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Lots to do around Stationsplein this Sunday

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The Eindhoven initiative Goed Plan! (Good Plan!) has devised all kinds of activities around Stationsplein for the coming weekends.

They planned these in partnership with residents. “Now that the world is opening up a little, we’d like to announce some of those good plans”, the organisers say. There’s the ‘Let’s Keep the Summer Vibe’ section.

Three afternoons will be filled with workshops, yoga and a market with homemade goodies from different parts of the world. You can visit this event on Sunday 13 September, Sunday 27 September, and Sunday 4 October from 13:00 to 20:00. Entrance is free of charge.

These events are co-hosted by the International Creative Women organisation.

Plasma X Drag-up + Citywalk

This Sunday, professional drag make-up artists will work at The Student Hotel (TSH) to transform 20 participants. At the end of the afternoon, there will be a flashmob in the streets of the city, ending up back at TSH. The fun starts at 12:30.

If you’d like to participate, you can register (for free) here. You can also get more information here.

There is also an outdoor cinema every Friday in September at 21:00. “Bring your own blanket to sit on and maybe another one to sit under when it gets chilly”. These open-air picnic films cost €6.

There will be a lot of construction work going on around Stationsplein in the coming years. To keep the area livable, Goed Plan! wants to realise several projects in the summer and autumn. They started this initiative in June.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Bob

 

Weekend Tips From Yvette

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This weekend in and around Eindhoven…. Yvette’s tips.

It’s the first weekend of 2020 but where do you need to go? A great weekend to be in Eindhoven as there is a lot to do! My tips:

Friday: Zouk Night #3

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Saturday: Eindhoven Kemphanen VS Tilburg Trappers 

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Sunday: SingShop Unplugged

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Last weekend: Ice rink at the Markt

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About Yvette, who is doing this for Eindhoven News:
“I’m the manager of the biggest expat Facebook group in Eindhoven – Expats in Eindhoven. A group dedicated to help expats have a great time in Eindhoven, get to meet new people and answer their questions. Further I work as graphic designer for my own company STUDIO YDID. In my free time I like to go running, race cycling, go out with friends and family or listen to the band Queen. If you want to know more – feel free to mail me at info@studio-ydid.nl.”

No marathon? Jan runs anyway

Eindhoven resident, Jan Galema, doesn’t need to take part in the official Eindhoven marathon. 

It was cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak. Galema, who’s 74, decided to run anyway. He covered a distance of more than 21 kilometres on Sunday. Accompanied by supporters from family and friends, Jan collected a €900 for charity.

Jan’s a trained distance runner. He’s taken part in half-marathons no less than nine times. But they were always with onlookers and on a marked course.

Didn’t get put off

You can walk on these, not hindered by crossing traffic, traffic lights and other delays. The prospect of stumbling along at a self-planned half-marathon, didn’t prevent Galema from fulfilling his plan. There was a nice extra goal to achieve – raise money for the cancer organisation, KWF. Jan is a cancer survivor himself.

With a solid plate of pasta and many training kilometres behind him, Jan started his round on Sunday at 14:00. It led from Woensel, via Tongelre (‘t Hofke), Eindhoven centre, Lijmbeek, and Achtse Barrier. The predicted bad weather didn’t concern Jan.

“I’ll just take shelter if it hails or storms,” he said. It didn’t get that far. Except for a bit drizzling, the weather held. Only Jan’s forehead didn’t keep dry.

Support

Galema had included the home addresses of family and friends in his route. They, in turn, walked with him in relay form. “Hopefully, this will give him wings”, daughter-in-law Amber remarked.

Jan didn’t seem to need encouragement. “That just distracts him. Company is enough for him to keep him going.”

Jan remarked on that. “That really helped. You always have moments in a race when things start to hurt. I had that now at 13 kilometres. But with this support, I didn’t really feel it.”

Took 2.5 hrs

Tired but satisfied, and with loud applause from neighbours, Jan finally crossed the line after more than 2.5 hours. It was at his house on Liviuslaan.

He had enjoyed it, he said, still panting. “I did go wrong somewhere. But, fortunately, we realised that quickly enough. That made it a bit longer than that a half-marathon.”

Marianne, Jan’s husband, had cycled the whole trip behind him. She was, naturally, very proud. “It was a day with a golden lining, with all our family and friends present,” she says.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Bob

Editor: Melinda Walraven

Grand stand for the differently abled at Lampegat parade

People with disabilities can watch the Carnival parade from a grandstand for the first time in Eindhoven. Next year, during the Lampegat parade on 18 Septemberplein, there will be special places for people in wheelchairs.

This gives them a good view of all the floats that pass by, Stichting Federatie Eindhovens Carnaval (Eindhoven Carnival Federation Foundation, SFEC) says. In addition to the stands for the disabled, there will be more adjustments next Carnival. “We no longer drive through Kerkstraat. It is too narrow there, and the people are too close together. We have noticed after corona that people no longer like that. The municipality also thought so, and so we have avoided narrow streets when planning the route”, Jasper Liplijn of SFEC explains.

The parade starts on Saturday, 10 February, at 13:11 at Paterskerk and then goes via Vestdijk towards 18 Septemberplein. Then the route goes between the pillars of the Piazza entrance, towards Emmasingel, and ends between the Keizersgracht and Wal just past Stadhuisplein.

Higher float

A different route with no more room for Bleekweg, Bleekstraat, Kanaalstraat, Ten Hagestraat and Kerkstraat has been decided now. However, there is a big advantage. “The float can now be a maximum of nine metres high instead of seven metres. They already do that in surrounding villages, so that was certainly a wish of the builders”.

According to Liplijn, smuggling with extra metres is not a good idea. “We hold each car against the measuring stick and see exactly which car exceeds the maximum height. This way, we can maintain a line”.

Grandstand for disabled people

For the first time during the parade, there is a grandstand for people in wheelchairs. “We have someone in the organisation who does a lot for people with disabilities, and she came up with this idea. We had not thought about how difficult it could be for this group”.

According to the SFEC, the grandstand is the same as at the Eindhoven marathon. “It went well there, too, so why not here. This way, we can give dozens of people in wheelchairs a good view of everything that passes by”.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

 

 

Donate your pre-loved toys this Xmas

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Everyone knows that kids love to get toys for Sinterklaas and Christmas. Sadly, not everyone can afford to buy new ones for there children. There is a solution.

The regional radio station, Radio JND, has had a Pakjeshuis at the Stadhuisplein since yesterday (Friday, 29 November). They will be there until Sunday, 2 December. The radio station will not only be collecting toys for underprivileged children.

You can request a song, at a fee. All monies collected in this way will be donated to the Speelcadeau Foundation. People wanting to bring toys by car are welcome. A special drop-and-go zone has been demarcated for them.

The Speelcadeau Foundation also collects used toys that are still in good condition throughout the year. They then pass these on to children from families, who are not financially well-off, in the Eindhoven region.

This Foundation is located at 62 Bloemfonteinstraat, Eindhoven.

Photo: Radio JND’s Facebook Page

Nearly half a million visitors for Park Hilaria

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In ten days no fewer than 450,000 visitors came to Park Hilaria in Eindhoven.

On the eighteenth edition of the fair, from 2 to 11 August, on the Kennedylaan, there were various new attractions. These included names such as the Devil Rock, and for the first time there was collaboration between Museum by the City and Park Hilaria. Through this collaboration, various attractions were created that were all about the present, past and future of transport. In addition, music lovers in the Biergarten could listen to music by schlager singer Thorsten von Lippe Biesterveld.

Project leader Mariola Scheepstra is therefore very pleased with this edition: “We are very happy and proud that together with all operators, volunteers, crew, first aid and security officers we have once again had such a great party.”

Missed thousands of euros

For operator Gilbert de Poorter of shooting tent Special Forces, Park Hilaria 2019 has become a funfair to forget. The police have confiscated their air pressure guns because they seemed “too real” and the operator missed out on thousands of euros. This while, according to Frank Vale from BOVAK, the National Association of Fairground Business Holders, the Rotterdam police still checked and approved the weapons four years ago. Police officers in Weert also did a shooting competition at the stand last year.

Vale has therefore called in a lawyer.

Park Hilaria 2020

Hilaria Park will take place next year from 31 July to 9 August.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Dirk

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.

 

Hermans and Roelofs present new winter collection at DDW

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“Timescape”, the latest winter collection by Eindhoven fashion designer Emily Hermans, can be seen during Dutch Design Week (DDW).

Photographer Mike Roelofs, also from Eindhoven, captured the collection. The photos and videos can be seen in a continuous exhibition at Hermans’ MLY Store at Strijp-S.

Timescape

The title “Timescape” stands for a visual journey through time which designer Hermans wants to show. “I used silhouettes from different style periods and incorporated all kinds of nostalgic details into this collection. For example, buttons that come from a lady who worked in Paris in the 1920s to 1940s,” explains Hermans.

Hermans and Roelofs travelled together to Loch Lomond in Scotland for the visual material of the collection. Models wear clothes in the same colours as their surroundings. This makes them disappear, as it were, into the landscape.

Besides the exhibition, Hermans also organizes a daily “No Waste Workshop” at the MLY Store. She wants to draw attention to the theme of garment-waste through her workshop.

The exhibition and workshop are free to visit.

Source: Studio 040

Translator: Kate

Weekend Tips from Yvette

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This weekend in and around Eindhoven…. Yvette’s tips.

It’s almost weekend but where do you need to go? A great weekend to be in Eindhoven as there is a lot to do! My tips:

Friday: 80s Anders

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Saturday: Bontgenoten Winterfestival

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Sunday: Tributeland

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Friday to Sunday: So What’s Next?

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About Yvette, who is doing this for Eindhoven News:
“I’m the manager of the biggest expat Facebook group in Eindhoven – Expats in Eindhoven. A group dedicated to help expats have a great time in Eindhoven, get to meet new people and answer their questions. Further I work as graphic designer for my own company STUDIO YDID. In my free time I like to go running, race cycling, go out with friends and family or listen to the band Queen. If you want to know more – feel free to mail me at info@studio-ydid.nl.”

Info evening on health care in the Netherlands

On Thursday 25 October, 2018 you will be informed about health care in the Netherlands.

It will be a general information evening on the Dutch health care system, including an explanation of the role of your general practitioner, childbirth and mental healthcare.

It is not always easy to find your way in Dutch health care, what is the route to take, who to contact and how about insurance? Especially for international newcomers, they have organised this info evening.

Workshops will be presented by SGE International, Midwifery Practice Eindhoven and U-center. There will be plenty of time to ask your questions.

There’s no charge to attend, but registration is required. Register by clicking ‘going’ on the Facebook event, or by clicking on ‘Find Tickets’.

It will be held on 25 October, 2018 in The Student Hotel (Eindhoven), Stationsweg 1, 5611 AA Eindhoven, from 18:00 to 20:00hrs.

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