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December 4, 2009 at 3:37 pm · Filed under Art, Going out, Music, Social Center, Socializing, Theater, concerts
Located on the northern banks of the IJ, NDSM – Werf is an old shipyard transformed in an underground cultural center at the end of the 90’s, when a group of artists, theater people, skaters and architects, known as Kinetisch Noord, approached the city council with a plan to redevelop the place.
The area host the NDSM hall, a hangar of 20,000 sq. meters, and two historic ship reused for housing workshops and artists’ studios. The aim of the project, in fact, is to offer facilities for artistic disciplines, small crafts and independent organization and a place for exhibitions, try-outs, performances, festival and parties. In total there are 10,000 sq. meters of workshops, a 2,000-sq. meter skate park, 4,200 sq. meters for other youth activities and 6,000 sq. meters of exhibition and theater space.
You can easily go there by taking the free ferry in front of the central station.
May 18, 2009 at 10:17 am · Filed under Art, Going out, Music, concerts
At last, after a long sound sleep, the 11th edition of DamoClash is a fact! The comeback is as it should be: on a huge squatted terrain, away from the hectic city-life.
After several festivals at a.o. Afrika, OT301 and the Stubnitz, DamoClash got back together with some old friends to celebrate the bankruptcy of the capitalist system! With fluctuating beer prices, burning banks, their own crisis management and money-printing on demand they will try to create an alternative monetary society.
This time the festival will take place at the squatted ADM. On its huge terrain at the Western Docks, filled with creative minds who have been living there since 1997, an old fashioned explosion of music, poetry, installations, film and theater will see the light of day and the dark of night.
Although the program is never static or certain in any sense, on the left is a preliminary list of artists.
And do not forget: You are DamoClash too! So bring your paint-bombs, bad poetry and godforsaken ideals and spread them around at will amongst the visitors! Jump on the open stage, run around like a bunny or give a speech on the relevance of Emma Goldman in todays society! … or just dress up as a short-seller…
See you there and then!
the Damo- and ADM-Crew
23. May, 16:00 – 04:00
The ADM area – Hornweg 6, Amsterdam
- E-Mail: info@damoclash.nl Website: http://www.damoclash.nl
April 14, 2009 at 4:45 pm · Filed under Cinema, Going out, Socializing, concerts
Shown at Overtoom 301’s cinema “Rok ďábla” (Year of the Devil, Czech Republic, 2002, 88 min.) is a comedic music documentary direct by Petr Zelenka, starring real-life Czech folk-rocker Jarek Nohavica as a fictionalized version of himself. The following musicians act as themselves in the movie: musicians and poets, Jaromir Nohavica and Karel Plihal, Czech folk music band Čechomor, and British musician and composer Jaz Coleman.
The movie won six categories at the 2002 Czech Lion awards.
The plan of the movie
Dutch documentary film maker, Jan Holman, goes to the Czech Republic to make a film about curing alcoholism. In an alcoholics anonymous clinic he meets a mysterious, silent man named Jarek Nohavica who becomes his friend. When Karel Plihal, writer and player of Nohavica’s arrangements, starts to suffer a weird psychological-disease and becomes mute, Jarek decides to go on tour with a funeral band called Čechomor (Czech-Moravian Musical Society) in order to cure his friend and to relieve alcoholic people’s suffering. Jan Holman follows the band with his camera and many inexplicable events take place along the way.
“The greatest attention is attracted by Jaromír Nohavica himself… While all the others continually are seeking something, a kind of absolute knowledge of themselves, whether through God, ritual, music or alcohol, Nohavica is the only one not trying to explain anything. He is striving for nothing, only existing on the screen, perhaps because he discovered this sense within himself long ago and hid it within his songs, which themselves form the impulse for the others to start their own searching. He becomes the symbol and the indication of nearly everything metaphysical that transpires in the film” (reviewer Martina Muziková, Literární noviny, July 22, 2002).
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