The last days of September, right after the grape harvest from the northern hemisphere, is the ideal time to celebrate the great taste of wine. The Amsterdam Wine Festival, which took place from September 28 until 30, provided not only a selection of more than 300 different wines from 11 countries, but also various compelling masterclasses and workshops to gain a better insight of the wine preparation and degustation process.…
This year’s Amsterdam Independent Film Festival took place from the September 18 to September 20 Amsterdam’ Lab 111. Entry free, the festival focuses on niche movie production and prioritized a type of non-commercial, film production. American actor Shai Shahar, known for his vocal talent in commercials, ad campaigns, radio jingles and animated films,introduced the main goal of the Independent Film Festival.“The aim of our organization and of this festival is…
Usually, students in Amsterdam can be found in the warm comfort of lecture theatres or seminar rooms, looking at a projector or a whiteboard, assembled behind laptops and writing blocks. This week, they were instead huddled on the steps along the Nieuwe Achtergracht, in the Oosterpark or even on the train between Amsterdam and The Hague. The University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit held over fifty lectures outdoors in…
During the past week, attention at UvA was drawn to the budget cuts, their consequences for education, and the protests against it. The WOinActie-Week started with ‘Yet Another Night of Protest’ on Monday and ended with the ‘March of Education on 2.0’ on Friday, culminating in the dramatic events that unfolded at PC Hoofthuis. The Amsterdammer reported in an earlier article that, according to ASVA head Alba van Vliet, ‘Education…
What if we regularly took the time to sit down and truly understand our bodies and our relation to them? What if we could mute those self-sabotaging voices that dissect and judge our bodies as either “too much” or as “not enough”? These are among the many important questions that were explored by the creative collective ANTI-BODIES during their interactive gathering called “Decolonize Beauty and Our Bodies”. The four women…
On Thursday evening, the Dutch Police prevented a major terrorist attack in the Netherlands. Police reports confirm that seven men, aged from 21 to 34, were arrested in Arnhem, Rotterdam, Vlaardingen and Weert and suspected to prepare a terrorist attack. The investigation regarding these arrests started in April 2018. The main suspect, alleged ringleader, is a 34-year old man with Iraqi origins,. He was previously arrested in 2017 in an…
