Silence #67: Allan Gilbert Balon
Together with Sonic Acts, the festival for innovative art and science, we present a special edition of the music series Silence with the young talented artist and composer Allan Gilbert Balon. Especially for this concert, Balon is developing a soundscape in which live music, recorded sounds merge and different musical traditions resonate.
Sunday Dharma Service at He Hua Temple
You Are Warmly Invited He Hua Temple holds a weekly Dharma service every Sunday at 10:30 AM. We warmly invite you to set aside some quiet time from your busy life to settle the body and mind, and to practice together with the community. Each week, we rotate the chanting of different Buddhist scriptures, including […]
Ra, ra, there was once
‘Ah please, tell us a fairy tale...’ For hundreds of years we have been creeping, crying and laughing at fairy tales. The big, basswood puppets play a short scene. The children guess: ra, ra, which fairy tale is this scene from? We read the fairy tale aloud, and of course the children help! Besides the (short) puppet play, there are also beautiful, specially [...]
GenZ Voice Recitals
”GenZ Voice recitals” offers a fresh perspective on classical music through the lens of the younger generation of GenZ (pronounced Dzjen Zie). After a successful pilot series in 2025, a second edition will follow in 2026. This series of 11 recitals invites audiences on a musical world tour. Each recital features a unique song or aria [...]
Saskia Breakfast
Sun breakfast around Saskia's grave this time with Rijksmuseum curator Friso Lammertse as guest speaker. Lammertse will talk about Saskia and her son Titus, Rembrandt and Saskia's only child to survive infancy. As every year, there will be a breakfast including Frisian sugar bread, music and at 08:39 the sunbeam on Saskia's grave. Music by violinist Lisa [...]
Philosophy sessions | ‘Meanings of the Flesh’ by Foucault
Six evenings will be organised in collaboration with the Old Church Community over the next few months on Foucault's book ‘Confessions of the Flesh’. The lectures will take place on 17 February, 10 March, 31 March, 21 April, 12 May and 2 June next. Our website indicates how to register and how the series [...]
Rob van Essen at Pantheon Bookshop
Interview with Rob van Essen Rob van Essen is a Dutch writer, translator and reviewer. In 2009, his novel Visser was nominated for the Libris Literature Prize, and ten years later, in 2019, he won this prize with his novel De goede zoon. Van Essen won this prize again in 2024, with the novel Ik [...]
Bergman film trilogy in OKP30
The Oude Kerk Community and Residents' Organisation Wallenbuurt are jointly organising the screening of Ingmar Bergman's silence trilogy. This film series focuses on the work of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). The three films being screened are part of what later became known as Bergman's trilogy of silence. In these films, Bergman explores the experience of [...]
Ra, ra, there was once
‘Ah please, tell us a fairy tale...’ For hundreds of years we have been creeping, crying and laughing at fairy tales. The big, basswood puppets play a short scene. The children guess: ra, ra, which fairy tale is this scene from? We read the fairy tale aloud, and of course the children help! Besides the (short) puppet play, there are also beautiful, specially [...]
Japan Craft Spirits Tasting
Dear Lovers, In recent years, Japanese whiskies have been on an unstoppable rise. The Japanese whisky industry has now existed for over 100 years and brands such as Hibiki and Yamazaki are no longer strangers to most whisky drinkers. Things are going well in the whisky world and in the last 20 years, even in the country [...]