Children and adults attended the 80th arrival of Sinterklaas and his servants from Spain in Amsterdam on Sunday. While Saturday saw 30,000 people celebrating their official arrival in the Netherlands in Zaanstad, 400,000 gathered on Sunday in Amsterdam. “I like to call the other arrivals the ‘fake ones’,” said Pam Evenhuis, spokesperson for Sint in Amsterdam, which organises the Amsterdam event. The arrival of Sinterklaas in Amsterdam is the largest…
SIB-Amsterdam, the Dutch United Student Association, presented a lecture on the Rohingya persecution by the Burmese army on November 5 at CREA. The speaker, Sazaat Ahammed, chairman of the Rohingya Development Foundation (RDF), and Dutch journalist Minka Nijhuis, gave their assessment of the current situation in a two-hour lecture to over 100 attendees. Every month, the association presents a topic of actuality. “Rohingya: Fleeing Genocide in Myanmar” was the third…
Among the endless variety of erotic films available with only one mouse click, you may have glossed over the subgenre of ethical porn – and now is the time to make the switch. It is important to rethink one’s impact through seemingly benign actions like watching adult films. In our overly hedonistic times, ethics must be addressed. Sex worker rights are also human rights, and this is often being swept…
Last Thursday, Amsterdam councillors voted to remove the Iamsterdam letters from Museumplein as part of the budget plan for 2019. The sign will be removed in the next couple of weeks. “We are only removing the set on the Museumplein [sic]” said Janine Fluyt, Amsterdam Marketing spokesperson responsible for the I amsterdam brandmanagement. Nothing will be added to replace the void in Museumplein. “The set at Schiphol (Airport) will remain…
On Saturday, November 17, Ice*Amsterdam will open an ice rink to the public at Amsterdam’s Museumplein, marking the start of this year’s seasonal festivities. To accompany it, there will be a Christmas market named “Ice Village”, which will open from the December 14 to December 26 (but will be closed on Christmas day). Furthermore, citizens of Amsterdam will also get a visit from Sinterklaas on Friday, November 30. The company’s…
On October 28, dozens of demonstrators gathered in the Red Light District to protest against Amsterdam’s housing shortage, the sell-out of alternative cultural places and the city’s massive gentrification. The protest ended with the occupation of a building in Oudekerksplein. Michael (an alias, as the interviewee prefers to remain anonymous) has lived in the building since its occupation. He works three jobs, as an employee in a restaurant, as a…
