This is the most open-minded stage in town! All people and art forms are welcome, be it poetry, spoken word, song, music, dance, stand-up comedy, painting, belly dancing… you name it!  
Bring something to show to our super chill audience, whether you’ve trained for many years or just started practicing, we’re always very interested.  
Performances may be up to 7 minutes long, in any language.

For questions and updates: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/openstageutrecht, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intlopenstage/

Shane Koppers

The Int’l Open Stage

Your quiet Wednesday afternoon coffee event. Come and have a coffee, read a book, study or do some work!

Koffie verQueerd

Learning the art of Drag is an amazing journey in one’s life, but the threshold to start is often quite high! Queer Arcana Homebase offers the perfect place to start experimenting.

Under the guidance of our wildly talented coordinators, you will learn basic and advanced make up techniques. Play around with gender and expression as you transform into different versions of yourself!

This is a biweekly workshop! Feel free to return as many times as you want! There is always something new to learn!

We provide everything you need to get going. We supply make-up, mirrors, and lights. This is an entry level workshop, so no experience required!

Sign-up is required: https://queerarcana.com/makeupworkshops/

Queer Arcana

Queer Arcana organizes public Queer Dungeons and Dragons sessions!  
Join and (learn to) play the game of D&D and travel along with us to magical queer wonderlands.  
People with any level of D&D experience are welcome!

Sign up at queerarcana.com

Queer D&D night

🎬👕 Student Documentary about Sustainable Fashion Initiatives ✨👀  
The only question is To Buy Or Not To Buy?

We’ve all heard about the issues in the fashion industry – from terrible working conditions in Bangladesh to polluting landfills in Ghana – and it’s daunting. Ah well, what does that matter to us? Isn’t that a faraway problem?

This student-made short-doc shows how we, as consumers in the Netherlands, can make an impact. Because, yes, we can.

We will have a clothing swap (bring your own clothes!) and screen the short doc ‘To Buy or Not To Buy’ (22 minutes).

To Buy or Not To Buy

Droomboter

Leoparte

Kimberley

Leoparte is a 7-piece tropical indie wildfire from Utrecht and Rotterdam. Hailing from a variety of backgrounds, they make songs about the beauty of the world, inspired by the sounds of the globe, infused with an always-ready-to-party spirit. They have come to call their unique mix of styles, which includes indie-pop, cumbia, afrobeat and ska, ‘tropical indie’.

This June marks 10 years since their first gig and what better place to celebrate than that exact same stage! Expect a show full of the biggest classics of their 10 year existence as Leoparte joined by former bandmates, culminating in potentially the biggest group of musicians to ever fit on ACU’s stage!

Before they hit the stage, Leoparte is joined by Droomboter (postpunk in Dutch) and Kimberley (sweet indie rock).

And the party don’t stop there! DJ Klapsalon will play his sweet global dance tunes till deep into the night!

10 Years of LEOPARTE

Independent and horizontally led initiative that aims to raise awareness about the problem of food waste at production and consumer levels and actively work on reducing waste locally.

If you want to volunteer, send an email to tbywutrecht@riseup.net.

More info: Taste Before You Waste Utrecht (https://t.me/TBYWutrecht)

Taste Before You Waste

Mindless

Live electronic club night

Door open at 21:00 until 03:00  
Presale: €8  
Doorsale: €10

Line up:  
Aria Marzen  
Mau’s Acid Machine  
Mindless  
…  
…

More to be announced soon.

Geile Mukke

The Barricade is a volunteer-run public library and cooking crew with a focus on anarchism, anti food waste and leftist politics.

In our permanent collection, we have a variety of materials (books, journals, zines) on feminism, Marxism, decolonialism, environmentalism, veganism, squatting and DIY culture, including classic and contemporary texts in both English and Dutch. Membership and borrowing books is free.

Every Sunday evening we prepare a free meal that can be enjoyed in the ACU bar. Perfectly ripe and beautiful vegetables and fruits are coming from the dumpsters of Utrecht. Donations will be used for the kitchen or other political goals.

More info on our Telegram channel: @TheBarricade

The Barricade

Want to open the jam session? Mail to flyingcarpet@acu.nl  
Check www.fb.com/flyingcarpetutrecht for the opening band

Want to get rid of the blues? Getting sick of the rain and tired of the jazz standards? Join the chaos and warm yourselves up in the spotlights of ACU! Be prepared for a musical mayhem. The sky is the limit!

– Drumkit and amps available * bring your own instruments/cables  
– Listen to each other  
– Leave your rock star attitude at home  
– Please take care of the equipment (and the volume)

Every 1st Tuesday of the month.

Venue open: 20.00 * Start opening band: 20.30 * Jam session: 21.15 – 23.30 * free entrance * a donation to maintain the backline is very much appreciated *

★ 99% Vegan ★ No harassment ★ No racism ★ No hard drugs ★ No one is illegal ★

Flying Carpet Jamsessie

Adam

Maggie

Christie

Eric

Anna

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ACU is a political-cultural center in the Voorstraat, directly in the center of Utrecht. ACU is non-commercial, independent from the municipality’s agenda, and fully run by volunteers. ACU has found its niche as is for more than 40 years integral part of Utrecht’s cultural and political scene.

ACU is host to a wide range of activities: café, vegan restaurant, concerts, disco nights, political events, jam sessions, benefit events, parties, movies, library, and meeting place for political and cultural initiatives.

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