Staff WriterThe Amsterdam Dance Event organisation, in collaboration with Amsterdam’s clubs and festival organisers, has confirmed over 350 Festival and Arts & Culture events in 140+ locations since the decision to move forward with its programming last month.
With less than one week to go, ADE has completed its full program of daytime events, taking place from October 13th through 17th.
The city’s venues and organisers have shown remarkable resilience in making this achievement possible, and the organisation is looking forward to welcoming thousands of electronic music enthusiasts to Amsterdam. Among the confirmed artists are Animistic Beliefs, Armin van Buuren, Charlotte de Witte, Disclosure, Don Diablo, DJ Pierre, Elena Colombi, Hunee, Jeff Mills, Job Jobse, KI/KI, Luke Slater, Maya Jane Coles, Nina Kraviz, Paul Kalkbrenner, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Todd Terry, an ADE Special live concert by Weval x Metropole Orkest and many others. The full program can be found here.
Aside from its festival program, ADE focuses on a variety of artistic disciplines surrounding electronic music culture through its new Arts & Culture program, showcasing artistic residencies, exhibitions, films, special performances and much more. Highlights include an audiovisual collaboration with Nxt Museum, a program to make dancefloors accessible to everyone in collaboration with Music Moves, and mindful raving experiences by Nelly Ben Hayoun, ARK Rave Studio plus more. The full program can be found here.
Although ADE’s business conference has been cancelled, the organisation will be hosting a special edition of its ADE in Conversation show on Thursday, October 14th, starting at 5:30 PM CET. The free online event will be streaming live from a cutting-edge mixed reality environment, as part of an innovation showcase in collaboration with Felix Meritis and Ravel.