Rembrandt temporarily back in his original home!
Museum Rembrandthuis welcomes a very special guest: a lifelike statue of Rembrandt, from the collection of Madame Tussauds Amsterdam. On the occasion of the exhibition Rembrandt's Masterclass, the iconic statue will be on display from 30 January to 25 May in the house where Rembrandt lived and worked. For the first time, two worlds come together: the [...]
Neighbourhood lunch
A free hot afternoon meal for all local residents. With good food, music and, above all, lots of fun! One of the aims of our neighbourhood lunch is to connect local residents. Eating good food together at the table fuels the best conversations and moments in life. Our community continues to grow and that is simply fantastic. To have a cosy [...]
Café ZILT PopQuiz
For over 20 years, Café ZILT has organised a quiz for pop music fans. Every third Thursday of the month at 20:30, you are welcome to test your knowledge, in game form. Participation, for teams of up to 4 people is completely free and yet there are some delicious prizes to [...]
In Frequencies We Cannot Name: Language, Sound, Silence
This year, De Brakke Grond is taking a new step in its collaboration with Mu.ZEE, the museum for art in Belgium from 1880 to tomorrow in Ostend. That collaboration will run - in parallel with Mu.ZEE's renovation - over three years, each time starting from one central question: what stories can a Belgian, museum collection [...]
Young people and dementia
Alzheimer Nederland is organising a meeting especially for young people with dementia, their loved ones, carers, professionals, and interested parties. Inge de Lange from the Dutch Association for Voluntary Euthanasia (NVVE) will speak at this meeting about the process of euthanasia in cases of dementia. Wednesday 29 April | Starts 5:30 PM | Free entry
The Magic Flute - W.A. Mozart
For adults and children (from 8 years of age) Mozart's famous opera in a Dutch adaptation, especially for puppet theatre. Puppets take you on an exotic adventure, a classic tale of the battle between good and evil, a ‘magic opera’. Performed with its own audio recording, conducted by Vaughan Schlepp. Six puppeteers play the large marionettes, carved from basswood. [...]
The biographer | Annejet van der Zijl on The Floating World
The Floating World. The Interconnected Lives of Franz von Siebold and Kusumoto Ine is the emotional double biography of a European physician and botanist and his Japanese daughter. But it is also the spectacular story of a country at the crossroads of two different identities and the global impact of this. Admission: 7 euros
Film On The Dam | Full portrait sought of Markéta Ledererová
Markéta Ledererová (1915–1987) fled Prague in 1939 to escape the advancing Nazism in what was then Czechoslovakia and settled in the Netherlands, where she started a family during the war. She remained silent about her past and her unknown Jewish heritage, which led her daughter and two granddaughters to begin an investigation to find answers. The [...]
Film night: The Pianist (2002)
Together we'll watch Roman Polanski's well-known film “The Pianist” (2002). Duration: 143 mins. Internationals are welcome!
Freedom Meal Huis de Pinto
This year, there will once again be a traditional freedom meal. The speaker is Rianne Oosterom, a historian and history editor for the newspaper Trouw. Rianne specialises in the position of women during the Second World War and will discuss, among other things, her publication "Moffenmeiden". Afterwards, we will, of course, celebrate freedom with the tried and tested concept of a freedom toast followed by a freedom meal with […]