Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

From October 27-31, the Humanities Venture Lab hosts 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 in the Co-Working Space, a 4-day programme designed to help you take your innovative ideas from concept to prototype. 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 guides you through all stages of building a venture, from idea development to creating a prototype. This programme is intended for both students and researchers from UvA’s Faculty of Humanities.

𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲

Dates: October 27, October 28, October 30, and October 31, 2025

Time: 09:00-17:30 hrs

Location: Humanities Venture Lab, Oudemanhuispoort, University of Amsterdam

Costs: Free of charge!

Language: English

Registration (closed): www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/humanities-in-the-city/humanities-venturelab/activities/create.html

Deadline: Registrations close on October 20, 2025

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁?

- Gain insights from seasoned experts and like-minded people;

- Collaborate with peers passionate about humanities-driven innovation;

- Create a prototype and receive feedback to refine your business idea.

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲?

Students, researchers, staff, and alumni of UvA’s Faculty of Humanities. In some cases people from outside the UvA community can participate. Please be aware that participation is subject to availability, and if there are more applicants than spots, a selection process will take place. If chosen, full attendance on all four days is mandatory, so please ensure you are available for the entire programme.

From October 27-31, the Humanities Venture Lab hosts 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 in the Co-Working Space, a 4-day programme designed to help you take your innovative ideas from concept to prototype. 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 guides you through all stages of building a venture, from idea development to creating a prototype. This programme is intended for both students and researchers from UvA’s Faculty of Humanities.

𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲

Dates: October 27, October 28, October 30, and October 31, 2025

Time: 09:00-17:30 hrs

Location: Humanities Venture Lab, Oudemanhuispoort, University of Amsterdam

Costs: Free of charge!

Language: English

Registration (closed): www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/humanities-in-the-city/humanities-venturelab/activities/create.html

Deadline: Registrations close on October 20, 2025

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁?

- Gain insights from seasoned experts and like-minded people;

- Collaborate with peers passionate about humanities-driven innovation;

- Create a prototype and receive feedback to refine your business idea.

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲?

Students, researchers, staff, and alumni of UvA’s Faculty of Humanities. In some cases people from outside the UvA community can participate. Please be aware that participation is subject to availability, and if there are more applicants than spots, a selection process will take place. If chosen, full attendance on all four days is mandatory, so please ensure you are available for the entire programme.

Today between 14.00-17.00 hrs you can, when you have made an appoinment, pick up or drop off your MediaMakers equipment at BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio!

Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Lola Montes (Max Öphuls, 1955), with an introduction by Nimaye Nambiar.

In preparation for an autumnal scene, Max Öphuls is said to have wrapped an inn on the set of Lola Montès (1955) — his final film — with kilometres of netting and to have painted his roads a reddish brown every morning. A box office disaster at the end of a tumultuous career, Öphuls’ extravagant nineteenth century period piece bleeds in scarlet and marine with a hefty budget to accommodate both Technicolor and CinemaScope. As we follow our eponymous protagonist, an Irish-born dancer and courtesan, in a repetitious circus of the present and her rise to notoriety through a series of flashbacks, Öphuls captures the many intersecting pasts, presents, and futures of Lola to provide a deeply complex and compelling character study. Perhaps what is most distinguishable in Öphuls’ cinema is its sense of restlessness; there is a dizzying geometry where lovers flurry up and tumble down staircases, yearning protagonists reach a nauseating vertigo, and where carousels bob up and down interminably. A tale of romance and reminiscence as much as a meditation on cinema, Lola Montès is the final epic of a wistful filmmaker.

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today from 11.00-19.00 hrs, the Flamingo Room will be used by the UNICEF Amsterdam Student Team to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, while also highlighting UNICEF’s mission of giving and community support. During the event, they will offer mandala colouring as a creative way for students to experience a part of Indian culture, as well as organise a clothing donation under the theme of the ‘season of giving.’ In addition, they will share information about UNICEF’s work, hand out flyers to raise awareness, and ask for small contributions.

Today between 14.00-17.00 hrs you can, when you have made an appoinment, pick up or drop off your MediaMakers equipment at BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio!

Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Alice (Jan Švankmajer, 1988), with an introduction by Mel Ketelaars.

This twisted adaptation of Alice in Wonderland reimagines the famous story as a bizarre hallucination rather than a colorful fairy tale. This comes as no surprise, as it’s created by Jan Švankmajer, a key figure in Czech surrealist cinema and a master of stop-motion animation. He seamlessly blends live action with stop-motion, often blurring the lines between them, making viewers forget where one ends and the other begins. The result is a nightmarish dreamscape filled with porcelain dolls, furniture, and taxidermy. Švankmajer largely abandons traditional narrative structure, offering tableaus that are sometimes recognizable, like the white rabbit checking his pocket watch, however it also at times abandons the familiar story, turning it into an uncanny dreamscape. The film is a tactical spectacle that surprises audiences with practical effects and clever camera tricks reminiscent of George Méliès’ early films, using cinema to create bizarre illusions. The result is an surreal and refreshing take on Wonderland, and perhaps even the most accurate depiction of Lewis Carrol’s vision.

Today from 6.00-8.00pm, BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio will be used for a meeting of AMIA.

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today from 8.30-11.00 hrs, a group of students will be recording a podcast for an assignment for a course on Art Critics in the Beehive Studio!

Today from 15.00-18.00 hrs, a group of students will record a short film for submission in their Climate Emergency class in our Beehive Studio!

Today from 12.00-15:00 hrs the Beehive Studio will be used by Spotlight UvA to host a creative writing cycle session!

Today between 14.00-17.00 hrs you can, when you have made an appoinment, pick up or drop off your MediaMakers equipment at BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio!

Today from 6.30-9.30pm, BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio will be used for the biweekly board meeting of AMIA.

Today from 18:30-21.30 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in PCH 1.05 (so not at BuzzHouse this week)! This week's film is Oema foe Sranan (Women of Suriname, At van Praag, 1978), in conversation with curator Luna Hupperetz and activist Kenneth Soeleman.

Women of Suriname (Oema foe Sranan) portrays the lives of four women who relate the history of Dutch (neo)colonialism in Suriname and racism and being disenfranchised in the Netherlands using personal stories. A wonderful portrait of the Zeitgeist of the tumultuous run up to independence and the period shortly after the Srefidensi in Suriname. New restoration. Oema foe Sranan was produced by Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms in cooperation with LOSON (National Consultation of Surinamese in the Netherlands) in the framework of political struggle, as a sign of solidarity between Surinamese and Dutch people who transfer a collective message about the socio-political situation in Surinam and the Surinamese community in the 1970s. The film centres on hoping for better days and liberation from foreign influence.

Today from 18.30-21.00 hrs the MediaMakers 2025-2026 program will be launched in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space!

The 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 team is excited to announce that the first 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 2025-2026 club meeting is taking place on 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, from 𝟭𝟴:𝟯𝟬-𝟮𝟭:𝟬𝟬 𝗵𝗿𝘀, in the 𝗖𝗼-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 of 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗯/𝗕𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 (Oudemanhuispoort, E-building).

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 is a club designed to build a social and creative community where UvA students (of any program or discipline) can:

🎬 Develop artistic and professional practice

🤝 Collaborate on projects

📸 Explore visual media production, event coordination, programming, and more!

🍹 Just hang out, grab a drink, and meet new people

Whether you’re into media, arts, or any other discipline, 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 is the place to connect, collaborate, and create.

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 welcomes all students interested in content creation: from fiction and documentary to advertising, social media, music videos, podcasts, and more.

📢 Please 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 for this first 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 event, as there is limited capacity: https://forms.gle/vh1MwJQ7Wjr5JBC17

Today from 13.00-18.00 hrs, a group of students will record a short film for submission in their Climate Emergency class in our Beehive Studio!

Today from 8.30-11.00 hrs, a group of students will be recording a podcast with a guest for an assignment for the course Art Criticism in the Beehive Studio!

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Night is Short, Walk on Girl (Masaaki Yuasa, 2017), with an introduction by Gia Tue Trinh.

Following a sophomore “black-hair maiden” on her nocturnal journey across Kyoto, “Night is short, Walk on Girl” is a fever dream of kaleidoscopic visuals and amplified sensations. What begins as a university party night hectically unfolds into a series of eccentric events: a shady encounter with a erotic art collector, a drinking duel with an old yakuza boss, an old book auction disguised as a hot pot challenge, an impromptu guerrilla theatre performance, and countless other quirky adventures cramped into one fateful night. Kyoto streets become a big colorful theatre of whimsical coincidences that connect different people together in the most random ways yet make every encounter a destined moment — at least, as the girl believes. What lingers after such a delirious night is not only the riot of animation styles and overstimulated senses, but also the giddy afterglow of a romcom love beginning to bloom.

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs, the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today from 12.00-15:00 hrs the Beehive Studio will be used by Spotlight UvA to host a creative writing cycle session!

Today from 6.30-9.30pm, BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio will be used for the biweekly board meeting of AMIA.

Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Grey Gardens (1976, dir. David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Mayer), with an introduction by Carolina Amato.

Grey Gardens is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Mother and daughter live in a world of their own behind the towering privets that surround their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion known as"Grey Gardens," a place so far gone that the local authorities once threatened to evict them for violating building and sanitation codes. The incident made national headlines -- American royalty, living in squalor! For the Beales were nothing short of the upper crust. Mrs. Beale, a.k.a. "Big Edie," was a born aristocrat, sister of "Black Jack" Bouvier, Jackie O's father. "Little Edie" was an aspiring actress of striking beauty who put her New York life on hold to care for her mother - and never left her side again. Together they descended into a strange life of dependence and eccentricity that no one had ever shared until the Maysles arrived with their camera and tape recorder.

Text from Maysles Films.

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs, the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Welcome to a new year of films! Whether you’re a new student or a long-time member, come join us every Thursday at 18:00 for a free curated film screening, complete with an introduction and a post-film discussion. And if you’re interested in introducing a screening yourself, contact us @uvafilmclub on Instagram or at uvafilmclub@gmail.com! Unless stated otherwise, all screenings this semester will take place in Buzzhouse in Oudemanhuispoort. If you need help finding the Buzzhouse, you can find a guide on our Instagram story highlights. This month in Film Club: A legendary slow cinema director takes a colorful turn into the fast-paced frenzy of the musical romance, and a mother-daughter pair of ex-socialites spend their secluded days in a crumbling New York mansion in a cult classic documentary.

Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their first screening of the academic year 2025-2026 in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Golden Eighties (1986, dir. Chantal Akerman), with an introduction by Parker Burrows.

Romance simmers and erupts among the artificial colors of a bustling shopping mall in legendary Belgian director Chantal Akerman’s Golden Eighties. Best known for the slow-paced style and brutal realism of her 1970s films (such as Je Tu Il Elle and Jeanne Dielman), Akerman takes an ambitious departure from her aesthetic signatures via the technicolor musical. Golden Eighties stylishly bursts with 80s-pop numbers and campy melodrama, without fully concealing a darkness underneath. Akerman’s subtle reflections on historical trauma and consumer capitalism complicates her whimsical form, especially when channeled through legendary actress Delphine Seyrig’s shattered performance. Come for the chirpy hair-salon gossip and ill-advised love triangles, stay for the sharp critiques on heterosexual marriage and the tragic commodification of romance!

Today from 17:30-19:30 hrs the Flamingo Room will be used by Spotlight UvA and linguistics study association VOS to host a boardgame night!

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs, the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!