JANUARY 2023
FRIDAY JANUARY 13 16:30 CET-18:30
FRIDAY JANUARY 27 16:30 CET-18:30
WIHH Gallery Donations by choice
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
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14- SUNDAY OCTOBER 23
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
Het is geen voorstelling, geen show, maar een heuse… happening!
Maar wat is een Happening? Een happening is iets wat je niet in je eentje kan, net zo min als dat je in je eentje een voetbalteam kan zijn, een koor of een dansvloer. Deze happening lijkt misschien nog het meest op het samen maken van een zandkasteel. Ze zijn er maar heel kort, je bouwt ze en je laat ze achter of de zee komt al, maar daar gaat het niet om, het gaat om het moment dat je ze bouwt. Theatercollectief Nineties bouwt, op een heel bijzondere plek midden in Amsterdam, een ongewoon theater ritueel. Wees welkom en doe mee!
Nineties is een theatercollectief dat scherpzinnig eigentijds werk creëert, spelend met elementen van beeldende kunst, digitale media, literatuur, muziek en performance. Nineties maakt speciaal voor de Krakeling een jeugdversie van hun voorstelling Bring Back The Happening die eerder te zien was dit jaar voor een volwassen publiek.
Deze bijzondere beleving wordt gespeeld in de What is Happening Here Gallery: Reguliersdwarsstraat 73.
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.
PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES
THURSDAY OCTOBER 6
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
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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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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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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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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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