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Parktheater’s International Program To Host Season’s Final Welcome Night With Bending The Walls This Saturday, May 12, the Parktheater in Eindhoven presents Bending the Walls by Spanish...
Culture
Lunch Learners: Digest an entire book over lunch
Who has time to read books these days? According to a recent report from the Netherlands’ Social and Cultural Planning Office, fewer and fewer Dutch people are managing to fit reading into their...
Jorge from Portugal
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Jorge Alves Lino Country of origin: Portugal Work: Professor Media, Interaction and...
The Library helps expats to integrate in Eindhoven
“In a modern library, a book is an instrument, not a goal” Public libraries serve public interests. The diverse, multinational population of the Brainport region has non-standard needs and...
Van Abbe reaches out to Eindhoven’s internationals
Van Abbemuseum was created as a cultural offer to the people of Eindhoven with a purpose to elevate them with the beauty of art and to give them an opportunity to be engaged in the cultural life....
Juliet from the United States
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Juliet...
Gisèle from Curaçao
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Gisèle Mambre Country of origin: Curaçao Work: Communications consultant The history...
Mpanzu from Congo
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Mpanzu Bamenga Country of Origin: DR. Congo Work: City counselor in Eindhoven,...
Lorenzo from Italy
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Lorenzo Gerbi Country of origin: Italy Work: Designer / Cultural Producer You can’t...
New Ambassadors for Dutch Design Week 2017
Architect Winy Maas (MVRDV), designers Lonny van Ryswyck and Nadine Sterk (Atelier NL) and journalist Marcus Fairs (Dezeen) are the ambassadors for this edition of Dutch Design Week (DDW). New this year is the appointment of not two but three (in fact: four) ambassadors....
An international Parktheater
The Parktheater made in 2014 their first steps in becoming a more international orientated theatre. They go on in their steady pace by launching an English brochure for the season 2017/2018. But the...
Parktheater: next step in internationalisation
The Eindhoven Parktheater is already putting years of effort in becoming more and more international. This year the theater makes its next step in this progress by offering an English version of the...
Eindhoven Eight present themselves in Rotterdam
If there is one city in the Netherlands where modern architecture is cherished and shown, then it must be Rotterdam. So it’s quite an honor for the Eindhoven Eight to be presented in an exposition at The Nieuwe Instituut in exactly this city. “Essential Eight”...
Economia Festival by Baltan: New Views on Old Models
How about a festival on the economy, but without any real economists? Next Friday to Sunday, 28-30 April, Baltan Laboratories is exactly trying to achieve this. Economy as art, as a way of stepping...
A New Currency for Strijp-S: Egonomia
A temporary local currency for Strijp-S. It’s certainly not the first time that a community introduces its own currency, but the value of the Strijp ‘egonomia’ is quite special: it’s based on values like knowledge, network or creativity, and organized...
In the wake of Women’s Day: media and women’s bodies
Many women all over the globe celebrated their emancipation and freedom yesterday, on International Women’s Day. For many of them it is still a bit worrisome, though, that despite the big...
No worries – we’re learning Dutch
A closer look at one of Language Institute Regina Coeli’s free Dutch workshops at the High Tech Campus in February. How many expats living in Eindhoven can say that they really speak Dutch well?...
Becoming a Smart Society: Restore your digital Privacy!
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples to learn from? DataStudio Eindhoven explores the transition a...
Bliksem en Donderdag – One Unusual Evening
Thursday evening was unordinary one because it was lit up not only by the bright street lights in the city centre of Eindhoven but also by the enthusiasm of all people cozily gathered in De Kazerne....
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[Column] Christian Curré: It’s time for an Eindhoven Community Centre!
In 1929, Philips (both company and family) built the Philips Recreation Building (next to the stadium), which was converted in 1935 to become the Philips theatre; after yet another renovation in...
Kevin Kelly to speak at Conference for the Curious
Kevin Kelly is one of the speakers at the Conference for the Curious, March 29 and 30 in the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven. The Conference is part of STRP Biennale. With it, VPRO Medialab and STRP are...
Again three iF Design Awards for Design agency VanBerlo
Design agency VanBerlo will be awarded 3 iF AWARDS. The jury announced that on January 31st. Categories included Product Design, Packaging, Communication, Interior Design, Professional Concepts,...
Refugee-Project From Eindhoven Set Up In Utrecht
Not all that starts in Eindhoven, stays in Eindhoven. In Lombok, a multicultural neighborhood in the city of Utrecht, two former Design Academy students have started a new project. De Voorkamer (The...
The international Health Care Centre at Strijp-S is one year old
A recent survey among internationals could hardly be clearer: if there is one thing an expat in Eindhoven wants, it’s primary health care with an international orientation. For in addition to...
The Philips Museum and the missing TV from 1970
“Only few people know that Philips designed the first Dutch satellite in 1969.” Sergio Derks is speaking intensively in front of one of the display cabinets. He is the curator of the Philipsmuseum ...
