In Oud-West

Amsterdam

Near covers 2 places in Oud-West so far. That's an early read, not a full one — but every one of them is here because someone thought it was worth the walk.

2 places · 2 checked in the last 90 days · newest today

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Rev.Sep 7, 2026Trutfonds — De Trut history (official)+5

De Trut

Forty Years in a Squatted Basement

€3 gets you into a volunteer-run queer basement that's funded LGBTQIA+ causes since 1985.

Here's the door: no sign, no queue rope, no bouncer in a branded jacket checking a guest list on an iPad. Just a stairwell down into a basement on Bilderdijkstraat, in a building that was a type foundry until it got squatted in 1981. You pay someone a volunteer three euros, they stamp your hand or don't bother, and…

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Nightlife & Sound

Sep 24, 2026OT301 official site — venue, programme areas, agenda+7

OT301

The Film School That Never Stopped Squatting

A squatted 1999 film school still runs a club, cinema and gallery on its own terms.

Amsterdam's old Film Academy trained cinematographers until 1999, when a group of artists broke in, stayed, and eventually bought the place from the city outright. That's OT301's whole shape in one sentence: not a squat that got evicted into a museum piece, and not a club that bought itself some outlaw branding.

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