Clay Instrument Making Workshop

We will learn how to use clay, to shape a chamber of wind that allows sound production. Ocarina is one of the flutes we can make using clay and it’s associated with special tuning. What if we want to create more irregular instruments with more personal tunes that we simply like?We will have time to find out what we want our instruments to sound like and which playing technique is closer to our reach. This one-day extendable workshop will give the base of this research, teaching how to work with clay, how to create a wind mouth piece, and to open the way towards development of your own instrument.

Friday 20 December 14:00
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
Free participation and donations welcome
More info: info@ourfootsteps.nl

Theatre as Communal Experience

This theatre workshops aims at gathering around the necessity of grassroots, multidisciplinary, multilingual, transcultural artistic expression based on theatre, music, singings, visual arts, voice and body performance.
We explore the basics of the performative practice: posture, movement, presence, body, the other in the space, games and the voice in many of its expressions.
Our voices engage in spoken word, acting, text delivery and poetry in order to achieve a theatre and poetry performance.
Our bodies play roles and accompany impro’s and storytelling. Our practice originates from ourselves: memories, stories and sounds of stones and steps, images of repopulated land, memories of touching each other, smell of seaweed.

Five Classes: 17, 24 November; 1, 8, 15 December 14:30-17:00
Participants can attend one or more classes but it is highly recommended to follow all 5 of them.

AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
www.astarotheatro.com
www.ourfootsteps.nl

This workshop is by donation.
Highly appreciated if you can confirm your attendance in advance: info@ourfootsteps.nl

“Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater”
Augusto Boal

Astaroth the Devil
OpenPodium at AstaroTheatro
The stage of AstaroTheatro is open!
Saturday 19 October 20:00
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation

Let’s reclaim the arts and let’s mock mainstream commodification and corporate banality in culture and life. Let’s share performances challenging neoliberal narratives and exposing warmongering and human exploitation while opposing fascist ethno-states.
The stage of AstaroTheatro is open for radical, marginalized, racialized, queer artists and communities. An evening of awareness, of joyful togetherness and mutual care.

​​​​​​​Participate? Perform?
info@ourfootsteps.nl
Or just show up at the event!

Vasilis Papadopoulos and Andrea Cabezuelo Ensamble at AstaroTheatro
Saturday 26 October 20:30
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam
Entrance by Donation


Contemporary Mediterranean Jazz Rock: Fragile vocal lines dressed with a jazz aesthetic and eastern Mediterranean ornaments outlining the sociopolitical lyrics against the apathy of the West, the horrors of war, the destruction of simplicity and tenderness. Compositions that remind you of Silvana Estrada and Jose Gonzalez with a more jazz rock attitude and shifted to the Meditteranean traditions and ways of expression. That is the Vasilis Papadopoulos and Andrea Cabezuelo ensamble. 

Amsterdam BANGS Festival
Devilish Moons

Friday 20 September, 18.30. Hiba Abu Nada Campus People’s University Amsterdam
Tussen Meer 85 Amsterdam
Saturday 21 September, 20.00. AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 Amsterdam

Out of the necessity and urgency to challenge decay, havoc and fragmentation of modernity, five months ago we started workshops and practices of fluid multidisciplinary theatre performance, street theatre and participatory theatre. This also developed in response to the brutal oppression of student movements and to the distress caused by being violently persecuted and marginalized by the patriarchal, colonial and capitalist state. But in our journey, we also encountered love, togetherness and the desire of creating that went in the direction of Inanna, this ancient storytelling of descent and ascent, of rot and regeneration. The energy originated by this poetic story, by this tale of loss and newly-found life, we wish to share with you in a community of bodies, minds and souls.

Amsterdam Bangs Festival
Whispers of the Wild
Zapatista Tales of Resistance and Connection

Thursday 19 September 20:00
Villa Intifada
Krom Boomssloot 47
Amsterdam 

Music, dance and spoken word originated by the universal Zapatista tales of nature, humanity and wisdom transcending borders.
A theatre performance where drops of rain meet the earth to become a river, a fish and a tree. They know all too well that real joy only lies in acknowledging the other.
This theatre performance is originated by months of communal workshops and rehearsals at AstaroTheatro in the spirit of resistance and connection.

Amsterdam BANGS Festival
Trash Skeleton and the dumpster divers (Three Plays)

Thursday 19 September, 19:30
AstaroTheatro
Sint Jansstraat 37 
Amsterdam

The first play is called “She’s looking up the symptoms online” and is about a woman needing to get over her ex by using a surrealist version of omegle/chatroulette. She explores her emotions and past relationship while talking to a tree, a masturbator, an anarchist who can fly and a whole lot more!

The second play is “Replacement home” and is about an anarchist needing to find a new building to squat for her radical family about to get evicted. The play takes several fourth wall breaking turns as things go horribly wrong but maybe you can help them squat in the end?

The third play is called “Trips to the void” and is about a trans woman coming to terms with herself as she takes acid and the void inside her consumes all the people invited to trip with her. This is about chosen family and coming to terms with who you are instead of being ashamed and alone!