EMBRACE – Speech Herman Van Rompuy

Herman Van Rompuy – former Prime Minister of Belgium and first President of the European Council. Speech during the inauguration of Koenraad Tinel’s new work of art ‘Embrace’ , Friday, October 26 – in Ganshoren , Brussels , Belgium.
EMBRACE is a translation of the remarkable friendship between the artist Koenraad Tinel and lawyer Simon Gronowski, who both carry a heavy war history with them.
Embrace is a realization of the De Zeyp community center on the occasion of the 40th anniversary, and is part of the Grundtvig project ‘2WARdS-Europe’ .
EMBRACE – Speech Herman Van Rompuy (20181027) film by Michel van der Burg – Miracles.Media | michelvanderburg.com

Embrace

This new work of art ‘Embrace’ was inaugurated today – Friday, October 26 – in Ganshoren , Brussels , Belgium. At the foot of the Basilica Koekelberg, at the beginning of the Van Overbekelaan, the corten steel sculpture was placed last monday and filmed in this panoramic view from the Basilica. This work is a translation of the remarkable friendship between artist Koenraad Tinel and lawyer Simon Gronowski, who both carry a heavy war history with them.
Embrace is a realization of the De Zeyp community center on the occasion of the 40th anniversary, and is part of the Grundtvig project ‘2WARdS-Europe’
Embrace (20181026) artwork panoramic view by Michel van der Burg – Miracles.Media | michelvanderburg.com

Water Windmiller Pieter van der Burg | 20140821

Water Windmiller Pieter van der Burg | 20140821 | 1-memo.com | Great-great-great grandfather ‘Pieter’ van der Burg was a water-miller 200 years ago (from 1811) on the ‘Noorddammolen’ (the North Dam Mill) of the “Oude Pijnackerse polder” (Old Polder of Pijnacker) in South-Holland. The Noorddammolen was demolished in 1861 (a few years after Pieter had died) when a steam pumping-engine was build for the job. This picture from around 1900 shows both the similar neighbouring water mills and the steam pumping engine : in the front first the Zuiddammolen (South Dam mill) – then the chimney of the steam pumping-engine at the site were that ‘Noorddammolen’ of Pieter used to be, finally the Noordmolen (North Mill).
Background on the Noorddammolen – That mill had been rebuild in 1577 after the original mill had been destroyed during the Spanish Siege of Leiden. Further note that Pieter had moved to another mill already in 1815. Image source / part of the info : molendatabase.org | Allemolens.nl.

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New posts at michelvanderburg.com | imichel•com | 20120731

Apple decided with the move from MobileMe to iCloud, to stop hosting client web sites. So, I moved my michelvanderburg.com site last month to WordPress for hosting. This now also allows me easy posting, and for now new posts (as well as older content from this blog here* ) will be published at michelvanderburg.com .

Update June 27, 2022 – All post from imichel.com have been republished last week on both michelvanderburg.com and 1-memo.com . Video’s embedded in posts and missing now in this blog – because they originated from my second youtube ‘iClip’ which was archived (thus no longer available) some years ago – have been replaced with new editions in the republished posts. Further , problems with links no longer working , were addressed.

Posted by michelvanderburg – Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Updates

*Republished 20220622 by Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com , from imichel•com | imichel•blogspot•com | 20120731

Finished (finally) today – June 22, 2022 – republishing all posts from imichel•com | imichel•blogspot•com at both current sites michelvanderburg.com and 1-memo.com .

Update June 27, 2022 – updated imichel.com post

Republished posts (updated for missing links and with new (remastered) video editions – when needed – are found searching for ‘imichel’ at these sites :

https://michelvanderburg.com/?s=imichel

and

https://1-memo.com/?s=imichel

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