The Gardens of Babylon: The Seekers of Light - ADE 2026

Our annual ADE homecoming returns. The Seekers of Light is the moment Babylon takes over Amsterdam during the city’s biggest music week… a weekend built for the ones who keep searching, keep listening, keep showing up! Three chapters in one weekend... Choose the one that calls you, or stay for all of it... Saturday Day · 24 October Doors open in daylight. We begin slowly… Opening ceremony to ground us before the dancefloor opens up. The afternoon flows into night. one of our 14:00 – 22:00 CEST Saturday Night · 24 October The city is alive. We turn the lights down and hand the night over to the artists who shaped this community. The ADE night you’ll be talking about until next October. 23:00 – 06:00 CEST Sunday Day & Night · 25 October A full circle. We open with our opening ceremony and carry it all the way through to the closing. Spiritual programming, live sets, surprise b2bs, and the kind of moments only Sunday at Babylon delivers. 16:00 – 4:00 CEST