Hours For Event Corner:
(non-party/nightlife events)

 

The event corner is available the following hours every week: 

Monday - Thursday: 09:00-22:00

Friday: 09:00-22:00

Saturday: 11:00-22:00

Sunday: Closed for external events (volunteer-organised only)

 

Important notes:

• The use of the event corner always coincides with our community kitchen and other guests:
  • Other guests attend lunch on weekdays from 12:00-14:00 and dinner Monday-Saturday from 18:00-21:00, which can create noise pollution. 
  • The event corner should always still be usable for our dinner service (must be able to sit, eat and move around).
• On Fridays and Saturdays, there can be other organisers setting up for their evening parties throughout the day in the event corner, making the space unavailable. This is decided on a date-by-date basis.  
• Please note that the addition of a party with the use of the vents corner is always possible, see below the available hours for the full space. 

Hours For Full Space:

De Sering's full space (event corner + entire dining hall) is available*:

Monday - Thursday: 22:00-01:00

Friday: 22:00-03:00

Saturday: 10:00-18:00, 22:00-03:00

Sunday: Closed for external events (volunteer organised only)

*Please note that these hours of availability come with the bar income guarantee to keep the venue open after normal hours, starting at €200 per hour and increasing with number of guests. See "Events continuing after 23:00" section of costs overview. 

 

 IMPORTANT NOTES: MUST READ FOR EVENING EVENTS

 

1. 21:00- 23:00 is a transition period. While your event may start at 22:00, our guests are allowed to stay until 23:00 to finish their drinks and relax. During this time staff will ask guests migrate away from the event corner to finish their drinks. During this time, event organisers are expected to move tables and setup the space to their liking, no support is provided by our staff for this and they have no technical knowledge of how to set up the space. At 23:00 any remaining De Sering guests will be asked to leave or puchase a ticket. This transition period is a non negotiable and is a part of the character of the space.

2. If you would like to use the space for a private event during this dinner slot 18:00-21:00, this is possible upon request and incurs a minimum income guarantee of €7000 for this slot, which can either be covered in part by drinks sold at our bar or food as private dinner (Community Kitchen). The remainder is paid by the organiser. See more info in "Costs" section. 

3. The bar closes 30 minutes before De Sering closes. This is so bartenders have time to clean up and breakdown the bar. 

Hours For Private Dinner and Party:

For a private dinner with a party we can fully close to other guests:

Weekdays: 18:00-01:00

Weekends: 18:00-03:00

De Sering is not open Sunday except under special circumstances. This is Community day and a day for volunteers to cook, organize and bond.

Hours For Kitchen Use:

Pop-up dinners can only be hosted on:

Mondays 9:00 to 12:00 or 14:00 to 22:00 (after which a party can be included on request, which has its own set of requirements)

Capacity and Facilities (general): 

The full space is 164 square meters.

Our maximum capacity is 350 guests, this includes our large patio/terrace.

We do not have a cloakroom. We do have coat racks upon entering De Sering in the left-hand corner, but they are unmanaged. De Sering is not responsible for any personal belongings that may go missing during an event. 

A temporary cloak room in De Sloot can be created upon discussion and with the agreement that the organiser will cover staffing.

We have 3 bathrooms available for typical events, and for larger events, of 250 attendees and above, we are also able to open the bathrooms in De Sloot, bringing us to a total of 8 bathrooms. We have one bathroom with wheelchair access located in our own building. 

Private Dinner/Borrel and Party Capacity and Facilities: 

For private dinner and party:

The full space is 164 square meters.

We are able to host up to 170 guests for dinner.

Smaller private dinners/borrels can be hosted in our event corner in a semi-private space with up to 50 guests.

We are able to host up to 300 guests for a party afterwards

We do not have a cloakroom. We do have coat racks upon entering De Sering but they are unmanaged. De Sering is not responsible for any personal belongings that may go missing during an event.

A temporary cloak room in De Sloot can be created upon discussion and with the agreement that the organiser will cover staffing.

We have 3 bathrooms available for typical events and for larger events, of 250 attendees and above, we are also able to open the bathrooms in De Sloot bringing us to total of 8 bathrooms. We have one bathroom with wheelchair access located in our own building. 

Capacity for Workshops, Presentations, Educational Days, or Fundraisers:

The Event Corner - 54 square meters, seats 50.

 

Full space - 164 square meters, seats 170. (sufficient for parties up to 300 guests).

Note - only available:

Wednesday - Saturday 22:00-close

Saturday 9:00-17:00 

 Capacity for Pop-ups:

Note - Pop-up Kitchen Space is only available:

Monday 9:00 - 12:00 or 14:00 - 22:00 (to avoid our lunch service hours)

For kitchen pop-ups, we offer a space at the end of our dining hall (45 m2), which is adjacent to the kitchen area provided to you OR you can opt to be seated in the event corner (54 m2). The Organiser can fill a maximum of 34 seats at any given time. These seats will be reserved from the date of signing the agreement received via email.

We ask you to come with no more than 3 chefs/people cooking, as our kitchen staff are always cooking at the same time to run our community kitchen.

Only a €75 cleaning fee is required; use of the beamer is €50 on top of this. Any donation you can afford for the space is welcome. 

Costs:

Events Before 23:00

Pricing fluctuates based on whether your event generates revenue as well as if  your organization is non-profit or commercial.

For workshops, presentations or screening that are ticketed:

Minimum Donation: We ask for a suggested donation starting at €50. De Sering aims to keep prices affordable to ensure access for everyone and to foster creativity and experimentation. If your event is particularly successful and generates significant revenue, we encourage you to consider donating a higher amount to De Sering, helping us continue to offer these opportunities to all.

For food pop-ups or any workshop using the kitchen:

Minimum Donation:  We ask for a suggested donation starting at €75. De Sering aims to keep prices affordable to ensure access for everyone and to foster creativity and experimentation. If your event is particularly successful and generates significant revenue, we encourage you to consider donating a higher amount to De Sering, helping us continue to offer these opportunities to all.

 

De Sering Buy-out Conditions: Private Party With Dinner Costs

When closing our doors to the public, we have certain conditions based on the fact that we are a community hub and always try to be open to offer a third space for anyone and everyone.  

Income Guarantee:

We require a minimum of €7000 income for the evening, whether spent on food and drinks or as "rent". If this is not met by the products consumed, you will be invoiced for the difference for our services and space. On top of this, starting at 23:00, you must meet the bar guarantee for every hour after 23:00. (See below)

 

Option for De Sering community kitchen-style dinner:

We can prepare a standard De Sering vegan menu - a soup, a main, a side of bread and toppings. The price per person for the community kitchen full meal is €7.50 per person.

 

Option for TestTafel; our vegan fine-dining catering:

If you would like the addition of a TestTafel meal for your private event at De Sering, of course, we can bring some of our staff over for this occasion if we know far enough in advance and depending on the number of guests, this can surpass the €7000 income guarantee. Please inquire separately via email through info@desering.org or info@testtafel.nl regarding a TestTafel catering in addition to your event at De Sering. 

 

Drinks:

Linked here is our Bar Menu for all available beverages. 

 

Payment:

A 50% downpayment of the income guarantee is required for De Sering Buy-outs. 

Payment should be made via invoice either before or after the dinner. You, as the event organiser, are able and responsible for collecting contributions from your guests.

- If you want to cover drinks, they will be put on a tab to be paid at the end of the night or added to your invoice.
- If you want your guests to generate some income at the bar, please make sure they all know the drinks are on them and no tabs will be made unless requested by the event organiser. 

Contribution Guidelines for Unticketed Workshops, Presentations, or Screenings

We believe in making space for meaningful, community-driven events. Our contribution guidelines are designed to be flexible, ensuring access for a wide range of groups and initiatives.

1. Community Support (Free)

For small organizations, individuals, or groups hosting non-profit or fundraising events that directly support vulnerable or at-risk communities. This also applies to individuals hosting community-building events. We do suggest you eat at De Sering in this case.

2. Growing Social Impact Organizations (€100)

For small community-based organizations working towards positive social change but with limited budgets.

3. Governmental and Commercial Organizations (€150-250)

Half-day rental: €150
Full-day rental: €250
These rates apply to governmental and commercial organizations using the space for workshops, presentations, or screenings.

Our goal is to foster inclusivity and collaboration while ensuring that our space remains sustainable for all. If your event falls outside these categories, please reach out to discuss how we can accommodate you.

 

Events continuing after 23:00

• We ask that you meet a minimum bar income starting at €200 per hour. This applies from 23:00 till closing. This cost scale arises as your party grows, our staffing needs do too.
• The bar guarantee starts from €200 per hour as follows: €200 p/h for 150 guests or less, €250 p/h for between 150 and 200 guests, €300 for between 200 and 250 guests and €350 for between 250 and max of 300 guests).
• Security personel will be conducting head counts to ensure your estimate aligns with actual numbers.
• If the minimum spend is not met, you will be billed for the difference.
• The minimum spend can also be calculated as a total for all hours if the bar revenue is low later in the event.
• The bar always closes at 02:30 at the latest. 

With both private and public events we will arrange security for you through our trusted company, Kollectief Beveiliging. This comes at the cost of €44 (excl.tax) per hour for a minimum of 6 hours (slightly over our party slot to ensure everyone leaves safely). Please note this implies that we will share your submitted information with them.  

Equipment Day Events:

Included in all events:

• Small whiteboard/flipchart board
• Microphones
• Lights
• Vegan catering (normal lunch slot: 12:00-14:00, normal dinner slot: 18:00-21:00), we can also provide food for you outside of these hours upon request and our availability.
• Bar and coffee (Monday-Friday 09:00-23:00, Saturday 16:00-23:00)

Equipment For Parties:

Our available equipment list consists of the following:

• Our soundsystem: 4 x Behringer B1520 and 2 xBehringer B1800 (Subs)
  

  Sub woofers: 2 x Acoustic line B 1502

  Monitors: 2 x TK112, 1 x QSC K.12.2 SERIES 

• Mixers:
  • Yamaha MG16XU - 8 mono channels / 4 stereo channel / 4 auxiliary sends
  • Mix 8 - 2 mono channels / 2 stereo channels / 1 auxiliary send
  • Phonic AM85

• Guitar Amplifier: CUBE-60

• Rack:
  • Behringer UMC1820
  • Behringer FBQ3102HD Ultragraph Pro

• Stands: 1 x Mic stand (currently unavailable), 1 x speaker stand

• Lighting equipment:Ground control app: LightRider Classic
  • 4 x Showtec LED par
  • 1 x ADJ saber spot rgbw
  • 14 x LED party rgb spot
• 1 x disco ball with Eurolite MD 3030 DMX safety rotary motor

Event Technician

Our staff have no knowledge of how to perform a technical set up for an event. This means we assume you, as the event organiser, are capable of doing this alone or you request an event technician.

A event technician can be present during the whole of the event to help you build up, break down, answer any technical questions, and will help you with whatever else you need. The cost for the event technitian is €35 per hour (excl. tax), which is invoiced separetely. 

We also have a couple volunteers who are equipped to help you with setting up and give you some guidance (put not always will be available to stay with you the whole time during your event). If you would like us to get you in contact with our sound tech volunteers, indicate it in the field below, and include the preffered times you would like to receive volunteer assistance (for example: 'volunteer technician: 14:00-16:00').

If you would like to hire an event technitian please fill in the starting time and end time of their shift below (for example: 'sound technician: 14:00 - 04:00').

Pop-up Expectations

• The Organiser is expected to stay until the kitchen closes (around 23:00) to assist with cleaning. They must leave the area they used clean, alongside the fridges used to store any produce. Cleaning tasks can also include assisting with dishes from the restaurant.
• We don’t allow any non-vegan/vegetarian products in our kitchen. 
  
• We don’t allow the organiser to bring their own drinks.

 

Party Expectations

• The general set-up of the event must always happen before 16:00, this is a non-negotiable. 
• If your party falls on a Friday, the setup window starts at 09:00, and can be done until 12:00, stopping for our lunch window from 12:00-14:00 and continuing until 16:00. The soundcheck must be done between 15:00 and 16:00 on Fridays.
• If your party falls on a Saturday the setup window starts at 14:00, there is no lunch slot to consider and the soundcheck can be done at any point before 17:00. 

Coins/tokens

We sell party coins for €5.50 per coin. These coins can be used for our beers, house wine, a shot, alcohol free drinks. You cannot buy special wines, cocktails or mixers with coins.

 

Factuur/billing information

Provide below (if you're confident that you want to do an event with us and so we have it in advance):

• The email where we should send an eventual bill
• The name of the organisation/person
• Adress, city
• Postal code
• Any special billing instructions

Example:
Stichting TestTafel
Rhoneweg 6, Amsterdam
1043AH
T.A.V Daan Dorr

Fees/ Fines

 

Cleaning fee

The space can be organised to the taste of the Organiser but all decorations and equipment must be returned to how they were prior to the event, immediately after the event ends. If the Organiser is unable to do so, we ask for an additional €250 for cleaning costs.

 

Cancellation/event termination fee

Although we do not ask for "rent" for the use of the space, we reserve the space for you in our busy calendar. For this reason you are only entitled to cancel your event with 3 weeks notice and after that point we charge a cancellation fee of €250. 

Exposition Guidelines:

When exhibiting your work at our location, De Sering takes the role of the host and you as the external party play the role of the organiser, we are not a co-organiser and therefore expect you to have a fully formed idea of your own in regards to presentation, build-up and build down. 

Expo wall specifics:

Full height 3,5m
Full width 3,5m
From brick line 2,3m (how low the works should hang from the ceiling)

Venue regulations:

• The standard exhibition slot is 5 weeks and after inquiry, you will be informed about available time frames. 
• The organiser sets up the exhibition on a Monday between 09:00 and 12:00 and 14:00 and 16:00 and takes it down on a Sunday between 10:00 and 20:00.
• The Organiser acknowledges the dynamic nature of the space and recognises there is no on-site individual designated to ensure the safety of the exhibited work. The Organiser aligns presentation methods with their comfort level and acknowledges the host bears no responsibility for damaged work.
• If sales are desired, the Host receives a 10% commission from any pieces sold.
• The expo space can be organised to the taste of the Organiser but all decorations and equipment must be returned to how they were prior to the expo. If the Organiser is unable to do so, they will be billed hours a standard fee of €75. 

 

Promotion:

• The Host does not have a dedicated marketing and communications team; marketing of the expo is the concern of the Organiser and the Host is not responsible for the guarantee of artwork sale. 
• The Host can repost stories and collaborate on posts created by the organiser to make them appear on @de_sering on Instagram.
• The Host will also add the event to their website's event agenda.