Upcoming Events

BREDA EXPATS EVENTS

Ik hou van Holland Dutch night.

Come and learn all about the Netherlands, practice your Dutch alongside native speakers with fun quizzes, games and singing!

NEW! @ Breda Expats, Dutch speaking events together with Taal Ja!, Keep an eye out for other events

1st November 20h at Het Hijgende Hert

IMPORTANT TO RSVP BY EMAIL to info@bredaexpats.nl (So we can make up the teams)

Fortnightly Pub Meet ups

12th October 20h

26th October 20h

9th November 20h

23rd November 20h

Meet up with other members for drinks and a chat

Het Hijgende Hert, Breda

QUIZ NIGHT

12th November 20 h. @ the Mezz in Breda.

To sign up for these events email info@bredaexpats.nl or RSVP on the event page of our Facebook page

Little Monkeys Book club – 1.50 euros per child. A book club for the children, 3 meet ups a year, reading favourite stories combined with fun activities. Get the chance to order new books at discounted prices. 20th October 10-12h

International Monkeys- 2 euros per child. Combining our cultures together twice a year. Bring an international activity to share and something to nibble from your country 3rd November 10 -12h

To sign up for these email bredalittlemonkeys@gmail.com or RSVP on the event page of our Facebook page

A brand new community for pregnant and mothers of young babies in the Breda area.

Offering meet ups and information about pregnancy and raising children in Holland.

Come for a coffee and a chat every second Thursday of the month at a members house.

Email bumpsandbabies@gmail.com for more information

AROUND BRABANT IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER

BREDA FAIR - Starting this weekend , Chasse Theatre car park

BREDA PHOTO FESTIVAL until 21st October

In 2012, the BredaPhoto international Photo festival takes place for the fifth time in the city center of Breda. The festival started as a small-scale and idealistic initiative to bring high quality-photography to a broader, regional public, but quickly developed into a major photo festival that is now internationally recognizable. The 2010 edition welcomed an estimated 50.000 visitors.

www.bedaphoto.nl

Sanders Pumpkins http://www.s-sanders.nl/

Exposition showing how pumpkins are cultured in The Netherlands. You can also visit the greenhouse with tropical vegetables.
Refreshments are available for our visitors. Activities for the children
The exact opening times can be found here.

Circo Circolo Festival http://www.circocircolo.nl/Festival/9aac34ca/1/Route.aspx

Velder Estate in the South of The Netherlands, 11 to 21 October. The festival site is open every day from noon to midnight. You can find the times of each show in the programme.

No elephants and tigers, but the esteemed audience. No sawdust and chimpanzee droppings, but colourful tents reaching up to the sky, thrilling and awakening curiosity. No fat MC who grandly announces separate acts.

But a whirlpool that leads to modern circus theatre in which all the disciplines are forged into a wondrous world, personified by top artists. The International Circus Theatre Festival Circo Circolo, which settled five years ago at the Velder Estate in Brabant, sucked Dutch audiences for the first time into this whirlpool and hence into the magic of new international circus theatre.

Anyone who dares enter the tents of Circo Circolo in the second decade of the third millennium witnesses these stunning evolution of traditional circus into modern circus theatre, from the development of craftsman-like entertainment into an autonomous, high-quality, entertaining and kaleidoscopic dramatic art form.

Pumpkin day Asten 13 t/m 21 oktober 2012 http://www.museumasten.nl/

Markets, food, activities for the children, treasure hunts, pumpkin painting

OktoberFeest Nuenen http://www.oktoberfestnuenen.nl/ 20th October

Dutch Design Week in Eindhoeven http://www.ddw.nl/ 20th - 28th October

GLOW Eindhoven http://www.gloweindhoven.nl

FORUM OF LIGHT & ARCHITECTURE
10th to 17th NOVEMBER 2012

From November, 10th to 17th, 2012, the city center of Eindhoven turns once again into a forum of interventions, installations, performances and events based on the phenomena of artificial light.

Sunday till Thursday from 18:00 til 23:00

Friday and Saturday from 18:00 til 00:00

OUTSIDE OF BRABANT

16-28 October:

Circus Herman Renz

This year the Dutch National Circus Herman Renz presents the festive 2,5 hour show 'Sensations'. Daredevils from Colombia, a tango in the air high above the ring and a world-premiere with two white lions and five impressive tigers together in the ring, cheerful clowns, tempo jugglers on unicycles, a stunning act with pearly white horses and much more.

www.denhaag.nl/en/residents/to/Circus-Herman-Renz-1.htm

19 - 28 October:

'De Betovering' (The Enchantment)

Childrens Art & Culture Festival

Each year during the Autumn Break the De Betovering festival takes place in The Hague. Children between the ages of 2 and 14 years will be treated to some 250 Dutch and non-Dutch performances and workshops at 38 different locations. Performances include theatre shows as well as dance, music and film. Professional artists will guide workshops where children can try their hand at dance, music, filmmaking, painting, fashion, theatre and much more.http://www.debetovering.nl/english.html

6 November, 09.00 - 16.30 (Rotterdam):

"What makes the Dutch Dutch?"

A full-day workshop organised by Expertise in Labour Mobility (ELM), aimed at newly arrived expats (and expat partners) who want to make the best of their stay in the Netherlands and who want to get to grips with the Dutch quickly. EUR 185 pp (excl VAT) including lunch and drinks. www.labourmobility.com/workshops-corporate/expats/

World Cup Football

The Dutch national football team, Oranje, begins its World Cup 2014 qualifying matches at the end of the summer, continuing on into 2013.

They play:

Germany on November 14
Italy on February 6
Estonia on March 22
Romania on March 26
Hungary on October 11

All at the Arena, Amsterdam.

www.amsterdamarena.nl

PASSIONATE PARENTING SEMINARS....

Raising Bilingual Children - October 17

Teaching Children about Choices & Consequences - Nov 22

Managing your Child's Energy through Food - 28 Nov

All Seminar Times: 19h30

Venue: van Hogenhoucklaan 89 (behind Bronovo)

Cost: Eur35per person Eur52,50 couples

Click here for more info

BOOK EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS MAYBE?

Holiday On Ice

The theme is Speed - in instinct, city, love, nature, money, time, machines and light. As well as some of the best skate dancers in the world, the show also features circus acts, the Wheel of Death, water, wind and fire.

Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, October 18 to 21; Brabanthallen, Den Bosch, October 25to 28; RAI, Amsterdam, November 1 to 4; Ahoy, Rotterdam, November 8 to11.

www.holidayonice.nl

World Christmas Circus

This year's circus features David Larible, the man known as the 'king of clowns'. There is also an amazing pogoda cat from a team of sixteen artists from China, a brand new version of the flying trapeze act from North Korea, the world's best contortionist from South Africa and acts featuring horses and sealions.

Theater Carré, Amsterdam, December 21 to January 6.

www.carre.nl