Festivals summer 2025

Amsterdam | five city parts

The free floating garden festivals were on five Saturdays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. With music, dance, workshops, ceremony, stories, coloring pages and tastings. Canoe safari’s through the gardens starting at 11:00 a.m.

Check out the events for more information.

15:00 - 17:00
Water safaris by canoe as early as 11:00
July 12 North
August 23 Centrum
August 30 Eastern
September 13 South
September 27th West
Kaart van Amsterdam met de locaties van de Waterkaravaan Tuinfestival
BUIKSLOTERKANAAL

Buiksloterkanaal

Kropaarstraat 5 (opposite Hotel Poppies)

July 12, 15:00 - 17:00

Sara Hermanides, guide for leaders and supervisors, honored the water with us. Speaker for the living: Urban ecologist Els Corporaal.
JBB entertainment.

MARINETERREIN

Inland Harbour Marineterrein

Kattenburgstraat 5 (next to Pension Homeland)

August 23, 15:00 - 17:00

Winti priest Okomfo Nana Efua offered a libation.
Speaker for the living: Geert Timmermans.
JBB entertainment. Dansmakers.

DUIVENDRECHTSEVAART

Duivendrechtsevaart

Joan Muyskenweg 15 (next to Student Experience Amsterdam Amstel)

August 30, 15:00 - 17:00

Voice of the water, earthkeeper and architect Lydia Fraaije.
Speakers for the living: Biologist and microscopist Mas Jansma
and urban ecologist Els Corporaal.

WESTLANDGRACHT

Westlandgracht

Westlandgracht Pier (near Saskia van Uijlenburgkade)

September 13, 15:00 - 17:00

Energizing water ceremony with naturopath and kinesiologist Heleen Snoek. Speakers for the living: Kees Koot and Geert Timmermans.
Pink Tanker Choir. Dansmakers.

ERASMUSGRACHT

Admiralengracht

Erasmus Park on the corner of Admiralengracht (near Wil de Graaffbrug)

September 27, 15:00 - 17:00

Performance by shell keepers Channa Boon and Natascha Hagenbeek.
Speaker for the Bee Hermen de Waal. Elise Kleisen of municipality.
Launch digital watersafari. Pink Tanker Choir. Dansmakers.

Slinger Amsterdam 750 jaar

Amsterdam 750

sponsor

The Amsterdam 750 Foundation has sponsored this festive expedition of floating gardens within their program-line 'The New Map'