The madmad Kitchen is open every day for lunch and dinner at the Café Gilde. All food is vegan and cooked by the damdam community. The different meals are inspired by cuisine from the localities of the different damdam collectives, creating an experimental fusion kitchen.

Sewing for Collectives is a two-session workshop taking place at the Ventilator Bar in which participants will collectively produce a large-scale textile fanzine. Using sewing, stencils, patches, buttons, and blings, we will transform fabric into a shared document inspired by the Care Pact/Work Ethic of the collective Biquini Wax EPS.

The Care Pact is a tool that Biquini Wax has built over its 15 years of existence. It is a living document about mutual care, awareness of privileges, fair distribution of work, and other agreements that have helped sustain collective well-being. The goal is to materialise and socialise this tool, and share it with the public. No previous sewing experience is required, just bring your hands and your willingness to work collectively.

This installation is situated at the Café Gilde and functions as both a resource map and a harvest of our Lumbung Practice theses. It offers an overview of the spatial, social, theoretical and practical knowledge, resourced within damdam and Sixpack, the collectives of collectives in Amsterdam and Jakarta. It helps us reflect on what we have, what we need, and how we can share with care.  

Film Pot takes place at the Ventilator Cinema and is a shared digital space where filmmakers contribute works into a common pool: a living archive built on trust, circulation, and collective use. It grows from the experience of translocal communities, the understanding that moving images can carry contexts across borders, and the belief that learning from each other's ways of seeing the world is in itself a form of being together.

This screening brings together a selection of films from this shared space: works made in the different localities where our ecosystems are grounded: Mexico, Palestine, Jakarta, Makassar, Jayapura, South Africa, Iran, Belgium, and The Netherlands. The contributions are presented as a looping, ongoing programme, and through a conversation with some of the filmmakers present. The films do not share a single theme, rather a shared condition: they travel and make place for encounters where physical presence was not possible.

The kiosk is situated at the Ventilator Bar and is featuring various merch and publications from damdam’s constellation of collectives and Lumbung Kios, a decentralized network of independently operated kiosks currently hosted at Casco in Utrecht.

The Print & Sewing Open Space is an ongoing, travelling project consisting of a modular and mobile accumulation of collectively owned — and borrowed — print, publishing, textile, and making resources, including a risograph machine, library shelves, book-making materials, sewing tools, and a DIY screenprinting table, among others.

Activated across Café Gilde and Ventilator Bar, the Print & Sewing Open Space functions as an open workspace, library, and kiosk where guests, collaborators, and friends — current and soon-to-be — can come together to print, sew, bind, mend, repair, publish, and experiment collectively. We are interested in sharing and exchanging DIY techniques of printing, binding, sewing, and publishing, making these tools and practices accessible to wider communities.

Rooted in the interrelation between self-publishing and textile practices as political tools to disseminate our own knowledges, the space will host workshops that merge both disciplines — from bookbinding with textiles and collective publishing to garment repair, sewing for collectives, and other hands-on experiments.

The Open Space also includes a library of publications contributed by members of damdam and its broader ecosystem. Workshops and activities will be announced via damdam’s Instagram.

The madmad Kitchen is open every day for lunch and dinner at the Café Gilde. All food is vegan and cooked by the damdam community. The different meals are inspired by cuisine from the localities of the different damdam collectives, creating an experimental fusion kitchen.

You are invited to the wedding of friendship, celebrating kinship and deviant love at the OT301 studio. A collective commitment to trust, share, organise and resist together. Join the damdam community and say YES to protect our folks legally, politically and financially, and commit to caring about each other. An evening full of surprise performances, DJ’s and tender dancing. You’re getting married; dress appropriately and outshine everyone!

All proceeds will go to We Sell Reality, an artist collective based in Amsterdam who create products, installations and performative interventions in public spaces. Most members came here as refugees and are in precarious situations.

Tickets 5 – 15 euros (sliding scale, see: ot301.nl)

Real time: 21:00 – 03:00