Collective Care Learning Sessions
2025-11-29 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Collective Care Learning Sessions
29th of November 11 am – 5 pm @ GROND
It is not always easy to stay close to your ideals – especially when we are working and living together. Community and collectivity are beautiful and powerful agents for change. However, it also involves a lot of challenges. The demands of society keep on knocking on our collective door. Against our best intentions, we are conditioned by the neoliberal structures that we want to get rid of, and we bring this into the groups we formed to fight them. How do we stay with this trouble and also take care of each other and ourselves? It takes learning and unlearning to find healthier ways forward.
Sounds familiar? Join us for the Collective Care Learning Sessions – a day to explore how to rethink, create and sustain collectivity in these challenging times in the wild west world we live in.
Come as you are: alone, or together with members from the collective or community you are in.
Let’s (un)learn, care, and create together on Saturday 29 November from 10:00 – 17:00 @ GROND, including a delicious Ethiopian lunch by Teferi Mekonen (7,50 euros, including tea / coffee). Location: GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam.
Programme

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee & Tea
11:30 – 13:00 Collective Learning by Sharing – a conversation with Gertrude Flentge (Lumbung Practice, Documenta 15) and Danielle van Zuijlen (Kunsthal Gent) about how to translate collective values into practice and learning curves.
13:00 – 14:00 Food for thought – a warming collective lunch prepared by Teferi Mekonen & Betty (7,50 euros)
14:00 – 15:30 Embodied Learning – a somatic workshop by Marc Nukoop and Mazen Al Ashkar
15:30 – 16:30 From Social Safety to Collective Care – a presentation by the GROND Collective on the process of defining collective values
16:30 – 17:00 Drinks

Registration
Please register through this link. We want to prevent food waste 🙂
GROND is a collectively run art space rooted in connectivity, sustainability, and cross-pollination. We explore new ways of living and working together to deepen our connection with ourselves, others, and the world around us. We hope and believe this leads to the change we desperately need for all of us.

Sunday Sessions
2025-11-30 15:00 - 19:00
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
Poet Andrew Gebhardt is reading some of his work, we will play some (live) music.
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-12-03 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-12-17 19:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: menu to be announced (reservations appreciated)
💈 Junglespeed: Master Table Games
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames

🚨 Cook/barkeep/helping hands wanted!

SSC Balreep refers to the local sporting club that was founded in 2013 out of Amsterdam squatting communities Op de Valreep and Bajesdorp. Fusing the best of evergreen canteen life, the universal benefits of sports and community building from all times for all generations!
Bring your own game, join the running competitions or just pass by for a drink, bite and chat … while enjoying major and minor events on big(ger) screens.
The GROND VoKu will offer good meals at fair prices varying from canteen food art by selected chefs to BYOP (Bring Your Own Pizza or … ).
To make a reservation for dinner, share your ideas or offer your help, please send a message to kantine@grond.community or contact us via the SSC Balreep signal-group.

Falafel Friday
2025-12-05 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-12 11:00 - 15:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
In December we are open at the 5th, the 12th and the 19th of December from 11:00 till 15:00. Hawa and Mohamed Alnoor are preparing delicious homemade Falafel sandwiches for €3,50 per sandwich. Welcome!

Orb Weaver
2025-12-05 20:00 - 22:00
Orb weaver is a new musical trio featuring Grond members David Mitchell (electric guitar) and Dominique Chabot (double bass), and drummer Robbert van Hulzen. Improvised freely, but not free improvisation, the group creates long form pieces that evolve subtly over time, like the intricate and transitory webs of spiders. With special guests Finn Peters on saxophone and flute, and Marc Nukoop (projections). For fans of the necks, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, David Torn, Miles electric. Tickets 10Euro/7 Euro (concessions)

Sunday Sessions
2025-12-07 15:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-28 15:00 - 19:00
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
Check website
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-12-10 19:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: menu to be announced (reservations appreciated)
⚽️/📺 UEFA CL: Real Madird – Man City / BVB 09 – Bodø/Glimt(21h)
💈 Junglespeed: Master Table Games
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames

🚨 Cook/barkeep/helping hands wanted!

SSC Balreep refers to the local sporting club that was founded in 2013 out of Amsterdam squatting communities Op de Valreep and Bajesdorp. Fusing the best of evergreen canteen life, the universal benefits of sports and community building from all times for all generations!
Bring your own game, join the running competitions or just pass by for a drink, bite and chat … while enjoying major and minor events on big(ger) screens.
The GROND VoKu will offer good meals at fair prices varying from canteen food art by selected chefs to BYOP (Bring Your Own Pizza or … ).
To make a reservation for dinner, share your ideas or offer your help, please send a message to kantine@grond.community or contact us via the SSC Balreep signal-group.

TEMPERATURA
2025-12-13 18:30 - 23:30 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Stage and Bar will be open from 18:30
FREE ENTRY – Donations welcome: support GROND by making a donation online here.

On Saturday, December 13, TEMPERATURA celebrates its first 10 editions and the end of 2025 with a special event!

We’ll start the evening with a non-stop free improv jam session, open to anyone who would like to participate.*The stage opens at 18:30 and runs until everyone is exhausted. Bring your sounds, or simply join us for drinks and snacks at any time!After that, we’ll keep the party going with DJ sets until late.

* If you’d like to participate, you can jump in at any time with no commitment. We’ll have several mics and guitar amps ready for those who need electronic equipment. Keep it simple and make sure you can blend in smoothly (no soundcheck provided!).
If you have any questions, send us an email to temperatura.amsterdam (at) gmail (dot) com

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TEMPERATURA is a contemporary music concert series, improvisation hub, and everything in between, initiated by composers/performers J. Veličković and F. Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions. By promoting the wide spectrum of contemporary musical stimuli, TEMPERATURA seeks to bridge the gap between musicians, composers, and performers from different musical backgrounds. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and spread today’s artistic practices.

Free Sudan
2025-12-14 13:00 - 17:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
With a Sudanese lunch by Mohamed Alnoor, a performance by The Black Pharaohs and the screening of ‘What’s next?’ by SSMG.
The massacre of hundreds of Sudanese civilians after the Darfur city of El Fasher was captured by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is the latest chapter in a brutal conflict that has killed more than 150.000 people over the past two and a half years. We need this horrific war to end, and Sudan needs your support and awareness. Therefor we will organize ‘Free Sudan’ – an event in which we celebrate the rich Sudanese culture, in which we mourn all the victims and in which we will inform you about the situation in Sudan.
We will start our gathering with a traditional Sudanese lunch prepared by Mohamed Alnoor. Then ‘The Black Pharaohs’ will perform traditional dance and music from the Nuba Mountains area. The performers will explain the meaning of the different songs and dances. A stop motion animation titled ‘What’s next?’ made by SSMG (Sudanese Stop Motion Group) will be screened. This animation takes you along the route of fleeing Darfur towards Uganda.
We hope you will join us in solidarity!

Sunday Sessions LATE EDITION
2025-12-14 17:00 - 20:00
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
For this edition we will open after the Sudanese solidarity event with dance and food also at GROND
Check website
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too!
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

Falafel Friday
2025-12-19 11:00 - 15:00

Sunday Sessions
2025-12-21 15:00 - 19:00
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
Check website
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too!
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam
