30 January 2005
Melkweg

Featuring Canadian Blues singer (and wicked guitarist) Sue Foley (pictured), the omnisexual Blues singer from LA, Candye Kane and the Belgrade-born blues-rock guitarist/singer-songwriter Ana Popovic.

28, 30, 31 January 2005
Muziektheater

Senegal's foremost modern dance group, Compagnie Jant-Bi, perform 'Genocide', inspired by the writings of fellow countryman Bouabacar Boris Diop and Frenchman Jean Hatzfeld about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the result of years of repressed anger and tension between the Hutus and the Tutsis.

28 January 2005
Amstelkerk

The acclaimed young British author David Mitchell will be giving a talk on his exceptional novel, Cloud Atlas which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2004 – and widely tipped to win by the press, readers, bookshops and bookies alike. (The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst eventually took the prestitigous literary award...)

27-30 January 2005
Various Venues (read on)

That Woman – Rebecca West Remembers is a one-woman show performed by Broadway veteran Anne Bobby on the life and loves of West, a feminist, journalist, novelist, biographer and critic and one of the most important writers of the 20th Century...

January 27-30 2005
RAI

Dutch dressage champion, Anky van Grunsven, who won gold at this year's Athen's Olympics will be appearing on her medal-winning mount, Salinero, as part of this huge indoor equestrian event.

24 January 2005
Vredenburg (Utrecht)

21 January 2005
Paradiso

Not to dissimilar to Coldplay, the Irish three-piece had a huge hit this summer with the marvellous Run. Note that this is the rescheduled gig following the cancellation on 15 November 2004 and support is yet to be confirmed, plus it's Sold Out. It is prob poss however to get tickets from outside the venue on the night.

17 January 2005
Paradiso

A highly acclaimed outfit from San Francisco who mix up rock, folk, country and punk with lounge sensibilities. Support is Emmet Tinley (The Prayer Boat). Note that this concert takes place in the upstairs Kleine Zaal.

16, 17 January 2005
Carré

The famous ballet company of the Tatarstan State Opera perform Tchaikovsky's fairytale work in the newly-renovated historic circus theater. Always a treat...

12 January 2005
Heineken Music Hall

Support is New Found Glory. Note that although this event is sold out, it may be possible to get tickets from outside the venue on the night (original ticket price is €27.50).

8 January-12 February 2005
Hug!

The first exhibition ever in the Netherlands of one of the world's most celebrated photographers, Cornel Lucas (born London 1920). Lucas' big break came when he undertook an assignment to photograph Marlene Dietrich in 1948, launching him as a distinguished photographer of icons...

6-9 January 2005
Filmmuseum

Often described as a visual love letter to New York, Woody Allen’s 1979 film, Manhattan, captures the essence of this district of the city, and is widely regarded as his best ever movie...

4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 January 2005
Muziektheater

From humble beginnings, growing up planting rice in rural China, Tan Dun has risen to become one of today’s most revered 'world music' composers. He won an Oscar for his soundtrack to Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Grawemeyer Award – the most prestigious prize for music composition today...