[Nederlands onderaan]

While Queeristan is in full swing, we’re looking forward to De Valreep’s food fest on Wednesday.

[Nederlands onderaan]

23 may, 8:00pm, At the Valreep

Foodfest!

A party for our bellies! Feel like cooking and experimenting with food? Learn from each other, drink together, and feast on the results! Make pizza’s in the pizza oven outside, cook on rocket stoves, fry delicious food on the BBQ and create crazy desserts.

Herbert, Baaf, Arne and others are going to make delicious food! Join! Bring some food with you to prepare or enjoy the cooking skills of others.

23 mei, 8 uur, Op de Valreep

Eetfestijn,

Het feest der lusten! Zin om te experimenteren met voedsel? Leer van elkaar, drink met elkaar, om je daarna lekker vol te eten! Maak bijvoorbeeld pizza’s in de pizza oven, kook op rocket stoves, BBQ de lekkerste dingen en maak te gekke desserts!

Herbert, Baaf, Arne en anderen komen geniale dingen koken! Neem zelf dingen mee om klaar te maken, of geniet van kookkunsten van anderen.

Join us in transforming Amsterdam into Queeristan this May 18-20! Workshops, performances, art, encounters, and togetherness will be held at Op De Valreep (Polderweg 620) all weekend.

Queeristan is about providing a space: not only an autonomous space that dodges logics of profit and commercialisation, but also a platform to both explore and counter the normative workings of gender, sexuality and identity. An open space for queers to set out to explore issues of solidarity in times of change, talk about privilege, power, and sex, reclaiming the crisis of bodies and minds.

Queeristan is a safe environment for queers and a factory of resistance. Queeristan wants to be a festival where dissent unpredictably materialises and becomes shareable in a performance, in a workshop, in a work of art, in partying all night long… in fact: there is no fixed formula for queeristan!

Check out the program at De Valreep here.

Nighttime fun goes down at OCCII (Amstelveenseweg 134), and starts Wednesday May 17 with the festival pre-party (featuring queer darlings Lovers), followed by a night of performance and experiment on Friday the 18, and, of course, a monstrous queer party on Saturday May 19.

This Saturday is another Groene Zaterdag Gardening Day. We plan to fill up our communal garden swimming pool with soil and start some new flower beds around the Valreep terrain.

There will be a solar cooking demonstration with solar cooker engineer Roland from Belgium. Renate is bringing white bean salad, carrot dip, zaziki and her homemade hummus dip. Herb is going to bake some pizza, weather permitting. Feel free to bring your own treats to add to the potluck.

Galus Maximus will provide some live music to keep the good vibes flowing.

We’re expecting some nice sun and maybe patches of rain, but however the weather is, we will be coming together.

Vanavond, vanaf 21.30 spelen er weer leuke bands op de valreep!
We verwelkomen Gentle Ben en The Cut/Up,

Gentle Ben (UK)

“We play gigs sometimes. We like playing loud music. We dislike recording. We enjoy cider. Our favorite animal is the capybara.”

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=727287743&ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Gentle-Ben-is-a-band-in-Canterbury/286917577992653

 http://soundcloud.com/gentle-ben

 http://www.myspace.com/gentlebenbandgb

 THE CUT/UP (NL)

The Cut/Up is an indie-rock band from Amsterdam that takes its inspiration from the likes of Hot Snakes, The Afghan Whigs, Cinemechanica, Les Savy Fav, Moving Units and Dinosaur Jr. Dark and distressed lyrics find their place between puzzle-piece guitar riffs and pounding bass parts, driven by a controlled battery of drums.

http://soundcloud.com/blindnotes/sets/thecutupdemo

www.facebook.com/thecutupamsterdam

Squatted Freedom (2012) by João Romão, 50 min.

Since the end of 2011, squatting in The Netherlands is forbidden by law. Despite all conflicts with authorities, the squatters, besides the Provo Movement and other action groups, gave Amsterdam the image of Freedom. This film outlines the history and the situation now.

Workshop: The art of making! 

This Wednesday 9 May, 20.00, De Valreep

Like to build a window garden, use graffiti moss, wanna draw, saw or knit? Bring your own craft project to the Valreep or choose one of our craft projects to work on! We can give you a hand and, of course, a drink to inspire you!

Our crafts projects this week: Window garden and Bird house

Make a Window Garden: a vertical, growing system made from plastic bottles that allows for year-round growing in almost any window. It lets plants use natural window light, the climate control of your living space and is hydroponic without electricity. Please take 3 to 4 bottles with you (we have a limited amount of bottles)

Build a Bird House: give the birds a house this month You can hang it on your balcony, wall or garden, or at the Valreep!

This Wednesday 9 May the Transnational Walk will take place in Amsterdam East.

The event will be at De Valreep 14.00 and 20.00, probably around
14.30/45 and 18.30/45, and will stay for maybe 15/20 minutes.

You can find more information on the Facebook event page

Uit the VS op hun tour door Europa stoppen zij bij ons op de Valreep:
the Signals
Maak je borst nat voor een scherp getunede sound uit Philidelphia

Vooraf the Signals geven The Teardrops hun muziek ten beste. The Teardrops komen voor de tweede keer spelen aangezien jullie er vorige keer niet genoeg van konden krijgen.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1ZxvTw0lI]

Fitzcarraldo is een West-Duitse dramafilm uit 1982 onder regie van Werner Herzog.

Fitzcarraldo wil een operahuis bouwen in het Zuid-Amerikaanse regenwoud. Daarvoor moet hij eerst een vermogen opbouwen in de rubberhandel. Hij wil met de hulp van indianen een boot verplaatsen over een berg.