In 2012 Pera celebrates 400 years of Diplomatic Relations between Turkey and The Netherlands. This special PERA NLTR400 programme with concerts, dance nights and audiovisual arts will take place in Paradiso Amsterdam.

The programme starts with Pera live at the 20th of April with a surpise  act of a Turkish Superstar performing Live at Paradiso.

On the 5th of May Club Pera invites Boyz with Skillz with big and bright names of the tech house & club scene of Istanbul & Amsterdam…

In June Pera will be the coproducer of a series of public concerts, movie nights, literature presentations, dance nights etc in a special programme for Amsterdam. Partners in this project are Urban Cosmmopolitans and the 7Hills Foundation.

June 9th will be a special concert to remember. Pera Live ARABESQUE with Isin Karaca the leading star in contemporary Arabesk music with a soul and pop twist. In the pre-programme the Dutch Turkish Huseyin badilli will sing from his new album and some ‘oldies but goldies’ of Turkish music…

Also on the 9th of June Club Pera will be the stage for Turkish Cosmic Disco with Grup SES (electronic, funky, disco tunes and vibes and the legendary music archivist and DJ Murat Meric from Istanbul…

September 15th the Paradiso stage is for the Turkish Post Punk-Grunge and electronica band POST…Google their ANTIMETHA and you will know for sure that you don’t want to miss this unique concert at Paradiso…

On the 15th of october Paradiso will once again meet with the legendary king of live disco music in Turkey, BEDUK. He was in paradiso twice before and the crowd remembers them very good. For sure a concert for Party People, all over the world…In the pre programme the sublime duo Kim Ki O will perform with their electronic, new wave music and meet with Paradiso and Amsterdam for the first time…

The ‘PERA400′ programme is supported by The Ministry of Culture of Turkey, The Turkish Embassy in The Hague and the Municipality of Amsterdam.