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slavery history

Holland Festival celebrates Amsterdam 750 with performance Otemba - Daring Women

by one of our members
27 October 202427 October 2024
5 min read
HERITAGE, Holland Festival, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

Music theatre brings 17th-century painting from the Rijksmuseum to life in a conversation about female indomitability On the occasion of the kick-off of the anniversary year Amsterdam 750, we are pleased to announce in advance a festival performance focusing on the complex history of the city and the country. With this performance, the Holland Festival aims to draw from the arts - painting, music, theatre and design - to...

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Tijdlijn van de Nederlandse periode in New York

Exhibition on New Amsterdam from an Indigenous perspective

by one of our members
4 April 20244 April 2024
11 min read
policy, HERITAGE, PRESS

Amsterdam Museum collaborates with the Museum of the City of New York and original inhabitants of New York Four hundred years ago, the first Dutch settlers arrived in the area that is now New York. Their mission from the Dutch West India Company (WIC) was to establish the colony of New Netherland, with its capital New Amsterdam, at the southern tip of...

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Reinout Bussemaker is the dream JP in Aluin's 'This is ours'

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 December 202324 December 2023
4 min read
Featured, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

You must be a white man of a certain age. Some of us are so fed up with being blamed for everything that they voted PVV or worse in the last elections out of sheer desperation. That is why it is good that playwright Erik Snel, himself a white man of a certain age, has written a play about the archetype of the Dutch...

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'I say sorry' is now a book. Go read it, together.

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 December 20236 December 2023
4 min read
Featured, LITERARY, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

"Listening, not always understanding, but trying to go along with (the black) voices ensured that, in my opinion, there was a beautiful text at the heart of the performance Ik zeg toch sorry." If a short preface to a play has as much meaning as this quote by Raymi Sambo, the text itself must offer much more....

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Urmie Plein wins Colombina for her role in I Say Sorry Anyway

by one of our members
19 September 2023
2 min read
FAITS DIVERS, PRESS, PODIUM ART, THEATER

At the Gala of Dutch Theatre on Sunday 17 September, it was announced that Urmie Plein has won the Colombina for her role in Ik zeg toch sorry. The Colombina is a theatre award given annually to the actress who, in the opinion of the Dutch Theatre jury, has performed the most impressive female contributing role. The jury about...

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Nationaal Archief, 1.05.12.02, inv. 154 (Bijschrift: Register op de Rekwesten tot den uitvoer van Slaven van het Jaar 1834-1835)

INDICES OF SLAVERY HISTORY ARUBA AND SINT EUSTATIUS ONLINE

by one of our members
30 June 202325 September 2023
3 min read
ACTUAL, policy, HERITAGE, PRESS

Searching for information on persons who lived in slavery on Aruba and Sint Eustatius has become easier with the online posting of two indexes and corresponding scans of colonial archives. The indexes can be searched from 30 June on the website of the Archivo Nacional Aruba (ANA) and on the website of the National Archives. In the index Aruba: slavery...

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De Maasdamme Collectie in het Amsterdam Museum aan de Amstel. Foto Amsterdam Museum, Inez Agnese

Amsterdam Museum freely accessible during Keti Koti weekend - 1 and 2 July

by one of our members
12 June 202312 June 2023
5 min read
PRESS

As part of the Remembrance Year of Slavery, the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel will open its doors free of charge the weekend of 1 and 2 July. Everyone, young and old, can visit the permanent collection and exhibitions this weekend and take part in various activities. These include free Heri Heri meals, guided tours, a concert in the garden, and children can...

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Anne-Fays Reaspora makes tangible how the slavery past still echoes in our generations

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 February 202320 February 2023
3 min read
MUSIC, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Someday, the diversity of theatre and the audiences it attracts will be fine. On Thursday, 16 February, I sat in The Hague's Theater aan het Spui in an auditorium that was on average 50 years younger than the average theatre audience and also had all the colours of the rainbow. You guessed it: youth theatre. The theatre where...

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'I Say Sorry' masterfully makes tangible what a madness our slavery past is.

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 September 202229 September 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, Featured, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Saying sorry seems to be difficult, if the songs about it are to be believed, and if we measure the time it takes Dutch governments to do it. But sorry is also very easy, if you consider how often you are not pushed aside in the queue for something or other, after the word 'sorry' has sounded behind you, or -...

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Gold from the Golden Coach originating in Suriname; Unknown provenance investigated by Amsterdam Museum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and NICAS

by one of our members
12 September 202212 September 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

The Amsterdam Museum, together with VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Institute for Conservation+Art+Science+ (NICAS) and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, has conducted research into the origin of the gold of the Golden Coach. For a long time, it was unknown where the gold leaf used to gild the carriage came from. An extensive study compared the composition of the gold with samples from Suriname and South Africa....

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