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More visitors to Prehistoric Village

Bob

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18 December 2019

The Prehistorisch Dorp (Prehistoric Village) in Eindhoven has seen the number of visitors rise slightly this year. This year, almost 56,000 people visited the village. Last year there were 54,500 visitors.

According to the cultural-historical open-air museum, the international Viking festival, the food festival, and the knight battles weekend were the crowd-pleasers. More people visit during school holidays too.

Director, Ward Rennen, also thinks the renovation of the museum plays an important role. “We had some bad luck this year, with a lot of rainy days during the autumn holidays. Despite this setback, we were able to attract more visitors with new events”.

Expansion plans

The Eindhoven Museum, and in particular the Prehistorisch Dorp, wants to expand considerably in the future. The park will then be called Vonk (Spark). From 2024 onwards, some 130,000 visitors are expected to come to the park. The museum park is now about four football pitches in size. It will soon be the size of six to eight of these.

The Prehistorisch Dorp is currently closed to visitors. This open-air museum will open its doors in March again.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Bob

Editor: Melinda Walraven

CKE celebrates 100-year anniversary

Rachael

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24 January 2020

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CKE (Centrum voor de Kunsten Eindhoven, or Centre for the Arts Eindhoven) celebrates its 100-year anniversary this weekend.

CKE has planned various events throughout 2020 to celebrate its anniversary. Its celebrations also form part of the wider 100-year anniversary celebration of Eindhoven as a city.

With its celebrations, CKE hopes to reach ‘people who want to experience art and culture for the first time,’ explains Dorothé Kuijten, who works at CKE.

Café C Live!

On Friday evening, Monique List, a local councillor who oversees cultural projects in Eindhoven, will officially open CKE’s year of celebrations. This includes Café C Live!, where she will be the pub quiz master at the CKE location of Pastoor Petersstraat.

Café C Live! will be held every Friday at 8pm this year. Dorothé describes it as ‘something active and cultural in a very accessible way. A combination of music, live entertainment, drinks and snacks’. There will also be music-themed bingo games and sing-a-longs.

Open day

This Saturday, CKE hosts an open day from 2pm to 5pm for anyone who wants to learn more about their lessons, courses and workshops. All kinds of disciplines are on offer, from music to dance, visual arts, photography, theatre, musicals and creative writing.

On Sunday, CKE hosts a day for amateur arts. Various amateur artists and associations will make a crossover project and will perform the end result to an audience. Some surprising crossovers will be made, such as a theatre company performing alongside a church choir.

Transformation

CKE has undergone many transformations over the past 100 years. It began life in 1920 as the Eindhoven Music School Foundation. In 1989, it merged with the Ballet and Movement Foundation to become the Centre for Music and Dance.

A year later, it merged with the Eindhoven Foundation for Art Education, finally becoming the Centre for the Arts Eindhoven (CKE) that we know today. Throughout these years, it also moved to several different locations throughout the city.

CKE aims to show people in Eindhoven that art and culture is accessible and is suitable for every person and budget.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Rachael Vickerman

GLOW gets a golden thumbs-up

Melinda

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14 February 2020

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The Golden Thumb is an award for events that are the most accessible for people with a physical disability. GLOW Eindhoven has received this accolade for 2019.

This award is the brainchild of the Stichting Platform Gehandicaptenbeleid Eindhoven (Eindhoven Platform for Policies for the Disabled Foundation or PGE). With it, this platform wants to encourage event organisers to take disabled people who want to visit these social events more into consideration.

In 2019, a number of events in Eindhoven were again visited by PGE volunteers. These events were assessed on accessibility, usability, and safety for physically disabled people. GLOW Eindhoven came out on top last year.

‘A long-term partnership’

GLOW’s Head of Production, Tom Weerts, says “We are very happy with this recognition. GLOW Eindhoven is an event for everyone. We see the cooperation with Foundation PGE as a long-term partnership. Every year, if needed, we will make improvements in a sustainable way.”

“Last year we mainly invested in providing information on our website. We looked at the GLOW route with the Foundation in advance. There was, therefore, still enough time to make several places more accessible for the disabled.”

PGE Chairman, Toon van de Kerkhof, states that “GLOW has made an enormous effort to expand on the idea of inclusiveness. PGE finds the result admirable, and asked us for advice beforehand”. He points out that it is ‘very difficult’ to guarantee accessibility for wheelchair users and other disabled people at such large public events.

Urban Skin

From 7 to 14 November 2020, for the 15th time, Eindhoven will again be dedicated to light art. This year’s theme is ‘Urban Skin’. The city centre will be transformed into one huge exhibition space. Light projects by artists from the Netherlands and abroad will be on display. The projects will be interconnected by a walking route.

GLOW started in 2006 with 45.000 visitors. It has since grown, having a record number of over 770,000 visitors in 2019. This puts GLOW Eindhoven in the top five ‘ best-visited light festivals in the world’.

Source: GLOW

Translator: Melinda Walraven

All-new cycling challenge

Melinda

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21 February 2020

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Are you looking for a cycling event that a little different? Take part in the High Tech Mountain Bike (MTB) Challenge.

This is a unique opportunity to do altitude training in Eindhoven. It includes a renewed 15km trail, per lap. These laps have a 180m difference in altitude. You can cycle through parking garages and ramps, as well as on a single tracks.

Does this sound like something you would enjoy? Then come to The Colour Kitchen (the Strip) Grand Café at High Tech Campus on Sunday, 22 March. The MTB Challenge start between 09:00 and 10:00.

Entrance costs €12.50, of which half will be donated to the Dutch Cancer Society. You can buy tickets here.

Also Splinter Spektakel cancelled because of Corona

Bob

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6 May 2020

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Also Splinter Spektakel cancelled because of Corona

The Splinter Spektakel in the Splinter play park normally puts a smile on many children’s faces every summer. This year it is cancelled.

Despite the fact that the anti corona-virus measures for children under the age of 12 are being relaxed more and more, the organisation is still forced to pull the plug out of the event.

The Splinter Spektakel would have taken place in the week of 13 August. In the play park there would then be various activities for children throughout the week, but the organisation wants to ensure the health of employees and visitors.

All other events at the Splinter have also been cancelled until 1 September. The possibility of organising online activities during the summer is now being researched.

Source: www.studio040.nl

Translated by: Bob

Comedian sells out Philips Stadium – 22 times

Bob

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17 June 2020

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Comedian sells out Philips Stadium – 22 times

Comedian, Rob Scheepers, will perform 22 gigs in the Philips Stadium. The first of which will be on Wednesday, 8 July. The funnyman announced this at a special press conference held at the stadium itself.

PSV spokesman, Thijs Slegers, convened the press conference. Former footballers, Björn van der Doelen and Edward Linskens, attended. And Dutch television and film actor, Frank Lammers, joined remotely.

Scheepers has had several shows and can be heard weekly on Radio Veronica. He said he’s the first to sell out the Philips Stadium 22 times. But there are only 100 seats available per performance.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Bob

Editor: Melinda Walraven

Lots to do around Stationsplein this Sunday

Bob

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9 September 2020

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Lots to do around Stationsplein this Sunday

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

Birding groups merge

Bob

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14 October 2020

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Two birding associations are to become one.

De Edelzanger in Aalst and the Waalre Vogelvrienden will now be known as De Edelzanger Vogelvereniging. The association now has 38 members. They keep and breed hundreds of different species of birds.

“We have quite a few European bird species breeders in our association,” an association spokesperson says. “But our members also breed canaries, tropical birds, parakeets and parrots. They have fruit and insect eaters too.”

Every year they hold an exhibition at De Pracht in Waalre. There they award prizes to the most beautiful birds.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Bob

Editor: Melinda Walraven

Sadée painting on display in Neunen

Bob

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4 November 2020

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Artist, Philip Sadée, painted a piece called De Aardappelrooiers (The Potato Harvesters). It’s now on display in the Vincentre Museum in Nuenen.

The artwork is unique because Sadée painted it at the same time as Vincent van Gogh did his world-famous De Aardappeleters (The Potato Eaters) Sadée was, in fact, a great source of inspiration for Van Gogh. Van Gogh painted De Aardappeleters while living in Neunen.

“Sadée attended The Hague School, and he mainly painted the working man”, a Vincentre spokesperson says. The Hague School was a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890.

“He was one of the first artists in the Netherlands to paint farmers and fishermen in their working environment. He showed himself to be socially conscious by focusing on poverty and the position of women. That’s how he touched and inspired Van Gogh.”

Purchase

The Vincentre was able to purchase the canvas for a good price. The former owner wanted to auction the work via Art Dumay, a local art dealer. They brought the owner into contact with the museum. The museum was able to buy the work with financial help from the Friends of Van Gogh Foundation.

Director, Simone van der Heiden, is happy with the purchase and how it came about. “We appreciate the involvement of the owner and Art Dumay in our museum.”

You would have been able to see the painting from yesterday, Tuesday 3 November. However, the Vincentre is now closed for at least two weeks as per the latest anti-corona regulations.

Source: Studio040

Translator: Bob

Editor: Melinda Walraven

The Silent Film Festival will continue despite COVID-19

Bob

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9 December 2020

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The Silent Film Festival will continue despite COVID-19

The fourth edition of the Dutch Silent Film Festival (NSFF) in Eindhoven will take place this year. That’s despite the corona crisis.

That’s according to the event director, Daan van den Hurk. Only silent films are screened during the film festival. They all feature a soundtrack, especially piano pieces.

Because of all the anti-corona measures, the festival has been redesigned. “This edition will be slightly different than usual. There are some tickets for screenings at the Parktheater [and Pand P – ed],” says Daan.

“When those are sold out, there will be an online version. So, if you have a ticket, you can watch the film there.”

Virtual tour

The festival opens on Thursday, 7 January, with a special screening. It runs through to 10 January. The live stream allows visitors to take a virtual tour of century-old city films from across the Netherlands.

Tickets cost either €25 (basic), or €25 or €50 (sponsor and sponsor plus). The basic ticket gives you (digital) access to the entire festival. Different rates apply for physically attending the films in the theatres.

The Sponsor options make you, as the name implies, a sponsor. “Apart from our appreciation, you will be mentioned on our website, if you so choose,” reads the NSFF website. You can buy your tickets on the NSFF website.

Source: Studio040 and NSFF

Translator: Bob

Editor: Melinda Walraven

Event News

More visitors to Prehistoric Village

Expansion plans

CKE celebrates 100-year anniversary

Café C Live!

Open day

Transformation

GLOW gets a golden thumbs-up

‘A long-term partnership’

Urban Skin

All-new cycling challenge

Also Splinter Spektakel cancelled because of Corona

Comedian sells out Philips Stadium – 22 times

Lots to do around Stationsplein this Sunday

Plasma X Drag-up + Citywalk

Birding groups merge

Sadée painting on display in Neunen

The Silent Film Festival will continue despite COVID-19

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