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We’re on the hunt for 2-3 people to become Nerd Nite Amsterdam bosses for the next season! You must be organized and good at working both independently and in a small team. This is a volunteer gig — we do it for the nerdy love of it. Send us an email if you’re interested!

Are you looking for a nerd that shares your passions? Come to Nerd Nite Amsterdam’s 4th edition of nerd speed dating, back by popular demand! Sign up by filling out this form.

Note: Straight nerds are at capacity but there’s still space for more gay and lesbian nerds to sign up!

Date: March 11th
Time: 18:30-20:00 (preceding Nerd Nite)
Location: CREA (Nieuwe Achtergracht 170)

As we said at Friday’s Nerd Nite, this our 5th year as your nerdy nightlife providers in Amsterdam, so to celebrate we’re having a lustrum! This nerdy extravaganza will feature the best of Nerd Nite Amsterdam. Ever.

In order for the lustrum to be a success, we need your support. Tickets and crowdfunding will be available soon, and we’ll need some volunteers to help the night run smoothly. Until then, mark your calendars and get excited!

DETAILS:
Friday April 15th
7pm – midnight
Felix Meritis
Tickets coming soon

Next month at Nerd Nite Amsterdam on Friday November 13th, turn your luck around with our annual Dry T-shirt Contest. Wear your favorite nerdy T and admission will be free!

Have you found our website because you’d like to be a speaker? Awesome! The Nerd Nite alums are an esteemed group of which we’d love for you to join the ranks. Send us an email with which events you’re available for (see the right sidebar), a description on what you’d talk about (and why it’d make for a great Nerd Nite talk), and whether you have any experience with public speaking.

You don’t have to be from Amsterdam; we welcome all nerds from Utrecht, Leiden, Haarlem, Nijmegen & beyond! We’re the only official Nerd Nite in the Netherlands.

Keep in mind that we ask our speakers for a title, abstract, bio, and photo about 5 weeks before each event, and we do a practice session with each speaker about two weeks before. And FYI, this is an unpaid gig — we do it for the (nerdy) love of it!

Found! Keep your eyes peeled come September 🙂

Calling all nerds artists! We’re looking to hire a poster designer for the next season of Nerd Nite Amsterdam, September 2015 – May 2016! The posters will need to be completed one month before each event (5 in total), with the event info and talk titles and some catchy graphics to grab attention and draw an audience! Take a look through our event archives to see past posters; we like for there to be a theme to the posters of each season. The creative direction is yours and we’re excited to see what you make.

Hey Amsterdam nerds!

We hope you’re soaking up the summer sun in Amsterdam or elsewhere! In case you have your agenda handy, here are the dates for the next season of Nerd Nite Amsterdam:

2 October

13 November

8 January

11 March

13 May

We’ll announce the details of each Nite a month beforehand. Same sitch: doors open at 20:00, first talk at 20:30, in the CREA muziekzaal (Nieuwe Achtergracht 170), bar is hoppin’, dj is spinning, & the event is in English.

Be there and be square!

Hey nerds! Just a reminder that we’re taking a break for summer (the weather is finally nice enough that we actually want to leave the lab/office!), but we’ll be back in September with a new season of Nerd Nite Amsterdam! Stay tuned for the dates of the upcoming season 😎

— The Nerd Nite Amsterdam bosses

Are you still looking for your intellectual significant other? Join in the 3rd edition of Nerd Speed Dating (for straight and gay nerds!) on 30 January. Sign up by filling out this form:
http://goo.gl/forms/o9iRPb1fFS

“Thanks” to Facebook’s algorithm for showing and sorting posts, many of you might not see when we post, either announcing an up-coming Nerd Nite Amsterdam or occasionally sharing nerdy internet finds. We think we’ve found a fix! On our Facebook page, the Liked button has a dropdown menu, from which you can select Get Notifications. Then you should be set! The subsequent screencap should assist those who prefer visual instructions.

For those of you who prefer email, we have a mailing list sign-up on our website. It’s in the righthand sidebar, labeled Stay in touch here. We won’t to sell or give away your email address, or spam you ourselves.

There’s also Twitter. See you on September 26! We tip our figurative hats to The Worst Things For Sale for the Facebook solution.