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The 12th edition of the World B-Boy Classic will be held on Sunday, 8 September. The World B-Boy Classic forms part of EMOVES Urban Eindhoven.
The EMOVES festival has been split up into different weekends this year. Organisers, Paul van Dal and Niek Traa, are happy with this. “This split allowed us to choose the best dates and locations for our event,” says Paul.
“We did not have to take all the other sports and cultural events into account. These previously all took place together in one weekend. We can now fully focus on our event, and that results in an even stronger event.”
Top event
The World B-Boy Classic is one of the most prestigious breakdance competitions in the world. Every year, hundreds of dancers vie for the more than €10,000 prize money and a place in the Duo breakdancing Hall of Fame.
This championship was first held in 2009 in Rotterdam. It has called Eindhoven home since 2013. Ten qualifying rounds are held worldwide in countries such as Japan, Brazil, and South Korea.
The winners of these rounds will travel to Eindhoven. Here, they will do battle to see who will be crowned as the annual World B-Boy Classic champion. Previous year’s competitions were viewed more than 20 million times online.
During the day, qualifying rounds will be held at Dynamo. The World Final will start at 19:00 in the Effenaar. Although space is limited in the Effenaar, there are still a few places open.
We have again the ‘Friemel en Frutsel Dagen’ (arts and crafts days) in Mierlo, but they were close to cancelling the event due to a lack of volunteers.
All children in groups 1 to 8 are melting beads passionately, are making Halloween window pendants and tea light holders and can have their faces painted. In addition to the crafts, they also can enjoy sausage sandwiches, drinks and biscuit decorating.
“What could be better than having a good time with your friends while doing some crafting?“
Joke Doensen, Board member.
“The Friemel en Frutsel Dagen are organised to give children who are not going on holiday, a nice time in the autumn”, Board member Joke Doensen tells us. “In the autumn holidays there is often bad weather, so having a good and active time with your friends is a wonderful alternative.” Doensen has been working for 45 years (from day one) at the Friemel en Frutsel Dagen and Honorary Member at the Jeugd Vakantie Werk Mierlo (Youth Holiday Activities Mierlo), the organiser of the craft days.
“I do think it’s important that this continues. I used to participate as a small child. Now I’m here as a volunteer“.
Kim van Stekelenborg, volunteer for 6 years.
Volunteer deficit
For a while, however, it was uncertain whether there were enough volunteers to keep the days on track. “This year it was very difficult for us to find adult volunteers. Children of 12, 13 years old like to help, but we would also like to have an adult at the tables to guide them all in the right direction”, Doensen tells us. “It was a lot of nagging to persuade people to come and help us”. “I think it’s hard for many people to combine. Especially if you work full-time”, Kim van Stekelenborg adds. She has been a volunteer at the craft days for 6 years. “But I do think it’s important that this continues to exist. I used to participate as a small child. Now I’m here as a volunteer with a daughter who does some tinkering here. She will also help next year, then she is old enough”. In this way, it contributes to the volunteer deficit.
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 PrehistorischDorp, 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 PrehistorischDorp is currently closed to visitors. This open-air museum will open its doors in March again.
There will be extra security on Geldropseweg during this year’s Carnaval parade.
In addition to the glass and cans ban that applies throughout Eindhoven, there will be an organised event location on Geldropseweg at the intersection of Stratumsedijk and Bilderdijklaan. “We are going to place fences here”, Dorus de Bruyn, owner of Dijk 9, announces. “We have arranged extra security.”
“Those security guards are in direct contact with the organisation that will keep an eye on everything, from afar. If it gets too crowded, the fences will close temporarily, so that it does not get too crowded on this narrow stretch of road”.
Last year things got out of hand. Drunken spectators wreaked havoc on seven cars. “It was just too busy here last year, and with too many people in one place, it simply becomes unsafe”, De Bruyn says. “We want to avoid that. Carnaval should be a celebration for everyone. It is a pity that security is needed, but safety comes first”.
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.
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.
Their website shows: ‘We’re opening again in July!’ The Eindhoven Parktheater is counting down to its first performance, since it was forced to close its doors. But the new rules didn’t make it any easier.
Yes, there is still reason to be very concerned about the long-term future of performing arts, as long as corona dictates our lives. But at Parktheater they would rather put their accumulated energy into what they can do now: organise performances. Because that is difficult enough, with the ever-changing rules of the game. As of this month, theatres are allowed to admit thirty people. Next month it will be 100. And for the time being, the theatre world is also assuming one and a half metres as a standard size for after that.
From 500 to 100 seats
So a corona-proof theatre has to be hurried out of the ground. This is easier to arrange in the small Philips Hall than in the Great Hall. “The grandstand of the Philips Hall is mobile and we could easily get it out of the room”, Geertje van Geel, from the Marketing department, explains. “We now have sets of two chairs at the required distance from each other. Two metres between the rows and one and a half metres between the sets. We’ll lose four hundred seats, but we’ll soon be able to place the hundred people we’re allowed to invite”.
Great Hall
For the Great Hall, the challenge is greater. Van Geel: “Everything is bolted on there and you can’t just slide chairs around. We have to remove rows of chairs at the same time and add extra aisles to comply with the rules”. When it comes to fitting, measuring and adjusting, the Parktheater pulls up together with other theatres in Brabant, they can learn from each other.
Program full of question marks
Meanwhile, there is a big question mark regarding the program of season ’20-’21. “The brochure for next year had already been printed when we entered the corona period”, Van Geel sighs. “Planning was impossible because the rules were unclear. That’s why we emptied the agenda between September and December. Our programmers will now check with the impresarios to see what and when we can organise from September”. Those who were still in possession of a ticket were asked to keep it with the prospect of a new planning. Tickets for a cancelled event can be exchanged for an alternative performance. “You can also ‘donate’ your ticket to us”, Van Geel adds. “Quite a few people support us that way”.
The reopening of the Parktheater will be on Thursday 9 July with Bier & Liefde (Beer & Love) van de Bende van Oz (of the Gang of Oz), the first performance of the 150 cm Summer Festival. The presale has started.
Eendracht maakt macht – Unity creates power – that’s the name of a temporary exhibition in the Philips Museum. The exhibit is about the many years of ties between Philips and PSV.
It’s the first exhibition visitors have been able to see since the museum was closed by the anti-corona measures – the intertwining of sports and technology’s typical of Philips, the famous Eindhoven company. Museum curator, Sergio Derks, explains how these ties were formed.
“It all started with Anton Philips. He began to really put sport on the map within the company”. PSV was born in 1913, out of a big party to celebrate the Netherlands’ 100 years of independence.
Matches continued
At that party, hosted by the light bulb factory, sports events were organised for Philips employees. It was such a success that those matches continued and took the form of a club – the Philips Sports Association. Since then, the interplay of technology and sport has yielded all sorts of great things for the city – for residents, the company, and later also for football.
The players benefit, for example, from the excellent Philips lights that illuminate the football pitch. The 1988 Champions League has been a highlight. “The real cup is in the PSV museum,” says Derks.
“But we have something that is not so unique but almost as good – a hologram of the Europa Cup 1. We combined this cup with the PSV logo and that images of that match’s defining moment – when that goal was stopped”.
Frits Philips and Mark van Bommel with the 2005/06 EUFA Champions League trophy. Photo credit: Studio040
A very special object
The hologram attracts quite a lot of attention. But still, it’s not the exhibit’s showpiece. That honour belongs to a different object – a seat from the PSV stadium. Sergio Derks explains, “It is Mr Frits’ (Philips, ed.) chair – a great addition.
“That man’s been so important to the club. As a five-year-old boy in a sailor’s suit, he kicked off the first match. And in 2005, a few months before his death, he received the championship trophy from Mark van Bommel”. Van Bommel had won the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League for PSV.
People who want to see the exhibition have to book, online, in advance.
Today (Wednesday), the first children’s afternoon of the year was held in the Vlindertuin (Butterfly Garden) in Waalre.
The garden cancelled the children’s afternoons in April, May, and June. That was because of the coronavirus outbreak. The afternoon included things like treasure hunts and arts and crafts. The Butterfly Garden is open every year in butterfly season
That’s from 1 April to 1 October. Volunteers do weekly maintenance during this season. They do so out of season too, weather-permitting.
Weekly inventory
The butterflies are also inventoried every week. The Garden does so for the Butterfly Foundation. You can download the results (in Dutch).
There are also regular special activities such as children’s afternoons, working days, and moth counting. The next kids’ afternoons are planned for 26 August and 16 September. Each time from 14:00 to 16:00.
Children can also take a digital treasure hunt with their smartphone. There is also an ornamental garden and various habitats. Groups of ten or more people must register via email in advance.
There are guided group tours available by appointment for €20.
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