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Volume 3, Issue 44

WEEKOF 9 NOVEMBER TO 15 NOVEMBER 2006 Inside: Music, Film, Art and Events

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WEEKEND OF EQUALITY:

DO TWO HALVES MAKE A WHOLE? PAGE 6-8

Flamenco—still firing the blood page 11 ESG—original art-funkers page 13 Brood werd snel oud in Amerika page 19

MARTINE STIG

Are you being scanned? page 4 Should sex work equal opportunities? page 4 Tom Lanoye on Europe’s superiority complex page 5

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ATTACHMENTS Contents: On the cover Equal = equal? Photo by Martine Stig.

Features RFID technology . . . . . . . . 4 Prostitution laws . . . . . . . . 4 Tom Lanoye. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Windowatch . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 How equal are you? . . . . . . 6

Going out Short List . . . . . . . . . . . . . …9 Flamenco Bienalle . . . . . . 11 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Clubs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 ESG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Gay & Lesbian . . . . . . . . . . 14 Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Wild Romance. . . . . . . . . . 19 Film Times. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Plus The Glutton . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Eefje Wentelteefje . . . . . . 23

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AROUND TOWN could enrich VMBOs, the lower secondary schools currently neglected in Dutch educational policies.

‘Applying a tag to something creates a space between this object and the digital world,’ says Van Kranenburg. ‘This makes it possible to add new and different meanings to objects, which can open up a magical world with all kinds of options to play with.’

RFID and the Internet of Things, 14-16 November, Mediamatic, Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901, €357

Tagged & bagged by hi-tech How we can all chip in to the new radio wave revolution.

By Marinus de Ruiter On the surface, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology appears like a souped-up barcode system: put a bunch of objects tagged with tiny electronic labels near a receiver and it will immediately read out which items are in its vicinity.

However, according to tech theorist Rob van Kranenburg, who will lecture at the upcoming RFID workshop at Mediamatic, this technology is the glue that binds our society. Its rapid absorption into our daily lives will be inevitable, but it could also be troublesome. ‘It’s like the introduction of the pen in ancient times,’ says Kranenburg.

‘Even Aristotle didn’t agree with that.’

It seems like everybody knows, but nobody seems to be aware of its consequences: we are continuously being logged, tagged and traced. Our phone directories, emails, shopping lists and travel routes can all be stored in databases.

Connecting these information sources can give us a pretty accurate view of our daily lives.

Basically, everything you buy carries a barcode now, and will be carrying an RFID chip soon, which will make it all too easy to get clues about who you are and to predict what you will do in the future: just walk past a receiver—it will scan your possessions and eventually, by connecting various data through the internet, your most personal information could be retrieved.

Obviously, in a time where we feel the need for more security, this ubiquitous identification technology gives us the feeling our private space is being invaded.

That’s why we all have to look for ways to

deal with it, because the development is unstoppable, Van Kranenburg explains: ‘I’m not against this technology, but I’m not unquestioningly supporting it either’, he says. ‘This technology can bring more coherence in society, but with the political mindset of today, I think it would be wrong to leave the development of this technology up to logistics experts only.’

RFID started taking off in a big way around 2000 as a tool for industries to keep stock of their products. ‘All companies have been developing it simultaneously,’ says Van Kranenburg.

‘They all equally benefit from it, so there is no competition.’

Through RFID a supermarket can check what’s in store without touching one product—a receiver can do the counting and the specification. On the other hand, a thief with a nice receiver can see what you have in your pockets, especially since governments have started tagging passports and large banknotes as well.

The pace with which private RFID technology develops is exciting and scary at the same time. Nokia has introduced cell phones with RFID receivers in them.

Then there’s a company called VeriChip, which helps in the application of small RFID tags under people’s skin to store their medical records.

It’s easy to imagine doom scenarios, and that’s why industries and governments are hesitant to participate in public discussions about RFID, for fear of backlash.

‘The world is going online and although this may not be the right time, people will have to debate about it on all levels of society,’ says Van Kranenburg. ‘Protocols and hardware must be opened up so everyone can help in developing them. It’s possible because the basic technology is cheap and simple.’

A key in safely unlocking the public secret of RFID is education on all levels, according to Van Kranenburg. Recently he helped set up a BA programme (for which he’ll be senior lecturer) at the HKU art academy in Utrecht called Ambient Experience Design (AED). AED, which will start in September 2007, is a platform for students working with wireless information technology. Van Kranenburg also suggests that classes in RFID technology

Gemeente can’t be pimp Of brothels and bank loans.

By Floris Dogterom Amsterdam intends to use the so-called ‘BIBOB law’ (Bevordering Integriteitsbeoordelingen Openbaar Bestuur, which roughly translated means ‘promotion integrity assessments public administration’) to kick out a number of sex entrepreneurs with criminal records and/or connections. The BIBOB law enables the city to suspend brothel licenses if there’s reason to believe that the premises are being used for penal offenses.

GroenLinks gemeenteraadslid Marieke van Doorninck wants to seize the opportunity in order to reform the Amsterdam sex industry. ‘The city has two options here,’ she says. ‘Either it doesn’t issue licenses at all, or new licenses are granted to a better kind of entrepreneur.

We argue in favour of the latter. Six years after the ban on brothels has been lifted, there’s lots of attention on checking up on licenses, but not on the working condi-

tions of the prostitutes concerned. People who will start a business now, in the era of legalised prostitution, will bring about a different kind of business management.

We believe that that will lead to better working conditions for sex workers. We also want the government to step in with subsidies, in case women want to start a new sex business. It’s impossible for them to obtain a small business loan from banks.’

Van Doorninck’s opponent in this matter is Karina Schaapman, gemeenteraadslid for the PvdA. According to Schaapman: ‘GroenLinks claims that banks don’t want to finance sex workers’ businesses. But [the sex workers’] plans are often unfeasible. Banks simply don’t want to invest in that. The government shouldn’t act as a pimp. As a matter of fact, the sex business is already legal, so why finance it with subsidies?’ Schaapman also says that GroenLinks’ plea for better working conditions is based on emancipatory ideals from the 1970s. ‘Then, the idea was that women should become stronger and defend their own rights. But women who work in the sex industry aren’t usually strong women—[whether] they are forced to work as prostitutes, either by men or by circumstances, that doesn’t matter. They usually do this kind of work for only a short time, so normal working conditions aren’t applicable.’

Van Doorninck states that she and Schaapman are on the same wavelength as far as forced prostitution goes. ‘We know that a woman’s choice to become a sex worker sometimes is the result of a lack of options. But it’s exactly in this situation that better working conditions are essential. I feel that prostitutes can do a better job if they are aware of their rights.

I don’t see how a government acts as a pimp when all it does is facilitate better working conditions. We don’t accept legalised sex work when there are many abuses. Schaapman is saying all the time that we pretend there aren’t any problems. But the reverse is true. It’s because we see so many problems that we want to take action.’

Does paying taxes equal equality?

NANNA KOEKOEK

Sucking back the info.

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Equal therefore superior

Love and/or marriage. Delete as applicable.

Talking Europe’s fascist structures with Tom Lanoye.

Fascism is alive and well, says Flemish novelist and poet Tom Lanoye. His words echo around the empty dressing room at the Leidse Schouwburg, his face multiplied in the rows of mirrors, his eyes framed in yet another extravagant pair of glasses.

Lanoye is the Harry Houdini of the Flemish language, and in two hours, he will hypnotise his audience into a state of euphoric trance when his performance begins. But for now, we are speaking in English about the sombre realities of our common home—Europe. In his new novel Het derde huwelijk [‘the third marriage’], the continent is presented as a cramped space, full of constraints and limitations.

‘It’s a used-up, versleten continent, it’s worn-out,’ Lanoye says. Just a couple minutes ago he had been discussing this with Antjie Krog, his South African partner in the show. ‘We decided that what’s so weird about Europe is its awareness of its ultimate identity. And it is not an identity, it is the identity. Even the United States has not reached our level yet—that’s the whole mindframe of Europe, especially Western Europe. And especially, I think, the Dutch.’

Yet in Het derde huwelijk it is the main character—non-European, African Tamara, who marries a terminally ill gay man to

STEFANIE GRÄTZ

By Sophia Kornienko

be able to stay in the EU—who in the end becomes super-liberal, personifying all of the proclaimed European values.

‘She becomes what Europeans say they are,’ Lanoye says. ‘My character lives in this art deco house, which is a symbol for the larger, fortunate Europe. This is the way we

Windowatch

Eerste Kostverlorenkade 19

Some animals are more equal than others

WILLEKE DUYVEKAM

By Suzanne Schreve

think: we have invented the idea that everybody is equal, and therefore we are worth more than others. We are superior. We have discovered that everybody is equal, therefore we are superior! And we preach free markets and free boundaries, and at the same time we close our boundaries to peo-

When you live close to a slaughterhouse and every so often watch a truck full of pigs pass by—hear them squeal and squash each other—it might make you wonder about whether you should have a slab of streaky bacon with your eggs in the morning. Nettie lives near one and the thought makes her stomach turn. ‘I stopped eating meat when I was seventeen. I became aware of how animals were really treated and how much I disagreed,’ she says.

Since then, Nettie has actively expressed her passion for animal rights through participating in protests and rallies, and by funding animal welfare organisations. But you don’t have to go to a rally to see her in action, just walk past number 19 Eerste Kostverlorenkade, to see how Nettie, her two dogs and three cats feel about animal welfare.

‘There are many more organisations in aid of people, while I believe animals to be equal to humans. It’s been proven [animals] have their own system of communication, an argument usually used to distinguish us from

ple, we close our boundaries to goods, to the products that people would like to bring in from the emerging economies and, let’s say, Africa. And then we send highly-paid consultants to help those developing lands.

That is, we are bringing the same dreams all over the place, preaching this lie that life is great if only you can consume, and that is the ultimate dream. And then we are very surprised that people try to get in, because we don’t let them in with their goods, and they can’t make money where they are living.’ In Lanoye’s opinion, it would be beautiful if every artist studied economics.

So what is the main mistake that’s made in Europe—is it ignorance? ‘Europe is definitely living this lie that fascism was a coincidence, and that we have overcome it. I don’t think so. That would have been too easy. Structurally, it’s still there. Every now and then, our pretensions, the feelings of European superiority, legitimise ethnic cleansing and new colonial wars— like what is happening in the Middle East today. And the pattern is increasingly xenophobic.’

Lanoye was very happy when there was a real democratic victory in Antwerp and its cordon sanitaire, which means that all democratic parties have agreed not to work together with Vlaams Belang which is, in Lanoye’s opinion, a fascist party. ‘But that’s just one battle in a war, a symbolical war, where nobody knows what the ending will be.’

And yet, he is not uncomfortable living in Belgium, and he would not want to write in another language. Not even in English, even though reworking Shakespearian plays and performing them in a mixture of English and Dutch has been an overwhelming success.

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them. And it’s sad, because we don’t yet understand the depth or extent of their ways. Animals can’t defend themselves, they can’t protest. And even if they could, it’s doubtful the majority of people would listen. It is getting better though: there is more support and funding for animal rights,’ Nettie says.

Twenty years ago a handful of people, 25 at most, would stop you at the border and pass you a leaflet concerning the conditions of animal transport to Italy or Spain. Last week, Nettie attended a political discussion on animal welfare in Paradiso, and the room was heaving. People were trampling all over each other in order to prevent animal abuse.

‘It is inspiring for the future to see such attendance, but we are still far off from a more balanced world—one that, for instance, someone like Gandhi propagated. He had an immense respect not just for people, but for every living creature. That’s why his poster hangs next to the one that says ‘Stop Dierenleed’ [‘stop animal suffering’] on my window.

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Meet Jezus. He simply is. (Profeet in Amsterdam Ruben van Leer)

Vote for your own ‘common interest’. (Uw Algemeen Belang - Hendrik-Jan Grievink)

A New Kind of Negerzoen?

Ah, winter’s approaching. Nothing like sitting by the fire, brandy snifter in one hand, edible African in the other, and warm slippers on your feet.

What’s that, you say? You haven’t yet purchased the new season’s chocolate Africans? And you’re too niggardly to pay for them? Well, lucky for you: this weekend at De Balie, artist Coralie Vogelaar will be Continues p. 8

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love their differences. In a way, we agree: you should celebrate individuality, but not all inequalities are fair.’

One of his concerns is the increasing gap between rich and poor, and how it’s mostly embraced as a sign of natural selection—best man for the job, that sort of thing. ‘Politicians always talk about top talents, and your own efforts. But successful people are helped— they just don’t like to talk about that. [Successful people] are products of collective efforts, like education, health care, etcetera. And we know that if you come from a rich environment, you have a better chance in education and health.’

So he proposes a return to the old ideal of providing more for the underprivileged. ‘In the past, we tried to lift up people who were disadvantaged. But now the idea is to give only a minimum amount of education and health care. We say that a minimum level is not enough.’ Furthermore, Van der Meer stresses the importance of insuring that all goods and services provided by society be made equally accessible to everyone.

But, at the same time, this should not inhibit the individual desire for growth and development.

If his ideas are taken to the limit, a lesserknown book by Aldous Huxley comes to mind: Island. In it, Huxley depicts a rather practical utopia, mostly secluded from the rest of the world, where everyone has equal opportunities to do as they please.

Workers regularly switch jobs without restraint, simply for the sake of variety. Families live in real communities, where children migrate freely to other homes. And everyone works together, rather than competing to get to the top. Modern sciences are still employed, individual talents still emerge, and people still develop naturally—but they don’t do so at the expense of others.

For some, these ideas have no place in reality. They would

BY MARK WEDIN argue that we’re no betPHOTO BY MARTINE STIG ter off than we were a The science of freedom thousand years ago, and The other—perhaps that the fundamental main—attraction of the problems of freedom weekend is the busloads and equality, though they of professors, who will may wear different be on hand to discuss the masks, will always remain—often replaced by bigger, complex notion of equality. Many of their debates— more frightening masks. which everyone is encouraged to take part in—will Others, however, can’t help but dream. revolve around the ideas put forward in the new book Gelijk: Over de noodzakelijke terugkeer van een A new fair trade klassiek ideaal [‘equality: concerning the necessary Imagine if you could temporarily exchange your citizenreturn to a traditional ideal’] by Paul de Beer, Pieter ship with anyone in any other country of the world. No Pekelharing and Jelle van der Meer. more bureaucracy. No more visas. No more waiting for ‘Equality has always been a big ideal in the last cena residence permit. Just instant permission to take off tury or two,’ says Van der Meer. ‘But in the past couple and enjoy the rights and culture of a far-off land. For of decades, it has lost its popularity. People choose many, that possibility would be deliciously enticing. For more for the other ideal: freedom.’ others, it could literally save their lives and give their According to Van der Meer, equality does not only children undreamt of opportunities. And that’s just take a back seat to freedom, but is, in many ways, what artist Ricardo Portilho proposes: Citizenship rejected entirely. ‘People don’t want to be equal. They id you hear the one about the Muslim and the farmer? No? Oh man, it’s great... So, this Muslim walks up to a farmer and he... No, wait. The farmer walks up to the Muslim and... no. That’s not it either. Goddammit.

Well, it doesn’t matter. The point of the joke is that it highlights a serious question: Why are Muslims smarter than farmers? And what about dentists? How come they’re so much sexier than housewives? Or Poles: why do they smell way better than lawyers? I mean, seriously. It’s not that Polish people smell that great, but good heavens, lawyers smell awful. Why is that?

These are the kinds of questions being asked in preparation for De Balie’s Big Weekend of Equality, beginning this Friday night. In part, it’s supposed to confront people with their common habits of generalising. Artist Martijn Engelbregt explains: ‘It was during one of the meetings when we were organising the event, and we were looking for questions that would lay responsibility in the hands of the reader.

Someone said, “Why are Germans better than Belgians?” And we thought: now that’s a very strong statement. Not only are you saying they’re better, but you’re asking why.’

So they ran with the concept, creating a contest where questions that contrast two groups of people can be submitted via the website, and the best entries win VIP passes to the Weekend of Equality. ‘I love having a VIP section at an equality event,’ smiles Engelbregt, whose art often incorporates the inherent humour found in bureaucratic silliness.

When Engelbregt was asked to make a piece for this event, he decided, as he often does, that it should not consist of merely one theme, or one creative mind, but many.

So he plucked a dozen young artists from the Sandberg Institute, filled their heads with inspiration, and let them get to work. Their pieces will all be presented this weekend.

Equality is dead, long live equality Intellectuals and artists, alike, fear the demise of equality. And a number of their projects seem to say that it’s being squashed by misconceptions of freedom.

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Exchange.

‘I come from Brazil, a country that’s—how can I say it... It’s not the most equal country in the world. I’m trying to address the fact that we immigrants, living in a new country, dealing with new laws and bureaucracies are, of course, not as equal as the citizens here. But instead of having to be subordinate, or be controlled by the state, the people could be in control.’

In today’s world, with personal file-sharing all over the internet—mostly immune to government and corporate regulations—this concept seems very in line with the times. ‘It could be called “peer-to-peer immigration,”’ smiles Portilho.

Of course, critics would point out the obvious advantages this would provide for criminals. They would not only escape their country of crime, but could easily set up nefarious franchises around the world.

Others, however, would point out that freely travelling criminals would have no more power than big corporations already have today.

‘Who knows what would happen? Maybe everyone would end up in New York.

Maybe some kind of stock exchange would appear and they’d be trading people.

Maybe in fifty years, everyone will want to go to a clean, natural place—like Africa or Brazil. I just want to foster a debate on this.’

What concerns Portilho most is the fact that levels of equality—from a global view—are measured almost entirely by place of birth. ‘A Middle Eastern citizen is not as valuable as an American citizen.’

This weekend, he’ll be showing a video where he interviews two contrasting people: a political refugee, and a man who was born with three nationalities—a result of having parents with multinational backgrounds.

‘This guy, David, has passports for America, Greece and Brazil. He has all the freedom to move and work wherever he wants. He kind of fucks up the [current immigration] system. It’s a system that’s made to profit different countries, and he’s showing the cracks in that.’

The other person, Ghalia Elsrakbi, (who incidentally, did much of the design work for the Weekend of Equality) is a refugee from Syria.

‘She’s an interesting case,’ says Portilho. ‘She speaks perfect Dutch, feels comfortable here, has a boyfriend here. I always say that people blend into the culture when they develop the [unique] humour there. And she has that.’ Yet, her travel opportunities and obvious talents for integration are severely limited.

Along with the video, Portilho will have a booth with various products, like white covers to wrap up your passport. ‘The biggest challenge is to get feedback, rather than just have people say: “Oh, that’s a nice idea.”

We need to keep this discussion going.’

Homeless Jesus While wandering the streets of Amsterdam with a handheld camera, artist Ruben van Leer found Jesus. The Son of God was standing there, in human form, wearing

Amsterdam Weekly a bright orange safety vest, smiling through his thick beard, and happily sweeping the sidewalk with a small cleaning crew. Yes indeed, the Lord works in mysterious ways.

‘I tell you, this guy is amazing! He truly is a prophet, [and] a very positive man.’ While sipping green tea by a window in his home, Van Leer is ecstatic, fully sincere and still a bit dazed from his encounter with the divine.

‘He’s living on the streets, you know. He laughs a lot, has a childlike face, and he uses really small words. But he makes very bold statements.’

For Van Leer, the mere fact that a man refers to himself as Jesus is no reason to immediately discredit him.

‘If we’re talking about equality, I don’t understand why he can’t be who he says he is. He says: “I’m Jesus,” and

Who’s better and why?

people around him immediately judge. His being homeless adds to it. I don’t know: maybe he is lying. But I have no reason to think that.’

Van Leer, however, is less interested in the possibility of the man being an actual Christian holy figure, and more in his mystic potential to sense the things that we cannot. ‘He probably just says he’s Jesus cause he’s here. If he was in Thailand, he’d probably choose Buddha.’

In the short documentary Profeet in Amsterdam which screens this weekend at De Balie, Van Leer begins by interviewing a couple of guys who work in Jesus’ cleaning crew. Both of them are a bit downtrodden and unhappy with their lot in life. But later in the

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documentary, Jesus says: ‘That makes sense. They live in a world of forms. But they forget the unseen.’

Much of what this Jesus says is as easily understood as old wisdom. Though, it could also be taken as merely cliché. But Van Leer is not bothered by this: ‘The thing is, to discover our individual power and practise it. We all know how to be a good person. That’s not the issue.

The issue is to be.’

And judging from the looks of Jesus, who’s happy without a home and living on four euros a week, he seems to have found an inner strength which few people know exists. Listening to the man in the documentary, with his soft voice and natural laugh, it’s easy to understand why, in older times—before modern media and our unlimited sources of distraction—men like him could motivate the masses.

If the documentary goes well, Van Leer hopes to find other god-like humans in modern-day attire—maybe a Buddha, Allah, Yahweh and a Shiva—and bring them all together. It could solve a lot of arguments.

‘Much of what he says is about humanity,’ explains Van Leer. ‘It’s about how we deal with each other, respect each other. I’m not really interested in the whole political system— politicians always talking about equality. I don’t care about that. And this guy proves you don’t need it.’

He’s not the only one bored with politics-as-usual.

Party reform ‘A couple of years ago, that politician said how they should voice their ideas to the people in Jip en Jannekespeak—you know, really short, clear sentences. Easily understandable. I say, if we’re going to get anything done, we have to talk to the politicians in Jip en Jannekespeak.’

Artist Hendrik-Jan Grievink has created his own political platform, Uw Algemeen Belang, [‘your common interest’] and he’s damned excited about it.

‘Our logo is simple: just a black box with a white circle and a red [check mark] vote in the middle. We use a lot of hollow signs and phrases, and it could be seen as serious. I was making posters and stickers at the print shop and everyone there really wanted to know what it was—they thought it was a real political party.’

This, however, doesn’t come as a surprise to him because it feels like ‘we have a new party every week. There’s even that website where people can create their own party. It’s like the whole system is turning upside down.’

But his party, if you can call it that, is different.

‘Politicians all claim to serve the “common interest” whether they’re left-wing or right-wing. Yet this common interest is the most vague element in politics. What is it and who owns it?’

During the Weekend of Equality, Grievink’s website (www.uwalgemeenbelang.nl) will be launched so people can submit their own personal ‘common interest’ and encourage their friends to vote on it. The one with the most votes will be presented to the Prime Minister

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handing out over 2,000 tasty little chocolates—all shaped like hungry Africans, and all free of charge!

Naturally, you might be thinking: what the F! Why is she doing that?

Well, it’s not meant as commentary on the (sort of) out-of-fashion Zwarte Piet. Nor is she trying to increase awareness of our huge imports in slave-picked chocolate. That’s widely known, and people in power still do little about it. What Vogelaar wants to address are the mind-numbing effects of distant humanitarian disasters—in this case, the immense poverty in Africa.

‘In the media, you see hungry Africans so often, that the power of the image is lost,’ she says. ‘Now it has as little power as an image displayed in chocolate, like the Easter Bunny, or LU Scholiertje.’

Taking that metaphor to the extreme, she hopes her offerings will make people stop, take notice, and maybe even make a mental connection with the images on TV, which they might normally ignore. ‘It would be weird if people just ate them with their coffee, and didn’t think anything of it.’

She also wants people to think about those images, and how much they portray Africa as a whole. ‘People think the only thing happening there is hunger. But there is beautiful art made in Africa, wonderful films.

And they don’t get enough attention. Maybe, if people viewed Africa in a different way, a more positive way, it would get more chances, and the people would have more opportunities.’

Hello neighbour!

Feeling unhappy? Tired of cranky neighbours? Want to report a foreigner living next door? Now you can!

Artist Wibke Pausch has created a perfect window poster (included in Amsterdam Weekly, issue 42, 26 October 2006 and see attachments p. 3.) for such a message. With only a few key words printed on it, you simply cross out the unnecessary letters to tell the world how you’re feeling, proclaim whether or not you’re Dutch, or simply describe your neighbour. Great times indeed. But is there a message behind the message?

‘It’s mostly about being happy,’ says Pausch. ‘When people ask you how you are, you’re supposed to be happy. If you say anything else, you admit your own failure because [it’s believed that] you can do anything you want. What I’m asking is if that’s really true or not.’

For Pausch, one source of happiness can be citizenship. ‘Immigrants could be less happy because they’re not surrounded by their people. And of course, there is the fact of having less opportunity than the citizens.’

She’s curious if people will actually use the poster to admit they’re unhappy. ‘I realise that I’m asking a lot.’

However, rather than ongelukkig, one person crossed out the letters so that their poster read mijn buurman is nukkig [‘My neighbour is moody’]. Another person made it say gelukkig geland [‘happy landed’]. ‘So there are more possibilities in it than I thought.’ The best results will be presented this weekend.

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‘I am a rhetorical, and theatrical personality, so I do not regret the fact—apart from my royalties, of course—that I am working in Antwerp, and in Dutch, the Flemish variety of Dutch. I do hate Flemish nationalism, but the good side of the coin is that it’s a very young culture. Which means there is no weight, no burden of the tradition that you see in the old cultures, like France and England. Technically, their actors are brilliant, but in terms of innovation, in terms of artistic reach, they just have this burden of tradition turned into folklore, which means that you cannot do anything any more.

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after the elections.

‘I think—well, it’s very unpredictable—but people will probably react in two ways [upon seeing the website]: they’ll be more reflective, intellectual. Or they’ll really grab the opportunity and say: “Whoa! I want more money in my pocket. Everyone vote on that!”’

For Grievink, it’s a funny way to look at a serious problem. ‘It’s a spoof on the coming elections, and how Dutch politics have been evolving in the last couple years.

Everyone talks about the gap between politics and people.

Politics tends to move towards the “common people”. And politicians are scared that people won’t understand them.

But Balkenende can be satisfied now, because this initiative means the politicians can now understand the people.

It’s a step towards real democracy.’

This weekend, he will also go out with a small film crew, interviewing people about their common interest.

‘The camera and the mike will have our logos on it, and we’ll just start talking to people, see what they do. It’s quite open. The plan is to then show a montage of it that weekend. But that weekend is just the kick-off. We’ll definitely continue until the elections on the 22nd.’

So, if you see a camera crew walking by or posters on the wall bearing vague political signs, it could well be a real party. Or it could be art. The border between the two becomes more blurry every day.

Het Grote Weekend van de Gelijkheid, 10-12 November, De Balie, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5155, www.gelijk.org

I become you and you become me.

In today’s world, with personal file-sharing all over the internet—mostly immune to government and corporate regulations—this concept seems very in line with the times. It could be called ‘peer-to-peer immigration.’

speare in a society where everyone thinks they know how Shakespeare was played when Shakespeare was still alive! You cannot do anything with it to really corrupt it and reinvent it, which is basically what you should do with theatre texts.’

What makes Antwerp different from Amsterdam? ‘What makes it different? Oh, this will freak the Dutch out. They hate it when I say it, but there is only one real metropolis in the whole of the Benelux, and that is Brussels. Amsterdam is a nice city, but it’s too small and there are too many tourists. You become claustrophobic there.

And it is so laughable, the pretensions of the people living there. Of course they have good literature and good journalists, but it’s not that highly qualified, as they think it is.

The advantage of Belgium is that whatever happens, we know we are just a small coun-

try. We never began a war, we never won a war. The joke about Belgian tanks is that they only have one—reverse—speed.’

Lanoye’s latest novel partially describes a personal experience; he, too, was asked to marry a black woman to secure her a residence permit for Belgium, except that Lanoye said no. Why did he do that? ‘Ah, yes, I still wonder now. I had this proposal from a guy I did not know, he did not want to talk about it on the telephone.

So, we met in a café and what he told me appears in more or less exact wording in the book. Marry my girlfriend, he said. I’ll pay you a lot. I asked why. He said it was an illegal thing, and he did not want any drug smugglers or people-traffickers involved. He said he wanted the smallest of small criminals—a gay person. I’m quite sure that you’ll at least keep your hands

off my girlfriend, he said. It made me laugh and I did not trust him. I think he was a smuggler of people. I don’t regret the fact that I said no. What I do regret is that I did not meet the black girl, because I would love to talk to her and make her into a person. In the book, she comes in as The Stranger, as a metaphor, and she fights her way to become more and more a real person, which is the way to fight racism, I think. Instead of having someone as a stranger, make someone an individual.’

In the very end of the book, the black woman gets an opportunity. Not even an identity or a nationality. ‘She gets this one real present that one human being can give to another. Without questions, without conditions, without warnings. She is given an opportunity. And then she has to take care of herself.’

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Joop Swart Masterclass, Friday, Foam

THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER

FRIDAY10 NOVEMBER

Festival: Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival

Photography: 13th Joop Swart Masterclass

It seems strange that Amsterdam has had its Dance Event for years but Rotterdam hasn’t had anything similar until now. After all, over the past decades so much electronic dance music has emerged from the harbour city, gaining international critical acclaim and chart success. The Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival celebrates the city’s vibrant commercial and underground club life. Rotterdam’s status as the ultimate breeding ground for gabber is celebrated at Worm, with performances by Paul Elstak and his followers. Avant-garde techno pioneer Speedy J will present his new DVD and will play a five-hour set with German techno wunderkind Chris Liebing. Underground electro labels Clone and Dub will show off their stuff, as well as the urban music scene, supported here by turntablist Git Hyper. Of course there’s a healthy international delegation of dance giants, including Chicago and Detroit old-schoolers like Farley Jackmaster Funk and Kevin Saunderson, Norwegian ambient eminence Biosphere, drum ’n’ bass juggernauts Bad Company and contemporary stars like Ricardo Villalobos and Extrawelt. (Marinus de Ruiter) Various locations and times, Rotterdam, €15/€22 day ticket, €55 festival pass.

After focusing in previous years on such wide-ranging themes as Food, Faith and Friendship, this year’s 13th World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass is all about Risk. The word ‘masterclass’ is, for once, no misnomer, since each of the seven masters is a topflight photography professional and the 12 participants—-from places as far-flung as Iran and Argentina—are selected from over one hundred carefully vetted nominees who often go on to greater things. Ten years ago, in 1996, award-winning names like Morad Bouchakour, Jodi Bieber and Paolo Pellegrin were on the list of participants, and Australian photographer Trent Parke, an MC participant in 1999, is now a Magnum associate with a solo exhibition on show at Foam as you read these words. This year’s week-long merry-go-round of lectures, appraisals, critiques and portfolio reviews reaches its climax with this exhibition curated by one of the tutors, Alessandra Mauro from Italy. (Terri Kestor) Foam (Sun-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00). Until 7 January.

Rock: Junior Boys I like the Junior Boys because they remind me of home. While I grew up in Toronto, Canada, I resided in a city next to it called Hamilton, a downtrodden place that tries religiously to not be lumped into Toronto’s metropolising mass. The Junior Boys are from Hamilton, and they like the city. They have survived—thrived even—by utilising sounds and melodic ideas not usually explored by the indie-meets-art-rock masses, including minor-key synth lines and sharp vocal harmonies. A hit in Canada where they were on the cover of the prestigious Exclaim! magazine, the Junior Boys have helped proliferate electronic sounds, hashing out the blips and bleeps that usually get truncated in a wash of guitars and putting them in spotlight, amidst highly mature songwriting, fantastic harmonies and thought-provoking samples. Live, they are a treat as well, something that differs from Hamilton, as visiting that city infinitely inferior to exploring the music that originated from it. (Shain Shapiro) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.30, €9.

Party: 301=7 Did ya hear the one about the squatters and their bad maths? They think 301 = 7. Hah! Well, actually in this case, they kinda have a point. The big old squat in the former Film Academy turns seven years old tonight. They’re throwing a huge two-day extravaganza, with lots of live bands the first night and DJs the second: all rockin’ hard till 5 a.m.

Why are they so excited? Cause they recently bought the place, adding it to the list of lovely squats-turned-legal in our little town. Helping to celebrate their survival are the poppy, highly danceable band Matik, hiphopsters Chikatilo and Patapoe’s beat masters Rabo en de Dabo, among others. For those who prefer a little less noise, show up at 9 p.m. for speeches by politicians and Broedplaats head Jaap Schoufour, who will explain the importance of a living (ex)squat in a slowly dying world. (Mark Wedin) OT301, 21.00-05.00, €7. Also Saturday.

Festival: Black Magic Woman Festival Black Magic Woman is here again. And this time spicier and more diverse than ever. Soul food, soul music, soul literature and sisterhood, packed in with lively debates and a motley array of performances from exceptional women. From columns read by former

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minister Hedy d’Ancona to the sensational performance by the Divas of the Maghreb— Zina Daoudia, Aicha Tachinouite and Milouda al Hoceimia—with their unique North African grooves. The festival kicks off in De Meervaart tonight, with the musical Sneeuw from the young, promising, Surinamese artist Joy Wielkens, and goes on for another 10 glorious days. For the full programme see www.blackmagicwomanfestival.nl. (Sharida Mohamedjoesoef) Various locations, times and prices. Until 20 November.

SATURDAY11NOVEMBER Multidisciplinary: Phantasmagoria If you haven’t heard of the Villa Diodati phenomenon before, you either haven’t been reading your Amsterdam Weekly, or you’re one of those goths that actually lives under a rock. In any case, if you have a heart of or for darkness, Nieuwezijdse Voorburgwal 167 is the must-see place to be tonight, as the monumental building will host a bevy of black artistry. Come early, as the night will begin with an open stage, on which you’re entitled to spread your inner doom and gloom by reading from your own Victorianstyle classic work. At the same time, you’re free to peruse the diverse art in the gallery at your leisure. After midnight, the literary musings will make way for some pumping beats from a choice roster of mind-bending DJs, while the second floor houses a chillout bar with lovely absinthe, the choice liquor for this scene. If there’s a more comprehensive, sophisticated gothic outing out there, then I haven’t blundered into it.

(Luuk van Huët) Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 167, 19.00-04.00, €6.

Party: Amsterdam Index Live Call it an almanac of Amsterdam cultural initiatives. Call it a yearbook of essential art stuff, or a bumper annual of cool things. Amsterdam Index gives a snapshot of what’s happening in the city from the viewpoint of the people who are practising what they preach: the artists, the creative types, the opinion-makers. This year, the soi-disant bookazine’s themes are four-pronged: Amsterdam Noord, street style, designer Marcel Wanders and e-culture. The first two of these in particular will be very much in evidence at the launch party at Overhoeks, that live-work-playground on the old Shell Terrain that stares back at Centraal Station from the opposite banks of the IJ. The evening’s entertainment includes rap and hiphop from Jay Colin and Ontfront & Blazinbell respectively; a full whack of DJs like the David Gilmour Girls, x-O-x, Jan Donkers and De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig’s Willie Wartaal. Braincells will be bolstered by poetry collective wordsinhere and the Filmmuseum, and destroyed again by the Fabulous Shaker Boys’ cocktails. (Kim Renfrew) Overhoeks/Shell-kantine, 21.0002.00, €12.50.

MONDAY13 NOVEMBER Rock: Juliette and the Licks Dear Juliette Lewis, When I grabbed your ankle while you were crowd-surfing at Lowlands ’05, I felt an immediate connection, and I’m sure you felt it too. For one magical night, the world revolved around you strutting your stuff and singing your heart out, and me standing in the audience, locked in your gaze and voice. I know we grew apart afterwards, but I don’t want to play the blame game: we both knew long-distance relationships often don’t work out, and we’re both a little sadder and wiser because of it. But I just wanted to let you know that when you play Paradiso tonight you don’t have to feel awkward about me being there, because I don’t carry a grudge. I’ve moved on, as I’m sure you have, and I’m with someone else now, so I’ll just be there as a friend and a fan. Congratulations on your new album, and I wish you all the best.

Luuk (Luuk van Huët) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €14 + membership.

WEDNESDAY15 NOVEMBER Theatre: Gutsman For all the superheroes in the comics world there has to be some compensation.

Gutsman, created by artist Erik Kriek, is Superman’s clumsy counterpart, the antisuperhero whose chaotic private life is documented in an excellent series of comics without words. In a stroke of genius, theatre group Link adapted the unusual love story of Gutsman and his girlfriend Tigra into a mime comedy, appealing to both adults and children. In this no-talking and all-action show, Gutsman is brought to life on stage by Kriek himself, sitting behind his drawing table. With clever projection techniques the story is illustrated on screens integrated into the set. Actors Francisca Rijken and Job Cornelissen put on an impressive physical performance as Tigra and Gutsman, enjoying their home life but also struggling with their relationship.

The scenes are bound together by the sounds of The Bluegrass Boogiemen. With dance, comedy and a serious note here and there, this upbeat and entertaining show has something for everybody. (Marinus de Ruiter) Melkweg Theater, 20.30, €9. Until 19 November.

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New flamenco festival fuses the old with the new without losing the wild spirit of the sun-baked south.

A KICK RIGHT IN THE DUENDE

By Monique Gruter Jan Peter Balkenende doesn’t have it and neither does George W Bush. Jimi Hendrix and Charles Bukowski had it but wasted it.

Isabella Rosselini and Jiri Kylian flourish in it, and Sofia Coppola is clocking onto it.

The It-factor here is a mysterious life force the Spanish call ‘duende’ or spirit. It’s that rapturous concoction of unexpected creative chemistry and energy which transpires between artist and public, and it invokes a potent, spellbinding interaction between the two.

‘Duende is typically associated with

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Thursday 9 November Classical: CKOV Hosanna & Philharmonia Amsterdam Performing Dvorák's Te Deum, Beethoven's Chorfantasie in F, and Gounod's Messe solennelle; conducted by Eric Kotterink. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €27.50 Festival: Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival A celebration of underground electronica, including everyone from Farley Jackmaster Funk to Extrawelt.

See Short List. Various locations and times, Rotterdam, €15/€22 day ticket, €55 festival pass Hiphop: Ice Cube Mainstream hiphop from the West Coast rap star and former member of NWA, who devotes more time these days to his acting career.

Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.00, €25 + membership

music, song or dance and sometimes it’s a romanticised idea, but it’s also a very personal feeling which carries a forceful truth to it. It can be silent or very ecstatic,’ says Ernestina van de Noort, the tireless vanguard launching the first Dutch Flamenco Biennale, along with Utrecht-based Maarten Rovers.

Charismatic and no-nonsense, Van de Noort, whose own love-hate relationship with flamenco occasionally forces her to abandon it in favour of salsa, teamed up with Rovers to programme an ambitious, spectacular four-day festival at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Bimhuis and at

Flamenco Biennale: Belén Maya Regarded as one of the most important representatives of the new wave of flamenco dancers in Spain, Maya will open the Netherlands’ first flamenco biennale with pure dancing abandon and lyricism. See article above.

Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €30 Jazz: Joe Lovano Nonet Completing the second night of a Bimhuis double-bill, legendary sax player Lovano and his band work through their new project titled Streams of Expression, drawing upon everything from the cool school to late-era Coltrane, offering a holistic take on jazz—present and future. Bimhuis, 21.00, €24 Rock: Le Club Suburbia Discordant noise punk from Montreal band Aids Wolf and Amsterdammers Eva Braun. OCCII, 21.00, €5 Singer-songwriter: The Jack Stafford Foundation Album launch party from the Amsterdam-based Brit.

For his new album Long Live Love, he’s been duetting with Belgian singer-songwriter Jasmine Wynants.

Together, with a selection of additional guests, tonight they’ll celebrate the joys of love. Melkweg, 21.00, €10 + membership Pop/Rock: 3voor12/Amsterdam: Streekmuziek Dance-friendly electro pop and rock from My Vanity

Rasa in Utrecht.

What was conceived nine months ago has unravelled into an event where traditional and contemporary flamenco elements fuse. ‘Literally,’ she says. ‘It’s like I’m having baby.’

Cante, baile, toque and palmas—song, dance, guitar and clapping—will be showcased alongside a bevy of films, lectures, debates, workshops, masterclasses, children’s programmes and an afterparty.

Over to Iberia: unpredictable, hot, good-humoured and loaded with contrasts, Spain’s flamenco world is buzzing with talent and new movement styles. Van de Noort’s selection criteria were based on ‘showing the Dutch public the best Spain had to offer. It was the right time to bring flamenco here and fuse the old with the avante-garde. I knew exactly who I wanted to ask.’

Belén Maya, daughter of flamenco heavyweights Mario Maya and Carmen Moya, belongs to the new flock of dancers.

She relies on the fundaments of flamenco but continues to investigate and perpetuate an individual style, stamping it with an unequalled femininity and grace, accompanied by flamenco’s primal songs, the seguiriyas and a soleá.

Another innovator of the new generation is the irrepressible Israel Gavin, who also works from the root, but revolutionises flamenco dance by making it personal, modern and audacious. ‘He stops abruptly at unexpected moments, he’s brusque and he has, well... some strange hand movements and poses. It’s as if he’s off-balance most of the time,’ says Van de Noort.

Isolating the exact origins of flamenco is as puzzling and mystifying as debunking which came first: the chicken or the egg.

What can be verified is that the root of flamenco is the cant, an art form which stems from the gypsy tribes of Rajasthan, Pakistan. Van de Noort explains: ‘These nomadic tribes wound their ways through Iran, Iraq, Egypt (birthplace of the cas-

Project and Garçon Taupe. Studio 80, 21.30, €3 Pop/Rock: Ben Folds Revive Last year European fans of quirky pianist and songwriter Ben Folds submitted a petition to the man begging for a proper European tour for once. As yet, it hasn’t happened, but this is an off-the-wall alternative in the form of Holland’s own Ben Folds tribute band. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.30, €5

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tanet), over to Africa and finally to Andalusia, Spain, where the gypsies mingled with the already-existing musical culture of the singing Arabs. It was a perfect melting pot.’

One specimen sure to stir up a little duende is flamenco guitarist Juan Manuel Cañizares, whose 10-year collaboration with master Paco de Lucia has developed a style of mind-boggling virtuosity and sensitivity in both performance and composition.

A cultural cross-over between one of the oldest flamenco singing styles called Qawwali, originally from North India and Pakistan, and performed by reigning master singer Faiz-ali-Faiz, will be fused with singer Duquende, a gypsy from Barcelona, the undisputed successor to the legendary Camarón de la Isla.

Will the old or the new style prevail?

‘You have to go back to the traditional gypsy families in small Spanish villages where the social nucleus exists,’ says Van de Noort. ‘Here’s where you find jam sessions, and where traditions are passed from father to son and mother to daughter. As long as this social cohesion is kept alive, only then can the new styles be prosperous.’

Flamenco fledglings and aficionados alike may unwittingly suspect you can only drink in authentic doses of duende in dank, smoky bars way past midnight with shots of whisky and jugs of red wine. But you’ll find that even in a contemporary, theatrical setting like Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, the force can be as life-affirming as ever.

Flamenco Biennale, until 12 November, various times, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010, Bimhuis, Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 and Rasa, Pauwstraat 13A, Utrecht, 030 2316040, various prices, www.flamencobiennale.nl

Friday 10 November Rock: Erwin Nyhoff & Flip the Switch Performing the repertoire of The Rolling Stones. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €7.50 Festival: Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival See Thursday and Short List. Various locations and times, Rotterdam, €15/€22 day ticket, €55 festival pass

Pop/Rock: The Bluetones Stars of Britpop in the mid’90s, this English guitar band have struggled to garner media attention in recent years. Still persisting thanks to their mere love of being a band, they’ve recently released a new self-titled disc. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €12.50 + membership

Classical: Lunch Concert With students from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Bethaniënklooster, 12.30, free

Rock: Junior Boys Bleeping Canadian rockers playing as part of the Noodlanding! night. See Short List.

Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.00, €9

Flamenco Biennale: Duquende & Faiz Ali Faiz The Dutch premiere of Qawwali-Flamenco, a vocal collaboration between the Pakistan singer Faiz Ali Faiz and Duquende, a gypsy from Barcelona. See article above.

Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €30

Americana: Wonderjam in Amsterdam Musicians from around the world love to come play Amsterdam, a sentiment echoed in this fourth Texan music showcase. Core performers over the next few days include Shelley King, D Brown Fisher and Carolyn Wonderland, but along the way, many surprises and special guests. Maloe Melo, €7.50

Pop: Lily Allen Modern urban pop with classic ska and 2Tone styling. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.15, sold out

Rock: Peeping Tom A chance to catch former Faith No More frontman and all-round noise terror should never be missed. And all the more with the Peeping Tom project in which Mike Patton works with the likes of human beatbox Rahzel and members of Dub Trio, a

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Guests on the album included Dan the Automator, Amon Tobin, Massive Attack and Norah Jones— whose appearance is dark, sexual and as far from her usual easy-listening repertoire as she can get. While not everyone can join the tour, the eclectic mix of rock, pop, hiphop and electro is fascinating. Melkweg, 20.30, €19 + membership Lounge/Jazz/Pop: Dox Family Night Feel-good grooves and comforting moods as Dox Records showcases its talented roster. Live bands include Benny Sings and Les Frogs while the Easy Aloha’s are on hand for easy-listening DJing. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €10 Jazz: Joost Lijbaart & Wolfert Brederode Two separate live sets in place this evening: drum and piano duo Joost Lijbaart & Wolfert Brederode bounce ideas around in their continually role-swapping rough sketches, while the Wolfert Brederode Quartet reel out their original, atmospheric and creative chamber jazz.

Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Electronica: Lilian Hak Progressive electronic pop in this release party for Hak’s new album Love’s Victory March. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Heavy: Made Out of Babies A ferocious musical hybrid of PJ Harvey, Jesus Lizard, Babes In Toyland and Big Black, this Brooklyn quartet are sure to rock you to dark places. OCCII, 21.30, €5

9-15 November 2006 act are far from stuck in the past. And if your idea of Finnish folk is gently plucked guitars and campfires, you’re barking up the wrong tree because this energetic ensemble are full of life, twisting time signatures and playing with ferocious melodies rarely heard in this part of the world. Melkweg, 21.00, €16 + membership Flamenco Biennale: Son de La Frontera This group from Moron de la Frontera is inspired by the ancient melodies of guitarist Diego de Gastor (1908-1973) from Moron, recreating the musical heritage of the grandmaster in their best local gypsy traditions. But they’re also not afraid to stretch the borders in the direction of jazz, pop and their main passion: Cuban music. See article on p. 11. Bimhuis, 22.00, €20 Hiphop: Dutch Soil Night A collection of cutting-edge Dutch hiphop acts. Tonight the outfits and MCs reinterpret well known tracks from the New York scene. Sugar Factory, 22.30, €10 Soul/Hiphop: Kindred Spirits Weekender With a live set from Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators. Paradiso, 23.00, €15 Americana: Wonderjam in Amsterdam (See Thursday) Maloe Melo, €7.50

Sunday 12 November

Hiphop: Saïan Supa Crew, Promoe A celebration of European hiphop with the award-winning French hiphop collective. Joining them this evening is Swedish rapper Promoe, the frontman of Looptroop.

Melkweg, 22.00, €17 + membership

Opera: Die Zauberflöte A grand performance of Mozart’s popular Magic Flute. Starring famous German soprano Katarzyna Dondalska, this interpretation is taking a contemporary multimedia approach, blending live performance with spectacular staging and video backing. RAI, 14.15, €45-€90

Soul/Hiphop: Kindred Spirits Weekender Live sets from ESG, Theo Parrish, Flowriders and Nodd Navigators. See article on p. 13. Paradiso, 23.00, €15

Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Saturday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €30

Americana: Wonderjam in Amsterdam (See Thursday) Maloe Melo, €7.50

Saturday 11 November Festival: Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival See Thursday and Short List. Various locations and times, Rotterdam, €15/€22 day ticket, €55 festival pass Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Performing excerpts from the opera Peer Gynt with music

by Grieg and Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.3 in A; conducted by Alexander Vedernikov. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €30 Classical: Polo de Haas Performing Ravel’s La Valse and Boléro, pianist Haas is joined by guests Tomoko Mukaiyama, Jan Rokyta, Zoumana Diarra and Greetje Bijma. Beurs van Berlage, 20.15, €13.50 Classical: Amsterdam Sinfonietta Performing a Russian programme, with selected works by Pyotr and Boris Tchaikovsky and Chari Nurymov; conducted by David Geringas. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25 Opera: Curlew River A Benjamin Britten special with an operatic performance of Curlew River, the first of his three Church Parables, originally adapted from Japanese Noh Theatre. The Doelen Ensemble provides the musical accompaniment, while soloists and a small male vocal ensemble present the story in the role of monks. Dominicuskerk, 20.30, €31 Pop/Rock: Subbacultcha With a CD presentation from new wave band Theux and lo-fi acoustic pop from Eilander. Bitterzoet, 20.30, €5

Classical: De Van Swieten Society Performing works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Haydn, Boccherini and Mozart. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €15 Flamenco Biennale: Cañizares Flamenco Trio One of the most important exponents of the contemporary flamenco guitar, this marks the first Dutch performance of Juan Manuel Cañizares. See article on p. 11.

Bimhuis, 15.00, €20 Classical: Winterreise Schubert’s melancholic masterpiece, as performed by Ronald Aijtink and Maarten Hillenius. Bethaniënklooster, 20.00, €15 Funk: Fishbone A heady mix of funk, ska, rock and hardcore. Patronaat, Haarlem, 20.30, €15 Jazz: K-oZ Collective Awkward to pigeonhole, the Collective blends interpretations of rarely heard jazz tunes along with hiphop beats and accompaniment from violin and bass. Unique but not perplexing—they quickly get your feet tapping and head bobbing. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €8.50 Flamenco Biennale: Benavent, Pardo, Di Geraldo Trio Joined by guitarist and vocalist Diego Carrasco, this powerful trio specialise in flamenco fusion, where traditional rhythms are forced open with a swing and land back in a buleria or tango. See article on p. 11.

Bimhuis, 21.30, €20 Punk: Iva Nova Women’s collective from St Petersburg who mix traditional Slavic music with the spirit and energy of punk. Plus, their dashes of humour maintain audience interest. Patronaat, Haarlem, 22.00, free

Monday 13 November Konrad Koselleck Big Band Rocking out in their home away from home, the big band welcomes vocalist Deborah J Carter into their fold tonight. With one of the most dynamic jazz vocalists around at their disposal, anything is possible. Sugar Factory, 20.00, €9 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Saturday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €30

Sufjan Stevens Singer-songwriter: Sufjan Stevens Fans already hold tickets or are in the midst of a panicked online bidding furore. Non-fans do not read Pitchfork or have tired of the kumbahyah prog rock disguised as edgy, mystical avant-folk. But still, everyone wants a piece of him. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, sold out Experimental: 4xLive Pounding rock and electro from Zea, Stanley Kubi (F), DJ Patex vs Pascal Fuhlbrugge (DE) and Experimental Dental School (US). OCCII, 21.00, €6 Heavy: Rocken aan het IJ Sets from Jinx, The Name, Cardamon, Try Drowning and Return to Reason. JC De Valk, 21.00, €7 Experimental: Värttinä They may have been performing for more than 20 years, but this Finnish folk

Rock: Juliette and the Licks Film star Juliette Lewis’ rock ’n’ roll sideshow. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €14 + membership B-3 Hammond-driven soul jazz, as organist Rob Mostert and his band launch their new album B-Loose.

Bimhuis, 21.00, €10 Experimental: DNK: Amsterdam Electro-acoustic jam session. Guests tonight include Olaf Rupp, Frode Gjerstad, Morten J Olsen and Klankschap. OT301, 21.00, €4 Jazz: Richard Bona The New York-rooted bassist fuses together the sounds of contemporary American jazz with the rhythms and traditions of his native Cameroon. Melkweg, 21.00, €18 + membership Pop/Rock: Subbacultcha Featuring sets from Winterjong (hiphop/poetry), The Bullfight (brooding pop) and Sandels of Majesty (frantic rock). Bitterzoet, 21.00, €5

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Tuesday 14 November Classical: Fauré Kwartet Young German quartet performing works by Mendelssohn, Fauré and Schumann.

Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €30

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Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Saturday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €30

Thursday 9 November

Pop: Bauer & Het Metropole Orkest Known for their string-laden ’60s-style twee pop, the Dutch duo up the stakes in this release party for The Bauer Melody for 2006, with a little help from the Metropole Orkest and singers from the Nederlands Kamerkoor. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €15 + membership Pop/Rock: I Am Kloot Like peers PJ Harvey and Pulp, the twisted and witty acoustic outfit from Manchester have just released a compilation of their Peel Sessions, recorded for the late DJ. Support from one half of The Posies, Jon Auer. Melkweg, 20.30, €14 + membership

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Electrorated Live electronica and cutting-edge vinyl tracks. With Revolving Eyes, Pablo Lamberti and the Groove Addicts. Winston Kingdom, 20.00-03.00, €5 JeWeet HoeWeDoen Underground hiphop special with a theme of Europe vs USA. Bitterzoet, 21.00-late, €5 Circus Bezerkus Arthouse electro fun with the David Gilmour Girls. Club 8, 22.00-03.00, €5 Poptrash Three decades’ worth of rock, electro and hiphop with The Punchout DJs. Melkweg, 23.00, €4 Vreemd Outlandish electro and performance with DJs Jerome, Shiva, Richard Parker, VJ Vingerverf and performer Kelly Hirina. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €7.50

Friday 10 November Discocult A white-hot mix of local and international electronica, with a distinct breakbeat bias. Along the way enjoy a mix of funk, jazz, electro, disco, Latin, swing, bossa, hiphop and glam rock—as you’ve never heard them before. Sugar Factory, 01.00-05.00, €9 301=7 OT301 is celebrating its seventh birthday! See Short List. OT301, 21.00-05.00, €7 Lisa Germano Singer-songwriter: Lisa Germano Melancholic and haunting works from violinist/pianist Germano. Over the years she’s worked with a host of bands and musicians: Eels, Neil Finn, David Bowie and Giant Sand, to name just a few. But through it all, she’s maintained a delightfully morose, if unnecessarily understated, solo career. Patronaat, Haarlem, 20.30, €12.50 Singer-songwriter: Sean Lennon Sappy pop from the famous son, who’s just released an album titled Friendly Fire. Melkweg, 21.00, €15 + membership Rock: The Leather Uppers Trashy fun with the debonaire Canadian gonzo party rockers. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5

Groundsound Thumping drum ’n’ bass and jungle tunes from Terminal State/Fire DJ (UK), DJ Loco and Iguana b2b Spud (UK). Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €6 Rauw Techno favourites with Goose, Erol Alkan and Joost van Bellen. 11, 22.00-04.00, €15 Techlab With DJ Steve Mamman. Club NL, 22.0004.00, €5 eRRorKREW Cunning selections of acid, house, techno, IDM, soul and breaks from the winners of the recent Prix de Nuit. Stubnitz, 22.00-05.00, €9 Linke Soep Minimal and electro sounds with DJs Aron Friedman, Boris Werner, etc. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €10

Art-funking sisters from the Bronx created beats that still move feet today.

And they’re still keeping it in the family.

ESG: EMERALD/ SAPPHIRE/SOLID GOLD

Parkroom Contrasting electro with DJs Eva Maria, Lupe and Bijker. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €7

By Nina Schein

Experimental: k-Tsjoem—Transformed Dreams Evening Surf punk from Mexican Holiday, drum ’n’ bass blues from Two Dogs and hardcore, ragga and dubstep from Atiq. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €6 + membership

The Basement An afterparty to the Saïan Supa Crew gig, so the hiphop beats will be bouncing. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €15 + membership

Wednesday 15 November

The Freshest Kids The only place to catch the new crop of young DJs. You don’t need big names to throw a killer party. Sugar Factory, 01.00-05.00, €8.50

The Kindred Spirits weekender is just around the bend, and this year they’ve got a delightful line-up packed with the usual soulful grooves that punters just can’t get enough of. There is no doubt that the jewel of the weekend will be none other than the South Bronx-bred ensemble ESG (Emerald, Sapphire and Gold). The band is made up of three sisters, whose talent for matching mood and unique polyrhythms has landed them in one of the most respected positions in music today. Not only were they one of the most sampled bands during the birth of hiphop, but they also remain a more direct influence on such currently acclaimed acts as LCD Soundsystem and Peaches.

Renee, Valerie and Marie Scroggins formed ESG in 1979 in South Bronx, of which Renee said: ‘It helped as far as developing our sound. We lived in a Hispanic area in the Bronx, so there was music everywhere.’ Creating music was the method their mother used to keep them off the streets and out of trouble.

She even hoped that would segue into a successful career in music but without ever really expecting it.

Knowing that siblings compete with each other whether they’re making music or not, it’s a real achievement that these sisters have not only toughed it out together in the cut-throat music business, but also added Renee’s daughter Nicole, and Valerie’s daughter Chiselle, over the years. Although Renee says, ‘family is a pain in the ass, but they’re always there,’ keeping it in the family could well have been ESG’s secret behind their longevity.

The band’s highly original beats and rhythms are respected among other

Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performing Dvorák’s Symphony No.9 in E and Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps; conducted by Mariss Jansons.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €52.50

Saturday 11 November

Amsterdam Index Live The launch party for the annual culture bible. See Short List. Overhoeks / Shellkantine, 21.00-02.00, €12.50

Reggae/Dancehall: Fire Time With Jah Fire. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €7

Plan West Rock, hiphop, electro...Anything goes.

Club 8, 21.00-04.00, €6

Reggae/Dancehall: Gregory Isaacs Classic Jamaican reggae from the prolific star. Support from Live Wyya and Yahyouth. Melkweg, 21.00, €23 + membership

301=7 The birthday party continues. See Short List.

OT301, 21.00-05.00, €7

Jazz: International Danish Jazz Launch Two sets from Danish jazz ensembles: saxophonist Lotte Anker joins Duo Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver to explore the wild, poetic side of musical communication, while the Anderskov Accident invites improvisations that mix Zappa style arrangements with Miles Davis grooves.

Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Sneakerz With Fedde Le Grand, Lucien Foort, Philip Young and Flexican. Panama, 22.00-04.00, €15 Vonk Hard soul and funk house with DJs Born to Funk, Steven Quarr (Hed Kandi) and more. Hotel Arena, 22.00-04.00, €20 Berlin Underground Contemporary dance sounds with Fumiya Tanaka, Fuckpony, Heartz4 and and Falko Brocksieper and Ramchez & Pep. BG, 22.00-05.00, €17 House of Soul? A new club night meant to bring the soul back to music. As well as the DJ selection, the Carmen Sars Quartet will also be performing live. Studio 80, 22.00-05.00, €7.50

Sunday 12 November Stijn Electronica: Stijn Saucy electro pop from the mad Belgian. Melkweg, 21.00, €11 + membership Jazz: TryTone Festival Experimental jazz concepts and projects, featuring sets from international trio ‰tre%, electro-jazz duo Herautronique and Atos. Zaal 100, 21.00, €4 Pop/Rock: Stuurbaard Bakkebaard & Fokofpolisiekar Renowned locally for their quirky rock ’n’ roll and storytelling, tonight Stuurbaard Bakkebaard welcome onstage the raw and energetic outfit Fokofpolisiekar, with whom they previously toured the latter’s native South Africa. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €5

WickedJazzsounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8.50

Tuesday 14 November Club Havana Contemporary Cuban Jazz with the Ramón Valle Quartet and DJ Steven de Peven. Bitterzoet, 20.00-03.00, €5

Wednesday 15 November Pop! An intoxicating mix of cocktails and pop music.

Sugar Factory, 22.00-04.00, €5

musicians across every genre: jazz, R&B, hiphop, you name it. ESG’s sound—particularly the seminal early 1980s art-funk track ‘UFO’—has been heavily sampled by artists including the Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan and TLC, but originally the band were never paid or credited for use of their music. ‘It was annoying,’ says Renee about the whole debacle, which resulted in 1992’s vinyl complaint Sample Credits Don’t Pay Our Bills.

‘Everything is settled now and we got credit for ninety percent of what was sampled. Now people ask before they sample us.’

After a roller coaster ride in the music industry, ESG are ready to take the business on by storm again, with their new album Keep On Moving and a worldwide tour. ‘It’s been a busy year, but we’re having a good time and we’re having fun.’

Although there are a lot of new genres that have been introduced to the music scene since ESG started, they pose no threat to the family’s one-of-a-kind sound.

‘I don’t feel like we’re competing at all.

Everyone has their own space to be creative so we don’t have to worry about new commercial acts.’

This weekend will be ESG’s first appearance in Amsterdam. When asked about how they think audiences here will respond to their music, Renee states: ‘Once we get there, I think everyone will have fun.’ If you’re looking to have fun and enjoy the cool sounds of the original art-funk band, check out the Scroggins sisters this weekend.

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GAY& LESBIAN Thursday 9 November CliQue Dancing for free on with DJ No5 spinning electro, ’80s pop and funky techno, with a fashion catwalk and lounge. Happy hour from 01.00 to 02.00. Exit, 00.00-04.00, free Pimp My Drink Make it a double for just €1 extra.

PRIK, Tues-Thur 16.00-01.00, Fri-Sat 16.00-03.00, free

Friday 10 November Vrouwenavond Loads of lesbian crammed in with their male friends. Café Sappho, 21.00-late, free Black Box With DJs Lava (Get Physical Music), Shiva (Vreemd, Soulrock), Martijn (eXcessiveMachine) and Toon and VJ Pixelpimp. Studio 80, 22.00-05.00, €7 Twisted Tunes Two DJs do the twisting tonight: Sprayboy between 22.00-00.30 and Robbert between 00.30-03.00. PRIK, Tues-Thur 16.00-01.00, Fri-Sat 16.00-03.00, free

tion. Set in a dreamlike world, the young woman is caught somewhere on the edge of death and dreams.

In English. Crea Theater, 20.30, €14 Dance: Morgenster Duda Paiva shows us what happens when a good puppet turns bad. Melkweg Theater, 20.30, €9 Music/Theatre: Made in da Shade An adaptation of the novel by hiphop poet Sapphire. In Dutch. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €10

Friday 10 November Theatre: Scènes uit een huwelijk A stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s mini-series/film Scenes From a Marriage, about a couple whose relationship slowly disintegrates into divorce. Directed by Ivo van Hove, the epic is played out over four hours, so be careful not to go in an emotionally raw state or you may leave in pieces. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, 19.30, €25 Music/Theatre: Kerala Kalamandalam Classical dance-drama originating in Kerala, and rooted in Hindu mythology and contains a unique combination of literature, music, painting, acting and dance. KIT Tropentheater, 20.00, €20 Dance: Morgenster (See Thursday) Melkweg Theater, 20.30, €9 Music/Theatre: Made in da Shade (See Thursday) Bitterzoet, 21.00, €10 Festival: Black Magic Woman Festival Ten days of soul and sisterhood. See Short List. Various locations, times and prices

Saturday 11 November Club Trash Fetish party from the people who bring you the Cockring. Strict dress code of leather, rubber, uniform, army, skin, sportswear. Party Centrum van Galen, 22.00-04.00, €20

Sunday 12 November Double Bubble Happy Hour Always-busy happy hour drinks and DJ No5 playing dance classics, TV theme tunes, Nederpop and disco. April, 18.00-20.00, free

Saturday 11 November Theatre: Scènes uit een huwelijk (See Friday) Stadsschouwburg, 19.30, €25 Dance: Morgenster (See Thursday) Melkweg Theater, 20.30, €9 Music/Theatre: Made in da Shade (See Thursday) Bitterzoet, 21.00, €10 Festival: Black Magic Woman Festival See Friday and Short List. Various locations, times and prices

Glamour Karaoke Exercise your show-off gene and belt out Eurovision hits of yesteryear to an appreciative audience. Amstel Taveerne, 20.00, free

Sunday 12 November

Live Jazz en Soul Smooth wind-down to the weekend with Sophie and Pieter. Soho, 20.30, free

Theatre: Scènes uit een Huwelijk (See Friday) Stadsschouwburg, 16.00, €25

Sweet Sin Sunday Arabic disco night in collaboration with Stichting Habibi Ana. At 19.00 there’s a couscous meal for €12.50 and part of the profits go to the charity (reserve a place by emailing couscous@prikamsterdam.nl). The disco-dancing (free) begins at 20.00.

PRIK, Tues-Thur 16.00-01.00, Fri-Sat 16.00-03.00,

Festival: Black Magic Woman Festival See Friday and Short List. Various locations, times and prices

Tuesday 14 November Movie Snack Night Tonight’s film is Neil Jordan’s transsexual IRA drama The Crying Game. PRIK, TuesThur 16.00-01.00, Fri-Sat 16.00-03.00, free

Monday 13 November Theatre: Scènes uit een Huwelijk (See Friday) Stadsschouwburg, 19.30, €25 Festival: Black Magic Woman Festival See Friday and Short List. Various locations, times and prices

Tuesday 14 November Music/Theatre: De Dienstmeid Zerline An intimate musical by Orkater, based on a chapter from Hermann Broch’s 1950 novel The Guiltless. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, 20.30, €16.50 Performance: Breakin’ Walls All-round performance festival that’s made for youngsters by youngsters, across Frascati, De Brakke Grond, De Engelenbak and Het Compagnietheater. Expect national and international dance, live music, theatre, stand-up comedy, spoken word, art and club nights. See www.breakinwalls.nl. In Dutch. Various locations, times and prices Festival: Black Magic Woman Festival See Friday and Short List. Various locations, times and prices

Wednesday 15 November Theatre: Scènes uit een huwelijk (See Friday) Stadsschouwburg, 19.30, €25 Kerala Kalamandalam, see Stage Friday

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Theatre: Gutsman Superman’s clumsy counterpart storms the stage. See Short List. Melkweg Theater, 20.30, €9 until Sunday 19 November Comedy: Greg Shapiro’s Going Dutch From Boom Chicago, Shapiro unveils his long-awaited solo show.

Embracing audience interaction, songs and monologues, the comedian explores what it means to be a Dutch-American citizen. In English. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €10

Thursday 9 November

Performance: Breakin’ Walls (See Tuesday) Various locations, times and prices

Theatre: A Crime in Copacabana Adolescent Sonia struggles with her changing body and sexual matura-

Festival: Black Magic Woman Festival See Friday and Short List. Various locations, times and prices

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ART Opening 100 Girls on Cheap Paper Berlin-based graphic designer and illustrator Tina Berning takes a break from the glossy mags to present the other side of fashion magazine idealism in her 100 drawings of women on very, very cheap paper. The Gallery Donkersloot (Daily 12.30-00.00), opens Thursday, closing Sunday 13th Joop Swart Masterclass: ‘Risk’ The best of the participants from the prestigious World Press Photo masterclass. See Short List. Foam (Sun-Wed 10.0017.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 7 January 2007 Facts, Fictions and Stories The first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by the South African photographers Adam Broomberg (1970) and Oliver Chanarin (1971) featuring more than 70 large photos. Their most recent work, Chicago (2006), shows various aspects of the war and propaganda in Israel, while the series Mr. Mkhize’s Portrait (2004) casts a glance at South Africa 10 years after the end of apartheid. Stedelijk Museum CS (Fri-Wed 10.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 25 February 2007 Susanne Boger As part of OT301’s birthday celebrations, for two evenings you can view creative objects and designs by Boger. OT301 (Fri, Sat 18.00-22.00), opens Friday, closing Saturday The ‘Jewish’ Rembrandt In recent centuries a romantic myth has developed suggesting Rembrandt had a special bond with Jews. He was supposedly a good friend of the famous philosopher Spinoza and the outstanding rabbi Menasse ben Israel. Some people even discovered echoes of Jewish mysticism in his paintings and references to Judaism. This exhibition will attempt to unravel this myth. Joods Historisch Museum (daily 11.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 4 February 2007 David Blackmore: Detox A photography documentary about the usage of blue UV lighting in semi-public spaces, such as public toilets. While the artist was drawn to the vibrancy of these vivid azure spaces, which provide a compelling sensation of calm and tranquility, it’s in stark contrast to their original intent block intravenous drug abuse. Gallery Vassie (Tues-Sat 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 9 December De Letters van Sinterklaas It’s time to get festive and learn about the edible traditions of Sinterklaas. Letter designer Gerard Unger explores the roots and developments of such tasty treats over the years.

Amstelkring (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 6 December French Passion During the early 20th century, private collectors in the Netherlands acquired many masterpieces by painters including Monet, Daubigny, Cézanne and other famed French artists. This exhibition provides an overview of the pieces united at the time, and explains how works from the various periods of the 19th-century French art world ultimately found a home here to later became part of the Dutch Collection. Centraal Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), Utrecht, opens Saturday, until 11 March 2007 Krijn de Koning in the Zuidas Working with Virtueel Museum Zuidas, this site-specific installation by De Koning includes his proposals, drawings and maquettes for transforming uninteresting sites into pleasant entrances to the Zuidas area. Platform 21 (Thur-Sun 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 3 December Lu Luo Recent paintings and works on paper. Chinese artist Lu Luo draws inspiration from traditional Chinese theatre and opera, recreating the highly-detailed and colourful costumes in two dimensions with materials such as rice paper, traditional prints, ink and acrylic paints. Galerie Krijger + Katwijk (Wed-Sat 12.0018.00), opens Saturday, until 16 December Pablo Pijnappel Photography. Galerie Juliette Jongma (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00, first Sun of month 14.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 23 December Self-Deception A light installation by Marc Schoneveld. De Kijkkasten (Daily), opens Sunday, until 13 December

Museums Fly Me to the Moon For once not taking itself too seriously, the Rijksmuseum presents one of its oldest and previously unseen items, a moon rock. This allows Rotterdam art duo Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol to pose some unusual questions, such as: will they open a branch of the museum on the moon? Rijksmuseum (Daily 09.00-18.00), until 19 November

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Janet Cardiff: Forty Part Motet An adaptation of Spem in Alium nunquam habui by the English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis, this impressive 40 speaker sound sculpture by the acclaimed Canadian artist is fresh from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and will dazzle your ears and mind wherever you position yourself. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.0017.00), until 19 November Hellen van Meene Following up her photographic portrait series of teenagers—most of whom she already knew from her own surroundings—Van Meene spent four years travelling to Japan, England, Germany, Latvia and Russia to find new models for portraits. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 26 November Docking Station A new project space for contemporary art which will house a fresh exhibition every five weeks. Californian-born and London-based artist Daria Martin will inaugurate the space with her film installations ‘In the Palace’ and ‘Wintergarden’, paying particular homage to the idealistic avant-garde art and architecture of the 20th century. Stedelijk Museum CS (Fri-Wed 10.00-18.00), until 26 November Koninklijke Prijs The annual arts prize sponsored by the Royal Family is back. This year the four artists whose paintings have made it through to the final are Antione Berghs, Wouter Kalis, Lucy Stein and Anneke Wilbrink. Gemeentemuseum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), Den Haag, until 3 December Tino Sehgal A presentation of recent acquisition Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things, a live performance piece. Stedelijk Museum CS (Fri-Wed 10.00-18.00), until 10 December Trent Parke Considered one of the most innovative and challenging young urban photographers of his generation, Parke now moves into colour. The exhibition presents an exciting opportunity to see how the Australian artist best known for his black-and-white images responds to a more pigmented view of the world. Foam (Sun-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.0021.00), until 10 December Alex Kals: Les Quartiers Nord de Marseille Inspired

by French hiphop music, Alex Kals’ fascination with Marseille’s dangerous northern suburbs resulted in a photographic series about youths living in a hopeless situation, where crime often seems the only way out.

Foam (Sun-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 14 December Rembrandt’s Drawings: The Observer Part two of this study of Rembrandt’s drawings, showing how he viewed the world around him and recorded it in ink and sketches. Rijksmuseum (Daily 09.00-18.00), until 31 December Inside Iran An overview of Iranian painter Khosrow Hassanzadeh, whose works focus on political and social developments in his home country, and demonstrate a critical approach towards both Iranian state propaganda and Western prejudices about the Muslim world. Tropenmuseum (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 7 January 2007 Spectacular City: Photographing the Future Extraordinary photographs exploring the beauty and strangeness of our urban reality. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 7 January 2007 Night Garden This exhibition in the form of a sub-technical indoor garden, links new technology, nature, contemporary art and its consumption. Visitors can expect to be transformed into a cybernetic nocturnal animal, build robots at a garden robot production stu-

dio, wander through a digital alter-garden, learn the science of mating calls, experience psycho-chemical garden furniture and eat at a restaurant prototype that serves over 30 sorts of sprouted micro-greens. Mediamatic (Thur-Sun 18.00-23.00), until 7 January 2007 KK Outlet To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Amsterdam communication agency KesselsKramer, the Kunsthal is presenting a retrospective of the agency’s self-willed works. With audacious and contrary advertising campaigns using numerous media channels, KesselsKramer has acquired an excellent reputation since it was established in 1996. Kunsthal (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 14 January 2007 Le Nouveau Siècle Work of contemporary artists inspired by and presented in the stately mansion on Keizersgracht. Museum van Loon (Wed-Mon 11.0017.00), until 15 January 2007 Picasso: Master of Line In 1930, the world-famous artist began working on a series of prints commissioned by the Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard. The series spans seven years and is one of the key works of Picasso’s oeuvre. Here the complete set of 100 works, known as the Vollard Suite, can be seen in the Netherlands for the first time. CoBrA Museum (TuesSun 11.00-17.00), until 4 February 2007 Collectors in St Petersburg A celebration of the cosmopolitan nature of early 20th-century St Petersburg, when the city was so prosperous that its art scene flourished and expansive collections were born. This exhibition introduces four key collectors from the period, each with their own preference for a particular school, country or period, be it ‘old masters’ or contemporary art from the mid-19th century.

Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 11 March 2007

Galleries Loneliness, boredom, misery, disgust, dead as a doornail. Solution: socialize also with farmers and workers. Anthropomorphic plastic sculptures by Theo Schepens. De Praktijk (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), closing Saturday Martina Klein New paintings. Slewe Gallery (Tues-Sat 14.00-17.00), closing Saturday The Kurds of Iraq Photographs by Michiel Hegener.

Ruigoord, closing Sunday Etiquette, Erasmus & Europa A study of etiquette and Western European social manners via texts by Erasmus and other books of humanitarian traditions. Artist Stefan Yordanov illustrates a number of these etiquette rules via a contrast of decent, upstanding members of the community and deviant figures and freaks. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday InTransit Five artists transform the exhibition space into a stopover place, highlighting how nowadays the destination is typically more important than the journey. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday Eigen Kleur Artists collective Stuwing presents paintings, drawings, photographs, pottery, textiles and installations on the theme of ‘own colour’. Loods 6 (Daily 12.00-18.00), closing Sunday DistrictQ #3—Respect the Architect An international exhibition about the interaction of artists with urban space and the elements. Works on show are by South African film-maker Aryan Kaganof, conceptual artist Dimitri Madimin, painter David Moir, installation artist Leonard van Munster, painter Greg Plein and Vernon Reid. Loods 6 Mon-Sun 12.00-16.00, closing Sunday

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Kubakleden uit Congo Pieces from the AfrikaTextiel collection. Lloyd Hotel (Daily), closing Monday Japan Presentation of works by seven Japanese artists. Galerie De Witte Voet (Wed-Sat 12.00-17.00), closing Wednesday Mixed Works New works by fine arts painters Lennaart Allan, Peter Dammers and Marjolein van Doorenmaalen, and sculptors Jaap Burger and Mirese Mudde. Kunstkerk (Thur 17.00-20.00, Sat, Sun 14.0019.00), closing Thursday Iris Kensmil: The Great March Recent paintings.

Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten-d’Eendt (Thur-Sat 11.0018.00), until 18 November Judith Rosema & Ingrid Simons: Silent Witness Playful paintings by Rosema and dark, busy drawings

by Simons. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 18 November Last Lives in the Universe Inspired by the remarkable Thai movie Last Life in the Universe from 2003, the contemporary artists featured in this exhibition are all talking about huge, overarching ideas, global politics and power games, but from a very intimate perspective. Participants include François Bucher, Rosa Barba, Claire Harvey, Sung Hwan Kim, Katya Sander and Nicholas Spratt. SMART Project Space (Wed-Sat 12.0018.00), until 18 November Lukasz Skapski: Machines Using 150 pictures and filmed interviews, Krakow-based artist Lukasz Skapski documents Polish farmers and the bizarre tractors they have constructed for themselves by using parts of different vehicles. Galerie Fons Welters (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 18 November Get Going! An exhibition of drawings by Roland Sohier. During most opening hours, the artist will also be working on a site-specific mural. Artspace Witzenhausen (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 18 November Pass the Word—Pass the Drawing There’s never been a single corner of the still fairly new Horse Move Project that could be described as stuffy. In their latest exhibition, the project people have invited everyone to take part by sending in drawings of self-selected themes. Submissions are now closed and the results are public. Horse Move Project (Fri-Sun 14.00-20.00), until 19 November As Hard As it Can Get Spanish artist Carlos Aires presents a series of photos representing a reality that only exists on screens or in images. De Brakke Grond (Mon 10.00-18.00, Tues-Fri 10.00-20.30, Sat 13.00-20.30, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 19 November Group Show Despite the title, this is really a solo exhibition showcasing old and new works from Amsterdam Weekly contributor Willum Geerts. Expect installations, paintings, photography and other creative outlets. Nieuwe Vide (Thur-Sun 14.00-17.00), Haarlem, until 19 November Unknown Borders New paintings by Johan de Jonge. Galerie Smits (Wed-Sat 13.30-17.30), until 22 November

creative ways to visually transform the mundane into a new entity. OUTLINE (Thur-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 25 November Julia Münstermann: Walking on Air New paintings by the German artist, whose pictures of cityscapes by night often appear strange and unreal. Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries (Wed-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 26 November Bob Bronshoff: Mijn Beste Vriend Photographer Bob Bronshoff and journalist René Sommer present their portraits about friendship. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), until 26 November Northwest Video works by four young British females: Maud Haya-Baviera, Rose Butler, Katy Woods and Katie Davies. Consortium (Fri-Sun 14.00-18.00), until 28 November Claudia Hek Posters, paintings, rock ’n’ roll visions, realistic portraiture and low-brow themes that appeal to garage bands the world over. Cut the Crap (Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11.00-19.00, Thur 11.00-21.00), until 28 November Finger Licking Good Abstract paintings and objects

by Victor Lerhard, who claims to be Amsterdam’s only working artist using only fingers, no brushes—outside of the kindergarten anyway. Artiplus Gallery (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.30, Sat 10.00-17.00), until 2 December Leslie Browne: Rise Reggae-inspired paintings and photos. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery (Wed-Sat 14.0018.00), until 3 December Transitions Part two in the series De Kleur van Iran.

Photography by Hengame Golestan, who was one of the first female photographers in the country, and Newsha Tavkolian from the new generation of Iranian photographers. De Levante (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.30), until 10 December Oud-West vanuit de lucht Aerial photography of Amsterdam Oud-West by Mirande Phernambucq. The images are displayed in windows around Bellamyplein, remaining lit until midnight. Bellamyplein (Daily), until 12 December Can’t Join Us A photographic portrayal of the dreamworld of two Majorettes. Witte de Withstraat 89 (Wed 13.00-17.00), until 13 December Verkiezingen Preceding this month’s cabinet elections, three photographers present their view on media coverage of election campaigns, the issue of objectivity in political reporting and the role of photography. Fotogram (Mon-Fri 10.00-21.00, Sat 10.00-16.00), until 13 December Militant Bourgeois: An Existentialist Retreat Following his experiments last June, Chris Evans is back to present the second part of his Militant Bourgeois concept, this time on a patch of land in the middle of a dual-carriageway road. The aim? To question whether subsidised art can be worthwhile. See www.smba.nl.

Transformatorweg, until 15 December Transformerhouses: Urban Renewal in the Indische Buurt This exhibition comes as a response to the current urban renewal taking place in the Indische Buurt, presenting research into urban transformations and six projects by artists and architects. 66 East (FriSun 14.00-18.00), until 16 December Natural Habitat Artists explore the boundaries between nature, culture and technology. What happens if the three come together? Is the difference between nature and technology still recognisable or do they merge into each other? Contributing groups and artists include Boredom Research, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Erwin Driessens, Maria Verstappen, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, among others. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 December

Marlene Dumas Marlene Dumas: Man Kind A series of new paintings and drawings, with portraits of men and a skull.

Galerie Paul Andriesse (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00), until 25 November Nik Christensen Recent works by the Brooklyn/Amsterdam-based artist. The central theme of his life-size drawings is the human struggle against the forces of nature. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 25 November falkeandcharlotte A collaborative project launched by Falke Pisano and Charlotte Moth (UK) uniting international artists to present individual works and share what they love most. Opening the series are pieces by Benoît Maire and Clunie Read. Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 25 November Laura Medler: Continuum Experimental photography from the English artist, using analogue technology in

Exhibition #3 Drawings and mural paintings by Elena Davidovich (Belarus), prints, drawings and live art by Dick Tuinder (US), mural drawings by Jantien Jongsma and floor sculptures by Wouter Klein Velderman. W139 (Tues-Sun 13.00 -19.00), until 17 December Le Dernier Cri Exclusive silkscreen prints from Pakito Bolino, Ota Keita, Reinhard Schneibner, Fredox, Stumead and around 40 other graphic designers associated with the Marseille group. Het Illuseum (Sat, Sun 15.00-20.00), until 21 December Raw Footage/Scapegoats A solo exhibition by Groningse multimedia artist Aernout Mik, this two-part video installation focuses on the experience and depiction of war, showing how normality and extremity become interwoven in wartime situations. bak (Wed-Sat 12.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), Utrecht, until 24 December ArtOlive Offline #5 A collection of paintings and bronze sculptures by Monica Rotgans in a series titled Toros y Tierras. ArtOlive (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 5 January 2007

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EVENTS Thursday 9 November Poetry/Music: The Open Stanza A mishmash-up of poetry, spoken word, music and performance. Offering an international collection of literary guests, performers tonight include local star Donald Gardner, American poet Heather Hartley, Boris de Jong, Dusty Stray and host, Australian poet Prue Duggan. In English and Dutch. Sugar Factory, 19.00, €5

Friday 10 November Art/Walk: Vlucht door De Baarsjes A guided tour of the display cases and windows of the De Witte Ruijter Project, along Admiraal de Ruijterweg and Witte de Withstraat, where night photos of De Baarsjes can be viewed. Art Centre, 20.00, free Party: Nutopia Tombola Gather round the Blijburg fireplace for an evening of reggaeton, R&B, bachata, electro and hiphop. Besides the music, there’ll be waves of games, live performance, tarot, food and more. Blijburg, 20.00-late, €8, €5 after 22.00 Discussion: Het Grote Weekend van de Gelijkheid Ten days before the country heads to the polls, De Balie has set aside a full weekend programme examining equality in modern society.

Comprising the core of the schedule are the debates and lectures, but the action is pretty much non-stop, with film screenings, theatre performances and many other artistic comments on (in)equality. And where else can you pose the question ‘Waarom is Amsterdam Weekly beter dan andere kranten?’. See www.debalie.nl and article on p. 6. Mainly in Dutch.

De Balie, from 19.00, €3 for debates, various prices for additional activities

Saturday 11 November Discussion: Lekkere Hapjes Are the gyrating females so often found in music videos being exploited? And does the real Amsterdam youth aspire to live the lives they see in three-minute clips? In this discussion, youngsters are invited to speak up. Guests include journalists Annette de Vries and Myrthe Hilkens, film-maker Menna Laura Meijer, rappers and video directors, while Raymzter will be performing his new track ‘Vrouw of Bitch’. In Dutch. Imagine IC, 15.00, free Multidisciplinary: Phantasmagoria Multidiscplinary gothic mash-up presented by Villa Diodati. See Short List. Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 167, 19.00-04.00, €6 Multimedia: Ad!dictlab A tribute to the creative minds that succeed in creating parallel worlds and virtual surroundings, complete with levels of interactivity in the realms of gaming and simulation. 11, 20.00, free Art/Music/Performance: Nachtgalerie The closing party of Amsterdam Photo 2006. Expect decorations

by Waynehorse, various guerilla performances by Marieke Coppens, works by Barbarah Rauh (Berlin), Finbar van Wijk, Arthur Simons, Dennis van Doorn, Michelle Janssen, Gitte Spinder, The Burkeman, Peter Klashorst and a late-night party spirit. De Kattenbak, 23.00, free Discussion: Het Grote Weekend van de Gelijkheid (See Friday) De Balie, from 13.00, €3 for debates, various prices for additional activities

Sunday 12 November Film: Sprocket Sounds This month Sprocket Sounds brings you a compilation of German instructional films dating from around 1946 to 1970.

Subjects include the dangers of marijuana, alcohol, teenage pregnancy, smoking and a film about the first day in the life of a newborn baby in 1950. In German, but that can only add to the comedy value.

OT301, 20.30, €4 Discussion: Het Grote Weekend van de Gelijkheid (See Friday) De Balie, from 13.00, €3 for debates, various prices for additional activities

Monday 13 November Discussion: Women Inc Tonight’s theme is ‘Staan vrouwen nog op de politieke agenda?’ as the group considers which political parties are more open and considerate to ‘women’s issues’. In Dutch. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 20.00, free

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ADDRESSES

11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 66 East Sumatrastraat 66, 06 4475 4773 ACU Voorstraat 71, Utrecht, 030 231 4590 AdK Actuele Kunst Prinsengracht 534, 320 9242 Akinci Lijnbaansgracht 317, 638 0480 Amstel Taveerne Amstel 54, 623 4254 Amstelkring Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40, 624 6604 Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822 Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066 De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 April Reguliersdwarsstraat 37, 625 9572 Art Centre Witte de Withstraat 128, 489 0312 Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134 Artiplus Gallery Sarphatistraat 730 ArtOlive Polonceaukade 17, 675 8504 Arts-Place Wibautstraat 125, 06 2420 9192 Artspace Witzenhausen Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898 Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries Bilderdijkstraat 165C, 412 1772 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 bak Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht, 030 231 6125 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078 Beurs van Berlage Damrak 277, 530 4141 BG Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 626 2256 Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Café Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Centraal Museum Nicolaaskerkhof, Utrecht, 030 236 2362 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club NL Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 169, 622 7510 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 Crea Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 Crea Theater Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 Cut the Crap Haarlemmerplein 9, 638 4588 Desmet Studios Plantage Middenlaan 4A, 521 7100 Dominicuskerk Spuistraat 12, 624 2183 Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores Rozengracht 207A, 530 4994 Exit Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, 625 8788 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Fotogram Korte Prinsengracht 33, 624 9994 Ferdinand van Dieten-d'Eendt Spuistraat 270, 626 5777 Galerie De Witte Voet Kerkstraat 135, 625 8412 Galerie Fons Welters Bloemstraat 140, 423 3046 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Jos Art KSNM-laan 291, 418 7003 Galerie Juliette Jongma Gerard Douplein 23, 463 6904 Galerie Krijger + Katwijk Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 198200, 627 3808 Galerie Paul Andriesse Prinsengracht 116, 623 6237 Galerie Smits Fokke Simonszstraat 29, 06 43001833 Galerie van Gelder Planciusstraat 9A, 627 7419 The Gallery Donkersloot Leidsegracht 76, 572 2722 Gallery Vassie 1e Tuindwarsstraat 16, 489 4042 Gemeentemuseum Stadhouderslaan 41, Den Haag, 070 338 1111 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Horse Move Project Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS Hortus Botanicus Plantage Middenlaan 2A, 625 9021 Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Het Illuseum Witte de Withstraat 120, 770 5581

Amsterdam Weekly Imagine IC Bijlmerplein 1006-1008, 489 4866 Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, Amstelveen, 641 5754 JC De Valk IJplein 3 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 De Kattenbak Spuistraat 227 De Kijkkasten Sint Nicolaasstraat KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 Kunsthal Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341, Rotterdam, 010 440 0301 Kunstkerk Prinseneiland 89, 627 1238 De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485 Lloyd Hotel Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 419 1840 Loods 6 KNSM Laan 143, 418 2020 Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Melkweg Theater LIjnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Mendo Berenstraat 11, 612 1216 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Museumpark 18-20, Rotterdam, 010 441 9400 Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200 Nieuwe Vide Minckelersweg 6, Haarlem OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 OUTLINE Oetewalerstraat 73, 693 1389 Overhoeks / Shell-kantine next to the Shell-toren, Noord P/////AKT Zeeburgerpad 53, 06 5427 0879 Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181 Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680 Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Party Centrum van Galen Jan van Galenstraat 24 Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858 Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449 The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866 De Praktijk Lauriergracht 96, 422 1727 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 RAI Europaplein 22, 549 1212 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Reuten Galerie Fokke Simonszstraat 49, 620 7537 Rijksmuseum Jan Luykenstraat 1, 674 7000 Het Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953 Ruigoord Ruigoord 15, 497 5702 Slewe Gallery Kerkstraat 105A, 625 7214 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953 Soho Reguliersdwarsstraat 36, 422 9936 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911 Stopera Waterlooplein 22, 551 8117 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333 Studio Apart Prinsengracht 715, 422 2748 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455 Teylers Museum Spaarne 16, Haarlem, 023 516 0960 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200 Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288 De Veemvloer Van Diemenstraat 410, 638 6894 Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535 W139 Oosterdokskade 5, sixth floor, 622 9434 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127 Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987

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Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed

by Shyama Daryanani (SD),Angela Dress (AD), Laura Groeneveld (LG),Andrea Gronvall (AG), John Hartnett (JH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Anne Jongeling (AJ),Dave Kehr (DK), Steven McCarron,Marie-Claire Melzer (MM), Sharida Mohamedjoesoef,Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends

Festival Cinéma Arabe For the second time in Amsterdam, you can enjoy a compelling selection of works from young and promising film-makers who come from an Arab background. This year’s festival features two special programmes: ‘Cinema & Religion’, containing a number of classical Egyptian films in which faith and portrayal of the prophet Mohammed take a central theme, and ‘Al-Jazeera Uncensored’, showing a variety of uncensored documentaries from the well-known news channel. (Sharida Mohamedjoesoef) De Balie, Meervaart, De Uitkijk

New this week 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 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, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski El Custodio Ruben (Julio Chávez) works as bodyguard for the Minister of National Planning (Osmar Núñez). His life consists mostly of waiting for the Minister and the unequal relationship between them is a clear metaphor for Argentina’s corrupt society. Doors are literally shut in the face of Ruben. This could be the recipe for a powerful film, filled with tension, but Ruben’s life is filmed in long, static cameras shots, and watching it feels tedious, except for occasional brilliant visuals. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (MM) 95 min. Rialto Frozen Land This Finnish combination of Magnolia and Pulp Fiction shows us a downward spiral of violence and grief that begins when irresponsible youngster Niko prints out a fake 500-euro note and tries to use it. Each time the note is passed to a new person, the situation gets worse. Aku Louhimies shifts into darker gear—until you find yourself suffocating in intense human drama, with the oppressive cinematography that will confirm your prejudices about Finland: it’s very cold and very white indeed. And the snow is just there to make up

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We Feed the World

for the colour of its inhabitants’ souls. In Finnish with Dutch subtitles. (MP) 130 min. Cinecenter, Filmmuseum

George Michael: A Different Story Take a trip

down memory lane with this poptastic documentary on the rise and rise of George Michael. It’s 90-odd nostalgic minutes of the ’80 s day-glo and tight shorts of Wham! at their height, moving through Michael’s reincarnation as a mature solo star. Lots of footage old and new, and threaded through it are interviews with Michael at his most articulate and thoughtful. He speaks movingly on his struggle to come to terms with his sexuality, the massive impact that had on his private and professional life, the loss of his lover Anselmo and the death of his mother shortly afterward. Contributions come from, among others, Elton John, a hostile Boy George, and a generally clueless Mariah Carey in a virtually non-existent dress. Ah, the glamour. Michael’s dad always told him he couldn’t sing, apparently. A must-see for pop pickers. (AD) 93 min. Cinecenter

Thank You

For Smoking Christopher Buckley’s 1994 novel about Washington spin doctors has been adapted to the screen by first-time director Jason Reitman, who pares away its institutional detail but preserves its libertarian zeal and acid satire of Beltway amorality. Aaron Eckhart (In the Company of Men) plays a fast-talking spokesperson for the tobacco industry who earns his pay making black look white.

Except for Katie Holmes as a muckraking reporter, the supporting players are all perfectly cast: Robert Duvall as an ageing tobacco lion, Rob Lowe as a vain Hollywood superagent, William H Macy as a persnickety liberal senator, Sam Elliott as a cancer-ridden Marlboro man, and Maria Bello and David Koechner as Eckhart’s cocktail buddies, fellow spin doctors for the alcohol and gun lobbies who compete with him for bragging rights to the greatest number of premature deaths. (JJ) 92 min. Kriterion, Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski Umrao Jaan JP Dutta wrote and directed this new adaptation of Mirza Ruswa’s Urdu three-hankie novel Umrao Jan Ada, about the life of a 19th-century courtesan. In Hindi with Dutch subtitles. Pathé ArenA We Feed the World This documentary, which was shown at last year’s IDFA to both critical and public acclaim, looks at various aspects of the food industry, all of which have been affected—not to say deformed—by globalisation. The segment showing the life cycle of chickens might cause you to toss your cookies, but the whole film will help you question the sanity of our global economy, which does seem to revolve around money after all. This makes the final interview with the CEO of Nestlé, in which he makes an utter buffoon of himself, into an effective cathartic moment. Time to go organic! (LvH) 96 min. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto Wild Romance See review on p. 19. Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Still playing 13 (Tzameti) Don’t stick your nose into someone

else’s business may be the moral of his noirish blackand-white thriller by director Géla Babluani. In this accomplished and tense debut film, an impoverished immigrant (George Babluani) stumbles upon a route to riches when he overhears his employer discussing a get-rich-quick scheme and acts to intercept. In

French with Dutch subtitles. 93 min. Filmmuseum, De Nieuwe Anita (with English subtitles) A Good Woman Director Mike Barker’s adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere’s Fan. Transposed to 1930s Italy, the two lead women are now Americans (Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson).

Wilde’s original downbeat comedy has been transformed into a serious drama, with the mature Mrs Erlynne (Hunt), a broke New York social vulture, travelling to Europe to find herself a new man while squeezing cash out of young newlyweds (Mark Umbers and Johansson), resulting in dark trails of seduction and scandal. (Steven McCarron) 93 min.

Pathé Tuschinski

Five-Word Movie Review

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT We Feed the World Het Ketelhuis, Rialto

Les Amants réguliers A three-hour homage to the 1968 student demonstrations in Paris: the late-night philosophical discussions, the tentative explorations of free love, the drugs, the romantic tossing of Molotov cocktails from the barricades. 178 min Filmmuseum

The Cave of the Yellow Dog Once again exploring the nomadic aspects of Mongolian life through a real family, Byambasuren Davaa documents their everyday existence in a quiet, monotonous world. In Mongolian with Dutch subtitles. (Steven McCarron) 95 min. Rialto

An Inconvenient Truth This souped-up slide show by former VP and presidential candidate Al Gore is brought to you in full Lecture-Vision, as the man bashes you over the head with statistics, pictures, scientific facts and cute computer-animated polar bears to make you understand the importance of his mission.

(LvH) 100 min. Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

China Blue Documentary by Micha X Peled, which explores the textile industry of China and the 130 million children working in factories to produce clothing.

In Cantonese/English/Mandarin with Dutch subtitles.

87 min. Het Ketelhuis

Babel In a North African desert, two bored boys herding goats decide to try out their gun. The shot causes a chain reaction that changes the lives of an American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett), a rebellious, deaf teenage girl in Japan and a Mexican au pair caring for two American children. According to director Alejandro González Iñárritu, this is the third film in a trilogy that began with 21 Grams and Amores Perros.

It’s all about relationships, love in the midst of adversity and communication. In many languages with Dutch subtitles. 142 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Borat Borat, the third-best reporter of Kazakhstan, is sent on a noble mission to America, where he must learn some important lessons from this prosperous, advanced country. Yet Borat’s bluntness and political incorrectness soon reveal a nation that isn’t all that enlightened. It’s hard to know what exactly to make of Borat, another imaginative alter-ego of Sacha Baron Cohen, who also created white rapper Ali G. Some may find his insolent behaviour towards his ignorant victims shocking; others will find it hilarious. Either way, you’ll leave the theatre utterly exhausted. (BS) 84 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé City, Pathé De Munt

Brokeback Mountain The deer and the antelope are not the only two playing home on the range. This is the heartbreaking and touching story of two cowboys (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) in love who are forced by social dictates to face a life of pain and denial. (JH) 134 min. Filmhuis Griffioen

Buddha’s Lost Children A feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who—armed only with his faith and boxing skills—wages an inspirational battle to help orphaned children, fight drug abuse and preserve a vanishing way of life. In Thai with Dutch subtitles. 96 min. Kriterion C.R.A.Z.Y. A story of two love stories: a father’s love for his five sons, and one gay son’s love for his father—a love so strong it compels him to live a lie and hide from his true self. In French with Dutch subtitles. 127 min. Melkweg Cinema

Cidade baixa Brazilian Sérgio Machado won the 2005 Cannes youth prize for this torrid love story set on the Bahian coast. A cargo pilot and his best pal share a boat and the favours of a prostitute who bums a ride to Salvador. Jealousy and conflict brew as the hooker turns stripper, the pilot takes up boxing and the buddy robs drugstores. In Portuguese with Dutch subtitles. (AG) 98 min. Rialto Clerks II Dante and Randall may have grown older, but they’re certainly none the wiser concerning womenfolk, work and spiritual enlightenment, with riotous bouts of laughter as the result. Only Smith could have the audacity to stage the big romantic scene during a bout of interspecies erotica, while newbie Becky (Rosario Dawson) seems right at home in the View Askewniverse. (LvH) 97 min. Pathé De Munt Click Workaholic Michael Newman (Sandler) acquires a universal remote control, which—wow— controls his universe, enabling him to fast forward through the pesky parts of his life. Stuffed to the gills with ’80s actors—Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, David Hasselhoff—Click purportedly seeks to bring home the universal truth that family comes first. (AD) 108 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger’s bestselling novel about a young woman losing her soul at a New York fashion magazine has been turned into an agreeably shallow comedy by director David Frankel, a veteran of HBO’s equally status-driven Entourage and Sex and the City. Meryl Streep walks away with the movie as the harshly unforgiving editor of a Vogue-like glossy Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries) makes a lovely mannequin as her downtrodden new assistant, who trades her journalistic ideals for an endless series of smashing outfits. (JJ) 109 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé City, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

Don An updated version of the 1978 Bollywood

action classic. The Don is a drug dealer who is imprisoned by his archenemy, Deputy Commissioner DeSilva. DeSilva has a plan to take down the Don’s whole organisation, the beautiful Roma has a plan to get revenge, and Vijay, the mole who has taken the Don’s place, is caught in the middle. Directed by Farhan Akhtar, this modern and stylish remake of

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Daniël Boissevain plays Herman Brood in a new biopic, but the real star is Marcel Hensema as the man who made him.

NEVER TRUST THE AMERICAN MANAGER

By Floris Dogterom A whirlwind raged through the Low Countries in the late 1970s, in pursuit of that unholy trinity of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Despite his limited talents as a singer, Herman Brood, backed by a tight band named Wild Romance, gained mass popularity with an exciting blend of rock and R&B. Brood’s drugged lifestyle and

affairs with an endless string of women helped ensure massive media coverage, while the man himself, with his quiff and tight leather trousers, was the ultimate marketing concept: the boys wanted to be like him, the girls lined up to sleep with him.

It didn’t last. The singer’s attempt to make it big in America failed. In the last decades of his life, Brood had only vary-

ing success with his music, though he still made a more than decent living as a painter and media phenomenon: half sweet, sentimental man, half big, selfish kid. After 30 years of massive alcohol and speed consumption, Brood’s body broke down. So did Brood. In July 2001 the 54 year old walked up to the Amsterdam Hilton to ‘take a dry dive from the highest roof in the neighbourhood’— something he had predicted in a number of songs.

The biopic Wild Romance, starring Daniël Boissevain, concentrates on Brood’s initial rise and fall. Pub owner and man of enterprise Koos van Dijk (Marcel Hensema) recognises the talent of the self-proclaimed rock ’n’ roll junkie when Brood does a gig in his pub. Van Dijk becomes the singer’s manager, a job he would keep until Brood’s untimely demise. Typically, Brood lets Van Dijk do the dirty work by kicking out the worst

junkies in the band—not counting the boss—and the golden era begins. Herman Brood & his Wild Romance take the country by storm, often playing three shows a day. But then Brood and Van Dijk, obsessed with the idea of stardom in the States, strike a deal with a couple of unreliable American manager dudes. The chaotic US tour ends in complete disaster when Brood doesn’t turn up in a New York club for the most important show of his career.

Director Jean van de Velde stays in synch with the speedy lifestyle of his subject through rhythmic editing, while the coarse-grained images during the musical sequences seem to corrsepond with Brood’s rough-textured personality. Boissevain does a decent job of imitating Brood: holding the mike the right way, walking the singer’s funky walk, uttering hoarse one-liners. But the real star of the movie is Marcel Hensema in his interpretation of Koos van Dijk: the high-energy personality (incidentally: completely drug-free), the matter-of-fact northern accent and the don’t-worry-I’ll-get-us-outof-this mentality. The dialogue in the movie—often the weakest points in Dutch films—is OK overall, but Hensema’s contributions are the most convincing.

Wild Romance is not so much about the life and times of Herman Brood as it is about how a manager succeeded in keeping his unruly star on the right track—well, most of the time, that is Wild Romance opens Thursday at Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA and Pathé De Munt.

Special screenings The Addiction Cavia’s Abel Ferrara series continues with this 1995 film about a philosophy student at NYU who becomes a raving, ravenous Greenwich Village vampire and junkie—the two conditions are seen as interchangeable—while contemplating the victims of the Vietnam War and Nazi extermination camps. She then promptly receives absolution. The mood of Catholic despair and excess is often close to that of Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, but here it’s even more metaphysical and delirious. Yet, without exactly transcending the awful material, Ferrara puts it across with astonishing poetry and conviction, and the performances by Lili Taylor as the grad student and Christopher Walken (in only one scene) as a fellow vampire have considerable voltage. (JR) 82 min. Cavia

The screening will also be matched by a surprise performance. In French with English subtitles. 95 min.

Het Illuseum

La Belle et la Bête A sublime, sumptuous film

Fear City A serial killer stalks New York topless dancers (including Melanie Griffith) in this 1984 film, one of Abel Ferrara’s less appealing efforts. 95 min. Cavia

directed by Jean Cocteau with the help of Rene Clement (1946). Cocteau recreates the classic story of the beauty who gives herself to the beast to save her father, and whose growing love eventually transforms him into a handsome prince, with a brilliant blend of decor (sets by Christian Berard), human forms (superb makeup by Arakelian), and visual effects (dreamlike photography by Henri Alekan).

De cirkel van armoede This new, two-part documentary by Joost Seelen deals with poverty in the Netherlands. Being screened as part of Gelijk, De Balie’s three-day conference on that old-fashioned socialist concept, equality. In Dutch. De Balie Deep Throat This 1972 hardcore flick, with Linda Lovelace in the title role, was the first, and one of the last, to be distributed in cinemas. It became a cause célèbre, but ultimately provoked a powerful anti-porn backlash, particularly since Lovelace later claimed she had been violently coerced into making the film.

61 min. Melkweg Cinema

Iron Island A fascinating allegory of modern-day Iran, this 2005 feature by Mohammad Rasoulof is set aboard an abandoned oil tanker in the Persian Gulf whose autocratic ‘captain’ (Ali Nassirian) presides over a blinkered community of homeless

families. (When the children ask their schoolteacher about ‘the world’, he has to explain that they’re in it.) The captain strictly enforces traditional moral codes, and the fact that he seems motivated by expediency, not religion, provides one of the movie’s sharper edges. In Farsi with Dutch subtitles (JJ) 90 min. Filmmuseum L’Argent Robert Bresson’s 1983 film returns to some of the themes of his earlier work—the notion of stolen grace from Pickpocket, the suppression of scenes in favor of a continuous flow of action from A Man Escaped—but there is a new passion and electricity in Bresson’s minimalist images. Among the violent events are a bank robbery, a car chase, a prison insurrection and a series of brutal murders. The world is ready to explode into chaos, but Bresson retains his contemplative distance, searching for the sense in which this ‘avalanche of evil’ can lead to the ultimate spiritual victory of his protagonist. Bresson, working his soundtrack as assiduously as his visuals, once again makes us realise how little use most films make of the resources of the cinema. A masterpiece. In French with Dutch subtitles. (DK) 90 min. Filmmuseum

Mulholland Drive If you missed out on the most

compelling, yet incomprehensible, film ever made by David Lynch. Naomi Watts steals the show as the aspiring actress Betty (or is it Diane?), while Laura Harring is voluptuous eye candy as Rita in a multi-layered tale of amnesia, Hollywood and freaky cowboys, with a lesbian love scene that’s guaranteed to fog up your glasses. Lynch turned the noir genre upside-down and inside-out with this one. (LvH) 145 min. Kriterion Teknolust Tilda Swinton stars in this 2002 cybersex fantasy, playing a geeky geneticist-programmer, Dr Rosetta Stone, as well as her three robotic clones, colour-coded red (the vibrant Ruby), blue (the downbeat Marinne) and green (the sweetly naive Olive).

These cloistered sisters need a steady diet of male reproductive cells to keep them ticking, so Ruby, programmed with seduction scenes from Hollywood classics, walks the streets at night and collects semen that they brew up as tea. Unlike most indie film-makers pondering millennial technology they don’t really understand, Lynn Hershman Leeson (Conceiving Ada) has the good sense to play all this for laughs, which enables her to get away with things like a high-tech picture phone that’s obviously a microwave oven.

(JJ) 85 min. De Balie

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Amsterdam Weekly shows progress in the world of Indian cinema, though nobody can compare to the original Don (Amitabh Bachchan), and there’s a surprise twist at the end of the movie. In Hindi with Dutch subtitles. (SD) Pathé ArenA Eden Another food-fixes-everything movie. This tale of friendship and intimacy centres on the relationship between Eden (Charlotte Roche), an unhappily married waitress, and Gregor (Josef Ostendorf), an ugly chef whose sensuality all gets poured into his cuisine.

In German with Dutch subtitles. 98 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski L’ Enfant endormi Zeinab (Mounia Osfour) lives in an isolated hamlet in northern Morocco.She and her unborn child are waiting for the return of her husband, an illegal immigrant working in Europe. In French, Berber and Arabic with Dutch subtitles. 94 min. Rialto Forever Heddy Honigmann’s latest film documents the life of the Parisian cemetery Père-Lachaise. In French with Dutch or English subtitles. (MM) 95 min.

Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion, Rialto, De Uitkijk The Grudge 2 Sarah Michelle Gellar returns for this sequel to The Grudge (2004), itself a remake of a Japanese chiller. Takashi Shimizu directed all three.

92 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé City, Pathé De Munt His Big White Self Nick Broomfield’s new documentary is less a study of Eugène Terre ’Blanche himself than a history of the AWB and its role within the 19481994 South African Apartheid regime. Featured are some shocking footage of AWB campaigns at the height of its popularity in the late ’80s and early ’90s, culminating in 1994 at Bophutswana where the AWB behaved, according to Broomfield’s narration, as if they were ‘on a hunting trip’. The documentary constitutes an uncomfortable reminder that in places, such as Ventersdorp, despite the ‘fall’ of Apartheid, segregation effectively remains, and little has really changed for the black South Africans who live there.

(AD) 92 min. Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion

9-15 November 2006 The Sentinel Based on Gerald Petievich’s novel, this so-so thriller stars Michael Douglas as a veteran Secret Service agent who once took a bullet for Reagan. He is now being framed for plotting to kill the current president, whose wife (Kim Basinger) is the agent’s secret lover. (AG) 105 min. Pathé De Munt Shortbus Director John Cameron Mitchell and cast go all the way in his second feature, but behind all the real masturbation, penetration and ejaculation lies a moving story about three individuals and their search for (sexual) fulfillment. (BS) 102 min.

Kriterion Sinav Four teenagers, desperate to meet the rigorous entrance standards for Turkish university, pool their money and hire a famous international burglar (Jean-Claude van Damme) to steal the questions to the final exam. A lively new comedy from Ömer Faruk Sorak, who directed the Turkish megahits Vizontele and G.O.R.A. In Turkish with Dutch subtitles. 120 min. Pathé ArenA Sophie Scholl Director Marc Rothemund centres on the arrest and interrogation of the sole female member of the Weiße Rose German resistance group, Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch). In German with Dutch subtitles. (JH) 117 min. Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Stormbreaker Fourteen-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is drafted into MI6 and saves Britain from the evil machinations of Mickey Rourke. Ewan MacGregor plays Obi-Wan Keno—um, superspy Ian Rider, Alex’s uncle. With usual suspects Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Bill Nighy. 93 min. Pathé De Munt Stray Dogs An homage to the neorealist classic Ladri di biciclette (1948) that tells the story of two children living in the streets of post-Taliban Afghanistan after their parents are both put in jail. The second feature film by Iranian director Marziyeh Meshkini (The Day I Became a Woman, 2000) is a frighteningly realistic portrait of two doomed lives. In Farsi with Dutch subtitles. (MP) 93 min. Filmmuseum

Hokkabaz Magician manqué Iskender decides to leave Istanbul, and with his assistant Maradona he plans a tour of small Turkish towns. In Turkish with Dutch subtitles. 122 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé City

Tapas Five interlocking stories set in a Barcelona neighbourhood. By first-time directors José Corbacho and Juan Cruz. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 94 min. Rialto

Into Great Silence A first look into the silent, yet sonorant, lives of the monks of the Grande Chartreuse, the mother house of the legendary Carthusian Order in the French Alps In French/Latin with Dutch subtitles.

164 min. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto

Taxidermia This new film by Geörgy Pálfi (Hukkle) follows three generations of a strange family: the grandfather practises bestiality, father competes in eating contests, and son is a taxidermist who decides to stuff himself. In Hungarian with Dutch subtitles 91 min. Rialto

Jackass: Number Two More stunts, pranks and grossout humour from Johnny Knoxville and company, (JJ) 95 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

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 ninestep program for success constantly aggravates the others’ sense of failure. (JJ) 102 min. Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski

Nachtrit Cool film about a taxi driver who gets

caught up in the Amsterdam taxi war of 2000. 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. The Movies, Pathé City, Pathé De Munt Ober Absurdity reigns once again in Alex van Warmerdam’s latest feature, a hysterical tale about the many bizarre misfortunes of a waiter named Edgar (played by the director himself), who also happens to be the main character of a manuscript in the making. In Dutch. (BS) 97 min. Cinecenter, Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski Pretpark Nederland Director Michiel van Erp explores a weird phenomenon the Dutch call ‘leisure time’. In Dutch. (BS) 90 min. Het Ketelhuis Requiem Her friends urge her to seek psychiatric help, but the epileptic Michaela’s devout religious convictions lead to her doom. Based on a true story, the film is directed by Hans-Christian Schmid with great sensitivity for the claims of both Michaela’s worlds. In German with Dutch subtitles 93 min. Rialto

Scoop Woody Allen follows up his best film (Match Point) with another story set in London and starring Scarlett Johansson as an American greenhorn among the English gentry, but this mystery comedy is tired, laboured and lazy. A journalism student (Johansson), drafted by a stage magician (Allen) to take part in a vanishing act, winds up in a hidden compartment and meets the ghost of a journalist (Ian McShane), who informs her that a wealthy playboy (Hugh Jackman) may be a notorious serial killer. (JR) 96 min. Pathé Tuschinski

Le Temps qui reste In this intimate portrait of a 30year-old man suddenly confronted with impending death, Ozon once again proves his prowess as director and film-maker. In French with Dutch subtitles.

(JH) 90 min. Pathé ArenA Tideland Gilliam’s vivid imagination has been fully unleashed to envelop the world of a 10-year-old, Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland). Both her parents are heroin addicts, and when her mum dies suddenly, her father (Jeff Bridges) takes her to his rundown parental home in the middle of nowhere. (Steven McCarron) 122 min. Filmhuis Griffioen Va, Vis et Deviens During the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, a desperate mother comes up with a plan to rescue her nine-year-old son: he must claim that he is Jewish and join the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel to be adopted by a liberal French-Jewish family and given the name Schlomo. An ambitious film about identity from Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu. In Amharic/Hebrew/French with Dutch subtitles. 140 min.

Cinema Amstelveen

Volver This is a heartfelt story about the long-over-

due reunion of a daughter (Penélope Cruz) and the ghost of her mother (Carmen Maura). Fans of Almodóvar’s earlier work might be disappointed that carnal pleasures have been replaced by genuine emotions, but viewers should realise that humanism was just what his films needed. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles.

(BS) 120 min. Cinecenter, The Movies World Trade Center Oliver Stone’s effective if hokey 9/11 docudrama focuses on the two Port Authority policemen (played by Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña) who were rescued from the rubble of the Twin Towers, their families as they wait for news and a former marine (Michael Shannon) who winds up on one of the rescue teams. (JR) 125 min. Cinema Amstelveen, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Zwartboek In the closing days of World War II, a Jewish cabaret artist, Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten), watches as her hiding place is bombed and her family betrayed to the Nazis. She joins a resistance group (which meets in a morgue) but learns that no one can be trusted. For plotting, thrills and cynicism this is Paul Verhoeven’s best work since Total Recall. In Dutch / English / German / Hebrew. (JP) 139 min. Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé City, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

9-15 November 2006

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fried eggs over, cuts halal bacon and ham on his slicer—these porky treats look and taste like the real infidel deal, but they’re made from smoked veal and turkey. He butters rolls. He

slathers on excellent-quality fillers, like chicken, spinach and bacon salad (€3.25, my choice and a great combination of texture and flavour) or spinach, egg and cream cheese.

The submarine sarnies and torpedoes are named after countries. ‘Turkey’ (€3.95 torp/€5.95 sub) is garlic bread filled with hot turkey bacon, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato and a special sauce. ‘Holland’ is meatball, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mustard.

Ishmael rushes to clear tables, fill the dishwasher, ring up on the cash register and is still warm and friendly, even to surly clients who lack certain graces like saying hello or parting with a ‘please’ or ‘thank you’.

I returned to Etenstijd to try an English breakfast (€7.95) which was delicious and very satisfing. Ishmael uses chicken sausages instead of pork—good, quality stuff.

Etenstijd is an eminently pocket-friendly business hence the brisk trade from passers-by.

Lots of young people come here, as do the tourists ambling along to the Heineken Brewery needing to eat before the tour. And, of course, regulars who are on first-name terms, with their particular flavour fancies. At night it’s much quieter. Ishmael works long hours, seven days a week; in the evenings, he has someone to assist him.

It is true that Vijzelstraat has many fine places to lunch, ranging from the posh and trendy, to hole-in-the-wall humble. What impressed me about this place is the sheer amount of choice there is on offer. There are the usual recognisable things, alongside imaginative items like stuffed baked potatoes, or a good oldfashioned mixed grill.

I was very happy with my halal English breakfast. Maybe the Cabinet should sit down and chew over one of these. We could implement the intercultural uitsmijter as breakfast for school children. Would that not prove a hot issue-winner, as well as a great way of keeping warm on these increasingly wintery days?

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Atash Thur 19.30 Cease Fire Wed 22.00 Cinema 500km Thur 21.30 Cinéma Arabe Thur De cirkel van armoede Sun 19.30 Leila Wed 20.00 Teknolust Fri 22.30, Sun 20.00.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 The Addiction Thur 20.30 Fear City Fri 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Babel daily 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 Eden daily 16.15 Frozen Land daily 21.45, Sun also 11.00 George Michael:A Different Story daily 19.30, Sun also 14.00 Ober daily 16.30, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.15, 14.00 Volver daily 16.00, 19.00, 22.00, Sun also 11.00, 13.30.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek Wed 15.30 De Mierenmepper Sat 15.30, Sun 14.00 Het Paard van Sinterklaas Sat 13.30, Sun 12.00 Va,Vis et Deviens Thur 15.00, Tues, Wed 20.30 World Trade Center Thur-Sat 20.30.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Brokeback Mountain Thur, Tues 19.00, Fri 21.00, Sun 20.00 Tideland Thur, Tues 21.45, Fri 19.00.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 13 (Tzameti) Thur-Sun, Tues 21.45, Wed 21.55 Les Amants réguliers Sun 15.45 Black Beauty Sun, Wed 14.00 Fakkelgang / Dylaby Wed 20.00 Frozen Land Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 17.00, 19.30, Sat, Sun 19.30 Iron Island Tues 19.15 Jazz…in Amsterdam / Jasper en het rokertje Wed 22.00 L'Argent Thur-Tues 22.00, Sat also 17.00 Ladri di biciclette Thur-Sat 17.45 Lotte van Uitvindersdorp Sun, Wed 13.45 Stray Dogs Thur-Sun 19.45, Sun also 16.00, Mon-Wed 17.15.

Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Herengracht 470, , Sophie Scholl Fri 20.00.

Het Illuseum Witte de Withstraat 120, 770 5581

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 China Blue Sat, Sun, Wed 13.15 Forever Thur-Sun 17.45 His Big White Self Mon-Wed 17.45 Into Great Silence Sat, Sun, Wed 12.45 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek Wed 15.00, 19.00 Ober daily 17.15, 21.45, Sat, Sun also 15.0Het Paard van Sinterklaas Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15 Pretpark Nederland daily 21.45, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.45 We Feed the World daily 19.45 Wild Romance daily 17.30, 19.30, 21.30, Sat, Sun, Wed also 13.00 Zwartboek Thur-Tues 19.00.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Molaadé Tues, Wed 20.30.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 An Inconvenient Truth daily 18.15 Buddha's Lost Children daily 16.00 Forever Thur-Sat 16.15, Sun 13.00 His Big White Self Sat 13.00, Mon-Wed 16.15 Little Miss Sunshine daily 20.00, Fri, Sat also 0.00 Mulholland Drive Mon 22.15 Ober daily 20.15 Shortbus Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 22.15, Fri, Sat also 0.15 Sneak Preview Tues 22.00 Thank You For Smoking daily 18.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 22.00.

Meervaart Meer en Vaart 300, 410 7777 Cinéma Arabe Thur, Sun. Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 C.R.A.Z.Y. Mon-Wed 22.00 Deep Throat Mon 20.00 Thumbsucker Tues, Wed 20.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 21 Grams Fri, Sat 23.30 Amores perros Fri, Sat 23.45 An Inconvenient Truth daily 17.30, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.30, Mon-Wed also 21.45, Sun also 11.30, 13.30 Baas in Eigen Bos Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15 Babel daily 16.30, 19.15, 22.00, Sat, Sun, Wed also 13.45, Sun also 11.00 Eden daily 19.45, Thur-Sun also 21.45 Little Miss Sunshine daily 17.15, 19.30, 21.30, Sun also 13.15 Lotte van Uitvindersdorp Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Nachtrit daily 20.00, 22.15, Fri, Sat also 0.15 Taxi Driver Fri, Sat 0.30 Volver daily 17.00, Sun also 12.30.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, , 13 (Tzameti) Mon 20.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 Afblijven daily 11.50, 14.15, 16.40 An Inconvenient Truth Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 12.40, 15.00 Baas in Eigen Bos Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 12.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 13.10, 15.10, 17.10, Sat, Sun also 10.45 Baas in Eigen Bos (IMAX) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.10, 15.30, Sat, Sun also 10.35 Babel daily 12.05, 15.10, 18.10, 21.20 Borat daily 13.30, 15.40, 17.45, 19.50, 22.00, Sat also 10.55 Children of Men daily 19.15, 21.50 Click daily 19.10, 21.40, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.40, 16.20 The Departed daily 14.45, 18.00, 21.15, Sat, Sun also 11.25

La Belle et la bête Wed 19.30.

The Devil Wears Prada daily 18.50, 21.30, Thur-Tues also 13.00,

15.50, Sat, Sun also 10.15, Tues also 10.00 Don daily 17.00, 20.40, Thur-Sun, Wed also 13.20, Sat, Sun also 10.00 The Grudge 2 daily 17.30, 19.40, 21.55 Hokkabaz daily 21.05, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.35, 15.20 Jackass: Number Two Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 12.30 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek Wed 13.05, 15.50 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (NL) Wed 12.40, 15.25, 18.15, 21.00 Little Miss Sunshine daily 18.30 De Mierenmepper Sat, Sun, Wed 12.05, 14.10, 16.15, Sat, Sun also 10.05 Open Season (IMAX) daily 17.40, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.10, 15.30 Het Paard van Sinterklaas Sat, Sun 10.25, 12.50, 15.00 Piet Piraat en het Vliegende Schip Sat, Sun, Wed 12.45, 14.20, 15.55, Sat, Sun also 11.05 Sinav daily 18.20 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Le Temps qui Reste Tues 13.30 Thank You For Smoking daily 13.50, 16.10, 20.50, Sat, Sun also 11.15 Umrao Jaan daily 12.10, 16.00, 20.10 Wild Romance daily 12.00, 14.25, 16.50, 19.20, 21.45 World Trade Center Thur-Mon, Wed 20.30 Zwartboek Thur-Tues 17.15, 20.20, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 14.10.

Pathé City Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 15-19, 623 4570 Afblijven daily 16.10, 18.40, Sat, Sun also 13.30 Baas in Eigen Bos Sat, Sun, Wed 15.40, Sat, Sun also 13.10 Borat daily 15.20, 17.45, 20.00, 22.10, Sat, Sun also 13.00 The Devil Wears Prada daily 18.50, 21.30, Thur-Tues also 16.00, Sat, Sun also 13.20 The Grudge 2 daily 21.20 Hokkabaz Thur-Tues 18.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 15.40 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (NL) Wed 15.00, 18.15, 21.00 Nachtrit Thur-Tues 21.40 Piet Piraat en het Vliegende Schip Sat, Sun, Wed 15.50, Sat, Sun also 13.50 Sneak Preview Tues 21.10 Zwartboek daily 18.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.10, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 15.00.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 Afblijven Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.00, 16.25, Sat 11.00, 13.35, 16.10, Sun also 11.30 An Inconvenient Truth Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.05, 19.35, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 14.45, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.25, Sat 15.05, 17.30, 19.55, Sun also 14.50 Baas in Eigen Bos Fri 16.40, Sat, Sun 10.10, 12.05, 14.15, 16.25, Wed 12.00, 14.00, 16.10 Babel Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.00, 18.05, 21.15, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.00, Sat 10.00, 12.55, 15.55, 19.05, 22.20 The Black Dahlia Sat 23.10 Borat Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.15, 15.40, 17.45, 19.55, 22.05, Sat 10.20, 12.30, 16.50, 19.00, 21.10, 23.20 Children of Men Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.45, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 18.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.00, 15.55, Sat 17.15, 19.50, 22.35, Sun also 16.35, 19.10 Clerks II Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 19.00, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.00, 14.15, Thur, Mon, Tues also 16.35, Sat 18.35 Click Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.10, 21.40, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 14.10, 16.40, Sat 10.15, 12.50, 15.25, 18.00, 20.35, Sun also 11.35 The Departed Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.50, 17.15, 21.00, Sat 11.45, 15.05, 18.30, 22.00, Sun also 10.30 The Devil Wears Prada Thur-Tues 13.30, 16.10, 18.50, 21.30, Sat also 10.45, Wed 18.25, 21.05 The Grudge 2 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.05, 21.35, Sat 18.45, 21.05, 23.25 Jackass: Number Two Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.25, 19.40, 22.00, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.35, 15.10, Sat 12.05, 14.50, 17.10, 19.30, 21.50

Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek Wed 13.30, 16.20 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (NL) Wed 13.00, 15.50, 18.40, 21.30 De Mierenmepper Sat, Sun 10.25, Sat also 12.45, Sun also 12.40, Wed 12.30 Nachtrit daily 17.55, 20.35, Thur, Mon, Tues also 15.25, Sat also 23.05, Mon, Tues also 12.50 Het Paard van Sinterklaas Fri-Sun, Wed 13.10, Sat, Sun also 10.50 Piet Piraat en het Vliegende Schip Sat 10.05, 11.40, 13.30, 15.20, Sun, Wed also 12.40, 14.40, Sun also 10.45, Wed also 16.40 The Sentinel Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.55, Sat 22.20 Stormbreaker Fri-Sun 15.30, Wed 15.35 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:The Beginning Sat 23.45 Wild Romance Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.05, 14.25, 16.50, 19.20, 21.50, Sat 10.30, 12.50, 15.15, 17.45, 20.15, 22.45 De Wilde Bende Sat 10.10, 12.30, Sun, Wed 10.15, 12.35, 15.00 World Trade Center Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 21.05, Sat 20.55 Zwartboek Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.35, 17.35, 20.45, Sat 11.45, 14.55, 18.05, 21.15, Sun also 11.15.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 A Good Woman Thur, Tues 13.30 Baas in Eigen Bos Fri-Mon 12.45, Wed 12.30 Babel Thur 15.50, 17.45, 21.15, Fri-Wed 17.15, 20.30, Fri-Tues also 13.30, Wed also 12.10, 15.20 The Departed Thur, Sat, Wed 21.00, Thur, Sat also 14.00, Thur also 17.40, Fri, Sun-Tues also 20.00, Fri, Mon, Tues also 16.00, Fri, Mon also 12.30, Sat, Wed also 17.30, Sun also 13.15, 16.30 The Devil Wears Prada Thur-Mon 18.10, Thur also 21.30, FriMon also 15.20, 21.00, Tues 14.15, 17.10, Wed also 14.45 Eden Fri-Tues 16.10, Mon, Tues 18.40, Wed 14.40 Little Miss Sunshine Thur 19.10, 21.50, Fri-Tues 21.30, Fri-Sun also 19.00, Sat-Mon also 13.15, Wed 12.15 Ober Fri-Wed 16.30 The Queen Tues 20.45 Scoop Thur 17.40, Fri-Wed 19.00 Thank You For Smoking daily 21.45, Thur also 19.00, Fri-Wed also 14.00 Zwartboek Fri-Tues 13.00, 17.00, 21.15, Wed 12.00, 15.15.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 The Cave of the Yellow Dog Wed 15.30 Cidade baixa Mon-Wed 22.15 El Custodio daily 21.15, Sun also 15.40, Mon-Wed also 17.30 Enfant endormi, L' Mon-Wed 19.15 Forever Mon 17.45, Wed 15.45 Into Great Silence Mon-Wed 17.15, Wed also 15.15 The Miracle of Nuevo Cine Argentino Sat 15.30 Nuevo Cine Argentino: Experimental I Fri 23.00 Nuevo Cine Argentino: Experimental II Sat 23.00 Requiem Mon-Wed 20.15 The Story of the Weeping Camel Sun 11.45 Tapas Thur, Sat, Sun 17.30 Tarnation Fri 16.00 Taxidermia Thur-Sun 19.15, Mon-Wed 20.00 We Feed the World Mon-Wed 22.00.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Angel-A Fri 21.30 Cinéma Arabe daily Forever Sun 14.30 Itinéraires Sun 21.30 L'année suivante Tues 21.30 Meurtrières Sat 21.30 Mon petit doigt m'a dit... Mon 21.30 Le Petit lieutenant Wed 21.30 La Raison du plus faible Thur 21.30.

Broodjeszaak Etenstijd Vijzelstraat 59, 423 4618 Open Daily 09.00-24.00 Cash The noise on Vijzelstraat is enough to drive a person bonkers! Big grinding machinery, groaning cranes that give a bizarre look to the construction work on the metro line. It’s somehow reminiscent of a Gerald Scarfe satirical cartoon, or the grim animation from Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Hard-hatted men, clad in all-weather orange suits pour concrete, jackhammer drills, bang big ferro-concrete pylons into the shuddering earth. All this and more to add to our fair city’s disruption. On and on. Relentlessly on.

And on.

But when it’s time to eat, where do these guys go? One of their favourite places, if they didn’t pack a lunchbox, is Broodjeszaak Etenstijd. It doesn’t look like much on the outside, nor is the decor ever going to make an interior decorator faint with envy. But what it does have is a large array of sandwich choices.

Submarines and torpedoes! Super hot dogs!

Mega-burgers! Your Glutton looks at the customers hunched over their plates; they attack their fare as if Time is snapping at their heels.

Appropriately, the emblem of this place is a winged plate with a clock-like surface.

Ishmael the owner is alone. He is a ninja cook, or at least a whirling catering dervish. He needs eight more arms to cope with the steady influx of hungry customers coming in and the satisfied ones leaving. He hauls hot baked baguettes out of the oven, makes coffees, flips

FILM TIMES Thursday 9 November until Wednesday 23 November Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes.Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON He hauls hot baked baguettes out of the oven, makes coffees, flips fried eggs, cuts halal bacon and ham on his slicer—they’re made from smoked veal and turkey.

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AD OF THE WEEK HATE LIFE What is the Hate of your life? Is it an animal, person, object, hobby or something else? Share the thing that drives you mad. To be filmed for documentary and music video. Email loveandhatefilm@gmail.com.

HOUSING OFFERED 2E KOSTVERLORENKADE From 1 Nov, 2-bedroom apt for rent for half-year to possibly 1 year.

Furnished, living room, large kitchen, newly renovated bathroom with bath, balcony, washing machine. Great canal view.

Close to Ten Kate Markt. €1000/mth. Please call 616 7720.

JOH-BURG HOUSESunny, partly furnished cosy house in trendy Melville. 4-bdrm, 2-bthrm, ideal for NGO/academic couple.

Verandahs, view Koppies, Chubb Alarms, 2-car garage,10m lap pool. Weekly char, gardener, pool caretaker. All incl.

8000 rand. Elec, water own account. Available 15 Jan. ena.jansen@planet.nl.

TEMP APT FOR RENT Furnished apt for rent for 6 weeks: 8 Nov till 23 Dec. €700 + €400 deposit.

Email wickedpony@gmail.com.

UNFURNISHED COZY APT in A’dam East. €900/mth all incl.

Available now! Call 06 1035 2076 for more info.

SARPHATISTRAAT Centre, €1050/mth. Fully furnished 2room apt, aprox. 70m2. Living,

dining room, open kitchen, 1 bedroom, bathroom, separate toilet. Apt is light and bright.

Contact Sherwin on 06 1875 4217.

3-BEDROOM HOUSE for rent.

Modern kitchen and bathroom, nice garden and balcony. No consultancy fee. €1200. Contact John at 06 2165 8352.

1E WETERINGDWARS STRAAT Fully furnished 1-bedroom renovated apt with laminated floor.

Rental price incl utilities. €950. www.xpatrentals.com/offers.

100'S OF APTS available in A’dam immediately. From €450. www.xpatrentals.com/offers.

HOUSING WANTED NEED HOUSING SOON Two young working adults looking for 2-bedroom apt close to A’dam centre with lease starting from1 Dec latest. €1100/mth max. Please contact natashalitvak@yahoo.com or 06 4240 4134.

APT OR ROOM NEEDED!Please help this busy, easy-going, mature computer geek find decent place to live ASAP. Can pay up to €550/mth. Contact sindel1967@hotmail.com or 06 4406 1660.

APT WANTEDWorking student, 22 y.o. from Iceland seeking apt. Non-smoker and reliable.

Everything is considered. Call 061616 5936 or email giu@bad temperdesign.com.

MUSICIAN WANTS HOUSEVegan/organic, nature-loving guy,

25 y.o, looking for affordable place to live. Email izmarverhage@gmail.com.

HOUSING TO SHARE FLAT NEEDEDEnglish guy started job in A’dam on 6 Nov. Looking to rent somewhere urgently, up to €700/mth,1-bedroom flat or flatshare, preferably near centre A’dam or within 5 min on tram. Very friendly and sociable. Call +44 7812 570 984 or s.renshaw@btinternet.com.

3-ROOM APT for rent, fully furnished, from 21 Dec till 21 Feb ’07. Big bedroom with balcony, small bedroom, big living room, kitchen, shower, toilet. 10 min from centre and Vondelpark, close to Rozengracht. Max 2 people to share. No animals. €950/mth incl. Contact 4120 993.

ROOM TO RENT 55m2 apt to share in A’dam, 10 mins from Central Station. Good conditions. €350/mth + deposit, all incl. Contact Franco at 06 1477 9853.

ROOM FOR RENT From 1 JanMar, shared accommodations in student house in Amstelveen.

Email fiorentinap@hotmail .com

OTHER SPACES PHOTO STUDIO TO RENT for amateur and prof photographers. Can also be used as meeting or gathering space.

100m2, €150/day. Also possible to rent photo equipment.

Studio has high ceilings, good natural light and located on WG

Plein, adjacent to Overtoom.

For appointment and more info, contact D Ingel on 06 2883 4224.

WORK OFFERED UNDUTCHABLESRECRUITMENT AGENCY AMSTELVEEN We are looking for Customer Service Representative French and/or Dutch; Account Manager UK Market, native British speaker; Publisher Services Assistant speaking Finnish. See for more positions www.undutchables.nl.

PHP PROGRAMMERWe’re looking for PHP(5)programmer who wants to work 2 days/wk at our small office on Leidsegracht.

Skills include PHP(5) MySQL, JavaScipt, CSS and HTML. Please contact us at 717 3347 or info@pznnet.nl.

ART PROJECTFaces needed for art project, female, max age 25, small pay available, arnonollen@hetnet.nl.

IT JOBS IN NLWe have over 600 IT and technical support jobs for non-Dutch speakers all over NL. www.xpatjobs.com.

DON'T SPEAK DUTCH? We collect English and foreign language jobs from all the best NL agencies and put them all in one website. www.xpatjobs.com.

WORK WANTED WORK WANTED We can do our best if you need help in anything about cleaning, painting and gardening.Pleaseifyouhaveanything call us on 06 1904 6557.

(Warm regards)

BABYSITTER/CLEANER Well experienced, 22 y.o. female seeks employment. Consider myself flexible, trustworthy, hardworking with first-aid course.

Excellent references. Contact me at lie_rad@hotmail.com.

JE SUIS EN ARTISTE Friendly (slightly crazy) English- speaking fine art graduate (drawer, printmaker, photographer) seeks work (in all its glorious forms). Will do ‘almost anything!’ Email joesegaran@hotmail.com.

FOR SALE WINEUnique South African quality wines. Prices range from €4.95-€15.75. We do B2B and B2C wine tastings. Website www.coza.nl or email info @coza.nl.

COLOURFUL HOME FURNISHINGS Recently opened bright & colourful little home furnishings store. Many nice home accessories for yourself or for a gift.

Opposites Attract, Marnixstraat 65D, 612 2605, Open Tues & Thur-Sun. IKEA LOFT BED Brand new, stylish, wooden IKEA loft bed (Hemnes, original price €219), used only 2 weeks, for sale at €170. I take it apart again and package it, you pick it up (Jordaan). Email malin_temp @yahoo.se.

ITS ALL GOTTA GObefore we do!

We’re moving continents and leaving all behind. Apt is being renovated in Dec so literally everything has to go! From computers to curtains, plates to palms, mirrors to... Feel free to email: see_if_we_have_what_ youre_after@hotmail.com or bel 06 3623 6675.

VESPA Very clean Vespa with front and back racks, red/white.

Has A’dam registration and tag.

Runs as good as it looks. Must see. Comes with helmet, chain and lock. Asking €825. limostu@yahoo.com.

9-15 November 2006 BLUE COWBOY BOOTS Hello, I have a pair of leather cowboy boots, baby blue colour, used twice, size 42. Bought them in Mexico for €200. Want to sell them for €140. They are too big for me which is a shame because they are great. If you would like picture just email me.

Thanx, Carla. blueamore@hotmail.com.

MOVING SALE! Washer, dryer, Meile fridge w/freezer, IKEA 2person bed w/mattress, bar stools, cabinets, lamps, more!

All clean and good condition.

You remove; we help down steps.

Priced to sell. 06 4139 2239 or connievivrett @yahoo.com.

VEHICLES LOOKING TO BUY an around 2000 year Jag, Bent, Benz, Lamper. Will to pay for market. Email limostu@yahoo.com.

passionate, responsible care on nights and weekends. My experience is with children of all ages, and my education includes a masters degree. I am an American woman who has taught professionally for years, and has raised three small children. I can provide references. syfilms@yahoo.com.

PROFESSIONALPAINTING, decorating, plastering, and carpentry. Many years experience and free estimates. Please call 06 2324 5957.

XPAT PAGESLooking for English speaking plumber, dentist, lawyer, bank... www.xpatpages.com.

HAVE SERVICES TOOFFER? Generate new business by listing your English-speaking business/service in our directory. www.xpatpages.com.

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ENGLISH MAN WITH VAN can help with removals big or small, in or outside of country. Reasonable rates, quick service.

Contact Lee on 06 2388 2184 or isabelleandlee@planet.nl.

THINKING ABOUT THERAPY? Heighten your quality of life and improve your relationships with the help of a native English speaking therapist. My 20 years of professional experience and understanding can help you better cope with feelings and sort through stressful thoughts.

Sagar: 06 4626 5412.

BEST MOVINGSERVICE IN TOWN Driver with van (10m3) or truck (40m3) available. Plus extra moving men, hoisting rope and elevator. Any combinations possible. Call Taco on 06 4486 4390, email info@vrachttaxi.com or check out www.vrachttaxi.com.

FRED'S PET CARE Friendly dogwalker with references, available from 7.00-20.00 to take care of your pets. Also possible to keep them during the day and overnight. Reasonable rates. Just call Fred on 06 1649 1359.

NEED A STUNNING WEBSITE? Experienced web designer builds professional, unique sites for very reasonable prices. Online links to past projects available. Contact Jordan: jordangcz@yahoo .com, 06 3034 1238.

LOVING CHILD CAREI offer com-

NATURAL HEALINGMedical Practice Wassenaar for energy therapy, hypnotherapy and medical herbal treatment. Works for all physical and mental problems and illnesses. For information and appointment contact Bernard Trip on 070 302 0451 or mobile, 06 2865 1610.

Also courses and workshops in personal development.

PERSONAL COACHINGSlender You relaxation for body and mind. Fine-tune your conditioning and maximise your figure. Personal coaching for people with medical or health issues.

1 hour Slender You = 7 hours traditional work out! Slender You is located on Heverleestraat

1. Call 669 6641 for more info.

PILATES STUDIOFully equipped Pilates studio with Reformer, Cadillac, Wunda Chair and Spine Corrector. Improve your strength, flexibility, posture, body awareness and more! Visit www.pilatesamsterdam.nl or call 06 2893 2706. Private lessons only, from fully certified instuctor.

CERTIFIED LIFE COACH Realise your own impact, your own goals and sustain them. www.norriscoaching.com or info@norriscoaching.com.

THERAPY/COACHING Professional psychotherapy and/or coaching. Bilingual Dutch /English. Look for more information: www.corakoorn-praktijk.nl or 06 1488 1350.

PHYSICAL THERAPISTFully-qualified fysiotherapist and masseur will help you with your aches and pains. Call Don on 06 2085 6057.

POLE DANCINGWORKSHOP It’s a girly thing. Dance school in A’dam specialized in pole dancing classes & workshops.

Whether it’s a private gathering for the girls, wedding celebration or wild moment out, our bachelor parties are designed to provide a unique experience. www.sexyinstructors.com.

OPEN HEALING EVENING Are you stressed? Are you in pain?

Has life lost its sparkle? Sat Nam Rasayan is a meditative healing art that works on the entire physical, mental and emotional being. Healers are offering treatments on Thur 20.00 at Den Texstraat 46. Please bring donation. For info call 06 1146 4372.

VEG COOKING CLASSES Plantbased, organic cooking courses from a NYC natural foods chef. Various themes such as amazing grains, traditional Italian vegetarian and healthy sweets. Visit www.justnosh.com,

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9-15 November 2006 contact joslyn@justnosh.com or 06 2509 2117.

BRITISH BEAUTY THERAPIST 25 years experience. cidesco, babtac, anbos, laser hair removal, adv electrolysis, Brazilian waxing, P8N8 oxygen skin care, anti-age facials, gift vouchers etc at McTavish Hair Salon, Quellijnstraat 80, (De Pijp) A’dam.

06 4079 9921, www.lindayoungaesthetics.com.

HOME IMPROVEMENT PAINTER + HANDYMANI’m available to paint inside and outside + lend a helping handy hand.

Reasonable rates. Lots of practical and professional experience. Good references available. Call now! Daco: 06 4275 6045.

BUILDING/REMODELING Carpenter available for those small jobs the big builders can’t be bothered with. Carpentry, painting, home repairs, electrical, plumbing, etc. Call 06 2141 0628.

COMPUTERS NEED HELP WITH YOUR MAC? MAC-lover helps you with basic setups, minor troubleshooting, install, networking, basic MAC lessons, setting up programs, MS Word, QuarkXpress, etc.

Help with purchasing the right MAC, call Sagar at 779 1926.

PC HOUSE DOCTORSpecialised in virus/spyware removal, H/W, S/W repair, data recovery, wireless, cable/ADSL installation and computer lessons from friendly and experienced

23 singer-songwriter looking for his muse. Are you gorgeous, with a great smile, +/- 28-35, spiritual and creative (singer/dancer)? Call or text me! 06 2263 1567.

Microsoft professional for reasonable price. Contact Mario at 06 1644 8230.

MASTER OF PC Have your PC repaired from professional hands. Installation, upgrade Windows, anti-virus solutions, wireless networking, MAC, s/w etc. Can call privately at your place. Good charges and guaranteed work. Call 06 4365 9790.

LOOKING FOR GIRLGentle dark man, athletic,1.75m,75kg looking for preferably Russian or Scandinavian (also It, Gre, Bel, Ch) girl for romantic relationship.

Slim, intelligent girl between19 & 31 with g.s.o.h.? Please mail to amsterick@hotmail.com.

MASSAGE 3 KINDS OF MASSAGE Relaxation, tantric or chakra healing.

More information at http://frankiko.boysnetwork.com , email f27036@hotmail.com, or mobile 06 2022 4973.

NEED A MASSAGE?Experienced massage therapist now offering excellent therapeutic work in new center at Sarphatipark.

Check out www.acupressure.nl and email lizadevine@ gmail.com.

COURSES PIANO LESSONS Piano Studio Groenburgwal. Husband and wife team, Dutch/American, have openings in their teaching studio.10 years experience teaching piano to expatriat families at the American School in The Hague. All ages and levels welcome. Call 624 0602.

TUTORING SAT, IBQuality tutoring,1-to-1 or group tuitions from primary to university levels. Subjects range from calculus, biology, languages, piano to economics and much more. Classes taught throughout week, weekends & in holiday periods.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Contact frimad@tiscali.nl or 06 4797 2998 or visit www.bijleshuiswerk.nl.

YOGAYOGA.NL offers Hatha, Iyengar and Vinyasa Flow classes. Daily morning and evening, in English, in A’dam close to Jordaan. Also classes in the weekend: 3 on Sat as well as monthly Sun workshops. Visit www.yogayoga.nl or call 688 3418.

KUNDALINI YOGA teaches you techniques to stay healthy. You gain strong immune system, vital glands, strong nervous system, good circulation, awareness of impact of your habits.

This allows you to deal calmly and gracefully with life’s challanges. For info call 06 1146 4372.

QIGONG IN NOV Want to feel more grounded, centered, relaxed, energetic? Get out of your head, into your body? Learn Chi Kung & standing meditation.

Practical, playful, undogmatic & open approach. Individual

instructions. Small new group (in English) starts in Nov. Contact 770 1063, www.chi-kungtraining.

GUITAR INSPIRATION Guitar course for all different levels and music styles such as jazz, Brazilian, folk, and funk. Subjects: improvisation, chord changes, accompanying, composing and workshops. Learn from an experienced performer and inspiring teacher with personal approach. For details call 06 2956 4595.

LANGUAGES LANGUAGE COACH Would speaking Dutch make you feel better? Call 625 3231 or go to www.talencoach.com.

INTENSIVE DUTCH COURSES are not only for summertime.

At Joost Weet Het! the sun always shines. Our new intensive courses start 20 Nov. Classes 4 x 4 hrs per week for €7.5 per hour.

2, 3 or 4 weeks course. All levels. Call 420 8146 or visit

www.JOOSTWEETHET.NL or email info@aprenderholandes.nl.

LEARNING DUTCH THETHE EASY WAY Joost Weet Het! offers classes on various levels. Learn that easy Dutch grammar in your own rhythm. Fun classes with emphasis on conversation. And, not expensive! 2 months for €200 (evening classes, 2x2 hrs p/wk). Call 420 8146 or visit us at WWW.JOOSTWEETHET.NL. SPANISH COURSES 2 x 2 hrs per week for €7.5 per hour. How do I become Don Juan in Spain?

JOOST WEET HET! Courses Spanish for beginners and advanced. Fun classes and not expensive! Qualified native teacher! Call 420 8146 or visit us at www.joostweethet.nl.

IMPROVE YOUR DUTCHLink Taal Studio, a professional way to learn Dutch in private & small groups, starting every week, Vijzelgracht 51-55. For more info contact 06 4133 9323 or

linktaalstudio@gmail.com.

DUTCH COURSESNew evening courses starting in Nov, centre of A’dam. €200-250 for 20 hrs.

Visit www.mercuurtaal.nl or call 693 4250.

DUTCH LESSONSImprove conversation or for professional purposes or studies, NT2, indiv lessons, €15/hr and intensive courses and online lessons/min intensive:15 hrs=€187.50. Adults & children. http://home.tiscali.nl/stylusphant/indexdutch.html, excellent dutch @hotmail.com, call 06 3612 2870.

ITALY IN AMSTERDAMYou want to learn Italian and know something about Italian culture? Everyday from 8.00 to 17.00, €10 for groups of 3, €12 alone. Call me soon at 06 2711 7703.

ITALIAN COURSESNEEDED from a native speaker. Email fiorentinap@hotmail.com.

PERSONALS MUSE WANTED Musician,

VOX WANTED Consider yourself savvy, witty, charming & capable of giving great vox?

Think there should be more coverage of global LGBT issues?

Then join Alien, A’dam’s longest running English language radio show, with 2 hrs of queer politics, culture & gossip live on MVS every Sunday. Email alien.hq@gmail.com.

IKEA TUNHEM I would like a 9732-211 IKEA Tunhem bookshelf, at reasonable discount price, either in its box or put together. I can be reached anytime at 6125 555. Thanks!

GUARDIAN/ANGEL? I have the dreams, drive and I’m definitely hard-working! All I need is a financial sponsor... Will you help me to go to school and turn my dreams into reality? If able contact me at dream.school@hotmail.com JOIN PHOTOPROJECT Photographer is looking for partner (photographer) and/or organization/foundation/gallery to help

carry out exiting and very actual photo project exhibition about Dutch and refugee children.

Contact lashawill@gmail.com or call Lasha at 06 4927 8645.

WANTED GRATIS PC & printer for disabled poet/writer/activist on disability allowance. Hope you can help make my friend happy. Reactions via herrad@orange.nl.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED! The Shadow Festival, 21- 29 Nov, looking for volunteers to help during the film festival for various jobs. We can offer you in return the possibility to see all the interesting movies for free!

Please contact belboen @gmail.com for more information and look at www.shadowfestival.nl.

CUTE KITTENS Four female kittens need good home. Please call Debbie at 06 2047 4919 or contact Lin @ British General Stores.

IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY! Are you having your birthday this month? Then I need you for my art project! It will only take very little of your time. Please give me an email, I will be happy to hear from you. Thanx.

Please mail to birthday.project@yahoo.com.

LOVE LIFE What is the love of your life? Is it an animal, person, object, hobby or something else? Share the thing that you get passionate about. To be filmed for documentary and music video. Email loveandhatefilm@gmail.com.