Join us for the release of Max Taylor’s new book. Reading will start at 18:30 and then stay for drinks, music and mingling. 

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Book Release: Between the Shadows of Eden by Max Taylor 

Join us to view and celebrate the artworks of Dmytro Trach and Max Taylor in an exhibition all around the world of storytelling. There will be art, drinks and music!

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Exhibition Opening: Dmytro Trach & Max Taylor 

Join us to listen to the tales of max taylor on his latest adventures. 



Storytelling: Gunpowder Tea by Max Taylor 

Join us for a cozy and intimate life drawing session. There will be background music and timed poses. Note it’s with a nude model. 

Life Drawing (nude model) 

Join us for our kids teeny TQ! We have all kinds of props and mediums for you and your little ones to use. It's an opportunity to co-create and mingle as well as just have fun getting a little messy! 

Please note, that as this is a gallery first, we do require you to keep an eye on your littles and to also be involved with them. Make sure to wear things that can get messy and come have a good time!

Teeny TQ: Kids Painting Session

Join us for a cosy session of drawing still life where there are varying floral, fauna, and random set-ups throughout the gallery for you to sit and draw. 

Basic materials will be provided; such as clipboards, papers, pens, pencils, etc. but we welcome and encourage you to bring any other mediums you want to play with (pastels, chalk, paint, etc). 

We always have music playing in the background and for this session, we will include a glass of wine in the price (or non-alcoholic option).

Sip & Draw: Still Life Drawing Session

You now have developed a close relationship with your dreamscape and understand most of the messages your dreams are sending out to you, but you’d like to ask your dreams specific questions. How can we receive answers to life dilemmas and be guided on the crossroads?

During this talk, Sonia Kolasinska (a dream researcher and practitioner) will share practical advice on how to use dream induction to receive feedback on specific problems, questions, and challenges.

As Carl Jung said: “Dreams may have an anticipatory or prognostic aspect. For it is only our consciousness that does not yet know; the unconscious seems already informed” (Man and his Symbols, 1968).

We’ll tap into the golden potential of dreams and your intuition to show you what’s truly in your heart. This exploration will also open doors for synchronicities and guidance from your unconscious in waking life.

This is an interactive talk with questions and answers.

Part 4 of 4 Dream Talks series at Toqueur:

13/08 Dream Symbols and Dreamwork Traditions
30/07 Remembering and Recording your Dreams
27/08 Dream Interpretation and Meaning
10/09 Dream Induction for Life Guidance

Sonia Kolasińska is a dream researcher, practitioner, and student of Master’s degree in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology at Alef Trust Institute. She’s a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and a winner of their 2024 Student Research Award for a paper on the nature of dream consciousness.

She offers 1:1 Dream Interpretation Sessions, Dream Circles, Workshops, and performances. Learn more on www.innercourse.academy

Dream Talk: Dream Induction for Life Guidance (4/4)

Raisa Mulder

Raisa Mulder is an Amsterdam based singer-songwriter. On September 21st, they will celebrate the release of their fourth album with a wholesome acoustic session, playing some favourites from the new album and some old songs. The new album came about spontaneously through a gulf of creativity this summer and a stack of unreleased songs. Combined they make for a nostalgic roadtrip through the highs and lows of summer, reminiscing about everything and nothing, challenging the gender binary, celebrating hot and steamy love and cute boi bike rides. This is 'Cute Boi Summer'.

Doors open 20:00
Start 20:30 Breathwork with Charlie McKee
Acoustic Session 20:45 - 21:30 with Raisa Mulder
The End 22:00
Entrance: Donation Based

Cute Boi Summer Concert by Raisa Mulder

Mert Pekduraner

Mert Pekduraner will be performing on the evening of September 20th at Toqueur in Amsterdam!

The Amsterdam-based guitarist and composer gained recognition with his piece “Kıyı (Side by Side, Venice Biennale),” recorded for an architectural installation project exhibited at the Arsenale Pavilion of the 17th Venice Biennale. He further established his unique audience with his subsequent studio albums “Geriye Ne Kaldı?” (2021) and “DIALOGUES IN THE DARK” (2022). Pekduraner has participated in various projects in countries such as Turkey, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria, and has had the opportunity to perform at the same festivals as artists like Erkan Oğur, Tord Gustavsen, Mammal Hands, Erik Truffaz, and GoGo Penguin.

Mert Pekduraner will meet his audience with a “Solo” set in Amsterdam.

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Concert: Mert Pekduraner

By approaching the images in our dreams metaphorically, we are doing the inner work required for there to be a constructive effect in outer realms of our being. Our aim is to activate the imagination, open psychic space, and trigger processes of transformation.

Date: 14 & 15 September 2024 (workshops can be attended individually)
Location: Toqueur, Amsterdam

There is a limited number of places and full is full.

Saturday, Sep 14: Alchemical Dreamwork
Alchemical Dreamwork in the tradition of James Hillman ("The Dream and the Underworld"). We will focus on working metaphorically with dream images.

Sunday, Sep 15: Voice Work and Dreams
Voice Work and Dreams in the tradition of Alfred Wolfsohn and the Roy Hart theatre. On Sunday we will add the dimension of “Listening in Depth”, by awakening a sensitivity to the sounds and tones in our voices while sharing a dream, to the sounds that appear in the dream sequence, and to the vocal sound of what has been awakened within – experienced as a vibration – while working with the dream images.

PRICE: The workshops can be booked as a separate one-evening workshop for €75 (please message me for this option) or as two workshops together with a 16% discount for €125.

ALCHEMICAL DREAMWORK is an “opus contra naturam” – a move against what we always do, something different from the habitual. Instead of explaining and interpreting, let us learn how to allow the images to really speak for themselves, to reveal what they want of us – often far more critical to our well–being than what we might think that we want. Let us learn how to describe in order to discover the true inner sense of whatever it is that we are focused on.

METHOD: When outer supports fail us, the only realistic recourse is to go inward – actually this is the way of the shaman. “The work is within” – to then have an effect in the outer world. In addition to moving from external to internal … within can also refer to the move from literal to metaphorical: the language of Dream Images.

A fundamental way of practicing this move lies in the way that we work with the images in our dreams, which are similar to the images that structure our experience of what we call life. Images are how we register what happens to us. The challenge is to go beyond the “literalness” of an image, in order to discover the “inner sense” and meaning of whatever it is that has captured our attention in a dream sequence.

As James Hillman showed us: the trick is in how to NOT get caught in the literal. The Alchemists used to say: “Beware of the physical in the material”, their way of warning us to not get caught in the concreteness of something, in what it is literally.

Instead, we want to see through the literal and the personal of a particular element, in order to discover and connect with the invisible (the Unconscious, the Spiritual) implications of whatever it is that is at stake with a specific element in a dream (or life) situation.

Dream images invite us to discover what our ordinary Ego Consciousness does not see, and therefore does not take into consideration.

In our workshop we will awaken a “Metaphorical Imagination” – with practical suggestions for cultivating what must be called phenomenological DESCRIPTIONS – descriptions that unexpectedly speak for themselves as they reveal invisible aspects of whatever it is that is being looked at.

The invitation is to move from thinking of the metaphor as a thing, to imagining it as a way of looking at things – one that reveals hidden aspects of our lives – to then allow us to be able to better recognize correspondences between what has been discovered and its relevance to our well being in the external world.

ABOUT THE TEACHER: Sven Doehner, PhD, MFA is a 76 year-old Mexican researcher with more than 45 years of clinical and teaching experience. His work blends Ancestral Wisdom that is alive to this day in the healing and spiritual practices of native healers around the globe, with his training as a Jungian Archetypal Psychoanalyst (working directly with James Hillman for many years), and in BodyMindCentering and Somatic Experience.

He is most known for his creative and transformative work with Dream Images, particularly in connection with the human voice, always at the service of deep and lasting Alchemical transformations, both personal and transpersonal.

Weekend Workshop: Alchemical Dreamwork + Voice Work and Dreams

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Performance

Join us for an epic evening of live painting by Alkan Kartal and collective, Ilya, consisting of a (nude) model paired with live photography and piano. 

Alkan Kartal will paint directly onto the body of our model in an abstract recreation of one of his pieces. Prepare to be captivated, inspired and feeling like you’re stepping into another world.

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Live Painting Performance by Alkan Kartal 

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