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Leiden Shorts x Ventilator Cinema

OT301, Saturday, May 23 at 02:30 PM GMT+2

Genre: Short Films, Festival
Open: 14:30 - 17:00 hrs
Tickets: € 10

From May 29 until June 02, @leidenshorts returns to Leiden for its 18th edition, transformingthe city into a space for short-form cinema that engages directly with the realities shaping ourpresent. Across five days, the festival will present a wide-ranging programme of internationaland national works, bringing together filmmakers who reflect on the conditions we live in today.

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On Saturday May 23, Leiden Shorts and Ventilator invites you to a preview screening of three short films from different sections of the 2026 programme.
'Daria’s Night Flowers’ (International Competition), ‘And still, it remains’ (Artists in Focus: Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah), and ‘Last Seen, Long Ago’ (We need to talk about... Venezuela) collectively explore lives shaped by conflict, repression, colonial violence, anddisplacement.
Join us for the screening, and stay for a drink and and reflections afterwards!

Doors open: 14:30 pm (Walk-in)
Film program starts: 15:30 pm - 17:00pm

Stay for drinks till 22:00 pm or jump into short films made by women in Egypt at 18:00 pm.

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Film Credits:
Daria’s Night Flowers / Maryam Tafakory / 16’ / Iran, United Kingdom, France / 2025
And still, it remains / Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah / 28’ / Algeria, United Kingdom / 2023
Last Seen, Long Time Ago (Última vez hace mucho tiempo) / Santiago Martín / 24’ / Venezuela / 2026

Leiden Shorts: Instagram / Website

Ventilator Cinema: @ventilator_cinema (on the second floor of @ot301adam)

Location: Overtoom 301, Amsterdam

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/leiden-shorts-x-ventilator-cinema

rik tan, giu nunez & aram mukanay

murmur, Saturday, June 20 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

for the evening rik tan, gia nunez and aram mukanay come together with their selections.
Talking about eclectic DJs, Rik Tan stands out as a selector with a strong focus on global sounds within a club context. His sets move effortlessly between Cape Verdean rhythms, Brazilian influences, Afro, Latin, and electronic dance music, creating a distinctive style built on groove and rhythm.
As a resident at Tempo Não Para, a platform celebrating music from different cultures, Rik’s approach is rooted in connection rather than genre boundaries. He blends warm percussion, danceable electronics, and organic rhythms into cohesive, flowing journeys on the dancefloor.
His selections feel playful yet intentional, always leaving room for surprise without losing momentum. Rik Tan is known for his open musical vision and his ability to bring different worlds together in a single set.
For the past 16 years, Giu Nunez has been shaping a distinctive sound through deep vinyl digging and an eclectic approach to mixing genres. Starting her career at 18, her curiosity and versatility quickly made her a standout name in Brazil’s electronic scene and beyond, including a headline appearance at Amsterdam Dance Event.
Now based between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, she is part of the Domply collective, exploring experimental and electronic music through parties and radio shows worldwide.
Amsterdam-based Aram Mukanay brings the groove wherever he goes. His sound dives deep into early ’80s boogie, dubby disco, and soulful house. Whether it’s a dusty boogie cut or a dreamy house track, one thing ties it all together: the funk. Expect slick basslines, disco divas, and percussive rhythms. Always smooth, always moving.
click here to reserve for dinner ♡

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/rik-tan-giu-nunez-and-aram-mukanay

Meet-a-Maker

Mediamatic, Thursday, May 21 at 04:00 PM GMT+2

Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our restaurant by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspires you. Lynn Shore is open to creative consultation and discussing ideas.

Tickets

Meet-a-Maker is a 30-minute session to have a one-on-one talk with artists currently working at Mediamatic. We are lucky to be inspired by the many artists who work and stay with us for exhibitions, residencies and workshops. We welcome you to meet them and be inspired as well!

About the artist

The natural world has always deeply fascinated Lynn, she is part of it and needs to respect it. She expresses this through teaching, writing, and being in green spaces.

Lynn's professional background is in science and special education, herbalism, permaculture, and nature education. Outside of paid work, she is involved in creating urban foraging sites and increasing food sovereignty.

During the past 25 years, she has studied herbalism in the UK (non-clinical Diploma in Herbal Medicine) and the Netherlands (Herbal Medicine HBO), Wise Woman herbalism, Permaculture and Permaculture Visions (PDC), and Horticultural Therapy.

In 2010, Lynn started Urban Herbology to help others learn about living in harmony with nature within cities through walks, workshops, and online courses. She also started the River of Herbs community gardening group in 2012 to help more people learn how to grow edible and medicinal plants for free.

Lynn speaks English.

Topics

The conversations with Lynn are meant for anyone whose main topics of interest are:

  • Consult with a Medical Herbalist
  • Urban edible and medicinal herbs
  • Urban nature as a support tool for mental health
  • Responsible city foraging

Information

Date: 21st of May.Both 30-minute time slots are from 16:00-16:30 & 16:30-17:00.

Tickets

Full price €10

Artists/Students discount €7,50

*We give a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.
Read our ticket terms and conditions here.

For questions please e-mail [email protected].

The natural world has always deeply fascinated Lynn, she is part of it and needs to respect it. She expresses this through teaching, writing, and being in green spaces.

Lynn's professional background is in science and special education, herbalism, permaculture, and nature education. Outside of paid work, she is involved in creating urban foraging sites and increasing food sovereignty.

During the past 25 years, she has studied herbalism in the UK (non-clinical Diploma in Herbal Medicine) and the Netherlands (Herbal Medicine HBO), Wise Woman herbalism, Permaculture and Permaculture Visions (PDC), and Horticultural Therapy.

In 2010, Lynn started Urban Herbology to help others learn about living in harmony with nature within cities through walks, workshops, and online courses. She also started the River of Herbs community gardening group in 2012 to help more people learn how to grow edible and medicinal plants for free.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/meet-a-maker-29

Meet-a-Maker

Mediamatic, Thursday, May 21 at 01:00 PM GMT+2

Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Frank Bloem is open to creative consultation and discussing ideas.

Tickets

Meet-a-Maker is a 30-minute session to have a one-on-one talk with artists currently working at Mediamatic. We are lucky to be inspired by the many artists who work and stay with us for exhibitions, residencies and workshops. We welcome you to meet them and be inspired as well!

About the artist

Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld academy. In the summer of 2016, Frank changed his focus from visual art to olfactory-based works. He started The Snifferoo, a perfume laboratory and a place for education and experiments in the realms of scent. This led to various commissions from personalized perfumes to the recreation of elephant smells for the Amsterdam Zoo.

Frank leads the Aroma Lab at Mediamatic and hosts perfume workshops here every month.

Frank speaks Dutch and English.

Topics

The conversations with Frank are meant for anyone who has a special interest in experimenting the realms of scent

  • Perfume making
  • Olfactory-based works
  • Smell design

Information

30-minute time slot between 13:00 and 13:30.

Tickets

Full price €10
Artists/Students discount €7,50*
*We give a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.
Read our ticket terms and conditions here.

For questions please e-mail [email protected].

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/meet-a-maker-31

Open Daily Tours

Mediamatic, Friday, December 18 at 02:00 PM GMT+1

Welcome to Mediamatic!

We aren't a traditional art center where you just look at things on a wall. We are a Biotope, a living environment where art, design, and science meet.

Everything here is a work in progress. Throughout the tour, we’ll challenge your lower senses: you’ll smell fermentation experiments, watch artists-in-residence in action, and even taste some of our ongoing artistic research.

Tickets

During the walk, our guides from the Mediamatic team will also guide you through our working living labs (Aroma Lab, Border Lab, Clean Lab & Haptic Lab) and talk more about the current exhibitions and growing art installations that you find both on the outside and inside of our building.

You can combine your visit with a lunch at De Sering Centraal, an experimental dinner at TestTafel or visit one of our many events or workshops at Mediamatic!

Information

Daily Tour om 14:00 / Monday - Friday
Tickets €4,50

Please note that, unless everyone speaks Dutch, this tour will be held in English.
For questions, please send an email to [email protected]

Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam
Click here for the route.

Some of the current installations at Mediamatic:

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/open-daily-tours-1

Meet-a-Maker

Mediamatic, Thursday, June 25 at 04:00 PM GMT+2

Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Ikram Hamdi Mansour is open to creative consultation and discussing ideas.

Tickets

Meet-a-Maker is a 30-minute session to have a one-on-one talk with artists currently working at Mediamatic. We are lucky to be inspired by the many artists who work and stay with us for exhibitions, residencies and workshops. We welcome you to meet them and be inspired as well!

About the artist

Ikram Hamdi Mansour is an earth-building architect, project coordinator, and artist based in the Netherlands, working at the intersection of ecology, design, and embodied and somatic knowledge. She explores how land and matter, especially soil, become active grounds for reimagining the relationships between humans, non-humans, and the intertwined realms of the built and natural environment. Rooted in the belief that architecture is a living, regenerative process, her practice cultivates relationships, restores ecosystems, and redefines ways of inhabiting places. Working through material intelligence and bodily agency, Ikram develops spatial responses that bridge the tactile and the territorial, advancing a politics of care and positioning design as a sensorial, ethical inquiry into how we live with land.

Topics

The conversations with Ikram are meant for anyone who has a special interest in experimenting the realms of ecology.

  • Regenerative materials and local resources
  • Embodied knowledge and learning through the body
  • Rituality and material relationships
  • Understanding soil as an ecosystem
  • Collective making and regenerative learning

Information

You can choose a 30-minute time slot between 16:00-16:30 and 16:30-17:00 on 11 June 2026 or 25 June 2026.

Tickets

Full price €10
Artists/Students discount €7,50*
*We give a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.
Read our ticket terms and conditions here.

For questions please e-mail [email protected].

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/meet-a-maker-33

Open Daily Tours

Mediamatic, Monday, March 16 at 02:00 PM GMT+1

Welcome to Mediamatic!

We aren't a traditional art center where you just look at things on a wall. We are a Biotope, a living environment where art, design, and science meet.

Everything here is a work in progress. Throughout the tour, we’ll challenge your lower senses: you’ll smell fermentation experiments, watch artists-in-residence in action, and even taste some of our ongoing artistic research.

Tickets

During the walk, our guides from the Mediamatic team will also guide you through our working living labs (Aroma Lab, Border Lab, Clean Lab & Haptic Lab) and talk more about the current exhibitions and growing art installations that you find both on the outside and inside of our building.

You can combine your visit with a lunch at De Sering Centraal, an experimental dinner at TestTafel or visit one of our many events or workshops at Mediamatic!

Information

Daily Tour om 14:00 / Monday - Friday
Tickets €4,50

Please note that, unless everyone speaks Dutch, this tour will be held in English.
For questions, please send an email to [email protected]

Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam
Click here for the route.

Some of the current installations at Mediamatic:

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/open-daily-tours

Meet-a-Maker

Mediamatic, Thursday, June 11 at 04:00 PM GMT+2

Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Ikram Hamdi Mansour is open to creative consultation and discussing ideas.

Tickets

Meet-a-Maker is a 30-minute session to have a one-on-one talk with artists currently working at Mediamatic. We are lucky to be inspired by the many artists who work and stay with us for exhibitions, residencies and workshops. We welcome you to meet them and be inspired as well!

About the artist

Ikram Hamdi Mansour is an earth-building architect, project coordinator, and artist based in the Netherlands, working at the intersection of ecology, design, and embodied and somatic knowledge. She explores how land and matter, especially soil, become active grounds for reimagining the relationships between humans, non-humans, and the intertwined realms of the built and natural environment. Rooted in the belief that architecture is a living, regenerative process, her practice cultivates relationships, restores ecosystems, and redefines ways of inhabiting places. Working through material intelligence and bodily agency, Ikram develops spatial responses that bridge the tactile and the territorial, advancing a politics of care and positioning design as a sensorial, ethical inquiry into how we live with land.

Topics

The conversations with Ikram are meant for anyone who has a special interest in experimenting the realms of ecology.

  • Regenerative materials and local resources
  • Embodied knowledge and learning through the body
  • Rituality and material relationships
  • Understanding soil as an ecosystem
  • Collective making and regenerative learning

Information

You can choose a 30-minute time slot between 16:00-16:30 and 16:30-17:00 on 11 June 2026 or 25 June 2026.

Tickets

Full price €10
Artists/Students discount €7,50*
*We give a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.
Read our ticket terms and conditions here.

For questions please e-mail [email protected].

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/meet-a-maker-32