Sunday Sessions
2026-01-04 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
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

New Marshall Plan
2026-01-10 20:30 - 23:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
The world is full of noise. On Saturday 10 January, New Marshall Plan turns the knob toward hope.
With 80s synths, 90s guitars, and lyrics about politics, love, and life, the band brews catchy indie pop that heals, lifts, and sticks in your head: musical vitamins for those who want to feel again.
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5 (sliding scale)

About
New Marshall Plan is a Dutch indie band creating music rooted in the rich traditions of synthpop, rock, and new wave. They were formed more than 20 years ago out of a shared love for bands like Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Radiohead, Interpol, and The Whitest Boy Alive—but for a long time, the songs stayed close to home. In June 2023 they recorded the album “Escalate” at Mailmen Studio with Martijn Groeneveld, known for his work with Blaudzun and Klangstof. The first single dropped in October 2023, and the full album was released on April 4, 2024. Each of the 10 tracks is accompanied by a music video—many of them made using AI, pushing the boundaries of what indie can look like as well as sound like. Lyrically, they don’t shy away from anything. These songs cover themes like corporate greed, war, inequality, misinformation, and the messy reality of human relationships. But there’s also hope in the noise—because for them, making music is an act of rebuilding. The band’s name, New Marshall Plan, reflects that—a nod to Europe’s post-war reconstruction and a metaphor for picking up the pieces in your own life. In 2025, they also released “Bermuda,” a self-recorded album from 2007 that they never properly put out back then. It’s a raw snapshot of who they were, and releasing it now bridges their early ideas with what they are creating today. It’s not as polished as “Escalate”—but it’s real, and it completes their story until now.
New Marshall Plan are Rogier Werschkull, Roeland van der Put, David van Putten, and Bart Koopman.

Sunday Sessions JAM
2026-01-11 15:00 - 19:00
Sunday Sessions is cancelled this week due to extremely slippery roads and paths in the area.
Take care everyone, and we’ll see you next week.

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.
TODAY WE WILL HAVE A JAMSESSION WITH MARC, DAVID AND MAZEN
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
2026-01-14 19:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: delicious vegan menu by Jessica & Judith (reservations appreciated)
⚽️/📺 AFCON 2025: Nigeria – Morocco (21h)
🟤 Sjoelbak NY Championshipcuptrophy
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🏓 HoodCup: Season III
🚨 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.

Orb Weaver
2026-01-16 20:00 - 23:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Orb Weaver is a trio playing long form improvisation. With David Mitchell (guitar, electronics), Robbert van Hulzen (drums), Lorenzo Servali (bass) and Marc Nukoop (projections). The trio spins out long tonal improvisations in the tradition of the Necks, Jeff Parker ETA and David Torn, and this month is accompanied by special guest Vinkepeezer (Ivo Bol) on electronic instruments. Tickets 10euros/7euros concessions.

GROND Garage Sale + New Year Drinks
2026-01-17 14:00 - 18:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
On Saturday 17 January, from 14:00 – 18:00, GROND organises its first yearly Garage Sale slash ‘Kofferbakverkoop’ in combination with New Years Drinks. Some items are free, some items will be sold based on donation, some of them have a fixed price.
Bring your friends, Celebrate the New Year & Donate to GROND by buying our stuff!
ALSO TODAY; SUNDAY SESSIONS ON SATURDAY, WITH A JAM IN OUR BLACK BOX MORE INFO

Sunday Sessions on SATURDAY 17th
2026-01-17 15:00 - 19:00
Because Sunday the 18th GROND is fully booked for a rental, this weekend’s Session is on SATURDAY 17TH of January.
ALSO: GARAGE SALE@GROND! MORE INFO
TODAY: JAM WITH US IN OUR BLACK BOX
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 ⭐️ Pubquiz
2026-01-21 19:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: delicious vegetarian menu by Jessica & Kasper (reservations appreciated)
⁉️ Erik’s Extraordinary Pubquiz (21h)
⚽️/📺 UEFA CL: Newcastle – PSV (21h)
🏐/📺 EHF EURO: Netherlands – Georgia (19h)
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🏓 HoodCup: Season III
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting

🚨 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.

Sunday Sessions 25 Januari
2026-01-25 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
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 ⭐️ OEC Jungle Speed '26
2026-01-28 17:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
💈 Open European Championships Jungle Speed 2026 (20h30 – qualifying)
🌶️ Vega VoKu: delicious vega(n) menu by Club De Club Chefteam (reservations appreciated)
🏐/📺 EHF EURO: Germany – France (19h)
⚽️/📺 UEFA CL: PSV – Bayern / BVB – Inter / Ajax – Olympiakos (21h)
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🏓 HoodCup: Season III
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting

🚨 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.

Sunday Sessions
2026-02-01 15:00 - 19:00
THIS SUNDAY: Grond Improvisers Group (GIG) JAM!
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
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 ⭐️ OEC Junglespeed '26
2026-02-04 17:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
💈 Open European Championships Jungle Speed 2026 (21h – finals)

🌶️ Vega VoKu: delicious vega(n) menu by Club De Club Chefteam (reservations appreciated)
⚽️/📺 EFL Cup: Manchester City – Newcastle (21h)
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🏓 HoodCup: Season III
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting

🚨 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 offers a 3 course vegetarian meal by Club De Club Chefteam for 15 €
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
2026-02-06 11:00 - 15:00, 2026-02-13 11:00 - 15:00, 2026-02-20 11:00 - 15:00, 2026-02-27 11:00 - 15:00
Every Friday Falafel Friday! From 11:00 – 15:00 you can grab your lunch @GROND. Mohamed Alnoor makes his delicious homemade Falafel-sandwiches and sells them for €3,50.

Orb Weaver
2026-02-06 20:00 - 22:30
Orb Weaver is a trio featuring Grond member David Mitchell (guitar, electronics), drummer Robbert van Hulzen and bassist Lorenzo Servali. The trio creates long form improvisations, mixing influences including The Necks, Jeff Parker’s ETA IVtet and experimental guitar pioneer David Torn. Orb Weaver’s monthly residency features diverse guest soloists from the top rank of Amsterdam’s improvised music, jazz and electroacoustic scenes: on February 6th we are delighted to welcome trumpeter Gijs Levelt; as well as being a founding member of the Amsterdam Klezmer Band and Spinifex, Gijs is also a highly regarded electro acoustic trumpet player, both solo and in his acclaimed Spoken Quartet. Trippy sounds emblematic of the interesting electro acoustic approach developing down in Oost right now.

Sunday Sessions
2026-02-08 15:00 - 19:00
THIS SUNDAY: GROND @ the CINEMA!
We offer a choice of 3 movies, from which we choose with whoever is there.
Bar is open from 15:00!
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.
Furthermore, you can just chill; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.
Hope to see you there!
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1
Amsterdam, 1096AP Netherlands + Google Map

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2026-02-11 17:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: delicious vega menu by Club De Club Chefteam (reservations appreciated)
❄️/📺 StudiOlympia (17h)
⚽️/📺 DFB Cup: Bayern – RB Leipzig (20h45)
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🏓 HoodCup: Season III
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting

🚨 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 offers a 3 course vegetarian meal by Club De Club Chefteam for € 15.
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.

Friday Night Improv
2026-02-13 19:00 - 23:30
Grond Improvisers Group presents Friday Night Improv – an electroacoustic open session for musicians, poets, visual artists, or anyone with something interesting to contribute – building on our work in defining new approaches to electroacoustic improvisation. Come and hang out, play, chat with the artists until the early hours – starting at 1900 on Friday 13th February.

Sunday Sessions
2026-02-15 15:00 - 19:00

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2026-02-18 17:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: delicious 3 course menu by Club De Club Chefteam (reservations appreciated)
❄️/📺 StudiOlympia (17h)
⚽️/📺 UEFA CL: conference (21h)
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🏓 HoodCup: Season III
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting

🚨 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 offers a 3 course vegetarian meal by Club De Club Chefteam for € 15.
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.

Kinks in Cables – Theatre of the Oppressed Session(s)
2026-02-19 13:00 - 18:00
This session starts from, operates through, and circles back to the infrastructures that shape artistic labour. With the aim to bolster understandings of how social reproduction and material infrastructure sustain and mediate one another in the arts, the session invites to re-enact (with) funding’s logistics, institutional desires, cruel optimisms, professional norms, paradoxes of autonomy, and speculative flows (of creative production and value alike). By doing so, we seek to interrupt their capacity to quietly reproduce precarity while presenting themselves as an opportunity to compliant art-workers.
Through Theatre of the Oppressed practices facilitated by Rosa Stourac McCreery, Liza Prins, Alina Lupu, with further support from Laura Dubourjal, Kinks in Cables brings art workers together to study, rehearse, and sing against these conditions.
When and where?
Thursday 19th February, GROND @grond.bajesdorp , Amsterdam; Friday 20th February, BAK Basecamp @bakbasecamp , Utrecht; Saturday 21st February, Nesse @nesse_terneuzen , Terneuzen, between 13:00–18:00 CET
Do you want to join?
To join us, please register by emailing theofficeofalinalupu@protonmail.com by February 10th. Any questions or (access) requests can be sent to this same address.
* These TO Workshop sessions are part of the work Alina and Liza will be doing in residence at Nesse, Terneuzen, exploring infrastructural tensions in art production through study, theatre, and song.
** Images are from Workshop – Theater of the Oppressed in Paris (1975). Courtesy: Acervo Cedoc/Funarte.

TEMPERATURA
2026-02-21 20:00 - 23:30 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5*

Saturday 21 February, TEMPERATURA welcomes 2026 with free improvisation sets and fresh collaborations. On stage, the new, intimate, improvisational duo Bibiri (Maya Felixbrot, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman). The evening will close with a set by Bibiri together with the TEMPERATURA team (0C). A spontaneous quartet featuring four composers-performers, filling the night with violas, shruti boxes, voices, magnets, digital and analog electronics, and more.

Bibiri: Maya Felixbrot, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman

Bibiri

The duo consists of Maya Felixbrot and Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman. Two composer-performers and long-time collaborators whose work continually evolves through unexpected contexts and setups. In early 2026, they embarked on a new intimate improvisational duo, featuring two violas, two shruti boxes, two voices, and whatever sonifiers catch their ears and eyes. This performance at Extratonal in Charlois marks the world premiere of Bibiri.
Bibiri means ‘two’ in Kinyarwanda language, and a multitude of other things in a number of other languages around the world.

Maya Felixbrot is a musician and movement artist working at the intersection of sound, movement, and performance. Her practice explores the poetics of chaos through playfulness, interdisciplinarity, and Winnicott’s concept of the Transitional Space. She performs internationally as a soloist and with ensembles, focusing on music theater and experimental music. She is a co-founder of Moving Strings and its educational platform Play As We Are, and of Zvov and Screen Dive.

Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman studied music composition, radio documentary, Western classical singing and jazz singing. Her work, a synthesis of radio art and music theatre from an Afro-European perspective, is described as groundbreaking, daring and delicate. She brings unique stories to life in an accessible and innovative way: often based on acoustic sounds and soundscapes that she makes move like a kind of 3D cinema for the ears.
0C & guests: approximately once a month, the TEMPERATURA team (composers/performers Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou) invites guests to join them for a free improvisation set in spontaneous combinations.

* If you wish to attend but can’t afford our entry fee, please send us an email to temperatura.amsterdam (at) gmail (dot) com and we ‘ll make sure you can join us.
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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, the series strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and spread today’s artistic practices.

Sunday Sessions
2026-02-22 15:00 - 19:00
THIS SUNDAY: GROND Artist Portfolio presentation!
MARC NUKOOP is a member of GROND and is going to show and tell a bit about their practice as a multi-media artist.
Bar is open from 15:00!
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.
Hope to see you there! Donation welcome.
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

Sport & Spel Club Balreep 🚨 CANCELLED
2026-02-25 17:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
🚨 TONIGHT: CANCELLED DUE TO FLU 🚨

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.

Iftar
2026-02-27 17:30 - 21:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
On the 27th of February we organize a traditional Iftar @GROND from 17:30 till 21:00.
Join us to break the fast of Ramadan for a delicious Sudanese Iftar prepared by Mohamed Alnoor. Everyone is welcome to join and experience the togetherness and tastes of Ramadan.

Sunday Sessions Impro Jam
2026-03-01 15:00 - 19:00
THIS SUNDAY: IMPRO JAM
A genre-fluid, electro-acoustic, mixed media, impro lab.
Bar is open from 15:00!
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.
Hope to see you there! Donation welcome.
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

Sport & Spel Club Balreep ⭐️ RdB Wunschfilm
2026-03-04 17:00 - 23:00
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🎥/📺 Rond de Beeldbuis Wunschfilm ⭐️ Non Olympic Italian Food Movies (VOTE)(20h30)
🌶️ Vega VoKu: delicious 3 course menu by Club De Club Chefteam (reservations appreciated)
⚽️/📺 Bundesliga & Premier League: conference (20h15)
🏓 HoodCup: Season III – Mini Pong
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames

🚨 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 offers a 3 course vegetarian meal by Club De Club Chefteam for € 15.
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.

Orb Weaver with Gijs Levelt
2026-03-07 20:00 - 23:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Last month, Orb Weaver invited Gijs Levelt as our special guest; we liked the experience so much, we decided to invite him back for more. Expect powerful long form improvisations with more than a hint of electric Miles and Jon Hassell – with David Mitchell on guitar/effects, Lorenzo Servali on acoustic bass/effects and Robbert van Hulzen on drums, Marc Nukoop on visual projections, and of course, Gijs Levelt on trumpet/effects and electronics. Saturday 7 March 8PM tickets: sliding scale
