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February 2014 Holland Focus e-newsletter As with the magazine and our website, information is written in a combination of English and Nederlands and
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As with the magazine and our website, information is written in a combination of English and Nederlands and will keep you up to date with community news and events in Australia, New Zealand and of course, The Netherlands.
Win a double pass to Roman Tragedies at the Adelaide Festival. Read the article below.
Feedback and contributions are most welcome, please contact editor@hollandfocus.com |
 January/February 2014 edition |
Available by subscription and at major newsagents around Australia.
Published every 2 months, containing an abundance of interesting articles about culture, language, art and people. All with some connection to Nederland. With our many regular features, such as Kaaskoppen, Dutch/Flemish cinema, Kiwikorrels, Verbeeldingen van Ambachten, Book reviews, TaalsTaaltje, What is What?, Club/Community news, etc. etc., we do our best to keep you informed and entertained.
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Give-away promotions for our magazine readers
What is What? give-away, our regular column/ quiz.
For conditions and details on how to get in the draw for this give-away, read the current Holland Focus magazine edition. To subscribe, please visit our subscription webpage |
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Looking for a Nanny . . .
Dutch Australian couple, based in Balwyn, Victoria, are looking for a preferably Dutch and English speaking nanny to care for their twins (due mid April 2014).
If you're interested please send your details, resume and references to: balwyntwins@gmail.com |
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BVN, en je voelt je overal thuis.
De publieke televisiezender voor Nederlandstaligen in het buitenland.
Met sport, actualiteit en entertainment, in je eigen taal.
Kijk voor de gratis digitale nieuwsbrief en de online tv-gids op www.bvn.tv. |
ROMAN TRAGEDIES
Australian Premiere / Exclusive to Adelaide
Roman Tragedies is the undisputable centrepiece of this year's Adelaide Festival, performed by the Netherlands' largest theatre company Toneelgroep Amsterdam, directed by Ivo van Hove.
Roman Tragedies is a radical reworking of three Shakespeare plays: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, lasting 6 hours. Shattering theatrical conventions, the audience is invited to move around or join the actors on stage: sit on the couch; check the messages on their phone, take pictures or twitter. People can buy drinks and food from the bar on stage. And they can leave the room too; have a walk in the corridor.
Read the interview with one of the actors in the March-April 2014 edition of Holland Focus.
Roman Tragedies is performed at the Festival Theatre, Festival Drive (enter off King William Road) on: Fri 28 Feb @ 6pm, Sat 1 Mar @ 3pm and Sun 2 Mar @ 2pm.
For booking details, go to Adelaide Festival - Roman Tragedies.
= = WIN A DOUBLE PASS = =
The Adelaide Festival have generously offered free double passes to Roman Tragedies for friends of Holland Focus. Send an email with your name and address details to editor@hollandfocus.com before Mon 24 February to go into the draw. |
BigMouth
Exclusive Australian Premiere
A tour de force solo performance from Belgian Valentijn Dhaenens.
With five microphones and unrelenting energy, Dhaenens ingeniously weaves together fragments of some of the most memorable speeches in history, comparing the methods and madness of mankind throughout the ages. BigMouth shows how picking the right words can turn the weakest argument into the strongest, achieve world power, or simply win the hand of a beloved.
From the rousing to the frankly inept, from Socrates to Mohammed Ali, Osama Bin Laden and George W. Bush, BigMouth reveals that the tricks of rhetoric have hardly changed.
BigMouth is performed at the Queen’s Theatre, Playhouse Lane on: Thu 27 Feb @ 8pm, Sat 1 Mar @ 10pm, Sun 2 Mar @ 7.30pm and Mon 3 Mar @ 8pm.
For booking details, go to Adelaide Festival - BigMouth. |
Fight Night
Australian Premiere
Fight Night is a playful and immersive political exploration into our shared crisis of faith in our political processes. Through the lens of a demented night of sanitised violence (the sport of boxing), the audience are taken on a twisting and turning popularity contest placing the spotlight firmly on the cult of celebrity surrounding our political leaders.
Five performers. Five actors. Five Rounds. Your vote. One survivor. This engrossing production explores the intricacies and traps of voting systems and media-driven democracy.
At various points during the production the audience uses hand-held electronic devices to vote for their favourite ‘candidate’. Each candidate fights for their attention, pleads for approval and begs for support, before the audience decides who must leave the stage and finally, which player will deliver the final monologue.
Fight Night is performed at the Queen’s Theatre, Playhouse Lane on: Thu 13 Mar @ 9pm, Fri 14 Mar @ 9pm, Sat 15 Mar @ 7.30pm and 10.30pm, Sun 16 Mar @ 6pm.
For booking details, go to Adelaide Festival - Fight Night. |
SBS viewers Melbourne
As the final step in Australia’s move to digital-only TV, some TV channels are changing frequencies in order to free-up broadcasting spectrum, to make room for new services.
Some SBS viewers in Melbourne are reminded that they may need to retune their digital TV, set-top box or digital TV recorder on or after 7 February, 2014 to find SBS on its new frequency.
For more information and assistance visit the Retune Website (www.digitalready.gov.au/retune). |
Luister naar SBS Radio Dutch wanneer je maar wilt via www.sbs.com.au/dutch.
Iedere zaterdag en woensdag een nieuw programma om 11 am EST via je locale radio station, SBS Radio 2 digital of Channel 38 op TV.
In februari op SBS Radio Dutch: de laatste trends, eerste generatie verhalen, "Kleine Taaltjes" door Frans Hertoghs, en binnenkort "wat eten we vandaag?"
Iedere zaterdag en woensdag een nieuw programma... SBS Radio Dutch |
Textile Exhibition+Shops+Talks
We believe that the world is made stronger by the threads that tell of its peoples, stories and traditions. So we created TEX, a new annual public event that celebrates textiles in all its forms.
If you are an individual, company or institution engaged in the design and production of textiles, TEX is for you.
We are looking for pop-out new techniques and materials as well as time-honoured skills in the design and production of textile-based products from clothing, flooring, homewares, jewellery, accessories, furniture and artworks.
Successful applicants can elect to show their work or sell work by leasing a dedicated space in the Art Deco splendour of The Drill Hall, Melbourne City.
TEX talks, workshops, fine coffee and food will all add to the ambience and celebration of this much-anticipated event.
Applications accepted until Friday 14 February 2014.
Apply online for the inaugural event here
March 30th 2014, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Drill Hall, 53 Victoria Street, Melbourne (or enter via Thierry Street) |
Currently on display at the Bonegilla Migrant Experience (near Wodonga) until the end of February 2014.
The exhibition travels around major cities and regional towns throughout Australia in this and the coming years. For more information and Travelling dates / Places, go to the Anna Frank website
Message
The worldwide tour is coordinated by the Anne Frank House and is directed at young people from 11 to 18 years old. “The diary of Anne Frank is a book with a strong message which is still relevant for all young people throughout the world: ‘learn to live together with other communities and respect each other’s culture and habits.’ And that is what we want to explain in this exhibition,” according to Ronald Leopold, general director of the Anne Frank Foundation. “We want to pass on the message to the younger generation. Therefore supplementary material such as a catalogue, a DVD and instructions for guides and schools will be part of the exhibition.” |
The Second World War in 100 Objects
The marbles that Anne Frank played with before she was forced into hiding, which are now held in the collection of the Anne Frank House, will be put on public display during the exhibition The Second World War in 100 Objects at the Kunsthal Rotterdam from 5 February to 5 May 2014.
The set of marbles is one of 100 extraordinary objects from the collections of 25 Dutch war and resistance museums, each of them telling their own stories about the Second World War.
Go to the special Kunsthal webpage for more information about the exhibition. |
Grondwet Festival Den Haag
Op zaterdag 29 maart bestaat de Nederlandse Grondwet precies 200 jaar. Dat wordt natuurlijk gevierd! Iedereen is van harte uitgenodigd om deze bijzondere dag te komen vieren in Den Haag tijdens het Grondwet Festival: een dag vol feest, demonstraties, kijkjes achter de schermen en nog veel meer speciale activiteiten. Zet zaterdag 29 maart dus alvast in uw agenda!
Tijdens het Grondwet Festival staat Den Haag bol van de activiteiten die met onze Grondwet te maken hebben. Zo gaan bijvoorbeeld deuren die normaal gesloten zijn, open voor publiek, zoals de Ridderzaal, Eerste en Tweede Kamer, het Kabinet van de Koning, het Vredespaleis en nog veel meer. In totaal doen meer dan 60 instellingen en organisaties mee. Deze organiseren de hele dag door een speciaal programma, geschikt voor jong en oud.
Ook buiten gebeurt van alles. Op het Plein, rondom de Hofvijver en op het Korte- en Lange Voorhout zijn gevarieerde activiteiten als riddertoernooien, workshops en demonstraties van bijvoorbeeld de Koninklijke Landmacht. Op de Hofplaats kunt u het hele gebied vanuit de hoogte bekijken met een tripje in de Skywatch. Het programma duurt van 10.00 tot 17.00 uur.
Het Grondwet Festival op 29 maart is het tweede nationale evenement van het Nationaal Comité 200 jaar Koninkrijk. De viering van 200 jaar Koninkrijk loopt van 30 november 2013 tot 26 september 2015 en bestaat uit zes nationale evenementen. Het Nationaal Comité 200 jaar Koninkrijk werkt hierbij samen met het Haags Comité 200 jaar Koninkrijk. |
 Watersnoodwoning Raamsdonksveer |
Gezocht: Hulpgoederen Watersnoodramp 1953
Het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem is op zoek naar herkenbare hulpgoederen voor de inrichting van de Watersnoodwoning.
In april 2014 wordt een geschenkwoning uit Noorwegen - aan Raamsdonksveer - geopend in het museum. Op dit moment wordt de woning ingericht om vanaf april het verhaal te kunnen delen van de ramp. En vooral over de noodhulp die op gang kwam.
Heb je goederen die je beschikbaar wil stellen? Lees meer op de site van Het Openluchtmuseum hoe je kan helpen. |
Calendar of Events
Melbourne
Saturday 15 February - Holland Festival - Sandown Park Entertainment Centre, Princes Hwy, Springvale
Saturday 1 March - Filmavond "De Verbouwing" - Abel Tasman Club, 60 Rosstown Road, Carnegie
Sunday 27 April - Dutch Orange Day - Queensbridge Square, Southbank
Sydney
Fri-Sat-Sun 28-29-30 March - St Marys Dutch Festival - Rembrandt Club, 87 Dunheved Circuit, St Marys
Brisbane
Sunday 27 April - DutchFest - Prins Willem Alexander Village, 62 Collingwood Road, Birkdale
Adelaide
Saturday 26 April - Koningsbal - Dutch Social and Welfare Club (DSWC), 21 Greenfields Drive (off 102 Salisbury Hwy), Greenfields
Perth
Friday 28 February - Dutch Club Neerlandia End of month Drinks - 5:30pm till 9pm at the Clubhouse, 230 Cambridge Street, Wembley
Auckland
Thursday 20 February - NLNZBA Network borrel - Hilton Hotel Bellini Bar @ 6pm |
The list of Dutch Playgroups, Clubs and Businesses is too long for publication in our e-newsletter. Go to Playgroups, Clubs, Businesses and search for a listing in your area about playgroups, social clubs, Dutch language schools, aged care, news and entertainment, etc.
If you would like your contact / website included, please send your details to editor@hollandfocus.com |
 www.crimestoppers.com.au |
Een ieder met informatie over misdaden en gezochte personen, wordt verzocht contact op te nemen met Crime Stoppers. Voor informatie over verschillende gezochte personen is een beloning van $1000 beschikbaar gesteld. U hoeft uw naam niet te noemen. De persoon die belt, krijgt een codenummer toegewezen dat gebruikt moet worden in elk contact met de politie totdat de beloning betaald is. Bel gratis: 1800 333 000. |
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