Events Amsterdam april 2012

Here are a few of the events in Amsterdam in april 2011. The events are sorted by date. Note: at the very bottom you can find events that are open throughout the month. The calendar is constantly updated. 

Haarlems Projectkoor 023

Location: Hermitage Amsterdam, kerkzaal
Singalong Sunday

Location: Café ’t Mandje
Date and time: sunday 1, 22 and 29 april, 4pm

Schubert Octet

Location: Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis 
Date and time: sunday, 1 april 2012, 4.45 pm

Hayk Melikyan: Easter recital by Hayk Melikyan on Pleyel 1865

Location: Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis
Date and time: sunday, 8 april 2012, 4.45 pm

Camerata Kilkenny with Bach’s ‘Musikalisches Opfer’

Location: Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis 
Date and time: sunday, 15 april 2012, 4.45 pm

Fortune teller 

Location: Café ’t Mandje Date and time: sunday 15 april, 4pm Luna Felice tarot reader. 15min/7,50.

Gay Queen’s Day 

Location: Café ’t Mandje Date and time: Monday 30 april Gay Queen’s Day: We invented it!

Belgian beer

Location: Hermitage Amsterdam, kerkzaal
Date and time: wednesday 25 april, 6.30 pm
Reservation required via +31(0)20-5307483

Paint as Rubens

Location: Hermitage Amsterdam, Hermitage for children
Date and time: saturday 28 april, 2pm 

Belief in Nature – Flowers with a message at the Bibel Museum

Location: Bibel Museum
Date: 27 april until 30 september
Visitors have the opportunity to enjoy an exhibition of flower paintings from the Golden Age in one of Amsterdam’s finest canal houses.
The exhibition shows the extraordinary skill with which artists such as Ambrosius Bosschaert, Jan Davidz. De Heem, Rachel Ruysch and Jan van Huysum rendered the natural world. As well as being delighted by the beauty of the paintings, visitor mays also trace the extent to which they reminded the public of the time of the work of the Creator and, by comparison, the vanity of early pleasures. The exhibition is housed in a cabal house such as would have been home to such paintings when they were first created and which gives a glimpse into how a wealthy family might have lived at that time.

Palatial Town Houses by the Bosporus

Location: Geelvinck Hinlopen House
Date: 16 march to 11 june
Photography by Martin Paternott. Exhibition on the occasion of 400 years Holland-Turkey

Judaism: A World of Stories

Location: De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam (New Church)
Date: 17 December 2011 – 15 April 2012
In the winter of 2011-2012, De Nieuwe Kerk and the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will present an exhibition about Judaism. With more than five hundred objects on display, this exhibition will tell the fascinating story of three thousand years of Jewish religion, culture, art and history, the chronicle of a world religion that takes diverse international forms but has always held onto its identity. The exhibits will come from internationally renowned museums and private collections, and most of them will be on display in the Netherlands for the first time. Judaism is the most ancient monotheistic religion. Like any other religion, Judaism tries to answer questions about life's origins, significance, and purpose. There is more than we imagine in heaven and earth, but what, exactly? What secrets lie hidden within Creation? What is the meaning of life?

Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens - Flemish paintings from the Hermitage

Location: De Hermitage Amsterdam
Date : from 17 September 2011 to 15 june 2012
The Hermitage Amsterdam will present a stunning selection from the Flemish art collection of the St. Petersburg Hermitage. With 75 paintings and about 20 drawings, this definitive survey will include many masterpieces by the three giants of the Antwerp School, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens, supplemented by the work of well-known contemporaries. One of the highlights will be Rubens’s famous Descent from the Cross. This will be the first exhibition of this superb collection in the Netherlands. Many of the paintings to be shown were acquired by Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century; Catherine purchased first-rate collections, such as those of Crozat and Brühl, in their entirety. Originally, many of the paintings were on display in churches, convents, and monasteries in Antwerp and other European cities. The exhibition will offer a close look at Flemish art and the history and the history of the Flemish art collection at the St. Petersburg Hermitage.