While Gulsett’s insights bear no novelty, the artist’s usage of form and technique effectively conveys this estrangement, as well as the individual’s withdrawal from community.
SOCIAL MEDIA SOLITUDE – Line Gulsett at the Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
Month: June 2019
TOOL at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam
Tool’s lyrics are intense and introspective, ranging from philosophy to mathematics, from spiritualism to social criticism, maintaining a constant obsession with the bond between the individual and the Universe and the necessity of change. Their videos, projected throughout the entire concert, show a human being disfigured by suffering in the continuous search for an inner tranquility, which seems difficult to achieve, but still possible.
The Anarchist Library at Infokafee Bollox in Amsterdam
Among the cultural and political initiatives the creation of an anarchist library has allowed to access a different type of information which alternates social criticism with the creation of solutions to the problems we encounter in the neo-capitalistic era.
Belinfante Quartet wins THE DELFT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL AWARD 2019
The Belinfante Quartet has been awarded the second Delft Chamber Music Festival Award. This award is an incentive prize for young musical talent and consists of a performance during the Delft Chamber Music Festival which runs this year from 25th July – 4th August.
Buying books in English in Amsterdam
Amsterdam may not be renowned for its literature but that won’t stop you from filling your boots with books when you are here. Whether you’re visiting or living here already, we hope to provide you with a not-so-comprehensive but bloody useful treasure island map of Amsterdam bookshops selling books in English.
Being a Beast – CHARLES FOSTER at the Border Sessions Festival 2019
In Being a Beast, Foster shares what he learnt after choosing to live like a badger and a fox, amongst other woodland creatures, for periods of time. Eating what they eat, sleeping where they sleep, in an effort he tells us, not to feel so alone in the world.
OperaZuid presents Offenbach’s FANTASIO on tour
Without the music the libretto of Fantasio is virtually Shakespeare with romance, mistaken/altered identity, jesters and fools, a prince from Mantua etc. etc. With the music, and certainly in this production, it was almost an English pantomime, complete with a female principal boy, a dame . . .
PAUL MASON’S (not so) Clear Bright Future at Border Sessions Festival in The Hague
PAUL MASON
12th June.
One time music teacher and long-time BBC journalist, Mason hails from greater Manchester, his grandfather was a miner. Coming of age in Thatcherite Britain, the writer describes himself as a ‘humanist Marxist’ and situates himself firmly in the time-honoured tradition of the traditional left
