WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
Sun 3rd 17:30-21:00 Creative Collective Celebration
with Pesto_Lab
Are you too busy to join our two-day workshop? We have something for you!
Sunday, the 3rd of March, join our party to celebrate the Collective Artwork realised by our Creative participants!
We will have a debate on Collectiveness, and then the music and dance start!!
The venue will host a @pestolab_ams pop-up, so you’ll have the chance to get their amazing Italian food.
The celebration is open to everyone. Bring your energy and appetite.
Sat 2nd - Sun 3rd - Creative Collective Workshop
It’s going to be at What is Happening Here Gallery and run by the sparkling and brilliant artist Job Reuten!
Participants are going to receive a poster designed by Lunatic Mora and they are going to create a collective work of art which is going to be exhibited permanently in the gallery.
At the end of the second day, there’s a final party to celebrate the work, with music, food and drinks together.
We are looking forward to see all of you!!
Click Here To Purchase Your Ticket
Do not hesitate to ask for information: +39 346594803
JANUARY 2024
Sunday 28th - VIDA’S SHOW 6PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
TIMING IS DIVINE = A DRUMMING RITUAL; a performance of LOUDNESS, RHYTHM and DRIVE. Inspired by sexy stars = rock stars / celestial deities - this 30min drum / vocal solo recites the gnostic poem “The Thunder, Perfect Mind” (4th century AD) as well as cheesy love songs and Swedish folk music. By playing with the themes of numerology, holy patterns, chaos / order - the aim is to trigger physical sensation, possibly invoking a hypnotic state in the audience. Sprung from the desire to tell another story, which ultimately may not be comprehended on top of the ambient chaos - but rather felt. Shit is complicated. Let this be an exorcism.
( WARNING > LOUDNESS )
https://youtu.be/ZkdDpR5v2Rg?si=nmLugAjzkUO7Pv6Z
https://vidavojic.hotglue.me/?TIMING%20IS%20DIVINE/
ARTIST BIO
Vida Vojić is a performance and music artist from Gothenburg, Sweden. Her current work focuses on drumming as a means of amplifying input, triggering physical vibrations and awakening alternate states. This accompanies her vocal, scenographic and poetic expressions that draw on her research into theology, posthumanism, music as magic, alternative conceptions of time and the nature of change.
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Past events:
JANUARY 2024
Friday 12th - CAKE? a performance by Lile Khajavi
DECEMBER 2023
Friday 8th -The Market
Friday 15th -Art and drinks with Adèle Houssin 17:00-22:00
Saturday 16th - Meet Izadora 17:30-22:00
Izadora - The poet, alongside her muses, creates a symphony of emotions that resonate with the soul.
We explore together, tasting an experimental fusion of poetry, music, and food for the soul, blurring the lines between the written word and visual expression.
NOVEMBER 2023
Thursday 2nd - Dia de Muertos 14:00-22:30
THE DAY OF THE DEAD: with Ancestor Cacao, Celebrating life in solidarity with the Heart of the World and Zapatista land
A Fiesta to honor the Cacao plant and food, remember ancestral wisdom, and celebrate LIFE together!
CELEBRATING THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Get your tickets here! (12euro presale; 15euro at the door)
Saturday 4th - Walk-in Sound Healing with LEO
Get ready to enjoy some soothing frequencies, blissful ambiance sounds, and resonances during this free WALK-INN SOUNDHEALING with Leo.
Leo Melcherts is a transformational music composer, DJ, and event organizer and loves to use healing frequencies, Tibetan bowls, soundscapes, room resonances, gongs, and other instruments to get you into a meditative relaxed state.
He will walk around and give personal treatments to the listeners present to give you a break from the everyday rat race and get in touch with your inner self-healing mechanism.
During this open walk-in performance, he will also use modern resonance frequencies to use the What’s Happening Here building to find beneficial resonances within the space to enhance the listening and feeling experience.
SO… What are you waiting for? Join us on a relaxing sound journey experience anywhere between 17:00 - and 22:00.
For more info: www.leomelcherts.com
Insta: www.instagram.com/leomelcherts
Sunday 5th - film begins at 21:00
Brain Salad Cinema - WIHH Gallery
entrance by donation
Jeffrey Babcock, movie selection and introduction
ELECTRIC DRAGON 80.000V (2001)
Directed by Sogo Ishii (Gakurû Ishii)
60 minutes
In Japanese with English subtitles
This ultra-bizarre flick is the product of 50 years of weird and offbeat Japanese cinema. It is both reaching back to influences in the past, but it is also pushing things forward at high speed.
Director Sogo Ishii trampled the Japanese cultural landscape of the late 70s with his volatile films that embraced the blistering music scene in Tokyo. The films were frantic, with an incredible frenzy that would influence an entirely new genre that I referred to as cyberpunk cinema.
He did this in films like Burst City and Crazy Thunder Road. His films were never big on story, often hanging by a thread, and instead amplified a delirious mood and ecstatic vision.
The entire movie opens up with a beautiful introduction to reptiles. The narration is a bit philosophical and dismisses the idea that dragons are mythical creatures, and goes on to say that dragons still exist deep inside our souls.
The movie then goes on to tell the tale of two young boys who were both exposed to electricity. One was climbing an electricity tower and got a massive shock, and the other was struck by a bolt of lightning.
The first one becomes a reptile detective when he gets older, operating a business looking for people’s lost pet lizards. His office is full of creatures, hiding in corners, crawling along the walls.
One day he crosses the path of the other boy who now has become half-cyborg and calls himself Thunderbolt Buddha.
This leads to a surreal confrontation, set to clashing electric guitar riffs that soar from heaven to hell. Once again, as with all of Ishii’s films, this movie is not big on the storyline but is more of a mood piece - but what a rapturous mood!
The crystal clear monochrome cinematography is paired with a deranged music score ranging from a Ramones-like euphoria to beautiful noise. This film has a bright, highly charged Manga-ish spirit, a pure gonzo cinematic trip - a prism of rich exploding visuals and sound.
There will also be a short film before the feature.
Saturday 25th -ACA Analog Event #16 - 10am
OCTOBER 2023
Saturday 21st - ADE
Thursday 26th - Purpose Single release party 6:30-9:00
Styling by @nieuwdada
Photography by @getahunzagai
This Thursday, we celebrate the release of their new single “Purpose” in which Hip Hop meets Metal. It will kick off at 7 pm, the first act to perform at 8/8:15 and the event will finish at 9 pm. We will be joined by Quanza, Michael Ekow, and May.
Catch you there. IN HUSTLER MONEY WE TRUST!
Monday 30th - The Connection Playground (An Experimental Event Launch) 6:00-9:00
This event promises to be a hub of positive energy and transformative experiences. Immerse yourself in a variety of interactive activities, and moments of connection.
Those of you who know me well, know that I don't like to succumb to cultural norms. So when the idea of a book launch came up in my hometown of Amsterdam, I did not want it to be drab and uneventful. I decided to turn the book into an experience.
On the eve of Halloween (October 30th), the Connection Playbook will morph into The Connection Playground.
What's in store? I've secured a three-story building and invited my incredibly talented friends to join us for an event filled with interactive, fun, and immersive activities. You'll have the chance to experience the Connection Book in its playful playground form.
And here's the exciting part: every purchase receives a complimentary book! It's only EUR20, which is less than the cost of the book. This offer is available for the first 60 participants.
Expect an event that's not just enjoyable but also filled with playful and experiential moments – because that's how I like everything in my life!
SEPTEMBER 2023
Sunday 10th - Eskedar Genene Opening
Friday 15th- Saturday 16th - Prince Bink
Saturday 16th - César Lüttger & Maite Hes
Thursday 21st - film begins at 21:00
Brain Salad Cinema - WIHH Gallery
entrance by donation
Jeffrey Babcock, movie selection and introduction
Les Valseuses (1974) (Going Places) Directed by Bertrand Blier
113 minutes
In French with English subtitles
This will be a high-definition screening
This is personally one of my favorite films from French 70s cinema... I think I have seen it about 25 times and I am still looking forward to seeing it again on Thursday!
It has the right kind of subversive black humor that makes it totally unique, and it’s totally unpredictable and stereotyped.
This film is almost 50 years old and it’s still as fresh as when it was made, and there’s certainly enough sting in it to ruffle a few feathers.
The film is an outrageous, surreal, and provocative portrait of two decadent drifters... Jean-Claude (Gerard Depardieu in the role that made him famous overnight) and Pierrot (cult star Patrick Dewaere) who aimlessly travel the French countryside in pursuit of petty theft and women.
Uninterested in a middle-class life, they have decided to go out and live their lives according to their own code of behavior.
They allow real life to determine their fate, not society or governments. But when their abduction of a frigid young beautician (Miou-Miou) becomes frustrating, they find solace in the arms of an ex-convict (the legendary and incandescent Jeanne Moreau). Isabelle Huppert also co-stars in this groundbreaking and controversial debut film from director Bertrand Blier that scandalized audiences worldwide.
I should also mention that the lively soundtrack is by Django Reinhardt’s partner Stéphane Grappelli.
With Jeanne Moreau, Miou-Miou, Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and a very young Isabelle Huppert. What a cast! And what a wonderful film...
Friday 22nd - Temple Mugoba - an ode to the unborn & Three Goddesses - connect with your inner light
Opening Friday 22 September
17:00 Temple Music by Isis
18:00 Artist Talk
19:00 Soup & snacks
20:00 After / Dancing
Hope to see you there.
Love Roosien & Marjolein
https://www.marjoleinvanderwal.com/
https://roosienverlaan.nl/portfolio/mugoba-een-ode-aan-het-ongeborene/
Reserve a ticket by emailing [email protected]: €7.50 per performance. See the program at www.roosienverlaan.nl and check out other goddesses at https://www.marjoleinvanderwal.com/
Friday 29th - Nouks collection 2023 - deNíM
Saturday 30th - Korina Kljaić - aftertaste series
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
AUGUST 2023
Thursday 3rd - 17:00-21:00
VOGUE by Mahmoud Vasefi
I have known Vogue magazine since my childhood in Iran. Every day on my way to school, my gaze would involuntarily scan the numerous magazines displayed in the stalls lined up along the main road. Soon my gaze turned into a voluntary focus on Vogue as it beamed brightly amongst the others!
In time I gathered the courage to approach the stalls and I would sheepishly reach for the attractive colourful Vogue. With my eyes, I devoured the images of beautiful ladies dressed in the most fashionable modern designs, with spellbinding jewelry adorning their slim necks, arms, and long fingers, highlighted by exceptionally sexy and unprecedented hairstyles.
With the onset of the Islamic Revolution, censorship began and those elegant, classy magazines were no longer allowed into the country. Owning copies soon became an offense punishable by law. Those dazzling publications were soon replaced by heart-wrenching, blood-curling images of war and bloodshed.
As the years passed, magazines like Vogue remained banned. However, from time to time I’d come across an issue or two, if I was lucky, with friends who came back home on holiday. While life in Iran had changed substantially, Vogue remained as stylish as ever, projecting the image that life was still beautiful.
Having studied art at university, in later years I returned to Vogue as a source of inspiration and gradually, something caught my attention: Gender issues. In time, I decided to paint my very own Vogue covers from memory, reflecting my surroundings and embodying the passage of time, space, gender, nationality, and religion…
My Vogue series is partly a compilation of self-imposed censorship, a series that I painted in my last years still living in my beloved country of Iran in 2011. They reflect my own being, who had been censored until then, much like Vogue, which was not only censored but totally banned, affirming the censorship of sexual minorities in Iran. I’ve tried to remain positive throughout my life and my paintings reflect not only the sheer callousness of reality but also the beauty and humor that surround us.
In life, I’d rather focus on beauty than anger and unseemliness, where love will forever remain untarnished and pure.
LOVE IS LOVE
Sunday 6th - 13:00-22:00
RED SUMMER by CODE RED
Immerse yourself in a space filled with art, dance, music and performances
Saturday 12th - 19:00
SANDRA KLUGE
Thursday 17th - film begins at 21:00
Brain Salad Cinema - WiHH Gallery
entrance by donation
Jeffrey Babcock, movie selection and introduction
THE HARDER THEY COME (1972) Directed by Perry Henzell
103 minutes
In Jamaica English with English subtitles This will be a high-definition screening
This is director Peter Henzell’s all-Jamaican 1972 classic, one of the most beloved and longest-running of all cult favorites of all time. It is a gritty, groundbreaking, and truly legendary film that tells the story of Ivan
(Jimmy Cliff), an aspiring young singer-turned-outlaw, at war with everything around him - Jamaica’s music industry, the police, and his rivals in the ganja trade. In the end, this single film packs more gusto and sheer excitement than all of the features Hollywood is cranking out these days combined.
A prime example of ‘outlaw cinema’. It also works wonderfully well as an anthropological exploration of 1970s Kingston - documenting all its squalor, desperation, and desolation. But it is also a riveting movie about poverty, false dreams, ambition, and city life... about police and thieves, and how sometimes they aren’t so different from each other. It’s a ‘slice of life’s drama, and by the way, it is also very un-politically correct on many levels.
I know many would disagree, but personally, I feel we need to keep experiencing things that we don’t agree with, otherwise, we are in danger of falling into dogma. After all, life is a maze and a spectrum, with so many levels and variations and with many working parts, so I feel we can’t apply an easy black-and-white agenda to it.
The soundtrack is one of the most famous in the history of cinema with songs by Jimmy Cliff, The Maytals (Pressure Drop), The Slickers (Johnny Too Bad), and Desmond Dekker.
So I hope you are able to join us at the Brain Salad Cinema as we head South for this rebellious, temperamental, and fierce motion picture!
Friday 25th - 17:00 - Electrosuppe
Cosmic guys, come to us this Friday in Amsterdam @wihhgallery Start at 17.00
Anti Saunt from Cologne, Germany will play her extraordinary DJ set of Electrosuppe
Also, INOYSON’s piano-cinematic-acoustic vibes will be with us.
More info about artists:
Anti Saunt - the designer and music producer Anti Saunt from Cologne will serve you some sweets for your gustatory perception so you can taste the sweet electronic sounds she will be putting you on the plate.
http://demerouti.de/anti-saunt/
She is also the founds of the FINT DJ Event Electrosuppe:
https://instagram.com/electrosuppe?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Ukrainian artist INOYSON (experimental music, alternative jazz, neo-classic, trip-hop, cinematic music)
INOYSON - is the universe of lucid dreams of a Ukrainian composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound producer, singer-songwriter, and laureate of many international competitions of piano, vocal, and composition.
The style of this musician is cinematic music of imaginary movies, which you can see in your mind while listening to the songs of this composer.
Also, INOYSON composes music for movies, cartoons, and musicals.
Conduct the Imagination with INOYSON
Instagram: www.instagram.com/inoyson
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@inoyson?si=m4-EGwIKoXoFK7lv
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5nyFpiqAnifsvfFH199bz5?si=Qx6-fsRJRqyG3XcKsFM3Zg
Saturday 26th - 17:00-22:30
Nuances
Whether you are an artist looking for a platform to showcase your work, or a fan of art looking for something new and exciting, we welcome you to join us in our celebration of the diversity and depth of the human experience.
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
JULY 2023
Sunday 2nd - 18.00 - 22:30
Michael Ekow & May
Solo Pop-up
A release party for Michael Ekow & May’s next single Solo.
The idea behind the event was to curate a multidisciplinary lineup that presents the idea of individualism as a form of unity.
Breaking ourselves free of narratives ascribed to us.
Via Art, Dance, and Live Music
The Line Up:
Michael Ekow & May
Oskar Billy
Annalisa & Dicko
Gurb
Lisa van Oosten
Getahun Zagai
Yunil Jeon
Ciara Anastasia Hiwat & Cherise Seedorf
Immerse yourself in a space filled with art, dance, music, and performances.
Friday 7th - 17:00-21:30
Lile Khajavi presents the performance 3 Hidden Acts
- Is Bela Lugosi dead?
An artistic experience coming up thanks to Lile Khajavi just landed from Australia to share her art with us.
Together with some of our newly added artists presenting their new artworks.
Come early to save a seat and actively participate in the performance.
Immerse yourself in a space filled with art, dance, music and performances.
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
Thursday 13th - the film begins at 21:00
Brain Salad Cinema - WiHH Gallery
entrance by donation
Jeffrey Babcock, movie selection and introduction
FORBIDDEN ZONE (1980) Directed by Richard Elfman
74 minutes, high-definition screening in English with English subtitles
This wild unclassifiable ultra-cult film has been called many things... trashy, off-the-wall, bizarre, and freaky. A psychotic Wizard of Oz theme runs through this baffling cinematic cocktail about a mysterious door that leads to
the 6th dimension - a realm of spiritual and musical madness.
This movie is a deranged concoction of a wild group of musicians-performers called Oingo Boingo.
The Oingo Boingo music-art group would update old tunes from old Hollywood B-films and transform them into surreal musical spectacles.
The director’s brother Danny Elfman made the music for this movie, and
he would later end up composing most of the scores for Tim Burton’s films, along with the main theme of The Simpsons.
In the end, it’s a sort of circus freak show, expanded to lunatic proportions, complete with German expressionist set designs and lighting.
It was created by a lot of unknown artists who were starting out,
and would later become legendary... besides the people mentioned above, another example is Matthew Bright, who would go on to direct the free-wheeling thriller Freeway.
This is a cinema of the imagination, stuffed with strange characters, dreamy situations and mind-blowing musical numbers.
Think early David Lynch or John Waters... but actually, this delirious film is in a league of its own.
Friday 14th - 17:00
The fourth drawing class of the Barlaeus Gymnasium will close their school year with the exhibition Heat Your Art Out!
They have recently been working on an upcycling art project: each student has created a new series of artworks with or from a discarded object. So don't expect detailed drawings or finished paintings at this exhibition: this project was all about experimentation.
Mission: try as many different things as possible, fail, don't be afraid, and have fun.
And so in the Barlaeus' art classrooms, various items were recently dismantled, pasted, thrown down the stairs, and dipped in paint. There was out-of-the-box thought, fiddling and playing. We are very happy to show the results of these artistic investigations to you at What Is Happening Here Gallery.
Immerse yourself in a space filled with art, dance, music and performances.
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
Friday 21st - 14:30-16:00
Emily try-out by Misiconi
In this performance, created by Manouk Schrauwen, five dancers from Misiconi tell the story of Emily. In 1800, Coventry Patmore wrote the poem "The Angel in the House”. His wife Emily, symbolised the ideal wife and woman. Angelic, charming, gracious, sympathetic, self-sacrificing, submissive and pure. An important counterpoint written by Virginia Woolf, "Killing the Angel in the House," is a driving force in this performance. An ode to Emily, an ode to women. Who she could have been if she had lived today. The dancers reflect on oppression but, above all, show their vulnerability, strength, and connection.
Emily is produced by Misiconi. Misiconi Company is a Rotterdam-based dance company that shows an alternative reality in which diversity is the greatest asset. With artistically high-quality dance pieces, they perform nationally and internationally with a mixed group of dancers in equal collaboration. Misiconi Company focuses on the artistic collaboration between individuals, paying close attention to how the individual can reach for his or her potential within the collective. The company has a permanent core of dancers who work both on a project basis and structurally. Misiconi is colorful, unique, interdisciplinary, and diverse.
Credits
Choreography and concept: Manouk Schrauwen
Dancers: Anastasia Janssen, Enya Straver, Susanne van der Staak, Suzanne Lamers, Sunai Elbers, Sanne Knop
Dramaturgy: Floor Cremers
Artistic direction: Joop Oonk
Produced and under the artistic direction of Stichting Misiconi
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
Friday 28th - 18:00-21:00
Opening LINGERIE QUEEN | Natalja UP-CLOSE
Immerse yourself in a space filled with art, dance, music and performances
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
JANUARY 2023
FRIDAY JANUARY 13 16:30 CET-18:30
FRIDAY JANUARY 27 16:30 CET-18:30
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
Let’s raise a toast to the New Year ????
Participate in one of the two Web3 investor and business meetups in Amsterdam, organised by Reltime, an up-and-coming Layer 1 blockchain and fintech for good going global.
Peter Michel Heilmann, CEO of the Norwegian company, will be delighted to share with you his vision of the New World of Finance. With its game-changing business model and the world’s first Web3 financial ecosystem, Reltime is empowering millions of people, businesses and communities to take back control of their finances, assets and identity in an inclusive, trustworthy and transparent way.
Meet and mingle with your peers, including like-minded business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, disrupters and financial pioneers.
When: Friday, January 13 or Friday, January 27, 2023.
Doors open at 16:30 (until 18:30).
Venue: What is Happening Here Gallery, Reguliersdwarsstraat 73, Amsterdam (a 2,200 m2 contemporary art and NFT gallery space located in a former bank building where then-Queen Beatrix used to have her private vault, now turned into the magnificent “Golden Room”)
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be served.
These two special events form part of Reltime’s pre-IPO roadshow in Amsterdam, Davos (January 16-20), Stockholm (January 23-24) and Göteborg (January 25).
See you in Amsterdam!
NOVEMBER 2022
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
THIS EXPERIENCE IS INVITE-ONLY
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE THE WEBSITE https://theaudienceispresent.com/
TO REQUEST YOUR INVITATION
CALL THE WiHHH GALLERY+31624677381
OR
EMAIL US [email protected]
At the heart of Amsterdam, we collaborated across communities to show the power of Web3 that lies within co-creation, democratization, diversity & inclusion
We invite you on a journey to explore a parallel reality that already exists but not much understood
"The Audience is Present" takes the idea of “present” as its central theme with the aim of discovering the society we live in.
It was inspired by the concept of the performance "The Artist is Present" by Marina Abramović confronting audiences from rich and diverse backgrounds on various platforms in Amsterdam's city center by taking into consideration social and political challenges in addition to emotional, intellectual, and physical ones.
NFT & blockchain make this connection permanent.
From locking eyes in The 'Artist is Present' to a complete artist/audience merge with a cryptographic lock in royalties and ownership on the blockchain.
The beauty of community lies within the collaborative culture
From art collection to movement
We feel the global state of an unfair world, and we would like to speak up and show a new culture that is accelerated by the adoption of new technologies, Web3.
We are all humans and we have our rights and Web3 opens a new era with its core values of community, co-creation, democratization and inclusivity.
The event goes around “The Audience is Present” art collection that puts the eccentric audience at the center of attention and locks the moment in cryptography and a fair split of ownership.
We were inspired by “The Artist is present” performance by Marina Abramović and her recent NFT collection on Tezos. By entering the technological space, her goal was “to inspire a new generation of heroes to rise up and give a bit of light to a world desperately in need of hope".
We create a historical movement to let new audience experience Web3 space in a non-standard setup that blends the vibe of a performance, meetup, conference and festival. We would like to deliver a feeling of safety and freedom awakening the natural curiosity to enter space and adopt new technologies.
THIS EXPERIENCE IS INVITE-ONLY
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE THE WEBSITE https://theaudienceispresent.com/
TO REQUEST YOUR INVITATION
CALL THE WiHHH GALLERY+31624677381
OR
EMAIL US [email protected]
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
OCTOBER 2022
B-MOVIE: LUST AND SOUND IN WEST BERLIN
2014
Directed by Jörg Hoppe, Heiko Lange and Klaus Maeck
92 minutes
In German and English, with English subtitles
West Berlin in the 1980s was a hotbed of creativity, sex, music and chaos... a special lifestyle had been created by a very unique situation. Anyone who wanted to live without earning money (and also didn't want to join the army), could go to that divided heaven and live freely.
Remember, this is when the infamous Berlin Wall was still in place, and it created an incredible energy that rippled throughout the city. Everyday life hadn't been commercialized yet, and the dark, wild side of life was explored to the max. I know, because I was there.
This is a documentary that throws itself headlong into that era, and collects together images and sounds from Berlin in its heyday. It has been described as a "documentary and a declaration of love rolled into one". I can understand that, because it was an extremely special time and place. In this film we have Blixa Bargeld skinny as a rake getting drunk in a local hangout, and Nick Cave being meditative in his Berlin flat.
The avant-garde band DieTödliche Doris sing in a vast mud-hole called Potsdamer Platz, which today looks like a huge commercial shopping mall. Amid all this chaos is the bewildered and amazed Mancunian musician Mark Reeder who documents it. B-movie captures the young bohemians, the lowlifes, the artists and the decadents who all inter-dependently created
Berlin into a cultural tour de force.
As one critic put it: "Everything was possible, nothing seemed forbidden in this island city in the middle of the GDR. In the last decade before the fall of the wall, West Berlin had become a centre for artists, squatters, subversive ideas, subcultures, drugs, trash, ugliness and passion."
This will be a high-definition projection.
BRAIN SALAD CINEMA @WIHH
Reguliersdwarsstraat 73
Amsterdam
Film begins at 21:00
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
Entrance - WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
Friday 14th - Sunday 23rd
Het Krakeling Festival
Amsterdam, verbeeld je maar iets!
Elk jaar in oktober gaan we los met het Krakeling Festival: tien dagen lang de meest verrassende en bijzondere jeugdtheatervoorstellingen / belevingen op diverse locaties in Amsterdam. Met Theater De Krakeling op Cultuurpark Westergas als kloppend festivalhart.
Laat je verbeelding stromen en kom deze herfstvakantie naar Het Krakeling Festival!
#KrakelingFestival #verbeeldingskracht
Dit jaar werken we samen met festivalpartners: ITA, Theater Bellevue en What Is Happening Here Gallery
But what is a Happening? An event is something you cannot do on your own, any more than you can be a football team, a choir or a dance floor on your own. This event is perhaps most like making a sand castle together. They are only there for a very short time, you build them and you leave them behind or the sea comes, but that's not the point, it's the moment you build them. Theater collective Nineties is building an unusual theater ritual in a very special place in the middle of Amsterdam. Be welcome and join us!
Nineties is a theater collective that creates incisive contemporary work, playing with elements of visual arts, digital media, literature, music and performance. Nineties is making a youth version of their performance Bring Back The Happening especially for the Krakeling , which was shown earlier this year for an adult audience.
This special experience is played in the What is Happening Here Gallery : Reguliersdwarsstraat 73.
SEPTEMBER 2022
Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST 2022
Grande Lodge My Damsko Days (45 minutes)
18:45
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST 2022
Grande Lodge My Damsko Days (45 minutes)
21:15
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND 2022
Grande Lodge My Damsko Days (45 minutes)
18:45
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND 2022
Grande Lodge My Damsko Days (45 minutes)
21:15
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH 2022
Betal Ozay Goodbye Erdogan (45 minutes)
19:30
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH 2022
Betal Ozay Goodbye Erdogan (45 minutes)
19:15
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH 2022
Nasim Four Weddings (50 minutes)
19:00
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH 2022
Betal Ozay Goodbye Erdogan (45 minutes)
20:15
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH 2022
Nasim Four Weddings (50 minutes)
21:30
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH 2022
Nasim Four Weddings (50 minutes)
16:00
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH 2022
Betal Ozay Goodbye Erdogan (45 minutes)
17:30
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Amsterdam Fringe Festival, September @WiHH Gallery
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH 2022
Nasim Four Weddings (50 minutes)
19:00
program & tickets online
tickets via poster with QR code in the entrance
entrance 30 minutes before the performances
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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AUGUST 2022
Sunday August 28th 2022
Rockers 1979
Film begins at 21:00
Directed by Theodoros Bafaloukos
In Rasta Patois with English subtitles
99 minutes,
a high-definition screening
Bursting out of Jamaica when the music scene was hottest comes
this flick that explores the culture, social restrictions and music of the
Rasta world.
The livelihood of our main character is dependent on his bicycle,
and when it is stolen he is determined to get it back.
This leads into a confrontation with the local mafia, and a journey
that many have referred to as a Robin Hood saga set in Trenchtown.
It is more humorous and feelgood than many other films coming out of
Jamaica, and it is also more ‘professional’ and colorful... making it
easily the most popular of all the movies that dealt with this subculture.
It is a glowing work that radiates with a very special energy.
Besides the story line, what we have here is a film that documents
the class struggle in Kingston and the ganja-fueled existence of people
who lived in the urban shantytowns.
It is about fighting for a sense of community while the same time
recording the flourishing music scene.
The soundtrack is absolutely legendary, gathering together some of the most crucial musicians to
ever hit vinyl, many of these musicians have minor roles as actors as
well: Peter Tosh, Tobbie Shakespeare, Burning Spear,
Gregory Isaacs, Inner Circle.
Le Monde: "Rockers is not a film, it is a work of art."
BRAIN SALAD CINEMA
Presented by Jeffrey Babcock
@ WIHH Gallery
Reguliersdwarsstraat73
Film begins at 21:00
a high-definition screening
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
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Entrance - WIHH Gallery Donations by choice welcome
SATURDAY August 27TH 2022
Begins @18:30-23:00
Rebroadcasting the Live Festimony from CAMPING BUITENLAND STIELTJES KANAAL 14,Go in person and see it in real life in ZANDPOL
or
come to the @WiHH Gallery to see it rebroadcasted live in the Gallery as we celebrate the moon and witness the burning jointly
The new moon phase is a more introspective time and represents new beginnings as we plant seeds for the future. It's a good time to set clear intentions for the month ahead, clarify your goals, start new projects, and acknowledge your growth since the previous new moon.
You are invited to the NEW MOON burning ceremony, signified by the release of the NFT made by Tashi Norbu during full moon. The ceremony facilitates a place to connect / network together, close old projects and celebrate new beginnings. With a traditional Tibetan meditation guided by Tashi Norbu, the ceremony will be opened and closed. Simultaneously, we will light a candle or incense which symbolizes seeking out light and hope, on this darkest day of the month.
You will have the opportunity to burn either the painting you made during the full moon gathering, or anything else you need to let go of.
If you are as excited as we are to participate, come and join us.
Every Month, Lama Tashi Norbu creates a new physical artwork during a Full Moon Art Gathering. During half moon this physical artwork will be transformed into a series of NFT’s by his creative team. Subsequently, the NFT series will be released onto the Ethereum / Polygon Blockchain accompanied with a New Moon Art Burning Ceremonie. This ceremonie will be opened and closed with a traditional tibetan meditation and aims to connect, share good energy , make music , create art and network with eachother. With this in mind, we hope to create more oneness and shine positivity into the here and now.
An unique NFT project around the extraordinary art made by Lama Tashi Norbu; a classical trained Tibetan artist and human rights activist. The collection consists of NFT art pieces created on the day of full moon to capture the special energy it brings forth, later tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain. We invite u to take part in this amazing community that is powered by love to reduce the endless suffering and ignorance.
Artist Tashi Norbu (Tibetan, b. 1974) was educated as a traditional Tibetan thangka painter at the office of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. Born in Bhutan in exile, Norbu has Belgian citizenship, and lives and works in Emmen, in the Netherlands. He received his formal western artistic training at the Saint Lucas Academy of Visual Arts in Ghent, Belgium. As a result of this diverse background, his artwork is an amalgamation of both worlds, the fundamentals of Tibetan and Buddhist traditions and the influence of western art mediums, concepts, and icons.
● Raise self awareness
● Help to raise your frequency
● Connecting people
● Inspire others
● Sharing of ancient knowledge
● Reduce endless suffering in the world
● Support MOCTA
● Give back to nature
With the full moon gatherings and new moon ceremonies, firstly, we aim to raise self-awareness, by using meditative practices and ancient breath works (Tummo), to gain introspection. This in turn will help you raise your frequency.
Secondly, these ceremonies and the NFT art facilitates a time and space to connect with like-minded people. Together, creative skills will be shared and explored, hopefully gaining new inspiration.
The ceremonies will be centred around the ancient knowledge and practices of lama Tashi Norbu. This again is supported by MOCTA, the one and only Tibetan contemporary art museum in the world located in Emmen. Here we have the opportunity to see this ancient knowledge in practice, observing all of Tashi’s work. 50% of each sale goes to the MOCTA Museum to partially transform it into the First Contemporary Tibetan NFT Art museum.
We support the free tibet movement, reducing suffering overall.
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Friday August 12 2022
Begins @20:00-00:30
Live art painting by Lama Tashi Norbu
Meditation
Live music accompanying the art creation and meditation guided by Lama Tashi Norbu
Introduction to NFtibet Art created to preserve the cultural heritage in this new medium of expression facilitated by Web3 adn blockcain technology and developed with the NFtibet team see the vision of the experience planned for those who join in
Every Month, Lama Tashi Norbu creates a new physical artwork during a Full Moon Art Gathering. During half moon this physical artwork will be transformed into a series of NFT’s by his creative team. Subsequently, the NFT series will be released onto the Ethereum / Polygon Blockchain accompanied with a New Moon Art Burning Ceremonie. This ceremonie will be opened and closed with a traditional tibetan meditation and aims to connect, share good energy , make music , create art and network with eachother. With this in mind, we hope to create more oneness and shine positivity into the here and now.
An unique NFT project around the extraordinary art made by Lama Tashi Norbu; a classical trained Tibetan artist and human rights activist. The collection consists of NFT art pieces created on the day of full moon to capture the special energy it brings forth, later tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain. We invite u to take part in this amazing community that is powered by love to reduce the endless suffering and ignorance.
Artist Tashi Norbu (Tibetan, b. 1974) was educated as a traditional Tibetan thangka painter at the office of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. Born in Bhutan in exile, Norbu has Belgian citizenship, and lives and works in Emmen, in the Netherlands. He received his formal western artistic training at the Saint Lucas Academy of Visual Arts in Ghent, Belgium. As a result of this diverse background, his artwork is an amalgamation of both worlds, the fundamentals of Tibetan and Buddhist traditions and the influence of western art mediums, concepts, and icons.
● Raise self awareness
● Help to raise your frequency
● Connecting people
● Inspire others
● Sharing of ancient knowledge
● Reduce endless suffering in the world
● Support MOCTA
● Give back to nature
With the full moon gatherings and new moon ceremonies, firstly, we aim to raise self-awareness, by using meditative practices and ancient breath works (Tummo), to gain introspection. This in turn will help you raise your frequency.
Secondly, these ceremonies and the NFT art facilitates a time and space to connect with like-minded people. Together, creative skills will be shared and explored, hopefully gaining new inspiration.
The ceremonies will be centred around the ancient knowledge and practices of lama Tashi Norbu. This again is supported by MOCTA, the one and only Tibetan contemporary art museum in the world located in Emmen. Here we have the opportunity to see this ancient knowledge in practice, observing all of Tashi’s work. 50% of each sale goes to the MOCTA Museum to partially transform it into the First Contemporary Tibetan NFT Art museum.
We support the free tibet movement, reducing suffering overall.
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THURSDAY August 4 2022
FUEGO 1969
Directed by Armando Bo
84 minutes
In Spanish with English subtitles
Fuego means ‘Fire’ and actress Isabel Sarli is burning up!
Agentina’s greatest female sex symbol stars as Laura,
a nymphomaniac who may very well be sexually insane.
The more she attempts to break free from her desire, the more she is
sucked deeper into the jaws of passion. Or on the other hand, maybe
she ins’t mad, but is simply living in a straight, uptight, conservative
society.
Despite the constant attention of her husband, Laura just can’t be
satisfied, she is at the mercy of her insatiable sexual desires.
Though she makes it with always every man in sight, what really pushes
her husband over the hedge is Laura’s affair with their lesbian
housekeeper Andrea.
Lots of crazy scenarios detonate, along with some heavy overblown
emotional dramas, driving this Argentine flick into
a state of delirium bordering on surrealism.
Isabel Sarli, Miss Argentina from 1955, gives a fiery performance
of longing and unquenchable desire. See her uncontrollable passion
ruin her marriage with the man she truly loves!
Directed by Armando Bo (Sarli’s husband), who some have called the
Russ Meyer of Argentina. This flick has been discribes as the ‘Rosetta
Stone’ of Argentinian sexplotation melodrama, and is
a long-time favorite of cult filmmaker John Waters.
As one crisis was forced to admit ‘Isabel Sarli squeezes more sexual
frisson into the space between breathing in and breathing out than
most of us could spread over a lifetime
of ordinary love-making’.
This will be a high-definition screening.
BRAIN SALAD CINEMA
Presented by Jeffrey Babcock
@ WIHH Gallery
Reguliersdwarsstraat73
Film begins at 21:00
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
Entrance - WIHH Gallery Donations
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JULY 2022
SUNDAY JULY 16 2022
Exhibition opens at 16:00
Come and join us for this exhibition opening from multiple artists'
Leto van Olffen: ArtAffect
Nathan Knip: Installation and live performance art
Roosien Verlaan: Wall tapestry and film; Vallen (falling)
Petra Beckers: Photo's Amsterdam lockdown
Suitable for all audiences
THURSDAY JULY 7 2022
COFFY 1973
Coffy, la panthere noire de Harlem
Directed by Jack Hill
91 minutes
In English
"She had a body men would die for - and a lot of them did!"
Coffy (Pam Grier in her career-defining role) is an emergency room nurse by day and
vigilante by night, targeting the dealers who made her sister a comatose junkie. She works her way up to the Italian mobsters muscling into the ghetto drug trade while she's being romanced by a glib, smooth-talking politician and wooed by nice-guy cop William Elliot, whose refusal to sell out to the corrupt whity police force earns him a crippling beating.
There's plenty of sex, a female cat-fight that leaves the losers topless, car chases and
shootouts galore, but what makes Coffy a blaxploitation classic is Grier's Amazonian
presence and fiery charisma, and the gritty, low-budget action scenes marked by visceral, wincing violence... all backed up by a classic funk soundtrack.
"She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul superstar Pam Grier, and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun, a razor or just her bare hands, she doesn't miss a beat in this "smashing, no-holds-barred tale of retaliation"
- Variety
"Coffy couldn't be better! It's one of the most entertaining movies ever made."
- Quentin Tarantino
This will be a high-definition screening.
BRAIN SALAD CINEMA
Presented by Jeffrey Babcock
@ WIHH Gallery
Reguliersdwarsstraat73
Film begins at 21:00
Come early and hang out, its a big space with many mysteries
Entrance - WIHH Gallery Donations
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JUNE 2022
Video editing Svetlin Velchev
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With our first post we would like to share with everyone, how it all began.
These 15 videos are a testimony in our documenting what has been created and curated.
With over 130 artist in exhibition over the last year, there is a lot of continuous changes taking place in this old historical bank building.
We have a lot more to come too!
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