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Clown Arno has had ‘hidden’ theatre in his backyard for 30 years

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Clown Arno has had ‘hidden’ theatre in his backyard for 30 years

The little theatre in Arno Huibers’ backyard may be small, but that intimate touch is exactly what makes the performance. The “secret place of Eindhoven”, as Arno himself calls it, lends itself perfectly to his subdued clown acts.

“I’m not a clown with frills. On my nose I put a tiny clown nose and of course I have costumes”. Arno sits in his gypsy wagon where all sorts of clown stuff is displayed and which doubles as a cash register. “Most people really like that, too. That they enter the garden and step into a little paradise”.

Arno has been a clown himself for more than 40 years. As a tribute to the clowns of the past, he plays his show “Homage to the Clown”, in which he reviews various artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Rowan Atkinson and Slava Polunin. The performance can be admired at Arno’s Theater (theatre) in the Tongelre district starting in March.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

Dutch tree climbing champion: ‘experience is key’

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Dutch tree climbing champion: ‘experience is key’

Climbing and scrambling and, above all, not looking down. For Harrie Verbeek from Waalre it is almost daily fare. As an arborist, he is the Dutch champion tree climber and is now going for the European title.

Verbeek not only had to – literally – climb a tree for it, but also show all kinds of skills, such as pruning branches and rescuing someone. So during the NK (Dutch championships), organised by the Kring Praktiserende Boomverzorgers (circle of practicing tree wardens) – Nederlandse afdeling van de International Society of Arboriculture (Dutch branch of the International Society of Arboriculture, ISA) – the participants were judged on various components. And the Waalre citizen showed himself the best of all his colleagues in this.

Giants in Tasmania

At Landgoed (estate) Eikenburg in Eindhoven, where Verbeek is regularly at work, he demonstrates how fast he can climb a tree. “Technique is at least as important as speed. And the higher you throw your line, the better the score. After all, that’s your starting position”. The trees at Eikenburg are just dwarfs by the way, compared to the giants Verbeek has conquered in, say, Tasmania. “One was 95 metres high”.

Experience

It’s certainly not a piece of cake, the Waalre arborist acknowledges, because you’re climbing into a living object. “It is experience mostly. If you’re just starting this, you have to get used to it. You’re in a tree, which moves and bends. And you’re at quite a height, so it has to become second nature. We are very conscious about what we do and through that you remove the risks for the most part”.

Verbeek will travel to Slovakia at the end of June, to participate in the European Championships. He would like to become European champion, because the winner gets to go to the World Championships in Atlanta, United States, next year.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

Metal Factory prepares metalheads for music industry

Bob
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Metal Factory prepares metalheads for music industry

The Eindhoven Metal Factory is the only metal music training course in the Netherlands and has been around for ten years. During the course, students learn everything it takes to make it as a metal music professional. “This is really cool”.

The course celebrated its tenth anniversary in July. Although music courses already existed in the Netherlands, there was no institution specifically for this genre. Metalheads from all over the country, and even outside the Netherlands, now come to Eindhoven for the training.

Career

During the training, attention is not only paid to the music, but also to everything else involved in the music industry. “In pop music, breaking through means becoming world famous, but in more alternative music, breaking through means making it your job in the long term”, teacher Kevin Quilligan says. Students therefore also learn other things to make it in the industry. “When I came here, I naturally wanted to become famous”, second-year student Bas says. “But once you come to the training, a world opens up for you. You will learn about the work as a stage manager and how to organise events. That’s what I’m going for now, to become a professional musician”, he explains.

Metal capital

The training is provided by Summa College and the lessons are given at Dynamo. Eindhoven has been the metal capital of Europe since the 1980s, thanks to festivals such as Dynamo open air and the annual Metalfest. That is why the city was the logical choice for the metal training. Student Niels is from Flevoland. “It’s a completely different way of teaching here”, he says. “It’s very cool, you get a lot out of it”.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

 

New meeting point Eindhoven News: at Student Hotel Eindhoven

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New meeting point Eindhoven News: at Student Hotel Eindhoven

The Student Hotel Eindhoven will be a place where you can meet Eindhoven News. Last week they have reached an agreement, so weekly on Mondays from 16:00h to 18:00h you will be able to find members of the Eindhoven News team in cafe The Pool.

This open meetup is for volunteers of Eindhoven News to get to know each other, it is also for anybody who likes to meet Eindhoven News. If you have something to share (news, experience, event, story) or if you like to know what is happening in Eindhoven, you can just walk in and you’ll find them downstairs in the open and spacious design cafe The Pool. They like to connect with you as (new) Eindhoven citizen.

Both organisations benefit from this arrangement: the online newspaper has a beautiful working and meeting space and can use the meeting rooms when necessary. The hotel will get good exposure for their events, can publish about things happening and about new developments, in the (international) community of greater Eindhoven.

Fanny van den Dries, the new manager of The Student Hotel says: “we are more than a place to stay, we do rent rooms yes, but we also organise events, we have a great restaurant, a nice coffee bar in the centre of town. We like The Student Hotel to be a location where local and international people gather. This cooperation fits our prospective.”

Eindhoven News is an online newspaper, they don’t have a fixed office space. All the team members do work from home or from flexible working spaces. To meet each other they use different locations, for example in the Hub, at the Library or at Seats2Meet. The advantage of this way of working is that the reporters and writers are in the places where it happens.

According to Irene Martens, manager of Eindhoven News: “if we need to work quietly we stay at home, but when working outside we like to be where people walk in and out, where we meet new people and where we hear what is going on in town. There is always something new to tell from people we meet, always a great story to write from where we are. There is so much happening in Eindhoven, we like to be in the middle of it. We are a kind of crowd-sourcing newspaper, Your News is Our News. We co-create.”

“The good thing about being in the Student Hotel is that there is a mixture of local and international people. This way the visitors mix and mingle, learn from each other and start doing things together,” adds Irene.

Fanny became the new manager of The Student Hotel last April, she is happy with the cooperation because working with meaningful organisations perfectly fits TSH’s mission: “to create boundary-blurring spaces where students, travelers, mobile professionals, creative nomads and enterprising minds can connect and thrive in smart design co-living and co-working spaces”. This is where this collaboration is about.

Dancing with a beam of light as your dance partner in The Ballroom

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Dancing with a beam of light as your dance partner in The Ballroom

Dancing on the dance floor. This is possible during GLOW on the TU campus. Team Ignite of the TU/Eindhoven created the art project “The Ballroom”. A light installation that follows you around and allows you to dance.

TEAM IGNITE, Tim de Jong and Philip Ross, are looking for the sense of connection between the visitors of GLOW to rekindle that social cohesion of dancing together with their light artwork.

How does that work exactly?
The visitors are detected anonymously by means of infrared imaging. This way, the beam of light chooses its partner at random while the music of the student orchestra Quadrivium is playing. All this happens in real time, without any delay. The art installation can be seen until Saturday during GLOW, at the Metaforum on the TU campus.

TEAM IGNITE, Tim de Jong and Philip Ross, are looking for the sense of connection between the visitors of GLOW to rekindle that social cohesion with their light artwork.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

 

Six get-togethers with Seamus Heaney’s poems

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Six get-togethers with Seamus Heaney’s poems

The Volksuniversiteit regio Eindhoven offers a poetry course these first few months of the new year. The sessions run for six Wednesdays. The first already starts on 18 January, so you will need to sign up soon.

Greta Timmers (1952), who runs the course, has been an educator all her working life, the larger part of which she spent at the International School of Eindhoven (ISE), teaching English language, literature and theory of knowledge at the pre-university level. Recently retired, she misses the exchange of ideas that literature can bring, as well as the connection with people from diverse backgrounds and with diverse experiences.

She offers courses in poetry since most poems can be read and discussed in the time available – a practical reason – but also because there is such a range of possible approaches; poems connect through their authors, their times, their genre, their themes, their voices -the possibilities are legion. The keyword for this course is enjoyment. Shared enjoyment.

If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere' — The Estate of Seamus Heaney

Heaney

In this course, you will discover how Nobel prize-winning Irish poet Heaney uses language and images to (re)create experience. Although no two readers read the same poem, you will see how his poetry can speak across space and time because it touches on experiences we all share. In Heaney’s case, these are family roots, being rooted, a sense of place and individual and national culture and history.

“…between clear blue and cloud/between haystack and sunset sky/between oak tree and slated roof/I had my existence. I was there./ Me in the place and the place in me.” 

Because you will examine very carefully how Heaney uses language and how his language depends on context to be fully understood, this is a course for those who enjoy sharing ideas about poetry, as well as for those who welcome an opportunity to strengthen or extend their command of English.

Come as you are

This is a standalone course; there is no expectation of prior knowledge or homework, although opportunities to read further will be suggested.

Days: Wednesday evenings starting 18 January. For a full lists of dates, check the site of the Volksuniversiteit.

Time: 19:00 to 21:00 hrs.

If you like to register for the course, please click here.

 

Former mayor Jorritsma lands job at TU/e

Lila Mehrez
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Former mayor Jorritsma lands job at TU/e

Former mayor of Eindhoven, John Jorritsma, will become chairman of the supervisory board (SB) of TU/e ​​Participations, the TU/e ​​department that deals with the university’s participation in start-ups.

In addition to chairman of the supervisory board, Jorritsma’s new role will also involve The Gate, the platform that can help tech start-ups in the region take their first steps.

Through The Gate, and participation with TU/e ​​Participation, TU/e ​​wants to ensure that scientific inventions are translated into successful companies. In addition to education and research, it is a core task of the university, according to the educational institution.

“I am very excited about this new role. I have always enjoyed and proudly watched the entrepreneurship at TU/e”, says John Jorritsma on his appointment. “The university is constantly creating innovations and start-ups, all of which have smart ideas for solving societal and industrial challenges. I think it’s great to be able to contribute to that.”

‘Extensive network’

Chairman of the Board Robert-Jan Smits also says that he is pleased that Jorritsma is committed to TU/e. “We know him as a very involved and driven director with a big heart for entrepreneurship. Especially the start-ups themselves will benefit from his extensive network in Brainport Region Eindhoven.”

Before becoming mayor, Jorritsma was the King’s Commissioner in Friesland and director of the investment fund of the province of North Brabant, the Brabant Development Agency. After his mayoralty, Jorritsma started working as chairman of the Supervisory Board at Avans Hogescholen.

 

Source: Studio040

For Eindhoven News: Lila Mehrez

Carnaval parade cancelled

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Carnaval parade cancelled

The parade planned for Saturday in Lampegat (Eindhoven) has been cancelled. This was the decision made by the Eindhoven Carnaval Federation (FEC) after discussions with emergency services, the City Council and other parties involved.

The parade has been cancelled due to the poor weather conditions predicted for this weekend. The main culprit being strong winds.

The organisation made the decision to prevent accidents.”There is a big chance Carnaval trucks might be blown over by the strong winds,” comments an FEC spokesperson.

“Based on the current [weather] forecast, this is the only correct choice. To delay the decision would not serve the parade participants’ interests.” It is currently unknown if the parade will proceed on a different date.

The weather

On Saturday, strong winds with average speeds of between 29 and 49 km/h are expected. The winds could reach a speed of up to 75 km/h. This is cause for alarm regarding the planned Carnaval parade. Strong winds are also predicted on Sunday.

Mayor Jorritsma supports the Federation’s decision, saying “It is a brave decision on the part of the FEC and emergency services. I fully support it; safety comes first.” He also expressed empathy for the disappointment of volunteers and others involved.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Ame Harris

Editor: Melinda Walraven

Renovated Van Gogh Village Museum popular

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Renovated Van Gogh Village Museum popular

It was closed for six months, but after its opening, the renovated Van Gogh Village museum in Nuenen is attracting a lot of attention. People come from far and wide to view the life of the Brabant master painter. Also Nuenen residents see a whole new museum which brings out, for some, a piece of childhood sentiment.

The former Vincentre has been expanded with an exhibition space and a new wing, and this has not gone unnoticed by visitors. “We are from Amsterdam ourselves and today is a day with bad weather anyway, so it was a good idea to visit a museum. Vincent van Gogh’s art has stolen my heart and here in Nuenen, of course, you see that emphatically reflected”, one of the visitors explained.

“I am originally from Australia and am now in the Netherlands for two months. My parents are Dutch and I therefore want to get to know better where my roots lie”, another woman told Studio040.

Nuenen residents
So international visitors, although Nuenen residents are also curious about the renovated museum. “I grew up in Nuenen, the film was for me a kind of recognition tour through my youth. I saw places in nature where I have been and where I played as a little girl”, one woman explained.

“I volunteer at the museum. I hadn’t been there yet after the renovation,” a man says. “It has become a real museum. Very spacious, lively and also challenging. When you come through the main hall, you can’t believe your eyes. It just looks like the old Van Gogh museum no longer exists. It is very impressive, especially the Light Lab created in collaboration with ASML. I have read that you need at least three hours to read and see everything, so this does invite you to come back,” said the volunteer.

Queen Máxima
Visitors agree and thus have nothing but praise for the revamped Van Gogh Village museum. Especially his life and painting techniques attract visitors’ attention. On 16 May, Queen Máxima will officially open the renovated Van Gogh museum. With the new renovation, the museum aims to grow to 40 thousand visitors a year.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

Reggae Sundance also popular with little ones

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Reggae Sundance also popular with little ones

About 20,000 visitors attended Saturday’s music festival Reggae Sundance at  Karpendonkse Plas. Among the reggae lovers were also many families; admission was free for children.

When the sun broke through in the afternoon after a wet start to the day, the festival grounds filled up in no time. In addition to music, there were shops and restaurants apparently worth queuing for quite a long time. The crowd was as diverse as it gets: from middle-aged women to teenage guys with long rasta hair. The atmosphere was relaxed, as befits reggae. There was not an improper word. Occasionally, however, an extremely strong smell of weed could be smelled.

A German family, father, mother and four children, drove all the way from Bonn to attend the festival. “I came for the very last act”, the father, referring to legendary reggae singer Burning Spear, said.
“That one doesn’t start until 22:00, so the kids have to hang in there for a while”. And they seem to be doing just that. Like the rest of the audience, they danced happily to the beats.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

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