Magneet Festival

Magneet Festival (‘Magnet Festival’) The Magneet Festival is an event with its visitor as headliner. Our ‘participators’ have the chance to give creative input through our co-creation internet platform and are able to contribute to the content of the event. Making the Magneet Festival the first crowdsourced festival of its kind in Europe. The town district East-Amsterdam is offering a unique piece of land during the length of the festival. It’s an artificial sand valley at the Zeeburger Island (Zeeburgereiland) in the East of Amsterdam where thousands of people will more..

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url:	www.magneetfestival.nl
date:	19-08-2011 till 11/09/2011
address:	IJdijk 10, 1095KM Amsterdam
email:	bram@magneetfestival.nl

Queensday (Queens Birthday)

Queensday on the Amsterdam Canals
photo by: Knibbe

When you're in Amsterdam/Holland on the last day of April, this is the place to be! Probably your only chance to see the Dutch go wild...

It is one big orange party. Not on the actual birthday of the Queen, but on her mothers birthday: April 30th. Not Only Amsterdam turns into one big party area, but actually the whole country.  However it's best to celebrate Queensday in Amsterdam! The city turns crazy and orange (it because of "the House of Orange", the Dutch Royal Family), and many people from around the world have discovered this more..

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date:	April 30th
url:	www.koninginnedagamsterdam.nl
address:	Amsterdam City Centre

Gay Pride

For a couple of years now the first weekend in August is "Gay Pride" with numerous parties and a Pride parade on the canals, drawing enormous crowds (500.000 in 2004) to see the Queens and Dykes float along in a colorful spectacle!

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date:	First weekend in August

Grachtenfestival

A series of concerts at unique locations: churches, private homes, and on boats. The final concert is traditionally held on the Prinsengracht on a stage built over the canal. People with boats will be waiting for days in the canal to have a good view of this very "Amsterdam" happening.

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date:	August
url:	www.grachtenfestival.nl

Hartjesdagen

The parade at the Hartjesdagen
photo by: B.J. van Bommel

Much smaller than the Gay Pride is the " Hartjesdagen" festival right in the Nieuwmarkt area on the Zeedijk. The third weekend in August men turn up as women, and women as men. And they have been doing so for centuries! Some historians believe this fun packed romantic festival dates back to the Middle ages. Its small scale is a definit plus. More information can be found on the website: www.hartjesdagen.nl

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date:	Third weekend in August
url:	www.hartjesdagen.nl

22nd Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival

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Films that are nervewrecking, films that astound and astonish – heaps of them will be shown during the 22nd Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, from April 19 through April 26. In the main programme of the AFFF the whole range of the genrefilm, as is custom at the AFFF, can be seen on screen: fantasy, horror, sciencefiction, thriller, anime, and cult. From blockbuster to arthousefilm. From Dutch fabrication to films from far and away. Also, the European fantastic short film is celebrated and during the Night of Terror you can count on oldfashioned goosebumps.

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tel:	020-6794876
url:	www.afff.nl
date:	19-26 april
address:	Amsterdam Leidseplein
email:	info@afff.nl