Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Thursday, February 5, 2015
One of many links to the Dutch-Australian connection!!
St Marys -Sydney -
Renewed calls for alternate exits from Dunheved Circuit,
where the Dutch-Australian Social Club,
"Rembrandt" is located.
Please support this!!!
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Monday, January 26, 2015
Just imagine if the DUTCH had made Australia their 'colony' - how would Australia Day have been celebrated?
Producer, John Mulders explained......
on these two videos.....
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P.S..
From: Elvan Kahraman
Sent: Monday, 2 February 2015 8:32 PM
Subject: Student research
Hello,
I am an Australian student currently in the Netherlands. I am doing research on expatriate cross-cultural adjustment as part of my thesis. It has been very difficult to find participants to take an online survey as part of my data collection.
The Dutch embassy in Australia suggested that you may have contacts with Dutch expats. I wonder if you might be willing, or can spare the time to help me contact expats who might be willing to take the survey? I would really appreciate any advice you can offer.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Elvan
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Saturday, April 28, 2012
The Dutch Australian Cultural Centre - in Smithfield NSW.
Click on this for a LARGER version:
In 2005 in her Thematic History of the Dutch in NSW
Kirsten Velhuis wrote:
4.10 Arts & culture
"At a very early stage the Dutch community in NSW demonstrated a great interest and
desire to be involved in cultural and artistic aspects of life. Many of the social clubs,
including Neerlandia and the Netherlands Societies in the Sutherland Shire and
Bankstown had drama and theatre clubs and put on regular performances in the 1950’s
and 60’s (Federation of Netherlands Societies, 1985).
The Dutch Society Concordia wasfounded as a theatre club, and it provided many performances in the Newcastle area28under direction of Pierre Hanssen (de Wit, J. 2004, pers. comm., 10 November). Choirs were also prolific in the 1950’s and evolved from both religious organisations and social
clubs.
A notable choir was the Dutch Choir and Folkloric Group Dee Why (no longer in
existence), under director Isidoor Lammers. This Choir was a combination of ‘Arti Vocale’,
a choir from members of Neerlandia and of ‘Dutch Charge’, a Presbyterian choir in Dee
Why (Hage, 2004). It has performed at the Sydney Opera House and the Carols by
Candlelight in Sydney’s Domain. Another successful choir is the Sunrise Choral Society
from Blacktown, which has performed with Marcia Hines and John English (Federation
of Netherlands Societies, 1985).
The NSW Dutch Folk Dancing Group, founded in 1951 by
Dr Cornelis Wouter keeps alive traditional Dutch folk dancing and has performed at many
festivals, fairs and community events (NSW Dutch Folk Dancing Group, 2001).
There are also a number of successful Dutch individuals who have contributed to the art scene
in Australia, of which the below are only a small selection:
Paul Cox, film maker;
Hendrik Scheltema, painter;
Gerard Haveke, sculpted the fountain in Sydney’s Hyde Park;
Jaap Flier, Artistic Director of the NSW Dance Company;
Pieter van der Stock, singer with Opera Australia;
and Willem van Otterloo, Chief Conductor of Sydney Symphony Orchestra
(Erasmus Foundation, 1994; Duyker, 1987a).
A final major contributor to the Dutch culture in NSW is the
Dutch Australian Cultural Centre
which was established in 1982 with the aim to collect and preserve the Dutch heritage in Australia.
Though not all in the Dutch community in NSW see the need for such a centre (Ten Brummelaar, 1994) and some even show concern it might compete or interfere with existing clubs and
organisations in some way (Talmacs, P. 2004, pers. comm., 03 September), the Centre
has received grants from the Australian and Dutch governments to achieve its goals. "
Jo Mulholland (Was Joop Mul) Webmaster DACC. 2014
Monday, January 9, 2012
Yvon Davis leaves the regular broadcasting of the SBS Dutch Radio program.
Yvon Davis has announced that she's moving on from the SBS Radio Dutch Language program. It's significant that there has been so much reaction.
It proves to me how well she's kept alive this communication with Dutch-Australians, that had its start in the late 70s, in Sydney.
It WAS so exciting when the program first was allowed to go live and then when it spread "by land-line" (Boy! That sounded technical then!)
Like all listeners, I'm allowed a personal opinion and I listened as much as possible, on Wednesdays, when Yvon was in charge of the microphone.
Via www it's now possible to pick up lots of "radio broadcasts", in Dutch. SBS radio ~ Dutch, still serves a purpose based on the needs, with insights, of Dutch-born Australians.
My personal opinion is that Yvon does (soon did) it extra well.
When I joined the initial group of broadcasters, the pressure was on to "sound" as professional as possible. The listeners who 'found' us were highly critical, in the sense of being very keen to have the Dutch sound good and to cater for all tastes in the very limited times allocated to the "Dutch" who "obviously" did not desperately "need" this service as badly as others.
Yes. The broadcasters who took over did sound more and more professional.
My opinion is that on the "normal distribution scale", Yvon found the top of the curve, being professional and still sounding like your best friend.
Not everyone can do that.
Left: Former SBS Radio~Dutch program co-ordinator, Theo ten Brummelaar, talked about those early years, at a meeting, in the Consulate-General of the Netherlands, in Bondi Junction.
In 1979, as co-ordinator, he photographed us (the then broadcasters, pre-recording programs, in the studio, in Balmain) - photo, right.
Eric Baume used to BOOM!!! via 2GB, all those years ago:
"THIS I BELIEVE!!!"
Ozcloggie,
Joop Mul
POST SCRIPT:
We Dutch-born have had connections with Australia a long time.
Producer, John Mulders explained......
© Ozcloggie 2015
Friday, July 1, 2011
Jo Mulholland is Joop Mul is in Sydney
Jo Mulholland is Joop Mul is in Sydney
The memorabilia which had to be taken from the Dutch Australian Centre (as it was first called), in Chester Hill, was located behind the Dutch shop, in Smithfield.
Grateful for the opportunity to keep this heritage, for future generations, it is generally understood, that the original idea: a museum-style building, where visitors could relax; meet-up with Dutch-Australians and examine the memorabilia representing the Dutch immigration experience was still the best.
Where to next?!?
There is a plan and there are some ideas and arguments fore and against……………………..
.
Hopefully, a solution can be found and the memorabilia housed, stored and made available for perusal, in a suitable manner.
Hopefully in an "agora" a "hub" developed and set up by as many of the "Dutch community", as possible.
RECEIVED:
The memorabilia which had to be taken from the Dutch Australian Centre (as it was first called), in Chester Hill, was located behind the Dutch shop, in Smithfield.
Grateful for the opportunity to keep this heritage, for future generations, it is generally understood, that the original idea: a museum-style building, where visitors could relax; meet-up with Dutch-Australians and examine the memorabilia representing the Dutch immigration experience was still the best.
Where to next?!?
There is a plan and there are some ideas and arguments fore and against……………………..
.
Hopefully, a solution can be found and the memorabilia housed, stored and made available for perusal, in a suitable manner.
Hopefully in an "agora" a "hub" developed and set up by as many of the "Dutch community", as possible.
RECEIVED:
From: Elvan Kahraman [mailto:elvan.kahraman1@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 2 February 2015 8:32 PM
Subject: Student research
Hello,
I am an Australian student currently in the Netherlands. I am doing research on expatriate cross-cultural adjustment as part of my thesis. It has been very difficult to find participants to take an online survey as part of my
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