Mask Workshop
a multidisciplinary workshop of masks, beats and theatre

The process of masks making with mask acting combined! We start by creating masks that fit our emotions and our imagination. We learn to wear those masks and we embody our imagination by using beats and rhythms and by creating awareness of our presence in the space. We also practice the basics of theatre: posture, movement, body in space, breathing and voice in many of their expressions.
Our practice is sensorial and originates from ourselves: memories, stories, sounds of stones and steps, images of repopulated land, reminiscence of touching, smell of seaweed.

Attendance at session 1 and 2 is required to be able to join session 3.
Limited number of participants
Please contact us for more info and for subscription
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
info@astarotheatro.com or @astarotheatro
This workshop has a € 50 suggested fee to support AstaroTheatro and her work.
Cheaper fees possible for low incomes

1. Friday 6 March 14:00-17:00
   Mask making (part 1)
   We start creating our personalized masks

2. Friday 13 March 14:00-17:00
   Mask making (part 2)
   We finalize the creation of our personalized masks

3. Friday 20 March 14:00-17:00
   Masks, Beats and Theatre
   We wear our masks by getting inspired by beats, rhythms and theatre techniques
   At the end of is session participants get the opportunity to present an impro performance with their mask to friends and guests.

Pasta & Poetry
OpenStage at AstaroTheatro
Second Edition!

Thursday 26 February
Poetry 19:30
Pasta after Poetry

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

After the big success of the first edition, 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

Tell the Bees

As the archipelago is slowly silenced, who will tell the bees?
A theatre performance of poetry, acting presence, alarming beats and a resounding flute.
A cyclical call to tune in to nature, at least for the time being.

In line with AstaroTheatro’s grassroots dedication in crafting original theatrical content, this performance originates from the performers themselves. It aims at including and involving all audience in a participatory experience.

Saturday 7 February 20:00
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraaat 37
Amsterdam
www.astarotheatro.com
www.ourfootsteps.nl
Entrance by Donation

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