Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!
I saw this promotion van for the event at the Westergasfabriek tonight.
You can check out the programme and see if there are tickets on the event amsterdam halloween website.

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Halloween Party

Spotted this ad campaign for an upcoming event in Amsterdam for Halloween.
It’s a “dusk to dawn” party at the Westergastfabriek – you can see the programme and buy tickets on their website – be warned it comes with sound.

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Here Come the Elephants!

There’s a new outdoor exhibition around Amsterdam, a series of painted elephants.
The elephants are part of a fund-raising effort. They’ll be auctioned off at the Westergasfabriek on 12 November and the money will go to supporting Elephants in Asia.

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I’ve spotted elephants throughout the city – from the Central Station to Cornelius Schuystraat.You can find the [...]

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ArtZuid – Outdoor Sculpture

These wasps are about the size of a pig, and the fruit is about the height of a human – it’s part of the sculpture route set up along Apollolaan and Minervalaan from 16 August to 26 October. (Take tram 5 or 24 and get off at Apollolaan – where you’ll see these wasps)
I took [...]

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Canal Festival

The “Grachtenfestival” (canal festival) has started. This festival of concerts and performances along the canals of Amsterdam is a summer highlight.
It culminates in the Prinsengrachtconcert, a free concert on the Prinsengracht, a pontoon is built outside the Pulitzer Hotel for the performers (and honoured guests), the concert starts at about 8pm, but Amsterdammers will park [...]

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Israel Querido

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These lines appear on the window of a house in the Jordaan (translation mine)
“a strange light plays, mysteriously of variable hues, dances over the fanciful shopfronts and gable stones“
The lines were written by Israel Querido, I think as a description of the neighbourhood. He lived in this house while writing a book called “De Jordaan” [...]

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Poets and Playwrights

I was at Dylan Hotel last weekend, and photographed this sculpture in the entrance courtyard. I didn’t have time to delve into what it was really about until today.
The statue commemorates Hooft, Coster and Vondel who were all playwrights and pioneers of Dutch Theatre in the 16th and 17th centuries.
This was the site of the [...]

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Wiki loves Art loves Amsterdam

Various museums around the Netherlands are taking part in a month long Wiki Love Art event this month.
It’s an opportunity to photograph some works of art that are usually off limits. Share the photos on flickr and you’re in to win prizes.
The goal is to increase the number of quality photos available on wikimedia commons, [...]

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Before and After Meme for Expats

From A Touch of Dutch
Before:
Before you knew you’d be coming to the Netherlands, for whatever reason you originally came to the Netherlands, truthfully how much did you know about the country?

Honestly? Next to nothing, I’d transited Schiphol once and I knew there were windmills.

Did you learn about the Netherlands in school when you were growing [...]

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John Lennon’s Bed-in: The Forty Year Anniversary

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This month is the fortieth anniversary of the “Bed in“, the protest for peace held in Suite 702 of the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam. There is a photo exhibition of the bed-in protest in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono used the media attention surrounding their wedding to promote the cause [...]

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