Our VIVA ADM Festival is a non-comercial festival and has no funding and/or subsidy from outside, all possible profit goes to keep the ADM.. Everybody involved with this festival does that on a voluntary basis.
The 20 - 22 September 2018 is a unique chance to take a look inside the ADM. This squatted community celebrates it's
21 years of existence with music, theater, art, circus, and much more. In a city where thinking within existing
frameworks, economic interests and clean sidewalks dominate the public domain the ADM is an alternative community based
on solidarity, selforganisation, respect, and improvisation.
A place were Anti-conformists walk freely and Dreams still
fly around and lay eggs. The ADM is under pressure now but still, it presents a huge program of international acts.
NOT TO BE MISSED!
THE ADM is the biggest and longest surviving cultural freehaven in the Netherlands, known over the whole world due to 21 years social and cultural renewal and hospitality. It is an organically grown village in the western harbours of Amsterdam, arising from the longing to experiment in all possible areas. The ADM is a niche in the margin of organised society. A laboratory where the arrangement of our daily lives is practised as an art form, where the development of simple and sustainable solutions are automatic and innovation is not trendy but pure necessity.
MANY cultural free-havens are gone already. It would be a complete loss for the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and even the world if the contributions of cultural free haven ADM would disappear.
THE PEOPLE of this self-regulating community are closely linked to each other by the space, visions and creations they share. On the terrain live some 130 people from all ages, nationalities and walks of life. Amongst them are: children and pensioners, theatre-makers and stage-builders, inventors and technicians, dancers and musicians, actors and directors, craftsmen and -women, sailors and buccaneerss, life-lovers and 'different-thinkers'...
WE IMPROVISE with time and money, test our place in the ecosystem, tinker with human relationships and build sculptures, compositions, heat sources and means of transport using another's waste. In a direct interaction with our environment we thus create alternative ways of living, sharing, learning and growing.
Come and celebrate with us our 21 years, and show your support for freehaven ADM.
THERE IS NO CULTURE WITHOUT SUBCULTURE!
START: 20:00
END: 01:00
START: 18:00
END: 03:00
Family discount if you are attending program for kids
START: 14:00
END: 05:00
HOW TO GET THERE?
BY BIKE
– The scenic route (12 kms from Amsterdam centraal) see blue route on the map. This route brings you through the westerpark, community gardens and a nature zone before you enter the industrial port of Amsterdam…
- The faster route (10 kms) see blue road on the map
- Alternatively you could follow any of the green routes indicated by the new google maps bike option…
BY TRAIN
Go to Amsterdam Sloterdijk station (see ns.nl for times) from where you can catch the shuttle bus to the ADM (and back again).
SHUTTLE BUS
We will have a shuttle bus service between the ADM (entrance gate) and At Orlyplein, on the other side of the road in front of the Chipsoft office near Sloterdijk station. The shuttle bus will be driving every full hour during the opening hours of the festival for a price of 2 euro. When is busy, the shuttle bus will be driving more frequently.
NO cash machine on site
LEAVE your dogs at home. Dogs will not be allowed on the festival terrain! No exceptions!!!
NO camping
NO tobacco for sell on site
LIMITED parking - be green - use a bike
PLEASE BE AWARE if you sleep inside of your car on the parking spot, you are risking to get a fine (unfortunately)