festival book clubs
During our festival weekend, we are hosting book clubs with various festival guests at unique locations throughout Amsterdam. From immortality among skeletons to anti-mindfulness in a club, join the conversation!
book club: venki ramakrishnan
why we die
26 october • 19:30 – 22:00 • museum vrolik
Amidst anatomical preparations and skeletons, we will talk with Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan at the Museum Vrolik about our mortality. We will delve into his new book Why We Die and discuss how possible and desirable eternal life really is.
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book club: becca rothfeld
all things are too small
26 october • 16:00 – 17:30 • skatecafé
At Skatecafé in Amsterdam-Noord, we will talk with American writer and columnist Becca Rothfeld about her essay collection All Things Are Too Small. In this book she challenges minimalism as an ideal for our lives.
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more brainwash
27 october 2024
brainwash festival
Brainwash Festival 2024 is all about Truth & Doubt. We explore the boundaries of reason, present radical propositions turning the way you see the world upside down, celebrate contradictions and get you doubting everything you thought you knew for sure. Tickets for our day-long festival on October 27 are on sale now. Be quick, as our festival sells out really fast every year. Don’t miss out!