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The Code Noir: A brief, yet powerful history
Winston Churchill famously said that “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Our upcoming NeoFuturist Dinner touches on the importance of learning from our collective...
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A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine
A blog for Code Noir
Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Blue Monday
21Sep 2020In July and early August 2020 an ornamental hermitage, built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home improvement detritus (collected on the streets during the pandemic), was constructed at the...
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Joana Velu
Joana Velu (Dutch/Brazilian) is a visual artist constantly zooming in and out from a global context to a micro scale. Through personal stories or other forms of narrative she intends to let herself...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball
Food is both fuel and identity
A blog for Code Noir
In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Stealing Minutes Back / Sacred City
21Sep 2020Stealing Minutes Back/ Sacred City is a part-documentary part-interpretive project focusing on the booming ‘Conscious Scene’ and ‘Conscious Communities’ in Amsterdam, which are centered around such...
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Rachel Rumai Diaz
Rachel Rumai Diaz is a writer, poet, performance artist, teacher and artivist. Being fluent in English, Spanish, Dutch and Spanglish she intertwines languages to create poetry that triggers...
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Lelani Lewis
Lelani Lewis, a chef, food stylist, and culinary activist, creates inspiring audience experiences with her innovative and vibrant approach to food. Growing up in South London with Grenadian and Irish...
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2020 Tobias Servaas, Queer Currents
Queer Currents
Mediamatic is the stage for three panel discussions and an exhibition of Queer Currents, a wave of queer expressions in preparation for the Gay Pride.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Queer Currents 2020: Inclusive Space
20Jul 2020How to open up the institutions of museums and archives for outsider voices? The Critical Visitor research project looks into the hotly debated issues of diversity and inclusion in the fields of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Queer Currents 2020: Meet the Next Generation
18Jul 2020Roze senioren, LHBTI-ouderen... Twintig jaar geleden bestonden deze termen nog niet. Maar de huidige generatie 65-plussers is trots op haar roze identiteit en is zeker niet van plan deze op hogere...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Queer Currents 2020: Queer Manifesto Reading
22Jul 2020Girls Like Us is currently working on their first non-magazine publication: a collection of Queer & Feminist manifestos, edited by Liz Allan. In preparation for this project, they invite you to join...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Queer Currents: Such Delicate Tenderness
20Jul 2020Bas Kosters is Nederlands extravaganste queer fashion designer. Maandag 20 juli exposeert hij bij Mediamatic met erotische werken over mannelijkheid en homoseksualiteit. "Such Delicate Tenderness"...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
MediaMasquerade X Open to All
25Jul 2020MediaMasquerade is a series of workshops to celebrate all identities. Gender clown Taka-Taka and designer Niki Milioni invite those of all ages to explore new forms of expression through fashion
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
MediaMasquerade X Kids
26Jul 2020Come play, create, and perform with us! Taka and Niki invite children to imagine new forms of expression through dressing up and roleplaying. Get your tickets here !
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pride
18Jul 20202Aug 2020There is no parade this year, but we still think it is important to celebrate identity in all its facets. That is why Mediamatic has a program during the pride week that gives an ode to the...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Values for Survival
14Jul 2020In these strange times, in which our daily life has changed radically, it has become clear that we must jointly look for new ways and values to shape our lives. In Values for Survival, the social and...
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Venue Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
A place for happiness
Getting married in your own way
Weddings are times of joy and happiness. There is no better way to start a life together than at Mediamatic, where creativity and uniqueness are put on a pedestal. Our venue offers a beautiful...
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Diversity mission
As a progressive public cultural institution, we find diversity, in all its facets, essential. We actively strive to raise awareness and implement a more transversal and integrated way of thinking...
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Een sterke culturele basisinfrastructuur
Felicitaties aan nieuwe instellingen
Op 4 juni 2020 presenteerde de Raad voor Cultuur aan minister Van Engelshoven zijn advies over de Basisinfrastructuur (BIS) 2021-2024. Met dit advies geeft de Raad de culturele sector een enorme...
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Nehis Osagie
CleanLab Assistant and Mycelium Researcher
My name is Nehis , I was born and raised in Amsterdam and currently 21 years of age. Right now I am studying Biology which is one of my biggest passions. The other one is design and after my...
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Venue Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Space for a final goodbye
(un)conventional rite
All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...
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Mara van der Blonk
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Ticket Terms & Conditions
What do you agree with when you buy a ticket?
1. General ticket conditions We have house rules . Buying a ticket means that you agree with these house rules. By ticket we mean any admission ticket to Mediamatic. This can vary from a ticket...