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KWAKOE FESTIVAL
The festival of the Surinamese community, every Saturday and Sunday from July 5 until August 10, 2008, 13-23 hrs.
From the website:
The Kwaku Summer Festival is the biggest multicultural festival in the Netherlands and is held every Saturday and Sunday in the months July and August. It takes place in the Bijlmerpark in Amsterdam Southeast. For six weekends long, the organization offers a very extensive program containing (live) music, movies, sports, food, dancing, information and meetings. The Festival has a different theme every year which is noticeable in the music, performances, art, literature and several elections.
Traditionally, the Festival functions as a platform for ethnic-cultural societies from all over the Netherlands. Thus the Kwaku Festival contributes in a special way to the (multicultural) society; a society in which acceptation and harmony between different communities and individuals is of essential importance. *
Well, because I worked in this city, I was mostly in and out of it quickly.
That's why it took a long time to build a proper page for Amsterdam. The VT meeting helped a lot!
But I do visit regularly to see friends or just be a tourist myself :-) |
|  | WALK ALONG WITH A VT MEETING IN AMSTERDAM In Must See Activities Tips I have made a full description of the walk we did during the VT meeting.
If you have a map, you can follow us on our walk. So join in!
It does not pretend to be anywhere near representative of Amsterdam. But I did try to add as much additional information as possible. Especially where history and architecture are concerned.
But this walk is just as importantly also a sketch about the atmosphere during a VT meeting peppered with an anecdote here and there.
I divided the walk in small sections. Remember that VT shows all tips in portions of 10.
A) From Central Station to Schreierstoren to meet up with the group (tips 1-7)
B) From Schreierstoren to Scheepvaarthuis (tips 8-13)
C) Nemo - IJ-tunnel, (tips 14-21)
D) Old ships (tips 22-26)
E) From Prins Hendrikkade to Nieuw Markt (tips 27-31)
F) Waaggebouw, Nieuw Markt, market (tips 32-38)
G) Oudemanshuispoort, historical figures Vossius and Barlaeus, book stalls (tips 39-44)
H) Kloveniersburgwal, Zuiderkerk tower, porch (tips 45-47)
I) Staalstraat towards Waterlooplein (tips 48-51)
J) Waterlooplein, Moses & Aaron church, Stopera (tips 52-56)
K) Rembrandtplein, stop for drinks, Regulierbreestraat, Theater Tuschinski (tips 57-62)
L) Rokin, the Dam, dinner and incident on Central Station (tips 63-70) |
VT MEETING 22 FEBR. 2003
It was icy cold but sunny when we met up in Amsterdam for my fourth VT meeting in 10 months.
I never evey imagined spending so much time with VT-ers but here you are. It was fun again and great to see some people during daytime instead of in chat in the dead of night! | | |
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| Pros: | "Will always attract with its charm and history." | | Cons: | "And yet a tourist trap. Go explore more of The Netherlands!" | | In A Nutshell: | "Many Dutch people feel like tourists in Amsterdam" |
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flyingscot4 Sun Feb 8, 2009 05:17 UTC
Hi AT, That looks like a car I had in the early 60's. It was the worst piece of junk I ever had, and I didn't have it long. Except for those seats; they just kind of enveloped you. Nice pages. | pieter_jan_v Thu Nov 20, 2008 18:04 UTC
Hoeze www.de-engel.net bij jouw Bazar restaurant tip? PJ | ranger49 Tue Oct 7, 2008 18:06 UTC
Such a long time since I was in Amsterdam - the city walk with a local sounds an ideal way to get to know the city all over again. | unaS Mon Aug 4, 2008 16:33 UTC
Well I can certainly see that having visited for 5 days I still missed a great deal. I must return!!! |
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