26 April 2005
Ahoy (Rotterdam)

The first tour of Queen since 1986, with Paul Rodgers (ex-Free/Bad Company) taking the place of Freddie Mercury.

25 April-19 June 2005
Oude Kerk

This year marks the 50th anniversary of this prestigious annual exhibition of award-winning photojournalism, which opens in Amsterdam before travelling onto 80 cities worldwide. This year's overall winner is Arko Datta (Reuters, India) with a photo showing a woman mourning a relative killed on the Boxing Day tsunami in Cuddalore in India. As usual, a retrospective of the winner’s work will be on show alongside the other award-winning photos (divided into themes). Additionally, there will be a 50 Years Gallery featuring all the winning shots from the past half-a-century. Although the exhibition can often be confronting (there is something intrinsically powerful about a still - as opposed to moving - image) it remains a veritable hommage to the photo-journalist who often works in life-threatening conditions to report the news.

23 April 2005
RAI

Jimmy Sommerville is performing numbers from his latest album during Rainbow Experience (23-25 April)

19 April 2005
Concertgebouw

19 April 2005
Ahoy (Rotterdam)

15, 16 April 2005
Heineken Music Hall

17, 18 April 2005
Ahoy (Rotterdam)

16 April 2005
Ahoy (Rotterdam)

With the Rotterdam Philharmonic

14-24 April 2005
Various locations (Utrecht)

An inspired 11-day festival festival of cutting-edge international dance. Alongside traditional theater settings, performances also take place in a bus and a swimming pool. The public even get to experience one dance over the telephone!
For more information see www.springdance.nl or phone (030) 233 2032.

10 April 2005
Heineken Music Hall

8 April 2005
Amstelkerk

Although a prolific –and multifaceted – writer, Deborah Moggach is perhaps synonymous with her bestselling novel Tulip Fever. She has however, written 15 novels, two collections of short stories and done various stints in journalism. She's also co-written the screenplay for a new film version of Pride & Prejudice, due out later this year. It stars Kiera Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet and Matthew MacFadyen as Mr Darcy... Additionally, Moggach also received an Honorary Degree at Bristol University in February of this year.

8-10 April 2005

Queer Guerilla and other queers organize a weekend near Utrecht for homo-, bi-, hetero-, a-, trans- and other sexuals, poly-, mono- or other gamous, male, female and anything in between. (Pheeeew!) The program includes workshops, discussions and films about gender, sex(uality), (anarcho)feminism and so on. Moreover there’s disco, performances of Elvis & the Burger Kings (finally coming out) and Elle Bandita (lo-fi queergrrl elektropunk) plus a special queer diabolo
show.

5 April 2005
Paradiso

5-10 April 2005
Various locations

A superb festival packed with silent movies featuring live musical accompaniment, surreal avant-garde classics, art films, Dutch gems (with English subtitles!) and highlights from the Filmmuseum collection – including the recently discovered Beyond the Rocks (Sam Wood, US, 1922). This the only film where Rudolph Valentino plays opposite Gloria Swanson and was thought lost forever until discovered by chance in the Filmmuseum's archives last year, making headline news around the globe. Its world première screening will take place at the Tuschinski on 5 April (see below) to mark the official opening of the Filmmuseum Biennial. Other highlights of the festival include new restorations of classics such as Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1932).