AH-Tap to go, the new cashless system at Albert Heijn-to go, allows customers to shop and pay without standing in lines at the cash register. The system has been implemented as a trial in two AH-to go’s in Amsterdam. Albert Heijn, the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, has recently embraced the cashless trend. In two Albert Heijn-to go stores, it is now possible to pay without cash or card.…
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…
