Name: Brutally Minimalistic
Start: 2024-10-30T19:15:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-30T21:30:00+01:00
Location: De Thomas

Brutally Minimalistic

van Lai Production aims to produce live performances, primarily focusing on music, such as piano and organ, in various venues. We strive to blend business professionals with professional artists to attract a more diverse audience. Our goal is to create a live, listening, networking, and sensory experience in a creative way.

van Lai Production

Minimal Music and Insightful Talks – a cultural event designed as an end-of-year gift for reflection in a fast-paced consumer culture

De Thomas

Brutally Minimalistic is a cultural event designed as an antidote to consumerism and Black Friday, hosted at De Thomas in Zuidas, renowned for its Brutalist architecture. Featuring minimal music by a piano duo, violin and inspiring talks, the event offers full immersion in space, sound, and thought.This concert provides a moment of reflection on our daily lives before the rush of festive holidays like Thanksgiving, Sinterklaas, and Christmas. By presenting minimal music as a conceptual counterbalance to consumerism, the program encourages reflection amidst today's fast-paced consumer culture, countering the impulsive purchases and overconsumption sparked by events like Black Friday. (See other counter-initiatives such as '<a href="https://greenfriday.nl/" title="https://greenfriday.nl/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Green Friday</a>')

<h3>Program</h3><h4>- Music -</h4>John Adams: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN4cCYPEOGg" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN4cCYPEOGg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Short Ride in a Fast Machine</a>Ryuichi Sakamoto: 1919, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIWZ5qi03g" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIWZ5qi03g" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tong Poo (東風）</a>Arvo Pärt: Hymn to a Great City, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37bNmVggtU" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37bNmVggtU" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Spiegel im Spiegel</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLDvbnK_Sqk" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLDvbnK_Sqk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons</a>(The links of music fragments come from another concert or recording. Visitors will hear a different performance and instrumentation in the concert) <h4>-Inspired Talks -</h4><ul><li>Consumerism;</li><li>Re- / Circular Economy</li></ul>(speech will be in English)

<h4>-Speakers-</h4><a href="https://www.nyenrode.nl/en/faculty-research/persons/p/tineke-lambooy" title="https://www.nyenrode.nl/en/faculty-research/persons/p/tineke-lambooy" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tineke Lambooy</a> | Professor, Nyenrode Business UniversiteitWillem Swager | Director of Finance &amp; Operations EMEA, <a href="https://www.patagonia.com/business-unusual/" title="https://www.patagonia.com/business-unusual/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Patagonia</a> <h4>-Musicians-</h4>Herman Lai, piano<a href="https://anneveinberg.com/" title="https://anneveinberg.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Anne Veinberg</a>, piano<a href="https://www.evatraa.com/" title="https://www.evatraa.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Eva Traa</a>, violin<a href="http://www.erelievonen.eu/" title="http://www.erelievonen.eu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ere Lievonen</a>, organ

<h3>Production Team</h3><ul><li>van Lai Production</li><li>Nyenrode Alumni Circle For Sustainability</li><li>Herman Lai producer</li><li>Tamara Veldboer co-lead</li><li>Tzu-Wei (Velika) Hung event manager</li><li>I-Chun Chou visual designer</li></ul> <h3>Sponsor</h3>Zuidas, gemeente Amsterdam

<h3>General Information</h3><ul><li>Date: 30 October 2024</li><li>Time: Doors open at 18:00 for drinks and bites, with the performance and talk starting at 19:15.</li><li>Location: De Thomas</li><li>Address: Prinses Irenestraat 36, Amsterdam (next to Amsterdam Zuid Station, Beethovenstraat, and WTC)</li><li>Admission: 20,00€ regular ticket / 12,50€ student</li></ul> Your ticket includes your first drink and bites. Transaction fees are already included in the ticket price.<h4> </h4><h3>Support Us</h3>To make the event more accessible to everyone, we have kept ticket prices affordable. Inviting your family, friends, or colleagues to join you would be the biggest support to us.

<h3>De Thomas</h3> <blockquote>De Thomas has always been a place for reflection, spirituality and personal growth.</blockquote>The building of De Thomas was designed by architect Karel Sijmons and is considered to be the most important Protestant church building after the Second World War. The brutalist interior of the church hall is one of the 100 most beautiful church interiors in the Netherlands. Sijmons designed everything in the church hall itself, including the chairs. And the Thomaskerk has its own indoor theatre: unique for Dutch churches.

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Concert & Talks

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