TEMPERATURA
2025-05-23 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Experimental music | Live Electronics
w/TRUSTYOURT, Ctrl Freq, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Fani Konstantinidou, Mazen Al Ashkar
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online
Vegetarian Dinner form 19:00 hrs by Sudanese chef Mohamed Noor
diner + €15 RSVP required – Reservations: Mahmmednoor954@gmail.com
On Friday 23 May, we are hosting an experimental-electronic music evening with performances by TRUSTYOURT, Ctrl Freq, Kryptogen Rundfunk, and the GROND members Mazen Al Ashkar and Fani Konstantinidou. The five artists bring their live-electronics solo sets. Among others, expect performances with modular synthesisers, DIY musical instruments, and light sensors.

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About the Artists
TRUSTYOURT (Kristina Vodorezova) is a modular enthusiast and a minimalist at heart, trustyourt navigates listeners through intricate sonic realms where chance and intention dance as one. Embracing the beauty of chaos and the spontaneity of improvisation, she weaves delicate drone compositions that invite deep, collective listening. Her performances shift between the intimacy of a single wearable DIY instrument and the expansive presence of a sprawling modular suitcase. With a love for blending the raw resonance of acoustic instruments – like zither and kalimba – with the unpredictable pulse of modular synthesis, trustyourt blurs the boundaries between the organic and the electric, offering meditative portals into unknown soundscapes.
TRUSTYOURT
Ctrl Freq a.k.a Kacper Ziemianin has a background in classical music and a lot of adventures in modern sound and music. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sonic Arts from Middlsex University, London and Master’s degree in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Sound designer, circuit bender, vagabond, improviser, producer, audio-hacker, instrument designer, nomad, radio presenter, workshop leader, squatter, soon-to-be a published writer. His audio works have been shown and played in many places around and outside of Europe. Currently based in The Hague, NL working as a freelance instrument designer and performer as well as teacher of DIY electronics. His latest endeavor, the ‘LightSeq’ has received funding from Stimuleringsfonds NL and won an award at an international electronic music festival ‘Radical dB’ in Zaragoza, Spain.
Ctrl Freq
Kryptogen Rundfunk is an experimental sound project started in 2002 in St. Petersburg, Russia and
currently based in Amstelveen, The Netherlands. The project works with analogue electronics, radio
waves, electromagnetic interference and found sounds, creating sophisticated aural images, often
exploring extreme areas of the sonic spectrum. The purpose of these experiments is to temporarily
switch off listeners’ rational perception and immerse them into the direct experience of abstract sound.
During the 20 years of its activity, the project has recorded several studio albums released by European
and Russian labels, and performed numerous live gigs, both solo and in collaboration with many local and
international artists. Among the most well-known names to share the stage with were Einstürzende
Neubauten, Ben Frost, Bad Sector, Jacob Kirkegaard, Aube, Clock DVA, and Brighter Death Now.
Artem Ostapchuk, the man behind this project, is also the founder of the Zhelezobeton record label, which
became one of the biggest distributors of experimental music in Russia, but was closed in 2022 because
of relocation to The Netherlands. At present time, Artem operates Base Station label
and Fonodroom distribution.
Kryptogen Rundfunk
Mazen Al Ashkar is a mixed media artist creating interactive objects, images, videos, and installations, who plays with words as well as musical and nonmusical forms of sounds. He is interested in looking at the functions given to natural and constructed elements in relation to metaphysical narratives within structures such as idealism and materialism.
Mazen Al Ashkar
Fani Konstantinidou is a composer, performer, and music researcher based in Amsterdam. She expresses her musical ideas in various formats such as site-specific and multichannel compositions, improvisation, and through collaborative projects with artists of various disciplines. Within these contexts, she performs live-electronics and composes music for solo instruments and small ensembles.
Fani Konstantinidou

Temperatura: Looking for Life vol.1
2025-05-21 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London)
Looking for Life vol. 1 presents three sound performances on the evening of the 21st of May at GROND, Amsterdam. Part of the Temperatura experimental music series.
With Ege Şahin, Domenika Georgiou, and Oscar van Leest.
Curated by Kristijonas Groblys.
food by Judith Baten
The act of looking for life is rooted in the search for vital, necessary action — the wish to be affected, the openness to experience. Three artists will weave around the theme of sound-making and its connection to the act of living.
Shaping sound physically, Ege Şahin will intervene in acoustic space with feedback baritone guitar. The improvised poetry of towering and complex tone structures emerges in the modular synthesis of Oscar van Leest. Domenika Georgiou blends human and machine life in her performance for Nintendo 3DS and mechanical armour.
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:00 (doors: 19:30)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online
Dinner: + €15 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online)
About the Artists
Ege Şahin – Mirror Angel
Ege Şahin’s Mirror Angel emerges from an improvisation practice to explore sound’s vibratory potential in the space between a human performer, electric guitar, and amplifier(s). There will be a rationally tuned baritone feedback guitar, transducers, electromagnetic mics and exciters, and a performer in relationship with them through feedback, metal objects, and his body.
Ege Şahin works in sound and music near the free-improvisation and electro-acoustic spheres with care for materiality in composition and spirituality in performance. On the more academic side, he has been researching the relationship between different cultures’ metaphysics and their sound culture as part of his Master’s at the Institute of Sonology, in the Hague, where he is now based.

Oscar van Leest – Untitled
Oscar van Leest (1994) is an Amsterdam-based sound artist, musician and sound designer. In his practice, he explores the entangled relationships between sound and spatial context and how they are experienced across a wide range of technical tools; from software and to electro-acoustic devices and modular synthesis. The same tools shape his musical projects where they are applied in a genre-defying sonic framework of experimental electronics that emphasizes improvisation, indeterminacy and generativity.
Oscar will perform a texture-focused live set, built around a modular synthesizer setup.

Domenika Georgiou – 𝑀𝑒𝒸𝒽𝒶𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒞𝑜𝓇𝑒
Domenika Georgiou is a multidisciplinary artist based in The Hague. Currently pursuing an MA in ArtScience at KABK and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Her work spans performance, immersive installations, sound, digital media, and custom-built machinery—including wearable cyber prostheses and autonomous devices. With a deep interest in paradox, transformation, and post-dualistic states, Domenika explores the thresholds of identity and perception through symbolic, metaphorical and cybernetic frameworks. Her work has been shown and performed across Europe in venues such as Kupfer Gallery (London), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan), Bim Milano.
𝑀𝑒𝒸𝒽𝒶𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒞𝑜𝓇𝑒 is a powered armor machine with a built-in heart mechanism, designed to protect the wearer from external threats while fulfilling the human desire to mechanize nature in the pursuit of new life through technology. The soundscape unfolds through glitchy Nintendo textures moving between ambient sweetness and distortion. It shifts from a comforting softness to chaos, from delicacy to decay—beating a rhythm of memory transforming into new life, and exploring the tension between fragility and artificial foreverness

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-05-21 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-05-07 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-30 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sport & Spel Club Balreep is our weekly game night.
It refers to the local football club that was founded in 2013 out of Op de Valreep and Vereniging Bajesdorp.
Bring your own game, weerwolven etc.
Food Reservations can be made by emailing: kantine [at] grond.community

TEMPERATURA
2025-05-17 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Free Improvisation
w/Giuseppe Doronzo, Katerina Orfanoudaki, Nina Hitz, Jasna Veličković, Fani Konstantinidou, + food by Judith Baten
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:30 – Dinner from 18:30
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 / +Dinner p.p. €15* – available at the door or online
*Reservation is recommended – please reserve by purchasing online.

On Saturday 17 May, come to GROND for our first Temperatura music event. The GROND members and live electronics performers Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou improvise with the harpsichord player Katerina Orfanoudaki, the cello player Nina Hitz, and the baritone saxophone player Giuseppe Doronzo. A free improvisation evening where the five artists are coming together for the first time.
The same evening, Judith Baten is improvising in the kitchen and preparing vegan/vegetarian dinner!

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About the Artists
Katerina Orfanoudaki is a harpsichordist and performer whose work bridges early music traditions with contemporary and experimental practices. She studied Harpsichord Performance at the Ionian University under Katerina Michopoulou and continued her specialization in Contemporary Harpsichord at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Goska Isphording, Menno van Delft, and Kris Verhelst. She has also pursued studies in Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam.
Her projects often explore unconventional instrumentations and transdisciplinary collaborations. She is a founding member of ensembles including Duo Suzanne (with flutist Teresa Costa), Sine Sole Sileo (with vocalist Irene Soroźabal Moreno), and experimental duos combining harpsichord with saxophonist Nicki Kokolakis, double bassist Ignacio Pintó, and electronics.
Her artistic work includes original compositions and performative soundscape interventions, as seen in projects like “Formed by the Gaze, Twisted by the Beast”, “Galatea” co-created together with Vera Morais and “Relocations: Polyphony and Identity.” With a deep interest in historically informed performance, new music, free improvisation and cross-genre creation, Katerina continually seeks to expand the expressive possibilities of the harpsichord in today’s musical landscape.
Katerina Orfanoudaki – photo: Thomas Huisman
Nina Hitz is a cellist living in the Netherlands, originally trained in early music but drawn to the fringes of sound. A former member of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, she has collaborated with dancers, actors, musicians, and performance artists in both the Netherlands and Switzerland, creating works that ranged from tightly structured compositions to more fluid, atmospheric, and unpredictable forms.
Her work explores sound as a parallel to life — layered, unstable, and full of contradiction. She is fascinated by inconsistency, embracing the imperfect and the ephemeral. Whether through structured improvisation or intuitive noise, she seeks resonance in all forms, sizes, and silences.
Nina Hitz
Giuseppe Doronzo is an Italian multi-reed player, composer and performer based in Amsterdam. He focuses his research on the baritone saxophone, where he expands a vocabulary at the intersection of contemporary music, jazz improvisation and non-western music. His musical quest merges composed and improvised music with ancient Mediterranean cultures and rituals. In his recent performances, he introduces instruments discovered during his travels, like the ney-anban (Iranian bagpipe), hulusi (Chinese gourd reed instrument), longari (Albanian double flute), and mizmar (Egyptian reed instrument), that made a profound emotional and sonic impact on him. He also collaborates with choreographers and film makers.
In 2022 has received the BUMA Award for his film music and in 2024 the Musician of the Year Award from Polish Jazz Press Magazine. He leads AVA Trio and has worked with creative artists covering various fields of the national and international art including: Michael Moore, Joe Lovano, Mariem Hassan, Han Bennink, NDR Big Band, João Bosco, Taylor Ho Bynum, Irene Aebi Lacy, Jim Black, Matt Wilson.
Giuseppe Doronzo – photo: Yiğit Demircioğlu
Jasna Veličković is a Belgrade-born composer and performer based in Amsterdam. Her artistic output has been developed through an interaction between a life-long fascination with the sound, an enduring interest in an intricate encounter between music and technology, and an inclination toward experimentation.
Jasna Veličković
Fani Konstantinidou is a composer, performer, and music researcher based in Amsterdam. She expresses her musical ideas in various formats such as site-specific and multichannel compositions, improvisation, and through collaborative projects with artists of various disciplines. Within these contexts, she performs live-electronics and composes music for solo instruments and small ensembles.
Fani Konstantinidou

Eiwerk Electronic Music Night
2025-05-15 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Free entrance
Live Beats, DJ’s, Soundscapes, VJ’s made by musicians and artists from Eiwerk.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-05-14 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sport & Spel Club Balreep is a weekly game night, It refers to the local football club that was founded in 2013 out of Op de Valreep and Vereniging Bajesdorp. bring your own game, weerwolven etc.
reserve for food by emailing kantine [at] grond.community

Apapacho Day
2025-05-03 11:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Every year, mainly after the intensity of 8M and other feminist and social justice mobilizations, many of us find ourselves exhausted, drained, and on the verge of burning out. We give our energy to the struggle, to organizing, to holding space for others, but how often do we extend that same care to ourselves and to our community?
The Náhuatl word ‘apapacho’ carries deep meaning. According to linguistic studies, it comes from the verb papatzoa or patzoa, meaning “to press or squeeze”, which evolved into the idea of bodies coming together in an embrace, a physical gesture of warmth and comfort. Additionally, some scholars connect it to pachoa, meaning “to cover or shelter, like a hen incubating her eggs”, a beautiful metaphor for care as a protective and nurturing act.
Apapacho, then, is not just affection, it is a profound act of care that holds, soothes, and strengthens. As feminists, we constantly speak about care, healing, and collective well-being, so why not take this moment to actually put that into practice, together?
✨ What to expect?
🌿 Bodywork and relaxation sessions
☕ Nourishing drinks and comforting food
🎶 Soothing music and collective reflection
💜 A space to unwind, recconnect, and nurture resilience
This is a moment just for you, a pause to breathe, to feel held, and to restore strength for the struggles ahead. Come as you are, and let’s hold each other in radical care and solidarity.
📍 Grond
Register to feministasenholanda@gmail.com
Because rest is resistance. Because care is revolutionary. Because we deserve an apapacho.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-04-23 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-16 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-09 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sport & Spel Club Balreep is the name a weekly game night, It refers to the local football club that was founded in 2013 out of Op de Valreep an Vereniging Bajesdorp. bring your own game, weerwolven etc.
reserve for food by emailing kantine [at] grond.community

Benefit for Congo
2025-04-18 17:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
gathering for Congolese people in need
with speakers Aime Kabena and Eric Bimule
food, music, drinks
donations welcome

GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam

Cilice Orchestra
2025-04-16 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Music starts at 20:00 – Canteen is open for food from 18:30 hrs
Tickets here regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 –
Dinner: + €12,5 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online)
ABOUT the Artists
Theo Holsheimer is a man with a penchant for maximum madness on stage. His band Cilice is notorious for stretching the boundaries of heavy music like silly putty – a hard-hitting juggernaut that’s somehow also crazy nimble in its dazzling virtousity. In GROND we will get a semi-acoustic version of the new incarnation of his band Cilice.
Theo Holsheimer: gitaar, sampler
Philipp Moser: drums
Gijs Levelt: trompet
Oene van Geel: viool
Joao Driessen: sax
Vinkepeezer: Electronics

The performance of Rick & Rudie is cancelled.

Dinner–Music–Dialogue
2025-04-11 19:00 - 23:30 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Food & Music
by The String Octet, Mazen Al Ashkar, Judith Baten
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
Dinner–Music–Dialogue 19:00–21:00 (doors 18:30)
Tickets (inc. food & concert): regular €25 (or more) / discount €20 available at the door or online here.
▶︎ Reservation required ◀︎ Please RSVP by booking your tickets online
FREE ENTRY after 20:30 with live music by the Brazilian band Arte Feiticeira, and uplifting music until late!

ABOUT the event
Food and music go well together, but the challenge is to present it in such a way that it reinforces each other! That is exactly what this evening is. Musically, a time journey is made that starts in romanticism and extends to high-modern improvisation. The dishes will be inspired by the atmosphere created by the music. A unique experience!
The String Octet:
After coming together as a group last year in this unique composition, this is already the second project of this octet. These eight string players have been playing together for years, but this composition has proven to be a great success. They have already rehearsed a wonderful program and will play it with great dedication. This octet likes to experiment. They look for concert formats where the music can be achieved even better. Music is experienced together with the sensations of food. We look forward to the experiences of all visitors!

Judith Baten: Food
Max Bruch: Octet for strings
D.S.: Two pieces for sting octet
Bram Faber: Strands
Mazen Al Ashkar – An improvisation on two sequences exploring microtonality in modular setup.

Vrije Ruimte Festival
2025-04-05 14:00 - 23:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
14:00 – 23:30
€ FREE – donations welcome
Artists: Andrea Elera, Dominique Chabot, Ivo Bol, Jasna Veličković, Judith Baten, Marc Nukoop, Mazen Al Ashkar, Nicolás Conde, Quartier Mustache, Ramon Smit, Wytze Minne de Swart, Seijiro Murayama (guest), Roger Fähndrich (guest), Pau Sola (guest)
GROND is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Amsterdam Alternative, and taking part in the Vrije Ruimte Festival: a multidisciplinary, bilingual, experimental yet accessible festival for young and old, that will take place in ten different locations on ten different dates between March and September 2025.
At GROND, we invite you to reconnect with the pulse of nature and community as we welcome the Spring. The programme brings together different ways of resilience, rebirth, and collectiveness through performances, installations, and workshops. Dive into a dynamic program where image, food, sound, and movement blur boundaries, bringing us together in organic, ever-evolving experiences. Join us as we celebrate alternative ways of being and creating, nurturing the seeds of tomorrow – together.
We start with a workshop for children that combines storytelling, performance and drawing and we finish with a collective performance and closing party. In between there will be a range of experiences happening. Feel free to spend a full afternoon and evening with us or just pop in for an hour.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-04-02 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)

Sudanese Eid Benefit Party
2025-03-30 14:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sunday 30 or Monday 31 March 14:00-22:00
check instagram/wesellreality for the date
Celebrating the end of the fasting period of Ramadan.
With DJ Fox
Free event, and donations are welcome!
Food, drinks, Music

SNCKBAR #2
2025-03-29 17:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Snacks at the bar before and during the concert!
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
Doors open at 17:00
Tickets: €17,5 (or more) – available at the door or online here.

Solidarity Iftar #4 with We Sell Reality
2025-03-28 17:30 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Four Iftars, fast-breaking evening meals, in March 2025
During Ramadan 2025 the artist collective We Sell Reality organizes so-called Solidarity Iftars at four Friday evenings in a row. Every Solidarity Iftar will have a focus on a certain area of conflict that is not much in the news. Together we want to break the fasting and stand still with these conflicts and developments and learn about them. We will focus on four countries: Sudan, Haiti, Congo and Syria. We will invite speakers who can tell us the ins and outs of what is going on in these countries.
The Iftars will be prepared by We Sell Reality. In return of a donation of €15 you can eat and drink. 1/3 of the sum you lay in will go to a grassroots organization in one of these four countries. Together we pray/wish/hope for a better future for all people in need.
When will the Iftars be?
The Iftars will be at Friday the 7th of March, Friday the 14th of March, Friday the 21st of March and Friday the 28th of March from 17:30 till 23:00 at GROND.
Who is We Sell Reality?
We Sell Reality is an artistic collective that makes the struggles of refugees visible through art and organizing gatherings.

Photo by Farouk Ebaiss for the Symposium Suns and Stars

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-03-26 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-03-19 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-03-12 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Sport & Spel Club Balreep is the name a weekly game night, It refers to the local football club that was founded in 2013 out of Op de Valreep an Vereniging Bajesdorp. bring your own game, weerwolven etc.

Solidarity Iftar #3 with We Sell Reality
2025-03-21 17:30 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands

SNCKBAR: NOMIII trio
2025-03-15 17:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Music by NOMIII trio & Mark Nieuwenhuis
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Snacks (or full dinner) at the bar before and during the concert!
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
Music starts at 20:00 – our SNCKBAR is open from 17:00
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or online here.
Full Dinner: + €17,5 – option to order individual plates at the bar.
for full dinner, please RSVP by purchasing online. All plates are vegetarian/vegan*

ABOUT the Artists
NOMIII is an Amsterdam trio consisting of Bernt Nellen (drums), Yrjana Rankka (contrabass), and Sebastian Janusz (piano). Special Guest that evenuing: Mark Nieuwenhuis (trumpet/flugelhorn).
NOMIII played in Bajesdorp in the old Muiterij several times before, this is the first time they come to GROND.
Check their music here

*SNCKBAR Menu 🌶️
by Judith Baten & Ramon Smit
Soup
ginger / carrot / orange soup
Salad
lima beans and green beans with jasmine-yoghurt dressing
Snacks
cauliflower pie / polenta muffin with Brussels sprouts / leak pancake
Dessert
Citrus poppyseed cake

Solidarity Iftar #2 with We Sell Reality
2025-03-14 17:30 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands

Aldrich/Bol/van Dijk/Valeriano, & Ties Mellema and Robin Koek
2025-03-09 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London)
Electronic music, saxophones, keyboards, and spoken word
By Ties Mellema & the new band Aldrich/Bol/van Dijk/Valeriano. Special guest Robin Koek. Our Canteen is open, serving delicious food from 18:00 hrs onwards!
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
Music starts at 20:00 – dinner will be served from 18:30
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or online here.
Dinner: + €12,5 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online)
Ivo Bol and Ties Mellema have played together for many years. Now they join forces with keyboardist and composer Tom Aldrich, saxophonist Michiel van Dijk and spoken word artist Jeannine Valeriano.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jeannine Valeriano is a writer, singer, spoken word performer and actress, exploring the boundaries between language and music.

Michiel van Dijk studied classical saxophone with Leo van Oostrom and jazz saxophone with John Ruocco at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag. Michiel has played with almost all the renowned orchestras and ensembles in the Netherlands. Additionally, he has collaborated with various theater productions and ensembles as a composer and arranger.

Tom Aldrich is the leader of the group Zolder Ellipsis and was a co-founder of the Four Bags. He has worked with artists such as a.o. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bang on a Can, Jackie Cain.

Taking on and then overcoming challenges and telling a story are always at the heart of Ties Mellema’s work. Whether it’s the false-polyphonic cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach on baritone saxophone, the monomaniac Gradus by Philip Glass or the extreme free jazz by his hero John Coltrane: Ties Mellema always goes in search of the boundaries of disciplines and the possibilities on his instrument.

Robin Koek is an enterprising sound artist who aspires to nurture a new cognitive understanding of the world surrounding us mediated through art and education. These realities can be experienced as dynamic environments in which sensory feedback to the interactor is an essential component.

Solidarity Iftar #1 with We Sell Reality
2025-03-07 17:30 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands

The Breaking of the Bread - Community Brunch / Comfort Food & Connection
2025-03-02 11:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
At the heart of this brunch, organised by GROND member Ramon Smit, is the simple act of coming together. A large shared table will be set with freshly baked bread, plant-based dips, and toppings, all designed to be passed around, encouraging conversation and connection.
This is a donation-based event, open to everyone. For those who’d like something extra, there will be 2-3 seasonal à la carte dishes available for order, covering basic ingredient costs and labor. These dishes are thoughtfully prepared to reflect the spirit of comfort food.

You’re welcome to drop in whenever it suits you within the set time-frame. Find your place at the table, break bread, and share not just food, but stories, laughter, and moments of connection.

No need to register!

Tejiendo resistencias / Weaving resistance with Feministas en Holanda / Feminists in the Netherlands
2025-03-01 16:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
To gather and to share are part of our bodies, of how we understand and relate to the world. These actions give us the chance to imagine new worlds, together!

We want to invite you on the 1st of March from 16:30 to 21:00 at GROND to keep weaving resistance. This is not a workshop. We want to hang out, listen, share, and get to know each other while continuing to weave a large arpillera we started last year, as a symbol of our community, hermandad, and existence in this territory. You can add your voice there, or make your banner, up to on you, we will be there to facilitate :).

A table with mixed materials for banner & textile making will be available, so we can express our voices in whatever medium feels most comfortable for each one of us.

To celebrate our togetherness, we will finish the night around the fire, starting with a small ritual and ending with an Aquelarre!

So, come join us to weave, burn, and care before 8M <3

If you want to participate, please write to us at feministasenholanda@gmail.com. We also have a chat to organize our participation in the 8M demonstration. Let us know in your email if you’re interested in being added.

DATE: 1ST MARCH
TIME: 16:30 – 21:00
PLACE: GROND – BIJDORPSTRAAT 1, AMSTERDAM
