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New Notes Amsterdam: concerts for the adventurous listener and new music lessons

Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam, the concert series for small-scale contemporary chamber music, will again bring leading musicians and brand new compositions to the Plein Theater and the Orgelpark in Amsterdam in 2025. With a programme full of concerts for the adventurous listener and new innovative music classes, Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam offers a place for audiences and makers alike. The concerts take place on Sunday afternoons and are preceded... 

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A place very secret (3 to 6 years)performance with live music

Pillow castles, table caves and tree houses. Hidden and just big enough for us.Often we can play there all day and sometimes we are there to rest and dream.Then suddenly trees grow, we hear the sound of the sea and find wondrous things. Together we build a house, a boat, a planet. A place very secret.How does that... 

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Soft Winter Festival at the Square Theatre

This Christmas break, our Soft Winter Festival features a heartwarming programme at the Plein Theatre for all ages! The festival includes puppet theatre performances for the whole family, delicious and affordable food from Aunt Peggy, a comedy night, the Amsterdam Winterstal at OBA Oosterdok and a connecting end-of-year drink for the whole neighbourhood. We would like to end 2024 ultra-soft with local residents,... 

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Pauline de Groot Festival: Performing the Archive

From 13 to 17 November 2024, the Plein Theatre will host the Pauline de Groot Festival. A unique occasion where the legacy of dance pioneer Pauline de Groot will be put in the full light. The significance of her work as a dance innovator in the Netherlands deserves special attention: radically and self-willed, she helped shape the dance landscape from the 1960s onwards.... 

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A month of dance at the Square Theatre

This November, the Square Theatre is the meeting place for dance lovers! With four different programmes, we will show the versatility of modern dance, ranging from adventurous performances to intimate stories. We start the month with two multidisciplinary Triple Bills, performed and curated by young, promising makers. And from 13 to 17 November, we present a tribute to dance pioneer Pauline de Groot with... 

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Special action Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam: 5-year anniversary

Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam celebrates its fifth anniversary this season! To celebrate, we have a special offer: students and professional musicians and composers can go to any Nieuwe Noten concert for only €10. Every month in Plein Theater, you get the unique chance to experience new music in an intimate setting. Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam offers a stage for contemporary chamber music.... 

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Square Theatre presents Summer of Music and artist-in-residence Kate Moore

Plein Theater provides a stage for contemporary music. Adventurous and small-scale performances, new compositions and leading musicians; in the Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam series, audiences are given monthly opportunities to experience this unique concept in an intimate setting. In the summer of 2024, Plein Theater will open its doors wide. In the Summer of Music in and around... 

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Plein Theater presents Month for Keti Koti from 31 May to 27 June with various activities around the slavery past and Surinamese cuisine.

Keti Koti month takes place annually in the month of June in the run-up to Keti Koti on 1 July. This month is dedicated to remembrance and reflection around the Netherlands' slavery past and its repercussions today. Plein Theater in Amsterdam Oost, located next to the Oosterpark and the National Monument on Slavery History, will give special consideration to... 

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publiciteitsbeeld door Pauline Matusiak en Eddy Wenting

Van 3 t/m 7 april presenteren Plein Theater en Cat Smits Company het Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!

Het Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam biedt een podium aan genre-overstijgende vormen van beeldend theater, objecttheater, poppenspel en queer perspectieven. De derde editie van het festival heeft het thema ‘Weapons of the Weak’, waarmee de kracht van kwetsbaarheid als politiek instrument wordt belicht. Hoogtepunt van het festival is de afscheidsvoorstelling van Neville Tranter, een van ’s werelds bekendste poppenspelers, die na… 

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Summer concerts New Notes Amsterdam in Plein Theatre

This summer, Plein Theater and Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam present three contemporary music concerts, and after the summer, again monthly on Sunday afternoons! On the weekend of 17 and 18 June, the concerts are part of New Music NOW's Day of the Composer. NEW NOTES AMSTERDAM New Notes Amsterdam provides a stage for contemporary chamber music. New compositions and leading musicians, in... 

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[PRESS RELEASE]Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace present the second edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam from 28 March to 2 April 2023! In doing so, Plein Theater celebrates a 40-year anniversary.

QUEERING PUPPETS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM 28 March to 2 April 2023 Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam has provided a stage for genre-transcending forms of visual theatre and puppetry since 2022. A fusion of craft and technology, dissolving traditional categories before the eye of the beholder. Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace defy the norm with this festival full of garish visual excesses from... 

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Marte Boneschansker presents: ROUW - Walk through Amsterdam East past places of loss

Op vrijdag 4 november gaat ROUW, het nieuwste werk van theatermaakster Marte Boneschansker, in première bij Plein Theater in Amsterdam-Oost. ROUW is een wandeling langs plekken van verlies. Met een koptelefoon op volg je een zorgvuldig uitgestippelde route door de wijk om te luisteren naar verhalen van rouw die corresponderen met de betreffende locaties. ROUW gaat over verlies. Over dat… 

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Square Theatre loses facebook page over nipple in poster image

Social Media censureert op vrouwentepel en Plein Theater verliest facebookpagina om tepel in posterbeeld van de voorstelling Nouveau Fuck van Cat Smits Company. Deze digitale preutsheid en seksistische ongelijkheid gaat veel te ver, vinden Berith Danse en Cat Smits. Facebook staat bekend om een strikt ‘geen naakt’-beleid, tenminste niet voor mannen, want naakte mannentorso’s zijn geen enkel probleem. Foto’s die… 

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Plein Theater and Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam present a new season of contemporary chamber music concerts from May to December 2022!

Plein Theater en Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam presenteren een nieuw seizoen hedendaagse kamermuziekconcerten van mei t/m december 2022! Bij het eerstvolgende concert in Plein Theater op zondag 29 mei is de Griekse violiste Tania Sikelianou te gast ter ere van de 100e geboortedag van de Griekse componist Iannis Xenakis. Op zondag 19 juni speelt Trio Napolov, Fridman, Sandee op de piano,… 

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New theatre incubator De Dapper in Amsterdam Oost

In Amsterdam-Oost komt de nieuwe theaterbroedplaats De Dapper in het voormalige Muiderpoortheater, dat in de jaren ‘80 als danstheater werd opgericht. De ontwikkeling van Broedplaats De Dapper wordt uitgevoerd door Stichting PodiumPartners en wordt gesteund door Bureau Broedplaatsen van de Gemeente Amsterdam. Stichting PodiumPartners/ Plein Theater vervult hiermee een lang gekoesterde droom om beschikbare ruimte te creëren voor experiment, crossovers… 

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Plein Theater and Puppetry Workspace present the first edition of the QUEERING PUPPETS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM from 23 to 27 March 2022!

QUEERING PUPPETS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM geeft het podium aan genre overstijgende vormen van beeldend theater en poppenspel. Een versmelting van ambacht en technologie, waarbij traditionele categorieën worden opgeheven voor het oog van de toeschouwer. Tijdens dit meerdaagse festival staan nu eens niet de mensen centraal, maar de dingen. Met welke karakters en objecten worden we omringd? Hoe wekt de verbeeldingskracht ze… 

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Everyday objects hijack Square Theatre all spring break

STIP-theaterproducties en Plein Theater presenteren de gehele voorjaarsvakantie de jeugdtheatervoorstelling Micro… de dingen komen in opstand (7+). In deze fantasievolle en humoristische voorstelling worden alledaagse objecten leven in geblazen. Ze krijgen stemmen en gevoelens en gaan in fel protest. In het theater zijn dagelijks tal van extra bonusactiviteiten die kinderen voor en na de voorstelling kunnen beleven. Over de voorstelling… 

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Plein Theater is open als Pop Up Gallery & Store! In de Gallery is de Nederlandse primeur van de 3D videosimulatie installatie Event Horizon te zien van digital sculptor, simulator en animator Jaehun Park.

Vanaf 16 januari is Plein Theater geopend als Pop Up Gallery & Store, waar de Nederlandse primeur van de 3D videosimulatie installatie Event Horizon te zien is van kunstenaar Jaehun Park. Jaehun Park (geboren in 1986, Zuid-Korea) is een digital sculptor, simulator en animator. Ook is er werk van de kunstenaar te koop en zijn boek Real-time limbo. Naast de… 

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For a festive family outing in the Christmas holidays, head to Square Theatre with the theatre production Nietsnut! (6+) by theatre group Who Whale!

This Christmas holiday, the performance Nietsnut! by Theatre Group Who Whale is playing at Plein Theatre! To be seen from Boxing Day 26 December to 2 January at 13:00 and 16:00. The performance is an ode to nonsense. To a world you only see when everything falls silent and you have time to look very carefully. A world full of fantasy that you... 

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Plein Theatre and The Market Theatre present FOODCHAINZ: A culinary evening and theatre performance about our food chain.

FOODCHAINZ is een intermediaal project en avondvullend programma bestaande uit een tomatendiner met speciale gasten uit de voedselketen, de expositie HARVEST FROM THE HOOD, de audiotour Van Boer tot Bord en de theatervoorstelling FOODCHAINZ! Te zien op 7, 8, 9, 14 en 15 oktober in Plein Theater in Amsterdam Oost! Tickets zijn inclusief diner en bonusprogrammering en zijn beschikbaar op… 

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