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The good saint.
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3 December '07, Sinterklaas visited Abel Tasman Retirement Village again.
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The good musician*
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It was so good to be joined by *Hanna, on violin, this year. It made, playing the accordion, for Sinterklaas, these local students and the residents, an extra pleasure - Jo M., webmaster, board-member. MORE HERE.
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About Us
Mission Statement The Dutch Australian Cultural Centre Ltd has as its aims and objectives the collection, preservation, promotion and dissemination of Dutch culture and heritage in Australia. It also aims to be a broad based source of information, advice, assistance and interest for the benefit of people of Dutch nationality or descent in Australia as well as for the wider Australian community. It will act as facilitator and intermediator where necessary.
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History of the DACC
The DACC Ltd was founded in 1983 and was registered officially on 30 May 1984 as the Dutch Australian Centre Ltd. In 2002 the name was changed to Dutch Australian Cultural Centre Ltd. It came into being because the need was felt to establish a central organisation to preserve the rich history of Dutch immigration in the country.
Another reason was to become a "resources centre" for persons who wanted to study aspects of the Netherlands, be it economics or costumes and habits. A reference library was therefore established and an archive planned. These functions and activities are progressing now.
The first exhibition organised by the Centre was in the Bondi Pavilion in 1983 of Dutch artists living and working in Australia. Several equally successful exhibitions about immigration followed.
With acceptance grew the confidence in the Centre and the Dutch Government granted the DAC in 1986 an amount of 15.000 guilders, while the Netherlands Society in Sydney made $500 available for the Reference Library. Further grants were received from the Australian Government in 1995, ($14.500 to employ an part-time administrative assistant in 1996) and in 1997 from the Netherlands Benevolent Fund for the reference library. In the last year $5000 for the archives, $1600 for a website and oral history came from the Dutch Government and a total of almost $12.000 from various Australian Government Institutions. Thanks to all this the Centre now employs a part time archivist.
The importance of the DACC grows as the various social Dutch societies and clubs slowly disappear from the scene. However, the grandchildren of the original Dutch immigrants are getting more and more interested in their grandparents' history and want to trace their roots and their lineage. Very few, if any, young members (the children of the immigrants - the second generation) ever joined the existing clubs. They were more interested in assimilating.
There are still a few active clubs left with a broad members base and in a sound financial position. Alas the members are ageing and so are the committees of the clubs. Although this is sad in a way, it makes the position and standing of the DACC Ltd in the Dutch community stronger. The clubs want their history preserved and are collecting their minute books and other documents to hand them over to the archives. Many older Dutch people are doing the same. After all these years the Centre has finally come into its own.
Since 1993 the DACC Ltd had been able to use a building in the grounds of a retirement facility, the Abel Tasman Village in Chester Hill. This was made possible through the support for the Centre from the late Anton Kool, who for many years was the Chairman of the Federation of Netherlands Societies. However, with the ageing of the Dutch immigrants comes a greater need for care and consequently for more space. The DACC is in the process of vacating the building.
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Click on Flickr Badge
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A different badge and pictures, further down, this page!
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This is a Flickr badge showing SOME visitors, in a photo set, called D.A.C.C.. More via Badge 2, down below!! Make your own badge here.
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| Photo: The Hon. Rod Kemp, Senator for Victoria, Minister for the Arts and Sport, and former Chair Person, Akky van Ogtrop, at the National Library, Canberra, where Akky accepted the Community Heritage Grant for the D.A.C.C. archives, from the minister. |
Library and Archives: mission statement
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The Dutch Australian Cultural Centre Reference Library and Archives exist to disseminate knowledge and history of Dutch culture and promote the study thereof in Australia by collecting any material relevant to the Dutch-Australian link, for the wider Australian community, in particular those of Dutch descent.
Over the years the collection of books has grown considerably, and of course continue to grow. Many Dutch people donate books along with documents and photos. There is an extensive segment of books about WWII, both in English and Dutch, the former Dutch East Indies and of course Dutch history.
A small number of novels are also kept as a snapshot of the taste of the immediate postwar immigrants. The Library is accessible on request and every possible assistance will be given.
As it is a Reference Library, books can be accessed, but cannot be borrowed. Newsletter This newsletter is published quarterly and is available to DACC members only. As well as keeping members informed about the goings on in the DACC, it also tries to have a calendar of events and a section for "letters to the editor".
All contributions are welcome, especially if people have advance knowledge of upcoming events.
Publications for Sale
The DACC has produced a number of publications which are available for sale. Please see the Resources section for more information. 0-0-0-0-0
Australia on the Map 1606 -2006 - the D.A.C.C. supported this initiative. Here a LINK (MP3) to an excerpt from the SBS Radio Dutch Language Program, regarding the project(MP3). Further information here (to listen via Real Player etc.). and here.
Interesting links: Ex-pats site: CLICK HERE.
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You are listening to an interview re: ECHOES from the PAST, recently broadcast by SBS Radio Dutch program. (Controls located top right - now.)
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The story of...
PRISONER NUMBER 329,
by Alida van den Bos,
may be purchased
through the
Dutch Australian Cultural Centre -
OPEN
on Wednesdays and Sundays.
85 Market Street
Smithfield.
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PERUSE this at the D.A.C.C.
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PERUSE this at the D.A.C.C.
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FREE BOOKS!
More info on webmaster, Jo,'s bookshelf here!!!
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Read a (Dutch) report, here, reproduced, with kind permission of the chief editior of Impuls, a local paper, distributed in Arnhem, Nijmegen, Apeldoor en Doetinchem.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
"Bookfairy73" wrote: "I picked up this book in Smithfield at the Dutch Shop - passing it on to my mum who lives in Wagga Wagga. She will pass it on to her Dutch friends there - let's see where it ends up!"
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from the Dutch Courier:
Book Review - by Jeltje Fanoy
Bonegilla: where waters meet -
The Dutch Migrant Experience in
Australia
Compiled and edited by Dirk and Marijke Eysbertse
Published by the Erasmus Foundation, 2006 (3rd Edition)
GPO
Box 3123
,
Melbourne
3001 -ISNN 0 646310054
Early this year my Greek-Australian friend sent me a newspaper article about Gerard Willems, who is an acclaimed Australian pianist. Gerard came to
Australia
as a child and is now 60 years old. He still remembers thinking in 1958 that “he had landed on Mars” when he arrived from the
Netherlands
at a migrant camp in
Wollongong
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In the intense heat of the Australian summer, the newly arrived families were expected to survive in Nissen huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence.
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"Have we heard all this before, or is it that we are hearing it all again, anew, afresh, every day on the news? What is this phenomenon of putting up displaced families in need, for indefinite periods of time, in what can only be described as socially remote, sub-standard and militarised zones?
Doen alsof," by Adriaan van der Veen, winged its way from B.C., Canada, to Smithfield, NSW.. Hopefully, someone will pick it up; read it (or not) enter a comment in the journal and let it fly around Australia a bit!! (It came with a nice card And why isn’t there a constant public outcry about their plight?
Dirk and Marijke Eysbertse, after enormous amounts of research in both Australia and The Netherlands, lovingly put together this account of the Dutch migrant experience in the 1950’s and 1960’s at the migrant camp Bonegilla.
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* We're Dutch-Australians and so it's likely that we read books in English or in Dutch. Check out my bookshelf and see if the books "have taken wings".
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"I have made a website about my roots in Australia. I was born in Australia and when I was 5 years old we (my mother, father and sister) moved to Holland. Now I feel a little "homesick". I have never been back to Australia but this year I will visit the land I was born." Meer hier..........
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Voor een nieuw tv-programma op RTL4 is Herman den Blijker ( Nederlandse chef-kok) en een partner (hotelier) op zoek naar 'noodlijdende' hotels/pensions met restaurant in het buitenland om te helpen.
Hebben jullie/jij een hotel/pension met restaurant in het buitenland dat niet loopt zoals het hoort te lopen, blijft klandizie uit en kun je amper het hoofd boven water houden?
Weten jullie niet hoe je het moet veranderen en kunnen jullie wel wat hulp gebruiken bij de organisatie en bij het KOKEN? Mail dan je verhaal en gegevens naar herrieinhethotel@rtl.nl , zodat Herman den Blijker je weer op de rit kan helpen! Vragen? 0031 - 297 – 35 7190 of mail.
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True story
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Tall ships.
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 The story of the evolution of sailing ships that gradually linked Australia to Europe. |
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| "an adult version of Lord of the Flies that is, moreover, entirely true" Evening Standard (For perusal, at D.A.C.C.) |
Byron Heath has published several articles on the Dutch discoveries around Australia. |
persoonlijke zoektocht naar die wereld van Hollandse recepten uit de keuken van alledag (For perusal, at D.A.C.C..) |
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"Voor een televisieprogramma op Ned. 1 zijn wij op zoek naar geschikte kandidaten om te portretteren in hun nieuwe vaderland.Nu zijn we weer met een nieuw project bezig, een programma over Nederlanders in het verre buitenland. Voor een televisieprogramma van de publieke omroep op Nederland 1 zijn wij op zoek naar mensen die al enige tijd Nederland hebben verlaten om een nieuw bestaan in het verre buitenland op te bouwen. Een portret over het leven dat ze opgebouwd hebben, over de onverwachte en mooie plekken in hun nieuwe land, over de typische gebruiken en rituelen van dat land. Wij zijn van plan om in een aantal dagen een mooi portret te maken. Tegelijkertijd filmen we ook in Nederland familie en vrienden: de achterblijvers. Wat hebben de Nederlanders gevonden in hun nieuwe thuisland , maar wat lieten zij achter of beter gezegd , wie lieten zij achter. De vraag is: zijn er Nederlanders die u kent die nog wel banden hebben met hun vaderland, maar niet in de gelegenheid zijn om vaak hun geboorteland te bezoeken.
Het programma zal gaan over het nieuwe leven aan de ene kant en het gemis van familie en vrienden in Nederland aan de andere kant. Wie van de vrienden of familie wordt het meest gemist? Wij zoeken kleurrijke Nederlanders met een leuk verhaal, niet puissant rijk, want dan kun je immers op en neer vliegen wanneer je wilt en de achterblijvers -- Nienke Pluijm Stokvisproducties, Plein 1945 nr 27 1251 MA Laren NH tel : 0031 36 5241486 fax: 0031 36 5241301 e-mail nienke.pluijm@stokvisproducties.nl
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The value of membership
The most valuable asset of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre is its members. That value is in the contribution that they make to the promotion and preservation of Dutch culture. Of course members have input in the direction and operation of the organization. They can do this by attending Board meetings, annual general meetings and participating in activities. Voluntarily assisting in the amount of work that has to be done is particularly invaluable. In return members receive the quarterly DACC Newsletter and invitations to participate in special activities.Download the membership form here (pdf file). and send to The Secretary, Dutch Australian Centre Ltd, PO Box 2059, Smithfield 2164 (NOT the old address on the pdf file)
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| Fees Yearly membership fees are as follows: Singles $25($20 concession), families $40 ($30 concessions). The membership year runs from July till June. To join DACC please download the membership form and return it with payment to The Secretary, Dutch Australian Centre Ltd, Sponsorship
It is also possible to become a sponsor of the DACC Ltd. To discuss sponsorship options please contact The Secretary, Dutch Australian Centre Ltd, PO Box 2059, Smithfield 2164 Or e-mail info@dacc.com.au or phone (02) 02 9729 3384
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Consul-General of the Netherlands in Australia and Patron of the D.A.C.C.,
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Consul-General Ms M. M. (Margarita) Bot and party, visited the D.A.C.C. .
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