The public program of ADE attracted recent days tens of thousands of dance enthusiasts to the numerous dance festivals in Amsterdam. Saturday night was the busiest time, when, according to the organization in total were dancing around 180,000 people at a time.
The biggest event was the two-day Music Festival in the Amsterdam Arena, which was both Friday and Saturday sold out. The police reports that were arrested about a hundred people on both days in the city, mainly because of the possession of hard drugs.
In the fight against excessive drug use caught the ADE organization this year closely with the municipality, police and Jellinek. With additional information to the Dutch and international visitors were drawn to the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse and their own responsibility that. The drug test location Jellinek moved for the occasion to the center of the city and stayed extra long opening.
Positive
According addiction institution Jellinek visited during ADE total 183 people, the test station, including 36 tourists. “Above expectations.” Visitors were often test multiple pills and the wait was at times more than one and a half hours. The reactions of the visitors were generally very positive, says Jellinek.
ADE-director Richard Zijlma saying it for years to do everything possible to ensure that the public is well informed about safe going. With videos, tweets, and through its own festivalapp in recent days an estimated 230,000 people reached with awareness. “I always hope that everyone does so cautiously. But people also have a responsibility, I can not stand next to everywhere.”
fellow organizers Zijlma got this year a lot of compliments about the approach. “The people behind the biggest festivals are very impressed by the approach here, that we are in cooperation with the authorities anyone enlighten as much as possible. That is unthinkable in many countries.”
Leading
What Zijlma respect the Amsterdam dance platform will continue over the next two decades leading the international scene.
“We have ADE in twenty years, step by step expanded and will always continue to develop. This year we had For example, for the first ADE Beats, a program about hip-hop, and ADE Sound Lab on the technological evolution of sound. We will always seek innovation and what we can add. “
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