The Flamenco Thief
2026-05-10 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
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

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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.
