ProgramProgram January 20, 2024 @ Het Groene Veld
Tickets for the ESF program on January 20 at the Groene Veld cost 10 euros. > Order your tickets online
15:00 – 15:30 End Ceremony EFS 2024
Splitter Splatter – Art Concert
15:30 – 16:30 Screening: Hotel Mokum
Talk: Spookstad – media strategies against housing struggles
16:30 – 17:00 Presentation: Mark Angelo Harrison (Spiral Tribe) – A darker Electricity
17:15 – 18:45 Talk: Navigating cultural censorship (live & online)
19:30 – 19:45 Feelix and Curious company – Performance
19:45 – 20:00 Charley Ranzijn – Opening and poem
20:00 – 21:00 DABKE – Workshop
21:00 – 21:15 Alex Winters – Performance
21:30 – 22:30 The Burners – Concert
22:30 – 01:00 Cheb Runner – DJ Live
01:00 – 02:00 Insomniac – DJ (D&B)
02:00 – 03:30 Nissan b2b Rudi Ratte – DJ’s (Techno)
03:30 – 05:00 Stefan ZMK & Martha ZMK – DJ’s (Tekno)
04:30 – 06:00 Steezy – DJ (Breaks/gabber)
@23:00 & @ 01:30 Amsterdam Fire Spinners
Splitter Splatter
Splitter Splatter is a professional ‘crafter’ who lives and works between Amsterdam and the Veluwe. Inspired by nature, she works with symbols, surreal shapes and totems that refer to the subconscious and absurdism. With her incredible costumes she shares the stages with other musicians.
Hotel Mokum
the heart of Amsterdam on October 16th, 2021. Over six weeks the collective transformed the hotel into a home, a self-proclaimed free space and an oasis in a city smothered by hypergentrification. At the height of its popularity, Hotel Mokum got evicted under the guise of fire safety. The film combines documentary footage, archival materials, and constructed scenes to create a complex and intimate portrait of a hopeful collective and the city they are working to reclaim.
Talk: Spookstad – media strategies against housing struggles
Afterwards, there is a talk hosted by Spookstad: an experimental publishing platform focused on promoting and discussing radical action and culture. In the talk the filmmaker Yannesh Meijman and designer Wouter Stroet will discuss propaganda and media strategies they imply in the collectives they are active in.
Mark Angelo Harrison (Spiral Tribe)
In his new book, A Darker Electricity, Mark Angelo Harrison vividly charts the rapid escalation of the collective’s creative influence, popularity with the people – and notoriety with the Conservative government. It tells the story of how a community of friends came together to self-organise. Setting out on a journey from small squat-scene parties in London, to enormous warehouse raves and free festivals. How, within a year, they had outgrown their overloaded van and had become a mighty convoy of matt-black ex-military vehicles. A convoy that crossed all borders and instigated the Teknivals of Europe.
Mark will present his book and talk about its key themes. Themes that include the commodification of social space, resources and ideas by the imperialist establishment, while it brutally oppresses community culture and asset strips the planet.
Navigating cultural censorship with creative resilience
An international live and online panel on how in these times of cultural censorship, e.g. due to solidarity with Palestine, communities and free cultural places maintain resilience and actively resist it. Including, among others:
Arabian Panther Music, Adam Broomberg(Artists + Allies x Hebron), Alaa Shehada (Palestine Comedy Club), Cecilie Surasky (Jewish Voice for Peace USA), Archive of Silence, Salma ElShami (Offbeat Coalition ), Kenza Badi (Marokkueer Zaywa), Zoë Claire Miller.
Charley Ranzijn
Tijdelijke Toon (Charley) is a poet from the Amsterdam underground. He tries to make the world a little less shitty with humor and poetry.
DABKE Workshop
Dabke is one of the most popular dances in countries like Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan. It is a folkdance that is danced in a circle, with everyone dancing together, following the leader, who is usually the best dancer. The dabke has an unique way of bringing people together, even if there is no common language. The dabke stands for unity, togetherness, a celebration of identity and resilience. During this workshop, you will learn the basics of dabke and you will attain the skills that you need to attend any upcoming Arabic wedding or other event for the rest of your life ;)
No dancing experience required.
Alex Winters
Alex Winters is an Amsterdam performer & artist. A painter with a hammer. He works from drawing and creates performances with audio, in which, for example, he draws a Slayer song on a guitar, while using the actions of DJs [DJ fake little snitch] and musicians. Fun, recognizable and imaginative.
The Burners
The Burners are one of Amsterdam's biggest secrets. As a band they appear live irregularly, but their performance is sensational and leaves you with an unmistakable energetic drive.
Cheb Runner
Producer Cheb Runner (real name Reda Senhaji) is a musical hurricane rooted in Moroccan soil, exploring the West European electronic musical landscapes. Nurtured by both worlds, he represents a new sound of in-betweenness. Using first hand sounds and recordings of his own sample bank based on traditional instruments, he mixes playfully analog with digital effects supported with an unique collection of synthesizers.
Cheb Runner started his career on the music scene flirting with different names, collectives and genres the last 10 years. Both as producer, composer and DJ he is merging traditional and contemporary electronic sounds together moving from Moroccan chaabi, spiritual sounds to eclectic disco, deep techno and Dutch gabber. He is part of the (A)WAKE collective.
Insomniac
Insomniac is a drum and bass dj and head of the Italian Alps based collective named Revoltekk [RVTK]. He’s a music addict and his set spirit crosses many genres from jungle, minimal, deep to neuro and tech influenced drum’n bass.
As a local promoter he developed different party series like the TINNITUS, SQUARE or BASSILIKUM project and was one of few to ignite the southtyrolean scene. From early 2000s till now insomniac met a lot of true friends in the international circus and he achieved worthwhile reputation!
Rudi Ratte
DJ Nissan
A dedicated music mixer for over 5 years, who, in addition to his passion for graphic design, is also active in organizing various own events.
Stefan ZMK
Dutch Rotterdam-based hardcore techno DJ, mastering-engineer, producer and promoter active since 1998. Exploiting all electronic boundaries, Stefan ZMK travels the world to find beauty in darkness. Expect sets without compromise, that will send shivers through any rave die-hard. Stefan ZMK is a true guru in sound and a man of 100% dedication to alternative electronic music. A swift ninja, who always delivers a highly skilled trip to the Core of the Underground.
Als berucht DJ, verzamelaar en producer speelt hij met zijn crew: ZMK Soundsystem een grote rol in de Nederlandse Free Party scene. Hun unieke mix van tekno, hardtek, hardcore en breaks verspreidde zich onmiddellijk over Europa, via hun vinyllabel en verschillende sublabels.
Martha / ZMK
Free raves and teknivals is where she discovered hardcore music. Martha started mixing in early 2020's - and mostly on underground events across Europe. She says: “I would characterize my style as dark and pretty hard. I like it raw". Member of legendary sound System ZMK.
Steezy
Steezy, a DJ originally from the Netherlands, was born and raised on the streets of Rotterdam, and from a very young age he spent a lot of time editing music and getting involved in the local music scene.
Today he is based in Berlin, performing at various underground parties, as well as promoting his own events and developing a music label.
In Steezy's music you can find a mixture of techno, electro, broken beats, as well as classic rave tracks, jungle and DnB. This is exactly the mix he has prepared for us, so let’s charge up and set off on an hour-long journey!
Amsterdam Fire Spinners
A collective of more than 30 fire artists who have organized fire jams in the last year at all kinds of surprising locations, lately mainly on the Groene Veld. During this evening with 2 special shows at 11:00 PM and 1:30 AM.
