ACCESSIBILITY DURING BANGS

Important Note: This page may be updated, and we will clearly write here the date of the last update.
LAST UPDATE: 22 Sept – 24 Sept – 30 sept – 02 Oct

Amsterdam BANGS Festival is run by a very small team of volunteers. Within our capacity we strive to make our spaces and events as accessible as possible. While we realize that complete accessibility for everyone is an ideal and not always feasible, we are working to make BANGS as welcoming and accessible as possible to as many people as possible.

What to expect?

As soon as we have collected relevant information on each location and events’ accessibility or non-accessibility, we will upload them here.
Important: the festival will take place around many different locations, all around Amsterdam, which means that we will face different accessibility issues, and for some of them we won’t be able to facilitate any extra support.
EDIT : if a show takes place in a public space, we couldn’t find capacity to make it more accessible in any way.

Accessibility Infos per Location :

  • MKZ : here
  • Queer Hub : here
  • Astaro Theater : here
  • Cafe Gilde and 4bid gallery (both at OT301) : here
  • Vrankrijk : here
  • De trut : here
  • Vondelbunker : here

QUIET SPACES:

During the Festival, there is an info point and a resting space available at Astaro Theater.

The opening times are :
Thursday 1 October 18:00-20:00
Friday 2 October 12.00-16:00 CANCELLED
Saturday 3 October 11:00-15:00 and 20:30-23:00
Sunday 4 October 11:00-17:00 : 12:00 to 14:00

We also have other resting/quiet spaces available in other locations throughout different days!
They will be at : Plantage Dok, OT301, Lola Lieven, Vrankrijk, and MKZ !
More infos to be found on this link.

VIRAL SAFETY

  • We will provide face masks, and disinfectant at every inside locations
  • If you experience any symptoms of viral illness, please stay home, protect others, and take care of yourself
  • In the quiet or resting spaces: When shared with other people, we ask you to wear a mask or have a recent negative covid test (tests are not provided on location). If possible, remember to ventilate the space when leaving.
  • Wearing a face mask protects you, the others and can be useful in public space…
    We encourage everyone to make use of them.

CONTACT:

If you are someone with a disability (or someone supporting someone with a disability) and you have any questions or accessibility needs that you would like to share or our help with, feel free to contact us. You can write to us an email at info@amsterdambangs.nl with “accessibility” in the subject line. Unfortunately, we do not yet have a phone number to publicly share on this website.
We hope to be able to communicate as well as we can about what we are able and not able to provide. Do know that we are a very small group of people, and might take time to answer.

Do you miss anything, do you have feedback or proposals?

We have created a working group for accessibility.
If you are down to join us, with whatever experience and capacity you have, or if you would like to share anything, please send us an email at info@amsterdambangs.nl.