News // 4 and 5 May in and around Plein Theater in Amsterdam East

As a theater in Amsterdam East, between the stolpersteine and monuments and in a neighborhood full of significant history, we commemorate and celebrate on May 4 and 5 together with the neighborhood and the city. And we participate annually in the youth projects of Theater Na de Dam. This year we present the performance ERVE with youngsters from Amsterdam, and a program prior to the performance around the commemoration at 20:00 on the square. On May 5th we will participate in the FREEDOM MI-BO in Hotel Arena in the Oosterpark!

Are you commemorating and celebrating with us?

Thursday, May 4, 7:30 PM Commemoration on the Sajetplein

Prior to the Theater Na de Dam performance ERVE, there will be a program around the commemoration at 20:00 on Sajetplein in front of the Plein Theater. We invite you from 19:30 to share this moment with us and each other.

The evening is all about inherited memories. There is, among other acs, music by Titus and word art by Toon Pilet about what commemorating means today to young generations.

At 20:00 we are silent for 2 minutes

After the commemoration there will be soup!

And at 21:00 the performance ERVE starts

We look forward to a inspiring evening!

Thursday 4 May 21:00 Theater Na de Dam: ERVE

Tickets €9.50 /City pass green dot: €4.50 | Including cup of soup

Under the guidance of theater makers Jorn Laponder and Sofia de Valk, youngsters from Amsterdam immersed themselves in the history of Amsterdam during the Second World War. They talked to the elderly about what it was like to be young in wartime. These conversations, full of memories and stories, together with other source material form the basis of the performance ERVE.

What can be the legacy of an event to a next generation? What is your own ERVE and do you want it?

ERVE is the result of an intensive rehearsal process during the May holidays in which the youngsters wrote, created and improvised themselves.

During the fourteenth edition of Theater Na de Dam, nearly 300 young people in 42 projects throughout the Netherlands are committed to providing meaning on May 4, 2023. On Thursday 4 May the performances start at 21:00. From Sittard to Groningen and from Leiden to the Plein Theater in Amsterdam, the voices of the past can be heard in the present.

Look for more information at www.theaternadedam.nl

Directors: Jorn Laponder & Sofia de Valk
Makers and performers: Sieuwe Koppenberg, Lucas van Bemmel, Ayoub Haddouchi, Sid Stuiver, Guilia Grosskop, Lena Lürsen & Adam Sohail
Guidance: Jelle Zijlstra
Production: Plein Theater
Part of: Theater Na de Dam JONG
Thanks to: Judith Kruithof, Mary Egberts, Ashok Egberts, Andrada Maria Simo-Mosk

Friday 5 May 16:00 - 22:00 FREEDOM-MI-BO at Hotel Arena, Oosterpark

Freedom is a valuable commodity and a privilege that cannot be taken for granted in the world. On Liberation Day we reflect on our freedom and that is something we would like to celebrate with you.

Hotel Arena is the perfect place to celebrate Liberation Day! On May 5, Hotel Arena, in collaboration with Plein Theater, OOSTcast and Hotelschool The Hague, is organizing a range of festivities to celebrate our freedom and everyone is welcome.

From 16:00, DJ Je Moeder & Bart Sevenhuijsen will provide a cosy musical atmosphere & tunes, the students of Hotelschool The Hague will serve delicious freedom soup with their own foodtruck called STREATS, we will be surprised by the Amsterdam Klesmer Band  and OOSTCAST organises history tours though the Oosterpark.

In addition, of course, delicious drinks, summer cocktails and tasty snacks, on our sunny terrace of PARK cafe/restaurant.

Come along and enjoy the freedom,

in the Oosterpark!

www.hotelarena.nl/en/liberation-day