Sinterklaas
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Two lots of presents. Lucky Dad's Dutch.
by OzcloggieEvery year, from 1981, I told my pupils, that my own child(ren -after ‘83) (was) were lucky because they got two lots of presents, in Dec…
Every year, from 1981, I told my pupils, that my own child(ren -after ‘83) (was) were lucky because they got two lots of presents, in December. On the 5th and the 25th. / / By 1980, my parents and I had stopped believing in the good saint. / When I was little and living in the Bockenbergstraat ( Goat-and-mountain Street), in Gouda …...... / / .....on the cold, dark winter evenings, of the 5th, there was usually a knock on the front door. / My cousins and I would rush into the corridor but St Nicholas had already moved on, across the rooftops, on his white horse, with politically incorrect (then) black Pete®, (his black servant, from Spain) running around delivering presents or putting naughty children in bags, ready to beat them and take them back to Spain. / / When we returned to the lounge-room, it transpired that the good saint HAD already left the presents, near our shoes and taken the water and the bits of “hay”, or carrot, for the white horse. / / I knew St Nicholas was in town because he’d also been to the pre-school, that I attended, where one year he was short. The next year he was very tall. ( But I gues someone who can fit down chimneys, where Dutch houses have them, can be different sizes. ) / Later he came to 1st class and 2nd class, in the primary school as well, with his golden book and presents. / When my daughter was born in October, 1981, in December 1981, St Nicholas started visiting her and her Oma and Opa and parents, just like he does to so many other children who have at least one Dutch-born parent, or grandparents. You see, St Nicholas has time to come to Australia, before he delivers presents in the Netherlands, because, in winter, we, in Sydney, are 10 hours ahead. He still comes here. (To the nursing homes, and the Dutch club, in St Marys but not to my children any more. I play the St Nicholas songs, to help put the invited guests, at the nursing homes, in the mood. / / He also comes to Bondi Beach but I haven’t seen that. / In the fifties, I saw him ride down George Street, near Sydney Town Hall. Those were the days!! / (Dutch emigrants also took Sinterklaas (St Nicholas) to New Amsterdam (New York) and like myself, he anglocised his name to Santa Claus. Easier to pronounce than Sint-Er-clahs. / ( The Sinterklaas tradition is something that Dutch-Australians can DO something with, to remind their (grand-)children of the Dutch heritage. Back in the Netherlands, Santa Claus has taken a stronger hold. Sinterklaas still arrives, in the country, on his steamship, from Spain, and is usually still welcomed by local mayors and such but bringing ‘black servants’ with him, has given authorities something to think about and the world is getting smaller and smaller. Santa is getting bigger and bigger (as you can imagine). / Would be ironic if the original St Nick tradition survived better among the ex-Netherlanders and their off-spring. /
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A brief touch of Dutch.
by Ozcloggie/ ... / On Sunday I was in the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, again. / Actua…
/ ... / On Sunday I was in the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, again. / Actually (as I’ve explained elsewhere), we were asked to leave our building some time ago and now we are in a factory-style building building, which has a facade of a street in Amsterdam and which houses a mini supermarket. / On the roof it says Holland House but it’s also known as ‘t Winkeltje (The little Dutch shop). / It strikes me every time how (we) immigrants, from the Netherlands (certainly not all), every so often visit the little Dutch shop to get a touch of Dutch. / When you walk through the part behind the supermaket shelves, that’s the restaurant, you hear little kids call their grandmothers: Oma (and even then pronouncing that many different ways, depending on original dialect, or Australian accent). / You hear mainly English conversations but usually one or two people, at each table is just being Dutch for an hour or so – talking about the Dutch croquettes, and other Dutch foods, on the menu. / Usually explaining Dutch matters, to relatives (or friends). / ... / All that has nothing to do with longing for the old country or whatever. Just getting in toucht with roots for an hour or so. / Some of them take a stroll through the furniture section. It’s typical, very heavy Dutch furniture, which, I reckon, 95% of the people look at, but would not see it as suitable for their homes. / I suspect that furniture was a good idea for those of us who came here, in the 50s and 60s. / ... / 5 December, the Dutch celebrate St Nicholas Day. / My daughter is now 26 and my son 24. When my daughter was born, her mother and I revived the tradition of Sinterklaas and that involved an annual drive to this Dutch shop, to buy all the traditional St Nicholas Day goodies. / On Sunday, at least I bought the traditional chocolate letters. O for Opa (My father.) J for my daughter. M for my son. E for their mother. But I shall need to go back to get some other tradional ‘stuff’ as well. (It was closing time, when I left, on Sunday. / ...
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When the Dutch moved into New Amsterdam, which became New York, they took with them, the Sinterklaas (St Nicholas) tradition. / They started speaking English and Sinterklaas became Santa Claus. / The Dutch Australian Cultural Centre conducted a survey, which became known, as the DIMEX Project. / (Dutch Immigration Experience). / When it came to asking the Dutch immigrants, here, in NSW, whether their children knew much about their Dutch heritage, Sinterklaas was mentioned, almost every time. / ... / At the time of writing this, I am about to meet up with my, now adult, Australian-born son and daughter, to go and celebrate Sinterklaas with them, and my father, their Opa. / He is now in a retirement village. / ... / I was there, this morning. Played a lot of traditional Sinterklaas songs, for Sinterklaas, and the residents, and the children who had been invited. / ... / (No doubt, none of the children were of Dutch background.) / ... / I played the piano-accordeon. I know! I know! Definition of a gentleman is One who can play the piano accordeon, but doesn’t.! / This year, I was accompanied by a young lady, playing the violin. I am tempted to write: We made beautiful music together! but you’ll only make fun of it! / I’m in awe of her talent. It really was great fun! / ... / This may seem corny too, but this fits into both the groups that I look after: / Sinterklaas is definitely the bridge between their Australian culture and Dutch heritage, for Australian kids, who have one or more Dutch-born (grand-) parents! MORE HERE
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After playing the traditional St Nicholas (Sinterklaas) songs for the residents of the retirement village, where my father now lives, in the morning, my daughter, son and I visited my father there, in the evening. / For some reason, he had not attended the visit of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet (St Nicholas and ‘Black Pete’ ) in the village recreation hall, in the morning. / So I brought back my accordion, and played some more of those songs, just for him and his grandchildren. / ... / Definition of a gentleman: One who can play the accordion, but doesn’t !
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One last time to state that I really enjoyed playing the St Nicholas (Sinterklaas-) songs, in the retirement village, this time. It is so much better, when accompanied by someone else, especially someone who plays as well as Hanna does. (My playing is VERY basic. Teacher said in about 1958: ‘That’s as far as I can take you.’) It suited my purpose. Good enough to have the pupils in all those classes between 1964 and 2001, sing along. / Today it is actually Sinterklaasdag. / Right now, as Amsterdam is 10 hours behind us in Sydney, Sinterklaas is riding his white stallion across the roof-tops of the Netherlands, and his Black Pete, is lowering himself down the chimneys, leaving presents for the good children and taking away the bad ones, in his bag, to beat them, back, in Spain with the birch sticks he’s carrying.
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What would the holiday season be without all the wonderfull food, and of course the heavenly cookies … This would make a stimulating Christmas Card or Invitation to your Christmas Party
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The Real Santa Claus coming straight from the North Pole These Christmas Cards are always in style
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Wishing you a joyous & peaceful Christmas! /
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Image used in my t-shirt design. For a Christmas card. / / See the tee: / / Hey friends! / I am not able to browse & comment on your work – believe me I want to! ;D I just don’t have the time at the moment. Busy preparing for a huge Christmas flea market display of ALL my arts & crafts. / Thank you for your wonderful support!!! / PS: I do favourite your pics from time to time!
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Figures of Sinterklaas and his Zwarte Pieten (Black Peters). The Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas is celebrated on December the 5th each year. The holiday is the origin of the globally known Santa Claus. Traditionally Sinterklaas would ride his horse over the rooftops and his Zwarte Pieten would go down the chimneys and put a sack with gifts in the room for the children. The gifts would come with a rhyming poem about the person and his or hers experiences over the last year. About 70-80 percent of Dutch people celebrate the holiday tradition. / More info, check Wikipedia. ;-)
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This is not the usual sort of picture in my gallery, but indeed: what would the Netherlands be without Sinterklaas (Santa Claus)? Today he arrived in many Dutch towns, and, as everywhere, he was greeted by a great number of children and their parents. So here in Hilversum too. He shall stay until the beginning of December. It is the night of 5th December which is the dream-evening of all children as then they hope to get ever so many presents. For those who want to know more there is some good information about all traditions and habits about Sinterklaas even in English on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas Hilversum, 15th November 2008, 3.33 pm / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 32 mm / F 13, 1/50, ISO 1250 For some more pictures of the arrival of Sinterklaas in Hilversum please see my esperimenti-gallery on deviantart: / http://esperimenti.deviantart.com/
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St Nicholas is coming..........
by MrJoopThe Dutch established themselves in the U.S.. They brought with them, the tradition of celebrating St Nicholas Day (Sinterklaas Dag) and…
Time to practise playing the piano-accordion again. It’s close to St Nicholas Day. / In recent years, in the Juliana Retirement Village, Miranda, the Abel Tasman Village in Chester Hill and the Rembrandt Club, in St Marys, I’ve accompanied the singing.
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What I love best about the Sinterklaas tradition, is the build up to the grand finale, where the children set their shoes for weeks before the main day, carrots for the horse, and singing Sinterklaas songs before going to bed, curious to see if they have been “good enough” to get some “teasers” the next morning :-)
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Sinterkaas (Saint Nicholas) is a Dutch tradition. Allegedly coming each year from Spain on a steamboat, he has a multitude of helpers (all called Piet…). He is the Dutch equivalent of Father Christmas or Santa, and he is the one responsible for distributing presents to the Dutch children. Only, he brings the presents on his nameday, which is on the 5th of Decemeber. This one is the REAL Sinterklaas, which we’ve just visited at his house in Weert with the kids :-) (Casio Exilim S10)
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Sinterklaas celebrations, at The Rembrandt Club / . / / . / / . / / . / / . / / . / / . /
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Sinterklaas (also called Sint-Nicolaas or De Goedheiligman in Dutch and Saint Nicolas in French) is a traditional holiday figure in the Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles and Belgium, celebrated every year on Saint Nicholas’ eve (December 5) or, in Belgium, on the morning of December 6. The feast celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas, Patron Saint of Children. / Hij komt, hij komt, / de lieve goede Sint, / mijn beste vriend, jouw beste vriend, / de vriend van ieder kind. Mijn hartje klopt, / mijn hartje klopt zo blij. / Wat brengt hij jouw, wat brengt hij mij, / wat brengt hij jouw en mij? / Wie zoet was koek. / Wie stout was krijgt de roe. Hij komt, hij komt, / de lieve goede Sint, / mijn beste vriend, jouw beste vriend, / de vriend van ieder kind. / / Sinterklaas is jarig! / Ik zet mijn schoen vast klaar / Licht dat hij hem vol doet met / ja wist ik het maar / Hier zet ik wat water / en wat hooi voor ‘t paard / Want dat trouwe beestje / is dat heus wel waard Als de kleintjes slapen / komt de goede Sint / die de brave kinderen / het allermeest bemint / het paardje, zwaar beladen / voert hij met zich voort / en zijn knecht vertelt hem / wat hij heeft gehoord Toos is ongehoorzaam / Jantje wel eens lui / en de kleine Piet heeft / vaak een boze bui / Ik was laatst ook ondeugend / Of hij dat ook weet? / Ik mag warempel hopen / dat hij het maar vergeet / / Daar wordt aan de deur geklopt, / hard geklopt, zacht geklopt. / Daar wordt aan de deur geklopt. / Wie zou dat zijn? Wees maar gerust mijn kind. / Ik ben een goede vrind. / Want al ben ik zwart als roet, / ‘k Meen het toch goed. Want ik kom van Sinterklaas, / Sinterklaas, Sinterklaas. / ‘k Heb voor jou, m’n kleine baas, / moois in mijn zak! Ben je wel zoet geweest? / Wees dan maar niet bevreesd! / Kijk, hier zendt Sint Nicolaas / fijn speculaas! Zwarte Piet, wees wel bedankt; / wel bedankt, wel bedankt! / Nu zal ik aan ‘t leren gaan, / daar kan j’ op aan. Borstplaatjes, groot in tal, / ‘k deel ze vanavond al / met mijn lieve zusje klein. / Blij zal ze zijn! / / Dag Sinterklaasje dag dag / Dag dag Zwarte Piet / Dag Sinterklaasje dag dag / Luister naar ons welkomslied. /
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Party
by Sanne ThijsThis painting is made for a childrenspoem. / It is about diffrent kind of parties in a year. You have your birhtday, Christmas, Saint-nicolas , easter,... / Here they are all on the samepage. A4 / acryl on paper.
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The church of saint Nicholas (commonly known as Klaaskerk locally) is a large parish church that built mostly in a gothic style, but containing sizable parts of an older, romanesque building, notably its twin towers. It is not known when this building was first built, but it is estimated it was somewhere in the first half of the 12th century. During the middle ages, the custom developed in this church that the poor could come in on the feast day of saint Nicholas and leave their shoes behind in the church. The rich would then leave gifts in the shoes after service. This custom is still alive today as on the evenings before his feast day (5 december) children will leave their shoes in front of the chimney in the hope that saint nicholas (sinterklaas) will leave some candy or gifts behind in them. In Many other parts of the world the 5th of december changed to christmas eve, the sho changed to a stocking and Sinterklaas changed to Santaclaus. It is unusual in the fact that this is one of the few traditions around the saint nicholas celebrations as we know them, that is not derived from ancient pagan traditions and celebrations, but actually has something to do with the christian church. an exterior shot can be found here
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Just as last year I went to the great yearly event of the arrival of „Sinterklaas“, the Dutch version of Santa Claus. As he is a miraculous figure, he arrives today at all towns of the country. Fortunately little children do not care about that. There will be the day of their awakening though, when they start doubting whether Sinterklaas is real. Especially exciting when they are the eldest of the children in a family, who already “know”, while the smaller ones still believe the wonderful story of the “sint” with all the trust of their young years. As we have a little old canal here at Hilversum, Sinterklaas arrives in proper style by boat, the “pakjesboot” (parcel boat). After all he must bring all the parcels for the children here in this country. On the evening of 5th December he shall visit all houses and bring the presents, being helped by his little helpers, the black Peters. As to the number 13 of this parcel boat, I found on Wikipedia that the big parcel boat coming from Spain and arriving at just one chosen harbour town each year is “pakjesboot 12”. There are sometimes other boats used with the number 13 en 14. But why not 1,2 … or 11? Please do not ask me. Perhaps one of our Dutch RB friends does know this. Hilversum, 14th November 2009, 1.55 pm / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 24 mm / F 10, 1/125, ISO 1000
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Once again Sinterklaas (the Dutch Santa Claus) is back in Hilversum, as he is in all other Dutch towns. Yes, his mysterious powers are enormous. Just imagine him arriving in all towns on the same day and bringing presents for all Dutch children each year again. This fairy-tale world figure becomes real for some weeks each autumn. He is deeply interwoven in Dutch folklore. And as I read the other day, his relative position compared with Father Christmas is still very strong, if not even getting stronger again. People tend to cling closer to their cultural heritage in times of crises here too. In any case there were hundreds of children with their parents present at the old harbour of Hilversum, and they did not think about folklore or anything. For them the great mystical figure had come back. They will be placing their shoe next to the chimney tonight and will hope to get a little present. And then, on the evening of 5th December, the really big event is going to happen again. Sinterklaas will pass along all their houses, and there will hopefully be all the presents they dream about these days. Or at least some of them. For further info please see last year’s shot. Hilversum, 14th November 2009, 2.32 pm / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 18 mm / F 16, 1/125, ISO 1000 Here the shot of Sinterklaas‘ arrival in Hilversum last year: /
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The best way to say thank you for your wonderful comments on my earlier picture of this year’s arrival of Sinterklaas in Hilversum is to show you another of my shots of this event, I suppose. Here you can see that he is not only majestical, but also very attentive to the children who welcome him. The most enjoyable thing they experience at such an occasion is to get a handshake from the Sint. Their faces beam with happiness whenever they are so lucky to be rewarded for their waiting by such a handshake. Fortunately his welcome in Hilversum was a matter of no more than several hundred children. In Schiedam, the big “national” welcome, there were about 40 000 onlookers. Poor chance to get a handshake there. Much better to go to a smaller place to see him. A good thing that he arrives just everywhere. One up for his miraculous powers. It actually was pretty difficult with the bright, but low November sunshine to get a good shot. I was glad to get at least these two, out of about … Well, I won’t tell you how many shots I took and deleted afterwards. Hilversum, 14th November, 2.29 pm / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 18 mm / F 20, 1/125, ISO 1000
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They are the most famous Childrensfriend for centuries here in the BENELUX and beyond!! / because this is actually the real santa claus. / We call him Sinterklaas If you want to know more about that you can look here
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The Dutch tradition of “Sinterklaas” begins at the beginning of November, even earlier if shop keepers have their way, and they mostly do . / The shop windows start to fill up with all the Sinterklaas attributes: gift-wrapped cardboard boxes, replicas of Sinterklaas and “Zwarte Piet” (Black Pete), chocolate letters, pepernoten. Halfway through November there is a big spectacle when the man arrives in the Netherlands. A television crew awaits his arrival at one of the more photogenic ports where he docks his steam boat full of presents, Zwarte Pieten, and his horse. They are welcomed by a huge audience of parents and children.
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