Pasta & Poetry
OpenStage at AstaroTheatro

The stage of AstaroTheatro is open for all performing arts: sing your loveliest song, dance your way through the galaxy, play your ancestors’ instrument, perform the monologue of your life, read your poetry of resistance, dress up as a wild beast.

“Use your imagination
You’re on earth
There’s no cure for that”

Above all: be there, be part of AstaroTheatro community and enjoy the pasta just cooked for you.
The whole event is by donation, including the pasta.
Bear in mind though that your donations are crucial to support Astarotheatro

Thursday 22 January
Poetry 19:30
Pasta after Poetry

AstaroTheatro
“Omnia Sunt Communia” > Theatre and Activism
Sint Jansstraat 37
Amsterdam
www.astarotheatro.com
www.ourfootsteps.nl

Thank You!

In October and November 2025 several autonomous community-based initiatives took place in order to financially support AstaroTheatro, allowing it to continue doing what she does best: participatory theatre. These initiatives include VoKus, fundraisers and events. Since AstaroTheatro is proudly independent and values her autonomy and integrity, she doesn’t receive institutional art-fundings.

Now, at the end of the year and after almost three months of autonomous fundraisings, AstaroTheatro can only say: “Thank You!”
So much gratitude to all the various communities who independently organized and, in many ways, managed to raise enough funds to keep our activist theatre going, at least for the time being.

AstaroTheatro looks forward to a 2026 filled with challenges, definitely not only financial ones. Artistically, politically and humanely our theatre aims to continue all her activities and to be a safe haven to the marginalized and racialized in search of arts and connections. 

AstaroTheatro
Omnia Sunt Communia

Reeds Pail
A Theatre Performance of Tales, Sounds and Poetry

An image bleeds.
   Fills up vases of silent
honey bees.

Saturday 13 December 19:30
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
www.astarotheatro.com
www.ourfootsteps.nl
Entrance by Donation

Ghoula – A Long Durational Theatre Performance

And the nations shall fall like dying bulls, like calves and buffaloes. Earth shall be irrigated with blood and soil shall become obese with their molten fat.

Thorns will overrun citadels, nettles and brambles the strongholds.
Metropolises will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.

Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the Ghoula will also lie down and find for herself places of rest.
The snake will nest there and lay eggs,
she will hatch them, and care for her young

Falcons will gather, each with their mate

Ghoula has no clear beginning and definitely no fixed ending. You are invited to join the long durational flow
Shadow of theater. Did we?
Ghoula is a moment of fluid theatre. It touches performance art, poetry, storytelling, soundscapes and music without being labelled as any these practices.

Saturday 6 December 18:30 and ongoing
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
www.astarotheatro.com
www.ourfootsteps.nl
Entrance by Donation

MASTERCLASS
MÉXICO/NETHERLANDS

Scenic Creation: Documentary Practices
Fissures between Fiction and Reality
by Roberto Zayas (Mexico)

The Masterclass “Scenic Creation: Documentary Practices, Fissures between Fiction and Reality” proposes a strategy that provides various research-creation tools to be applied in the design of a scenic proposal that contains archives and documents that are potentially attractive to participants. It aims to investigate the problems facing the current justice systems in Mexico and the Netherlands, based on the experience of TDEE, addressing and bringing to the stage the realities of prisons and justice in Mexico, promoting a culture of peace through theatrical practices. During the workshop, some of the concepts that its director, Roberto Zayas, has worked on will be presented in order to open up the discussion on ways of addressing topics such as memory, testimony, and absence in relation to the idea of living archives, with the aim of exploring the possibilities for creating alternative strategies in artistic and theatrical creation. These strategies can be used to blur the boundaries between the notions of reality and fiction, thus allowing us to move indistinctly from one side to the other to reverse signs, challenge norms, and unbalance certainty.

Masterclass Structure

• Theater and reality
• The irruption of reality on stage
• Actorhood (types of testimonies)
• Theater and documents
• Documentary objects
• Materiality of reality—materiality of the stage
• Places of memory: document, archive, and memory

Friday 28 November 14:00-18:00
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
info@ourfootsteps.nl
Suggested Donation € 12 in order to reimburse Roberto Zayas’ travel costs

Fundraiser for AstaroTheatro

AstaroTheatro is a community space for participatory theatre and arts in the heart of gentrified and touristy Amsterdam. It has always been a place where marginalized, racialized, queer people and others can come together in joy, to dance, to play, to sing or have some pasta made with love. A space for counterculture and activism outside the logics of corporate banality.

Now more and more AstaroTheatro faces challenges of financial sustainability which threaten the very existence of the space with her work and people.
This Fundraiser is among the numerous grassroots initiatives aimed at supporting AstaroTheatro. Follow AstaroTheatro, be part of our communities and if you can, help with your donations!

QR Code or bank transfer:
NL95INGB0004716196
Stichting Quelli di Astaroth

DRY SICILY – NOTES FROM THE CLIMATE FRONTIER
Film Screening at AstaroTheatro

Sicily is drying up — slowly and silently. Dry Sicily tells the story of a water crisis that is not just meteorological, but systemic: a journey through empied landscapes, local voices and structural responsibilities, in the heart of an increasingly arid Mediterranean.

Dry Sicily
Film Screening – Italian with English Subtitles
Friday 21 November 20:30
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37
Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation

Swimming in Noisy Horizons 
Poetic Noise

Live improvisation session with Omarleen and Absala, an experimental sound session rooted in improvisation and collaboration. You can expect a drony, dreamy, poetic and noisy atmosphere.

We have a shared history of music improvisation together and with other friends since 2021. With electronic sounds and noise from Omarleen and acoustic rhythms and tunes by Absala.

This show is aimed at supporting the publishing of the book (الوشم على الساقية) by Absala and Jumana.
A correspondence in the tale between two friends, their relation in writing.
Writing bodies on waves, conjugated by long waves of storytellers that take water tales and implace their feathers in the world of ears, to change, influence the flow of the dream (living).
These tales, mostly recorded from Palestinian old women, form the rupture in the picture, tales look at reality folded behind the tent, folded by the stars’ own hands with shining elements. Individuals weave these lines of the streamy consciousness that takes flower from the mouth. Mountains, vallies calls the human to be born, third hand weaves, third eye sees. And the flower to be born from the seed.

Swimming in Noisy Horizons 
Poetic Noise
Thursday 13 November 20:00
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37
Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation

Marx and la Montaña

Who is a true Marxist and who is not? Who lived through the revolution while others only theorized it? Sure, as Karl Marx comes back he takes his chance to clear his name. Pero qué le dirían los revolucionarios latinoamericanos? El Comandante argues that he’s not an opportunist and Concha confronts these men to consider the failed masculinity of all revolutions. Se dice que estos espíritus aparecerán en el centro de Ámsterdam para convivir y debatir, ¿será verdad?

By AstaroTheatro Colectivo: Roberto of AstaroTheatro, Geraldine of Ser Expresión and Mick & Julienne of Lleca Teatro.
In English and Spanish.

Friday 31 October
19:00 Teatro
20:00 Tacos
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 
Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation

Solidarity Voku for AstaroTheatro @Joe’s Garage

AstaroTheatro is a community space for participatory theatre and arts in the heart of gentrified and touristy Amsterdam. It has always been a place where marginalized, racialized, queer people and others can come together in joy, to dance, to play, to sing or have some pasta made with love. A space for counterculture and activism outside the logics of corporate banality.

Now more and more AstaroTheatro faces challenges of financial sustainability which threaten the very existence of the space with her work and people.
This solidarity voku is among the numerous grassroots initiatives aimed at supporting AstaroTheatro. Be part of our communities, share a dinner with us and enjoy the open stage or be part of it!

Solidarity Voku for AstaroTheatro
Thursday 23 October
19:00 Dinner
21:00 Open Stage
@Joe’s Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43 Amsterdam
www.joesgarage.nl