Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-10-08 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
SSC Balreep is a weekly VoKu, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
⚽️/🎦 FIFA World Cup 26 Quali: Indonesia – Saudi Arabia (19h15)
🎦 Hall of Fame Game: try-out

🌶️ Vega VoKu: Hollandsche Herftspot & Toet (reservations appreciated)

🚨 Cook/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.

Falafel Friday
2025-10-10 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-17 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-24 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-31 11:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Every Friday of this month (October 2025) we open the doors from 11:00 –
15:00 @GROND to enjoy Falafel Friday.
Our chef Mohamed Alnoor serves his
delicious homemade sandwhich falafel for €3,50 at lunch time.
Welcome!

TEMPERATURA
2025-10-11 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/ Danya Pilchen, Nirantar Yakthumba
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door & online
On Saturday 11 October, TEMPERATURA brings you two special works by the KALI ensemble. Join us to experience two performances by Danya Pilchen and Nirantar Yakthumba!

KALI is a contemporary music collective based in The Hague. Their artistic vision is to foster close and long-term relationships between composers and musicians, and to develop unique artistic practices together. They have produced, premiered, and performed a variety of works in The Hague at Studio LOOS, Korzo, and Amare; at het Orgelpark, and Splendor in Amsterdam; at Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf; and at Humboldt University and KM28, in Berlin.
At TEMPERATURA, composers, performers, and KALI members Danya Pilchen and Nirantar Yakthumba will be presenting:

EVIL GAZE – D. Pilchen
for harmonium and live electronics
Kamalā {2376, 2592, 2673, 2816, 2904, 3168, 3456, 3564, 3872, 3888, 4224, 4356} – N. Yakthumba
for harmonium, fretless electric bass, and live electronics

Danya Pilchen – photo: Yinquan Chen

Nirantar Yakthumba – photo: Sander Foederer

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TEMPERATURA is a concert series initiated by composers/performers and GROND members Jasna Veličković and Fani 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. Through these temporary crossings, we aim to create an environment—a playful space for experimentation and open ears—that fosters performing, creating, and experiencing music together. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and to spread today’s artistic practices.

Sunday Sessions #2
2025-10-12 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
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.
for the 2nd edition of Sunday Sessions we open the bar again, mellow sounds will permeate the space. you can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-10-15 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
SSC Balreep is a weekly VoKu, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
💈 Junglespeed: Mixed Open Amsterdam Championship (21h)
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🎦 Hall of Fame Game: try-out-again

🌶️ Vega VoKu: Chinese Miso Congee by chefs Kasper, Jasper & Juud (reservations appreciated)

🚨 Cook/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.

Smaken Van Mijn Herinnering
2025-10-18 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
FOOD ART INSTALLATION:
FLAVOURS OF MY MEMORY (SMAKEN VAN MIJN HERINNERING)
What if you could taste memories?
Flavours of My Memory is a social and sensory art project that brings together memories, flavours, and neighbourhood stories in an edible installation.
Our focus is the Bajeskwartier — a new district built on the site of the former Bijlmerbajes prison. We spoke with former prison staff, people who worked there during its time as an asylum seekers’ centre, and local residents. Their stories have been translated into an edible landscape: a table you not only see — but also smell, touch, and taste.
Alongside these personal accounts, we also explored the area’s history. From the 17th-century country estates along the Amstel to the industrial boom: step by step, we built a timeline of this changing place. The result is a layered portrait of the neighbourhood, expressed in scent, colour, and flavour.
On 18 October, we invite you to take a seat, listen to hidden histories, and share in tasting the memory of this remarkable place.
In the former director’s house of the Bijlmerbajes — now GROND — you will experience performances, hear local voices, and taste stories that would otherwise remain untold. An intimate encounter for anyone wishing to connect with the soul of the neighborhood.
Saturday 18 October | 15:00 – 17:00
Performance, tasting, installation part of ‘750 Jaar Amsterdam’
Free entrance

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-10-22 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
SSC Balreep is a weekly VoKu, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: Lasagna by chefs Jessica & Kasper (reservations appreciated)
💈 Junglespeed: Mixed Open Amsterdam Championship (21h)
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
⚽️/🎦 UEFA CL: Eintracht – Liverpool / Chelsea – Ajax (21h)

🚨 Cook/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.

Eiwerk Electronic Music Night
2025-10-23 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Join us for DJ’s, VJ’s and live electronic music from Eiwerk musicians, free entrance.

Improvised Music and Dance Laboratory #1
2025-10-24 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
IMDL is a monthly performance series where artists from Amsterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht—each rooted in different disciplines—meet for the first time in small, local theaters. Together, they create performances through real-time composition and shared experimentation. Every process is digitally archived. IMDL is a space for innovation, deepening, and connection.

For the first edition in October, Marc Nukoop of Grond curates an evening that explores sound, movement in which compositions emerge in the moment.
Line-up:
Hugo Ariëns (guitar), Ivo Bol (electronics), Maria Mavridou (dance), Iris van Peppen (dance), Goda Žukauskaitė (dance), Miri Lee (dance) & Marc Nukoop (dance, objects/electronics),

Entrance: 10/7 Euro sliding scale; reservation
We begin with curiosity and care — see you at Grond.

Supported by Grond, Organised by Collectief Imprography
We also started a Crowdfunding campaign with VoordeKunst

Upcoming performances:

October: October 24, Grond, Amsterdam
November: November 15, Splendor, Amsterdam
December: December 14, Tempel, Amsterdam

More information, including the program, will be available from mid-October on our website: imdl.info

Sunday Sessions #3
2025-10-26 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.
for the 3rd edition of Sunday Sessions we open the bar again, mellow sounds will permeate the space and we have a musical duet with Vinkepeezer (Ivo Bol) on electronics and David Mitchell on electric guitar.
Furthermore, 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!

Sport & Spel Club Balreep - 't Verkiezingsavondje
2025-10-29 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: Mezzo Elecio Hapjebuffet by chefs Jessica & Judith (reservations appreciated)
🎨 Expo by Anna Suri Baalman
🗳️/🎦 Tweede Kamerverkiezingen: uitslagen, reacties, uitzendingen en meer (20h30)
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting

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.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-11-05 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: Buritos con Toetje by chefs Judith & Kasper (reservations appreciated)
🎮 Console Cruising: Mario vs Yobroman Kart
📺 Rond de Beeldbuis: Wunschfilm – Theme: TBC (20h45)
💈 Junglespeed: Master Table Games
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
⚽️/📺 UEFA CL: Man. City – BVB09 / Ajax – Galatasaray (21h)

🚨 Cook/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.

TEMPERATURA
2025-11-08 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, Siamak Anvari, Leslee Smucker, Anne La Berge, Fani Konstantinidou
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5

On Saturday 08 November, TEMPERATURA presents two improvisation sets by the trio Alternating Lunes and the duo La Berge–Konstantinidou.
Alternating Lunes are Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, Siamak Anvari, and Leslee Smucker. All three artists involved in this project work with non-traditional approaches to instruments and sound. Leslee Smucker has developed a series of metal resonators for prepared violin; Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn designs and performs with hybrid acoustic instruments built from metal, wood, and strings; and Siamak Anvari composes electroacoustic works that frequently incorporate broken or recuperated instruments. Through this performance, we bring these distinct practices into direct dialogue—creating a collaborative framework where our methods intersect, collide, and evolve together. The title Alternating Lunes is based on a poem by American poet and artist Bernadette Mayer, whose work often challenges poetic conventions through formal experimentation and collaborative authorship.
can you hear sunrays?
see trumpet calls?
taste the shape of words?
– excerpt from “Alternating Lunes”
by Bernadette Mayer and Philip Good
*Alternating Lunes is supported by Netherlands America Foundation.

Leslee Smucker

Siamak Anvari

Anne La Berge & Fani Konstantinidou have shared the stage several times in the past, though it’s been about three years since their last meeting. After all this time apart they have a lot to share: new sounds, ideas, experiments, nuances, and provocations.
The flutist, improviser, and composer Anne La Berge is well known to the audiences in Amsterdam and beyond. Her passion for the extremes in both composed and improvised music has led her to the fringes of storytelling and sound art as her sources of musical inspiration. Fani Konstantinidou, composer and live-electronics performer, is inspired by the sonic imprints of cultural and social identities and curious about the scapes of everyday life. Most of all, she is fascinated by (subtle) changes.

Anne La Berge

Fani Konstantinidou

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TEMPERATURA is a concert series initiated by composers/performers and GROND members Jasna Veličković and Fani 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. Through these temporary crossings, we aim to create an environment—a playful space for experimentation and open ears—that fosters performing, creating, and experiencing music together. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and to spread today’s artistic practices.

⚠️GROND is CLOSED⚠️(9-15 Nov)
2025-11-09 00:00 - 2025-11-15 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam)
From Sunday November 9th till Sunday November 15th GROND is closed due to construction works. There will be NO public activities in this period.
Coming public events:
Nov 16: Winter Warm-Up: Song, Music & a story from As-Sweida (17h–20h)
Nov 19: SSC Balreep (19-23h)
Nov 21: Falafel Friday (11-15h)
Nov 21: TEMPERATURA (20-23h)
Nov 23: Sunday Sessions #5 (15-19h)

Winter Warm-Up
2025-11-16 17:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Hakoura Collective invites you to an evening of music, food, solidarity, and collective action to raise vital funds for local community networks working on the ground in the southern Syrian city of As-Sweida.
In the aftermath of the attack on As-Sweida in July 2025, the city has faced its largest wave of displacement. Entire villages were destroyed, leaving many families without homes and with limited access to scarce basic supplies. Today, over 187,000 people remain displaced within As-Sweida city and its surrounding areas.
At this Winter Warm-Up Solidarity Event, we come together to honour and support the resilience of the people of As-Sweida; a community that continues to show us what it means to stand with one another, even when left alone in times of crisis.
All funds raised will go directly to trusted local community networks on the ground in As-Sweida who are working tirelessly to provide displaced families in hospitality centres with essential supplies and care.
Together, we can help sustain their efforts through this challenging season. Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a real difference.
Program:
•⁠ ⁠Outlining the situation in As-Sweida & how your contribution will make an impact
•⁠ ⁠Storytelling performance by Marwa Mezher and Nadeem Kotrob
•⁠ ⁠Live Music by Belal Abu Fakher, Rebal Kurkmaz, and Talal Fayad
•⁠ ⁠A warm, home-cooked dinner by Miramea Kitchen (registration needed via this link)
📅 Sunday 16/11/2025
⏰ from 17:00 to 20:00
Doors open: 16:30
📍 GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096 AP Amsterdam
Free entry. Donations are warmly welcomed throughout the evening (Click here to donate).

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-11-19 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
On ‘International Men’s World Toilet Day‘ we celebrate the festive opening of the new indoor windows and doors of our club house with the first Oost Open Wiiathlon Championships.

🌶️ Vega VoKu: Tappas Buffet by Chef Judith (reservations appreciated)
🎮/🎦 Oost Open Wiiathlon Championships: MarioKart, Bowling, Archery, Table Tennis & Swordplay (20h30)
⚽️/📺 UEFA Women’s CL: Arsenal – Real Madrid (21h)
💈 Junglespeed: Master Table Games
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🚨 Cook/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.

Double Trouble: Duets at Grond
2025-11-20 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
A new series of duet performances by some of Amsterdam’s best musicians. Curated by Grond member David Mitchell, the new series will put together pairs of musicians for new and unexpected encounters, showing different approaches to the same instrument or unusual combinations of instruments, all with a common aim: to take musicians out of their comfort zone. For the first edition we put together two electric guitarists with very different approaches: Theo Holsheimer has previously performed at Grond with Cilice Orchestra, his project that puts together the power of metal with intricate arrangements for jazz and classical musicians; David Mitchell has a background in modern jazz and the classical traditions of Central Asia, and works with long form loops to create complex layered improvisations. Thursday 20 November at 8pm, tickets 10Euros/7 Euros (concessions).

Falafel Friday
2025-11-21 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-28 11:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
This Month: every Friday Hawa is preparing delicious homemade Falafel sandwiches for €3,50 per sandwich. We are open from 11 am – 3 pm. Welcome!

TEMPERATURA
2025-11-21 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/ Joana Guerra, Maria do Mar, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra, and Orphax
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5

Friday 21 November, TEMPERATURA presents the latest edition of the Kleefstra brothers’ poetry-and-music project, IT DEEL IV. In this edition, Romke and Jan Kleefstra collaborate with the cello player Joana Guerra, and the violin player Maria do Mar. The same evening, a solo live-electronics performance by Orphax, aka Sietse van Erve.

• IT DEEL IV | Joana Guerra, Maria do Mar, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra •
Poetry and music in an annually changing Frisian-international ensemble — that’s IT DEEL, a residency project by the Kleefstra brothers. Last summer, the Kleefstras invited cellist Joana Guerra and violinist Maria do Mar for a week-long creative residency at a special location: the Thomas Church in Katlijk. IT DEEL IV is out on vinyl LP on Moving Furniture Records. As part of their Dutch concert tour, they will make a stop at GROND to present their album in the Amsterdam audience.
The central theme running through all IT DEEL collaborations: the relationship between humans and nature, in all its beauty and complexity. It’s not a light topic, but one that is universal and deeply connecting. Each year, it’s remarkable to witness what has emerged from the Fryske grûn (Frisian soil) in the dialogue between the Kleefstras and their European guest musicians. Missed earlier editions? This is your last chance: IT DEEL IV is the final instalment of the project. Already a long-time follower? Excellent—we’ll see you there!
• Orphax •
Amsterdam based musician and trained drummer Sietse van Erve (Orphax) was introduced to electronic music in the early nineties. After playing around with tracker software for a couple of years, he eventually recorded his first more serious attempts of music with beats and melodies in 1998, though soon lost interest in both these.
He started researching new sounds and new ways of working – always with an organic touch, often incorporating sounds that would be regarded by others as errors or mistakes. Considering life isn’t without errors either. During this search, he found his way into drone and microtonal music. As a result in his most recent work, time and spatiality become more important factors. The goal of the music is for the listener to lose the sense of time and place.
Live, this is combined with room for improvisation. This way of working results often in an organic form of drone and minimal music.
Orphax – photo by Harold Zijp
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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, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and spread today’s artistic practices.
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*If you wish to attend but can’t afford our entry fee, please let us know–we ll make sure you can join us.

NOMIII
2025-11-22 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
NOMIII is an Amsterdam trio of Bernt Nellen (drums), Yrjana Rankka (contrabass), Sebastian Janusz (piano) making music like this: https://vimeo.com/208023420
open: 20h00
begin: 20h30

Sunday Sessions
2025-11-23 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

TEMPERATURA
2025-11-25 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/ Leah Asher, Maya Bennardo, Christian Streit Smith
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5*

Tuesday 25 November, TEMPERATURA presents an acoustic popup event with selected compositions and improvisation sets by Leah Asher, Maya Bennardo, and Christian Streit Smith.
Violinist/violist, composer, and visual artist Leah Asher is an avid performer of contemporary music and creator of new artistic works. Leah is the executive director and violinist of The Rhythm Method string quartet and co-creator of performance art duo Meaningless Work with Nicolee Kuester. Leah regularly performs with New York-based ensembles such as International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and S.E.M. Ensemble. She formerly served as solo violist of NOSO Sinfoniettaen and co-principal viola of the Arctic Philharmonic. As a composer, Leah has been commissioned by ensembles including andPlay, Chartreuse, Periapsis, NorthArc Percussion Group, The Great Learning Orchestra, and Ensemble Hybrid. She serves on faculty at Lake George Composer’s Institute, the Composers Conference, and the Lucerne Festival Academy, and has conducted many residencies at universities including NYU, Columbia University, Berklee College of Music, Hunter College, and BGSU. Recent releases include Leah’s solo album ‘Retreat into Afters’ on SCRIPTS records, The Rhythm Method’s ‘Pastorale’ on New Focus Recordings, and The Rhythm Method’s ‘Seaglass’ on Gold Bolus Recordings. Leah joined the faculty of Manhattan School of Music in 2022.
Maya Bennardo is an active performer and composer living in Stockholm, Sweden. Maya is interested in opening the dialogue and blurring the boundaries between composers and performers, and is devoted to performing music of the present. She is a founding member of the violin/viola duo andPlay, described by I Care If You Listen as “enthusiastic champions for new music and collaboration.” She performs new and traditional repertoire for violin and piano with pianist Karl Larson in their Bennardo-Larson Duo and is a former member of the internationally renowned Mivos Quartet. Maya’s compositions are characterized by slow, unfolding timbral movements–exploring the co-existence of pitch and noise. Her compositions have grown naturally out of her improvisational practice on the violin, and the two continue to inform each other.
Christian Streit Smith (USA/NL) is a percussionist based in The Hague. He performs experimental music (composed and improvised), in many different constellations from solo to large ensemble to theater. In addition to his work as a musician, he works part time as a landscaper.

Program
‘Discrete Species’ by Douglas Farrand and Christian Streit Smith
‘silver birch vignettes’ by Maya Bennardo
‘Upon the Wheel’ by Leah Asher
Solo improvisation – Leah Asher
Trio improvisation – Leah Asher, Maya Bennardo, and Christian Smith
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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, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and spread today’s artistic practices.
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*If you wish to attend but can’t afford our entry fee, please let us know–we ll make sure you can join us.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-11-26 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: Crispy Korean by chefs Judith & Romina (reservations appreciated)
⚽️/📺 UEFA CL: Liverpool – PSV / Arsenal – Bayern (21h)
💈 Junglespeed: Master Table Games
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames
🎮/🎦 MarioKart

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.

Collective Care Learning Sessions
2025-11-29 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Collective Care Learning Sessions
29th of November 11 am – 5 pm @ GROND
It is not always easy to stay close to your ideals – especially when we are working and living together. Community and collectivity are beautiful and powerful agents for change. However, it also involves a lot of challenges. The demands of society keep on knocking on our collective door. Against our best intentions, we are conditioned by the neoliberal structures that we want to get rid of, and we bring this into the groups we formed to fight them. How do we stay with this trouble and also take care of each other and ourselves? It takes learning and unlearning to find healthier ways forward.
Sounds familiar? Join us for the Collective Care Learning Sessions – a day to explore how to rethink, create and sustain collectivity in these challenging times in the wild west world we live in.
Come as you are: alone, or together with members from the collective or community you are in.
Let’s (un)learn, care, and create together on Saturday 29 November from 10:00 – 17:00 @ GROND, including a delicious Ethiopian lunch by Teferi Mekonen (7,50 euros, including tea / coffee). Location: GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam.
Programme

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee & Tea
11:30 – 13:00 Collective Learning by Sharing – a conversation with Gertrude Flentge (Lumbung Practice, Documenta 15) and Danielle van Zuijlen (Kunsthal Gent) about how to translate collective values into practice and learning curves.
13:00 – 14:00 Food for thought – a warming collective lunch prepared by Teferi Mekonen & Betty (7,50 euros)
14:00 – 15:30 Embodied Learning – a somatic workshop by Marc Nukoop and Mazen Al Ashkar
15:30 – 16:30 From Social Safety to Collective Care – a presentation by the GROND Collective on the process of defining collective values
16:30 – 17:00 Drinks

Registration
Please register through this link. We want to prevent food waste 🙂
GROND is a collectively run art space rooted in connectivity, sustainability, and cross-pollination. We explore new ways of living and working together to deepen our connection with ourselves, others, and the world around us. We hope and believe this leads to the change we desperately need for all of us.

Sunday Sessions
2025-11-30 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.
Poet Andrew Gebhardt is reading some of his work, we will play some (live) music.
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
2025-12-03 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
SSC Balreep is a weekly volkskeuken, sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🌶️ Vega VoKu: menu to be announced (reservations appreciated)
💈 Junglespeed: Master Table Games
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🟤 Sjoelbak Highscore Hunting
🎲 Broken Dutch Boardgames

🚨 Cook/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.
