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Posted by Executive Director on 23 September 2013 | 6334 Comments
Per 15 November 2013 is bij de Nederlandse Ambassade in Wellington de volgende positie vacant:
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Posted by Executive Director on 28 August 2013 | 969 Comments
Tags:
Dutch Dayz,
Tirza,
Andre Rieu
Congratulations to the Embassy on the launch of Dutch Dayz - sharing current Dutch culture and technology with New Zealand. Hopefully this is the first of many years of such an event. We hope you find time to visit some of the activities and of course celebrate Tulip Season in New Zealand as well.
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Posted by Executive Director on 14 August 2013 | 1599 Comments
Check out the Current Projects page for World Press Photo 2013 to see the photos of the launch of WPP 2013 in Wellington. It was well attended and was opened by the Dutch Ambassador and the Mayor. The photos are outstanding, yet again, with many a thought provoking issue providing subject material. Don't miss it - it's only on until August 25th at Telecom House in Willis Street.
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Posted by Executive Director on 6 May 2013 | 935 Comments
Tags:
Dutch Schools,
Funding Cuts,
Petition
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has abolished funding for Dutch language schools overseas from 1 Jan 2014. This affects 13,000 children in such schools world-wide and could be the end of the Dutch School in Wellington and possibly other sites in New Zealand because they need the subsidy to continue the lessons.
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Posted by Executive Director on 5 April 2013 | 13609 Comments
Do you have an inspiring dream for the Netherlands? Here is your chance to share this dream with the rest of the Dutch people in the Netherlands and overseas. Your dream could become a source of inspiration for the new King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. In due course a selection panel will select the 50 most inspiring dreams for the Netherlands and combine them in a book to be published in September and to be presented to the Royal Couple on the 5th of September 2013. So, share your dream for the country as an inspiration for us all!. Click here for further details deeljouwdroom
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Posted by Executive Director on 19 March 2013 | 2144 Comments
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Te Hono ki Aotearoa - Documentary,
Waka at Leiden,
Maori Waka in Netherlands.
For those of you who missed the documentary when it showed in cinemas and on television, Te Hono is now on DVD and available for purchase at the bargain price of $25. For more information read the flyer but for purchase, contact executive.director@netherlandsfoundation.org.nz
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Posted by on 25 February 2013 | 2511 Comments
Tags:
Abel Tasman,
New Zealand,
Discovery of New Zealand,
James Cook,
For decades school textbooks stated that Captain James Cook was the first European to ‘discover’ New Zealand in 1769. Not only is this incorrect, it overshadows a key part of our history.
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Posted by Executive Director on 15 February 2013 | 1823 Comments
A change at the top of the monarchy means that the Dutch Community will be celebrating a King instead of a Queen this year. We have some information about how it will be recognised and that there is a change of date, but please let us know how and where you plan to celebrate Koningdag this year.
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Posted by Executive Director on 5 February 2013 | 10663 Comments
Tags:
De Molen,
Windmill,
Foxton Museum,
TANS,
Dutch Connection
The recent press release (copied below) by the chairmen of the respective trusts working towards establishing a museum in Foxton is heartening and reflects the spirit of cooperation envisioned by Theo Muller in his Blog, "Creating Community". He wonder what we could achieve if we were somehow to work together, share resources, share talent, think as one. A Museum is a good start, but we also need to keep contemporary links with the Netherlands to be a truly a Dutch community within the wider New Zealand community, not an historic Dutch community.
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Posted by Theo Muller on 9 January 2013 | 1427 Comments
Tags:
community,
dutch,
New Zealand,
create
I have been involved in the NetherlaNZ Foundation for a couple of years and the Trustees made me Chairman about a year ago. It’s been a full-on year and I have met more Dutch immigrants or second or third generation descendants of Dutch immigrants in that year than in all those years since I came to New Zealand in the 70’s. There are Dutchies everywhere and there isn’t one living soul in New Zealand who doesn’t know somebody of Dutch origin – surely no more than two degrees of separation! But what has taken me by surprise is the number of clubs, committees, incorporated societies, formal and informal groups of Dutch immigrants and their descendants and most of these groups have similar goals and objectives; bringing the Dutch community together socially or culturally by organising events, activities and projects, some of them with a local accent and others of a regional or even national nature. It is absolutely fantastic that there are so many motivated people wanting to be involved in these projects and make themselves available, roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. I take my hat off to those involved in the very successful Molen Project in Foxton. What an asset, not only for Foxton, but for the whole of New Zealand. The Dutch Connexion, another group of enthusiastic Dutch immigrants with a dream of ambitious proportions, wants to build a Dutch museum, “Ons Museum and Cultureel Centrum”. The drivers behind that project devote all their spare time to realising their dream. I salute you.
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