PUSH - PAARD

PUSH

PUSH is the umbrella under which PAARD brings together its socially engaged, critical, progressive and politically driven programming. As the leading pop venue in the city of power, politics, peace, international (war) law and protest, located just a few hundred meters from the Binnenhof, we use PUSH to provide the soundtrack to social change.

With PUSH, we show that we are not only here to entertain, but that we also dare to go deeper. At PUSH, you will see and hear things that can change your perspective, your understanding or even your course in life. PUSH can be provocative, challenging, confronting and thought-provoking.

The upcoming PUSH programs are:

Films That Make noise – A Free Daughter of Free Kyrgyzstan (i.s.m. Movies That Matter) – March 25
Don’t Stop Talking About Sudan – March 27
Femi Kuti – April 4
Queer icon Peaches – April 25
Don’t Stop Talking about Congo – June 25
Gogol Bordello – September 1
IJSLAND – October 3

Politieke Jongeren on Resistance!
• Strijd voor vrouwenrechten – June 25
• Recht op Wonen! – September 25
• Protest! – December 10

Previous PUSH programs included:
• Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine – May 14
• Pussy Riot – June 26, during the NATO Summit
• In Conversation with Pussy Riot – June 26, with Haagsch College
• Party4Peace – June 20, during the Just Peace Festival
• Facing War – Movies That Matter, June 22, during NATO Film Week
• Girls In Woods: Project Manosphere – September 26 & 27
• Haagse Zaken Live – October 22 – One week before the Dutch general elections, the podcast Haagse Zaken came to PAARD with an in-depth political analysis
• Sef, Lieve Monsters Tour – December 10 – Politically charged tracks in a pop setting
• Music That Changed The World – A course on protest music through the years (starting autumn 2025 at GR8)
• De Niemanders – December 20 – The musical story of residents of an asylum seekers’ center

2026

Films That Make Noise (in collaboration with Movies That Matter): Raving Iran – February 20
Dolle Mina Fest – March 8
Politieke Jongeren – Verzet! De Mediawereld – March 5

The name “PUSH” was chosen because of the powerful associations the word evokes: it literally and figuratively pushes toward progress. It symbolizes breaking barriers and stimulating positive change.