Podcast

In this episode of The Heart of the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood, Irma and Jim talk to Eva Krammer, chairman of Huis de Pinto: a literary and cultural meeting place in the heart of Amsterdam. We hear how one building managed to stop a four-lane highway, why volunteering is so intertwined with the neighbourhood, and how the library of yesteryear transformed [...]

In this third episode of The Heart of the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood, Irma and Jim talk to ramen operator Pim van Burk and Dylan Meijer, Jan Otten's stepson and director of the Otten Group. A conversation about windows, rules, respect and the role of entrepreneurs in a neighbourhood full of contradictions. We hear about motorbike helmets in the office, neighbourhood [...]

In this second episode of The Heart of the Nieuwmarkt Neighbourhood, Irma and Jim talk to Theodoor van Boven: entrepreneur, local resident and founder of De Condomerie. A conversation about condos, culture, community and the art of getting lost. Theodoor tells how a "joke for six months" grew into a world-famous phenomenon, why a woollen condom [...]

In this first episode of The Heart of the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood, Irma and Jim talk to Epco Runia, head of collections at Museum Rembrandthuis. They discuss Rembrandt's life in the neighbourhood, his artistic development and what makes this iconic neighbourhood so special - then and now. Epco Runia Epco tells how he went from being a sceptic [...]

What happens when you give residents, entrepreneurs and artists of life from the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood a microphone? In Het hart van de Nieuwmarktbuurt, you will hear stories from behind the facades and under the canopies - raw, surprising, outspoken and sometimes moving. Podcast series In this podcast series, Irma Tomas and Jim Zielinski explore the soul of a neighbourhood that [...]