Your ADE home base in Amsterdam Noord. Come here when you need a breather. Or when you’re not quite ready to call it a night. The Node North brings together music, art, culture and the people making it happen — from exhibitions and sample recordings to workshops, industry meet-ups and wellness sessions. Come to connect, create, recharge or just see what’s going on. No wristband required.
Your ADE hub in Noord
art expo
Opening mixer
Networking
Female-led industry workshops
Health coaching
Sample Production
Youth Workshops
Media room
Welcome to The Node North
Meet our partners
Beyond the party
We see nightlife as more than what happens after dark. It’s a space for artistic creation, collaboration and connection. A place where ideas meet, communities form and culture comes alive.
Nightlife is also an industry, an economy and, at its best, a form of protest: a space to challenge norms, create new standards and make room for voices that might otherwise go unheard.
The Node North explores what it means to participate in this scene sustainably. From supporting those behind the music to creating space for healthier ways of working, connecting and enjoying yourselves, we look beyond the party to the people and the culture that make it possible.
What’s happening?
For Amsterdam Dance Event’s 30th anniversary edition, we’ve paired our unconventional curation of art inspired by nightlife with programming placing a particular emphasis on sustainable careers in music, artist wellbeing, talent development and collaborative creation, reflecting some of the most important conversations shaping today’s electronic music industry.
Empowering People Behind the Music
The music industry doesn’t exist without the people behind it. Empowering People Behind The Music is a three-day, female-led programme joining us for ADE 2026.
This space is not just to talk about the work, but about how we can keep doing it in a healthier, stronger and more sustainable way.
Across three days, industry experts will lead workshops and conversations around health, leadership and sustainable careers, sharing practical tools, experiences and perspectives from within the industry. A space to learn from each other, exchange ideas and build connections that last beyond ADE.
Wednesday
Designing Your Nightlife Rhythm
Thursday
Sustaining Energy & Balance as a Woman in Nightlife
Creating Awareness for Women in the Music Industry
Friday
Your Cycle, Your Toolkit
Artist Mentorship for a Sustainable Career
Meet the Speakers
Alma Ernst
Alma Ernst is a booking agent, artist manager and music industry educator with more than 30 years of experience in electronic music. She founded Backroom Entertainment in 1994, representing more than 60 artists including Âme, KiNK, Theo Parrish, Moodymann and Daft Punk.
Today, Alma is a senior agent at LittleBig Music Agency, bringing decades of experience in booking, artist management, development and long-term career strategy. She also co-founded quietLoud, where she shares her knowledge with the next generation of music professionals.
At The Node North, Alma brings an honest, people-first approach to artist mentorship, exploring what it takes to build creative careers that can grow and last.
Veronique de Leon
Veronique de Leon is a health coach and consultant and the founder of SolSync,
helping people build healthier, more sustainable lifestyles with a focus on the electronic music industry.
With over 10 years of experience in electronic music, Veronique has worked across festival production and nightlife, including as Head of Programming and Artist Liaison at Elevation Events, manager of WAS in Utrecht, and booker at De School in Amsterdam.
Her own experience with poor health led her to explore nutrition, exercise, recovery and wellbeing, ultimately transforming her approach to health. Today, she combines her industry experience with her passion for wellness to help others navigate the demands of working in music and nightlife in a healthier, more sustainable way.
Donelle Kosch
Donelle Kosch is a women’s health coach, writer and speaker with a background in the music industry as a booking and sync agent. Her own experience with health challenges led her to shift her focus towards women’s health and wellbeing, helping women better understand their bodies and make informed choices that support a healthier, more fulfilling life.
Through one-to-one coaching, workshops and community events, Donelle shares practical knowledge around women’s health, wellbeing and sustainable performance. At The Node North, she brings this perspective into the music industry, exploring how women can better understand and support their bodies while navigating the demands of working in nightlife.
Meet the artists: Britta Möller
Britta Möller is an Amsterdam-based artist creating large-scale abstract paintings with acrylic, mixed media and layered textures. Her work explores transformation, surrender and the hidden layers that reveal themselves over time.
Before turning to painting, Möller spent more than 25 years as a graphic designer and art director. In 1998, she co-founded Amsterdam design agency Maslow, which led the art direction and visual identity of Amsterdam Dance Event from 1998 to 2020. She also co-founded Mary Go Wild, a platform, store and publishing house dedicated to Dutch dance culture, producing publications such as Awakenings — 20 Years of Techno and Thunderdome — 25 Years of Hardcore.
Möller began painting in 2020, when the pandemic brought the cultural and event world to a standstill. What started as an intuitive response to uncertainty gradually developed into a fully formed artistic practice. After decades of working within structured visual systems, painting became a space of release — where control gives way to process, and outcomes are discovered rather than designed. Her works are built up in layers over time, with earlier marks partially obscured or re-emerging beneath the surface.
Her practice is deeply physical and often large in scale, allowing gesture, movement and rhythm to take precedence over precision. This shift from screen-based design to embodied making marked an important turning point in her creative life, reconnecting her to material, intuition and presence.
Drawing on her long history in music and nightlife culture, Möller sometimes incorporates phosphorescent pigments that reveal hidden layers in darkness. This interplay between visibility and concealment reflects a central theme in her work: the coexistence of light and shadow, control and surrender, surface and depth. She works from her studio at A Lab in Amsterdam-Noord.
Meet the artists: Jeroen Woertink & Rutger ter Beek
Jeroen Woertink and Rutger Ter Beek have worked as an artistic duo since 2022, bringing together different disciplines and areas of expertise. Their collaboration combines artistic imagination with technical ingenuity, creating immersive experiences that blur the lines between light, sound, technology and space.
With more than 17 years of experience in the festival and club world, Jeroen Woertink is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, DJ, light artist and producer. His work is driven by experimentation and a strong understanding of atmosphere, audience interaction and the power of immersive environments.
Rutger Ter Beek is a technical expert and hands-on problem solver with more than 22 years of experience in technical production and construction. He specialises in turning complex ideas into practical, innovative solutions, always looking for new possibilities within technical challenges.
Together, they create installations ranging from large-scale environments to intimate works that invite audiences to look, experience and wonder. They combine existing and reused elements with contemporary technology, often giving their work a nostalgic feel. Their practice explores the relationship between people, technology, light, sound and space — creating experiences designed to spark curiosity and move the imagination.
Alongside their artistic work, Jeroen and Rutger are responsible for the production and organisation of Soulstice Festival, overseeing everything from concept and technical realisation to production, build and audience experience.
About The Node North
Born from the long-standing collaboration between Bunk and Good Life Agency, The Node North is a meeting point for nightlife lovers during Amsterdam Dance Event.
Set in the heart of Amsterdam Noord — a neighbourhood increasingly shaped by music, culture and nightlife — The Node North brings people together around a shared love of art, music and creative expression.
More than a convenient location, it’s a space for culture, connection and collaboration, brought to life through bold programming, inspiring artists and forward-thinking partners. A place to meet, discover, create and experience nightlife from a different perspective.
In case you missed it…
For the first time ever in 2025, Bunk Amsterdam transformed into the living, breathing music hub known as The Node North, hosting a diverse lineup of events that merged the creative energy of ADE with Bunk’s sense of culture and community. All across the hybrid hotel’s design spaces – from the underground music bunker to the in-house recording studio, the restaurant and even guest rooms – visitors were wowed with a programme designed to inspire, connect and recharge.
Music Not Diving Podcast
During The Node North’s inaugural edition in 2025, Paul Rose AKA the musician, DJ and label boss known as Scuba set up shop at Bunk Amsterdam to interview guests from the electronic music scene for his industry leading podcast, Music Not Diving.
Joris Voorn on the problem with purists, the significance of ADE and the threat of AI to musicians
Mixtress on seminal clubs, beefing artists, and why DJing isn’t for everyone Music Not Diving with Scuba and Scuba
Dot Major (NIGHT manoeuvres / London Grammar) on getting signed, his crazy Printworks set, and HYPH?
