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‘Love in Wartime’: Butterflies in the Stomach in the 1940s: World War II has influenced the love life of a whole generation. They got – as always – butterflies in the stomach: in the air-raid shelter, the place of hiding, or just in the street. The exhibition ‘Love in Wartime’ shows how people managed to survive in dire conditions, and how feelings can break through everything. Indeed, what is ‘good’ and what is ‘wrong’ when love is concerned.
Art & Antique Fair in Doorwerth: Well-established antique dealers and illustrious artists will show a fine array of art and antiques at the Art & Antique Fair in the Castle of Doorwerth.
Book convention in the Stevens Church, 25-27 June: Steven Sterk on Tour, organizes a big book convention in the Stevens Church of Nijmegen.
Brothers of Limburg Festival: Each year, in the last weekend of August, the centre of Nijmegen is set in the spirit of the Middle Ages. For the fifth year in a row the Brothers Limburg Festival takes place on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30.
Catwalk for the 2009 Spring Collection in Arnhem: The Arnhem Catwalk will take place at Land van de Markt in Arnhem city centre on Sunday April 5. A range of fashion shops and boutiques in the inner city will show their 2009 Spring Collection to the public.
City Garden Viewing Day Nijmegen: Every second Saturday of June each year a great number of private garden owners in the community of Nijmegen, open their gardens to anyone who might fancy taking a look in Somebody’s garden.
Cleaning Masterpieces in the Exhibition Hall: Visitors to the Kröller-Müller Museum can get an inside view of the world of the conservation of museological objects. The objects of one of the depots will be subjected to a cleaning action in the largest exhibition hall of the museum.
Cool Region Wine Region: The Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region is a wine-growing region. Arnhem has its Wine Museum and Groesbeek has its Dutch Wine Festivals every year. This year’s festivals take place from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 September, this is the weekend that Groesbeek is all about wine.
Cultural Sunday in Doesburg: Floating through Hansa town Doesburg on the first Sunday of the month is an outing full of surprises. The Doesburg Cultural Sunday Afternoon programme is free of charge and takes you, among other things, along a range of ateliers of professional artists, renowned galleries, antique dealers, museums, all with their own specialities.
Day of the Dyke: ‘Dag van de Dijk’ (Day of the Dyke) is an annual event allowing anyone to become acquainted with the central role of water in the Dutch landscape. This day is all about meeting other persons interested and enjoying the landscape as part of the question "What does water mean to you?"
Disc Jockeys, Summer Screen & Night Dancing: LUX will entertain lavishly during this Annual Four Day Walking Event! Get in the mood with record players, free music in the pavement café from 7 to 10 in the evening. We will start showing films on the open-air Summer Screen at about 10 pm. For the first time, Lux will mainly show short films. But even for the late hours Lux will be the right place for the night dancing event. This means ‘feet to the floor’, from midnight to 4 am!
Do a lap through the Netherlands: The Lap through the Netherlands is a running event for young and old. The venue for the walking event is the Dutch Open Air Museum. There is a 5km and a 10km lap leading through and beyond the grounds of the Open Air Museum. The track consists of one or two laps of 5km.
Doesburg Inside Out: Doesburg Inside Out is a big free event in the Hanseatic City of Doesburg! It’s the cultural folk festival with live music, theatre, show and dance.
Easter in Museum Park Oriëntalis: Easter is the most important festival in the Christian tradition. With Easter the Christians commemorate the passion and the crucifixion of Jesus and celebrate his Resurrection. Museumpark Oriëntalis tells the story of Easter in an exceptional way. How does Judaism celebrate Easter? Do Muslims celebrate Easter?
Entomological field trip with visitors centre Het Dijkmagazijn: Crap is dirty. This is statement is only relative as it is meat and drink to dung beetles, dung flies and many other insects. To them cow pats and horse droppings are a dinner party where they can feed themselves to their hearts' content. On Sunday 13 September you have the opportunity to look for insects in the river foreland under the expert guidance of a real entomologist.
Exposition ‘Steering Streams’ in Water Museum: The exposition ‘Steering Streams’ can be seen and experienced in the attic of the Water Museum. This exposition is interesting for young and old alike and gives insight into the way Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management organises the distribution of the river water in the Netherlands over the Rhine, the Meuse, the Waal and the Scheldt.
Exposition in Bronbeek ‘Wayang Revolusi; Art in the Service of Freedom’: From 1947, Indonesian nationalists have used in their struggle for independence the traditional art form Wayang as a means of propaganda: Wayang Revolusi.
Fairy Festival: The woods, castles, splashing streams, rolling hills and wonderfully authentic sites make Arnhem the perfect setting for the Fairy Festival, a magical festival where everybody can be a child.
Film Showing of ‘Krieg am Niederrhein’: The National Liberation Museum 1944-1945 will show a series of films about the classic ‘Krieg am Niederrhein’ film in February and March 2009. The film is in the German language and is not subtitled. This year marks the 64th anniversary of the Rhineland Offensive: a massive attack by the Allies on Rhineland launched from the Dutch-German border area.
Garden Viewing Days: Once in a while you can visit a special garden. Enjoy it and let all the green inspire you. In Nijmegen and its surroundings, there will be Garden Viewing Days on a regular basis.
Go Short: International Short Film Festival Nijmegen: Go Short is a brand-new, fresh, innovative film festival for short films. It will take place in art house LUX in Nijmegen from 18 to 22 March 2009.
HAN-KAN Relay Race & Marathon: The starting shot for the HAN-KAN relay race & marathon is to be given this year on Sunday May 10, at 9 am. The marathon and relay runners will run from Arnhem on the Lingewaard dikes to HAN Campus in Nijmegen.
Happy@Arnhem: Students Digital Media Productions from HAN University made a number of small films concerning their vision on happy@arnhem.
Historic Walks in Rheden and Rozendaal: If you are interested in exploring the towns of Rheden and Rozendaal then you can join the historic walks of archaeological society Oudheidskundige Kring Rheden-Rozendaal.
How Does the Fire Brigade Work?: Fire-hoses. Water. Fire. The Fire Brigade of Duiven has organized an open day for June 7.
Illuminated half Lent procession in Groesbeek: Various carnival floats from Groesbeek and surroundings can be admired in Groesbeek four weeks after the carnival festivities. This time the parade will be held at night as the floats will be illuminated by numerous lights. It promises to be a spectacular light show.
Immigrant Tales in the Historic Village: The past will come to life in the historic village Openluchtmuseum. Extraordinary encounters, scents, images and stories bring back never-to-be-forgotten memories. This year the museum shows how ordinary Dutch people tried their luck elsewhere. Perhaps in America or Canada, but also at the other end of their own country, which was seen as ‘another world’ in the nineteenth century.
Indonesian Film Café: Every second Tuesday of the month, Indofilmcafé runs a film showing in cinema Arthouse LUX in Nijmegen.
Indoor Tractor Pulling in Gelredome: The Tractor Pulling Event is organised in Gelredome in Arnhem for the fifth time. Tractor Pulling Arnhem is the only indoor tractor pulling event in Europe.
International Four Days Marches Nijmegen, an annual record performance!: Get your walking shoes and make sure you go to the Rijk van Nijmegen region for a walk. The 92nd edition of the Nijmegen annual four day walking event is scheduled to be held from 15 to 18 July 2008.
International Four Days Marches Nijmegen, an annual record performance!: Get your walking shoes and make sure you go to the Rijk van Nijmegen region for a walk. The 92nd edition of the Nijmegen annual four day walking event is scheduled to be held from 21 to 24 July 2009.
Jan Jansen and Swip Stolk – two master designers: From February 7 to August 30, Museum Het Valkhof will be the stage for two master designers of international renown: the famous shoe designer Jan Jansen (Nijmegen, 1941) and the trend-setting designer Swip Stolk (Zaandam, 1944). They have met regularly in the creative process for forty years.
Kubus Project Kröller-Müller: The Kubus by composer Ton Bruynèl (1934-1998) and sculptor Carel Visser (1928) is an environment in which music and sculpture form an iseparable unitiy. The Kubus Project came to being in Ton Bruynèl's studio between 1969 and 1971 but still invites the visitor to partake. A universal experience.
Lowlands Medieval Tournament at Doornenburg Castle: If you want to experience a real medieval tournament, you should seize the opportunity now. On 15 and 16 August 2009 the first Lowlands Medieval Tournament will be held at Doornenburg Castle. 32 knights from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany will compete for the highest honour.
Luxury and decandence, life at the Roman gold coast: From 23 August 2008 to 4 January 2009, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen will host a new exhibition entitled 'Luxury and decadence. Life at the Roman gold coast’. The exhibition offers an inside view into the lives of the Roman ‘Quote 100’, a small group of extremely wealthy people who lived in huge villas along the Gulf of Naples some 2,000 years ago.
Maas and Waal Harvesting days: Dutch championship haymaking, fancy fair, old trades. During the weekend 8 & 9 August the Land of Maas and Waal is set in the spirit of the Harvesting Days.
Modern Art Museum Arnhem presents ‘Running Force’: Albert Van Der Weide (born in Meppel NL in 1949, residing in Arnhem) is not only fascinated but also concerned by the structures of power and the use of signs of power in society. From 1986, the oneliner ‘All power to the Arts’ has often recurred in his oeuvre. From a purposive and innovative way of working, the artist let us witness historic events, injustice, urges and obsessions.
'Moeders Mooiste' Exhibition: ‘Moeders Mooiste’ [the Belle of the Ball] is an exhibition organised by Natuurmuseum Nijmegen about the variety in looks of men and animal. No one is completely satisfied about his looks. But in ‘Moeders Mooiste’ the variety in outer appearances is playfully depicted. And of course, the attention is mainly focussed on the appearance of animals.
Museum Boerderij den Tip in Herveld: Workshops, cycling tours, concerts, Museum Boerderij den Tip in Herveld is the farm where the action is. During Easter, the grounds of the farmstead are the best place to find Easter eggs.
Museum Castle Wijchen: Museum Castle Wijchen is a museum situated in the picturesque castle in Wijchen.
Night of Poems in Nijmegen: The night of the nationwide poems day will be celebrated poetically with song and dance in Nijmegen. The location is music & dance hall Merleyn, in Hertogstraat, Nijmegen.
Nijmegen Print: Each year Intermedi-Art gives a prominent Dutch artist the assignment to create a special graphic work of art inspired by Nijmegen. This tradition a number of unique prints of Nijmegen have been created by top notch contemporary graphic artists. The prints can be admired at the summer exposition in the Stevens Church from 19 July to 23 August 2009.
Ophelia manifestation in Arnhem: It was to his tragic love Ophelia that Hamlet expressed the oft-quoted phrase "to be, or not to be...". Ever since, many writers, philosophers, culture scientists and graphic artists have been inspired by Ophelia’s mystery of death. Time to organise a cultural manifestation in which Ophelia as romantic muse is transformed into the present.
Park Open: Concerts in Sonsbeek park: Park Open organizes free open air (pop)concerts each summer. The location is always the same: the Round Meadow in Sonsbeek park, situated at the foot of the watchtower Belvédère.
Pasar Malam Bagus Arnhem: On April 3, 4 and 5, 2009, the multi-purpose hall Rijnhal in Arnhem will be booked for the Pasar Malam Bagus: an oriental market with rural Asiatic accents, exotic food and swinging music.
Pony Market Bemmel: If you’re an early bird on 10 August you can witness the annual Pony Market in Bemmel.
Quayside Days in Arnhem: The forthcoming quayside days are focussed on the themes of the shipping industry and shipbuilding in Arnhem and environs in the present and in the past. These days will let you feel the atmosphere of old ships and will allow you to acquaint yourself with all present and past activities on and near the river.
Red Deer in the Netherlands: The red deer is the largest ‘wild’ animal in the Netherlands. The Red Deer exhibition depicts the life of this deer species.
Relationships throughout the centuries: The Netherlands Open-Air Museum in Arnhem invites you to spend a ‘day going back to yesterday’. You almost literally go back to the life of your parents, grandparents or maybe even great-grandparents to discover how they lived, worked, ate and slept. This year, the museum park highlights the theme of ‘relationships throughout the centuries’.
Roots & More – The Journeys of the Spirits in the Africa Museum: ‘Roots & More’ is an exhibition featuring the spirituality in the work of modern artists from the African Diaspora (which includes Cuba, Haiti, Brazil and the United States). The spiritual richness that Africa provided to the western world in past and present is exhibited with a contemporary look.
Sonsbeek 2008 Procession: magnificent overture to the 10th sculpture exhibition: Artists, residents of Arnhem, visitors from the Netherlands and elsewhere united in splendid art event.
Summer carnival 'Rio aan de Rijn': For three days, Arnhem will organise an exotic Latin party called ‘Rio aan de Rijn’ (Rio along the river Rijn’. The highlight of the summer carnival that will take place on 21, 22 and 23 August is the ‘Variety Parade’, a colourful and musical procession through the inner city of Arnhem on Saturday.
The Race of the Batavians: On 25 April 2009 we will hear the starting shot for the largest relay race in the world: the Race of the Batavians. The race starts in Nijmegen and finishes in Enschede.
Feel the Romans: It has been some 2000 years since the Romans camped and settled in Nijmegen. This year, on August 23 and 24, the city will again be invaded by the Romans when Noviomagus (Nijmegen) is revived in full glory during the Roman Festival.
Unity -herman de vries- in Kröller Müller: The Kröller-Müller Museum will present the Unity exhibition with its extensive collection of works by herman de vries (1931), who insists on spelling his name without capitals. The exhibition gives a survey of the wide scope applied by de vries in the last fifty years.
Warm Winter Weekend: The inner city of Arnhem will be very much alive with all kinds of activity during the 'Warm Winter Weekend' , varying from ice carving to ice skating on the Korenmarkt, a two-day Christmas Fair, Father Christmas orchestras, winter street shows and a real race between various Father Christmasses ...
Windows on Arnhem’s Past: The inspiration for the exhibition 'Windows on the Past’ held in the historic museum of Arnhem was the recent publication of "The Canon of Arnhem" by historians Bob Roelofs and Jan de Vries. The Canon contains 40 'windows' which deal with important historic figures and events in the last 2000 years of Arnhem’s history.