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Festivals 2010
Film museum Biennale
The fourth Film Museum Biennale will feature groundbreaking films presented at special Amsterdam locations. In cooperation with composers, artists and fellow-institutes, the Film Museum will also draw from its own collection to present programmes on the cutting edge of music, art and film. Special guest will be the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of New York with a selection from its internationally renowned film collection. The Film Museum Biennale will open in the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ with 'The Man with a Camera', the Russian masterpiece from 1926 by the film pioneer Dziga Vertov. The British composer Michael Nyman has written new music for this film
http://www.filmmuseum.nl
Imagine Film Festival
Since its founding in 1984 Imagine (26th Imagine Film Festival) focuses on film followers of the genres fantasy, science fiction, horror, thriller and animation. Films in which the imagination rules.
By identifying new talent, as well as trends and themes Imagine remains up to date and functions as a guide for both genre fans as well as the more general film lovers. Artistic tour de force or popcorn film, low budget or high-tech, Imagine doesn't leave out anything beforehand. Its quality, not status, that's the key.
http://www.imaginefilmfestival.nl
Amsterdam Kleinkunst Festival
The Amsterdam Kleinkunst Festival is the annual highlight of the cabaret season in the Netherlands. Since its founding in 1988, the festival has focused on stimulating the future, honouring the past and crowning quality.
The festival focuses on Kleinkunst in the broadest sense of the word: cabaret, musical and Dutch songs, by producing performances, tributes and several leading awards.
www.amsterdamskleinkunstfestival.nl
Amsterdam Roots Festival
For more than ten years the Amsterdam Roots Festival has ranked amongst the leading international music festivals, presenting frontier-crossing developments in world music to a large, varied audience. The festival is characterised different ethnic backgrounds and music styles and contacts between different population groups.
On Sunday 20 June 2010 the Amsterdam Roots Festival will feature 'Roots Open Air' in Oosterpark a large-scale, free, open-air festival staged in one of Amsterdam's parks. Performances, presentations and workshops of Dutch and foreign music groups will then take place on several platforms and in tents
More info: www.amsterdamroots.nl
Holland Festival
The Holland Festival is the largest performance festival in the Netherlands. Every year it offers a survey of impressive, much-talked-about artistic projects from all over the world.
Theatre, music, dance, opera, film and visual arts, Western and non-Western - all with two common denominators: high artistic quality and an international dimension. The festival also pays attention to the many possible forms of cross-fertilisation between the various disciplines.
More info: www.hollandfestival.nl
ITs Festival Amsterdam
The ITs Festival Amsterdam is the biggest European festival where you can scout a new Dutch and international generation of theatrical talent. The last nine days of June graduating actors, dancers, singers, mime artists, film producers and cabaret artists show their latest work. 30% of the performances are international and all shows are either subtitled, silent or in English. It?s a wonderful opportunity to catch a glimpse of how the performing arts will look in the coming years. Alongside the productions, the festival program is filled with inspiring debates, workshops and talk shows, ending every day with the famous ITs after party.
More info: www.itsfestivalamsterdam.com
Sensation
The 20,000 dance lovers that visited the first edition of Sensation in the Amsterdam ArenA, probably had no idea that this event would become the unprecedented spectacle that it is today. Now, almost ten years later, over half a million clubbers have partaken in this eight-hour long breathtaking night life experience. World-famous DJ's, an unprecedented show with dancers, special effects, aerial acts, fireworks and a strictly respected dress code (white only) have made it that this spectacle seems to become more impressive each year. As tradition has it, Sensation premieres every first weekend of July in the Amsterdam ArenA.
More info: www.sensation.com
Over het IJ Festival
Summer venue theatre
The Over het IJ Festival is the summer venue theatre festival. This year it will take place from 1 until 11 July in the northernmost part of Amsterdam (the Amsterdam Noord district).
More info: www.overhetij.nl
Julidans: beyond fancy steps
The international contemporary dance festival Julidans provides an impression of what is currently going on in the field of dance theatre, and also a look ahead at the future.
More info: www.julidans.nl
Grachtenfestival
The Grachtenfestival (Canal Festival) is an annual music festival based on classical music performances. Each performance is set amongst venues characterised by extraordinary or monumental architecture boasting culturally historical value.
www.grachtenfestival.nl
SAIL Amsterdam 2010
The 8th edition of SAIL will take place from 19 to 23 August 2010. For five days long, the Amsterdam IJ harbour will serve as the backdrop for a festive programme full of music, culture and nautical riches. Preparations are in full swing and the event promises once again to be an un parallel nautical spectacle which includes:
An impressive fleet of Tall Ships from all around the world
A unique collection of Dutch sailing heritage
A variety of modern ships
Various impressive naval ships and replicas
An extensive, accompanying programme on the wharfs
Activities, performances and expositions for young and old
A unique atmosphere with thousands of boats on the water
A daily closing ceremony with a breath-taking fireworks show
and much, much more...
http://sail2010.nl/en
De Parade
Every summer the mobile theatre festival De Parade visits Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Amsterdam, transforming parks and squares into temporary cultural streets lined with dozens of colourful theatre tents.
More info: www.deparade.nl
UItmarkt
The Uitmarkt is the national opening of the cultural season and the largest cultural festival in the Netherlands.
Over the years, the Uitmarkt has evolved into a festival attracting 500,000 visitors and featuring 2,000 performers at more than 30 venues.
More info: www.uitmarkt.nl
Vondelpark Open Air Theatre
The Vondelpark Open-Air Theatre lies in one of the best-known parks in the Netherlands: Vondelpark, a unique part of Amsterdam.
Nowhere else will you find so many different people of different ages, backgrounds and nationalities and from so many different parts of town.
More info: www.openluchttheater.nl
Dutch Theatre Festival
Meet the theatre world during the Dutch Theatre Festival in Amsterdam, which every year marks the end of the old and the beginning of the new theatre season.
More info: www.tf.nl
Amsterdam Dance Event
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the Gateway to the international electronic music scene. As Europe's leading electronic music conference and the world's biggest club festival, it's the perfect time and place to meet with international music minds, introduce your business to an international audience and connect with new music, new trends, new people.
More info: http://www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl
Cinekid
The Cinekid Festival is an annual film, television and new-media festival for children in Amsterdam. Every year more than 50,000 children and (international) guests visit one or more of the five hundred media productions that Cinekid has to offer them: film, documentaries, short films, cartoons, television productions, cross-media productions, interactive installations and workshops. Alongside the main festival in Amsterdam, a satellite programme also featuring the Cinekid films is organised in more than thirty other towns throughout the Netherlands.
More info: www.cinekid.nl
IDFA
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the largest event of its kind in the world. The festival will arrive in Amsterdam on 19 November to begin a ten-day programme packed to bursting point. IDFA's rising popularity guarantees that 2009 will once again see hoards of film-hungry visitors race to the capital to catch one (or more) of the staggering 300 creative documentaries on offer.
More info: www.idfa.nl
Time out in Amsterdam:
http://clubjudge.com/
http://www.amsterdamsuitburo.nl/
http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/portal
http://www.partypeeps2000.com
http://amsterdam.recreatief.nl/
http://www.partyscene.nl
What going on in Amsterdam for Children:
Filmmuseum
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
From 07/02/2010 to 17/02/2010
Mel Stuart's original filming of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory returns to the silver screen at the Amsterdam Film Museum.
http://www.filmmuseum.nl
Children’ Concert
From 7/02/10- 07/03/10
What's inside that piano that makes it appear to be playing of its own accord? Mozart's Turkish March, songs from The Sound of Music and Madonna's Material Girl - switch on a motor or play piano with your feet and you'll get to hear them
http://www.pianola.nl/Pianola_Museum/Welcome.html
Storytelling for infants and toddlers
From December to 30/03/10
One hour of singing, watching and listening for English infants and toddlers and their (grand)parents.
http://www.oba.nl
Sound Garden ('KlankSpeeltuin')
From February to 31/03/10
The Sound Garden is not an ordinary playground. This is where children play with sound. Not on ordinary instruments, but with sound installations that stimulate the musical imagination. Play the OMNI, the Parason and the XenaX and compose your own music!
http://www.muziekgebouw.nl |
