28 Nov 2025
28 Nov 2025
Amsterdam Museum on the AmstelWhat does the future of Amsterdam look like, and who determines that image?
During AM Late, the Amsterdam Museum invites you to an inspiring evening full of art, conversations and performances in the spirit of Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the Future.
In honour of Amsterdam's 750th anniversary, this third edition of Refresh Amsterdam explores current themes in the city and society. Fifteen contemporary artists, young people and countless Amsterdammers share their dreams, concerns and visions of the future. The exhibition presents a rich and diverse picture of the future – from personal visions to collective wishes collected by the museum in all provinces of the Netherlands.
During AM Late, all this comes to life in an evening programme full of encounters and insights. Take a short tour of the artworks, participate in a creative workshop, or listen to performances and conversations with creators and thinkers who reflect on the city of tomorrow. The programme components take place in Dutch and English.
Date: Friday 28 November
Time: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Location: Amsterdam Museum aan de Amstel, Amstel 51
Price: free entry!
Collateral Kin live-sessions met Darshan Kumari
Live performance | at 19.15 - 19.30, 20.25 - 20.40, 21.40 - 21.55 and 22.10 - 22.30 hr
Let yourself be carried away by the extraordinary sitar music of Darshan Kumari's students. Darshan is a sitar player with an extensive repertoire of classical ragas and semi-classical compositions. She has been teaching students the sitar, Indian singing for beginners and Hindi for over 35 years, passing on her knowledge from teacher to student in the traditional manner.
The musicians will perform at various times among the large portraits by Raquel van Haver. Darshan is one of the subjects portrayed in Raquel van Haver's series The Collateral Kin.
Stripclub Live Drawing
Live drawing sessies | at 19.30 - 20.15 and 20.45 - 21.30 hr
What does the future of sex work look like? In the model drawing workshop at Stripclub Life Drawing, we depict a world in which strippers take centre stage, both as performers and as artists. While they strike poses on and around the pole, you will be guided in shaping your own interpretation of that future. After an explanation of one of the oldest professions in our city, the workshop shows how stripping, despite existing stigmas, is a fully-fledged and expressive art form, even in the future.
Le Trou: Write the Future 2.0 – The Echo
Locatie: Restaurant (soundscape can be heard on the stairs next to the tourdesk)
Talk | 20.00 - 21.00 hr
During Museum Night, we asked you to write down what otherwise remained unsaid.
Today, those words return as sound, conversation and encounter.
Led by Niek Putman, speakers Cero Ismael, Joy Geerestein, Indiana Roma Voss and others will discuss the future. They will draw random cards and respond to whatever immediately comes to mind. In addition, tonight you will hear a musical translation of your words, composed by artist Cero Ismael and sound designer Jopi. The soundscape will play throughout the evening.
About Le Trou
Le Trou is a creative collective that organises events around music, food and art. Le Trou bridges the gap between creative people and spaces and fills a void by introducing new, exciting talent and concepts at well-known locations. With Le Trou, we strive to bring international and local creative talent in our city into contact with each other and introduce them to each other in order to create more solidarity.
Mini Workshops Toekomstdenken with JCK
Locat: Tuingang
Workshops by Dana Rentenaar (political scientist) and Batya Wolff (exhibition organiser) | at 19:30, 20.30 en 21.30 hr
It is 2075. Amsterdam is celebrating its 800th anniversary. You open your phone and take a screenshot. What do you see? In this workshop, you will imagine what the future of Amsterdam could look like. What makes you happy? What vision of the future frightens you? By imagining the future, your view of the present changes.
During the workshop, we will use Mushon Zer-Aviv's Future Screenshots method. This Israeli designer and peace activist developed this workshop shortly after the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas. This method explores how people in times of crisis can and dare to imagine futures, and what that can mean for them.
About Imagining Futures
In the installation Imagining Futures (on display at the Jewish Museum), you will meet a number of people who live in the Netherlands and have family in Israel, Gaza or the West Bank. They took part in a “future thinking” workshop in Amsterdam led by Israeli designer and peace activist Mushon Zer-Aviv and Palestinian-Dutch political scientist Dana Rentenaar. In the workshop, they imagined futures they desire – and those they fear. Their stories, the process they went through, and the tangible images of the future that emerged from it can be seen and heard in the installation. This installation is on display from 19 June 2025 to 11 January 2026.
Workshop CUT THE SCRAP
Workshops collage-visionboarding | 19.00 - 23.00 hr
What will our city look like in the future? How will we travel by public transport? Or how will we get our coffee in 2050? Will the city have gone completely green or been taken over by aliens? Manifest your vision of the future by cutting, pasting and building a collage of dreams, concerns and sci-fi fantasies.
During this collage vision boarding workshop, you will give your creativity free rein under the guidance of collage artist Bo from Cut the Scrap. Together, we will set to work creating unique visualisations of the future of Amsterdam, with step-by-step guidance through the creative process. No experience is necessary; everyone is welcome!
For the workshop, you can use a curated selection of vintage magazines and books. You will also receive tips and tricks for collage techniques, and above all, there will be plenty of room to let your own creativity run wild and craft a vision board!
The Future Flows: Menstruatie in 2031
Future Flows & Menstruation Station Map | 19:00 till 23:00 hr
Interview Tammy Sheldon | 21:30 till 21:40 hr
During this AM LATE, we explore the future of menstruation in the city with Neighborhood Feminists. What does a truly inclusive, sustainable and caring city look like for everyone who menstruates? Join the conversation at The Future Flows, an interactive wall where you can share your ideas about policy, taboos and access to products.
Amidst Raquel van Haver's monumental portraits, we talk to Tammy Sheldon, co-founder of Neighborhood Feminists, about period poverty and the power of community. Be inspired and discover how you can bring about change yourself. We also present the Menstruation Station map, which shows where free menstrual products are available in Amsterdam. Together, we are making the future of care and equality visible.
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Interviews | at 20.15, 21.25 en 22.00 hr
In these short interviews, moderator Lola Bessa talks to creators from the various chapters of Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the Future.
She speaks with artist Ischa Kempka about her work from chapter 3, which she hopes will be unearthed in a few hundred years. Next, we talk to Tammy Sheldon, co-founder of Neighborhood Feminists and one of the subjects in Raquel van Haver's large group portraits from chapter 1. We conclude the series of interviews with a conversation with the winners of the public submissions from chapter 2.
Future Speedtours
Speedtours | from 19.00 till 23.00 uur, tours last 20min
At a rapid pace, one of our guides will take you on a thirty-minute tour of the most exciting visions of the future: from sparkling utopias to ominous apocalyptic scenarios, and everything in between. Discover how artists depict the future, ask questions along the way and be inspired by worlds that sharpen your view of tomorrow. Sign up at the tour desk and dive into a tour full of energy, surprise and imagination.