Rednose Distrikt Cool grooves. Kicking off with their radio session, Steven de Peven and Aardvarck turn their attention to the party from midnight. Bitterzoet, 21.00-04.00, €7.50, free before 23.00 Disco Exota Disco, Italo, house, synthpop and exotic Wild West party vibes. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €6

Hotspot A new Saturday night party for urban, Latin and Caribbean dance sounds. Club Chi, 23.00-05.00, €10 Fck MiNimal…Go MaXimal Big techno noise and progressive dance. Ruigoord, 23.00-06.00, €10 Stitch The feminine side of electronica, featuring live and DJ sets from Sophie Zeyl, Lilian Hak, DJ Martine & Eva Maria, Isis and DJ collective FNNNN. Studio 80, 23.00-06.00, €11.99 Contrabanda! Nacht World grooves. Paradiso, 23.5904.00, €10 Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. In The Max, it’s an internationally flavoured ¿Que Pasa? special featuring La Kinky Beat (Barcelona); in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternative dance, pop, rock and indie hits. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €9

Sunday 20 April

Perfume Sexy tech-house. If tech-house can be sexy.

Club NL, 22.00-04.00, €5

Caput #5 They claim to have the best electro and pop tunes in town. Who are we to argue on a Sunday?

Club 8, 22.00-03.00, €10

De Revolutie House, hiphop and funk for the Friday crowd that dresses up then fails to decide. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €14

WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50

Mood Elevator Oh, good morning Mr Tyler. Going down? Darko Esser and Pitto are hoping their live sets won’t have you crashing. Plus there’s loads more DJs to save the night. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €8 Moskow Diskow Reality becomes Russian fantasy at this exotic party. The live act tonight is Terry Poison (see article p. 11)—an Israeli electro-glam band. Wannabeastar, Goldfinger, Diskomachina and AlexetJeremy will be spinning with vodka shots.

Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €12

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GAY& LESBIAN Edited by Willem de Blaauw.

Friday 18 April Party: Women’s Night Weekly women’s night in this laid-back cafe, with either DJ Suna, Ortega, Roest or Voytec. Men are welcome, if accompanied by a female friend. Cafe Sappho, 21.00-01.00

Saturday 19 April Club: Vintage Diva Mayday takes you back, way back, and spins classic house and dance tunes. Exit, 23.0005.00, €15 Sex club: The Tunnel A new fetish sex party in town, surrounded by rumours and secrecy. The location, an underground area under Beursplein, should only add to the sleazy excitement. Strict dress code: army, rubber, leather or naked. The Tunnel, Warmoesstraat, 23.0004.00, €15-€17.50

Sunday 20 April Sex club: Nude Club Amsterdam Busy and steamy men-only afternoon safe sex party. Dress-code: no clothes, just rubbers! Cockring, 15.00-19.00, €8 Rozella Everybody is free... to sing along with Rozella.

Yep, the one-hit wonder performs at this super-tiny, livingroom size bar, making it an even more claustrophobic experience than usual. De Engel van Amsterdam, 17.00 Social: Furball Cafe Hairy marys and those in persuit of the hirsute, head to this monthly evening with groovy tunes and furry blokes. PRIK, 19.00-01.00 Club: Latin Fuego T-Dance DJ Claudio Duarte spins happy Brazilian sounds for a young and sexy crowd.

From the organisers of Rapido. Club Chi, 19.00-01.00, €5-€7.50 Party: Asian Disco Night East meets West at this friendly dance party. DJs RW and Eko spin the decks, plus performances and tasty Asian snacks (eh, that’s food!). Cockring, 20.00-00.00, €5

Monday 21 April Monday 21 April Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €6

Wednesday 23 April

Minimaal Feestmaal Goes Animalistic Don’t go minimal, go manimal, tigerrrr. Studio 80, 23.00 -06.00, €6

Rub-A-Dub Inna Winston Reggae and dancehall night with the surprise twist of a live set by dance DJ San Proper. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €5

Matjesdisco ’80s electro, hiphop, rock and other funny business. OT301, 23.00-late, €5 (€3 if in costume)

Katapult Pop, electro and weapon-building workshop.

Studio 80, 23.00-04.00, €5

Sex club: After Weekend Sex Party ‘Tell me why I don’t like Mondays’... Well, the crowd at this men-only, attitude free, sex party sure know how to get rid of that bluesy Monday feeling. Strict dresscode: naked or underwear only. CK, 2(x)ist and AussieBum galore!

Same Place, 20.00-01.00, €3/€5

Tuesday 22 April Sport: Nude Swimming Weekly nude-swimming hour, which is actually not gay but has been taken over by a herd of happy homos who don’t mind swimming without their AussieBum, Speedo or Calvin Klein—or with the occasional woman. Het Marnix, 21.00-22.00, €3.50

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STAGE Opening Theatre: De Koning van het Plagiaat An angel wishes to become a human so attempts to implant four human brains into his head. These belong to Einstein, Wittgenstein, Gertrude Stein and Frankenstein. During preparations in his laboratory, the angel holds a monologue, in which he steals shamelessly from Shakespeare, Elvis and The Beatles. How very human. This one-man tour de force is written by Jan Fabre and stars Dirk Roofthooft, one of last year’s Louis d’Or nominees. In Dutch.

Stadsschouwburg, (Thur 20.15), €12-€23 Theatre: Het Zouthuis A family gathers at their old family home by the sea for the wake of a deceased child. From that cheery position, the mourning process is never going to flow smoothly. In Dutch. De Balie, (Thur, Fri 20.00, Sat 14.00, 19.30), €12.50 Theatre: The Young Ones III—Voor Volk en Vaderland A ‘hilarious comedy of errors’ set in a frat house. 17 years old and new to the big city, the three new boys are exposed to initiation rituals and a cruel Chinese chef. By company Growing Up in Public. In Dutch. Frascati, (Thur-Sat 20.00), €12 Theatre: De Fantasticks The famous ’60s musical, with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones, gets a Neder-reworking. Arjan Ederveen and Johnny Kraaijkamp Jr take the lead roles, as Broadway comes to Westerpark. In Dutch.

Westergasfabriek, (Thur-Sat, Wed 20.30, Sun 15.30), €25 Theatre: Enter My Bubble Katy Hernan and Chris Leuenberger take us on a journey through a postcard landscape with lush, green meadows and snow peaked mountains. One from the French, the other from the German speaking part of Switzerland, in an attempt to dig up their roots and jump over their shadows, they come across countless clichés, fondue memories and ultimately the loss of innocence. Hetveem Theater, (Thur-Sun 20.30), €9 Theatre: De Gravin van Parma Part three of Ursul de Geer’s Sándor Márai trilogy. After Casanova has escaped from prison, he reunites with Francesca— the love of his life—and with her husband, the Count of Parma. Starring Pierre Bokma and Carice van Houten. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Sun 20.15), €12-€27.50 Theatre: Nachtwake Het Paardenkathedraal present a play by Lars Norén, directed by Paula Bangels. The set-up: two brothers and their wives, the ashes of their mother, and the urge to break out of their marriages. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Mon 20.15), €12-€23 Theatre: Friezen!/Orange Guinea Pigs 3.1 A double bill presented by Made in da Shade and Cosmic Theater. Friezen! is a one-act play that takes a new approach to multiculturalism themes.

Orange Guinea Pigs 3.1 is an associative mime performance drawing inspiration from hiphop, soul and TV shows. In Dutch. Frascati, (Tues, Wed 20.00), €12 Theatre: As You Like It One of those plays about young people running around in the woods looking for love and sex. Het Nationale Toneel perform while Shakespeare specialist Gerardjan Rijnders directs. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Wed 20.15), €12- €23 Theatre: Antigone All-time fave by Sophocles, brought to stage by Het Huis van Bourgondië. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Wed 20.30), €12

Ongoing Comedy: easylaughs Comedy improv in English.

Two knee-slapping shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €8, €5 (late night) Performance: Varekai Yet another Cirque du Soleil touring monster. This one is based loosely on the Greek myth of Icarus, and as you’d expect, features acrobatics and theatrical circus trickery on a scale most wouldn’t dare. Grand Chapiteau, (Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 19.30, Fri, Sat, Wed also 15.30, Sun 13.00, 17.30), €25-€74 Theatre: Lieve Kitty Dood Paard with a new play about a group of people trapped in a windowless room. Anxiety and trepidation mix with a strong will to regain freedom with the power of imagination. Inspired by the Anne Frank diaries. In Dutch.

Frascati, (Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 20.30), €12

Amsterdam Weekly

17-23 April 2008

EVENTS Festival: Springdance A vibrant dance festival in Utrecht that focuses on the most current developments in international contemporary dance. See Short List. Until 26 April. Various locations, Utrecht, (Daily), various prices Workshop: e-Fashion Day—Wearables and new electric designer materials American designer Leah Buechley demonstrates methods for incorporating electronics with clothing. Mediamatic, (Thur 10.00-17.00), €150 Multidisciplinary: Macht Political debates, workshops, talks and food-for-thought, with the promise of beer and live music from Caspian Hat Dance at the end of the tunnel. See www.crea.uva.nl. CREA, various halls, (Thur 19.30), €7.50 Debate: The Political Divide Between Europe and the US Has become Irreparable John Peet (The Economist) leads political discussion. In English. De Rode Hoed, (Thur 19.45), free, reserve at info@huijskens.nl Art/Film: Unsentimental Journey An agentur in transit event featuring presentations by Quirijn Kuchlein, Sabine Mooibroek and Mieke van de Voort. Points of departure include: a piece of polder that will soon be underwater; a disappearing lane of trees; Suriname’s December Murders; and the artist that stops making art.

In Dutch. De Veemvloer, (Thur 20.00), free Festival: Zanzibara Festival CANCELLED! Four days of live music, films, documentaries, art and lectures that will submerge you in Swahili music and the culture of the East African coast. See Short List. KIT Tropentheater, (Thur-Sun), various prices Multidisciplinary: 4 Seasons Festival Could this grow into Amsterdam’s own Motel Mozaïque? It’s certainly on a smaller scale, but scheduled to take place four times a year, its programme is fairly vibrant, filled with photography, films, interactive art, food, drink and loads of music (live electronica and DJs). There’s even an option for staying overnight to ‘sleep’. See Short List.

Studio K, (Fri 22.00-04.00), €12.50 Workshop: Battle of the Platforms Software pirates come out of the closet for this showdown between experts of Reason, Cubase and Ableton. If you aren’t a technology head, techno heads can still get off on a DJ set from Michel de Hey. Sugar Factory, (Sat 19.00), €8.50

Miles Aldridge: New Works, see Opening

ART More listings at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

Opening Nieuwe Oogst Shining the architectural spotlight on the newest members of the Bond van Nederlandse Architecten. ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 17 May Drie Meiden in Verzet—Hannie Schaft en de Zusjes Oversteegen Exhibition about Hannie Schaft—the girl with the red hair—and Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, the girls she collaborated with in the resistance movement, and the difficult choices forced upon them in WWII. Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat-Mon 11.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 7 December &10xID Photography tackling themes of globalisation, identity and integration. Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (Thur-Sat 13.00 -17.00), opens Saturday, until 10 May

Film/Music: Sound and Vision #4 Documentaries from audio and visual arts. OT301, (Sun 20.30), €4

Miles Aldridge: New Works Fashion photography?

Perhaps. But if you look a bit closer, you’ll notice a certain discomfort underlying the world of glamour Aldridge portrays, as if something terrible is just about to happen. Reflex New Art Gallery (Tues-Sat 11.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 7 June

Discussion: Broeinest ‘Learning to Organise: Part Two’. Which organisational models are currently offering a structural change in the Dutch polder? Are older organisational models (trade unions or political parties) a thing of the past? Do the often-cited ‘networks’ offer any alternatives? In English and Dutch. Plantage Doklaan 8-12, (Mon 20.00), free

Nancy Spero: Spero Speaks A solo exhibition by this prominent American artist, including exemplary works from different phases of Spero’s lengthy artistic career.

A diptych sheds new light on the ‘persona’ of Spero, as artist, but also as activist, feminist and mentor. See Short List. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 22 June

Literature: Steve Coll One of America’ s most renowned international affairs correspondents will be discussing his revelatory new book on the Bin Laden family—The Bin Ladens. If America comes out of this one looking all shiny, it’ll probably just be the oil glinting in the sun. In English. Posthoornkerk, (Mon 20.00), €12.50/€18.50

Paul Sietsema: Three Films The American artist Paul Sietsema has earned a reputation during the last decade with a refined cinematographic oeuvre of three films. Within the context of his first solo exhibition in Europe, the three works will be screened as a trilogy, representing three distinct phases in a conceptual artistic expedition through (art) history. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 25 May

Party: Volle Maan Absurd experimental poetry, music and video. Special guest is Def P & The Howling Coyotes. OT301, (Sat 21.30), €6

Discussion: Women Inc Weekly talk show highlighting specific female issues. Tonight it’s a literature special with Sharnush Parsipur, Marja Pruis and Kristien Hemmerechts. In Dutch and English. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Mon 20.00), free Debate: Kenniscafé #4 Discussing ‘The Hidden Treasures of the Brain’. Volkskrant journalist Martijn van Calmthout leads the chat with columnist Maarten Keulemans and writer/biologist Jelle Reumer. In Dutch.

De Balie, (Mon 20.30), free Talk: Talk of the Town The role of the creative industry in city development. This edition looks at the case of the Polderweggebied. In Dutch. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Tues 18.00), free Literature: Marathon Reading Day Amsterdam has been named this year's World Book Capital, and to kick off its year in the literary limelight, the city is organising a literary festival, with free readings at Atheneum Boekhandel, the Ambassade Hotel (beloved of visiting authors), libraries, Blijburg and many more. At the American Book Center, Weekly editors and friends Amal Chatterjee, Nina Siegal, Julie Phillips, 'Dishwasher' Pete Jordan and Manjit Kaur will read from their work. See www.amsterdamwereldboekenstad.nl. In English. ABC Treehouse, (Wed 14.30-17.00), free

Trail Openings An extended chance to wander between galleries in De Jordaan. This week: Torch Gallery and Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen. Various locations (Sat 17.00-19.00), opens Saturday

Museums Hidden Afghanistan A deluxe exhibition presenting a ‘not war-torn’ vision of this nation at the crossroads of civilisations in central Asia. At its core, 250 archaeological objects will be displayed. Nieuwe Kerk (Fri-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur 10.00-22.00), closing Sunday PANL Sony Alpha Awards Prize-winning photography from the world of advertising, editorial and fashion.

Also featured is the results of the PANL Sony Masterclass. Oude Kerk (Mon-Sat 11.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), closing Sunday Show Yourself Diverse excerpts of work by and about Benno Premsela. Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 27 April Benno Premsela—Voorvechter van Homo-Emancipatie Books, magazines and photos highlighting the history of acclaimed designer and gay rights activist Premsela. Centrale Bibliotheek (Daily), until 27 April

Allora & Calzadilla—Never Mind That Noise You Heard An opportunity to see and hear recent installations and videos that consider the continuum between noise and music as a productive measure and potentially rich tool through which cultural, social and political relationships can be gauged and challenged.

Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 4 May Anton Heyboer Diverse works in a career overview of this renowned eccentric, who died in 2005. Included are photo collages, etchings, drawings and cartoons.

Jan van der Togt Museum (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen, until 4 May Art Nouveau The best of French and Russian art nouveau. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00 17.00), until 5 May MAGNUM Photos 60 years This collection uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year, giving visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 12 May Territorial Phantom Employing a whole mix of attitudes, viewpoints and forms, the international artists represented here respond to the concept of occupying and possessing space with a series of multidisciplinary multimedia works. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 12 May John Everett Millais He was the foremost painter of the English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and Britain’s most successful artist of the latter half of the 19th century. His jewel-like, highly detailed paintings exude a dreamy, serene atmosphere, and this exhibition comprises some 100 works, covering all aspects of Millais’ career. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.0018.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 18 May Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters—Women of Art and Science Containing the most important and influential natural history art from the Netherlands in the 17th century, this exhibition features more than a hundred rarely displayed masterpieces, including original drawings, watercolours, gouaches, prints and books.

Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.0017.00), until 18 May Edwin Zwakman: Fake But Accurate A retrospective of well-known Dutch photographer Zwakman, in which his three latest series can be seen together for the first time. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 25 May Rachel Howard New work by the acclaimed British painter. Museum van Loon (Fri-Mon 11.00 -17.00), until 26 May Stella Faber: Foliage Presenting the work of Faber, who photographed the mountainous rainforests in Ecuador and Costa Rica. She researches the inner landscape of the rainforest in all its original complexity and dignity. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 29 May Jessica Dimmock—The Ninth Floor An exhibition of socially-engaged photography by the young American photographer. This disturbing portrait series features a group of young heroin addicts living in a ninth-floor apartment in Manhattan, New York. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 1 June Daniel & Geo Fuchs: STASI—Secret rooms This exhibition opens up the hidden rooms once used by the STASI, the infamous East German secret service, in a series of monumental photos. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 4 June Superheroes and Schlemiels Superman, Maus, The Rabbi’s Cat and many other heroes and anti-heroes

17-23 April 2008 from the art of comics feature in this exhibition of comics and graphic novels by Jewish artists. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 8 June Kurt Lubinski: Photographer in Exile Documentary portraits by this German photographer, who gained a significant reputation as a successful photojournalist for his worldly travel reportages in the ’20s and ’30s.

Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 8 June Expanding the City Various photographers present their take on Amsterdam’s Zuidas. The show introduces a cross-section of the Zuidas Virtual Museum’s Zoom Collection, providing a unique compilation of different perspectives on a construction site in development. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 22 June Amsterdam and the House of Orange An exhibition surveying the ties which have bound Amsterdam and the House of Orange over the centuries. Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 31 August

Galleries Hong Kong Visions Around 70 georgous and evocative shots snapped by 10 known Dutch photographers, capturing various scenes in Hong Kong. Muziekgebouw (Sun-Thur 10.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 10.00-02.00) Building Lightness Architectural designs that embrace ‘lightness’. Fonds BKVB (Mon-Fri 10.0017.00), closing Friday Eigen Werk Eerst Artistic all-rounder Chiel van Zelst unveils a batch of new works. Chiellerie (Daily 14.0018.00), closing Friday (De)Construct Contemporary Cuban art: aquarelles

by Armando Mariño; photos by Liset Castillo; and installations by Inti Hernandez. Galerie Hof & Huyser (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), closing Saturday It Ain’t Necessarily So A synthesis of Rogi Wieg’s poetry and Elizabeth Kleinveld’s photography, which together tell the story of the transformative effect of having to rebuild anew in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Dikker&Thijs Fenice Hotel (Mon-Sat 17.00-23.00), closing Sunday Jason Eden Collages by the American artist, inspired

by Playboy. Galerie Rademakers (Tue-Sun 11.0017.30), closing Sunday Mediaal Featuring paintings by Congo artist Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo, an installation by Marlijn Franken and photography by Olivier Middendorp. Atelier 408 (Wed-Sun 12.00-17.00), closing Sunday

Amsterdam Weekly Menso Groeneveld: White Motivic Sounds Paintings exploring the boundaries between music, sound and visual expression. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 26 April The Digital View Exploring the influence of digital media and techniques on contemporary art, featuring a selection of national and international artists. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), until 27 April Hunger & Work in a Savage Tribe Poetic messages—written and otherwise—created by graffiti artist Laser 3.14 and multimedia artist Jimmy Rage from the overflow of images and texts found in the public sphere. ABC Treehouse (Thur-Sun 13.00-18.00), until 27 April Wubbo de Jong A selection of photos by De Jong, who spent 28 years working as a photographer for Het Parool. Blow Up Gallery (Thur, Fri 14.00-18.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 2 May Judith van Bilderbeek Colourful paintings by the Den Haag artist. Ververs Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00-17.30), until 3 May State of Transition Paintings by Johannes van Vugt (1954) that, in portraying a single moment, suggest the universal rites of passage that people experience, from the loss of a pet, to puberty, to a cherished automobile from one’s youth. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery (Wed-Sat 14.00-18.00), until 3 May Experience and Logic Structure Installations that challange the dimension of the space they reside in, built and conceived by artist William Speakman.

2x2projects (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 3 May

The Disobedients Works by Adel Abdessemed, Gabriel Orozco, Wilfredo Priëto, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Pascale Marthine Tayou.

Annet Gelink Gallery (Tues-Fri 10.00 -18.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 May Chikako Watanabe: Animal Trail An installation attempting to visualise the invisible ‘animal trails’ of Amsterdam. Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 May Tobias Lehner: Multiplexor The first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by the ‘Leipzig-based’ painter. Grimm Fine Art (Wed-Sat 12.00 -18.00), until 20 May

15 Galerie Rademakers Prinsengracht 570-572, 6225496 Gallery WM Elandsgracht 35, 421 1113 GO Gallery Prinsengracht 64, 422 9580 Grand Chapiteau near Amsterdam ArenA (P2) Grimm Fine Art Hazenstraat 24, 422 7227 Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Hetveem Theater Van Diemenstraat, 626 9291 Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589

Chris Shaw: Life as a Night Porter Shaw spent 10 years working in London hotels, all the while using his camera to both document the hotel’s unexpected human spectacles and keep himself awake through the long hours of his shifts. Hup Gallery (Tues, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 1 June

Imagine IC Bijlmerplein 1006-1008, 489 4866

Hairbusiness: Heads and Tales An interactive multimedia installation bringing to life the intimate world of the hairdresser, where guards are let down—both physically and emotionally—as you stare into the mirror. Imagine IC (Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11.00-17.00, Thur 11.00-21.00), until 14 June

KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711

De Staat van de Straat Window exhibits featuring diverse street art from the collection of André Eggens. Bellamyplein (Daily till 00.00), until 15 June

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 KochxBos Gallery 1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 3-5, 681 4567 De Kunstfabriek Polonceaukade 20 (Westergasfabriekterrein), 488 9430 Lloyd Hotel Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 419 1840 Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Het Marnix Marnixplein 1, 5246000 Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101

ADDRESSES

Motive Gallery Elandsgracht 10, 330 3668

11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999

Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010

2x2projects Veemkade 350, 489 7471

Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455

ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

Perspective of Disappearance Visual art duo Hiryczuk/Van Oevelen show how nature proves its strength every time man tries to control it, by building a miniature landscape, representative of the Netherlands, which the viewer walks through. Platform 21 (Thur-Sun 12.00-18.00), until 4 May

Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie Bethaniënstraat 9, 622 4899

Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909

Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

The Breakers / De Branding A follow-up to previous exhibition ‘The Settlement / De Afrekening’—where the museum director invited W139 to curate an exhibition with the Zuiderzeemuseum’s collection—now the W139 director has invited artists Zoro Feigl and Natasha Rosling to do the same with objects found in the museum’s depots in Enkhuizen and Hoogwoud.

W139 (Sun-Thur 11.00-20.00, Fri, Sat 11.00-22.00), until 4 May

ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878

Jozef van Ruyssevelt: In de Ban van het Licht Paintings by the late Flemish virtuoso artist. Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities (Sat, Sun 13.00 -17.00), until 4 May

Joram Roukes Drawings and paintings. Carhartt Store (Daily), until 7 May

Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066 De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134 Atelier 408 Herengracht 408 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blow Up Gallery Hazenstraat 67, 665 3435 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866

Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255

Noorderkerk Noordermarkt 44, 626 6436 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284 Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444 Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858 Plantage Doklaan 8-12 Plantage Doklaan Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449 Posthoornkerk Haarlemmerstraat 124 The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 RC de Ruimte J.P. Coenstraat 51-55, IJmuiden

Double Diplomacy New works by Folkert de Jong (sculpture) and Fendry Ekel (paintings). The exhibition expresses the attitudes of the two artists towards daily life, the formal aspects of art and the art practice by exploring imagery from historical sources. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 10 May

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368

Reflex New Art Gallery Weteringschans 79A, 423 5423

Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509

Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400

Carhartt Store Hartenstraat 18

De Rode Hoed Keizersgracht 102, 638 5606

Casablanca Muziek Zeedijk 26, 06 1220 0519

Ruigoord Ruigoord 15, 497 5702

Centrale Bibliotheek Oosterdokskade 143, 523 0900

Same Place Nassaukade 120, 475 1981

Aurélien Froment: Acknowledgement The French artist presents a series of works which tackle the issue of image manipulation and the importance of reference systems. Motive Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 10 May

Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448

De Service Garage Stephensonstraat 16

Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703

SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953

Charlotte Dumas: Tiger Tiger Photographic portraits of tigers in nature reserves and zoos throughout the US. Galerie Paul Andriesse (Tues-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 14.00-18.00), until 10 May

CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050

Club Chi Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal 161 Club Home Wagenstraat 3-7, 620 1375 Club NL Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 169, 622 7510

Soledad Senlle Gallery Sloterkade 171, 615 1395 Stadsarchief Amsterdam Vijzelstraat 32 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311

Cockring Warmoesstraat 96, 623 9604

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

Comedy Theater Nes 110

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911

Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345

Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333

Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422

CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400

Studio White Space MJ Kosterstraat 18

CREA Theater Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400

Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

CREA, various halls Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 De Engel van Amsterdam Zeedijk 21, 427 6381

Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455

Desmet Studios Plantage Middenlaan 4A, 521 7100

Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301

Dikker&Thijs Fenice Hotel Prinsengracht 444, 778 1947

Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores Rozengracht 207A, 530 4994

UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141

English Reformed Church Begijnhof 48, 624 9665

Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200

Escape Rembrandtplein 11, 622 1111

Van Zijll Langhout Brouwersgracht 161, 06 2825 9620

Exit Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, 625 8788

De Veemvloer Van Diemenstraat 410, 638 6894

Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123

Ververs Gallery Hazenstraat 54

Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546

Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535

Fonds BKVB Brouwersgracht 276, 523 1523

Vondelkerk Vondelstraat 120

Barbara Wijnveld A series of self portraits utilising varied painting and drawing techniques. Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00), until 26 April

Field Work—Part One As a two-part exhibition and ongoing discussion, Field Work conjectures two parallel, interconnected, and yet differently oriented trajectories that encompass art, nature and ecology.

Featured are works by Allora & Calzadilla, Andrea Geyer, Marine Hugonnier, Lasse Lau and Jason Middlebrook. SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 17 May

Fotogram Korte Prinsengracht 33, 624 9994

W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434

Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866

Walls Gallery Prinsengracht 737

Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208

Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710

Lalla Essaydi In the photography series Converging Territories, Essaydi brings different worlds together.

Her memories of youth in Morocco are her most important source of inspiration; in particular the punishments she received when crossing the barriers of acceptable behaviour. Witzenhausen Gallery (Elandsstraat) (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 26 April

Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk: Salon Printemps 2008 Monumental three-dimensional ceramic objects and oil paintings inspired by Victorian artists like Arnold Böcklin and Viktor Vasnetsov, Catholic devotion cards and works of the the Arts and Crafts movement. KochxBos Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 May

Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities Rietlandpark 193, 419 4705

Westergasterras Klönneplein 3, 475 1412

Ferdinand van Dieten-d'Eendt Spuistraat 270, 626 5777

Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380

Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Hof & Huyser Bloemgracht 135, 420 1995

Witzenhausen Gallery (Elandsstraat) Elandsstraat 145, 644 9898

Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237

Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127

Sit: Unwired Documenting the process of an Amsterdam street artist stepping away from his computer and getting back to black-and-white basics. GO Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 11 May

Exhibition Gerrit Rietveld Academy Exhibition Gerrit Rietveld Academy Thiry-nine fine arts students present a beautiful selection of paintings, installations, sculptures and video works following an intense two month work period. De Service Garage (Wed-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday Het Oog Photography students in the third phase of their courses present selections of their best works.

Fotogram (Mon-Thur 09.30-21.00, Fri, Sat 09.3017.00), closing Wednesday

Under The Surface An international selection of contemporary artists working in the field of non objective art provide a show about painting without paintings. RC de Ruimte (Thur-Sun 13.00-17.00), IJmuiden, until 11 May Frisse Koeien The cows are back in town. De Kunstfabriek (Tues-Fri 12.00-18.00, Sat, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 15 May

Westerunie Klönneplein 4-6

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Corner copia The Corner Martelaarsgracht 26, 624 8700 Open daily 8.00-22.30 Cash.

One glorious morning I awoke to a fading dream, an American dream, in which I was eating a tall stack of pancakes festooned with crispy bacon and fried link sausages served to me by a well-stacked waitress, who kept filling my cup with hot black coffee. ‘Warmer upper?’ she asked, again and again.

Then I woke up, and wondered, where could I batter up for such a breakfast on an early Sunday morning in Amsterdam? My stomach growled, ‘Follow me,’ and I hopped aboard a semi-deserted tram until my belly directed, ‘Stop here!’ I found myself in front of The Corner, where a multi-lingual menu advertised exactly what my dream-self craved: ‘No frills. No fuss. Simple fare.’ You get what you see: English breakfasts, grilled meats (eg. sausages, chicken wings, steaks, spareribs, mixed grill). It was a veritable corner-copia of identifiable delights!

I chose to live the American dream, or something close to it, anyway. So I ordered a basic pancake (€4.90) along with side orders of sausages (€1.60) and crispy bacon (€1.60) to lie in state atop my ’cake. (Musical thoughts of sausage-twirling cheerleaders and fried eggs being used as clashing cymbals entered my semi-conscious state.)

I was fascinated by the breakfast choice of the solitary nerdy backpacker next to me.

He was wolfing down spaghetti bolognaise, his thin face tethered to his plate by the pasta. A

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON Musical thoughts of sausage-twirling cheerleaders and fried eggs being used as clashing cymbals entered my semi-conscious state.

South Asian man at the table in front of me was having trouble approaching his English breakfast with Western cutlery. Four husky Italian teenagers chomped away on some

omelettes with voluble gusto. A Brit hen party arrived, chirping like magpies, and ordered tankards of beer to help wash down their fullon English brekkies.

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I took a quick inspection of the WC. It was absolutely spotless and squeaky clean. I was pleasantly surprised, especially with the high volume of pissers entering and leaving the establishment. My compliments to the staff— who in fact seemed to get only friendlier and more efficient under pressure.

At last my pancake arrived and I drowned it in syrup. It was generously garnished with crispy bacon—a particular treat since some tourist spots are mean-spirited in their skimpy portions.

My sausages were not great but fine enough and the flavour and texture of salty meats combined with sweet sticky syrup was as comforting, as if I were sucking my thumb for security. I took my time to savour every morsel. My dream breakfast was realised.

Some days later, I returned to try another hearty feast of grilled sausages, French fries and salad (€7.50). But being a glutton, I wanted extras and therefore ordered two fried eggs (€1.00 each) and extra bacon (€1.00) to go with it. The results arrived looking pretty good. But unfortunately the pre-cooked fries seemed hard enough to lash together into a raft to battle the mighty Yukon River. As for the eggs, which I requested over-easy, they leered up at me in snotty softness, defying me to send them back.

Instead I used them to soften up the fries. But since it was the grease I was after, I couldn’t complain too much. The price was right and the portions even righter. It took a lot of effort just to finish my plate.

I remembered the spaghetti breakfaster from my last visit and started fantasising about all the crazy combos I could eat for breakfast, American-diner style. How about spareribs with syrup? I bet no one at The Corner would bat an eyelid at such an absurd request, and for some reason, that made me feel secure.

You can get what you wish for.

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At the AFFF, Tim Burton says a few words to his fans. And about his childhood: ‘it’s an unpleasant subject.’

THE GOTH GOD COMES TO A’DAM FILM Amsterdam Fantasy Film Festival Until 20 April. Pathé Tuschinski www.afff.nl

By Luuk van Huët

When I arrive at Tuschinski in perspiring anticipation of the interview with Tim Burton, the iconic director and receiver of the AFFF’s Career Achievement Award, the place is packed so full that I barely manage to squeeze into a position on the stairs, between a camera crew and

a woman quietly knitting away—one of the three Fates come to check up on him? (or is she really Madame Defarge?).

Besides the expected gaggle of goths and flock of film critics, the crowd is young, black-clad and surprisingly female. Has the Johnny Depp charm rubbed off on Burton, hmmm?

When the man himself makes a surprise entrance through a side door, the crowd goes as bananas as if they had just escaped from the Planet of the Apes. Sporting his trademark halo of hair, dark glasses and laid-back

demeanour, Burton is welcomed by the hosts, Mark van den Tempel and festival director Phil van Tongeren, who proceed to grill the flamboyant film-maker before giving the crowd a chance to question the socks off him.

The hosts ask the standard first question: has Burton visited Amsterdam before? He replies: ‘I met up with Michael Jackson in Amsterdam once, but that was a long time ago, before the trials. I wanted to make a musical version of House of Wax and I figured Michael looked a little like...you know. But the studio wisely dropped it.’ When the hosts remark that his film Sleepy Hollow had a lot of characters of Dutch descent in it, Burton adds: ‘I did a lot of research on communities with a Dutch background in New England, but I found that they usually applied themselves to churning butter and dipping candles, which doesn’t mix well with headless horsemen.’

The subject turns to Burton’s youth.

He exclaims: ‘I try to avoid that. It’s an unpleasant subject. I grew up in the sunny and light suburbs of Burbank,

California, which was the complete opposite of the monster movies that inspired me. My parents told me that I loved monster movies before I could even walk or talk. The monster is always an outsider, and I could relate to that—to feeling that you don’t fit in.’

Just as the talk moves on to his early days at Disney, one of the Tuschinski mice races across the floor. Coincidence?

On his Disney days, Burton notes: ‘I quickly realised that I was bad at drawing animation in the Disney style, with the cute foxes in forests and everything. But they soon allowed me to draw what I wanted and that was a unique position to be in as an artist. That’s how I was able to make Vincent and Frankenweenie,’ two early short films.

Despite directing a slew of successful films, Burton says he still struggles to get his films produced. ‘They don’t understand anything I’m saying, which helps.’

He then scores a good laugh by saying: ‘I prefer the word “auteur” to “asshole”.’

It’s time for the public to chime in.

Burton remains tight-lipped about his future projects, claiming: ‘I just don’t want to jinx anything.’ When a youngster asks him if he’ll make more children’s movies, Burton replies: ‘I always believe I’m making a kid flick anyway. I thought Sweeney Todd was kid friendly...’

Finally, Burton—always the nominee but never the winner for the big awards— received his Career Achievement Award from the AFFF. Equally impressive for the director was the festival’s other big award: during the opening ceremony, AFFF founder Jan Doense was dubbed a Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau by wethouder Carolien Gehrels. To which Burton said: ‘What a country, where you can be knighted for 20 years of screening horror movies!’

Five-Word Movie News Announcement

FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Angela Dress (AD),Don Druker (DD),Sarah Gehrke (SG), Andrea Gronvall (AG),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP),Bart Plantenga (BP),Gusta Reijnders (GR),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted.

Festivals Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival The gorefest continues through Sunday. See article above. Pathé Tuschinski AFFF Kids Special children’s programming, including films, classic series (Flipper, Batman) and a course in How to Be a Superhero. Through Sunday. Filmmuseum

New this week Cassandra’s Dream After making his best and smoothest drama (Match Point) in England, Woody Allen returns there for one of his most clueless and awkward, outfitted with a standard-issue Philip Glass score. In both cases Allen’s usual hang-ups about class and money lead to conventionally complicated murder plots. Two economically challenged cockney

HE’S A KNIGHT OF TERROR AFFF Founder Jan Doense honored by the Queen.

Dan in Real Life

brothers in South London—a garage mechanic and compulsive gambler (Colin Farrell) and a more settled sort who runs the family restaurant (Ewan McGregor)—get pushed into killing a businessman who’s threatening to expose their rich uncle (Tom Wilkinson). (JR) 108 min. Cinecenter, Pathé Tuschinski CSNY: Déjà Vu Filmed during the reunited group’s 2006 ‘Freedom of Speech’ tour, CSNY: Déjà Vu is a humorous documentary about the band’s involvement with the Iraq War protest. ‘Embedded’ journalist Mike Cerre provides news, fans from Red States walk out as the four sing ‘Let’s Impeach the President’ from Young’s recent Living with War CD, Young appears on The Colbert Report and Stills falls off the stage. The 40 years since Vietnam all show, but Crosby strums his 12-string like no one else, and Stills and Young know how to play a mean guitar solo once they’re done with politics. Directed by Young under his pseudonym ‘Bernard Shakey’, the film is appearing here in a one-night-only advance screening. (MB) 96 min. Melkweg Cinema

Dan in Real Life The title refers to an advice-tothe-lovelorn column written by the hero (Steve Carell), a widower who takes his three daughters to a family reunion in Rhode Island. On an idle visit to a bookstore, he meets and falls for a woman (Juliette Binoche) who later turns out to be the girlfriend of his brother (Dane Cook). The setup of this comedy by director Peter Hedges (Pieces of April) and some subsequent twists may be contrived, and the laughs aren’t very plentiful, but much of the behaviour seems real, and the able cast makes the most of it. With Dianne Wiest and John Mahoney. (JR) 98 min. The Movies, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Dunya & Desie A reasonably entertaining parade of ethnic and class stereotypes, based on the TV series and directed by Dana Nechushtan (Nachtrit). With Eva van de Wijdeven as kaaskop teenager Desie and the award-winning Maryam Hassouni as her Moroccan best friend Dunya. In Dutch. 96 min. Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Studio K

La Graine et le mulet Sixty-year-old Slimane Beiji has just been fired from his dockworker’s job in Sète, in southern France. He has been living in a shabby hotel ever since his divorce, but does his very best to keep in touch with his children. At the same time, he is having an affair with his landlady and has grown fond of her daughter, Rym. It is Rym who helps him realise his last dream: to run a couscous restaurant. Tunisian-French director Abdel Kechiche wants to paint a complete family picture. He succeeds, but at a cost: estrangement from Beiji. It’s not until two hours in that we really begin to understand his pain and appreciate his friendship with Rym—just in time for a beautiful finale.

In French with Dutch subtitles. (MP) 151 min. Cinecenter, Rialto Into the Wild Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction best-seller about Chris McCandless, a headstrong college graduate who chucked wealth and family for the call of the American West, undertaking a two-year road trip that ended tragically in the Alaskan wilderness. Emile Hirsch (Alpha Dog) plays the disaffected youth as a cross between idealist and misanthrope, an adventurer who charmed people but craved solitude in nature. The size of his spirit and

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Ladywood

by Jennifer Lyon Bell

expectations is reflected in the magnificent locations: the Grand Canyon, the Salton Sea, the South Dakota plains. Special advance screening; for a chance to win free tickets, see p. ... (AG) Cinecenter, KIT Tropentheater, Grote Zaal

RUTH VAN BEEK

Nederlandse Animatie Tour 2008 This compilation of 16 recent shorts contains some nice films, but mostly it misses the mark. A project of the Nederlands Instituut voor Animatiefilm and the Holland Animation Film Festival, it contains mostly films that are either arty and safe or arty and garish; it’s neither a contemporary selection nor a good overview of the highlights in Dutch animation in the past five years.

(LvH) Het Ketelhuis

ENOUGH TO GO AROUND I’m a woman, and my new boyfriend is really big—like 24cm. What am I supposed to do with that thing?

I feel for you, sister. We live in a culture that fetishises the monster cock, and I can’t tell you how many normally-endowed men audition for my films and ask seriously if I think they’re deficient. Many women who’ve encountered the enormous willie, however, know it can be a mixed blessing.

A long penis can pummel a girl and seriously detract from her pleasure.

For the well-hung gentleman, the problem is that he often can’t enjoy the feeling of getting all the way inside a woman because he knocks right into her cervix. And ill-fitting condoms make him feel like too much meat in the sausage casing. Plus, if he wants to please you, not knowing if you’re wincing in agony or ecstasy is awfully distracting.

Here’s how you can enjoy your ample mate: frottage—that’s the French term for rubbing your wet quim along his penis—is great for long distances, because it creates the illusion he’s going all the way in smoothly. Once you’re close to climax, have him dive as far in as he can get. Or, if you want him to ride you for a while, pick a position where you can control the action and the depth of penetration. Doggie style is a poor choice because every centimeter counts in that position, whereas spooning with him behind you ‘wastes’ a welcome centimeter or two.

When going down on him, even if you can’t swallow his whole package at once, you can still get him wildly aroused by combining your mouth with your hand— or two hands if necessary! But make sure your palms are wet and your grip firm.

If you want to have safe penetrative sex, check out the female condom.

Because it fits into you rather onto him, it won’t squeeze his equipment. And as a great side effect, for both you and him, the friction is between him and the condom rather than the condom and your vaginal walls. Why don’t the female condom makers market the hell out of this benefit? It’s a mystery to me. You can buy it at Condomerie on the Warmoesstraat.

There are clearly certain pleasures to a well-hung man. He’s well aware of his assets, so you probably don’t have to stroke his ego about the size of his manhood. That’s stroking time better spent elsewhere! ladywood@amsterdamweekly.nl

The Ruins Friends on a Mexican holiday encounter an evil force at the site of an archaeological dig in this horror feature by Carter Smith. 92 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Street Kings Another roid-raging dirty cop drama from David Ayer, with a beefy Keanu Reeves as the embittered blue knight. The script is by Jamie Moss, James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) and Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet); with Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie and Chris Evans. (JJ) 109 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Tricks A Polish coming-of-age comedy directed by Andrzej Jakimowski. In Polish with Dutch subtitles. 95 min. Filmmuseum, Het Ketelhuis

Still playing Le Ballon Rouge & Crin-Blanc These classic shorts

by French director Albert Lamorisse are so pure in their emotion and elemental in their drama that parents may be as moved as their kids. In Le Ballon Rouge (1956, 34 min) a little boy’s blue-grey existence is brightened by the arrival of a dramatically red balloon; in the lesser-known Crin-Blanc (‘White Mane’, 1953, 40 min) a boy forges a bond with a proud wild stallion. Both films tell the same story— the balloon is coveted by neighbourhood bullies, the stallion by mercenary horse wranglers—and both end with a moment of transcendence, as the boy and his prized ‘friend’ escape the cruel world of grownups for the limitless unknown. (JJ) De Uitkijk

The Band’s Visit In this year’s art-house hit, the

Alexandria Ceremonial Police Band, a small combo specialising in traditional Arab repertoire, flies from Egypt to Israel to play at the opening of a cultural cen-

tre. When their guide fails to meet them at the airport, they take the wrong bus and end up in the wrong city.

To their rescue comes beautiful Dina (Israeli superstar Ronit Elkabetz), the owner of the only café in town, who sees the band’s arrival as both a business opportunity and a chance to relieve the local boredom. Directed with a firm hand by Eran Kolirin, who also wrote the original screenplay, The Band’s Visit gently lets you inside its unique sense of humour. The moment when the band is finally allowed to play its repertoire is the cherry on top of an appealing cinematic dessert. (MB) 87 min. Rialto, Studio K The Banishment A chilling domestic drama from Russia, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return). The film opens with a shady urban character (Alexander Baluev) seeking his younger brother’s help in sewing up his bleeding arm. When the brother (Konstantin Lavronenko) vacations with his kids and troubled wife at the family’s country place, she suddenly blurts out that the child she’s carrying isn’t his. Spare dialogue and long takes add to the sense of foreboding, with Lavronenko (who won the best actor prize at Cannes) keeping his character so buttoned-up you could burst from anxiety watching him consider his revenge, while the verdant landscape devolves from pastoral to sinister in the space of a phone call. In Russian with Dutch subtitles. (AG) 150 min. Rialto

Control In this biopic on singer/songwriter Ian Curtis, photographer and video director Anton Corbijn dares to be critical: Ian isn’t a tragic hero, but a bit of a wimp who uses his band as an escape from his own incompetence as a husband and father. The film is beautifully shot in black-and-white, though the stark contrasts and grey hues serve mainly to underline the desolation of the Manchester suburbs, and of Ian himself. (BS) 119 min. Melkweg Cinema The Darjeeling Limited Sometimes you travel

through life with some extra baggage. In the case of the Whitman brothers, it’s a luxury Louis Vuitton set that looks colourful and flashy even in India. A year after their father’s funeral, Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) meet aboard a train for a journey of spiritual healing.

The fact that they have not spoken to each other in a year doesn’t prevent them from getting straight into the family’s old dynamics, which involve manic tics, substance abuse and sexual escapades. But soon both the emotional and the physical baggage starts

17-23 April 2008 to fall away. Film-maker Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), much like his characters, has found his grown-up voice. This delicious curry comedy is a rich plate for film-goers, entertaining and poignant, just as it should be. (MB) 108 min. Kriterion

Giorni e nuvole Giorni e nuvole Elsa (Margherita Buy) and Michele (Antonio Albanese) are a middle-aged couple who seem to have it all: a beautiful house, a 20-year-old daughter and good friends. Elsa gently restores an ancient fresco and long-hidden angels appear. Out of the blue, Michele tells her that he lost his job two months ago, whereupon the couple’s situation rapidly worsens. They have to sell their apartment; they start quarelling about money. Director Silvio Soldini (Pane e Tulipani) shows us a strong woman again: after the first shock, Elsa makes the best of it while Michele lets himself go. But despite fine performances by Albanese and Buy and a nice rhythm, this sober drama stays flat and unsurprising. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (GR) 115 min. Rialto

Heart of Gold Given what Neil Young charges for

concerts, he could recast all his internal organs in gold. But if you can’t afford the tickets, at least there’s this documentary of his August 2005 shows at the fabled Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, expertly directed by Jonathan Demme. Like Demme’s wonderful films of Talking Heads and Robyn Hitchcock, it sticks to the stage once the performance has begun, dispensing with interviews and audience reaction shots.

Young, backed up by a large ensemble that includes Spooner Oldham and Emmylou Harris, plays songs from his new album Prairie Wind and some ‘70s favorites, invoking the ghost of Hank Williams and offering wise reflections on his father’s recent death and his own ageing. (JJ) 103 min. Melkweg Cinema The Hunting Party If the torture rape, and ethnic cleansing of the Balkan War weren’t horrifying enough the first time, here they are again as a Richard Gere movie, lousy with clichéd suspense scenes. (JJ) 101 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Special screenings Apocalypse Now Redux There’s 53 more minutes in Coppola’s recut than in the original Apocalypse Now, though the flaws are also magnified. American braggadocio and insanity in an exotic locale, spiced with a time-capsule sense of ’60s counterculture, swell atmospheric expressionist effects and many interesting performances. (JR) 203 min. Cavia

Blade Runner: The Final Cut Not to be con-

fused with the mislabeled ‘director’s cut’, this seventh edition of Ridley Scott’s SF masterpiece (1982) is arguably the first to get it all right. With Harrison Ford as the assassin of ‘replicants’ and Rutger Hauer as his quarry. Also showing: a 1979 episode of the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. (JR) 117 min. OT301

Dead Man Dead Man (1995) is Jim Jarmusch’s hypnotic and beautiful black-and-white western, starring Johnny Depp. (120 mins) Melkweg Cinema Eraserhead David Lynch describes his 1977 first feature as ‘a dream of dark and troubling things,’ and that’s about as close as anyone could get to the essence of this obdurate blend of nightmare imagery, Grand Guignol and camp humour. (DK) 90 min. De Roode Bioscoop Happiness Todd Solondz’s 1998 epic of sexual disgruntlement in the suburbs is worth seeing but doesn’t deserve high marks for compassion, especially given its campy use of elevator music whenever the misery of its large cast of characters gets too close for comfort. (JR) 134 min. Kriterion Human Highway Neil Young, Dennis Hopper, Sally Kirkland, Dean Stockwell and Devo star in this 1982 feature about a roadside diner and the neighbouring nuclear power plant. Stockwell and Young directed. 88 min. Melkweg Cinema The Isle Notorious on the festival circuit for its excruciating scenes of self-mutilation, this 2000 feature

by Kim Ki-duk traces the deepening sadomasochistic relationship between two lost souls living on a remote lake. Screening sponsored by the Dutch Institute for Psychoanalysis. Go figure. In Korean with Dutch subtitles. (JJ) 90 min. Het Ketelhuis

Jour de fête Jacques Tati’s first feature (1947), a

euphoric comedy set in a sleepy village, with Tati’s chacteristically minimalist plot: during Bastille Day festivities, the local postman (Tati) encounters a newsreel about streamlined postal delivery in America and attempts to clean up his act accordingly. But the exquisite charm of this masterpiece has less to do with individual gags (funny though many of them are) than with Tati’s portrait of a highly interactive French village after the war—a view of paradise suffused with affection and poetry. In French with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 70 min. Pathé Tuschinski

Klik! Animated Film Night How long can you stay

awake? This marathon screening goes on till dawn. See Short List. Cavia

Naked Lunch This David Cronenberg masterpiece (1991) breaks every rule in adapting a literary classic but justifies every transgression with its artistry and audacity. Adapted not only from William S Burroughs’s free-form novel but also from several other Burroughs works, this film pares away all the social satire and everything that might qualify as celebration of gay sex, yielding a complex and highly subjective portrait of Burroughs himself (expertly played by Peter Weller) proceeding zombielike through an echo chamber of projections (insects, drugs, typewriters) and disavowals. With Roy Scheider, Julian Sands and the excellent Judy Davis as Burroughs’ ill-fated wife Joan.

Also showing: Towers Open Fire (1963) a very experimental short featuring Burroughs himself. (JR) OT301 Peeping Tom In Michael Powell’s suppressed masterpiece from 1960, the German actor Carl Boehm plays a shy, sensitive British boy who loves movies with all his heart and soul because he knows what they’re really about—sex and death. This seductive, brightly coloured serial killer drama isn’t about the ‘problem’ of voyeurism as much as the sub-rosa fascinations of the cinema. It’s an understanding and at times even celebratory film—attitudes that scandalised critics years ago and are still pretty potent today. (DK) 109 min.

Filmhuis Griffioen Requiem Michaela grows up terrorised by her deeply religious mother. When she leaves home for university

and discovers a more secular world, she begins to question her faith. At the same time, her epileptic seizures grow worse. She consults a priest who confirms her worst fears: she is possessed by the devil.

Her friends urge her to seek psychiatric help, but in the end can only watch as Michaela’s devotion leads to her doom. Based on a true story, Requiem is directed by Hans-Christian Schmid with great sensitivity for the claims of both Michaela’s worlds. In German with Dutch subtitles. 93 min. Kriterion

Sense and Sensibility Never mind the period

costumes; Ang Lee’s 1995 Jane Austen adaptation is all about modern love, and in particular the choice between romance and security. Emma Thompson is the cautious older sister who won’t say what’s bothering her, Kate Winslet the passionate younger who allows herself (literally) to get carried away. With Hugh Grant, plus Alan Rickman in the performance that made him a romantic lead. (JP) 135 min. Rialto Shadows of Time A tragic love story set in pre-independence India. Ravi and Masha are child slaves working in a carpet factory who must buy their ways to freedom but on separate paths. When they do finally collide accidentally their love is rekindled, but not without constant difficulties. In Bengali with Dutch subtitles. 106 min. KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Spoorloos AKA The Vanishing, but this is not the Hollywood remake with the happy ending. Directed by George Sluizer and based on the novel by Tim Krabbé (Jeroen’s brother), this 1988 psychological thriller about a mysterious disappearance at a French truck stop bypasses all the clichés of the genre as it ambles serenely in the direction of your worst nightmare. With Gene Bervoets and Johanna ter Steege. In French/Dutch with English subtitles. (JP) 107 min. De Nieuwe Anita Zeitgeist:The Movie The Docs at the Docks series, at the NDSM-werf, kicks off a new season in its usual paranoid style. In this 2007 documentary, director Peter Joseph attacks the institutions that he believes have held people in their grip for centuries, starting with the Bible and ending with the American banking system. Part 3 of the film (47 min.) is showing; discussion (of course) follows. (JP) NDSM-werf

17-23 April 2008 I’m Not There Todd Haynes’s ambitious and daring new film is a biopic in the sense that it depicts the main events in Bob Dylan’s life and career. But they are not told in chronological order, and Haynes uses six different actors to play the singer. The different performers (including Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and the black actor Marcus Carl Franklin) and the constant moving back and forth in time don’t make it easy to identify with any of the Dylans. But simple identification is probably not what Haynes is after. His film is not about Dylan himself, but about the mythmaking around a pop star. I’m Not There has its moments, but in the end it’s more an interesting audiovisual lecture than an overwhelming cinematographic experience.

(MM) 135 min. Kriterion, The Movies Import Export Austrian despair monger Ulrich Seidl cuts between two tales of young adults sinking deeper into the tar pit of poverty. The ‘import’ is a tenderhearted Ukrainian nurse (Ekateryna Rak) who arrives in Vienna looking for decently paid work but winds up cleaning a geriatric ward. The ‘export’ is an unemployed Viennese youth (Paul Hofmann) who suffers various indignities while accompanying his filthy-minded stepfather on a trip to install vending machines in the Ukraine. Seidl’s drab, straightahead long shots have a narcotic pull that keeps this absorbing throughout its 135 minutes, but the final image—a bedridden crone mindlessly chirping, ‘Death! Death! Death!’—is typical of the movie’s knee-jerk grimness. In English and subtitled German, Russian, and Slovak. (JJ) Filmmuseum

It’s a Free World... In this ironically titled movie, director of the lower class par excellence Ken Loach collaborates again with his long-time screenwriter, Paul Laverty. Angie, a bike-riding beauty and single mom, gets the sack from an employment agency and decides to start up one of her own. Although Loach’s antiheroine means well—she’s only trying to make a better life for herself and her 11-year-old— she gradually turns from exploited to exploiter as she starts to use illegal workers from Eastern Europe. The film traces Angie’s progression but never passes moral judgement. In her gritty, Loachy world no solutions are given, but viewers can’t help questioning the political system in which Angie flourishes. (GR) 93 min. Kriterion

It’s Hard to Be Nice It’s Hard to Be Nice Tragicomedy by Srdjan Vuletic about a taxi driver in Sarajevo who has been hanging out with petty criminals but decides to better his ways.

In Serbo-Croatian with Dutch subtitles. 102 min. Rialto

Juno Juno (Ellen Page) is 16. Juno is full of life and

sarcasm. Juno is pregnant. Oops. She gives up the thought of abortion after hearing that her baby has already developed fingernails and instead starts looking for adoptive parents. She finds the perfect couple in Mark and Vanessa. They’re wealthy, nice and Mark might even qualify as cool, since he shares Juno’s taste in music and splatter movies. Ellen Page is beyond perfect as the wisecracking but friendly Juno, who’s bright, yet young and naïve enough to think that there is no harm in spending time with the adoptive father of her unborn child. Add a solid script and a great soundtrack and there you have it: this year’s independent American masterpiece. Directed by Jason Reitman. (MP) 92 min. Cinecenter, Cinema Amstelveen, Kriterion, Pathé De Munt, Studio K Lars and the Real Girl If someone had told me this was directed by the guy who did Mr. Woodcock and revolved around a sex doll, I wouldn’t have gone near it. But Lars and the Real Girl is both hilarious and poignant, with a Capraesque humanity that caught me completely off guard. An awkward young man in a small Minnesota town (Ryan Gosling) invites his older brother (goofy Paul Schneider) and sister-in-law (Emily Mortimer) to meet his new fiancée, but to their horror and embarrassment she turns out to be made of rubber. The local psychiatrist advises them to play along with his delusion, and eventually the close-knit religious community, moved by concern for the brothers, joins in. I’m not sure there’s still that much compassion in the world, but in keeping with the spirit of the movie, I was willing to pretend. Craig Gillespie directed a script by Six Feet Under writer Nancy Oliver. (JJ) 106 min. Kriterion Lou Reed’s Berlin For those who missed his shows at the Heineken Music Hall last June, or those who attended them and want to revisit one of rock’s most hailed, and gloomiest, chapters, Lou Reed’s Berlin, documenting the live performance of that utterly dark concept album, is given theatrical release. Director Julian Schnabel, along with his daughter Lola, provided the visuals for the live show (which featured French

Amsterdam Weekly star Emmanuelle Seigner as Caroline, the album’s most prominent character). The film, shot in Brooklyn in 2006, is a pretty straightforward rock documentary, but the high-octane performance by Reed and his acolytes makes it essential viewing for serious rock fans. Look out for a guest spot by Antony (of the Johnsons fame) and for Steve Hunter’s incendiary guitar solos. (MB) 85 min. Melkweg Cinema

No Country for Old Men The Coen Brothers’ latest brings Cormac McCarthy’s novel to the big screen, and it’s a shock to the system, simultaneously elegiac and terrifyingly violent. A subversion of the classic lawmen-chase-outlaw genre, the film is shot like a cross between a Western and a horror flick. A Texan named Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) takes off with millions in cash he’s found at the site of a drug deal gone wrong.

Tommy Lee Jones is the laconic Sheriff Bell, trying to bring Moss in; Javier Bardem is Chigurh, the Terminator hitman dispatched by the cartel. The Coens give us none of the usual male-bonding, hunter-and-hunted nonsense: Chigurh, Bell and Moss are entirely alone, each in his own way, particularly Moss as the slaughter inevitably catches up with him. A stunning piece of cinema. (AD) 122 min. The Movies, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Persepolis A satisfying adaptation of the autobio-

graphical graphic novel about a girl coming of age in Iran during the Islamic revolution in the 1970s, struggling with everything from tight headscarves to bomb threats. In a cute and comical hand-drawn style, the book’s writer and illustrator, Marjane Satrapi, and her co-director, Vincent Paronnaud, draw parallels between a girl’s passage from innocence to puberty and the violent transition of a civilised country into a fundamentalist state. Even a denunciation from the Iranian government couldn’t stop the screening of this irresistible and intelligent charm offensive. The English, as opposed to the French, version is showing; voices include Catherine Deneuve, Sean Penn and Iggy Pop. Subtitled in Dutch. (MdR) 95 min. Rialto Redacted Brian De Palma’s low-budget effort about the Iraq occupation, based on the real-life story of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who was raped and killed by American soldiers. It shows rare courage in protesting the widespread abuse of innocent Iraqis, but its pseudodocumentary form is full of awkward misfires (such as a protracted use of theme music from Barry Lyndon) and its acting is often terrible. In some respects a remake of De Palma’s Casualties of War (1989), which was derived from a real-life atrocity committed by American soldiers in Vietnam, this film goes much further in its rejection of American justifications for war, but it’s also a good deal coarser in much of its overall conception as well as its style.

(JR) 90 min. Studio K

Shine a Light Martin Scorsese brings his superb eye (and ear) to a Rolling Stones concert experience.

Closer to The Last Waltz than No Direction Home in its structure, Shine a Light intercuts live performances of the band at the Beacon Theatre in NYC with some clips of its members’ TV appearances over the course of their 40-odd-year career. A funny prologue of the band’s interaction with Scorsese adds extra cinematic flair. If you’re not embarrassed to see grandpas Jagger and Richards sweat it out for two hours—with a little young blood, including Christina Aguilera and Jack White of the White Stripes—you’ll be highly satisfied. It’s only a rock ’n’ roll concert movie, but we like it. (MB) 121 min. Pathé ArenA There Will Be Blood An epic film of intimate pro-

portions about a ruthlessly ambitious oil baron who comes into conflict with a charismatic young preacher in the California desert in the early 20th century. A powerhouse performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview netted him a rightly deserved Academy Award, but Paul Dano’s performance as the weaselly Eli Sunday is also impressive to say the least.

Don’t let the sprawling length or the emotional investment the film asks of its viewers deter you: There Will Be Blood is a true masterpiece that any serious film lover simply cannot afford to miss. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia). (LvH) 159 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé De Munt

You, the Living A brutally deadpan comedy by Swedish director Roy Andersson, who seems to have translated the entire range of human misery into a loosely connected series of slapstick gags. His black humor is impressively layered, each layer darker than the last: when a joker at a family banquet insists on performing that old parlour trick of yanking the tablecloth out from under the dishes, he not only shatters a huge collection of crystal and china but also reveals—look sharp or you’ll miss it—a vintage dining table inlaid with swastikas. Andersson’s building block is a static long shot so solidly composed it suggests a panel in a comic strip; the central figure is often encased in his own suffering, and sometimes additional laughs come from a background figure surveying his despair in open-mouthed bewilderment.

(JJ) 94 min. Filmmuseum, Kriterion

FILM TIMES Thursday 17 April until Wednesday 23 April 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 Amsterdam Shorts! Teaser #3:Arbeid Adelt Fri, Sat 20.30.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Apocalypse Now Redux Thur, Fri 20.30 Klik! Animated Film Night Sat 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Atonement daily 16.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 13.30 Cassandra's Dream daily 16.15, 19.15, Thur-Mon also 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.45 La Graine et le mulet daily 15.45, 21.00, Thur, Sun-Wed also 18.45, Sun also 12.30 Into the Wild Tues, Wed 21.45 Juno daily 19.00, 22.00, Sun also 11.15, 13.45 There Will Be Blood daily 15.45, Fri, Sat also 18.45.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Auf der anderen Seite Tues, Wed 20.30 Juno Thur-Sat 20.30, Sun 15.45 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Sat, Wed 15.30, Sun 13.30 Winx Club Sat, Wed 13.30, Sun 11.30.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Lust, Caution Thur, Tues 19.30 Peeping Tom Fri 19.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 AFFF Kids Thur-Sun Aleksandra daily 17.15 Heimatklänge Sun 15.45 Import Export daily 19.15 Kuifje en de Zonnetempel Wed 14.00 Professione: Reporter Mon-Wed 17.00 Stellet Licht Thur-Sat 21.45, Sun 16.00 Tricks daily 19.30, 21.30 You, the Living Thur-Sun 17.30, Sun-Wed 21.45 Het Zakmes Wed 13.45.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat, Sun 13.15 Desmond en het Moerasmonster Sat, Sun, Wed 13.30 Dunya & Desie Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 17.00, 19.15, 21.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 13.00, 15.00, Mon 17.00 The Isle Wed 20.00 Morrison krijgt een zusje Wed 13.15, 15.15 Nederlandse Animatie Tour 2008 daily 17.30, Thur also 19.30 Tiramisu daily 21.30 Tricks daily 21.45, Fri-Tues also 19.45, Sat, Sun also 15.15 Zomerhitte daily 17.15, 19.30, Sat, Sun also 14.30.

KIT Tropentheater, Grote Zaal Mauritskade 63, 568 8500 Into the Wild Mon 20.30.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Shadows of Time Tues, Wed 20.30.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Buster Keaton programme Sun 11.00, Wed 15.00 The Darjeeling Limited daily 21.45, Fri, Sat also 0.00 Happiness Mon 22.00 I'm Not There Thur-Mon, Wed 21.15, Fri, Sat also 23.45, Sat, Sun also 15.30 It's a Free World... daily 17.30, 19.30 Juno Thur-Tues 17.45 Lars and the Real Girl daily 19.45, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 22.00 Pippi in Taka Tuka Land Sun 12.45 Requiem Wed 17.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 The Spiderwick Chronicles Sat, Sun 15.15, Sun also 13.00, Wed 14.30 De Wonderwinkel van Mr Magorium Sat, Sun, Wed 14.45 You, the Living daily 19.15.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Control Mon, Tues 21.00 CSNY: Déjà Vu Thur 21.00 Dead Man Sun 19.00 Heart of Gold Thur-Sat, Mon, Tues 19.00 Human Highway Wed 19.00 Lou Reed's Berlin Sat, Wed 21.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead daily 17.00, 22.00, ThurSun, Tues, Wed also 19.30, Sun also 12.45 Dan in Real Life daily 22.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.00 I'm Not There daily 16.45, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.30 No Country for Old Men daily 16.15, 19.00, 21.30, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.00 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30 There Will Be Blood daily 16.45, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.30 Winx Club en het geheim van het verloren rijk Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15.

NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480 Zeitgeist :The Movie Tues 20.30.

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

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Blade Runner:The Final Cut Tues 20.30 Naked Lunch Sun 20.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 10,000 BC daily 11.50, 14.20, 16.40, Thur-Tues also 19.30, 21.55, Sat also 0.15 27 Dresses daily 21.10 African Bambi Wed 12.20, 14.30, 16.40 Alvin en de Chipmunks Fri-Sun, Wed 11.50, 14.15, 16.20 The Bucket List daily 19.20, 21.30, Thur-Tues also 12.40, 14.50, 17.00, Sat, Sun also 10.30, Sat also 23.45 Cilgin Dersane daily 17.50, 20.30, Thur-Tues also 12.10, 15.00, Sat also 23.40 Doomsday Fri, Sat 20.50, Sat also 23.10 Drakenjagers Wed 13.00, 15.00, 17.00 Dunya & Desie daily 13.30, 15.50, 18.10, Thur-Mon, Wed also 20.20, Sat, Sun also 11.15, Sat also 22.40, Tues also 21.10 The Eye daily 13.20, 15.30, 17.40, 20.00, 22.10, Sat, Sun also 11.10, Sat also 0.25

19 Fool's Gold Wed 21.00 Horton (NL) Fri-Sun, Wed 12.45, 14.45, 16.50, Sat, Sun also 10.20 Horton Hears a Who daily 12.15, 14.20 The Hunting Party daily 18.40, Thur, Mon, Tues also 16.25, Sat also 23.40 Morrison krijgt een zusje Wed 12.10, 14.00, 15.50 Recep Ivedik daily 18.30, Thur, Sun-Wed also 20.50, Thur, Mon, Tues also 15.50, Thur, Mon also 13.25 Rendition Thur-Tues 13.50, 16.30, Sat, Sun also 10.50 The Ruins daily 13.10, 15.15, 17.20, 19.30, 21.40, Sat, Sun also 11.00, Sat also 23.50 Samson en Gert: Hotel op Stelten Sat, Sun 10.10 Shine a Light daily 19.00, 21.40, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.30, 16.20, Sat also 0.20 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 The Spiderwick Chronicles (Imax) daily 14.40, 17.10, Sat, Sun also 10.10 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Fri-Sun, Wed 16.25, Sat, Sun also 10.05 Street Kings daily 15.10, 17.30, 19.50, Thur-Mon, Wed also 12.50, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 22.15, Sat, Sun also 0.35, Sat also 10.15 La Tourneuse de pages Tues 13.30 U2 3D (Imax) daily 12.30, 19.35, 21.50, Sat also 0.00 Untraceable daily 19.10, 21.20, Sat also 23.30 Vantage Point daily 14.00, 16.00, 18.00, 20.00, 22.00, ThurMon, Wed also 12.00, Sat, Sun also 10.00, Sat also 0.00 Winx Club Fri-Sun, Wed 12.00, 14.10, 16.10, Sat, Sun also 9.50 Zomerhitte daily 18.50, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.10, Thur, Mon, Tues also 14.30, 16.40, Thur, Mon also 12.20, Tues 12.15, Sat also 23.20.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 10,000 BC daily 21.50, Thur, Mon, Tues also 14.40, 17.10 27 Dresses daily 18.00, 20.30, Thur-Tues also 15.15, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.30 African Bambi Wed 12.20, 14.20, 16.10 Alibi daily 13.55, Sat, Sun also 11.50 Alvin en de Chipmunks Fri-Sun, Wed 12.05, 14.05, Sat, Sun also 10.00 Asterix en de Olympische Spelen Sat, Sun 10.10, 12.40 The Bucket List daily 12.10, 14.15, 16.30, 18.45, 21.00, Sat also 23.15 Dan in Real Life Thur-Sun 14.35, 19.05, Fri also 16.50 Definitely, Maybe daily 16.00, 21.35 Drakenjagers Wed 12.50, 14.50, 16.40 Dunya & Desie daily 12.15, 14.30, 16.45, 19.15, 21.30 The Eye Thur, Mon, Tues 13.00, 15.20, 17.35, 19.50, 22.00, FriSun, Wed 18.55, 21.20, Sat also 23.35 Horton (NL) Fri-Sun, Wed 12.35, 14.40, 16.50, Sat, Sun also 10.30 Horton Hears a Who daily 19.40 The Hunting Party daily 21.15, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.15, Thur, Sat, Sun also 16.50, Sat also 23.30, Mon, Tues also 15.30 Juno daily 18.50 Morrison krijgt een zusje Wed 12.15, 14.00, 16.00 No Country for Old Men daily 16.20, 21.10, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.40 The Other Boleyn Girl daily 19.10 Rendition Mon-Wed 18.30 The Ruins daily 12.45, 15.00, 17.30, 19.45, 22.15 Samson en Gert: Hotel op Stelten Sat, Sun 11.00, 12.50 Sneak Preview Tues 21.45 The Spiderwick Chronicles Thur-Tues 15.50 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Fri-Sun, Wed 12.05, 14.10, Sat, Sun also 10.00 Step Up 2 daily 18.05, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.45, Sat also 23.25 Street Kings daily 13.30, 16.15, 19.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.45, Sat, Sun also 10.50, Tues also 21.55 There Will Be Blood daily 20.15 Untraceable daily 18.20 Vantage Point daily 12.30, 14.45, 17.00, 19.30, 21.40, Sat, Sun also 10.20, Sat also 23.45 The Water Horse Sat, Sun 10.45, 13.20 Winx Club Fri-Sun, Wed 12.30, 14.45, 17.00, Sat, Sun also 10.15 Zomerhitte daily 16.10, Thur-Mon, Wed also 20.45, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.15, Sat also 23.00 Zoop in India Fri 10.15.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival Thur-Sun Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Thur-Sun 18.10, Fri-Sun also 12.50, Mon, Tues 15.45, 18.30, 21.15, Mon also 13.00, Wed 16.15, 19.10 The Bucket List Thur-Sun 18.45, Thur, Fri also 16.20, Mon-Wed 12.50, 15.30, 21.00 Cassandra's Dream Thur-Sun 15.40, 21.00, Mon-Wed 12.40, 15.15, 17.50, 20.30 Dan in Real Life Mon-Wed 16.50, Mon, Tues also 19.15, Wed alos 19.20 Fool's Gold Wed 20.45 Horton (NL) Sat, Sun 14.30, Sun also 12.20 Jour de fête Sun 10.30 The Kite Runner Thur-Sun 19.00, Mon-Wed 18.00 Morrison krijgt een zusje Wed 12.20, 14.20 No Country for Old Men Mon-Wed 14.15, 21.40 Notes on a Scandal Thur, Tues 13.30 Vantage Point daily 22.00, Thur-Sun also 16.50, Thur, Fri also 12.20, 14.40, Mon-Wed also 12.30, 14.50, 17.10, Mon, Tues also 19.30 Winx Club Sat, Sun, Wed 12.00, 16.30, Sat, Sun also 14.10, Wed also 14.00 Zomerhitte Thur-Sun, Wed 21.20, Thur, Fri also 13.45, MonWed 19.00, Mon, Tues also 21.30, Mon also 14.00, 16.30.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 The Band's Visit Thur, Mon, Tues 17.30, Sat, Sun 16.30 The Banishment daily 19.15, Sat, Sun also 13.45, Wed also 15.45 Giorni e nuvole daily 22.00 La Graine et le mulet daily 21.00, Sat also 13.00, Sat, Sun also 16.00 It's Hard to Be Nice daily 21.45, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 19.45 Lady Chatterley Sun 14.00 Das Leben der Anderen Sun 11.15 Mio fratello è figlio unico Fri, Sat, Wed 15.00, Sun 11.50 Persepolis daily 19.00, Sun also 13.30 Sense and Sensibility Sun 11.00, Wed 14.30 Stellet Licht daily 17.15, Sat also 12.30.

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

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Alvin en de Chipmunks Sat, Sun 15.00 The Band's Visit Sun-Wed 21.30 Dunya & Desie daily 19.45, Thu, Fri, Mon-Wed also 17.30, Sat, Sun also 15.15 Juno daily 17.15, Thur, Sat-Wed also 22.00 The Kite Runner daily 19.30 Redacted daily 21.45 The Spiderwick Chronicles Sat, Sun 17.30.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Ballon Rouge, Le & Crin-Blanc Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.15, Sun 19.00 Doctor Atomic Sun 11.00 Earth Thur-Sat 19.00 Horton (NL) Sat, Wed 15.15 The Other Boleyn Girl daily 20.45 Tiramisu Mon-Wed 19.00.

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SHARED HOUSING

TRANSPORT ENGLISH MAN WITH VAN Can help with removals, big or small, in or outside of the country. Reasonable rates, quick service. Contact Lee on 06 2388 2184 or whitevan@whitevanman.nl or see www.whitevanman.nl.

SERVICES TAX & FINANCE Trying to get quality advice and save money at the same time? We are specialised in bookkeeping and taxes, and guide our relations through the entire business process. We work through a countrywide network with professionals who can help on each issue. Call us for RAAD! 691 2217.

GREAT HAIR COLOURIST Tints, highlights, colour changes, creative colours.

With more than 10 years of experience, if I can’t do it then nobody can do it! Now at Mctavish Salon in de Pijp.

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Contact me for rates and info at andresinbox@gmail.com

LESBIAN Massagetherapeute(38,vegetarien)is looking for a room by another lesbian woman. I’m clean and easy going. Maximum pay: 250 euro per month incl. Please contact Simone:0626643847 HAIRDRESSER English mobile hairdresser in A’dam.

OTHER SPACES Have your hair done in comPHOTO STUDIO For ama- fort of your own home. Hairteur and professional pho- cuts starting from €15. Please tographers. Can also be used call for appt on 773 6095. as meeting or gathering STYLISH WEBSITES space. 100m2, €150/day. Pos- Stylish, low-cost websites for sible to rent photo equip- small businesses and indiment. High ceilings, good, viduals. Contact us now for natural light and located on a free quotation, to discuss WG Plein, adjacent to Over- your needs and receive friendtoom. For appointment and ly, helpful advice. more info contact D. Ingel: info@helenolney.com 06 2883 4224. www.helenolney.com 0652 INSPIRING WORKSPACE Spacious studio space for writers and designers, next to Centraal Station and view on the IJ. Desk space, lots of light, ADSL, fax, kitchen, coffeebar downstairs. €275 per month excl BTW. Available for 6 months, possibly longer.

Contact info@amsterdamweekly.nl.

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CAREER CRISIS?Unhappy or stuck at work? Isn’t it time to discover what you really want in life? Lost purpose, passion or goal? Do yourself a favour, give your coach a call on 06 4998 8986 or 400 4778; email marianne@soulat-work.com. Soul at Work, A’dam. Sign up for free eSTUDIO SPACE To rent by newsletter on www.soul-atthe hour. Suitable for dance work.com. or yoga classes or rehearsal BUSINESS ADVICEAre you studios etc. Reasonable rates. thinking about starting your Call 0641942207. own business? Do you have a DESK FOR RENT company but administration Desk/workspace for rent with- and papers are not your thing? in creative collective in heart Do you need a business plan, of Amsterdam. We are look- labour from abroad, to buy ing for people to share office real estate or moving abroad? space with our film produc- Call Tulipany on 06 1021 8271 tion company. 1 desk avail- or email info@tulipany.nl. able. Shared kitchen. Building offers reception service, bike garage + cleaning. E.250 per month ex BTW. info@godmotherfilms.com

FOR SALE OLDTIMER HERENFIETS Oldtimer herenfiets (1930), black, 28’, incl. bagage rack in front. In perfect shape! €150,- Giant MTB, red, 26’.

For boys/girls 10 yrs up.

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17-23 April 2008 STUNNING WEBSITES Experienced web designer builds professional, unique sites for very reasonable prices (starting at €300).

Online links to past projects available. Contact Jordan: jordangcz@yahoo.com, 06 3034 1238

MARTIAL ARTS CLASS English-speaking Qi Kwan Do. Combines yoga & self defense.

Women friendly. Works no matter what age, strength, or build.

No 2 lessons are the same so you keep motivated. Reduces stress & gets you fit. Every Sat 12.00, Sporthallen Lizzy AnsQUALIFIED UPHOLSTER- inghstraat 88 1072RD A’dam.

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ING Offers professional Wide range of fabrics to choose Coaching, Counseling and from including leather. CurTherapy in English, Dutch, tains also made to order. Contact Sophie for free estimate. Italian, Spanish and Japanese.

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by Byron Katie) are the tools. mobile clients. Call John on Join Bhasha on Tuesday 0646648909 mornings from 10.00 - 12.00 HEALTH & WELLNESS in an open ongoing group. Or Wednesday evenings from OVEREATERS ANONY- 18.00 - 20.00. Call 0641485880 MOUS Do you have a prob- or 0204000260 lem with food? Maybe we can MASSAGE help. English speaking Overeaters Anonymous meet- NEED A MASSEUR? Ragi, ings: Tues 19.00, Marius van 26 y.o., 186-87, XXL. Very nice Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat sport masseur, bodybuilder, 30; Thur 20.00, Nieuwezijds light brown skin, dark hair, Voorburgwal 282A. For more info call 06 4874 9590 or 020 gives relaxing body massage for gentlemen. Everything is 6103710 possible. Clean, trusted. Call ACUPUNCTURE Certified Ragi on 064298154 American acupuncturist treats both men and women MASSAGETHERAPEUTE for a wide range of ailments is looking for a job in hotel at 2 locations in A’dam. Cov- ,sauna ,sportclub,or private. erage offered by many health I have more than 15 years insurance companies. Call massage experience. I did 06 2739 9789, email my education in universität info@acupunctuurnoordhol- hospital(Cologne, Gercontact land.nl or visit www.acupunc- many).Please tuurnoordholland.nl.

Simone: 0626643847

MASSAGE COURSES Il Cielo Open Day on 16 Mar from 14.00-18.00 at Mirror Centre where you can learn about holistic massage, foot reflexology, craniosacral & energy work, also combinations. Weekly lesson of 4 or 6 hours each. Also meditation workshops. Info il cielo: 06 3004 9738 or look www.ilcielo.org.

HOME IMPROVEMENT PAINTING Professional Painting, 25 years experience.

For estimates and advice please call 06 232 459 57 CARPENTER For all your carpenting and plastering call Thomas Pfanner on 06 1766 1109 (after 18.00, GM speaking). We deliver a quality job!

WINDSOR DECORATORS Interior/exterior painting & decorating, flooring, carpentry, plumbing and gardening.

For good British service and a free quote, contact Damien Lapworth: 0634792284 or by email at: windsorschildersbedrijf@gmail.com

COMPUTERS PC HOUSE DOCTOR PC HOUSE DOCTOR Specialise in virus/spyware removal, h/w, s/w repair, data recovery, wireless, cable/ADSL installation and computer lessons from friendly and experienced Microsoft professional for reasonable price.

Contact Mario: 06 1644 8230.

COURSES YOGACAFE.ORG All level Hatha Yoga classes. Beginners, intermediate and pregnancy courses, private classes and yoga holidays all available. For more information, please visit www.yogacafe.org BALLET LESSONS in English by qualified English teacher. Beginners to professionals, children and adults.

Amsterdam South location.

Call 020 6442431 YOGAMSTERDAM EXPERIENCE YOGA WITH AN INDIAN TEACHER! An age old science of living in harmony with yourself & the world around you. FREE TRIAL CLASS! Classes: every Mon 18.45-20.15 & Thur 18.3020.00 at Praktijk Hart & Ziel, Borgerstraat 224 Amsterdam.

More info: www.YogAmsterdam.nl or call Reena at 0643902470 DRAWING AND PAINTING Workshops by professional artist, various techniques, all styles, from scratch to painting with oils. Contact joneiselin@hetnet.nl.

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17-23 April 2008 SINGING LESSONS SINGING LESSONS On Prinsengracht (Jordaan). Classical voice training, breathing techniques, vocalization.

For beg & advanced. 1-on-1 & group lessons. From classic, jazz to rock, all styles.Free intro lesson and reasonable prices. For more info,call Michael on 020-3202095, or mail: ajara77@yahoo.com

ART IN DE BAARSJES For the june art month in de baarsjes I look for people to participate in my project (participants should live in stadsdeel de baarsjes). I would like to take a picture of a favorite artwork that you own.

Contact: evapel@dds.nl, or 06-14161172

LANGUAGES

LEARN SPANISH! with a native teacher from Spain with experience and University degree in teaching. All levels. Grammar, vocabulary, culture, pronunciation, conversation. Everything! €20/hr and groups of 2-3, €15 each.

Email spanish.amsterdam@yahoo.es or call 06 INTRO TO TANTRA You’re 4384 5642. invited to join us for a week- THE SCHOOL FOR DUTCH end that will change your rela- www.learndutch.com. Lantionship to sex and spirit for- guage games online. ever. In this workshop you will learn tantric techniques to DUTCH GROUP COURSE open your body, heart & soul EXCELLENT DUTCH PROto the natural flow of ecstat- FICIENCY in conversation ic energy. April 26-27. Ams- with solid base of pronounterdam. www.chandrabindu- ciation,grammar+spelling tantrainstitute.com. 020-320 starts Beginners Course/0905-08 to 27-06-08/Fri9585 days/18:30 to 20.00/ 144,- excl TANTRA EXPERIENCE Is /info: excellentdutch@hotSexuality a Doorway to Self- mail.com/ 06-36122870 / Realization? You are invited www.excellentdutch.nl to join Dawn Cartwright for an experiential evening DUTCH FOR EXPATS C&C exploring Tantra & the poten- Language Support. Dutch tial for enlightenment con- Lessons in relaxed atmotained within sexuality. April sphere, tailored to your needs, 22, 8:00 pm. De Roos, Ams- all levels, flexible schedule, terdam. 20 euro. www.chan- 1-on-1. Concentration on drabindutantrainstitute.com. practical use and conversation. Tutor also speaks Span020-320 9585 ish. For details, visit YOGA FOR SPRING Spring www.lasu.nl. is here, and a new yoga season is starting in Kundalini LANGUAGE EXCHANGE I yoga centre in Amsterdam. am looking for a native Our yoga classes include: posi- Tibetan speaker who would tion, meditation and chant- like to learn English. So we ing. A new class on Sundays, can help each other. Vasiliki get ready for a new week. 0643 686 416 Classes are in English. Sched- SPANISH COURSES Moliule at www.yogavoorjou.nl. nos de Viento is a well known You can also email: Spanish language institute info@yogaforjou.nl with more than 25 years SPEAK CONFIDENTLY teaching experience. We offer Workshop, hosted by experi- Spanish courses for all levenced public speaking coach, els, as well as a special begin24th April for more informa- ner’s course for English speaktion visit. www.thespeaker.eu ers. Registering for spring

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semester courses now! For DUTCH CONVERSATION more information: www.moli- with GLOSSA on inspiring nosdeviento.nl. location in Amsterdam. Small IMPROVE YOUR DUTCH! group one week intensive in in a study conversation group May. Do you have a basis in on Tues or Wednes at 20.00- Dutch? Do you want to prac21.30 Also private classes, tice Dutch? Do you want to intensive, conversation, NT2, feel more confident in Dutch? etc, all levels, starting every Are you higher educated? week, professional approach, More information and other linktaalstudio@gmail.com, training options: www.glosVijzelgracht 53C, Anja sa.nl or call 06 1471 5372.

0641339323 DUTCH COURSESLanguage school in the centre of Amsterdam offers inspiring group courses at a reasonable price.

Check out our website www.mercuurtaal.nl or call 6934250 INTENSIVE DUTCHCOURSES at JOOST WEET HET! Classes 4 times per week during 4 hours. Good teachers, fun classes and energetic atmosphere. Small groups, personal approach with emphasis on conversation.

2,3,4 and 8 wks courses. Price: E 8 /hr. Visit www.joostweethet.nl email: info@joostweethet.nl tel: 020-4208146

MUSIC

GUITAR LESSONS Guitar lessons for ALL levels (Jazz, Brasilian, Funky, Folk, Pop ), group coaching, workshops, improvisation, composing, accompany in different music styles, music harmony, ear training and solfege. All of that and more from experienced international performer & teacher. Tel:0629564595 SEEKING MUSICIANS Singer/songwriter (2 albums released in Russia) is looking for a (group of) musician(s) to record and possibly perform his material. Space/equipment for recording is a huge bonus.

Influences: Tom Waits, The Stooges, Nick Cave, VU. Call Andrei on 0641426114 or write to andreismourov@hotmail.com.

IMPROVISATION JAM Are you a musician? Then why not joining us at the Monday Improvisation Jam?Bring your instrument and share your passion with Dancers,Movers,Actors,Paint ers,Video Makers. We will experience freedom and fun, we will live the moment with other artists. Mondays 19.3021 More info: info@talile.com RIDDERRADIO.COM Join the positive vibe while we MUSICIANS WANTED discuss current events in the Singer with lps and sessions old volkskrantgebouw and in past in uk wants to form listen to the hottest music. band with people into big Gotta nice voice and somestar, gram, neil, syd and thing positive to say? You can grandaddy. call rob on 065 show up betw. 12 and 2 every thursday for what might be 901 4798 if interested

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