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ATTACHMENTS In this issue and... Why can’t Amsterdam be more matter-of-fact about multiculturalism? It should be basic maths: the Netherlands has had pretty much the same proportion of migrants ever since a few decades before its Golden Age— and that was no coincidence since those riches were directly related to having an eager cheap workforce. Sure, it’s more the national government that comes across as autistic in these matters; and its populist politicians who stir things up for their own end (the same ones who would have bitched about those fucking Huguenots). Meanwhile if a refugee does not have a verblijfsvergunning, (s)he can’t work, gives up, gets asylum in the UK and eventually sets up a successful business there, where laws are made for bending—at least into line with reality. Is it a case of too many rules, a result of the million rules that were required to keep the sea at bay? Regardless, these rules are creating a koehandel out of individual humans. Time for a climate change.
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KATHARINA MOURATIDI
Fatima Hussaini gave up everything for the cause.
The face of activism Intimate portraits of those who fight the good fight. By Sarah Gehrke ‘Why do you do what you do?’ That is the one question that Berlin-based photographer Katharina Mouratidi has posed to people from around the world. For her project The Other Globalisation, Mouratidi took portraits and interviewed women and men who are active in the Global Justice Movement. In order to do so, she travelled from conferences to G8 summits and from demonstrations to activists’ meetings from 2002 until 2005. ‘Global Justice Movement’ is the term used for all kinds of groups and people that stand up for global social and economic equality, and that is often referred to as the anti-globalisation movement. However, this term is a bit misleading, as
most of those groups don’t oppose globalisation as such—they just want it done fairly. ‘I first became interested in the Global Justice Movement in 2001,’ says Mouratidi, ‘when I heard about Carlo Giuliani’s death in Genoa.’ The 23 yearold Italian had been shot by the police at riots taking place during that year’s G8 summit. ‘I didn’t know anything at all about that movement, so I started researching. ‘With my work, I want to raise awareness [about] social problems. That has always been the most important part of my work: to make things public.’ Another of Mouratidi’s projects was a series of portraits of women with breast cancer. ‘By documenting these things, I hope to trigger a discussion about themes that are usually not in the centre of attention.’ Lack of attention, though, isn’t really something protesters at the recent G8 summit in Heiligendamm in Germany had reason to complain about, is it? ‘Of course there was a lot of media attention before and during the summit,’ Mouratidi agrees. ‘But it was very biased. The media only focused on the protesters who were violent. I went there to attend the demonstrations, and all I can say is that the protesters who used violence constituted only a very small part of the
people there. So the news coverage was completely disproportionate. ‘My goal was to steer the discussion in a more appropriate direction. It should be more about the message that the activists try to bring across, and less about the few people that use the demonstrations as an excuse for rioting. There are so many fascinating people who devote their whole lives to the fight for justice. And with my project, I hope that I was able to represent them properly and to do justice to their immense efforts.’ Her travels resulted in 50 portraits and interviews, all of which are published in a book called ¡Venceremos! The Other Globalisation. The 27 portraits that are on display in the exhibition in Melkweg represent people who are not only from all corners of the world, but also from all walks of life. There’s Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan farmer’s daughter who has fought for women’s rights, better working conditions for farmers, against suppression of her country’s indigenous population, and, from exile, against Guatemala’s oppressive regime. Her continuous efforts won her the Nobel Prize for peace in 1992. There’s Zac Goldsmith, the multi-millionaire’s son who has exerted considerable influence on worldwide environmental policies, as publisher of The Ecologist. Then there’s Joseph Stieglitz, economist, former Senior Vice President of the World Bank and highprofile critic of current economic policies, who also has a Nobel Prize in his pocket—the one for economics. Was there someone out of all the people you interviewed that fascinated you the most? ‘Well,’ says Mouratidi, ‘of course I’ve got a lot of respect and admiration for everyone I’ve talked to. But the people who stuck in my memory the most were the really poor ones, who had no other choice than to become activists in order to defend their livelihoods. Illuminada Garcia, for example. She was a farmer without land from Paraguay. She had a lot of courage. You see, for us, in Western societies, it is much easier. We can be activists and still continue to live our normal lives. Those people can’t. They have to give up their whole life as they knew it. And it was amazing to see how much devotion they put into their cause—how much courage, and how much love. I admire that a lot.’ So... why do you do what you do? Mouratidi pauses. ‘It is a hard one, I have to admit,’ she says. ‘I guess it’s because I don’t really have a choice. I’ve always had this strong urge to try to change things—to do my part in making the world a fairer place. And I see my role in that process as documenting social wrongs and trying to raise as much awareness for them as possible. To be some kind of spokesperson, as it were. I see that as my way of contributing.’ The Other Globalisation, 11 June-2 September, Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), free
Multiculti creativity The latest in cultural management. By Marinus de Ruiter Amsterdam has all the potential to become a creative capital, but there are still some pressing issues to overcome. Through the personal stories of 17 arts professionals, the recently published study The Art of Being a Foreigner in Amsterdam by Paula Kibbelaar lists the advantages-and the problems-experienced by both immigrants and bi-cultural inhabitants of Amsterdam working in the creative industry. Aside from celebrities like fashion designer Percy Irausquin and opera singer Tania Kross, the book contains insightful observations by cultural managers, from former Imagine IC director Liane van der Linden (‘The industry has to see the newcomer as an asset, not as an attack on its own autonomy’) to Creative Industry Bank founder Walter Amerika (‘We have to create conditions where bi-cultural youths can choose a creative profession without having to defend that choice to their own community’). ‘My research started with the question: to what extent can other industries learn from the creative industry, which is usually culturally diverse,’ says Kibbelaar. The young cultural anthropologist was inspired by American economist Richard Florida, whose influential work The Rise of the Creative Class concludes that the economy benefits from stimulating creativity. Cultural diversity is an important factor in creating a healthy creative industry, according to Florida. Stimulating cultural diversity has not been popular in the Netherlands recently-a result of the overall political climate, says Kibbelaar. ‘This has hurt the image of the Netherlands as being tolerant,’ she says. ‘Especially in the last five years, the hardened government policy on immigration has caused the idea that our country is confused.’ Kibbelaar was approached to do the project by De Baak, the management division of the Dutch employers’ organisation VNO/NCW. De Baak had noticed an increase in complaints from the business community about the impact of the decreased level of tolerance in this country. In Kibbelaar’s book, the position of immigrants and expats is described as a catch-22 situation by American born Gina Sanchez, development manager at Greenpeace. ‘You can’t get a work permit without a residence permit, but you can’t get a residence permit without a job,’ she says. ‘I have lived in twenty-two countries, but the Netherlands is the first one where the issuing of rules is so unclear.’ ‘Our point of departure was to take the Amsterdam creative industry as an example for other industries,’ says Kibbelaar. ‘We assumed that this industry was natural-
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ly diverse and that people were primarily assessed for their talents. We asked ourselves why this mechanism wouldn’t work in other lines of business.’ During the course of her research, Kibbelaar met more and more people who reflected that lack of tolerance and increased ethnic tension could be felt in the Amsterdam creative world as well. In the book, Paulette Smit, artistic director of the Hollandse Nieuwe theatre festival, points towards the feverish competition in the artistic world. ‘You have to share so little with so many,’ she says. ‘That’s why some in the business are suspicious of diversity projects. They see it as snatching away government funding.’ Another criticism that arises from the interviews in Kibbelaar’s book is that there are so many closed circles, even within a relatively small city like Amsterdam. These occur not only on political level with the separate cultural policies of the various city councils, but also between artistic disciplines. While in London creative people of different fields are used to working together, things are much more separate here. ‘Architects, researchers, designers, IT people and theatre people are all seen as talking at cross purposes,’ says Kibbelaar. Although she grew up in the Netherlands and went to university here, Kibbelaar also studied in her native Curaçao, where she examined the position of women working in the Antilles business community. ‘Many of the issues I came upon in my gender research could be translated to the context of cultural diversity,’ she says. ‘I knew about the mechanisms of exclusion.’ One of the most attractive aspects of Kibbelaar’s book is that specific problems of cultural diversity are translated into recommendations that are applicable for the Dutch creative industry as a whole. Policymakers and managers could benefit from its clues towards streamlining the bureaucracy, coaching young professionals, educating art students and offering more clarity about career perspectives in the artistic field. The overall feel of The Art of Being a Foreigner in Amsterdam is positiveKibbelaar has noticed that things are changing for the better and the book offers hope that these changes will continue. The Art of Being a Foreigner in Amsterdam is published in Dutch by Bis Publishers. www.artofbeingaforeigner.nl
IRIS LOONEN
Dipping deep into the creative sector.
Love thy neighbour It’s time to find out what’s happening right next door. By Laura Groeneveld When was the last time you had a friendly talk with your neighbours? Do you know the people that live next door to you? Or even their names? Liefde in de Stad, an ongoing art project that looks for unorthodox ways to promote love in our city, is worried that Amsterdammers are growing to be unneighbourly. And that’s precisely why their most recent project focuses solely on improving relations between people who live next to each other. Martijn Engelbregt is the artist whose job it is to work with students form the Sandberg Instituut to devise neighbourly designs. Liefde in de Stad has researched different ways of encouraging Amsterdammers to get in contact with the folks next door. Together, Engelbregt, Liefde in de Stad and the students came up with something rather unusual: spreading neighbour awareness door-to-door by creating a mobile burenwinkel, a neighbours’ shop that drives around the city selling products that the students and the artist created, ranging from shag-rug slippers to doorstep parties. ‘The mobile neighbours’ shop is a different take on the old SRV-wagen, the mobile shop that used to make weekly visits during the seventies and eighties to neighbourhoods without supermarkets,’ says Saar van Blaaderen, one of LIDS’ initiators. ‘It symbolises a sense of community and solidarity.’
The idea behind the new mobile shop is to give the responsibility for creating a friendly and loving neighbourhood back to the people who live in it. ‘Since people spend so much time on the internet, they almost tend to have more contact with strangers online than with their neighbours in real life,’ Van Blaaderen says. ‘But having neighbours and being neighbours is the first step towards forming a community. With our project we offer people a tool to improve relations with their neighbours. But of course, only they can decide what to do with it.’ Van Blaaderen is fascinated by how much our neighbours are part of our lives, even if we aren’t aware of it. ‘We know a lot more about our neighbours than we think we do,’ she says. ‘Just by living next door to each other you get to know all the small and intimate details of each other’s lives. Like what your neighbours’ food smells like, what time they go to bed or what TV shows they watch. That’s a lot of information.’ Another question that intrigues her is which area people actually think of as their own neighbourhood. ‘It doesn’t necessarily have to be the street you live in,’ Van Blaaderen explains. ‘It could also be the area in which most of your friends live, or where your favourite cafe is located. In my case, I don’t think of my street as my neighbourhood because it’s very touristy and there are no neighbourhood shops.’ The shelves of the mobile shop are to be filled with the students ideas: from satellite dish antenna camouflage kits (available in all patterns, from laundry to cement) to multiple choice doorbells (one reads, ‘cup of sugar’). ‘Most products are quite simple,’ Van Blaaderen says. ‘It’s really the thought behind them that matters.’ The burenkaart, a flap-out book of cards, is a clear example of that, Van Blaaderen believes. Every card comes
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Martijn Engelbregt (bottom left) surrounded by his neighbours.
with a different message, such as ‘New neighbours, I saw you doing chores around the house. If you need any assistance, I’d love to help out!’ All of the messages are intended to foster friendly, cooperative behaviour. ‘It’s like giving a thought or a gesture as a present,’ she explains. For neighbours with little time on their hands but equally good intentions, the mobile shop offers other products. What about a sign on your window that keeps the neighbours up to date about your life, when you don’t have time for coffee and a chat? One text reads: ‘Today: got promoted. Had macaroni for dinner.’ Or you could take your neighbour awareness out on the road and get a sticker for your car that says ‘I only brake for my neighbours.’ Conversely, for people who are experiencing problems with their neighbours, the mobile shop offers special bin bags, which clearly display the word ‘dissatisfaction’, and nails that will kill that tree that’s been blocking the sunlight from your terrace for years, stopping you from getting the perfect tan. Liefde in de Stad not only invited artists, but also regular Amsterdammers to come up with neighbour-inspired products. All the proposals were judged by a jury of well respected designers on 11 July. On 15 September, the burenwinkel will make its first tour through the city with a selection of the products. And burenwinkel is still on the lookout for more products. ‘Anyone who has a good idea for a neighbour product is more than welcome to present his or her idea,’ Van Blaaderen says. ‘Especially if it’s funny and easy to execute.’ www.burenwinkel.nl
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Seeking asylum between hope and fear
The general pardon for a group of 30,000 asylum seekers has revitalised their hopes of getting residence permits. A desk has been opened in Zuiderkerk where they can apply. Proving their stories are true, however, is not always easy. BY FLORIS DOGTEROM PORTRAITS BY JOOST BENTHEM, PHOTO PAGE 8 BY GERRITJAN HUININK
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n the second day of the pardonloket in Zuiderkerk, just off St Antoniebreestraat, about ten people an hour check in with the receptionist. He asks them whether they had sought asylum before April 2001, and if they have lived in Amsterdam for the whole of 2006. If this is the case, he sends them on to one of the four booths, where they can discuss their case in more detail. Since its inception in 2001, the new Vreemdelingenwet [immigration law] has been aiming to shorten the asylum procedure. In the old situation, asylum seekers could appeal against a negative decision with the IND, the immigration office, and stay in the country while awaiting the outcome. Under the new law, they can only take the case to court. If they lose that case, they can still appeal to a higher court, but they have to await the decision abroad. One of the consequences of the law is that the authorities pursue a more active policy of deportation, with planes full of uitgeprocedeerde asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal procedures and are being sent back to their countries of origin. The pardon desk is the physical result of a long and hard-fought political battle about what to do with a group of around 30,000 asylum seekers. What they all have in common is that they are uitgeprocedeerd under the old law, after which they have stayed in the country as illegal aliens. It was for these people that the general pardon was set up, and they can apply for it until 1 October this year.
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No panacea In the church’s waiting area, a Chinese girl says the law is not fair. ‘My girlfriend sought asylum four months too late. She has her VWO-diploma, but she can’t stay!’ An Arabic-looking man also gets tensed up. ‘This is not a general pardon,’ he says loudly to the receptionist. ‘This is a general pardon for asylum seekers. But it should be for everybody who lives in the Netherlands. I have worn myself out working here for five years!’ The receptionist stays calm and polite and once again explains the rules. The man leaves, miserable. One of the people registering the applications is Alice Beldman of Amsterdams Solidariteits Komitee Vluchtelingen (ASKV), the solidarity committee for refugees. ASKV runs the pardonloket together with refugee organisation Vluchtelingenwerk Amsterdam and the church’s council, Raad van Kerken. Beldman says: ‘We try to put the best possible file together for the asylum seekers, based on the evidence they bring in. We give that file to Amsterdam city council, who advise the national authorities whether to grant the pardon. The IND also plays a role, for it checks on contraindications.’ A contraindication is a euphemism for people who have lied. Incidentally, if asylum seekers have
Amsterdam Weekly demonstrably lied only once about their identities, they get the chance to correct that and supply information about their true identities. If they have lied more than once, it’s all over. It is cases like this that have sparked an intriguing issue in the discussion around the general pardon. What happens to people who have applied for the general pardon, but failed to pass the test? Secretary of State for immigration issues, Nebahat Albayrak, has asked city councils for lists of people who don’t qualify for the general pardon, in order to deport them. However, Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen has declared he will not hand in such a list. Obviously, he also couldn’t say what will happen to these
sure if his lawyer has put a file together that proves that he lived in Amsterdam during 2006. To avoid double work, Beldman calls the lawyer. It turns out there is no such file. Clay shows bills from a pharmacy. Beldman asks: ‘You got any other proof, like people who can declare they knew you in 2006?’ Clay replies that people from his church can testify. Beldman says she needs a written declaration to that effect. Later, Clay says that he had to leave Liberia ‘because of the civil war. But I don’t really want to think of that time. The government caused a lot of havoc.’ That is a very mild description of the horrific civil wars that have struck the West African country during the last two
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people, but it seems obvious: they will continue to be illegal immigrants. If anyone thinks the general pardon is the panacea for the illegal immigration issue, there’s your answer. A place of his own At Beldman’s booth, an African man sits down. Beldman takes down his details. Sermon Clay says, in reasonable Dutch, that he hails from Liberia and sought asylum in the Netherlands in January 1997. He is uitgeprocedeerd. Beldman explains the procedure and asks if he is still in touch with a lawyer. Clay is, but he is not
decades. An estimated 200,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands fled the country. Former president Charles Taylor is presently on trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Den Haag. Taylor does not stand trial for alleged crimes in Liberia, but faces charges for crimes against humanity in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Both in Liberia as well as Sierra Leone, the deployment of child soldiers was widespread, and mutilation of opponents was daily practice. Clay states that he wasn’t against Taylor: ‘I’m just a common person, I wasn’t
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into politics. I was a street vendor, selling rice and bread and such.’ About Taylor, he says: ‘Let him be judged and punished if he’s guilty. And he is, definitely. He deserves the death penalty.’ Clay fled to the Netherlands via a number of African countries. ‘Houses were burnt down, one of my sisters got killed. I left two boys in Liberia—I don’t know where they are. If I get my residence permit I will definitely try to find them.’ Ever since Clay has been uitgeprocedeerd, he has been trying to survive on the streets. He is not allowed to work or go into the education system, like all other uitgeprocedeerde asylum seekers. ‘Sometimes I have a black-market job, moving someone. But I have no place of my own, I live with friends. I don’t have the key, so sometimes I have to call my friend to get into the house. If he doesn’t answer the phone, I have to sleep at Centraal Station for a couple of hours. That’s not my type of life.’ The odd job aside, Clay says he does nothing all day. ‘I read the Bible a lot, and I play congas in my church. Also, I study Dutch: that’s my first priority. I really want to learn the language. Once I have my residence permit, I will be happy to work, settle down in a house of my own, pay tax. I pray to God that it will come to pass.’ On the streets for ten years Ibrahim Sall (‘The police know me as Simon Anton Leo Leo’) has seen the inside of prison more times than he cares to remember. Since coming to the Netherlands in 1994, he has been convicted ten times, and spent a total of four years in captivity, for misdemeanours like drinking beer in public. ‘When I return to prison they say: “welcome home,”’ says Sall. His ordeal started in the 1990s, when he was studying electronics in St Petersburg, Russia. The West African country of Guinea, where he comes from, had strong ties with the— then—Soviet Union. ‘I was in the third year of my studies,’ says the 40-year-old Sall. ‘My own people told me I had to vote “yes” about some Guinean issue, but I voted “no”. At the Guinean embassy, where the votes were counted, they discovered that and told me: “Your studies are over.” Then they beat me up. I fled to Poland, because I was afraid they would lock me up. In 1994, Sall decided to come to the Netherlands. ‘There were a lot of my own people in Poland and Russia. I was afraid to get into trouble with them. In the Netherlands, I sought asylum. Then my nightmare started.’ Sall explains how his file got lost at his lawyer’s office in Groningen and how he got uitgeprocedeerd in 1996. ‘First they put me in prison, because they said I was dangerous. I don’t know why. After a few months they kicked me out. Then, I came to Amsterdam.’
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Sall is homeless. He points at his big coat. ‘This is my address. I have been sleeping outside for the last ten years, but I have no papers to prove it. I mean, if you are homeless, you are bound to lose documents, aren’t you?’ The only job Sall has is selling Z, the street magazine sold by homeless people, at De Bijenkorf. He shows a letter from the magazine, saying that he worked for them all through 2006. He says he does have a registration number from the IND, so he hopes they can find his file. Sall says: ‘I am optimistic about my chances. When I get the pardon, I will leave for Africa, but I will not go to Guinea. The same ruler who was there when I left is still in power.’ Despite his optimistic mood, Sall declares that he doesn’t believe anymore in the constitutional state. ‘Dutch people always think they are so good, helping out people all over the world. But the general pardon is a nice opportunity to throw people out, because they register everybody. Still, I will try it. But whatever happens, I will always be an unwanted alien. People don’t believe me, nor do the institutions for social welfare. They say that I am lying about my time in Russia.’ Exploited at one euro an hour Bashir Rana is a most amiable Pakistani who has lived in the Netherlands since 1995. You could say he is a political refugee, although he claims he wasn’t involved in politics. Rana (34) is an Ahmadi Muslim, a minority that other Muslims in Pakistan consider not to be true members of the faith. Ahmadi Muslims are followers of the Indian Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who died in 1908. He claimed to have fulfilled Christian and Islamic prophecies, and proclaimed himself the promised Messiah. Pakistan’s parliament has declared Ahmadis to be nonMuslims. In perfect Dutch, Rana relates: ‘If we say “As-Salamu Alaykum” [Arabic for ‘peace be upon you’, a common greeting among Muslims], we risk three months in jail. It’s even forbidden for us to say the word “mosque”. If I went back to Pakistan, I would be jailed or even get the death penalty, for the authorities would think that I would be religiously active.’ He continues: ‘In 1991, I first fled to Germany, later to the Netherlands. I immediately sought asylum and got the Astatus.’ Under the old law, this meant that Rana was a recognised refugee who could stay in the country. ‘I then applied for Dutch nationality. However, in 2002, the IND found out that I had sought asylum in Germany first, so they withdrew
Amsterdam Weekly my status. I was living here with my wife and two kids, who were born here. They went to school and spoke Dutch. I had a house and a job. But out of fear that the IND would deport me to Germany, which
ly exploited. ‘I work in construction. Sometimes they pay you only one euro an hour. Two weeks ago I was arrested for working illegally, but they released me because I qualify for the general pardon.’
‘This is not a general pardon,’ he says loudly to the receptionist. ‘This is a general pardon for asylum seekers. But it should be for everybody who lives in the Netherlands. I have worn myself out working here for five years!’ The receptionist stays calm and polite and once again explains the rules. The man leaves, miserable. in turn would deport me to Pakistan, I left the house and sublet a house somewhere else. I couldn’t support my family any longer and sent them back to Pakistan, and haven’t heard from them ever since. Nor have I been in touch with any other relatives.’ Rana went through a lot of misery. Now and then he’s slept outside, and he does black-market jobs where he is heavi-
Rana shows his travel documents and says he has got all the necessary evidence to qualify. ‘But I’m still not sure. That’s because of the IND, they say a lot of nonsense. I’m not sure why, I guess they want as little people as possible to qualify for the general pardon. Anyway, when I get the residence permit, I will start working right away. Instead of one euro an hour I will make twelve.’ He will not go to Pak-
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istan, though, to find his family. ‘Maybe I’ll go to Iran and find people who can do something for me in Pakistan. But I won’t go there myself, not even with my Dutch passport. I haven’t been there for seventeen years, but I will still be in trouble.’ Trusting in God The 25-year-old Liberian Samuel Doe came to the Netherlands in 1999. The fact that former dictator Samuel Doe was his uncle got him into an awkward predicament. Doe says: ‘I lost my father through the war. He was killed by Taylor’s people. When the rebels came, I had to flee the country, on foot. After some time, I boarded a container vessel, but I didn’t know where it was going. It turned out to be Rotterdam. I went to the police and sought asylum. I spent several months in refugee centres in places like Ermelo, Zevenaar and Ommen. Later, I lived in Enschede, in a regular house. But I wasn’t allowed to work or to study.’ Doe has lost track of his mother. ‘I don’t know where she is, or even if she is still alive. The rest of my family is scattered. I’ve got an uncle in Ghana and another one in America.’ He receives a weekly allowance of €84, part of which he usually uses to pay the rent. ‘But I don’t have a fixed address now. I sleep at friends’, I keep moving around, walking here and there. But I’m still afraid of the police. I feel like I’m in danger all the time, it’s a terrible situation. One time I was driving and the police asked me for my licence. They said it wasn’t OK, because it’s Liberian. They sent me to prison for fourteen days for that. The mercy of God set me free.’ In 2006, Doe got uitgeprocedeerd. He says he doesn’t know why they don’t believe him. ‘I had to do this language test, to see if I really speak a Liberian language. It was positive, so at least they believe I am Liberian. I qualify for the general pardon one hundred per cent, and I believe with the help of God everything will be OK,’ says Doe, who has a big crucifix hanging on his chest. Doe states that people from his church can declare he has been in the Netherlands in 2006. If he gets the pardon, he wants to work and go to school as soon as possible. ‘I would like to do something in computer engineering, if possible. Or financial management. And if I have a passport, I want to see if it is possible to locate the people I lost. Still, it’s an unsure situation. You never know what will happen.’ www.pardonnu.nl
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Mitch Epstein, Thursday, Foam
THURSDAY12 JULY Photography: Mitch Epstein Missed the flags flying on the 4th of July? You can still catch the two wrapped in plastic (Flag, 2000), straight back from the dry cleaners and hanging out on the first floor of Foam. Mitch Epstein’s photos show the American dream pressed, dressed and all the rest. Several pictures jarringly incorporate and entwine American life as envisioned once-upon-a-time with its raw contemporary counterpart. Trees hung with debris in Biloxi almost surreally depict the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; football heroes play on a field dwarfed by atomic energy towers; burnt-out apartment 303 at 398 Main Street, with its charcoaled cereal box bearing the barely legible text: ‘How far would you go to stop that CRAZY CRAVING?’, shows that life Stateside is no longer the best thing since sliced bread. Overwhelming in size, the powerful prints are harsh confrontations with reality, which always retain attractiveness by enticing through colour and composition. These vestiges of glory can be viewed at Foam until mid-September. Oh, say, can you see? (John Hartnett) Foam. Until 19 September.
Jazz: Steve Coleman & Five Elements Here’s why we like Steve Coleman: the man takes jazz seriously. With his invocations of ancient wisdom, esoteric geometries and references to living traditions, Coleman reanimates a moment—which stretched from the late ’50s through to the early ’70s—when jazz participated in the main debates as iconoclastic expression, vital art, social conscience, and site of human advancement. Once, jazz mattered—and, Coleman wants to tell us, it does still. The alto saxophonist and composer, born in Chicago 50 years ago, has played with folks from Cecil Taylor to Sarah Vaughan, and his solo work reflects similar diversity, ranging from funk to free to points unknown. Touring with the ‘Rhythm Edition’ (whatever that is) of his longstanding Five Elements sextet, Coleman will likely continue to fling time signatures at one another, bend genres and pile future upon present upon past. In other words, there’s no telling what the guy will do—though I can tell you it’ll be worth your while. (Steve Schneider) Bimhuis, 21.00, €20.
FRIDAY13 JULY Festival: North Sea Jazz Thirty-second annual instalment of the famous festival with a line-up so hot that jazz fans are sure to ignite into a frenzy as they scurry to get their hands on a precious ticket. Making appearances are living legends like Ornette Coleman, Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Chick Corea, John Scofield, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Joe Zawinul, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman and Misha Mengelberg. Also arriving are a cornucopia of various icons who may not be direct jazz descendants but have always been connected with the genre,
including Sly & The Family Stone, Steely Dan, Katie Melua, Amy Winehouse, Al Green, Paul Anka, Buena Vista Social Club, Charles Tolliver and Elvis Costello. Not enough for you? The programmers thought that might be the case, so they’ve also invited The Roots, Candy Dulfer, India.Arie, Maceo Parker, and yes, even Snoop Dogg. Altogether, it may sound like merely another iPod playlist, but this is the real thing. See www.northseajazz.nl. (Mark Wedin) Ahoy, various times, Rotterdam, €70-€320.
SATURDAY14 JULY Art: A is for Alibi Strolling through a university museum might lead to encounters with the strangest objects, from pickled freaks of nature to old and crude looking scientific instruments. Eight artists were given total freedom to explore the collection of the Universiteitsmuseum in Utrecht, and now they are presenting artworks based on their research in De Appel. Among other things, the artists were inspired by photos of a lost island in the harbour of Rotterdam, documents of experiments with rabbits in the 1950s and the microscope of the founder of microbiology, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. The project was set up by artists Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo Deball of the Uqbar Foundation, an organisation that stimulates discussion between artistic and scientific fields. Other artists involved in the exhibition are Maria Barnas, Brian O’Connell, James Beckett, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Suchan Kinoshita and Tine Melzer. (Marinus de Ruiter) De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00). Until 19 August.
Club: Radio Oh-La-La Bastille Party Allons enfants de le Yé-Yé/Le jour de gloire et arrivé! It’s Bastille Day and that venerable purveyor of Francophone pop, Radio Oh-La-La, is organising a party—or perhaps, one should more properly call it a boum—to celebrate. The station’s own Natashka will be on the decks, so the music is bound to include a good tranche of Sixties, YéYé—think France Gall, Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartin—and twist, mixed in with a good sprinkling of Gainsbourg and Dutronc, though she also promises to play some of her jazz and jerk favourites too. She’ll be joined in that genre by special guest DJ Waikiki Wilf from the Amsterdam Beat Club. Apart from the retro sounds (which probably won’t find a more suitable home than De Nieuw Anita anywhere in the world) there will be, it is rumoured, a dance performance and prize giveaways. You will also be able to buy a special Radio Oh-La-La T-shirt bearing the legend ‘Franco à Gogo’, which will set off your beret delightfully. And here’s another Bastille fashion the ladies might like to try: wear a red choker around your neck. This is what contemporary female supporters of the Revolution wore: the necklace marks the spot where the guillotine sliced. (Kim Renfrew) De Nieuwe Anita, 21.00, €5.
Music: de-Affaire Every year, the city of Nijmegen hosts festivities surrounding the Vierdaagse marches. Aside from the popular music festival 4Daagsefeesten and the techno extravaganza
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Matrixx, there’s room for adventurous music at de-Affaire. Over seven days, seven stages are filled with 100 alternative bands and musicians from all genres. Tonight, the cheerful sounds of Das Pop clash with the mathematically structured metal of Textures. Tomorrow, old and new freak punks meet when No Means No and Erase Errata mount the stage. During the week, visitors will be treated with freak folk (Animal Collective), dance punk (The Rapture, Bondo de Role), perfect pop tunes (The Bees, Au Revoir Simone), heavy garage rock (The Drones), neo new wave (The Robocop Kraus) and experimental percussive noise (Z’EV). See www.de-affaire.nl for the full programme. (Marinus de Ruiter) Various locations and times, Nijmegen, free. Until 20 July.
SUNDAY15 JULY Photography: Hedi Slimane Mainly known as the fashion designer who transformed the male silhouette with his skinny suits, Paris-born Hedi Slimane has a few other tricks up his slender sleeve. After his art history studies, the frail-looking fashionista dabbled in things like furniture design and architecture. He also tried his hand at graphic design and photography. As an obsessive music lover he spent years taking pictures in rock clubs and thus became friends with the notorious Pete Doherty. Bands like Franz Ferdinand, The Rakes or Razorlight inspired Slimane’s clothing designs and ended up wearing them, sometimes even being cast as models at his runway shows for the menswear division of Paris fashion house Christian Dior, which he left this spring to debut a line of his own. Young Americans is Slimane’s latest photography project, portraying in minimalist black-and-white the current generation of New York artists. Its title may well be a nod to David Bowie’s album of the same name, as it was he who, in his Thin White Duke mode, allegedly had been Slimane’s original source of inspiration. (Peter Bartlema) Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), €7. Until 12 September.
Literature: Armistead Maupin Author Armistead Maupin started out life rooted solidly in America’s religious right: he supported the Vietnam War and was headed for a promising career with ultra-conservative North Carolina senator Jesse Helms. But then he moved to San Francisco. The city inspired him to openly declare his homosexuality—in the Seventies, long before everybody was doing it—and invent a batch of eccentric friends and neighbours whose audacious, bodacious and, of course, gay exploits monopolised talk around office coffee machines for over a decade. His highly addictive Tales of the City first appeared in newspaper columns, before being published as a series of books and later filmed for TV. Maupin ended the saga in 1989, but has now again turned to protagonist Michael Tolliver to ‘write a more personal novel’. Though he says his new book Michael Tolliver Lives is not a sequel, fans will be pleased to catch up with some old friends. Get your copy signed by the author today in the bookshop. (Iris Maher) Boekhandel Vrolijk, 15.00-16.30, free.
MONDAY16 JULY Rock: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Black Rebel Motorcycle Club like to quote things. Their name is a quote from a Marlon Brando film. The title of their third album Howl is a quote from Allen Ginsberg. Their looks are a quote from a good part of the entire rock ’n’ roll history (black leather jackets and all). So is their music: BRMC are so old school, not even the British music press was able to make up a new music genre for them when they rose to fame back in 2001. Many people don’t like this. They say they’d rather sit at home listening to their old ’60s vinyl for the real thing. But other people don’t care so much, as long as it rocks—and the Club’s most recent album, Baby 81, really, really does. So if you‘re up for another sweaty night with heavy riffs, don that leather jacket and come on over. Support comes from The Black Angels: they like the 1960s, too. (Sarah Gehrke) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €16 + membership.
WEDNESDAY18 JULY Pop: Madeleine Peyroux I was among the fortunate many who used to hear Madeleine Peyroux singing on the streets of Paris. And while I wasn’t quite as convinced as my friend Russell Teramo—who, stumbling upon an unknown group called The Police in a dank New York club, reeled out saying they’d play Madison Square Garden in three years (PS: they did)—it was evident that Peyroux wasn’t just an entry-level busker. With a salty, restrained alto and invincible cool, Peyroux turned classic tunes into living declarations, using understatement and misdirection to engaging effect. Then, of course, she was discovered and recorded a hit CD. Then Peyroux returned to working the streets, then came back to the studio—and polevaulted into the Concertgebouw. Recently, she’s added modern songmasters—Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, Dylan—to her repertory, and it will be interesting to hear Peyroux counterpoint their work with the chestnuts of the ’30s and ’40s that she usually surveys. Still in her early 30s, the Georgia-born Peyroux has managed her talents wisely, going broader into her tradition in order to rise higher within her career. (Steve Schneider) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €26-€35. Send details and images for listing consideration at least two weeks in advance to agenda@amsterdamweekly.nl.
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This cat has eyes. He can see.
Blind cats. Bollywood. Septuagenarian flamenco dancers. The fleeting essence of time. Meet NYC’s Fischerspooner.
PUTTING HUMANITY INTO PERFORMANCE MUSIC Fischerspooner Paradiso, 18 July, 22.00, €16.50 + membership By Tanya Selvaratnam
Fresh from appearing in The Wooster Group’s sold-out run of Hamlet at the Holland Festival, Casey Spooner is on his way back to Amsterdam. This time, he takes the stage at the Paradiso with self-described ‘New York electro pop art performance punk rock’ sensation Fischerspooner, which he co-founded with Warren Fischer, his former classmate at the Art Institute of Chicago. In his home hood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Spooner discussed his inspirations and plans for the upcoming European tour and album—and, of course, Mokum.
What is your favorite thing to do in Amsterdam? The Kattenkabinet, the cat museum. I found it by accident. The beautiful old house gives you a sense of what old Amsterdam was like and what a real home was like living on the canals. You really like cats: did you appreciate the museum more because you’ve got new cats yourself? I have Magic, the cat that has no eyes. And then I got a companion for her, Phantom, in January. What have you learned from Magic? Well, I was a little bit prejudiced against blindness and thought that ultimately you couldn’t function without sight, because I’m such a visual person. I can’t fathom existing without vision. When you first see
Magic, you have these pangs of pity and sadness and claustrophobia; imagining what it’s like to be an animal with no eyes raises all these feelings. But now I forget she’s blind all the time. She walks into walls and she bumps into things, but she’s perfectly fine and she’s totally happy. She just has a different sense of the world. Now, tell me about Fischerspooner’s new record... It’s more electronic. It’s more fun. It’s not as heavy as the second record, because it hasn’t been as difficult or as painful to make. The second one was all about having the caché and power of a major label, and being able to contact people with a certain amount of legitimacy. It was all about going to songwriters, big mixers and all the big people, going to big studios all over the world and seeing what it’s like to be big. But this record’s been written in a carriage house in Brooklyn. This is the first record we’ve made with a producer, Jeff Saltzman, from start to finish. He worked with The Sounds and The Killers, and he was Green Day’s manager during their early peak. Do you feel more free making this record because you don’t have a label anymore? Definitely. The first record we paid for ourselves. With the second record, we went into a partnership with a major label. I don’t want to be one of those people who blame
big business for destroying a creative entity, because that wasn’t the case at all. They left us alone for the most part, and they gave us all the resources we needed. But it was a psychological thing. You start feeling like there are more and more limitations. What will your next incarnation be? I have no idea and I’ve never known. I thought I was a painter. I can’t believe I sing and write songs. I never thought I’d do that. I have a couple of unfulfilled dreams. I don’t feel like the essence of Fischerspooner has ever been truly captured. The music lives on the record; there are music videos; you can see the show, but the show is lost in time ultimately. The only way to capture the combination of sound, image and performance is in a film. I want to make a movie. Who would direct it? Grindhouse was one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time, so I want Robert Rodriguez to direct it. And I’d love to shoot in India with big sets and a big cast. When I first saw a Bollywood film, the opening scene couldn’t have been more Fischerspooner—a line with a hundred dancers going all the way across a backlit stage. Why do you put such an emphasis on the live presentation of the music, the spectacle? I’m a performer, so this is a vehicle for me to perform. And yeah, I’ve considered that it’s ridiculous, the expense, the effort. I could just make a record and make awesome music videos and not worry about touring or performing, but it’s too much fun. It’s been a great way for me to see the world and to connect with people. What performers have inspired you? Lon Chaney [the Hollywood silent movie star] is an amazing performer, because he’s very chameleonesque. I like that he represents the outsider. There’s always a comedic quality, but there’s a poignancy that I like and aspire to. I saw this flamenco performer in Malaga who was seventyeight. Best performance I’ve ever seen in my life. He said his two greatest influences were Buster Keaton and Fred Astaire. So he was comedy, Hollywood, graceful, Moorish, gypsy—the craziest combo of elements you could never fathom. After a performance we did in Spain, he performed for two hours just for us at four o’clock in the morning. He was singing and dancing and stomping and wailing... You know how sometimes you wonder if it’s all worth it. Are we wasting our time? Do we just want attention? Do we not want attention? Is there really any cultural value? Should I just get a job? And then you see a performance like that. It made me teary, because it felt like time and space disappeared and the triumph of humanity reigns. What do you want people to feel after seeing a Fischerspooner performance? I wish that’s what they’d feel. Time and space disappears, and humanity reigns.
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Au Revoir Simone (de-Affaire), see Tuesday
MUSIC Send listing suggestions at least two weeks in advance to agenda@amsterdamweekly.nl
Thursday 12 July Classical: Klankruimte Exploring the magical acoustics of the old church with a performance by the Rinaldo Trio. Oude Kerk, 15.30, €5 Rock: Sounds Like Violence Desperado emo punks from Sweden. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €7 + membership Classical: Vlaams Radio Orkest Performing Tournemire’s Poème, Widor’s Symphony and Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony; conducted by Yoel Levi. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €19.50 Rock: Gov’t Mule Southern riff rockin’ goodness. An offshoot of The Allman Brothers Band, who had reformed in the late ’80s, this jam band hark back to the glory days of raw ’60s rock. And while they’re hardly a household name or regulars on the radio, it’s their live reputation alone that ensures packed concert halls around the world. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20 + membership Classical: Openluchttheater Performances by Sara Gutvill and En Accord. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, 20.30, free Pop/Rock: Fools Gold Sets from Rob Sawyer, Al Baker and Deluxe. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Steve Coleman & Five Elements Jazz meets funk and soul with renowned American alto sax player. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €20
Jazz: Duo Marlene Parafioriti & Javier Gomez Argentine folklore. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.30, €6 Folk: Jacobs Pillow Traditional Scottish quartet. Mulligans, 21.30, free Singer-songwriter: Rik Kaez Anti-folk and rock. Skek, 22.00, free Blues: Johnny Mastro & Mama’s Boys Guitar and harmonica roots rock as raw as sandpaper, from the US. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €7.50 + membership
Friday 13 July Jazz: Tutu Puoane Quartet South African/Belgian world jazz. Concertgebouw, Koorzaal, 19.00, 21.00, €12.50 Hiphop: Wu-Tang Clan Yes, it really is the Wu-Tang from Staten Island. Not replacements. Not the next generation. Just a genuine Wu-Tang show featuring the likes of RZA, GZA, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, Method Man and U-God. At least if all goes to plan—they’re hardly the most reliable bunch. They were supposed to be releasing a new album last week—their first since 2001—but as yet, it hasn’t made the shops. Still, don’t stress too much, as there’s too much money riding on their summer tour for them to miss the flight. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, sold out Classical: Radio Kamer Filharmonie The broadcast philharmonic get down to business with three nights of shows at Concertgebouw, with different soloists and works performed each night. This opening concert features symphonies by Fauré and Mozart, and a Mozart concerto reworked by Philip Wilby. Then, over the next couple of days, Chausson and Saint-Saëns pieces will fit alongside further Mozart tunes, while guests will include pianist Sebastian Knauer, violinist Antje Weithaas, pianist Jean-Philippe Collard and alt-mezzo Christianne Stotijn. All nights will be conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €19.50 Heavy: Amsterdam Underground Collective Old school hardcore and punk from 108 (US), Final Fight (US) and High Treason. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Hiphop: Gym Class Heroes Like your hiphop with some organic instrumental flair rather than simply a DJ or backing track? Well, in a similar vein as The Roots or Relax, this New York crew have been causing a minor storm with their ‘real’ rap and have already enjoyed a big hit in the US with the single ‘Cupid’s Chokehold’, which borrows the chorus of Supertramp’s ‘Breakfast in America’. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €13 + membership
The Rapture Electro rock: The Rapture While these New Yorkers have gradually been honing their sound and coming back more polished, they still know how to mix a riff, a dance beat and a killer bassline. And even though their most recent record Pieces of the People We Love hasn’t seen them take over the world like the evil geniuses some music critics would have you believe they are, they’re certainly not doing too badly, and the hall will be packed with moving bodies tonight. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €15 + membership
Jazz: Roswell Rudd & Mark Dresser Trombone and bass duo with an instantly recognisable sound. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Reggae: SunFireSouls Camping Zeeburg, 22.00, free Folk: The Pictoids Traditional duo from Edinburgh. Mulligans, 22.00, free Rock: The Stacy Cats Psycho blues and rockabilly. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Singer-songwriter: The Woodwards Raw folk. Skek, 22.00, free
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Rock: Subbacultcha! Featuring a raw performance from Pfaff. Patronaat, Haarlem, 21.00, free
Festival: North Sea Jazz Three days of performances from some of the world’s biggest jazz, soul, R&B and hiphop stars. The main events happen in the caverns of Ahoy in the south of Rotterdam, but don’t forget that North Sea Round Town is in action too, bringing much more intimate performances to diverse locations throughout the city. And even if you’ve absolutely no budget, you just have to wander the streets of Rotterdam and jazz will be in the air for free. See Short List. Ahoy, Rotterdam, various times, €70-€320
Festival: North Sea Jazz See Friday and Short List. Ahoy, Rotterdam, various times, €70-€320
Saturday 14 July Classical: Radio Kamer Filharmonie (See Friday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €21.25/€25 Reggae: Katchafire Heroes of the New Zealand dub reggae scene. Sugar Factory, 20.30, €12 Rock: Nederlands Luchtgitaar Kampioenschap 2007 Yes, summer means only one thing at Paradiso... folks arriving from across the country and flying in from around the world to make a fool of themselves with full-on air guitar madness. Whose fingers are fastest? Who can pull the best constipated gurn? Or will it come down to the silliest costume? If you actually care which air-guitar superstars will be performing, check out www.luchtgitaar.nl. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €10 Experimental: AUXXX—Odd Oz Cabaret Going down under for some über weirdness. Acts tonight include The Kleber Claux Memorial Singers, Paraphernalia, User, Iain McIntyre’s project A Warning, Paul Glazier’s Oz-tastic Dorothy Squeezed, and strange tunes from DJs Marcelle and Morsanek. OT301, 21.00, €5
Festival: de-Affaire See Saturday and Short List. Various locations and times, Nijmegen, free
Monday 16 July Rock: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Semi-acoustic bluesy rock ’n’ roll, with the San Franciscans flogging new album Baby 81. Support from The Black Angels. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €16 + membership Classical: Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg Brahms’ First Piano Concerto plus R Strauss’ Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche; conducted by Marc Albrecht. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €25 Rock: Charlie Monroes Dynamo Drum thumpin’ garage rock and lo-fi metal. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €6.50 + membership Festival: de-Affaire See Saturday and Short List. Various locations and times, Nijmegen, free
Tuesday 17 July Classical: De Koninklijke Filharmonie van Vlaanderen-deFilharmonie Performing Brahms’ Tragic Overture and Symphony No.3, and Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A; conducted by Gérard Korsten, with a guest appearance by cellist Daniel Müller-Schott. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €25
Soul: Crime Jazz—Atlanta Special A selection of progressive underground soul artists from Atlanta live on stage, including Venus7, Kelsy Davis & The Radical Soul and special guests. Afterparty follows at midnight. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €7.50 Jazz: Stan Tracey Trio Joined by Brit trumpeter Guy Barker and Amsterdam jazzist Benjamin Herman. Tracey—the house pianist of the legendary London jazz club Ronnie Scott’s—pays a visit to Bimhuis in response to Herman’s regular trips to London. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Electro rock: The Mayfair Superkings Electro rock ’n’ roll from Scotland. They’re promising to remind you of what entertainment really is, but if for some reason they fail, don’t be afraid to ask for your money back. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Americana: Jack of Diamonds Rootsy blues and altcountry. Mulligans, 22.00, free Singer-songwriter: Joost Dobbe Melodic acoustic pop with diverse influences. Skek, 22.00, free Rock: SwampStompers With Zibabu, The Bucketboyz, De Beatzers and a surprise act. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Rock: Swann Danger Californian goth meets post punk. OCCII, 22.00, €6 Festival: North Sea Jazz See Friday and Short List. Ahoy, Rotterdam, various times, €70-€320 Festival: de-Affaire Music to sooth weary 4Daagse feet. See Short List. Various locations and times, Nijmegen, free
Sunday 15 July World: Openluchttheater Global grooves from José Rivero, Beatriz Aguiar and Fernando Lameirinhas. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, 14.00, free Pop/Rock: Rob Sawyer, SunFireSouls Chilled grooves from Australian singer-songwriter Sawyer and the SunFireSouls, who deal out a mix of surf, blues, punk and sunshine reggae. Blijburg, 17.00, free Pop/Rock: Jack Penate A new take on ska and guitar pop from this hotly tipped wild dancer from London. Support from Adele. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €6 + membership Reggae/Dancehall: Sean Paul Commercial dancehall from the incomprehensible Jamaican star. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €37.50 Singer-songwriter Evening With Margo Klerx and Desperados of the Freakfire. KHL Koffiehuis, 20.30, €6 Hiphop: Stones Throw Summer Tour One of the hottest independent hiphop record labels in the world, the Californian label Stones Throw has just turned ten and is marking the occasion with a European tour featuring some of their best and most promising acts. So look for sets from Peanut Butter Wolf, J-Rocc, Percee P, Aloe Blacc & Guilty Simpson. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €17 + membership
The Thermals Rock: The Thermals Compared to the rapid-fire lo-fi rock of their 2003 debut More Parts per Million, The Thermals are virtually a polished rock outfit these days. But it’s all relative, considering that original entry to the scene was an energetic, almost-mono burst of noise that didn’t stretch beyond 30 minutes. The Portland trio are still considerably raw compared to most, but have definitely matured a tad on their following albums, not only branching out lyrically, but daring to even slow down a couple of times. Still, they’ll tear Paradiso down given half a chance. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership Classical: VU-Orkest Performing Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole, Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain, and Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €14 Reggae: Junior Kelly Jamaican reggae star. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership Jazz: Rashied Ali Quintet In 1966 drummer Rashied Ali replaced Elvin Jones in John Coltrane’s group and a year later they recorded the impressive duo album Interstellar Space. While this is what most remember when they hear his name, over the years Ali has tread a progressive free jazz path, which is what you’ll hear the quintet perform tonight. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Festival: de-Affaire See Saturday and Short List. Various locations and times, Nijmegen, free
Wednesday 18 July Funk: Hipdrop Live soul, funk and beats from members of Zuco 103, Lefties Soul Connection, C-mon & Kypski and other special guests. Bitterzoet, 20.00, free, €5 after 22.00 Singer-songwriter: RALPH, Reni Laine, Martin Gabriel A showcase concert with RALPH presenting songs from his new album. Reni Laine is an American songwriter, while Gabriel is a Swede who deals in folky pop and Americana. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.00, €15 + membership Pop: Madeleine Peyroux Ice-cool pop from Georgia via the Paris streets. See Short List. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €26-€35
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CLUBS Thursday 12 July Draadloos Minimal techno. Twstd, 20.00-01.00, free Flex Yourspace Kid Goesting presents live sets from Shane Shu and Size King. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €5 Wildvreemd Going wildly weird with Argentinian techno superstar Franco Cinelli. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10
12-18 July 2007 can enjoy a dining experience before the party really gets moving. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 19.00-04.00, €7/€15 incl dinner Alter Music Electro, tech and deep house. Twstd, 20.00-03.00, free Fragile Breaks Beach Bonanza! A break-a-rama with the Back-A-Wall Soundsystem, Hepcat, Rombout & Jorge Natalin, Kiki Toao, Planet Sutcliffe, Dikkie D, Philippo, Chamelian, Meneer de Beer and Arrow. Blijburg, 20.00-late, free Radio Oh-la-la Bastille Party Off with their heads! See Short List. De Nieuwe Anita, 21.00, €5 Highlight With Laurent and Leo VanderWeijden. Cineac, 22.00-04.00, €15 Rush Hour Soundsystem With Recloose, The Baker Man and All Out K in the main room, while the Rednose Distrikt and Antal go all Afro-Latin-Cuban-soul in the bar. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €8.50 Ratio? A Permanent Vacation special featuring a live set from Kathy Diamond (London) and DJs Maurice Fulton (Baltimore/Sheffield) and Melon. 11, 22.3004.00, €12 Disko is Dead With DJ Non Travolta. Club Meander, 23.00-04.00, €5 Molotov & The DirtyDirtyDirty From electro to hiphop, house to grime. With DJs Terry Toner, The Flexican, Victor Coral and many more. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €15 Digital Soul A new state of mind for those seeking out deep house, garage, broken beats and electro. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €12 Zoetzaligheid With Roog, Sidney Samson, Tony Cha Cha, D-Rashid, Laidback Luke, Ricky Rivaro and Graphix. The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €15
Stereo Deluxe—The Final Countdown After 13 years of spinning, the Stereo Deluxe DJs decide to call it a night. This is their goodbye set. Sugar Factory, (1.005.00), €10
Hutspot A summer mish-mash of styles and surprises. In the Grote Zaal, it’s punky electro and techno. Upstairs there’s Arabian pop and funk with LaZiz. Finally, down in the basement there’s more party antics from the Amsterdam BeatClub rascals. Paradiso, 23.59-05.00, €10
Nachtplan Dub and electro from Benny Rodrigues and Tim Nieburg (Planet Delsin). Twstd, 20.00-03.00, free
Electronation Dance Valley afterparty with a special (secret?) line-up. Winston Kingdom, 23.59-09.00, €10
Balkan Beat Eastern European grooves. Blijburg, 20.00-late, free
Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. In The Max take a dive into ska and soul; in the Oude Zaal it’s indie dance, pop and rock faves all the way. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €8
Friday 13 July
Rednose Allstars Featuring Zaadvarke, Toby, StevenDePeten, Lamme Tonnie, Oooh-boogie, HarrieGekkehuis, TobyTober, SlimyShady and Cinnavrouw. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 Parkroom With Nuno dos Santos, Lupe and Eva Maria. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €5 Epicentre The darker side of clubbing for lovers of gothic, cyber, fetish and alternative lifestyles. Studio 80, 22.00-late, €7.50 Rauw Raw live beats from Man Like Me (London), plus DJs Steve Aoki (Los Angeles) and Joost van Bellen. 11, 22.30-04.00, €15 E.N.D. Electronation returns to Bitterzoet with E.N.D: The Resurrection. Bitterzoet, 23.00-04.00, €7.50 Superstijl Dancefloor democracy rules over DJ dictatorship: each round, the audience gets to determine which musical style they wanna shake a leg to, by means of a fair vote. Let’s just hope you share the taste of the masses. Hotel Arena, 23.0004.00, €10 Discocult: Stereo de Luxe The end of an era as the Stereo de Luxe DJ team (London/Berlin) call it a day. But this is more of a celebration than a wake, promising monster breakbeats, slabs of pop and doses of weirdness. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10 Paradisoul Wu-Tang afterparty with special guest, Detroit MC/producer Black Milk. Paradiso, 23.5905.00, €12.50 Club Rascal Indie dance guitar prance party. Expect the likes of Bromheads Jacket, CSS, Maxïmo Park and all that other jaggy student music. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.59-late, €6 + membership
Saturday 14 July Dance Valley Always one of the big players on the dance music calendar, every form of electronica is represented at numerous tents and outdoor stages, right from the clubbing underground to the stadium filling trance and house stars. See www.dancevalley.com. Spaarnwoude Velsen, 10.0023.00, €62.50 IChiOne presents Skull Disco IChiOne join hands with new label Skull Disco to throw a party full of dubstep, grime, techno and roots, plus diverse and interesting blends thereof. As always, those out earl
Sunday 15 July Omlaag Minimal techno from Radiosus vs Min-Der, Roderik Flohill and Rise. Twstd, 20.00-01.00, free WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8.50 The Official Sean Paul Afterparty This’ll be a dancehall special then. The line-up includes MBA, Waxfiend, Jah and Amolab. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €15 + membership
Monday 16 July Cheeky Monday Amsterdam’s top jungle and drum & bass night featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00 03.00, €6
GAY& LESBIAN Thursday 12 July Social: (Oud) West-HomoBorrel Get together for gays and lesbians who live in West and Oud West. Cafe Oranje-Nassau, 18.00 Happy hour: After Shopping Cocktail Sale Cocktails €5: everything must go! PRIK, 19.00-22.00
Friday 13 July Club: Vrouwenavond Popular Friday night with dancing, lesbians, and their male and female friends of all persuasions. Café Sappho, 21.00-03.00, free
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Saturday 14 July Happy hour: 1 Year PRIK Revolution! The new kid in town is already a year old, and celebrating with a huge jamboree and extra-late opening. The first 250 people through the door after 8pm get a rather stylish canvas PRIK courier bag. Hostess Zsa Zsa Gay Bar will create an artwork with the visitors. There’s a dating game, plus music from DJs Gina and Nooky. PRIK,16.00, free
Sunday 15 July Literature: Armistead Maupin Giant of literature signs copies of his new book Michael Tolliver Lives, an update on the life of Tales of the City’s leading man. See Short List. Boekhandel Vrolijk, 15.00-16.30, free Social: Transgender Café Drop-in for people with transgender feelings, organised by Noodles. See www.n00dles.nl Saarein, 17.00, free Social: Furball Cafe Meet and greet for hairy Marys and their smoother admirers, where everyone is welcome. PRIK, 19.00-01.00, free
Monday 16 July
STAGE Opening Julidans: Purusharta The Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts presents a performance that combines Indian dance aesthetics with Japanese digital art. Theater Bellevue, (Thur, Fri 21.00), €17.50 Theatre: Midzomernachtdroom Shakespeare’s fabulous classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream amidst the glorious setting of the Amsterdamse Bos. All well and good provided the weather on upcoming July evenings actually stabilises. In Dutch. Theater het Amsterdamse Bos, (Thur-Sat, 21.30), €10, (Tues, Wed) €5 Theatre: Groenland Everybody’s whining about climate change. But hey, why not use it for your own good? Like the two protagonists of this play, who decide to buy land in Greenland. It might be snowed in for now, but it should prove a rewarding investment in their near, hot future. In Dutch. Almere-Strand, Almere, (Thur-Sun, Wed 22.15), €17.50
Vermiculus van Loon is a member of Toomler’s Comedytrain and also a traveller at the Comedytrain Café tour taking place this summer. In Dutch. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, (Sat 20.30), free Cabaret: Jan Jaap van der Wal More Comedytrain approved cabaret. In Dutch. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, (Sat 21.00), free
Sex club: After Weekend Sex Party Self-explanatory men-only session, with a strict one-piece-only lingerie or shorts dress-code. Same Place, 20.00-01.00, €5
Music/Dance: Lucky Improvised music and dance performance, curated by Katie Duck with local and international musicians and dancers. OT301, (Fri 21.00), €5
Theatre: Alptraum An absurd comedic whodunnit from Toneelgroep Oostpool. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Tues, Wed 20.30), €17.50
Tuesday 17 July
Julidans: Gorgeous Gavin Three women in a performance about outsiders, heartlessness and absurd love. Melkweg, (Fri, Sat 19.00), €10
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Film: Movie Night Tonight’s star of the silver screen is Volver, Almodóvar’s camp tale of a dead woman who comes back to haunt her daughter, starring Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura. PRIK, 19.00, free
Wednesday 18 July Games night: Gay Prize Bridge An antidote to the scene: weekly gay bridge night using the Butler score. De Looier, 19.00-23.00, €5 Club: F*cking Pop Queers Queers love pop, and this is where they get their fill. Expect Madonna and electro, urban and indie, new and classic. ArtLaunch Cafe in the smaller room. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, free before 00.00, €5 after
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Julidans: Reuna (Rim)/Trickle, Green Oak Two performances by the Finnish National Ballet, offering the best of Finnish contemporary dance. In Trickle, Green Oak choreographer Susanna Leinonen combines the techniques of classical ballet with the purity of contemporary dance. Reuna by Jouka Valkama is a touch wilder, as Finnish punk rock makes up much of the music. Stadsschouwburg, (Fri, Sat 20.30), €10-€20 Dance: Restless Legs Syndrome/Silver Skin In collaboration with Julidans, Jongerentheater 020 present two choreographies. After the performances there’s a dance workshop. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, (Sat 14.00), free Cabaret: Henry van Loon New cabaret talent Henry
Julidans: Chimurenga Three solos by New York-based Zimbabwean choregrapher and dancer Nora Chipaumire, who researches African identity in her multimedia performances. Melkweg, (Thur 19.00), €10 Comedy: Stand-up Comedy Show Hosted by Tim Ward, look out for three sets a night. In Dutch and English. Comedy Café, (Thur-Sat 21.00), €15 Comedy: Comedytrain International Summer Festival Two comedians presenting a solo performance of 45 minutes each. This week: Brendon Burns and Matt Kirshen. The next run begins on Wednesday, with sets from Adam Bloom and Markus Birdman. In English. Toomler, (Thur-Sat, Wed 20.30), €13.50 Festival: Over het IJ The NDSM Wharf is the rusty backdrop for this annual theatre festival that com-
bines big names with lesser-known companies, often making use of the characteristics of the dock area. Picks include Conversations with Ice, Que Pasa? and the theatrical adventure that is Expeditie Noord, but don’t just stop there, as there’s loads of diverse goings on that may appeal to you. See www.overhetij.nl. NDSM-werf, (Thur-Sun), various prices Theatre/Dance: In de Voorhoede In de Voorhoede presents tomorrow’s pros. Tonight: third-year dance students at Amsterdam’s Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, (Fri 20.30), free Julidans: Vermiculus In this solo piece, Eeva Muilu considers the question of how we determine the things that are important to us. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, (Fri 21.00), free Music/Theatre: Let’s Do It! Set to the music and lyrics of Cole Porter, Let’s Do It! is all about different aspects of one of mankind’s favourite topics: love. In English. Odeon, (Sun 19.30), €30 Comedy: In Your Face! Comedy improv in English. Comedy Café, (Sun 21.00), €13 Comedy: Mama Kookt—Open Podium Unknown comic quantities try win over the audience. Hosted by Johan van Gulik. In Dutch. Comedy Café, (Mon-Tues 21.00), €3 Comedy: Improphecy Stand-up improv. In Dutch. Club Meander, (Tues 20.30), €4
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Lindsay Seers, see Opening
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Kinetoscope. SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.0017.00), opens Saturday, until 18 August
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Hedi Slimane: Young Americans An internationally known photographer, avant-garde artist and fashion designer, this new project features photo portraits of creatives from the New York contemporary art scene. See Short List. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Sunday, until 12 September
Henk Hesselius Paintings from Amsterdam-born artist Hesselius (1927). Jan van der Togt Museum (Thur-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen, opens Thursday, until 26 August
Alex Fischer Video works from the Hamburg-born but Amsterdam-based artist. See article p.17. Galerie Paul Andriesse (Tues-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 14.00-18.00), until 31 August
Museums Summer in the Church While the winter programmes offer magnificent glances into distant cultures and insights into world religions, the Nieuwe Kerk offers up a summery alternative: a programme paying tribute to the church as a special monument in its own right, with many local treasures to admire. Nieuwe Kerk (Daily 10.00-17.00), closing Monday Selection from a Quiet Story Selections from A Quiet Story Tied in with Amsterdam Fashion Week, this collection features a selection of images by Danish supermodel turned photographer, Helena Christensen. Hotel Arena (Daily), opens Friday, until 15 August Under Selections of works by Alex Fischer, Lucia Luptáková (with Maaike van der Linden and Maartje Korstanje), Aukje Dekker and Lara de Moor. See article p.17. W139 (Daily 11.00-19.00), opens Friday, until 20 August Vamos a Ibiza In a collaboration with the Groninger Museum, this exhibition covers the diverse works made by Dutch artists in Ibiza over the last 50 years. Participants include Jan Cremer, Lei Molin, Cas Oorthuys, Waldemar Post, Elena Beelaerts, Ivo Hendriks and others. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 19 August Van Gogh’s Drawings: New Insights Works on paper seldom shown due to their light sensitivity, on display in the print room of the Rietveld building. While spanning Van Gogh’s entire career as an artist, special attention will be paid to several early drawings that have been added to the museum’s collection in recent years. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), opens Friday, until 7 October A is for Alibi Science lab art from Utrecht’s Universiteitsmuseum. See Short List. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 19 August Crimes & Splendors A selection of work from the politically charged British exhibition Paranoia. Featured is a series of night photographs by Dutch artist Martin Effert and video works by the likes of Mireille Astore, Lisa K Blatt, Norman Cowie and Ricardo Giraldo Montes—all of which explore the essence of paranoia. Ronmandos (Wed-Sat 12.30-17.30), opens Saturday, until 1 September Lindsay Seers: Swallowing Black Maria Recent films by London-based artist Seers, including Extramission, in which Seers transforms herself into a projector, photographs and an installation. The latter is based on the Black Maria, the first ever film studio where all the earliest shorts were filmed for the Edison
Maskerdansers in Malawi A series of portraits by Canadian photographer Douglas Curran, who immersed himself in the culture of the Chewa peoples of Malawi, eventually gaining entry to the brotherhood that guards the Nyau—their ancestral spirit entities. Over the period, he captured the masks, costumes and rituals of the people on film. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 23 July Mario Garcia Torres: A Brief History of Jimmie Johnson’s Legacy A Docking Station video installation by young mexican artist Torres. In this video essay he looks at the codes of conduct and conventions of behaviour in the museum environment, and the role and significance of museums in general. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 29 July Light of Zeeland In the early 20th century, the resort of Domburg in Zeeland had a strong appeal for wellknown Dutch artists like Jan Toorop, Jacoba van Heemskerck and Piet Mondriaan. This exhibition shows how the area sparked one of the most important developments in Mondriaan’s career, with its unparalleled light, rugged dunes and ancient woods. Gemeentemuseum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), Den Haag, until 5 August Genesis An examination of the similarities between art and science. While the two fields may have entirely different objectives, the results of their work on information look remarkably alike. Participating artists and scientists include Ad Dekkers, Mark Dion, Edo Dooijes, Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen, Charles & Ray Eames, Ed Emschwiller and George Gessert, amongst others. Centraal Museum (Tues-Thur, Sat, Sun 12.0017.00, Fri 12.00-21.00), Utrecht, until 12 August Rob van der Nol Attracted to the process of change and transition in lives, this young Dutch artist photographs adolescents. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 15 August The Apocalypse of Max Beckmann A nice companion to the collection on display at the Van Gogh Museum, this series features 27 lithographs from the German Expressionist, all inspired by the Biblical apocalypse. Featured are two versions: the series of original lithographs in black and white and the lithographs that Beckmann himself painted in watercolours. Bijbels Museum (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 19 August
12-18 July 2007 Max Beckmann in Amsterdam, 1937-1947 An extensive retrospective of the work produced by the artist during his years in Amsterdam. One of the most distinguished German artists of the 20th century, Beckmann fled to the city in 1937 after the Nazis had labelled his paintings Entartete Kunst. His works bear witness to his interest in the world of cabaret, Dutch landscape and life in Amsterdam, and works featured here include the four impressive triptychs ‘Carnival’, ‘Acrobats’, ‘The Actors’ and ‘Perseus’. Van Gogh Museum (Sat-Thur 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 19 August Jonathan Meese: Jonathan Rockford (Don’t Call Back Please) One of German art’s rising stars, Meese will install a contemporary wunderkammer on the first floor of De Appel, featuring paintings, murals, drawings, assemblages, objects, collages, photos, pictures from magazines, posters and painted texts on the walls. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 19 August Dutch Eyes The relocated photography museum reopens with a broad overview of Dutch photography. Nederlands Fotomuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 26 August Fashion Palaces 1880-1960 The emergence of the first chic fashion houses in Amsterdam at the end of the 19th century is the focal point of the exhibition. Grandeur and temptation typify the atmosphere of these magnificent, luxurious Amsterdam fashion houses and department stores. Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 26 August The Strength of Hair Two installations by contemporary visual artists looking at the important symbolic function of hair. Artists include Monica Blok, Hadas Itzkovitch and Martie van der Loo. Bijbels Museum (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 26 August Facing Death Drawings by Antwerp artist Eugeen van Mieghem (1875-1930) of his great love and muse Augustine Pautre. Even though she’d taken ill with tuberculosis in 1904, Van Mieghem continued to draw her, capturing her physical decline, much in the same way that Rembrandt had poignantly drawn his dying wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. Rembrandthuis (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 26 August Ligplaats Amsterdam An exhibition about architecture on water, including concepts for floating theatres, motorways, churches and more, as well as exploration of future possibilities of maritime architecture. There’s even an outdoor part of the exhibition, where one can admire yet-to-be-realised projects, too. ARCAM (TuesFri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 26 August Jacques Henri Lartigue A retrospective of work French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (18941986) made in the first half of the 20th century. Although rarely exhibited as such, most of his famous early photos were originally made as stereo images, but in this collection offering a unique impression of the photography pioneer’s life and work, the range of vintage prints, remarkable stereo pictures and personal documents will be displayed as originally intended. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 26 August Romy Schneider Part of Filmmuseum’s season celebrating the acclaimed film star, this exhibition pulls together costumes, affiches, audio fragments and portrait photos from artists such as Dennis Stock, Robert Lebeck and Werner Bokelberg. Filmmuseum (Daily 13.00-22.00), until 29 August Architectuur in Amsterdam A look back at the 30 most important building projects to spring up in Amsterdam over the past year. Zuiderkerk (Mon 11.00-16.00, Tues-Fri 09.00-16.00, Sat 12.00-16.00), until 1 September Le Corbusier He’s by far the most famous and according to many the most important architect and urban designer of the 20th century, but he was also a painter, sculptor, photographer and textile designer. In this first major retrospective since 1987, more than 450 original drawings, models, paintings, tapestries, films, photographs, sculptures, items of furniture and interiors will be exhibited together to demonstrate the strength and influence of Le Corbusier. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.0017.00), Rotterdam, until 2 September JR: Face to Face Diverse works by the French photographer and street artist who displays his works on walls all over cities. In his first Dutch exhibition, JR will be showing intriguing portraits in very large formats, inside and outside Foam, as well as in the streets around you. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 2 September Beeld voor Beeld Drawings that Dutch 16th- and 17th-century artists made of classical statues seen in the Vatican on their Grand Tour. The exhibition shows the drawings alongside moulds of the original statues.
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Allard Pierson Museum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 9 September Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten Marking the opening of the Museum of Bags and Purses in its new idyllic location, an overview of exhibitions from the past ten years is featured alongside the permanent collections of bags and purses. Tassenmuseum Hendrikje (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 9 September Persia The St Petersburg Hermitage lends some of its dazzling collection of Persian art to Amsterdam. This exhibition includes antiquities of the Islamic period all through the end of the Qajar dynasty in 1925. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 16 September Amsterdam in de wereld—De wereld in Amsterdam A collection of immensely rare treasures owned by the Universiteit van Amsterdam, including handwritten scriptures, printed books, pictures and objects. UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 09.30-17.00), until 16 September The Present—The Monique Zajfen Collection New contemporary artworks that have been added to The Monique Zajfen Collection since 2006. Focusing on the human figure and spanning a range of disciplines, the works in this exhibition explore various aspects of the human condition. Artists include Marlene Dumas, Thomas Schütte, Neo Rauch, Wilhelm Sasnal, Mike Kelley, Pawel Althamer, Paul Graham, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Lisa Yuskavage and George Condo. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 16 September Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama An exhibition about the first international superstar. In the course of an astonishing career that spanned 60 years, Bernhardt became the West’s leading tragedienne. Her name became synonymous with acting and continued to cast a spell on players and audiences throughout the world, long after her death in 1923. Besides paintings, photos, clothes and Art Nouveau theatre posters, the collection includes personal possessions, a recording of her voice and fragments of films in which she appeared. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 16 September Charlotte Salomon: Work in Progress Rarely and never seen works by Salomon, including reverse sides as well as individual sketches which she made for her series of over 800 gouaches, Life? or Theatre? Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 16 September De kunst van het verleiden You can’t run and you can’t hide—ads are everywhere, and they will have an influence on you, like it or not. This exhibition about advertising takes place in several rooms, with each devoted to another method, emotion or medium. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 16 September Drawing Typologies—Proposal for Municipal Art Acquisitions Drawings A presentation of works by 30 contemporary artists who live and work in the Netherlands and employ drawing as a medium. Using five typologies to suggest the wide variety of ways in which artists use drawing as an artistic strategy, it not only presents 30 radical positions within the local field of drawing, but also reveals what makes drawing such an extraordinary and attractive discipline. Stedelijk Museum CS (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 16 September Mitch Epstein: American Work One of the world’s most renowned contemporary photographers, in American Power Epstein focuses on the complex relationship between American energy supply, the status of America as a world power and the American landscape. Additionally, there’s a selection of shots from his series Family Business, the story of his father’s furniture company going bust. See Short List. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 19 September Oud Zeer Drawings and animations by Joep Bertrams, best known for his political commentaries in Het Parool. Persmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 23 September To See or Not to See Hortus celebrates the 300th birthday of Carl Linnaeus, the most famous botanist ever, who wrote his major works in Amsterdam. Hortus Botanicus (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 10.00-17.00), until 30 September Liberation Music: Songs After Five Years of Occupation A musical memorial to the emotional release that followed the end of the occupation in 1945. Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat-Mon 12.0017.00), until 30 September Corneille: Some of These Days Celebrating the 85th birthday of Corneille, one of the most sparkling artists of the CoBrA movement—and one of the longest surviving members of the ‘CoBrA Three’. Alongside his paintings, photographs and film portraits of the artists can be seen during the exhibition. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 30 September
Local artist Alex Fischer culls collection of global street art, made by unknowns, for decidedly unglamorous purposes.
THE ART OF DRAINSPOTTING ART Under W139, 13 July-20 Aug, opening Friday, 21.00. Free. By Mark Wedin
For the past eight years, artist Alex Fischer—known as a founder and resident of the OT301—has traveled around the world, making graphite-on-paper rubbings of the various manhole covers in existence. ‘I’m going to Tokyo in October,’ he beams. ‘I saw pictures of their manholes. I think they’re the most beautiful. They paint butterflies and birds on them.’ The 119 covers he’s copied so far— which he collectively calls Drainspotting—will be displayed in the group exhibition Under at W139. (He also has another exhibition opening a few hours earlier at Galerie Paul Andriesse. See agenda.) ‘I’ve been waiting a long time to show them all,’ says Fischer, who first noticed the metallic lids while building up a world expo in Lisbon in 1998. ‘The best thing at that exhibition was the manhole covers. The city installed new ones for the show. So I was thinking, how do I get these home?’ After that, Fischer noticed the manholes in New York City, Berlin, Paris and Antwerp, and made rubbings of every interesting one he found. Of course, he doesn’t travel specifically for them—usually, he’s there to build up an exhibition,
or give a sculpting class—but he never leaves home without paper, brush, gaffer tape and graphite. ‘I really got addicted,’ he says. ‘I got one near the White House and one at ground zero. Both times, security came up immediately. But after a lot of questions, they couldn’t find anything wrong and let me finish. When I went to Uganda, I only found manholes in Kampala—the other cities don’t have any—and they mostly say “London” in big letters, because it used to be a colony. In New York and LA, they all say “Made in India”.’ Fischer scored his 100th manhole in Rio (‘It’s crazy in Rio—there are manholes everywhere’); he acquired a variety of ‘thick and nice’ ones from Belgium (‘They’re kind of like the Belgian people’); and his oldest so far, dated 1922, originates from Brazil (‘Actually, I found one in New York from 1874, but it was too deep to make a rubbing’). But, of all the precious finds, Fischer’s favourite seems to be a handmade cover he spied in Jerusalem. ‘All along the outside rim are the fingerprints of the guy who made it. And he put an imprint of his hand in the middle, so you can put your hand in there to pull the cover out.’ And that may explain much of Fischer’s infatuation. ‘Every manhole is different. There’s always a designer behind it and an engineer. There are people busy with this around the world, and we only see the ones in Amsterdam, if we see them at all.’
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Amsterdam Weekly Yoshitomo Nara The first ever solo show to be held in any European museum by Yoshitomo Nara, one of today’s leading Japanese artists. As a representative of the Japanese pop art of the ’90s, he gained worldwide fame with seductive figurative paintings, drawings and sculptures, all executed in a deliberately elementary style. The emphasis in this collection will be on recent work, most of it produced especially for the occasion. GEM (Tues-Sun 12.00-18.00), Den Haag, until 7 October
12-18 July 2007 Ubuntu Not actually a celebration of the Linux operating system, this collection, curated by Carinna Claassens and Els Klaassen, will showcase the work of a number of contemporary South African artists— some now resident in the Netherlands. Throughout its run look out for workshops, performances, discussions and readings which celebrate South African culture. ABC Treehouse (Tues-Sat 12.30-18.30), until 31 July Strongman is Here! Contemporary Maori artworks from New Zealander Kerry Strongman. Despite the modern nature of his works, his techniques are steeped in Maori history, plus you’ll often find him working with ancient wood. Rembrandtplein (Mon-Fri 11.00-20.00), until 31 July Zomer Expositie 2007 Works by 14 artists, including Yvonne Zomerdijk, Margret Mijsbergh and Stefaan Eyckmans. GO Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 5 August
Proefjes! Magische
Aernout Overbeeke Often dark photographs of the natural landscapes, still lifes and indigenous people Overbeeke encountered while in Masaï, Afrika. Galerie Rademakers Tue-Sun 11.00-17.30, until 19 August
Proefjes! Magische Getting mystical with an exploration of magic and natural sciences from the 18th and 19th century. Teylers Museum (Tues-Sat 10.0017.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), Haarlem, until 21 October
Cristóbal Hara: An Imaginary Spaniard An exploration of the perceived cultural identity of Spain, by native photographer Hara. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 26 August
Scenes and Traces A lengthy exhibition focussing on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video and photography. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 25 November
Han Singels: Polder Holland Following in the footsteps of Paulus Potter, Aelbert Cuyp, Gerard Bilders and Willem Roelofs, Indonesian photographer Han Singels has trekked for years through the polders of North Holland, the riverbanks of Gelderland and the pastures of Utrecht. All in order to photograph cows in these magnificent landscapes. Huis Marseille (TuesSun 11.00-18.00), until 26 August
Grande Sertao A blend of photography, Brazilian culture, literature and poetry, after Mark Nozeman and Marcelo Greco made a photographic journey through the Sertão—the provinces of Minas Gerais and Bahia in Brazil. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 27 January 2008
Galleries Abner Preis Selected artworks by Preis, AKA Eat Shit. Wolf & Pack (Sun, Mon 13.00-19.00, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 12.00-19.00, Thur 12.00-21.00), closing Friday (In)visible Sounds In collaboration with the 5 Days Off music festival, this exhibition invites you to explore the world of invisible technologies: electronic fields, radio waves, frequencies and air pollution. International artists contributing works include Erich Berger, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Theodore Watson, and Usman Haque & Rob Davis. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), closing Saturday Thomas Elshuis, Alex Jacobs New works by both artists. Gist (Wed-Sat 13.00-17.30), closing Saturday act Group exhibition focussing on the ‘process of doing’. With visual artist Célio Braga (Brazil), fashion designer Maaike Gottschal, jewellery maker Jeannette Jansen, and film-maker/visual artists Claudia Lisboa and Remco Veenbrink. Huis Rechts (opens May 13 17.00-19.00), closing Saturday Pom op het Menu A peek into the Suriname kitchen and the history of pom. It may spark memories or introduce you to new foodstuffs. Or it may just make you hungry. But hopefully, along with the images, there’ll be a chance to get involved and cook your own. Imagine IC (Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11.00-17.00, Thur 11.00-21.00), closing Sunday Rah Crawford: A Sassy Nation ‘Hip folk’ is the theme which inspires this latest batch of paintings from the American artist. Studio Apart (Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur 10.00-21.00, Fri 10.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00), closing Sunday Air Polluter An interactive smell exhibition which allows the visitor to decide how much they wish to pollute the air around them—both with nice smells and nasty. De Brakke Grond (Mon 13.00-18.00, Tues-Fri 10.00-20.30, Sat 13.00-20.30, Sun 13.00-17.00), closing Sunday Jana van Meerveld, Jonas Ohlsson & Ad de Jong Installations from the three artists. Horse Move Project Space (Fri-Sun 14.00-20.00), closing Sunday Het Licht van Tunesië Multimedia installation by Maarten Rens and Anita Mizrahi. De Levante (WedSun 13.00-17.30), until 22 July The Colour of the Maghreb: Morocco Old culture meets contemporary art in this group exhibition celebrating artists of Morocco. Contributors include Youssouf Elalamy, Abbtoy, Dounia El Yassem and Shishunk. De Levante (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.30), until 22 July Spirit of the Wild Following on from the successful Earth From Above outdoor exhibitions by Yann ArthusBertrand, huge prints by South African photographer Steve Bloom are going public in Amsterdam, showing dazzling shots of the planet’s wildlife. Westermarkt (Daily), until 24 July
Averecht Contemporary fashion and accessories by three talented young designers: Merel Boers (Miss Blackbirdy), Claire Fons and Elke Lutgerink. Galerie 37 (Thur-Sun 12.00-17.00), Haarlem, until 26 August Offline #4 Diverse artworks by Charlotte Mouwens, Margot Lamers, Katrin Maurer and Roos & Chris. ArtOlive (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 26 August Exit #2: Sculpture Without a Clue Works by Niels Post. Etalagegalerie Weesperplein (Daily 06.0000.30), until 30 August Dream Amsterdam Using the city of Amsterdam as his point of departure, Spencer Tunick created a series of impressive installations built from naked bodies. Now the images from that event are going on display at the locations they were created— Leliegracht and Q-Park at Marnixstraat. Careful not to fall off your bike. Various locations (Daily), until 31 August The Portrait Gallery Presenting an overview of portraits from 1950 to the present by ten veteran photographers, including Sanne Sannes, Ata Kando, Willem Diepraam, Machiel Botman and Barry Kornbluh. Hup Gallery (Tue, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 31 August Summer Exhibition Featuring diverse works by Cor Jaring, Frans Blind, Irene Hertel, Tho Jongh, Hanne Koorn, Immy Stur van Zoelen and Joan Verkroost. Oosterkerk (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00), until 31 August Joyeux de vie An exhibition of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, that makes an excellent accompaniment to Foam’s retrospective. Gallery Vassie (Wed-Sat 12.0018.00), until 1 September Katharina Mouratidi: The Other Globalisation Photo portraits of international participants from the ‘Global Justice Movement’. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.0020.00), until 2 September Versneden en Verbeeld: Anatomie in Geneeskunde en Kunst It’s no secret that SMART Project Space was formerly the Pathologisch Anatomisch Labaratorium (PAL). And in this exhibition, it once again revisits its anatomical past, dealing in the history of the practice of anatomy, the history of PAL, and also the relationship between art and anatomy. So you’ll get to see old scientific paintings by the likes of Jozef Israëls, Gerard de Lairesse and Andreas Vesalius, plus work by contemporary artists like Lisette Verkerk and Karen Arink. Elements will also be on display at the Tentoonstellingszaal Universiteitsbibliotheek, UvA. SMART Project Space (SMART: Tues-Sat 12.00-17.00; UvA: Wed-Fri 11.00-17.00), until 7 September Zwarte Muur: De Transatlantische Slavenhandel Photo portraits by Laura Samsom Rous, who specialises in the people, particularly the women, along the coast of Africa between Senegal and Angola—the region most affected by European colonisation and the Transatlantic slave trade. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00 -20.00), until 1 October
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EVENTS Thursday 12 July Workshop: Summer School Going NOWHERE Throughout July, NOWHERE is hosting a series of summer workshops that’ll keep you busy no matter your hobbies and interests. This week’s series includes: freestyle MC lessons from Negativ; Bollywood dance; graffiti; Capoeira Angola; yoga; Indian cooking; and spoken word with Babs Gons. See www.nowhere.nl. Cultuurpand Nowhere, 15.0018.00, €15 per workshop
Friday 13 July Workshop: Summer School Going NOWHERE (See Friday) Cultuurpand Nowhere, 15.00-18.00, €15 per workshop Party: Gran Fiesta Latina! A Latin dance party featuring live Cuban son tunes, a tango workshop, Latin dance tunes and other surprises. All this is in aid of the organisation Ojalá, which is celebrating its fifth birthday. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 20.00, €7.50
Party: De Smartlappen Karaoke Karaoke for the tone deaf. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 17.00, €5 Kwakoe Festival (See Saturday) Bijlmerpark, various times, free
Tuesday 17 July Workshop: Summer School Going NOWHERE More summer workshops running Tues-Fri, including: the art of video clips with Habbekrats; flamenco with Nuria Manglano; summer fashion; yoga; Capoeira Angola; and Spanish cooking. See www.nowhere.nl. Cultuurpand Nowhere, 15.00-18.00, €15 per workshop
ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967 Ahoy Ahoy-weg 10, Rotterdam, (010) 293 3300 Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, 525 2556 Almere-Strand Muiderzandweg 1, Almere Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822 De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134 ArtOlive Polonceaukade 17, 675 8504
Saturday 14 July
Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669
Kwakoe Festival The biggest multicultural festival in the country—with the focus mainly on Suriname— featuring music, movies, sports, food, dancing, information and lectures. Every Saturday and Sunday until 5 August. See www.kwakoe.nl. Bijlmerpark, various times, free
Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150
Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330 Boekhandel Vrolijk Paleisstraat 135, 623 5142 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Cafe Oranje-Nassau Nassaukade 151, 020 618 3497
Sunday 15 July Party: Pop Sunday This gathering’s all about food, music and wine, wine, wine. If you love your Cava, it’ll be flowing like water all day and night (at €3 a glass, of course). Music is supplied by Eddy de Clercq, Maestro, Edgarage, MacGee and Swift. See www.cavaclub.com. Westergasterras, 15.00-21.00, free
Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Café Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Camping Zeeburg Zuider IJdijk 20, 694 4430 Centraal Museum Nicolaaskerkhof, Utrecht, 030 236 2362 Cineac Reguliersbreestraat 31-33 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050
Comedy Café Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 Cultuurpand Nowhere Madurastraat 90, 462 3510 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676 De Looier Looiersgracht 40, 638 1412 Etalagegalerie Weesperplein Metrostation Weesperplein Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Galerie 37 Groot Heiligland 37, Haarlem, 023 551 8432 Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237 Galerie Rademakers Prinsengracht 570-572, 6225496 Gallery Vassie 1e Tuindwarsstraat 16, 489 4042 GEM Stadhouderslaan 43, Den Haag, 070 338 1133 Gemeentemuseum Stadhouderslaan 41, Den Haag, 070 338 1111 Gist Veemkade 364, 06 30367332 GO Gallery Prinsengracht 64, 422 9580 Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Horse Move Project Space Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS Hortus Botanicus Plantage Middenlaan 2A, 625 9021 Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Huis Rechts Vinkenstraat 154 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 Imagine IC Bijlmerplein 1006-1008, 489 4866 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 De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485 Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234a, 531 8181 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 Mulligans Amstel 100, 622 1330 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480 Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200 Nederlands Fotomuseum Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam, 010 213 2011 De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512
19 Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909 OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 Oosterkerk Kleine Wittenburgerstraat 1, 627 2280 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284 Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858 Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810 The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Ronmandos Prinsengracht 282, 320 7036 Saarein Elandsstraat 119, 623 4901 Same Place Nassaukade 120, 475 1981 Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333 Studio Apart Prinsengracht 715, 422 2748 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 Tassenmuseum Hendrikje Herengracht 573, 524 6452 Teylers Museum Spaarne 16, Haarlem, 023 516 0960 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Theater het Amsterdamse Bos Amsterdamse Bos 1, 640 9253 Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200 Twstd Weteringschans 157, 320 7030 Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288 UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535 Vondelpark Openluchttheater, 673 1499 W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434 Westergasterras Klönneplein 3, 475 1412 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Wolf & Pack 232 Spuistraat, 427 0786 The Zebra Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 14, 330 5266 Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987
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Oh, quel croissants! Iambe Van der Helstplein 6, 670 3458 Tues-Fri 9.00-16.30, Sat 9.00-15.00 Cash, PIN According to Greek legend, Iambe (the daughter of Pan and Echo) cheered up the grieving earth goddess Demeter—who’s precious Persephone was abducted by the underworld god Pluto—by doing a comical dance. Icy winter was transformed by Demeter’s laughter into greenness, causing the harvest to appear and ripen. This Iambe, however, is an umbrella initiative that runs several facilities to help people with physical and mental disabilities to learn baking, weaving, arts and crafts, as well as organising a street-cleaning team. It’s a great way to motivate people who are sometimes left behind by the job market to get their hands on some damn fine employment skills. However, I must confess that it was a glutton’s greed and not altruism that set the skidmarks on the asphalt as I raced to the bakery outlet’s door. Rumours of high-quality organic breads, pastries, brioche and croissants had me frothing in anticipation. I’d also heard of light, feathery croissants that sell out within half an hour on Saturday mornings. Saturday morning still lay far away, and inbred tribal impatience goaded me into seeking out their wares early. I waddled into the bright, big, white-walled shop. My eyes roved over woven baskets, then my friend Krien—DJ by night, the shop’s manager and baker by day—appeared to show me around, and invited me to share his lunch. Stephanie, a sweet deaf woman with
THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON Marie-Antoinette could have let them eat cake as she made her escape from Versailles in a Montgolfier Brothers’ balloon filled with these light pastries. warm, expressive eyes, brought us some tea. I glowed with admiration for my friend as he communicated with her via hands, fingers and non-verbal facial expressions. I know Krien for
his themed music, his special subtle record choices—now I was seeing him in quite a different mode. The Raphaelstichting, which funds the ini-
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tiative, has its own dairy farm, called Artemis, where they supply the bakery with country butter and cheese. The organic flour and grains come from an old fashioned mill, ’t Roode Hert in Alkmaar. The mill was originally built in 1610, converted to grains in 1685, and is interesting enough to warrant its own story. The products, rest assured, were delicious. Organic croissants, to me, are sometimes heavy as lead, the textures as rough and coarse as Madame Defarge’s knitting at the guillotine. But Marie-Antoinette could have let them eat cake as she made her escape from Versailles in a Montgolfier Brothers’ balloon filled with these lighter-than-air pastry specials. I was shown different types of cookies. There were also honey and jams, organic butter and cheese. Teas and coffees, even woven tea cosies that could double as hats. What else was there? Cheese and Italian herb pinwheels; excellent breads; delicious almond-filled biscuits that came in big or small sizes. The prices here are very reasonable for the amount of work and standards of quality that go into their creation. The rising is done in a special stasis chamber, a device that cools the dough so that it has risen by 7am—nobody here needs to start work at 5.30 in the morning. The master baker trains his assistants to work the machinery and ovens, and also teaches them all the different recipes for breads, pastries and cakes. Their apple pie (€3.55 for a small one, €7.55 for a large) is wonderful, and would make an ideal gift for visiting, or indeed to take home and gluttonise in front of the television. Iambe is a great idea and what you find there—besides weaving, candles, and organic products to put on the breads—is enough to bring back the smile on Demeter’s beneficent face.
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A guide to a summer full of open-air cinema. So pack your popcorn, suncream, film guide and a pair of sturdy wellies.
SEEING STARS UNDER THE STARS TONIGHT By Luuk van Huët
Even though the weather is as fickle as a rat-arsed Mel Gibson, summer is nominally the season of outdoor loitering. And, after lounging about soaking up vitamin D, an al fresco movie makes a perfect end to a summer’s day. While we still mourn the floating Dive-Inn on Erasmusgracht, there remain prime hot spots for outdoor film fun. Sunsets at the Filmmuseum What: In 2009, the Filmmuseum will leave Vondelpark to set up in Noord. To help skittish cinephiles acclimatise, it’s planning three outdoor screenings from 6-8 September on the Overhoeks terrain—the site of its yet-to-be-built new home. But no need to leave the comforts of Vertigo just yet... When: Fridays after sundown, until 31 August. Films: Choice classics, including The General by Buster Keaton and cult road movie Two-Lane Blacktop. David LaChapelle’s Rize will also be shown. Price: €3, with a beer thrown in. Tip: You didn’t hear it from us, but if you don’t mind seeing a film in mirror image you can watch from the other side of the lake for free... www.filmmuseum.nl
Out-of-Cavia Summer Festival What: The pluckiest l’il cinema in town has put on its marching boots, screening five films at five different locations, each selection matched to the surroundings it’s shown. When: 28 July; 4, 11, 17 and 18 August. Films: Three Eastern European and two American classics, including Polanski’s tight thriller Knife in the Water at a waterside eatery in the Houthavens, and Scorsese’s autobiographical mob flick Mean Streets, at an Italian restaurant in the Staatsliedenbuurt. Price: Zilch. Tip: Before O Brother, Where Art Thou? on 28 July, the country band Los Coyotes will perform, turning the shindig into a regular hootenanny. www.filmhuiscavia.nl Rialto in de Openlucht! What: Filmhuis Rialto sets up on Marie Heinekenplein for the fifth year in a row and, just as previously, films are previews for the Africa in the Picture festival and November’s Cinema South Africa series, as well as examples of the high-quality cinema from around the globe the cinema’s known for. When: 15-18 August. Films: Two titles from Africa, one revolv-
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ing around a recovering child soldier, the other a meditation on the clash between tradition and modernity. There’s also a Dreamgirls-killer from Brazil and a Canadian documentary on the disturbing beauty of polluted landscapes. Price: Nada. Tip: For the best of both worlds, see Antonia, about four funky ladies launching their musical careers in the favelas of Brazil, preceded by the South African magic-realistic short Meokgo and the Stickfighter. www.rialtofilm.nl Pluk de Nacht What: Urban beach spot is pimped with comfy beach chairs, art exhibitions, a roaring campfire, laid-back afterparties, and a ‘pizza laboratory’. Oh. And films, too. When: 9-19 August. Films: Exact programme still unknown, but the focus is on films that have eluded Dutch cinemas in the past year. Price: Nothing. Tip: To get into the mood, there’s a selection of shorts on the website. www.plukdenacht.nl This list is indicative, not exhaustivee, as Het Ketelhuis routinely has outdoor screenings each summer, and the Westside can chill out at the West Beach film festival at the Sloterparkbad at the end of August. There are also incidental screenings at Uitmarkt, Noordermarkt and Nieuwmarkt, but the principle of it stays the same: pray to our mighty overlord Xenu for clear skies and mild temperatures, pop your popcorn and hold sweaty hands with your date.
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FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Shyama Daryanani (SD),René Glas (RG),Laura Groeneveld (LG), Andrea Gronvall (AG),John Hartnett (JH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK), Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),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. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.
New this week Fur:An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Like Alice in Wonderland, repressed housewife Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) is spirited away into the strange world of her overly hairy neighbour (Robert Downey, Jr). There, she will discover her true calling: becoming a (famous) photographer of the weird. The idea is fascinating—who isn’t secretly attracted to the bizarre?—but the execution by director Steven Shainberg and writer Erin Cressida Wilson (the makers of Secretary) leaves much to be desired. There’s no real spark between Kidman and Downey, which makes their awakening love rather tedious. For a film that claims to be an imaginary portrait, Fur sorely lacks imagination. (BS) 122 min. Kriterion
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co-production, directed by Marion Hänsel, national and local political and cultural issues are swept under the rug to once more offer us painful imagery of the problems of Africa as a whole instead of giving us insight into specific issues. In this case we are presented with drinking-water shortages due to droughts and militia violence as we follow a schoolteacher and his family in a doomed effort to reach a well on the other side of the desert. The film is beautifully shot, but with its generality it ultimately fails to impress. In French with Dutch subtitles. (RG) 96 min. Rialto Les témoins Paris, early 1980s: a 20-year-old kid named Manu (Johan Libéreau) arrives from the provinces, moves in with his sister (Julie Depardieu), and gets to know an older gay man (Michel Blanc), the married policeman Mehdi (Sami Bouajila) and his wife Sarah (Emmanuele Béart). Together, this group of friends and lovers face life, love and the arrival of the AIDS epidemic in this sensitive film, directed by André Téchiné. In French with Dutch subtitles. 112 min. Cinecenter Two-Lane Blacktop A 1971 road movie, directed by Monte Hellman, about two young hot-rod drivers racing cross country against an old rich guy in a GTO. This Easy Rider-school flick starts off promising but ultimately leads nowhere—a plot probably meant as a metaphor for life itself. The film is treasured among film critics, but now that it’s on DVD for all to see, a lot of its value is revealed to have been derived from its rarity and cult status. Beach Boy Dennis Wilson and James Taylor are apathetic as the long-haired hot-rod duo, but the sleep-inducing story development is saved by the brilliantly multi-faced Warren Oates as the driver of the GTO. In English with French subtitles. (MdR) 98 min. Filmmuseum
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The fifth part of the Potter film series is out, and the audience will be even further divided. Fans of the treeware version will no doubt love the audiovisual Order of the Phoenix, with its plot twist and turns and spectacular finale. But this episode, directed by newcomer to the series David Yates, offers more exposition aimed at the final two episodes of the Potter saga than an actual narrative with closure of its own. Those without any knowledge of the background stories will be left utterly bewildered or, worse, entirely uninvolved with Harry and Co.’s adventures. Either way, for the most epic experience head for the Pathé ArenA cinema where they show the IMAX version, featuring the action-packed finale in full 3D. Whether you’re a Potter aficionado or not, seeing the film like this really is magical. (RG) 138 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski It’s 8:08 Hawaii (area code 808) is not just for tourists and surfers—it’s a paradise for skateboarders as well, judging from this better-than-average skate documentary by Chuck Mitsui. The young director mixes contemporary digital images with grainy scenes that look like they were shot in the 1970s. It’s 8:08 follows skater Sean Reilly and friends as they whip out their skills on the best spots in California, Mexico and Japan, only to come to the conclusion that nothing beats Hawaii. This presentation is meant to entertain skateboarding aficionados, but also to display the cinematic talents of Mitsui, who is supported by the Amsterdam-based international film development centre Binger Filmlab. Next year, the young director will start shooting his first feature film, One Kine Day, a story about young skateboarders in Hawaii, with Sean Reilly in a lead role. In several languages with English subtitles. (MdR) 48 min. Rialto Sounds of Sand Life in Africa is rough; that is what we learn from the news, from documentaries and from films like Sounds of Sand (original title: Si le vent soulève les sables). The problem is, there is not one Africa, any more than there is one Europe. In this Belgian/French
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Adam’s Apples Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, who might be the hottest thing from Denmark since certain cartoons, this black comedy stars Mads Mikkelsen, ‘the Danish Johnny Depp’, as Ivan, an insanely optimistic preacher with severe problems who rehabilitates ex-cons in his rural church. Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), a recently released neo-Nazi, arrives to test his fate repeatedly, leading to a clash of conflicting ideologies. Whether the film is moralistic or nihilistic is anyone’s guess, but it didn’t garner a Silver Scream Award at the AFFF for nothing, and the very Scandinavian undercurrent of dark humour keeps the film enjoyable and fresh during most of the running time. In Danish with Dutch and French subtitles. (LvH) 94 min. Het Ketelhuis Anche libero va bene Italian family drama from Kim Rossi Stuart, told from the point of view of an 11-yearold boy whose mother disappears for weeks at a time, and whose father (played by Rossi Stuart) struggles to hold the family together. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. 115 min. Pathé Tuschinski
Angel François Ozon has added another masterpiece to his oeuvre. You could call it a postmodern costume drama, since it’s set in the early 20th century, but the dazzling visual style also refers to ’40s and ’50s Hollywood melodramas, and bits of contemporary television culture keep turning up too. Angel (Romola Garai), a writer of pulp novels with a shocking lack of taste and talent, is a highly ironic character. But the film is too multi-layered to be a simple parody, and Ozon turns out to have a heart for his Angel. As a viewer, you can’t help feeling for her too. To catch all of it, you’ll probably need to see it twice. (MM) 134 min. Pathé Tuschinski Bes Vakit In a rural Turkish village, three children on the brink of puberty form a secret pact against their parents; one of them is even prepared to kill his father. Through this small-scale generational conflict, director Reha Erdem sketches the friction between tradition and progress in contemporary Turkey. Bes Vakit never becomes outspoken, revelling instead in picturesque beauty, as if Erdem is concealing his subversive message with his stately, mannerist style. A slow film, but rewarding for some memorable and poignant scenes. In Turkish with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 110 min. Rialto
Bobby Old-fashioned in both its liberal humanism and its commitment to classic Hollywood storytelling, Emilio Estevez’s fictional account of the 1968 shooting of Robert Kennedy is also a fine example of old-fashioned studio craft. Deftly juggling over a dozen characters, ranging from hotel personnel and guests to Democratic Party volunteers, Estevez offers a sharp cross section of the issues and attitudes surrounding Kennedy’s presidential campaign. Without privileging any member of the talented cast, he gives many of them chances to shine, especially Sharon Stone, Freddy Rodriguez (from Six Feet Under), Laurence Fishburne and Martin Sheen. The film’s premise that RFK was America’s last chance to save itself is a bit hard to buy, but the passion and thoughtfulness with which Estevez builds on it are stirring nonetheless. (JR) 119 min. Pathé ArenA Cashback There should be a movie law against using American Beauty-like music over supposedly ‘deep’ moments, especially if they are followed by fart jokes just a few scenes later. In this full-length remake of his own short film about an art student who turns into an insomniac after being dumped, director Sean Ellis seems incapable of delivering a consistent stylistic whole. Instead he keeps shifting from romantic drama to juvenile high jinks and back. Some of the cinematographic experiments linked to the manipulation and distortion of time—the film’s theme—are genuinely well made, but most of them are just used to get women undressed. Cashback feels like a pretentious take on the teen sex comedy, more often baffling than funny. (RG) 90 min. Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski César et Rosalie This 1972 film is being re-released in connection with the Filmmuseum’s upcoming Romy Schneider minifest. César (Yves Montand) is a middle-aged Parisian entrepreneur, Rosalie (Schneider) his lovely and supporting wife. Marriage is good, until arrival of cartoonist David (Sami Frey), a lover from Rosalie’s past, turns their familiar affair into a— but of course!—ménage à trois. Claude Sautet’s bourgeois take on Jules et Jim material remains appealing to look at, if only for, as Roger Ebert put it, ‘the way Romy Schneider can make a half-shy smile into the suggestion of unimaginable carnal possibilites’ (although none of them are graphically shown here). And if you add Montand’s acute portrayal of a square man who, in the end, proves to be more openminded than his ‘artistic’ love rival, the film has enough good stuff to get away with its disappointingly abrupt, no-answers conclusion. In French with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 110 min. Filmmuseum
Death Proof Death Proof It’s unclear whether the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez exploitation-flick double bill Grindhouse will ever reach our cinemas in its original form, but luckily this extended version of Tarantino’s half stands on its own. Kurt Russell plays Stuntman Mike, a shady has-been who stalks and attacks two groups of women with his death-proofed stunt car. Unfortunately for him, his second group of intended victims are professional, kick-ass stunt driver gals. While two thirds of the film are pure chick-flick, Tarantino excels in the carnage and chases even more than the dialogue. The cinematography and soundtrack are both exemplary. (LvH) 127 min. Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt
The Departed Director Martin Scorsese’s latest finds him once again in top form and at home in his favourite subjects: the underworld, money and clan loyalty. The Departed is based on the 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs and set in Irish-Italian South Boston. Mob boss Frank Costello (an exuberantly evileyed Jack Nicholson) runs the show; Matt Damon, as Costello’s police department mole, alternates between
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a poker face and a winning smile. But the police have their own double agent, Leonardo DiCaprio, whose slow disintegration is at the heart of this drama about doubling and deception. (JH) 152 min. Pathé ArenA
Die Hard 4.0 Die Hard 4.0 If you’ve been holding your breath for the last 13 years, waiting for another outing of that lovable badass we call John McClane, you can exhale with ease. When a team of disgruntled former employees for the military/industrial complex use their high-tech savvy to lock down the entire United States, they find a reluctant, grizzled cop on their path. Bruce Willis still manages to blurt out one-liners like the best of them, and the stuntwork is as enjoyable as it is barely plausible. As long as you take your popcorn action with a generous helping of salt, you’ll have fun. (LvH) 127 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt
Drama/Mex Three explosive characters cross paths in an entertaining art house flick set in Acapulco. They are a teenage boy aggressively trying to reclaim his ex-girlfriend, a young beach hooker out to scam her customers, and a middle-aged man who hides in a beach cabin with plans to kill himself. Director Gerardo Naranjo shot his second feature with a low budget and a cast of mostly friends but still manages to lift his fast-paced film far beyond amateur level. Produced by actor Gael García Bernal (Babel, Amores Perros), this unpretentious piece of cinema is a lively contribution to the hot Mexican new wave. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 92 min. Het Ketelhuis Fracture An engineer (Anthony Hopkins) goes on trial in Los Angeles for trying to murder his wife (Embeth Davidtz), and the prosecutor (Ryan Gosling) attempts to push through what appears to be an open-and-shut case but isn’t. With its lavish architecture and Spielbergian lighting, this absorbing thriller has a high-toned look, but director Gregory Hoblit and writers Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers got much of their training in TV cop shows, which shows in the adroit way they semaphorically abbreviate certain characters and plot developments to slide us past various incongruities. The main interest here is the juxtaposing of Gosling’s Method acting with Hopkins’s more classical style, a spectacle even more mesmerising than the settings. With David Strathairn and Rosamund Pike. (JR) 112 min. Pathé De Munt Irina Palm Marianne Faithfull carries the show here, in the title role of the latest film from Belgium-based director Sam Garbarski (The Rashevski Tango). ‘Irina Palm’ is the working name of Maggie, an English widow who needs money to pay for her grandson’s medical treatment. Lacking marketable skills, this suburban housewife ends up in Soho, accepting a job as a glory hole ‘hand-relief provider’ in a club managed by a Slavic mobster (Miki Manojlovic). Predictably, she not only tries to keep her employment a secret from her family and the town’s tea ladies (among them a nosy Jenny Agutter), but actually becomes really good at it, much to everybody’s disbelief but ours. Garbarski doesn’t spare the audience any stereotype in this
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comedy/drama, but his genius casting of the famously liberated Faithfull as the oppressed but freedombound Maggie manages to keep the tone, if not interesting, at least ironic. (MB) 103 min. Cinecenter, Het Ketelhuis, Pathé Tuschinski Das Leben der Anderen This Oscar winner by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck mostly deserves all the praise and admiration it has received. A study in the dehumanising effects of state surveillance, it focuses on two men living in East Germany in 1984: a playwright (Sebastian Koch) who attracts the interest of the state and a Stasi officer (Ulrich Mühe) whose loyalty to the socialist cause is starting to erode. Predictable and slightly distant, but also disturbing and effective. In German with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 137 min. Cinecenter, Het Ketelhuis, Pathé Tuschinski, Rialto
Little Miss Sunshine In this offbeat comedy, a
fractious family of misfits piles into an ailing VW bus and sets off for California so the youngest (Abigail Breslin) can compete in a children’s beauty pageant. Suffering each other along the way are her irascible grandfather (Alan Arkin), suicidal uncle (Steve Carell), Nietzsche-obsessed teenage brother (Paul Dano), beleaguered mom (Toni Collette) and abrasive dad (Greg Kinnear), a motivational speaker whose nine-step programme for success constantly aggravates the others’ sense of failure. As scripted by Michael Arndt, this isn’t much more than a glorified sitcom, but it deftly dramatises our conflicting desires for individuality and an audience to applaud it. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris directed. (JJ) 102 min. Pathé Tuschinski
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Nachtrit Cool film about a taxi driver who gets
caught up in the Amsterdam taxi war of 2000. Dennis (Frank Lammers) takes on a huge debt to finance his own taxi permit. Little does he know that a new law is about to come through that will make his permit absolutely worthless. With good acting, great dialogues and a convincing sex scene, the film makes perfect use of the darker side of the city. In Dutch. (LG) 104 min. Pathé Tuschinski Ninotchka Ernst Lubitsch’s sparkling, witty political fairy tale from 1939, about a cold but beautiful lady commissar (Greta Garbo) who melts to the bourgeois charms of Paris and Melvyn Douglas, jeopardising both honour and career. Garbo fully complements Lubitsch’s casual
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sophistication and stylistic grace, cleverly playing off her dour public image. The satire may be mostly a matter of easy contrasts, but the lovers inhabit a world of elegance and poise that is uniquely and movingly Lubitsch’s. Billy Wilder, who would later uncurdle into the last exemplar of the Lubitsch tradition, collaborated on the script. (DK) 109 min. Filmmuseum
Ocean’s Thirteen Directed by Steven Soderbergh,
Ocean’s Thirteen brings Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his pack of thieves back to that glamorous playground for adults, Las Vegas. But this time, it’s personal. One of their own, Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), winds up in the hospital after being swindled by Willy Bank (Al Pacino). So Danny and the gang are out for revenge: clean out Bank’s finances and hit him where it hurts the most by ruining his chances of getting a Five Diamond Award for his latest hotel on the Strip. Not just another sequel, this is one of the most entertaining movies of the franchise so far: suave, sleek and snappy. Includes eye candy. (SD) 122 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski
Pan’s Labyrinth By mixing the narrative setting he already visited in The Devil’s Backbone with the Grand Guignol sensibilities he’s shown in his Hollywood films, Guillermo del Toro has managed to create a perfect, poignant fairy tale of the Grimm variety. Young Ofelia must undergo a perilous quest that takes her through the depths of the underworld and pits her against her nefarious new father. Bittersweet and darkly disturbing at the same time, this movie’s guaranteed to keep your inner child up at night with delicious fright. Just refrain from accepting candy from Fascists and fauns and you’ll be fine. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 112 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski Perfume: The Story of a Murderer One of the most expensive European films ever produced, Perfume, based on Patrick Süskind’s book, is a sinister fairy tale about Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw), who is born with an unusually sensitive nose and becomes obsessed to the point of murder with making the perfect scent. As long as you’re not allergic to Tom Tykwer’s mysticism, it’s an incredibly sensual film. With Dustin Hoffman as master perfumer Giuseppe Baldini and Alan Rickman as the father of endangered love interest Rachel Hurd-Wood. 147 min. Pathé Tuschinski Premonition The premise of this time-shifting thriller, from German-Turkish director Mennan Yapo and screenwriter Bill Kelly, is an intriguing one. Each day, housewife Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) receives the news that her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a car accident, only to wake up the next morning and find him very much alive. Was it a nightmare, or a foretelling of tragedy yet to come? If so, does she
have the power to prevent it? Then it happens again: some days Linda finds Jim alive, while on others she awakens a widow. Inexplicably, Linda is living the days of her life out of order. At first the film’s non-linear structure rouses your curiosity. But the follow-up lacks cohesion and depth, making Premonition as boring as a housewife’s routine. A good idea but a missed opportunity. (GR) 110 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt
The Reaping The Reaping A professor (Hilary Swank) known for debunking religious phenomena arrives in a southern backwater that’s being afflicted by the 10 plagues of Egypt. Produced by Hollywood crapmeister Joel Silver, this high-decibel shocker is an insult to intelligence and faith alike. Stephen Hopkins (Lost in Space) directed; with David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb and Stephen Rea. (JJ) 99 min. Pathé De Munt Reprise Norwegian students Erik and Phillip aspire to become influential cult authors. At the start we see them posting their manuscripts. Later on Phillip achieves mild success but suffers a nervous breakdown, while Erik confronts his lack of talent. In between, comic interactions between them and their bohemian mates and pretty girlfriends alternate with tragic episodes. Directed by Joachim Trier, Reprise displays fresh cinematic talent and is enjoyable for its pop culture references—combining, for example, French nouvelle vague cinema with British new wave music. Reprise doesn’t lack coolness, either. But it does lose its narrative focus towards the end, and ultimately fails to penetrate the surface. In Norwegian with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 105 min. Rialto Still Life Most of what we read about China nowadays is about their incredible economic rise. Rest assured that behind the veil of success, misery is to be found. Film-maker Jia Zhang-ke (Unknown Pleasures, The World) seems dedicated to showing us other aspects of a culture locked in massive change. His new film Still Life is a stunningly shot drama of people lost in the chaos of progress, in a city literally drowning as it is slowly engulfed by the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam. Shot entirely on high-definition video, Still Life looks and feels like a documentary; and while the story itself is not, the background of the drowning city is very real indeed. As such, this blend of fiction and the real paints an alienating and disquieting picture of a country where
the individual is merely an obstacle to progress. In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles. (RG) 108 min. Rialto Transylvania Director Tony Gatlif likes to make gypsy road movies—his most famous one being Gadjo Dilo—and his latest film is no exception. This time we follow female protagonist Zingarina (Asia Argento) to the Romanian region of Transylvania to be reunited with her boyfriend. When he rejects her and their unborn baby, Zingarina is inconsolable. Yet love lurks in unlikely places. It’s uncommon for Gatlif to feature a female lead, yet actress Biro Ünel (the anti-hero of Gegen die Wand) steals every scene. What Transylvania lacks in narrative, it amply makes up for in vibrant music and raw emotion. In French/Romanian/English with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 103 min. Rialto Venus Some great films have been made about the love between an older man and a young woman: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) and Billy Wilder’s Love in the Afternoon (1957), to name but a few. Unfortunately, Venus is not such a great film. There is nothing wrong with the story, by Hanif Kureishi; it’s just that the supposed chemistry between Maurice (Peter O’Toole) and Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) doesn’t come across. Kureishi clearly modeled Jessie on Matt Lucas’s Vicky Pollard (from the hilarious TV series Little Britain) and Catherine Tate’s equally mouthy Lauren (‘am I bovvered?’) from The Catherine Tate Show. Yet portraying a troubled teenage girl takes a little more than putting on a pink sweater and eating crisps. Whittaker’s Jessie simply isn’t as convincing as her comic counterparts on television. The scenes with O’Toole and his ex-wife (Vanessa Redgrave) however, are very moving. If only there had been more of those. (MM) 95 min. Cinecenter, The Movies
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Zodiac David Fincher has come a long way in the five years since his last skilful but empty exercise in style, Panic Room. In Zodiac, about four men obsessed with their search for the infamous Zodiac Killer, Fincher finally emerges as a real storyteller. He meticulously follows the book by cartoonist Robert Graysmith without ever allowing it to get boring or lose tension. Fincher has matured, but Robert Downey Jr can claim the most amazing comeback. After some very rocky years battling drug addiction and poor film choices, Downey, as the ever-intoxicated reporter Paul Avery, now dazzles us with a cynical, funny and genuinely moving performance. (BS) 158 min. Pathé De Munt
Special screenings Christine This 1959 film was already the third bigscreen adaptation of Liebelei, the widely successful 1895 play that boosted the career of playwright Arthur Schnitzler (La Ronde). Christine tells the sappy love story, set in fin de siècle Vienna, between an army officer (Alain Delon) and a girl of humble origins (Romy Schneider). But the lieutenant is already having an affair with an older noblewoman, whose husband is ready to take revenge. Different in tone from Max Ophuls’ harsher 1933 version (which starred Magda Schneider, Romy’s mother, as Christine), this film is mostly remembered for the on- and off-screen chemistry between Schneider and Delon, which started on its set and (almost) never ended. In German with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 99 min. Filmmuseum Imagine Me & You This British romantic comedy— yet another in the vein of Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral—strains so hard to be upbeat you can almost hear gears shifting. Dramatically challenged on her best day, Piper Perabo
(Coyote Ugly), saddled here with a London accent, plays a bride who falls for her comely floral designer (Lena Headey). Various English eccentrics visit the florist’s shop as the two women struggle with their mutual attraction and their lovelorn men try to figure out what’s wrong. The script, by director Ol Parker, is way too contrived, but it’s helped over the rough spots by veteran actors Anthony Head and Celia Imrie as the bride’s parents. (AG) 93 min. Pathé Tuschinski Il lavoro This 1962 film is Luchino Visconti’s contribution to the mildly erotic omnibus film Boccaccio ‘70. It stars Romy Schneider as an Italian count’s unhappy wife; she tries to put some spark back into their marriage by pretending to be a call girl. This is the first of the Filmmuseum’s summer outdoor screenings; see p. 21. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. 46 min. Filmmuseum Open Air Mädchen in Uniform (1958) Watered-down remake of the famous 1931 film about love and authority at a German boarding school. Romy Schneider stars as
Manuela, the girl in love with her teacher; Géza Radványi directed. In German with Dutch subtitles. 93 min. Filmmuseum
The VPRO television network refused to show it and it was released theatrically instead. In Dutch. 85 min. The Movies
La piscine A washed-out writer (Alain Delon), a successful journalist (Romy Schneider), a playboy music executive (Maurice Ronet) and his teenage daughter (Jane Birkin) enact a cat-and-mouse game by a swimming pool in St. Tropez. Only as events unfold and a crime takes place will everyone’s motivations surface. Don’t expect a roller-coaster ride from Jacques Deray’s highly atmospheric thriller: by today’s standards it takes too long to get the plot going, and the first hour is basically spent watching Schneider, Delon and Birkin in skimpy outfits, sunbathing in the South of France. But then, should we really complain? In French with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 120 min. Filmmuseum
The Separation This powerful and weird ten-minute short by young British animator Robert Morgan, about the separation of conjoined twins, precedes an evening of electronc music by Italian duo Camusi. iLLUSEUM
Rondom het Oudekerksplein Shot on location in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, this 1968 black-and-white docu/drama was described by its director, Roeland Kerbosch, as an ‘amusing socio-documentary happening’.
Waking Life Richard Linklater’s stereotypical slacker style makes way for a game of free association about consciousness, dreams and even more esoteric quandaries. This 2001 film was made using rotoscoping, a technique in which live action is animated, creating an evocative and surreal mood that fits the themes seamlessly. The fact that the film is a meandering collection of talking heads spouting ideas ranging from post-humanism to how much nookie you can get in your dreams is part of its charm. Look for cameos by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, in the guises of their characters from Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. (LvH) 97 min. De Nieuwe Anita
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FILM TIMES Thursday12 July until Wednesday 18 July. Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.
César et Rosalie daily 21.15, Fri-Wed also 17.30, Sun also 15.00 Christine Sun 17.00 Monp'ti Fri, Sat, Tues 17.00 Mädchen in Uniform (1958) Mon, Wed 17.00 Ninotchka Sun 15.15 La piscine daily 19.15 Solo/à Mains Nues daily 20.00 Two-Lane Blacktop daily 21.30 Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht Thur 17.00. Filmmuseum Open Air , , Il lavoro Fri 22.00. iLLUSEUM Witte de Withstraat 120, 770 5581 The Separation Fri 20.30.
Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615
Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090
Azuloscurocasinegro daily 16.15, 19.15, 22.00, Sun also 11.00, 13.30
Adam's Apples daily 19.45, 22.00 De Avonturen van het Molletje daily 12.45 Drama/Mex daily 17.30, 21.45 Harry Potter en de Orde van de Fenixdaily14.30,17.15, Fri-Wed also12.00 Irina Palm daily 14.00, 19.15
Irina Palm daily 16.30, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Das Leben der Anderen daily 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 Les témoins daily 16.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.00 Venus daily 19.30, Sun also 13.45.
Das Leben der Anderen daily 16.15, 21.30 Shrek the Third daily 13.30, 15.30, 19.30.
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Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708
Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458
Cashback Thur-Sat 17.45, Sat, Sun 15.30, Sun, Mon, Wed 22.15 Death Proof Thur-Sat 22.15, Fri, Sat also 0.25 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus daily 19.45, SunWed also 17.15 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15.
Assepoester en de Keukenprins daily 11.45
The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Death Proof daily 19.45, 22.00, Fri, Sat also 23.45 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix daily 16.15, 19.00, 21.45, Fri, Sat also 0.30, Sun also 13.15 Jesus Camp daily 17.00, 19.15, Sun also 12.30 Ocean's 11 Fri, Sat 23.45 Pan's Labyrinth daily 14.45, 21.15, Fri, Sat also 0.00 Rondom het Oudekerksplein daily 17.00 Shrek de Derde daily 15.00, 17.15, Sun also 13.00 Venus daily 15.15, 19.30, 21.30, Sun also 12.45. De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Waking Life Mon 20.30.
Bobby Fri, Sat 20.30 Death Proof Fri-Wed 21.50 The Departed Sun-Wed 20.30 Die Hard 4.0 daily 12.05, 14.50, Thur-Tues also 13.15, 16.00, FriWed also 17.50, 20.40, 21.35, Fri-Tues also 18.50, Sat, Sun also 10.10 Haaibaai daily 11.50, 13.40, Sat, Sun also 10.00 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix daily 11.30, 14.30, Fri-Wed also 17.30, 20.30 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (IMAX) daily 12.15, 15.15, Fri-Wed also 18.20, 21.25 Harry Potter en de Orde van de Fenix daily 12.40, 15.40, Sat, Sun also 9.45 Mr Bean's Holiday daily 15.50 Ocean's Thirteen daily 11.35, 14.40, Fri-Wed also 17.20, 19.00, 20.20, 21.45 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 daily 14.15, Fri-Wed also 18.10, 20.10 Premonition Fri-Wed 21.20 Shrek de Derde daily 11.40, 13.00, 14.00, 15.30, 16.15, Fri-Wed also 17.45, 18.55, 20.00, 22.10, Sat, Sun also 10.50 Shrek the Third daily 12.15, 13.00, 14.20, 15.30, 16.30, Fri-Wed also 17.45, 18.55, 20.00, 22.10, Sat, Sun also 10.50 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Thank You for Smoking Fri-Wed 18.00 Transformers daily 12.00, 13.30, 15.00, Fri-Wed also 17.10, 18.00, 18.45, 21.00, 21.40, Fri-Mon, Wed also 20.20, Sat, Sun also 10.40 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika Wed 12.10, 14.20, 16.30, 18.50. Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 Death Proof Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.25, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 10.00, 12.35, Sat 11.00, 13.55, 21.55 Die Hard 4.0 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 10.05, 12.50, 15.50, 18.15, 21.45, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 18.50, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 21.15, Wed also 18.55, 21.40, Sat 12.00, 15.00, 18.30, 19.35, 21.20, 22.45 Fracture Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 15.25, 18.10, Sat 16.40, 19.30 Haaibaai daily 11.15, 14.30, 17.45, 21.00, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 10.30, 13.45, 17.00, 20.15, Sat also 10.15, 13.15, 16.30, 19.45, 23.00 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Tues 0.05, Wed 11.15, 12.00, 14.30, 15.15, 17.45, 18.30, 21.00 Harry Potter en de Orde van de Fenix daily 12.00, 15.15, Sat also 10.25 Ocean's Thirteen Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 10.20, 13.20, 16.15, 18.20, 20.00, 21.10, Sat 11.35, 14.40, 17.30, 19.20, 20.45, 22.30 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.50, 20.30, Sat 18.10, 18.20, 21.45 Premonition Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.40, Sat 21.15 The Reaping Sat 23.10 Shrek de Derde Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 10.40, 11.05, 13.05, 13.35, 15.35, 16.00, 18.00, Sat 10.30, 11.45, 12.45, 14.15, 15.30, 17.00 Shrek the Third daily 12.20, 19.10, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 10.10, 11.35, 14.10, 14.45, 16.25, 17.10, 19.30, 22.00, Sat also 10.00, 11.20, 13.40, 15.15, 16.00, 18.00, 20.30 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Transformers Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 11.00, 11.45, 14.00, 15.00, 17.25, 18.30, 20.45, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 21.30, Tues also 21.15, Sat 10.05, 12.35, 13.00, 15.45, 16.15, 18.55, 20.10, 22.00, 23.15 White Noise 2 Sat 23.30 Zodiac Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 20.55, Sat 22.15 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika Wed 10.15, 12.35, 14.55, 17.15, 19.35. Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Anche libero va bene Sun-Wed 19.15 Angel Thur-Sat 21.00 Cashback daily 16.30 Copying Beethoven Thur-Sat 16.00, 18.30, Thur, Fri also 13.30, Sun-Wed 18.00, Sun-Tues also 15.30, Mon, Tues also 13.00 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix daily 12.00, 18.10, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 15.00, Sat, Sun also 14.50 Imagine Me & You Thur-Sat 22.00 Irina Palm Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 12.15, Sat, Sun also 12.45 Das Leben der Anderen daily 20.40 Little Miss Sunshine Thur-Sat 19.30 Nachtrit Sun-Wed 21.45 Ocean's Thirteen Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 14.45, 17.45, 20.50, Sat, Sun 15.15, 18.30, 21.40 Pan's Labyrinth Thur-Sat 21.50, Sun-Wed 21.50 Perfume:The Story of a Murderer Sun-Wed 20.45 Shrek de Derde daily 21.10, 14.30, 17.00 Shrek the Third daily 13.15, 15.45, 18.15 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika Wed 13.00, 15.30. Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Bes Vakit daily 19.00, Sat 16.15 It's 8:08 Fri 23.15 Khadak daily 17.45 Das Leben der Anderen daily 21.45, Sat also 14.45 Reprise daily 21.10, Sat also 23.15, Sun also 16.15 Sounds of Sand daily 19.45, 22.00, Sun 15.45 Still Life daily 17.20, 19.30, Sun also 15.00 Transylvania Sat 15.45.
Amsterdam Weekly
12-18 July 2007
WEEKLY CLASSIFIEDS Ads are free, space permitting. They will be posted both to the paper and online. Guaranteed placement is available for a small fee; see our website for details. Ads may be published in English, het Nederlands or whatever language is best for you to communicate your message. How to submit an ad: via our website at www.amsterdamweekly.nl, by fax at 020 620 1666 or post to Amsterdam Weekly, De Ruyterkade 106, 1011 AB Amsterdam. Deadline: Monday at 12.00, the week of publication. from Aug. Preferably for longterm. Max €1000/mth. ConJANICE! You called last week but I wasn’t in and you tact wewanttolivetogethdidn’t leave your contact details. I’d love to recon- er@gmx.de. Thank you! nect and reminisce about Artemis & artichokes. (Or APT IN A'DAM 30 y.o. girl was it avocados?) Then maybe you can teach me how is looking for an apt in the to make those funky lamp shades. Please call! area of A’dam for up to €600 incl. Please contact me at Big living room. Only for cou- galit.yizhar@gmail.com or HOUSING OFFERED ples! Close to Rozengracht. NO 06 1035 3560. SUNNY 2-BDRM OUD ZUID students,kids,animals.NOregLOOKING FOR ONE-ROOM Beautifully furnished 2-bdrm, istration. Tel: 06 4035 8511. 85m2 apt, big windows, lots of KAMERTEHUURWijhebben I’m looking for an affordable light. Quiet/safe street. South een kamer te huur (€375 incl) studio apt, €450 incl, or balcony. Wifi Lan, TV/DVD, opeenschipaandeAmstel,vlak shared flat with 1 housemate. washing machine. Parking naast de Amstelbrug. We stud- I’m a friendly, trustworthy permit. 2 min to Vondelpark, eren beide aan de Rietveld en and clean woman, 29 y.o. I 10 min to WTC. Ring A10, pub- zijn bezig het schip op te knap- don’t smoke (or drink for lic transport and stores near- pen. Als je daar ook zin in hebt that matter...). I hope to hear by. Use of bicycle. €1500/mth. mail d.overduin@rietvelda- from you soon at keri_vdlan @yahoo.com. crisrock@gmail.com. cademie.Wezoekeniemandva ROOM WANTED IN A'DAM APT IN HAARLEMGreat 1- augustus. bdrm basement apt in 3-ROOM FLATavailable from I have received a position in Overveen (near Haarlem), 16 to 24 July, 10 min from CS the IT field and I am looking to rent a room in an apt or ca 50m2. 1-bdrm (with bed), A’dam, €40/night, for up to 3 house (6 months at least). I living room with open kitchen people. Large living room, 2 can pay up to €400 and I will (fridge & stove), shops & pub- bdrms, kitchen, bathroom, arrive in A’dam on 28 July. I lic transport in walking dis- separate toilet. Free parking, am a 24 y.o. non-smoking male. tance. €850 all incl. To rent easy access to tram, train, bus Contact me at ovidiuflorin as soon as possible. Contact & night bus. Call 06 4148 5880. 2001@yahoo.com. for a visit Deziree@web.de. 100'S OF APTS available in HOUSING NEEDED Young APT OFFERED 2-bdrm apt A’dam immediately. From professional female looking in oud zuid for rent. €700/mth €450/mth. See www.xpa- for housing in A’dam/A’veen incl. 7 July-Aug maybe longer. trentals.com/offers. areas. Employed f/t in field of griffioen77@yahoo.com. marketing, Will be staying in HOUSING WANTED BIG 3-ROOM FLATFully furNL for at least 1 year. I am looknished 3-rm apt for rent for 1 3-4 ROOM APT WANTED ing for a place of my own (stuyrfrom1Aug.Rentis€1000/mth Three nice, clean + good look- dio/etc)andmypreferredprice plus 1 mth deposit and com- ing students are urgently look- range is +/- €500-€700/mth. mission. 1 big bdrm + 1 small. ing for 3 or 4-rm apt in A’dam Karelia: 06 4503 1257.
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space. 100m2, €150/day. Possible to rent photo equipment. High ceilings, good, natural light and located on WG Plein, adjacent to Overtoom. For appointment and more info contact D. Ingel: 06 2883 4224.
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HOTEL RECEPTIONIST Two-star hotel located downtown A’dam is looking for a HOUSING TO SHARE f/t receptionist. Please send VERY NICE HOUSE w/ gar- CV to marnix@hostels-amsden. House owner in NL very terdam.nl. seldom. Excellently located CANYOUWRITE?Wearelookon Amstel River next to all ing for volunteers to write artisorts of public transport. Look- cles about life in A’dam/Holing for non-smoking respon- land. If you have some writing sible girl or couple to share desire,pleasecontactinfo@hosthis nice house. Lots of privacy tels-amsterdam.nl for details. & space. Facilities incl, internet, etc for 3 mths or longer. WAITERRistorante Italiano €700/mth. Call 06 4851 7854. in A’veen cerca personale qualificato per sala. InforSUBLETBig beautiful room mazioni telefonara allo 641 for sublet 13 Aug-6 Sep. Shar5684. Tutti i giorni dalle 14:00 ing kitchen and toilet with alle 16:30. roomates. Close to center, Hugo de Grootplein area. WAITER needed in Italian €300. blueyourface@hot- restaurant. Join our crew! Contact us on 641 5684. Everymail.com. day from 14:00 to 16:30. APT ON DAM SQUARE to share for a non-smoking wom- UNDUTCHABLES Recruitan.€900/mth.Emailx35x@jip- ment Agency Amstelveen are pii.fi. looking for Customer SerROOM & SUSHI I’m Por- vice/Order Management tuguese, just finished my mar- speaking Italian (Wesley Felketing bachelor degree. Cur- ida); Export Specialist (Chrisrently I’m working as a chef tine Schroeder); Secretary in a very famous sushi bar. I speaking English and or can take sushi home! I can Dutch (Petra Neilon). Please pay max €500, dep location mail amstelveen@undutch& conditions. Ready to move ables.nl. See for more posifrom 1 Aug. Email me on tfb- tions www.undutchables.nl. sv@yahoo.com. ENGLISH-SPEAKINGJOBS We have all the English-speakOTHER SPACES ing and other foreign-lanPHOTO STUDIO For ama- guage jobs from all major teur and professional pho- employment agencies and tographers. Can also be used employers in NL on one webas meeting or gathering site. www.xpatjobs.com.
25 restoration production engiSERVICES neeringrecordingmixingwork: amsterdam@secureix.com. GREEN FINGERS Natural WORKWANTED!Studentlook- gardener will take tender lovingforawhitep/tjob,2-3days/wk. ing care of your precious FEMALE BARKEEPER Flexible hours an advantage. plants and garden. €8/hr. Jack: 06 1410 3234. wanted between 25–35 y.o. blubber79@gmail. com. with Dutch speaking skills for NEED SPANKING? BeautiFOR SALE 3 evenings/wk. Social hygiene ful mind WLTM products and papers required. Call 662 4817 STAINED GLASS HOBBY shops for loving and lucrative and ask for Sharon. Bar is locat- InlandWizardglassgrinder,foot relationship. brandspankinged in the south part of A’dam. pedal control, 3 heads 25mm, creative.com. NORDIC SPEAKERS! Dan- 6mm, 19mm. New diamond BRAINSTORM SERVICE ish, Swedish, Finnish! Various grinder heads WB1 and WB9 Highly creative brainstormer positions & a lot of job oppor- metal spatter screen, U form, for hire. Stuck in your tunities! Send your CV to per- folds.Flexibleshaftwithengrav- thoughts? I bring fresh air manent@multilingualsolu- ing and diamond bore drill set. into your project. www.braintions.com, ref number EWHL. €300 all incl. 023 532 3835. storm4u.com. GERMANSPEAKERSWANT- TIFFANY GLASS HOBBY DECORATIVE PAINTING ED! Start asap, great salary, Glasstar stained glass foiler NYC-based artist in A’dam customerservicespecialistposi- machine €20. Hand krimper offering July/Aug specials. tion in international company! €6. Thumb protectors €4. 20 Faux finishes, marble, exotSendyourCV,refnumberEWHL rolls of Masterfoil professional ic woods, onyx, limestone, to permanent@multilingual- quality copper foil, 5.56 mm x color washes, sponge paint33m, €4 ea. 6 rolls 3/16” (00125 ing, strie, etc. Trompe loi and solutions.com. mm) €3,75 ea. 1 roll 1/4” (6.35 mural work. Please call Chris SECRETARYVACANCYA’dammm) €5. Silver foil for mirrors at 379 1220 or 06 2666 3612 based, chemical trading com€7. Call 023 532 3835. or cboylestudio@mac.com. pany is looking for a secretary. Good English and Dutch STAINED GLASS BOOKS SUPERFRESH CATERING required (Spanish welcome) Diverse stained glass hobby Delicious food with super along with organizational and books, (26 books) from €1,50 fresh and high-quality ingrecomputer skills. For further to €7,50. Diverse stained glass dients only. Middle Eastdetails, please send your CV to patterns for mirrors €4. Four ern/European fusion. Vegeteaching course books on leadinfo@endeavour-eu.com. ed glass, in English, €4,50 ea. tarian/non-vegetarian. Up to WORK WANTED Four pattern reference binders 60 people. Also on Sun after€4,50 ea. Call 023 532 3835. noon. Art dinners/food instalFREE MARKETER I’m Porlation and performances on tuguese, just finished my mar- TOOLSSTAINEDGLASSGlass request. Great references. ketingbachelordegree.Willing breaking pliers €20. Snipping Call 06 2729 5697/supertowork,cooperate,develop,cre- pliers €20. Glass breaking pli- snackfusion@gmail.com. ate, organize any MKT project ers€30.Fletcher3-pointbreakprofessional or academic. For ing pliers €40. Glass engraving WEBSITES & BROCHURES free! I’ve unique backgrounds! hand set €15. Silberschnit 426 Do you need a professional oil cutter, ergonomic handle website or brochure? Expetfbsv@yahoo.com. €30.Leadknife€12.TurretCut- rience and creativity at reaAUDIO/VIDEO ENGINEER ters/refills €10. More hobby sonable price. Ask for examAllround audio radio studio ples to info@re-type.com. supplies. Call 023 532 5835. technician and reliable computer-admin, Dutch + English MOVING SALE Household BUSINESS ADVICEAre you speaking/writing, youthful non- furniture/appliances for sale thinking about starting your smoking 41 y.o. looking for due to relocation. Please con- own business? Do you have steady studio job 22-34 hrs/wk. tact 331 6304 or 06 5334 9340 a company but administration and papers are not your Preferably music/movie for more information.
HAIRSTYLISTS WANTED We are looking for allround hairstylist to join our creative team. Call 638 7872 or visit www.tommyztoko.nl.
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12-18 July 2007 thing? Do you need a business plan, labour from abroad, to buy real estate or moving abroad? Call Tulipany for advice on 06 1021 8271, email info@tulipany.nl or go to www.tulipany.nl!
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sonable rates. Call Fred on 06 4718 3115.
HEALTH & WELLNESS ACUPUNCTUREAt Chinese Acupunctuur Praktijk A’dam you will get medical acupuncture, therapy following orthodox medical diagnosis by John Lie-MD LAc. Please contact us at 600 6730. Email praktijk@chineseacupunctuurpraktijk.nl to make appt or visit our website: www.chineseacupunctuurpraktijk.nl.
BRAZILIAN WAXINGBritish Beauty Therapist. 30 yrs experience, CIDESCO, BABTAC ANBOS, laser electrolysis, P8N8 Skin Therapy Centre: acne/rejuvenation/cleanse Linda Young Aesethetics. New address: Eerste Jan Steenstraat 109 in De Pijp. Contact HEARTBROKEN? No part06 4079 9921 or visit www.lin- ner? In a relationship crisis dayoungaesthetics.com. or in the middle of a possiENGLISH MAN WITH VAN ble break-up? Get clarity & Can help with removals, big freedom from suffering with or small, in or outside of the help of experienced councountry. Reasonable rates, sellor! Even if it seems far quick service. Contact Lee fetched right now: you will be on 06 2388 2184 or isabelle- able to reconnect with the source of love in you and live andlee@planet.nl. happily... Call 06 4148 5880. BEST MOVING SERVICEIN TOWN Driver with van (10m3) TIRED OF BEING STUCK or truck (40m3) available. Heighten your quality of life. Plus extra moving men, hoist- Improve your relationships, ing rope and elevator. Any with the help of a native combinations possible. Call English-speaking therapist. Taco on 06 4486 4390, email My 20 years of professional info@vrachttaxi.com or check experience and understanding can help you better cope out www.vrachttaxi.com. with feelings and sort through NEED A STUNNING WEB- stressful thoughts. Call Sagar SITE?Experiencedwebdesign- 06 4626 5412. er builds professional, unique MASSAGE sitesforveryreasonableprices. Online links to past projects HOT HEALING OILS For available. Jordan: jordan- femalesbyprofessionalfemale gcz@yahoo.com,0630341238. Ayurvedic masseuse. Let me
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FRIENDLY YOGAPersonal, professional & friendly yoga teacher, Jeroen, gives affordable yoga clases in English, German and Dutch. Certified in Hatha, Ashtanga yoga.RSI and stress-resolving. Exercises are adjusted to your personal needs. Practice will revitalise and strengthen body and spirit. Call 06 4138 7253. renewed passion and creativity? Relaxed and revitalized? Deepeningconnectionwithyour body, sexuality and spirituality?Yes.ErosTrance,privatesessions in A’dam created to meet individualneeds,men/women. Info:www.erostrance.com.Shanti: 06 4277 3290.
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COURSES SINGING LESSONSOn Prinsengracht, beautiful atmosphere. Classical voice training, breathing techniques, vocalization, scales, etc. For beg & professionals. From classic to jazz pop or rock, and all styles of singing. Good prices + free intro lesson. For more info call Michael on 320 2095 or mail ajara77@yahoo.com.
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authentic approach to Hatha yoga. Learn the age old science of living in harmony with yourself and the world around you. Yoga is good for YOGAYOGA.NLisopenallsumall. Visit www.yogamster- mer long, offering daily Hatha dam.nl or call 06 4390 2470. yoga classes in A’dam, close to YOGA WORKSHOP Yoga the Jordaan. Also Sun workintensive & philosophy, a spe- shops, pre- and postnatal yoga, cial workshop to deepen your baby massage and a second pactice of yoga. Session studio especially for private includes Asanas, Pranaya- yogaclasses.Visitwww.yogayoma, Meditation, Yoga phi- ga.nl or call 688 3418. losophy. Date: Sun 14 July LANGUAGES from 11.00-14.00 at Praktijk Hart & Ziel, Borgerstraat 224. FIRST STEPS IN DUTCH Visit www.YogAmsterdam.nl Enroll in very special 2-week or call 06 4390 2470. summer course Everyday GUITAR LESSONSLooking Dutch for beginners. Lively for a guitar teacher? Now it’s course in heart of A’dam with your chance to have lessons lot of practice. www.glossa.nl. and to know all about play- DUTCH LESSONS A'DAM ing the guitar. For begginers Improve conversation/profesand advanced level. First les- sionalpurpose/studies/NT2.Also son is free! All you need to do online. Min indiv rate €15/hr. is call 06 1456 4950. Or to Adults&childrenMon-Sat,10.00mail me on rdt_eitan@hot- 21.00. Also intensive courses. mail.com. Thanks, Ethan. Min intensive: 15 hrs=€215,55. ACCESSING A'DAMNew to www.excellentdutch.nl. New: A’dam? Looking for practi- Superintensivesummercourse. cal info? This workshop, held Info: excellentdutch@hotover 3 Mon mornings will be mail.com, 06 3612 2870.
COMPUTER PROBLEMS? Q|Systeem-Herstel is the solution for all of your computer problems. A virus? Difficulty connecting internet? Or is your computer running slow? For €30/hr I will get you and your computer up and running in no time! www.systeem-herHATHA YOGA WITH INDIstel.nl or 06 1054 4816 or AN TEACHERDiscover how info@systeem-herstel.nl. simple ancient yoga pracTANTRAMASSAGEWouldyou 1899 1782 or www.klusbus.net PC HOUSE DOCTOR Spe- tices can help you live a useful for those who have just ENGELS LESKen jij mensen like to feel energized with or info@klusbus.net. cialised in virus/spyware healthy & happy life. An arrived within the last few voor engels les? Dan bel Mar-
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PERSONALS HELLO BI-FEMALESAttractive 30-something couple seeks friendly bisexual female for fun. hotfunamsterdam@ hotmail.com. ROMANTIC DATEAttractive married woman wants to have a romantic date with sophisticated Caucasian in A’dam. Please send me your photo, something about you, your date plan and some sweet words! Non-smoker preferable. Just enjoy the moment. Absolutely secret and no danger, please! g2racht@yahoo.com. HANDMAIDENS WANTED Guyloveshand-relief.Anyhandmaidens wishing to oblige? Email handrelief@gmail.com.
ANNOUNCEMENTS CREATIVE PEOPLEWANTED Mediamtic is looking for designers, producers and other creative people who read Arabic or like Arabic culture, to work with us on a great new project on contemporary Arabic culture. Great experience, some compensation. Come and work with us. Email annelies@mediamatic.net or call 638 9901.