groninger museum - miguel rio branco

A photo exhibition with some cruel some beautiful pictures in it. I especially 'liked' the car windows with many bullet holes in them. The projection of red light and videos of the street of brazil makes youf eel the danger that the street is breathing and the people breath in and exhale. cruel, hard to imagine and like india beautiful in its ugliness, just a different ugliness.
I went here together with Joost in september I think and when I visited the Herman Brood exhibition with Jon last weekend it was still there.

groninger museum - herman brood

The exhibition opened on his birthday. The dutch rock legend died a few years ago by throwing himself of the hilton hotel in Amsterdam and the latest weeks he is full in the picture again. They made a movie baout his early years and they exhibited his working space, his work and quite some pictures in the Groninger Museum. They give lectures about, parts of, his life and show the look-a-like on TV. Herman Brood is dead, but still alive.
Apparently many people liked him or pretended to like him on last sunday. I have never seen a museum so crowded as on that day. It was an excentric exhibition and especially the realisitc view in his living sapce is amazing. It was a shame so many people were walking there, because it would have been nice to stand there alone and feel the space. Although I was not a big fan of him, I liked it.

radio and juliet

An Amazing dans show from slovenia. Also the requiem from mozart before the break was fabulous. The first time I enjoyed dance so much.

de pintelier

This is a belgian beer cafe. THey have an enormous list of beers and it will take me quite some times before I have tasted it all. It is hidden in a small street at the kleine kromme ellebaoog. THe first time I came here was with Bote, and after that I haev taken quite some people. It has some luxury, the waiter is wearing a jacket, and I have to say, some of the people have a fititng attitude. However you can sit privately and have good conversations. I discovered the verboden vrucht here, since then one of my favourite.

de minnaar

A bar near the faculty of sociology. We went here twice up till now after the toss on thursday night at the aclo. Sebastiaan, Patrick, Taco, Kristian and Hilde were present last time. nice time...

het zwarte schaap

Yesterday we had a lovely dinner at het zwarte schaap on the shcuitendiep. Refined food, nice wine, good service and good company. The coffee is accompanied with quite some sweets, which was a surprise for us. And besides, they have a very spacious toilet.

egoism

I went to a lecture about egoism. It was one of the lecture about 'the bad life' of studium generale. Sins. Interesting to see how the philosopher is struggling in words, gets lost in presumptions and exceptions and exclusions to make A point. Other than that it was interesting and it keeps me awake. What is egoism is however still not clear... it depends how you define it. Why is it a sin? because we see it as a sin. Apparently the values we have do not match with someone who acts out of egoism. Would it match our values, than egoism wouldn't be a sin.

Padang Bar & Vence

The day I moved to Groningen we had dinner in the Padang Bar. In the van we followed a friend of mine through the small and big streets of Groningen and we ended up in the Padang Bar. We had a lovely dinner, maroccan, tajin. But I had no clue where the bar was and how to find it again.
A few weeks ago I went to Patrick to have dinner there. I crossed the street, and there it w; the Padang Bar. I just had to cross noorderplantsoen.
A week after we went there after toss.
Yesterday there was a goodbye of Taco and Vence played some songs life. Nice bar, nice music, what else can I wish for...

de spieghel

A few weeks ago I went to de SPieghel; a jazz cafe. On mondaynight they have jamsessions. I am not that expert on music and moreover not with jazz, but I love live music so I took a chance to see it. I was with Jeroen, ex-boyfrined, who plays the saxophone and is a major fan and quite knowledgeable about jazz music. So he explained me the basic and I could sit back and relax. There was a drummer, guitarist, tenor saxophone and a contrabas. Thye first play a basic (all jazz musicians know these) and then each has a solo and you appluad when the solo is finished.
At approximatlye 11.30 other people could join and the jam session started. Many people form the conservatorium present and a good atmosphere, as always happens with live music.

The other is You- Statehouse opera

An experimental play in three european cities at the same time: Berlin, Brighton and Groningen. We entered an arti building which I found out later was an atelier for painters and other figurative artists. For this occasion the exhibition hall was trnaformed to a theatre. Seeing the stage, they do that more often. It was the first time I went to the theatre in Groningen, and it was probbaly the most exlusive one I could have chosen. Three screens on at the back of the stage, each screen of pne of the city. Through a live video connection the nine actors were directed by keypoints that were told to them through an earphone.
The guy changing the stage all the time was not viisble for the people in the other cities and wore the most extravagant outfits. It was nicely done, I enjoyed it very much. I went here together with Kristian, a guy I know from the squashclub

Ajax - Noord Nederlands Toneel

During a weekend away with my parents and sister to the lovely city Zutphen, we went to Apeldoorn to see Ajax. A greek trgaedy I belief of the Northern theatre club sort fo group of people. It wasn't really good, but not bad as well. Some jokes, some bad jokes and some not supposed to be jokes.