Palestinians Are Your Eyes

Palestinians Are Your Eyes
Reading & Gathering in Solidarity
Global Theatre Reading

A gathering around testimonies, images, music, poetry, tea and za’atar
A Theatrical Reading in Solidarity
Participating in “Palestinians Are Your Eyes,” as artists or as spectators, means taking part in an act of civic testimony.

Palestinians Are Your Eyes: A worldwide reading to never forget
On October 15, 2026, theaters, universities, public squares, and bookstores around the world will unite in an act of global cultural resistance.
On this date, dozens of companies, artists, and associations ranging from Brazil to Mexico, from Italy to Ireland, from Jordan to Gaza, will stage the texts written by the young authors of the Anqa Theatre Company (www.anqa.group) throughout the course of the same day.

Who is Anqa
Anqa is a theater collective born from an initiative by Progetto REC. It is composed of authors and artists from Gaza and Italy who, through theater and writing, transform their own experience into a direct, human, and unfiltered testimony. In Arabic, Anqa means phoenix.

Why October 15?
The choice of October 15 is not accidental: on this very day in 2023, young Anqa Company performer Abraham Saidam lost his life under the bombs in Gaza. With his death, the dream of a young man who wished to dedicate his life to art was shattered. Today, his fellow artists transform that pain into renewed hope: by entrusting their experiences to writing, they honor Abraham’s memory and continue the mission he could not fulfill.

Solidarity in Action
Any proceeds derived from donations collected during the initiatives will be allocated to fund the Jafra Center in Jabalia, Gaza. The funds will support the operation of medical clinics, tent schools, community spaces, personal hygiene facilities, and recreational and theatrical activities dedicated to children.

October 15, 2026
19:00
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
www.astarotheatro.com
www.anqa.group

MasK Workshop October-November 2026

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
Sliding scale

1. Friday 23 October 14:00-17:00
Mask making (part 1)
We start creating our personalized masks

2. Friday 30 October 14:00-17:00
Mask making (part 2)
We finalize the creation of our personalized masks

3. Friday 6 November 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 this session participants get the opportunity to present an impro performance with their mask to friends and guests.

BANGS Festival: Blabylonia

BANGS Festival: Blabylonia
work-in-progress showcase

Who are they? On an unknown land they come together. At first, they don’t seem to understand each other but surely they carry with them histories/herstories, poetry, words, insights, music, movements, chanting and images. What if the so-called lingua franca is removed or rendered unimportant on purpose? What does it mean to speak one’s language where you’re expected to do otherwise? What communicates beyond or beneath languages? They’re searching.

Маці родная, Маці-Краіна!
具身為乾坤之象,
大地之臍帶滋養
Triremi rubate ai porti coloniali
لای لای نه‌مامی ژیانم
Ayrılık Ayrılık, aman Ayrılık.
Her dertten olan, yaman Ayrılık.

BANGS Festival: Blabylonia
work-in-progress showcase
3 October 18:00
AstaroTheatro 
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
An AstaroTheatro Production
https://amsterdambangs.nl

BANGS Festival: On War & Images

BANGS Festival: On War & Images. Surprise Performance.

After three explorative sessions we are now ready to surprise you and us!
A participative encounter where images, materials, words and practices are provided with the aim of creating an organic performance flow.
Using the tools provided by theatre practice, this interactive session explores the pervasive narrative of war and how images produce its imaginary.

BANGS Festival: On War & Images. Surprise Performance. 
2 October 21:15
Lola Lieven
Rodenrijsstraat 43 Amsterdam
An AstaroTheatro Production
https://amsterdambangs.nl

 

 

BANGS Festival: The Universe or the University

BANGS Festival: The Universe or the University

An ever shifting pièce rooted from our frustrations with the Numb city and the Arrogant intellectuals. It imagines the fictional quiet village as the antithesis of our present surroundings – the rigid, superficial city, abundant only of insecurities disguised as over-developed rationale. While the fantasy village soothes and weaves sorrow and slowness in life, the city blocks, swallows, confuses and spits you out dismembered. 𝘖𝘩, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳.
The Mask intervenes as a friend, a movement, a reminder of closeness in chaos.
The clown appears in order to remind of loss, but they also ask a crucial question: which one is bigger, the universe or the university?! 
How to live in this cosmos of prefabricated opinions, midnight deadlines and real-estate havens? Suffering in joy with your friends.


BANGS Festival: The Universe or the University
1 October 12:30
Nieuwe Achtergracht 127/Roetersstraat 11. Roeterseiland. UvA Campus
An AstaroTheatro Production
https://amsterdambangs.nl 

BANGS Festival 2026

BANGS
is an autonomous theatre and performance festival taking place for the third time October 1-4, 2026.
BANGS is not part of their Empire, and BANGS shits on their borders!

BANGS doesn’t give a damn about art institutions trying to control what the heck art should be like.
BANGS invites everyone to make art we can’t imagine yet!

BANGS needs neither curator nor any other kind of exploiter.
BANGS is self-organised, for your delight!

BANGS receives no funding, BANGS raises funds! This year, for Palestine and Lebanon.

https://amsterdambangs.nl

Ghoula


Ghoula
when two girls inhabit a wound, maybe it’s a home to sleep, eat, be naked and sheltered from the sun or the late night cold

the wound is a home too

shadow of theatre
maybe
Ghoula is a ritual assisted by performance art, poetry, storytelling, soundscapes and music

12 July
Door: 19:00
Start 19:30
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37
Amsterdam
www.astarotheatro.com
www.ourfootsteps.nl
Entrance by Donation

Screening নধরের ভেলা (Nadharer Bhela) / The Slow Man and His Raft

Screening নধরের ভেলা (Nadharer Bhela) / The Slow Man and His Raft

Movie Screening নধরের ভেলা (Nadharer Bhela) / The Slow Man and His Raft
Pradipta Bhattacharyya · 2025 · 179 mins | Bengali Spoken | Subtitles English

RSVP: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/E6GFPWBOINJyca4tZ-SMPHV6nI5s1lFmV…

AstaroTheatro · 26 June 2026 · Doors 18:30 · Film 19:00
Sint Jansstraat 37, Amsterdam (5 minutes from Centraal Station).


“Nadhar, a man deemed dysfunctional for his extremely sluggish movements, becomes part of a travelling circus, where his condition turns into spectacle.”

What happens when a body does not align with the speed at which the world decides value. Around the body, a world is being sorted too quickly into what can be used, what can be shown, what can be kept as “culture”, and what can be left behind. The Manasamangal lore, a six-hundred-year-old poem most people remember as a love story and which is not, is underneath this: snake, deity, fear, protection, not as heritage, but as something still active in how life is divided, who is held and who is left outside.

The film’s journey has been as unusual as its subject. Rather than relying on conventional theatrical distribution, Nadharer Bhela has travelled through a network of independently organised screenings, community halls, town theatres, cultural spaces and self-organised gatherings across Bengal and beyond. Its circulation has depended not on multiplexes or streaming platforms, but on audiences willing to create spaces for collective viewing and conversation.
Though it travelled to Rotterdam, this is not a festival film seeking prestige from afar.

It is a film that has found its life in rooms filled with people sitting together for an evening, allowing a story to unfold at its own pace. AstaroTheatro is one of those rooms.

Suggested donation: €8–15 (sliding scale). Less is welcome, more helps support independent filmmaking and the space