GROND x Bajesdorp x Bajestuin = BLOCK PARTY
2026-06-27 13:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Bajesdorp x GROND x Bajestuin = BLOCKPARTY FESTIVAL
Bajesdorp, GROND and the Bajestuin join forces for a full day program for young and old, familiar faces and new friends, join us for the yearly BLOCK PARTY!
15:00 – 18:00 🏋️‍♂️ COLLECTIVE CULTURE CARE WORKSHOPS
We start the day in the Bajestuin (garden) and the new makers’ space of GROND, for an ongoing workshop afternoon. We will host a workshop for kids, learn about compost, fermentation, pruning and cuttings, and experience what the garden and makers space becomes when many different hands, materials, ages, skills, and stories meet.
GROND:
Workshop Kids Workshop Mobile / by Andrea Elera
🌱 Bajestuin:
16:30 – 17:00 Propagation workshop (voortplanting) / by Charline
17:30 – 18:00 Compost workshop / by Joyce
15:00 – 21:00 🏓 BAJESDORP vs THE REST OF THE WORLD CUP 2026 (** only with good weather)
During the afternoon you can also join the ping-pong competition, following the start of the traditional Block Party, a yearly festival in which Bajesdorp invites musicians, dj’s, chefs. Since the opening of the new building, we are slowly bringing back this yearly tradition.
Tournament diriectors: Ahmed & Erik (SSC Balreep / De Volewijkers)
Masters of Ceremonial Music: EZ Lee (Trouwen DJ’s Ook?)
Location: Ohkoenboom Arena
Sign up: https://forms.gle/Tj5XVNDxKwv99Axi8
Mode & rules: https://docs.google.com/document/d/mode&rules
15:00 – 23:00 🪇 MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
The program includes performances on our outdoor stage and in the black box of GROND. This year you can learn more about AfroFuturism.
Dinner is served by chef Mohamed and, just like last year, we will be back with our outdoor cocktail bar.
“Please bring cash to donate for the artists!”
PROGRAM (under construction – more & times tba)
👩‍💻 Nescivi (Plateholder performance @ Black Box Theater)
🎹 Hochberg (Dutch indiewave @ Outdoor Stage)
🤘 Lord of the Flies​ (Loeizware Bunker metal @ Outdoor Stage)
🎸 Stacy! (R’n’R, Power pop @ Outdoor Stage)
👩🏾‍🏫 Afrofuturism by Coloured People Time (Presentation, music, visuals @ Black Box Theater)​
🇪🇺 EUROVISON DJ CONTEST II starring DJ Brenda ⚔️ DJ Flamingo ⚔️ DJ Jacky D. / Host: MC DJ Boomer (met leesbril) / JURY: Paul Schaaps & dj Yobroman (more t.b.a.)​ (@ Outdoor Stage)
💃🏼 DJ Deva​ (Coloured People Time) (@ Black Box Theater)
👯 Foxy Roxy + Doc Dynamite + DJ Menno (Pauze DJ Dream Team) (@ Outdoor Stage)
17:00 – 20:00 🌮 NICE VEGAND FOOD by chefs Mohamed & Elke​
Location: Kantine
Please let us know if you want to come and eat via https://rsvp.bajesdorp.nl
16:00 – 23:00 🍹 CUSTOM CHILL COCKTAILS by Femke & Nina
Location: Cocktail Bar
15:00 – 22:30 🤹‍♀️ ART & MERCH STAND
Support your artists and by their art!

😍😍 [PREVIEW NEW MAKERS’ SPACE] 😍😍

Composer In First Person
2026-07-02 19:00 - 22:00
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19:00 (doors: 18:30)
Tickets: pay what you can

Danya Pilchen and Jasna Veličković invite you to GROND to meet, listen, and discuss their work with you, and to plant some seeds for future possibilities together.

For this event, Danya will prepare an improvisatory work highlighting the relationship
between perceptions of space and time through acoustic feedback, spatialisation, and field
recordings, and Jasna will present insights from her long-term project The Art of Coil, in which
she explores electromagnetic phenomena as both sound source and compositional material.

Danya Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague. His main interest lies in the human
experience of time and music’s ability to shed light on it. He has composed for a wide range of
settings, including solo, ensemble, and orchestra, as well as theatre productions. A significant
part of his practice involves creating immersive sound installations that incorporate instrumental
performances.
Danya’s music is closely intertwined with his research into collective experiences of time in
musical practices. Understanding time as an emerging property of consciousness affected by
social interactions necessitates increased attention to the relationships between musicians and
audiences in Danya’s pieces. To facilitate these interactions, he employs various compositional
strategies and listening techniques engaging the materiality of sound.

Jasna Veličković is a composer based in Amsterdam. Since 2008, Jasna has been
experimenting with and researching within the sound world of the magnetic field—the
omnipresent, yet usually completely silent elements in human life. Her journey into the unknown
started with an exploration of the sound produced by manipulating coils as parts of complex
sound systems, including classical instruments as sound sources. A purely serendipitous event
in 2013 led her to the discovery that magnets can also produce sounds when applied to coils in
certain ways. This discovery ultimately resulted in the invention of the Velicon, the instrument
which she has been composing for and performing on ever since. The investigations of the
musical force of the magnetic field also led to the introduction of other seemingly silent objects
as sound sources.
