Every year at the end of November, the Amsterdam Art Weekend invites thousands of people to enjoy contemporary art. This year, the event took place from November 22 till 25 . According to Arabella Coebergh, the press representative of the event, up to 45,000 people attend the event annually. The event is set up by Amsterdam Art, which is a non-profit organization that specializes in promoting contemporary art of both…
Last Tuesday, about 30 UvA students and activists from Nicaragua protested at CREA Café as part of the SOS Nicaragua-Holanda movement. The event concluded with an act of solidarity. Solange Saballos, a Language and Literature student and cultural reporter, joined the protest through the intermediary of Skype. Saballos fled from Managua to Guatemala after covering the protests at her university, from which she was expelled due to her activities…
Traditions are the foundation of every society – but do we know where they actually come from? Traditions are a form of indoctrination. We grow up in accordance with certain norms and values without thinking about them critically or looking at them from a different perspective. As citizens, we often turn a blind eye to uncomfortable truths about our past. Speaking of traditions that represents the past, is there any…
Lukas Dhont’s debut feature Girl is not your typical coming-of-age story. In this film, Dhont captures adolescence in a mature and thought-provoking way. Girl‘s protagonist is the 16-year old ballet dancer Lara, who struggles with her transsexuality. Besides the daily pressure of perfecting her dancing technique, Lara is preparing for her full transition. She takes hormones, impatiently waits for her breasts to grow, and is slowly, in Lara’s eyes too…
Last Tuesday, Pathé De Munt hosted the screening of Victor Kossakovsky’s Aquarela (2018) as part of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)’s program. IDFA started on November 14 and is up until November 25. Kossakovsky, described as “Russia’s most poetic formalist film-maker at the moment,” dedicates a powerful visual ode to water in all its forms. The title, the Portuguese word for watercolor painting, evokes what the movie is…
All India Bakchod (AIB), one of the most viewed YouTube channels in India, have recently found themselves in a whirlpool of sexual misconduct allegations. In October, a long-term collaborator of the group, Utsav Chakrobarty, was accused by numerous women of sexual misconduct, ranging from unwanted advances and nudes to implying a sexual trade for a feature in AIB content. Several underaged girls also came forward with similar accounts of him…
