Thursday
Visit Foam Lab’s event Brand Night and brand everything you own.
Your boyfriend, socks or arm. Foam Lab is on a mission. They are going to brand everything in order to their current exhibition in the library of Foam. They asked a bunch of artists to draw/doodle all your products and they’re not some amateurs: IamKat (my favourite for years now!), Mary and the Locks, Sanny van Loon and more.
And, if you’re lucky you get a Foam Lab mug from the exhibition!
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Friday
Tonight the is the première from Sounds Like Music: the most fascinating ways to create music (with everything but instruments).
Vincent Reinders (22tracks) is your host for the evening and before the evening you can listen to the Sounds Like Music playlist on 22tracks.. I’m curious!
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Tonight there is another interesting event for photography lovers at Foam: Curator’s Talk about the future of photography.
Curators from national (photography) museums De Hallen, Nederlands Fotomuseum and Stedelijk Museum are discussing the future of photography. Note: this is for the more curious photography lover, everybody who’s really interested in the subject.
Saturday
This winter the Joods Historisch Museum presents a retrospective exhibition of the work of the American photographer and painter Saul Leiter (born in 1923).
Following a long period of obscurity, Leiter’s work has recently been rediscovered in the United States and Europe. This is the first exhibition of his work in the Netherlands.
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But besides the exhibition from Leiter, they also have a exhibition called My Name is Cohen about all the Cohens in Amsterdam. This exhibition, the work of photographer Daniel Cohen and journalist Mischa Cohen, focuses on the question of how much a person’s identity and image are shaped by a chance characteristic like a surname.
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Visit the Amsterdam Stadsarchief to see the Amsterdam Nieuw-West ’50-’60 exhibition.
Sixty years ago, on 1 December 1951, work started on the construction on the garden suburb ‘tuinstad Slotermeer’ , it was the first of five new neighbourhoods to the west of the city: Slotermeer, Geuzenveld, Slotervaart, Overtoomse Veld and Osdorp – which now collectively form the urban district Nieuw-West. Within a period of 15 years, more than fifty thousand homes were built here for the masses of people looking for accommodation. The new neighbourhoods were laid out in a spacious manner, with plenty of greenery and with the water of the Sloterplas at its heart.
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Sunday
Visit the Tassenmuseum for the new current exhibition and try some sweets in the café.
On show are the 32 entries for the Hester van Eeghen Leather Design Prize. The award encourages and helps to sustain the leather craft industry in the Netherlands.
Bag designers and bag makers have been challenged to design and produce a new version of the ‘bashing bag’. A leather bag that serves as a weapon for the feisty female, popular in the 1960s. Women fended off dogs with their bag or hit thieves around the head.And this museum has one of the best cakes in town, so make sure you make a pit stop at the café!
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Besides museums you can visit the Sunday markets today. The IJ-Hallen in Amsterdam Noord and the Sunday Market at the Westergasterrein are both today.
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- Interview: Roswitha van Rijn
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