Tag: NB – INSPIRE ME
Climate change seems cautiously positive for the sand lizard on the Heuvelrug: “You see them more and more, but it takes some searching”
“Whoa, stop, yes, this is it…!” Pascal dives into the sand next to a heath and grabs his camera. In the sand, a creature not much bigger than a pebble…
During the organ summer in the Dom Church, organist Jan Hage has to work hard: ‘Sometimes it really is a struggle’
Jan Hage has been playing the organ of the Domkerk for about 12 years now. Next to the gate through which he has to walk to get to the organ,…
Elisa commemorates enslaved ancestors during Keti Koti: ‘With my poems I bring their stories close’
A passage from Elisa’s poem for the Utrecht slavery monument Flight and Resistance: We’re standing still so that our ancestors rest on our shoulders and we wear them their strength…
Persistence wins: endless e-mails and calling before a performance brings the band Turmoil into the limelight
Soest – It started at Gluren bij de Buren in Soest and now they are back, the men of the Americana band Turmoil. But in the meantime they have a…
How the past of slavery still lives on in Roze-Marie (89): ‘The pain runs deep’
Only a few generations ago, the slavery past is so close to Roze-Marie Kensenhuis (89) and her daughter Valga Lamur (58). Their ancestors were enslaved in Suriname. Today, 150 years…
Living out of a backpack, dreaming of tennis fame: ‘You shouldn’t suffer from homesickness’
Visscher and Pontjodikromo started playing tennis around the age of four. And they both turned out to be so talented that they entered the professional circuit before their twentieth birthday.…
Abel participated in Utrecht SingelSwim for friend Douwe with serious muscle disease
FSHD stands for Facio Scapulo Humeral Dystrophy, which is a hereditary, chronic progressive muscle disease in which the skeletal muscles slowly disappear due to a genetic defect. It is one…
Not just any vet: Peter Klaver anesthetized the Steller’s sea eagle
Province of Utrecht – An escaped bald eagle, a cow on the highway or a deer too close to an airstrip, just try to catch it. In such a case…
150 years of Hindustani-Surinamese history, thanks to Radj Ramcharan, the whole of Utrecht can learn from it
He needs few questions or encouragement: Ramcharan tells of his own accord, gladly and a lot. The Asha foundation has had a permanent place in the De Oase community center…
Utrecht hairdressing family has been cutting hair for 175 years and is given the honorary title: ‘Crown on your work’
The hairdresser’s pole – a red, white and blue luminous tube – that adorns the facade of De Bruijn Haarmode, is still reminiscent of the bloodletting. “Red stands for blood,…