Sing Shoes Sweets Sinterklaas

Sinterklaas folklore St Nicolas – At bedtime Dutch children place their shoes before the chimney or the door (called ‘je schoen zetten’) – with carrots or apples for the horse of St Nicolas – and sing a lot of songs for St Nicolas and Black Pete, hoping to find some sweets in their shoe the next morning. Filmed Nov. 22nd 2018.
Sing Shoes Sweets Sinterklaas | 20201128 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Embrace Installation

Placing of Koenraad Tinel’s work of art EMBRACE – a translation of his remarkable friendship with lawyer Simon Gronowski – in Ganshoren , Brussels , Belgium, October 22, 2018.

A sculpture on Simon Gronowski’s jump to freedom at the age of 11, when pushed by his mother out of the 20th death train to Auschwitz in 1943.

Watch the inauguration panorama October 26, 2018 here – https://michelvanderburg.com/2018/10/26/embrace/

Both Koenraad Tinel and Simon Gronowski together received honorary doctorates (doctor honoris causa) by both the VUB and ULB Brussels’ universities today Sep. 22th 2020 at 3:22 PM CET in Brussels.
Embrace Installation | 20200922 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | Miracles.Media

Merry go Round

Avifauna bird park in Alphen, Holland, July 2012.
Merry go Round | 20200827 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Puppet on a String

Dancing marionettes, August 2012.
Puppet on a String | 20200826 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Bedtime Story

Read aloud dutch book, August 2012.
Bedtime Story | 20200825 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Wonderlust

Wonderlust
NL – Wonderlust – Discussie over de kunst, rol en begeerte van en voor verwondering in een mooi leven. EN – Wonderlust for the world and life. Discussion (in dutch).
Paperback : Wonderlust – Pat Donnez, Jean Paul van Bendegem & Caroline Pauwels | ISBN 9789057189005 e-book 9789057189142 | VUBPRESS. Film : 20200320 Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | 1-memo.com

Wonder Ode ~ Caroline Pauwels

NL – Waarom is de zee blauw ?
‘Ode aan de verwondering’ is een pleidooi van Caroline Pauwels om opnieuw met die ‘kinderlijk’ onbevangen blik naar de wereld te kijken , met verwondering – niet alleen in wetenschap en kunst , maar ook in de grote en kleine momenten van elke dag.

EN – Why is the sea blue?
Ode to Wonder (dutch language essay ‘Ode aan de verwondering’) is a plea by Belgian author Caroline Pauwels to look at the world again with that childlike open-mindedness – to wonder, not just in science and art, but also in all these big and small moments of everyday life.