Eid Al Fitr
2026-03-19 15:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
On the 19th or 20th of March we celebrate the end of Ramadan with music, food and good vibes!
Join us for Eid Al Fitr, starting somewhere around 15:00 till 22:00.
Bring some food, cookies or juice to share

Check the exact date on our socials. It is always a last minute surprise!

Sport & Spel Club Balreep ⭐️ Juud's Back Bowl
2026-03-25 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)
🎾/📺 ATP1000: Miami Open
🎲 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.

Orb Weaver & Giuseppe Doronzo
2026-04-03 20:00 - 21:00
David Mitchell (guitar), Lorenzo Servali (bass), Robbert van Hulzen (drums), with special guest Giuseppe Doronzo (baritone saxophone). 8PM sliding scale for entry.

Embodied Co-creation
2026-04-19 15:00 - 18:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
EMBODIED CO-CREATION @ GROND
PRESENTATION
In an ongoing research into embodied creative practices, we invited artists working in different fields to join us in an embodied process of co-creating at GROND. As part of this 3 day process of working, creating together and investigating the creative process from an embodied point of view we want to share our work and invite you to witness on:
Sunday 19th of april, between 3pm and 6pm
Marc Nukoop is a mover and artist in the fields of sound and visuals; he has a strong interest in somatic practices as a way to support freedom of movement, imagination and the art and skill of real time improvisation. A member of Antipodas, a multi-media performance collective, and a member of GROND, a new grassroots cultural hub in Amsterdam.
Antje Penz is a movement artist and paper conservator, intrigued by the intelligence of the body. Graduated the ELAP program in 2021, She is currently in training as a Somatic Movement Educator (SME) of BodyMindCentering and works in a museum for prints and drawings and situated in Berlin, continuously interweaving embodied life and art. since 2022 in an ongoing artistic partnership with Marc Nukoop.

DWAALGASTEN
2026-04-23 20:30 - 23:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
DWAALGASTEN – muziek en verhalen van hier en verderop
20.30 uur
Kaarten online of aan de deur: sliding scale van €7 tot €15
Wij zijn DWAALGASTEN.
Wij zijn niet van hier.
Wij zingen het leven. Om wat ons raakt.
Wij zullen altijd gaan.
Daar kun je zeker van zijn.
Maar we komen ook terug.
Met nieuwe verhalen van verderop.
Omdat horen niet hetzelfde is als luisteren.
En praten niet hetzelfde als vertellen.
Wij zijn DWAALGASTEN.
Tot in Grond!
Dwaalgasten heeft een vaste kern en muzikale rafelranden, zowel in bezetting als in repertoire. In GROND bestaat Dwaalgasten in ieder geval uit de broertjes Bos, Tom Dicke en Auke Haaksma. Waarschijnlijk.

EN.
DWAALGASTEN – music and stories from here and elsewhere
20.30 uur
Tickets online or at the door: Sliding scale from €7 to €15

We are DWAALGASTEN.
We are not from here.
We sing of life. Of what moves us.
We will always move on.
You can be sure of that.
But we also come back.
With new stories from elsewhere.
Because hearing is not the same as listening.
And talking is not the same as telling.
We are DWAALGASTEN.
See you at GROND!
Dwaalgasten has a core line-up and musical fringes, both in terms of line-up and repertoire. At GROND, Dwaalgasten will at least consist of the Bos brothers, Tom Dicke and Auke Haaksma. Probably.

DJ Sniff - Mitchell/Peters duo
2026-04-30 20:00 - 23:30 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
20:00 (doors 19:30)
Tickets online : regular €15 / discount €7 – at the door €17,50

DJ Sniff is a LA/Tokyo-based turntablist and experimental musician merging influences including hip hop and free improvisation, whose performances draw on his studies of the history of recordings on vinyl stretching back to the 1930s. dj sniff has collaborated with Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, Tarek Atoui, Ken Ueno, and Senyawa and many others.
For this concert, Grond also presents Mitchell/Peters duo, a collaboration between flute and saxophone player Finn Peters, who has recorded and/or played with Bill Frisell, Sam Rivers, Steve Swallow, Evan Parker, and many others, and Grond member David Mitchell, an experimental guitarist working with loops and complex delay systems on music informed by central Asian music and jazz; expect near telepathic improvisations rooted in a decades-long friendship.

TEMPERATURA
2026-05-06 20:30 - 22:30
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5*
Wednesday 06 May, TEMPERATURA welcomes the Portland, Oregon based duo MSHR, and the Amsterdam based duo 7090.

MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with a life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.
MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, as an offshoot from the collective Oregon Painting Society. The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.
7090 is a duo consisting of Koen Kaptijn and Nora Mulder. At TEMPERATURA they bring improvised live electronics where vinyl, tape and micro-noise devices meet the analog ecosystem of Ciat Lonbarde. An unpredictable set of loops, glitches and shifting climates. No songs, no presets –just live circuitry.

* 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.

David Mitchell's Natural Light - album release
2026-05-07 20:00 - 22:00
Thursday 07 May, 20:00
Tickets: Donation
Grond member David Mitchell presents his new solo album Natural Light. The album is an exploration of the interaction of light and memory, looking at how qualities of light evoke memories both specific and universal. Recorded in single takes, without edits and overdubs, the six pieces on the album were created using the Soma Cosmos, a complex delay system that allows Mitchell to build shifting soundscapes that metamorphose over the course of performance. Over this sonic tapestry, Mitchell builds improvised lines that recall the work of John McLaughlin on the seminal Miles Davis release In a Silent Way. For this performance, Mitchell will be accompanied by the renowned saxophone and flute player Finn Peters, who has played with Bill Frisell, Sam Rivers, Evan Parker, Marlena Shaw and many others, and award winning dancer and film maker Andrea Hackl. Expect wide ranging, psychedelic improvisations.
Entry by donation, free download of the album for donations over 15 euros.

Lokhipster Album Launch
2026-05-10 14:30 - 17:00
Sunday 10 May, 14:30
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5 / €7,5

Lokhipster presents its debut album Protect, experimental songcraft, krautrock, free jazz and illbient

Rooted in five continents, the musical alchemists of Amsterdam based band Lokhipster come from all corners of the music world. An adventurer who picks up sounds like pearls from the street and who turns the world as we know it upside down. A spoken word performer who tells emotions with a special sound of her own – between speaking, chant singing and sound language. A virtuoso pianist who, with his compositions between jazz, rock and pop, throws striking musical punches into the spotlight. A horn player who masters the entire palette of reeds – from saxophone to bass clarinet – and blows his sound into the world full of light-footed lyricism and soul.

https://lokhipster.bandcamp.com/album/protect
Jeannine Valeriano – voice, spoken word
Michiel van Dijk – reeds
Tom Aldrich – keyboards
Ivo Bol – synthesizers, samplers

The Flamenco Thief
2026-05-10 17:00 - 18:30
The Flamenco Thief returns to Bajesdorp!
We’re delighted to welcome Craig Sutton — better known as The Flamenco Thief — back to GROND on Sunday May 10. One man, one guitar, and a sound that lingers long after the last note.
more: www.theflamencothief.com

EMBER #2
2026-05-14 19:00 - 21:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Thursday, 14 May, 19:00–21:00
Tickets Online: regular €10 / discount: 7 – At the door: €12,50
This time we invite ceramic artist Su Melo and sound artist iulia aionesi to our ambient space at GROND. You can expect moving clay sculptures and a music set featuring field recordings—alongside a crafting station to experiment with air dry clay!
EMBER is a space to listen, create, and linger. With a music set and a creative workshop station that are thematically centered around one visual artwork, each session invites the audience to sink in to observing visual art pieces, let their minds flow with the music and play with art materials to process it all.
Come early, sink in the space and stay for soup!

Orb Weaver with Maarten Visser
2026-05-18 20:00 - 22:30 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
20:00 (doors 19:30)
Tickets: sliding scale – online & at the door.
Grond’s resident ambient jazz transgressors Orb Weaver welcome Chennai-based saxophonist and composer Maarten Visser. With David Mitchell (guitar, electronics), Robbert van Hulzen (drums) and Lorenzo Servali (bass, electronics), expect long form improvisations with absolutely no respect for tradition.

Kapsalon, de musical: een preview
2026-05-28 17:00 - 19:00
Kapsalon, de musical, is een nieuwe productie van Dionne Verwey, die in 2027 op tour gaat langs 30 steden in Nederland.
Dionne Verwey vraagt niet wat Black Joy betekent – ze laat zien waar het leeft: in de harmonieën die klinken boven wasbakken, in het gesis van hete kammen en het klikken van krulspelden, in de verhalen die van hand tot hand en hoofd tot hoofd worden doorgegeven, en in de onverwoestbare kracht van een gemeenschap die blijft vasthouden – onverhandelbaar, ongebroken en ongeremd luid. In een levendige, muzikale ode aan het alledaagse leven, de rituelen en de relaties van mensen die samenkomen, werken en groeien in de sacred space van een salon.

Deze preview, bestaat uit een introductie door de maker, drie songs door de cast en de mogelijkheid om vragen te stellen achteraf, tijdens een informele Q&A

VideoSfeerKapsalonLFMC

Credits
Concept, tekst en regie: Dionne Verwey
Producent: Black Silk / Loulou Sjerps
Cast: Jahlay van Bosse, Amani Verwey, Melvin Aroma
Compositie: Elisha Amonoo Neizer

Deuren open: 17:00
Aanvang: 17:30Toegang: gratis

meer info over de makers: www.blacksilk.online

Pas Musique ⭐️ Mathieu Sylvestre ⭐️ Decoration Commitee
2026-05-29 20:00 - 23:00 | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5 / €7,5

Experimental electronics, field recordings, industrial easy-listening and gentle noise performed live on stage by Pas Musique (US), Mathieu Sylvestre (DE) & Decoration Commitee (NL).

TEMPERATURA
2026-06-11 20:30 - 22:30
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5/€7,5*
Thursday 11 June, TEMPERATURA presents Futuro Ancestrale, the electro-acoustic project led by Giuseppe Doronzo. On stage with him, Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides, and Frank Rosaly.
Futuro Ancestrale, returns with Elsewhen, a bold new chapter blending ancestral music cultures with the electronic music realm. Fusing microtonal textures, meditative drones, post-rock energy, and fearless improvisation, the project crafts a hypnotic sonic ritual inspired by traditions from Ethiopia, Lesotho, and Persia. Following their critically acclaimed 2024 debut—praised by JazzWise, All About Jazz, and the Europe Jazz Media Chart—Elsewhen expands the group’s visionary language into new territories of trance, folklore, and experimental sound. The album will be out on June 19 on a joint release via Unsounds and Tora Records.
foto: Eric van Nieuwland

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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.
* 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.

GROND x Bajesdorp x Bajestuin = BLOCK PARTY
2026-06-27 13:00 - 23:00 | 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.
