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Colourful Goodies

The first store in Europe with dolls in all colours. Every child should have a doll that they can identify with. At Colourful Goodies they sell dolls in all colours and with different hairstyles, headscarves, vitiligo, albinism or Down syndrome. It is a store that promotes the idea that diversity is beautiful. The physical store in Amsterdam Noord has been closed since January 2025, but you can still order online!

Sexyland World

The weekend of 14 and 15 December 2024 marks the end of a chapter. SEXYLAND World will close its doors at Noordwal 1 in Amsterdam. In 2025 (hopefully they will be settled after that), SEXYLAND World will go on tour. Festivals, community centres, abandoned sheds, temporary premises - they will take their DNA with them and try to facilitate all the birds of paradise with their desires without limits.
SEXYLAND World is a completely new model art house; a labyrinth of diverse cultural, creative, and societal initiatives. It’s a cacophony of spaces and programs, with a single entrance and a shared vision. The building serves as a necessary place for cultural freedom, inclusivity, and creative experimentation. No closed doors, secluded studios, or offices, but 400m² of organized chaos.

https://www.podiummozaiek.nl/over-ons/praktische-informatie

Bekijk hoe Podium Mozaïek een bezoek voor mensen met een beperking of handicap toegankelijk maakt

Podium Mozaïek - Buitenpodium

Podium Mozaïek met terras van Café Mozaïek

Café Mozaïek - restaurant

Café Mozaïek - café

Café Mozaïek - Bar

Podium Mozaïek - zijtribune

Privé diner in studio Podium Mozaïek

Podium Mozaïek - theater voorstelling

Podium Mozaïek - voorstelling

Terras Café Mozaïek

Expositie in Café Mozaïek

Podium Mozaïek - catering

Seizoensgerechten bij Cafe Mozaïek

Deserts bij Café Mozaïek

Podium Mozaïek

Podium Mozaïek is a metropolitan theatre with a café-restaurant in Amsterdam West, located in the former Pniëlkerk on Bos en Lommerweg. The Podium Mozaïek program is for young and old and offers theatre, music, comedy, spoken word, storytelling, dance and all possible crossovers in between from home and abroad. There are meetings and exchanges between young and old, residents of West and beyond. Podium Mozaïek stimulates metropolitan offerings by supporting makers and utilizing its network.

Het Ketelhuis

Ketelhuis Cinema

Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days)

Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days) is getting ready for its 28th edition at Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. As the largest, longest-running and most successful LGBTQ+ film festival in the Netherlands, Roze Filmdagen once again offers a broad and inclusive range of films, documentaries, and short films, supplemented with in-depth talk shows with an LGBTQ+ context. Roze Filmdagen is an eleven-day film festival in Amsterdam.  Please note: Start and end times as mentioned are an indication and subject to change.

Westerpark

Rollende Keukens

Every spring the Rolling Kitchens return to Amsterdam's Westerpark A mobile food festival for gourmets. This year, the site in the Westerpark will again be transformed into the largest open-air restaurant in Europe. More than 110 hand-selected Rolling Kitchens are getting back on track.

Museumplein

Keti Koti Festival - Museumplein

Every year on July 1, we celebrate Keti Koti, the abolition of slavery, and commemorate the Dutch history of slavery. PLEASE NOTE: The start and end times mentioned are subject to change and may still change.

Nelson Mandelapark

Kwaku Summer Festival

The Kwaku Summer Festival is a grand celebration of cultural diversity and identity in the Southeast, with culture, sports and food as the most important forms of expression and where broad (social) participation and the Surinamese origin are the most important pillars. The Nelson Mandelapark in Amsterdam Zuidoost is dedicated to culture, music, dance, food and drinks for 4 weekends every summer during the Kwaku Summer Festival. Please note: the dates and times mentioned are subject to change.  Please note: the dates and times mentioned for 2025 are subject to change.

LAB111

Humans of Film Festival

A social and cultural-societal film festival returns to the LAB111 for a 5th edition in 2022. A unique film festival where (inter)national catchy 'human interest' documentaries and feature films are shown, with a broad fringe program consisting of various discussions, with panel members of social-societal organizations. The Humans of Film Festival is a niche in the Dutch film landscape.

Rialto Filmtheater

Red Tulip Festival

Rialto De Pijp

Red Tulp Film Festival

The aim of the Red Tulip Film Festival is to promote contemporary Turkish filmmaking to a broad audience in the Netherlands. Each year, an inspiring programme of films aims to strengthen cultural exchange, encourage interaction between audiences both young and old, and to bring together film experts and the filmmakers. PLEASE NOTE: Dates and times for 2024 need to be confirmed.

Diverse Locaties / Various locations

Afrovibes 2024

Afrovibes Festival

Afrovibes organizes cultural exchange between the Netherlands, countries on the African continent and the African diaspora in Europe. The 21st edition of Afrovibes Festival is from October 2 to 13, 2024. The festival takes place in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam and this year shows the versatility of makers from North Africa and the (North) African diaspora in the Netherlands. Afrovibes presents an innovative and daring program full of theater, dance, music and spoken word around the theme of Belonging with performances from Morocco, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt and the Netherlands. Please note that the start, and end times listed are indicative only.

Bar Bario

An inclusive bar and creative hub. This cosy, fun and creative spin on the traditional Amsterdam pub is a safe space for everyone, especially people from the queer and BIPOC communities. Bario is also a gallery with pop-up events and exhibitions and welcomes collaborative projects with creatives and artists. So get in touch if you want to get your work out there!

https://museumvandegeest.nl/plan-je-bezoek/praktische-informatie-haarlem/

Museum van de Geest _ Outsider Art in Amsterdam

Museum van de Geest _Animal Therapy

Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art

We are fascinated by the mind. That intangible, weightless something that sits somewhere between our heads and our hearts and makes us who we are. Museum of the Spirit has two branches; one in Haarlem and one in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, artists show their inner world to the outside world through outsider art. A world that is often so full that it overflows and results in a complete and unique oeuvre. These artists only listen to the voice within themselves and develop outside the sight of the regular art circuit.

https://www.meervaart.nl/theater/uw-bezoek/toegankelijkheid

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Theater de Meervaart - Blauwe Zaal

Theater de Meervaart - Rode Zaal

Theater de Meervaart - Hoofdingang

Theater de Meervaart

Meervaart Theatre

With a top-notch theatre and excellent conference facilities, Amsterdam's multi-purpose Meervaart is the perfect example of how to mix business and pleasure. This modern venue seats up to 1,100 guests and hosts around 280 cultural performances per year.

Bekijk hoe het Bijlmer Parktheater een bezoek voor mensen met een beperking of handicap toegankelijk maakt.

https://bijlmerparktheater.nl/nl/bereikbaarheid

Bijlmer Parktheater

A unique theater offering a diverse and inclusive range of performances for all ages. As a professional city theater in Amsterdam Southeast, Bijlmer Parktheater excels in the field of intercultural programming, culture & arts education, and talent development.

Bekijk hoe Cinema de Vlugt een bezoek voor mensen met een beperking of handicap toegankelijk maakt

https://www.cinemadevlugt.nl/toegankelijkheid/

Cinema De Vlugt

Worlds come together at Cinema De Vlugt. Located in the neighbourhood of Plein '40-'45, they offer you contemporary on a daily basis. Experience everything from blockbusters to quirky international cinema.

Voor meer informatie over toegankelijkheid ga naar de website van het museum

Joods Museum

Joods Museum junior

Jewish Museum

Explore Jewish life in the Netherlands in the Jewish Museum. It is located in four monumental synagogues in the middle of the Jewish Cultural Quarter.

Bijlmerbios

Bijlmerbios Film(t)huis is the location for arthouse, documentaries and short films in Amsterdam South East. A film is shown every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening. Occasionally also at other times.

OSCAM

At the Open Space Contemporary Art Museum (OSCAM) on the Bijlmerplein you will find a place where art, fashion, design and craftsmanship in the Bijlmer come together. It is a museum in the Amsterdamse Poort shopping center in the Zuidoost district. They are located in the old Cool Cat building, diagonally opposite the KFC, between the Panda Bubble Tea Bar and Hunkemöller. You understand, between the fast food chicken, Instagram drinks and sexy lingerie, there is of course a great need for art and culture.

Ruimte CBK Zuidoost

Interieur en winkel CBK Zuidoost

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Kunstbezoekers

Kunstlessen

Kunstuitleen

MAFB en CBKZO

CBK Zuidoost

For over 25 years, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost (Centre for Visual Arts Southeast) is the place to be for contemporary art with cultural accents. The centre bring art to the general public by exhibitions, a collection of rental art, art education, artist-in-residence, commissions, and debates. The programme is based on current developments in society.

Hartjesdagen

Hartjesdag

Hartjesdag will return to the Zeedijk in August 2024 with a new edition. The Hartjesdag is a multi-day festival on the Zeedijk, one of the oldest streets in Amsterdam. On the third Monday in August, Hartjesdag was the carnival for Amsterdam and the surrounding area. Men dressed like women, and women wore men's clothes. It was the day that Amsterdammers went all out. Please note: Listed date and time for 2025 is subject to change.

SummerDanceForever

Summer Dance Forever

It is impossible to imagine our daily lives without dance, thanks in part to the thousands of dance videos that are uploaded daily on TikTok. The fact that the dance community is growing and finding Amsterdam can also be seen in the recurring annual festival Summer Dance Forever. The festival annually attracts more than 20 thousand dancers and visitors from all over the world. They can enjoy a broad program in Paradiso, Melkweg, International Theater Amsterdam, DeLaMar, Academy for Theater & Dance and Foundation.

Wilhelmina Huiskamerfestival

WHF - foto Co de Kruijf

Dafne-Remi-Sabien

Kirsten van Teijn

Theo Nijland

Lebbis

Merol

Huiskamerfestival Amsterdam

Huiskamerfestival Amsterdam has been a household name in the city for more than 17 years. Started as the Wilhelmina Huiskamerfestival, the festival has expanded in recent years with performances in various city districts. The starting point has always remained the same: organizing a small-scale theater festival where professional artists try out new material. As a visitor you see three performances of 30 minutes each. Young talents play the stars of heaven, but experienced comedians, theater makers and musicians also perform.

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