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This is us. The current boardmembers of the Dutch Autralian Cultural Centre.
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Yet another annual general meeting was held by the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, on the premises of the Consulate-General of the Netherlands, in Bondi Junction, on Wednesday, 3 October. * / Among the matters raised: The need to attract younger members, as the object of the D.A.C.C. is to preserve the heritage brought to Australia, for the generations that follow the migrants who came here, from the Netherlands. / / The chairman lives on the central coast, where, yesterday, there were the first of the bush fires, disrupting not only the traffic on the freeway and the old Pacific Highway but the trains as well. He had some difficulties getting to the meeting and, no doubt, even more getting back home. /
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/ ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / I like painting, in the D.A.C.C., when it’s my turn to be there, on Sundays.
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/ May 3rd, 2008. Location: Scout Hall, Hunters Hill. Event: Queens Birthday. / / Organisers: Dutch-link and the Kangoeroe School. / / Not quite able to reach, yet. / / Present: Kangoeroe School pupils; their parents; Dutch-link members / and a sprinkling of those of us who came in the 50s, 60s and 70s! / / There were games. There was a play about the arrival of the Europeans. / / There was an auction of children’s art work. / / There were people doing the boot-sale-thing, just like is done, in / Holland, on the queen’s birthday. / / Hup! Holland hup! / / Lang zal ze leven! / Up-date – It’s getting very close to the Dutch Queen’s Birthday Celebration, 2009!!!
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Retirement. Watching the roses grow........
by Ozcloggie/ I wasn’t ready yet but tempus fugitted and time to find alternatives to doing w…
/ I wasn’t ready yet but tempus fugitted and time to find alternatives to doing what chalkies do. / So, there’s judging beaches, once a year. That fills a few weeks at the end of September. / / There’s Hazelhurst and weekly art classes, during school terms. / / There’s looking through the books at home that will never be read again and ‘giving them wings’, through Bookcrossing and, hopefully, finding out where some of them travel, in the world and whether they are appreciated by others. / / There’s joining the board of the D.A.C.C. (Dutch Australian Cultural Centre) / / There’s joining the board of the Federation of Netherlands Societies and attending their meetings – when I remember!! (I’m in trouble!) / / There’s places to go…. / / Things to do…... / / Things to see….. / / People to meet…. / / But I’d love to start all over again and be working….......I think! /
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Rainbow over Hazelhurst
by OzcloggieIt happens so often! Yesterday, second last class for the term, at Hazelhurst…
It happens so often! Yesterday, second last class for the term, at Hazelhurst, during Melissa’s art class. I went to my car to fetch the other two paintings, to show her. / There was drizzle. There was a rainbow. I grabbed my camera. Put the paintings against a tree. The wind blew them over. Friends, ( a couple who live in Manly, ) walked into view as I focused my camera on the rainbow. / Five minutes earlier, the rainbow was much clearer. Five seconds earlier, Mijntje (Mrs Hage, fellow board-member of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre) was still in my view-finder, along with her husband. / It was so obvious that it took Mijntje and Huib a few seconds to realise it was me, not at a meeting of the D.A.C.C.; not at a function organise for Dutch-Australians; but battling the drizzle; paintings; camera; wind and fading rainbow and, not in Chester Hill, at ATV, not in Smithfield, in the Dutch shop, not in Manly but in Gymea. / I went back inside. Where Melissa decided it was a good idea to display everyone’s work, since yet another term is coming to an end and most of the paintings were nearing completion. She wanted to show the diversity of the subjects and styles. Those brushes, so clean and so neatly set up, are so different from my approach. There is oil paint on the upholstery of my car seats. There is paint on my coat. There is paint on the inside of the lid of my paint box. I have bought a new palette because the other one is caked with paint. / My brushes are never clean…...... / Oh well. As je maar lol hebt! (As long as you’re havin’ fun!) P.S.. Quite right, FlyBoy. That’s what it was like!
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My Dutch-Australian heritage. Worth keeping? Did I waste a Sunday?
by OzcloggieSomeone on the board of our Dutch – Australian Cultural Centre could not take his turn, minding the…..what is it? ....collection….tod…
Someone on the board of our Dutch – Australian Cultural Centre could not take his turn, minding the…..what is it? ....collection….today. So I volunteered, again. / It’s all now kept, behind the restaurant, behind the mini Dutch supermarket, in the light industrial area, a little distance away from the Smithfield shops, in western Sydney. / A reasonable number of people, with some Dutch connection, come to the shop, in Market Street, behind the fake Amsterdam street facade, hiding the factory space, where our Dutch culture is kept alive, especially on Sundays. / When my Sydney-born children were small and Saint Nicholas was as real as Santa Claus. (Lucky kids got two lots of presents, every December.), I used to go to ‘the Dutch shop, at least once a year, to buy the appropriate, traditional goodies (chocolate letters, marzepan, ‘pepper-nuts’, etc..) / Now the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre has moved in, after being moved out of the purpose-built premises, beside the Abel Tasman Retirement Village facilities, in Chester Hill. / Of the people who find their way to the shop, in Smithfield, a reasonable number settle down in the little restaurant to have some Dutch delicacies (croquettes, herring, etc..) and just a few of these venture into the furniture section and let curiosity get the better of them, to see what is behind the partition, through the open door, where I have the little radio play classical music, transmitted by the ABC, as loud as possible, to let them know we are there! / I fill my time by painting pictures or reading some of the material. (Today my painting was not ready to be worked on yet.) A lot is about migration etc.. / I picked up something historical. It was about how we migrants were received, via accommodation, called ‘hostels’. Usually former army camps, e.g., Bonegilla, near Albury. I should not have picked it up. It gave the impression that we migrants (It particularly mentioned my cohort, who came here as children, in the mid-50s.) were well-looked after in sparse but suitable accommodation and how (we) children were catered for by being given appropriate education. / Although it DID mention that a lot of mothers cried and that quite a few children had died. / Why is it so hard to give a true picture? I guess it’s too complex. / Still. I wouldn’t have liked to have spent the last 50+ years, still (continuously) in the Netherlands. Thoroughly enjoyed living in Australia and it was in Matraville Hostel that I discovered I could draw when a lady proudly pointed to her daughter’s framed drawing, on the wall and I realised that I could do that too. / It has often been said that the great-grandchildren of migrants, the 4th and 5th generation show an interest in what their (great-) grandparents went through and brought to the country. / Hopefully the DACC will last that long!! In the industrial area, through the shop, through the restaurant, around the furniture, in the corner: the DACC- Take a look.
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Yesterday I volunteered to take a fellow D.A.C.C. Boardmember’s place, to ‘mind the store’, i.e., sit in our ‘centre’, to look after any visitors who may, hopefully, wander through, from the Dutch shop, via the restaurant (where it was cosy and warm) past the oak (heavy) furniture and through the open doorway, into the section, where I had the radio’s volume turned up, set to ABC Classic FM, to try to let people know I was there. (We do have signs set up.) / I passed the time by working on my painting of the daughter of a fellow Hazelhurst student. / Yesterday NOBODY came that far. Sydney was cold (Well! In our terms- ) and wet and our DACC is in the colder section of this factory building. / There was just me and our books and pictures and memorabilia- and the / set of 10 Aboriginal prints, produced for the occasion of the 400 year bi-lateral relations between the Netherlands and Australia, first displayed at the NSW Art / Gallery when Dutch Crown-prince, Willem Alexander, and his wife, Maxima were in Sydney, last year. / Now, the next challenge, is to display them. / Our original purpose-build centre, in the grounds of the Abel Tasman Retirement Village, is no longer ours and art is only art, when it can be experienced – or something like that! ( It’s the only bit of philosophy I remember from a course I did. Is art Art, when it’s in a desert, where nobody sees it? ) / Typical Dutch weather, yesterday, in Sydney, you might say. The day wasn’t wasted. The painting is improving. It’s hard, doing a portrait. (DACC= Dutch Australian Cultural Centre. It now needs more wall space so the prints CAN be displayed.) / The aboriginal art prints commemorate the arrival of Dutch explorers, 401 years, ago, “putting Australia on the map.”
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I trust that this lady, and her grand-daughter, visiting from Queensland, will never read, or see this. / It did my old, retired, assistant primary school principal’s heart good, to hear such a young child, take such a keen interest in what her grandmother was telling her. / / She asked such sensible questions. Spoke in such an intelligent way. / / Really wasn’t a long conversation but thanked me for the information. / / There’s hope for our future!!!
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I spent Sunday, again, waiting for visitors to the Dutch Australlian Cultural Centre (our temporary location, behind the Dutch shop, in Market Street, Smithfield, western suburb, of Sydney). / / ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / I was actually not listed to have my turn there, yesterday, until a fellow boardmember (who organises the schedule) rang, a number of days ago, asking if I could swap with her, as she now had other commitments. / But, when I arrived, she was there. / I had all my painting gear with me and there was nochance of going back home to Revesby and then getting the train, to go to the meet-up of Sydney RedBubblers. / Pity! / It would have been a better way to spend this Sunday, as the waether was ideal, to be around Sydney Harbour, rather than in a factory-style building. :(
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/ ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / / ... / Preserving our heritage. Ons erfgoed.
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Quite a few visitors to the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, yesterday. / / Quite a few children getting (a little bit) in touch with the culture of their parents, or, more likely, grand-parents. /
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I am a member of the committee (board) of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, here, in Sydney, New South Wales. / Retired associate professor and candidate in the most recent federal elections, for the senate, Klaas Woldring is the chairperson. / I am not sure whether he has returned home yet from a trip around Australia. / . / We board members take turns minding the centre, on Sundays and Wednesdays, hoping that visitors will come through the Dutch shop, the restaurant and the furniture section, to have a look around the D.A.C.C.. / To fill the time between visitors, I took a book today, and the Sun Herald. / I bought myself a cup of flat white and settled down to read the paper. / Opened it up in the middle, and there was Klaas Woldring, in print. / It was like a presence!! /
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You may have grown up with: Three Blind Mice, or Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands! / / I grew up with: / In Holland staat een huis! (In Holland stands a house.) / / In Holland staat een huis. (Repeated) ( LISTEN HERE ) / / In Holland staat een huis. Ja! Ja! / / Van je singela singela hopsasa (Nonsense rhyme to help you dance to it.) / / That nursery rhyme / children’s song came to mind again, as soon as my Canon EOS 400D transferred the picture of this miniture school building to my iMac screen. / / Frances Larder and her team of volunteers are working on the project, which she has called: Echoes from the past. / / On a trip to the Netherlands, she collected more ideas and materials, hints and explanations, for this project, which she is undertaking, with the assistance of the Casula Power House Museum and the support of thr Dutch Australian Cultural Centre. / / Along with some of the volunteers, she attended a Federation of Netherlands Societies meeting, in Chester Hill, Sydney, to explain to representatives of Dutch-Australian organisations, what this project is all about. / Basically, through a marionette-theatre display, conveying to Australians, the traditions, kept alive in the Netherlands, through costumes, folktales, songs, dance and other forms of culture. / .. / Meanwhile, in the car, I’ll be singing about the house in Holland in which lives a gentleman, his wife, a child, a dog, a cat and a mouse and how the cat will chase out the mouse, and the dog will chase out the cat, and the child…...you get the idea!. In Holland staat een huis / In Holland staat een huis / In Holland staat een huis, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / In Holland staat een huis / In Holland staat een huis In dat huis daar woont een heer / In dat huis daar woont een heer / In dat huis daar woont een heer, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / In dat huis daar woont een heer / In dat huis daar woont een heer En die heer die kiest een vrouw / En die heer die kiest een vrouw / En die heer die kiest een vrouw, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En die heer die kiest een vrouw / En die heer die kiest een vrouw En die vrouw die kiest een kind / En die vrouw die kiest een kind / En die vrouw die kiest een kind, ja , ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En die vrouw die kiest een kind / En die vrouw die kiest een kind En dat kind dat kiest een hond / En dat kind dat kiest een hond / En dat kind dat kiest een hond, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En dat kind dat kiest een hond / En dat kind dat kiest een hond En die hond die kiest een kat / En die hond die kiest een kat / En die hond die kiest een kat, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En die hond die kiest een kat / En die hond die kiest een kat En die kat die kiest een muis / En die kat die kiest een muis / En die kat die kiest een muis, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En die kat die kiest een muis / En die kat die kiest een muis En dan jagen we de muis uit huis / En dan jagen we de muis uit huis / En dan jagen we de muis uit huis, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En dan jagen we de muis uit huis / En dan jagen we de muis uit huis En dan jagen we de kat uit huis / En dan jagen we de kat uit huis / En dan jagen we de kat uit huis, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En dan jagen we de kat uit huis / En dan jagen we de kat uit huis En dan jagen we de hond uit huis / En dan jagen we de hond uit huis / En dan jagen we de hond uit huis, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En dan jagen we de hond uit huis / En dan jagen we de hond uit huis En dan jagen we het kind uit huis / En dan jagen we het kind uit huis / En dan jagen we het kind uit huis, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En dan jagen we het kind uit huis / En dan jagen we het kind uit huis En dan jagen we de vrouw uit huis / En dan jagen we de vrouw uit huis / En dan jagen we de vrouw uit huis, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En dan jagen we de vrouw uit huis / En dan jagen we de vrouw uit huis En dan jagen we de heer uit huis / En dan jagen we de heer uit huis / En dan jagen we de heer uit huis, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En dan jagen we de heer uit huis / En dan jagen we de heer uit huis Nu staat het huis alleen / Nu staat het huis alleen / Nu staat het huis alleen, ja, ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / Nu staat het huis alleen / Nu staat het huis alleen En nu steken wij het huis in brand / en nu steken wij het huis in brand / En nu steken wij het huis in brand, ja ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En nu steken wij het huis in brand / en nu steken wij het huis in brand En nu schoppen wij het huis omver / en nu schoppen wij het huis omver / En nu schoppen wij het huis omver, ja ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / En nu schoppen wij het huis omver / en nu schoppen wij het huis omver Nu bouwen we het huis weer op / nu bouwen we het huis weer op / Nu bouwen we het huis weer op, ja ja / Van je singela singela hopsasa / Nu bouwen we het huis weer op / nu bouwen we het huis weer op
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The first time I ever saw Mr Theo ten Brummelaar, it was just after the mid-fifties. It was in the Sutherland Shire and he was on the stage, with Eef ten Brummelaar, performing a cabaret-sketch. / I was 12, going on 13. / / In the sixties I captured him at a Dutch clubs get-together, beside a soccer field. / / (Cannot find that picture but I shall!) / In the late seventies we were among the first broadcasters, via SBS Radio 2EA, the Dutch language program. / / Today, I captured him, wearing his two hats, namely that of Hon. / / Treasurer of the D.A.C.C. and speaking on behalf of the Federation of Netherlands Societies, as its Chairperson. / / Feels like a lot of water under the bridge!! / / .. / MORE HERE
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Archivist, Maie Barrow, guest speaker, D.A.C.C., A.G.M..... ( and the Estonian connection ).
by MrJoopAt the Annual General Meeting, of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, held at the Consulate-General of the Netherlands, in Bondi Junction, Sydney, Archivist, Maie Barrow, gave a most informative and entertaining talk on the subject of the way Estonian culture and heritage is preserved and enhanced in Australia. / The Estonian Archives in Australia (EAA) were established by the Council of Estonian Societies in Australia on 5 January 1952. The EAA is one of the three Estonian Archives existing outside Estonia and holds an important collection of material relating to the lives and achievements of Estonians living outside Estonia. / The Australian/Estonian collection comprises personal and family papers, records of organisations, photographs, films, videos and DVDs. / More information here and here and here / ... / / On the left-hand-side is a photo of the doctor, my mother, my father, another doctor, and the receptionist. / / I know that the lady, on the right, still misses my mother, laughing at my mother’s shorter fuse and readiness to say just what she thought, but remembering great times together.
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I see links! (The Botany Historical Trust).
by MrJoopFirst thing I heard the speaker mention was: the Botany Historical Trust! / Apart from the presence of award recipient, Mr Jan Mees,... ...
On a CD which I play-to-death, Bob Hope says: I walked into Slapsie Maxie’s the other day to see that new comedy pair Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. THey were in the middle of their act. / Yesterday, I walked into a crowded auditorium, and the first person was in the middle of her speech.
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/ A Volunteers Award was presented to Jan Mees for his services to the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, Smithfield and to the late Ankie Dupree and Jan Mees for their services to the Concordia Club in Newcastle by the NSW Heritage Office, on Thursday 20 November, in the AGL Theatre, Museum of Sydney and the following citation gave details of the award: “Our final Heritage Volunteer Award goes to JAN MEES and the late ANKIE DUPREE who were nominated by the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, Sydney and the Concordia Society, Newcastle When Jan received news he was to receive this award he asked if he could share it in memory of a wonderful woman, his late partner of 30 years and an absolute rock of the Dutch-Australian community, Ankie Dupree. Ankie, also known to her friends as Ann, lost a brave battle against cancer in July this year. Ankie would have celebrated 25 years as President of Concordia in 2008 and her leadership throughout this time was without parallel. With Jan, Ankie was also a member of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre in Sydney and she was a dedicated volunteer serving her local community and a great promoter of our nation’s multicultural heritage. Jan is one of earliest members of the Centre, and is a popular hard working volunteer serving the Dutch community in both Sydney and Newcastle. He is the one you rely upon to get a job done quickly and efficiently. He staffs the Centre, sits on its board, organises film, radio, and DVD afternoons at the Abel Tasman retirement Village, collects books and materials for the Centre’s library and archive, sets up exhibitions and is bus conductor and driver for the community’s day excursions. Jan even takes on the role of the Dutch Santa Claus (Sinterklaas) which is always a highlight of the community’s Christmas festivities. Would you please join the Minister in congratulating JAN MEES and in saluting the memory of ANKIE DUPREE” More here / . / / . / / . / / . / / . /
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Once again, students, from Gifu and Shizuoka Universities, in Japan, ( in the sixth year of an intensive 17 day course on Australian history and culture, convened by Dr Sonia Mycak of the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, specifically designed for Japanese students, ) have visited the D.A.C.C., in Holland House, to learn about our Australian version of multiculturalism – exemplified by the Dutch community, DACC and Holland House. / / This was the second year that Dr Klaas Woldring, Chairperson of the D.A.C.C. has lectured such students. / / First partaking of lunch, in the cosy, very Dutch restaurant, through the Dutch shop. / Followed by the talk in the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, behind the Dutch shop and restaurant. / / Abel Tasman, Dirk Hartog, and all the other Dutch explorers and sailors, who came and took a quick look, at Australia, 400 years ago, could not have known, that at least 250,000 of their country-men and women, would follow their lead, to Australia, and that one of them, would be telling a group of young Japanese visitors, in an outer-western Suburb of Sydney, while looking down on a miniature version of the capital of the Netherlands, consisting of replicas of the houses that were built in their time, all about their trips to the great south land. / / . / / . / / . / / . / / . /
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There’s no doubting his enthusiam. Chairman of the board, of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, / Dr Klaas Woldring, a former Associate Professor of Southern Cross University certainly knows how to explain the Dutch-Australian connection. A little bit of background
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Explanation here! / . / Present location of the D.A.C.C. archives, 85 Market Street, Smithfield, through the Dutch Shop, restaurant and furniture section: / / . / This location was gratefully accepted, when the D.A.C.C. had to leave its building. / . / / . / The building is in a light industrial area and, of course, not designed to function as a museum. / . / The way things were....... / / ...when the archives were still in their building. / . / The Abel Tasman Retirement Village was established through the support of the Dutch ‘community’ obviously, to ensure that there is an opportunity for Dutch-born immigrants and others to live in safety and comfort in the ‘declinging years’. / . / / After looking after my father (as well as my mother, who passed away 2004) for quite a few years, I was very pleased to find that he could be accommodated in the Abel Tasman Retirement Village. / . / / On my own, as a retired primary school teacher, with no medical training, it is so pleasing that I know my father (92) is in good care at “A.T.V.”. / . / It’s a shame that the D.A.C.C. had to leave the premises. As I understood the situation, the D.A.C.C. building was intended to serve the ATV residents and the rest of Sydney (NSW)’s Dutch-Australian Community, particularly the subsequent generations. / . / The current location of the D.A.C.C. has advantages. / It’s where Dutch-born people go to visit the Dutch shop and to gather in the restaurant. It has disadvantages. It’s not a museum. / . / Hopefully a solution can be found.
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The head will be part of the marionette display to be known as Echoes from the Past. / This project is being coordinated by Frances Larder and being developed by volunteers, keen give Australians an insight into the history and culture of the Netherlands, via a marionette display. / Some of the members of the Board of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre viewed the work, in progress. / / / /
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