Folia has Fomo: six places where you can have an excellent night out this weekend
Where should you go on a Friday or Saturday night in Amsterdam? Six unmissable places in Amsterdam for a cultural weekend full of music, theatre and partying.
Podiumbar De Nieuwe Anita
Oud-West
Hidden away at the back of this Berlin-style café is an old-fashioned theatre with red curtains. Stand-up comedians, film buffs, drag queens and hardcore punks gather in this alternative pub to rock, laugh and dance.
Poppodium Cinetol
(Zuid)
Almost every day, this charming concert venue hosts a band playing indie pop, R&B, electro jazz or hyper funk. After their show, the often young artists and their audience regularly chat and party long into the night in the adjoining bar.
Café De Engelbewaarder
(Centrum)
In this brown pub opposite UvA’s Bushuis, you can hear classic jazz crammed in between other fans every Sunday afternoon. De Engelbewaarder is also the Netherlands’ first literary café, the last student bastion of books and glasses on the Red Light District.
Cinema Lab111H
(Oud-West)
At this year-round cinema, see old cult films, classics by Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky and Akira Kurosawa or work by up-and-coming directors. But you can also just have a pizza at the creative film house and enjoy The Substance or Gladiator II afterwards.
Cultural center OT301
(Oud-West)
At Overtoom 301 stands a drab squat, once turned into a social center by film students. Behind the grey bricks - in addition to still experimental film screenings - raw garage style parties take place at weekends.
Torpedo Theatre
(Centrum)
The Netherlands’ smallest stage, built in 1887, once served as a large puppet theatre. Nowadays, this nineteenth-century living room hosts an arts night every Wednesday with theatre makers, music makers and pranksters.
