CINEBLEND, the monthly evening of SAVAN (Dutch Foundation for Audiovisual Anthropology) with dinner, film, and debate, has the following theme on Tuesday, May 3:

THE NEIGHBORHOOD SHOP, RELIC OR JEWEL?

The local supermarket, the bakery, the fishmonger, and the corner Asian grocery store—almost everyone visits them at some point. During this Cineblend evening, we will examine the role of the neighborhood shop in modern society using film clips. Is the neighborhood shop a relic of the past disappearing due to the increasing dominance of supermarkets, or does it retain its function as a social meeting point under the influence of the many migrants residing in the city? The evening is organized in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum, where the exhibition 'Neighborhood Shops' is on view until August 21, 2011.

The guests are Felix Rottenberg, who in 2002 created a much-discussed three-part series about Akbarstraat in Amsterdam West together with filmmaker Jan Bosdriesz, and two filmmakers who made a number of short films for the Amsterdam Museum: anthropologist Wendy van Wilgenburg and Ethiopian journalist Kibret Mekonnen, who lives in the Netherlands. The discussion will be moderated by Amsterdam Museum curator Annemarie de Wildt.

Visit www.savan.nl/cineblend for more information.

We look forward to seeing you at this inspiring evening!

Time: 19:30, free admission, no reservation required.

Location
Linnaeusstraat 2, Amsterdam



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