K-Swiss Event

Tomorrow, friday the 30th of March (time goes fast!) K-Swiss store finally does an event. The store is open for ages already, in the former Bestcompany headquarters at NieuweZijds Voorburgwal. But now, they've decided to let Best Comapny organize a nice event. The store opens in the evening with a free concert and goodies for less and free. I'm curious, though K-Swiss is not my brand - they're not Adidas- and these events are always fun.

Story catcher

For a year now, I am working on this wonderful oral history project Verhalenvanger (story catcher). Together with a symbolic table I have visited three elderly homes for people from the former Dutch East Indies and will continue with a tour along Surinamese and Antillean houses. After showing the inhabitants of the home old film footage, I catch their story together with pictures or documents. This collection of stories aims to tell the personal stories behind the grand political history and to show the communality within such a group of immigrants. In this project we focus on 'inburgering' and collect the stories of newcomers in Holland.
Read and enjoy!

photo: picture from a private collection from the website, showing son of the house posing next to the newly bought television set. Black-and-white off course.

Pom

In May 2007, ImagineIC will host an exhibition on Pom. Pom is the traditional and national recipe of Surinam and it is soooo nice!
The exhibition will explore the zillion diverse ways pom is made, but will also cover the urspunglich jewish root of the recipe. The oven cuissonière was brought to Surinam by Jews, but adapted to their tastebuds by Creoles, Marrons, Javanese and Hindustani.
Check the Pom map of Amsterdam if you wanna taste some good pom in the different neighbourhoods of Mokum

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