Amsterdam Weekend Guide (28-30 March)
CINEMA & FILM
Roze Filmdagen
The largest LGBTQ+ film festival in the Netherlands returns to Het Ketelhuis to celebrate queer cinema in all its beauty and diversity. Entering its 28th edition and featuring more than 50 arthouse films and documentaries and 90 short films across 12 days, this extensive program spotlights stories of love, identity, and acceptance in an LGBTQI+ context. Catch the festival’s inaugural gambit, All For One, a feminist retelling of The Three Musketeers.
Roze Filmdagen | 19–30 March | various locations
FESTIVALS & EVENTS
Amsterdam Wine Festival
Wine and dine with those who love it most at one of the city’s biggest wine celebrations. Taking place across two weekends, Amsterdam Wine Festival brings together bottles from over 200 countries, for tastings, talks and carefully paired meals. It’s a chance to hone your knowledge as well as find some new favourites, so don’t be discouraged if you usually just stick to the top shelves of supermarket wines. Formerly organised at Westergas, the festival has now moved to the industrial-sized Markt Central, Amsterdam’s former food centre turned events space.
Amsterdam Wine Festival | Friday 28 - Sunday 30 March (+ next weekend) | Markt Centraal
Roof of Amsterdam
Few people, residents and visitors alike, can say they’ve seen Amsterdam from above. But courtesy of Amsterdam 750, comes the Roof of Amsterdam. Built atop the Nieuwe Kerk, which is getting its spire restored this year, is a large viewing platform with sweeping vistas of the A’dam Tower in Noord all the way to the Wereldmuseum in Oost. It takes 216 steps to get to the top – which might sound like a lot (it’s not really) but for a bird’s eye view of Amsterdam, well, it might just be worth it.
Roof of Amsterdam | open until Sunday 2 November 2025, 11:00-18:00 | Nieuwe Kerk
THEATRE & STAGE
Queering Puppets Festival
Possibly the most left-filed event of the week but arguably the most intriguing, the Queering Puppets Festival lands for five days celebrating the wonderful world of puppets through queer perspectives. Puppets are a beloved art form within the LGBTQ+ community – think Wayland Flowers and his legendary character Madame who brought both camp and glamour to American tvs – perhaps for their ability to transcend norms and conventions. This festival looks to commemorate that and more, with this year’s theme being ‘Creating Bodies’ and how puppets can be used as instruments to question the bodies we’re given and how society inevitably shapes them.
Queering Puppets Festival | Wednesday 26 March - Sunday 30 March | Plein Theater
SHOPPING & MARKETS
Markets roundup
There’s always a market in Amsterdam. And this weekend, there’s not one, not two, but at least three classic Amsterdam markets worth stopping by, whether it’s vintage or art you’re after:
- Oost’s best vintage market at Javaplein Vintage Market | Saturday 29 March, 10:00-17:00 | Javaplein
- Emerging and local art at Art Market Noord | Saturday 29 - Sunday 30 March, 12:00-18:00 | Studio C
- Designer and artisan wares at Maker Market | Saturday 29 - Sunday 30 March, 11:00-18:00 (from 12:00 Sunday) | De Hallen
Art & Exhibitions
Ode to One Woman
If you liked Amsterdam Museum’s Ode to Women exhibition (check it out if you haven’t already) then you might like this showcase dubbed Ode to One Woman at one of Amsterdam’s most obscure but still worthy museums. Taking place at the Amsterdam Pipe Museum – a museum entirely dedicated to smoking pipes, tobacco and all things of that universe – the exhibition explores the mystique of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, a woman who earned an income back in the 1700s against all odds. One artist captures her smoking a pipe – an alluring shot that has made an equally alluring name.
Ode to One Woman | until November 2025, 12:00-18:00 | Amsterdam Pipe Museum
RESTAURANTS & BARS
Sanaa’s Kitchen at Pamela
Queer favourite and Oud-West Hangout Pamela has recently taken its menu by way of Egypt, courtesy of Sanaa’s Kitchen. With a changing menu and rotating favourites, everything from Egyptian stuffed veggies (mahashi) to okra stew, falafel and mallow stew (molokhia), this is a great chance to indulge in gorgeous North African cuisine in an even more gorgeous environment.
Pamela | Jacob van Lennepstraat 86H
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