Posted in entertainment, exhibition, museum, tagged Art, events, exhibitions, museum night, museumnacht, n8 on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Museum night is coming up on Saturday 7 November, this year’s programme – and website – has got a glossier feel than I’ve seen in previous years.
They’ve also created a video competition with one minute videos to highlight Museum Night. Here’s my favourite entry.
The site has rather limited info in English [...]
Posted in Art, entertainment, tagged halloween, westerunie on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in Art, entertainment, tagged coffin van, halloween, westerunie on October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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.
Posted in entertainment, tagged picnic, Vondelpark on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“What are you doing on your day off?” asked a colleague
“As close to nothing as possible” I answered “how about you?”
“I’m going to the World’s Biggest Picnic”
Tomorrow, 21 May is Hemelvaartsdag (Ascension Day) and there will be a huge picnic in VondelPark, when I say huge it’s apparently an attempt on a Guinness world record.
Apparently [...]
Posted in entertainment, exhibition, tagged Madurodam, sesame street on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bert and Ernie are currently appearing at Madurodam.
Madurodam is billed as “the smallest city in the Netherlands” and it has miniature versions of lots of famous buildings from around the Netherlands. It’s a cool concept and I guess kids love it. (Can you tell I’ve never been?)
I saw these ad posters the other day and [...]
Posted in entertainment, tagged celebrities, opinion, video on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Everybody loves Amsterdam! Except possibly Hugh Grant….
more about “Celebs on Amsterdam – I amsterdam“, posted with vodpod
(The video comes from the I Amsterdam website)
Posted in entertainment, tagged pillow, pillow fight, pillowfight on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not quite as many people as I expected – this was taken from Bijenkorf at about 5.30 yesterday. There seem to be about 25 die-hard pillow fighters in the middle and a lot of observers.
Maybe I should have been there earlier – the amount of feathers seems to indicated quite a few broken pillows.
Posted in entertainment, tagged pillow, pillow fight, pillowfight on April 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
April 4th – Dam Square – 5pm onwards.
The world’s biggest pillowfight, turn up take your own pillow!
There are pillowfights in other parts of the world so check whether there’s something happening in your city.
I’ll be there – but probably as an innocent bystander.
Posted in entertainment, tagged film crew on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A film crew, spotted on the way to work, in fact I nearly walked through it. It’s not the first time I’ve seen a film crew outside this cafe. If I paid any attention to Dutch TV I’d know what show it’s in.
Posted in entertainment, tagged high tea, jazz, live music, musicians on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a new regular jazz hangout in Amsterdam, called “Teapot Jazz“, on Sunday afternoons at Hotel Schiller on Rembrantplein. The musicians will change each week, but they’re all young and talented, some of them are also the composers. CDs of the musicians should be on sale from next week as well.
During the afternoon there is [...]
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