Weekend Special (7- 9 April 2017)

Posted on by Renee

Here’s a summary of highlighted events for the upcoming weekend in The Hague and surrounds.  Click on the links for more details. Please check the websites of the organisers for the most up to date information and any last minute changes. Have a great weekend!

History of The Hague Day (Dag van de Haagse Geschiedenis)    (Saturday 8th April)

History of The Hague Day (Dag van de Haagse Geschiedenis) @ het Plein

The History of The Hague Day (Dag van de Haagse Geschiedenis) takes place on Saturday, 8 April. Discover the rich history of The Hague in 1 day and learn something new.

More than 40 museums, historical institutes and volunteer groups are participating in the History of The Hague Day. They will organise all kinds of activities such as city tours, lectures, boat trip and workshops.

The Hague Municipal Archives has been organising this event for more than a decade now. Its goal is to acquaint all residents of The Hague with the city’s rich history. Participating organisations will pool their resources to inform the public about the many different historical facets of The Hague.

This year organisers are making an effort to include non-Dutch speakers, with 35 activities for English-speaking people. Meanwhile children can take part in all kinds of fun activities and workshops like a kite-making workshop, silent disco, a loopy letter and the History of The Hague photo van

Mozart’s opera ‘Don Giovanni’   (Saturday 8th April)

The Nederlandse Reisopera will perform Mozart’s famous comic opera ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Zuiderstrandtheater on this coming Saturday.

Together with ‘Così fan tutte’ and ‘Le nozze di Figaro’, this opera belongs to the big 3 Italian operas with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.

Don Giovanni, a young, arrogant, and sexually promiscuous nobleman, abuses and outrages everyone else in the cast until he encounters something he cannot kill, beat up, dodge, or outwit. The opera makes for exciting musical theatre with a great deal of suspense and humour and, according to some music critics, it is the most beautiful opera ever written.

 

Wine tasting and Jazz 2017 – a charity event by Rotary Club The Hague Metropolitan    (Sunday 9th April)

On the afternoon of the  Sunday 9  April,  Rotary Club The Hague Metropolitan  will be holding a charity wine tasting event to raise funds for their  designated charities.

This is always a very vibrant, well attended event, with wine, chocolate and food, accompanied by excellent Jazz music.

 

“Les Belles -Soeurs” by the Amateur French Theater Group   (6 – 9  April)

le GEST (Amateur French Theater Group), well known in the Hague, touring within the Netherlands, will perform (in French) ” les Belles -Soeurs” by Eric Assous, directed by Francois Gaubert.

Pitch of the play: 3 brothers (Francky, Yvan and David) and their spouses (Nicole, Mathilde and Christelle) gather to celebrate Nicole’s and Franckly’s new house.
Nicole takes  the opportunity to invite Talia, Fancky’s secretary. Worries are growing among the brothers, who know her. Each sentence will trigger doubts and suspicion about the relation between this seductive and manipulative woman and the brothers. The dinner will degenerate, men will get trapped in the mud trying to find sound justifications….
Advised for children above 12 y/o

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