Welcome.
We are located within Holland House (the Dutch shop) and open on Wednesday and Sundays
when the shop is open.
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02 9729 3384
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Patron: Ms M. Bot, Consul General of the Netherlands
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"The
Intensely Dutch Forum
presents a vibrant array of approaches to modern Dutch art, drawing on all the key aspects of the exhibition Intensely Dutch: image, abstraction and the word.
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Echoes from the Past, co-ordinated by Frances Larder, is currently being developed by volunteers, to showcase Dutch culture and customs.
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Dutch-born visual artists, in and near Sydney, join us in speaking about your work!
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Inspired by a talk, given by D.A.C.C. boardmember Thea Bourne, the D.A.C.C. is planning to organise more such talks by Dutch-born visual artists, in Sydney and further afield.
The board is keen to contact any Dutch-born artists, prepared to participate in speaking about their work.
Contact us: info@dacc.com.au (or jo @ ozcloggie.com .
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| D.A.C.C. Boardmember, Thea has been a Committee member of the Hornsby Art Society for over 10 years, including two years as President (2000, 2001) and one year as Vice President (2006) and has run a weekly Life Drawing group, on a voluntary basis for the last five years. |
D.A.C.C. Boardmember, Frances Larder, is of Dutch descent but born in Dutch-East India, as it was called before the war. She obtained a degree in visual arts and for quite a number of years she participated in solo and group exhibitions both in Australia and overseas. A current project: Echoes from the past. |
| D.A.C.C. Boardmember, Akky van Ogtop, as a director and manager of major arts events, has proven experience as an arts administrator and creative management, with extensive contacts and national and international project experience. |
D.A.C.C. Boardmember, Jo Mulholland, retired assistant principal, primary, celebrated his 65th birthday, in October, 2008, with his first exhibition, entitled: Remembering, showing paintings of favourite, people and places. |
| Please join these D.A.C.C. board members, in spreading the word about work(s) produced by Dutch-born artists. (Other forms of art to follow.) |
CONTACT US: info@dacc.com.au
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Dr Nonja Peters, co-ordinating author of "The Dutch down under : 1606-2006 " and author of " From tyranny to freedom : Dutch children from the Netherlands East Indies to Fairbridge Farm School 1945", (third from the right) met up again with members of the board of the D.A.C.C., recently, to informally discuss, once again, the availability of knowledge about the impact of the Dutch on Australia's history and culture, in Australia via museums and education systems.
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From Robert Turner, in the Western Australian: DNA testing may confirm that aborigines from the mid west of W.A. share ancestry with Dutch sailors shipwrecked on the WA coast, three centuries ago. READ ON.
CONGRATULATIONS to all those volunteers and organisers, of the annual Dutch Fair,
held at the Rembrandt Club, St Marys.
Photos by Jo Mulholland (a.k.a., Joop Mul)
The 35th annual Holland Festival, was held at the Sandown Entertainment Complex in Springvale,
on Saturday the 21st of February 2009.
Check out the photos here
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 Students, from Gifu and Shizuoka Universities, Japan, visited the D.A.C.C.,. MORE HERE!!!
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From Dutchlink: The Australian visit by the Netherlands Foreign Minister, Maxime Verhagen, this January comes at an important time in global affairs - as the US welcomes its new president Barack Obama and a change of administration and as the war in Afghanistan enters a new and more dangerous phase.
Hear H. E., Maxime Verhagen Minister for Foreign Affairs, Netherlands will speak on the topic: The Netherlands, Australia and the World at The Sydney Institute.
Tuesday 20 Jan. '09 - 1 pm - 1.45 pm - Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney RSVP: (02) 9252 3366 or email
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Join this network and keep in touch, yes! with the Dutch!
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Dutchman Jan Versleijen has been appointed head coach of Australia's under-20 team and in charge of the Australian Institute of Sport football programme, Football Federation Australia said Tuesday.
The appointment continues a heavy Dutch emphasis on Australia's football coaching and development structure, with Pim Verbeek heading the national team and Rob Baan as national technical director.
Versleijen, 53, who replaces Australian Steve O'Connor at the AIS, has extensive coaching experience in the Netherlands, Asia and the Middle East.
from: fifa.com 24 June, 2008
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Australia was discovered 402 years ago by the Dutch It is 402 years ago that the large landmass that mathematicians and cartographers had speculated about, was finally discovered by Dutch crew on Duyfken.
It was the Duyfken, with a crew of 20, captained by Willem Janszoon who discovered Terra Australis or the South Lands for the western civilisation.
Dirk Hartog charted the West Australian coast, in 1616. The earliest white settlers recorded were Wouter Loos and Jan Pelgrom de Bye, two young mutineers from the Batavia shipwreck who were abandoned the on the WA coast. More here.
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"One of the things that made the (Australian) public think that Dutch people assimilated totally is their high degree of naturalization. It appeared, however, that they did so mainly for practical reasons. Officially they are Australians, but is that how they see themselves?
Having spent the largest part of their lives in Australia, they describe themselves as 'Dutch Australians' or 'foreign Dutchmen' (sic - ed.).It is true that in general they tried to behave as ideal immigrants, gained a reasonable to good competence of the English language, and because of a lack of striking physical differences to other white Australians did not attract much attention in public." More here |
Media Release - 7 March 2008
Department of Immigration and Citizenship: "Australia is set to be one of the most popular exhibitors at an expo in Holland this weekend which will link skilled European workers with Australian employers and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).
A DIAC spokesman said today that information about Australia had attracted the largest number of hits on the website of the event to be held in Utrecht on March 8 and 9.
‘The number of Dutch people in Australia’s skilled migration program has tripled in the past decade,’ the spokesman said." More here. |
G J Dusseldorp came to Australia in 1951 with £10,000 and a handful of Dutch workers on a contract to build 200 houses for the Snowy Mountains Authority at Cooma. Civil & Civic Contractors -the fledgling Dutch joint venture company established to undertake this work- soon won other construction projects in the mountains and also in the newly developing national capital. Civil and residential contracts in Canberra were followed by new work in Sydney in the mid-1950s. A gatehouse for the Commonwealth Oil Refinery -the first Design & Construct job; the development of the Harbour Heights Estate at Middle Cove; and the building of Sydney's first concrete-framed skyscraper - Caltex House.
In 1958 Lend Lease Corporation Limited was publicly launched More here |
Guillaume Daniel Delprat was a Dutch-Australian metallurgist and engineer.
Born in Delft, South Holland, Delprat migrated to Australia with his wife and children in 1898 to join mining company BHP as assistant to the General Manager. He later worked as General Manager from 1899 until 1921.
He was credited with pioneering the flotation process of sulphide ore separation and also laying the foundations for BHP's future commercial success.
Delprat secured B.H.P.'s profitability through a switch of emphasis from silver-lead to zinc and sulphur, a detailed survey of ore reserves, the sinking of another shaft, and the addition of another mill, thereby more than doubling the output of sulphide ore. More here
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Born in Holland and settled in Melbourne, Paul Cox is one of the most prolific makers of films in Australia, with numerous features, shorts and documentaries to his name. He is the recipient of many special tributes and retrospectives at film festivals across the world, including a major retrospective at the Lincoln Centre in New York in 1992, and he is the subject of Alexander Bohr’s 1997 documentary Ein Fremder In Der Welt (A Stranger in the World).
He migrated to Australia in the mid-'60s, had training in photography, and taught photography for many years at Prahran Technical College. His first films were short impressionistic pieces. In the mid '70s he began making low-budget features, and has fiercely stuck to the ideals of low-budget and artistic filmmaking. More here.
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Dutch-born basketball champion after only four years - Seventeen year old Ingrid Huisken was named as one of the best women basketball players in Australia. She has also been a champion school athlete. This is not surprising, however, as her mother was a champion athlete and gymnast in Holland. More.
Surf life saving attracted outstanding Dutch-born swimmer, Gerrit Zevenboom who went to SA with his parents and two sisters. During that time he became an outstanding swimmer who would have represented the Netherlands at the 1956 Olympics had that country not withdrawn from participation. More
| Not all Dutch-born Australians make it into the media, or wikipedia, or the limelight but there are many more stories to tell.
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| William Henry Paling (1825-1895), musician, merchant and philanthropist, was born on 1 September 1825 at Woerden, Netherlands, son of John Paling, pianoforte manufacturer. He was trained in music under Berthold Tours, a leading violin pedagogue, who favoured Paling as a pupil and made possible his appointment as violin teacher at the Academy in Rotterdam. In later advertisements he described himself as 'first violinist of the Royal Holland Academy' and as director of an academy of music in that country. He sailed for Sydney and arrived in 1853.Opened the NSW Academy of Music in Bligh St, in 1855. Imported and sold pianos and published sheet music. More |
Willem van Otterloo, born in Winterswijk, in The Netherlands, was chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was appointed chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony.
Particularly prized for his performances of newer music, "Australian musicians revered van Otterloo for his vast musical knowledge, genuineness, empathetic musicality and strong discipline.
His ability to train orchestras to professional standards and to aspire to world-class performance was a special gift."
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In June 1939 - just weeks before the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe - Cees and Johanna Tesselaar left Holland on their wedding day aboard the Strathallan. They were headed for Australia, bringing little but their farming expertise and a firm belief in hard work and the land of opportunity.
They purchased a small six hectare farm and planted their first crop of tulips and gladioli.
Over the following decades the company, under the name Padua Bulb Nurseries, grew into Australia's largest family owned floricultural operation.
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Gerard Willems was awarded a professorial scholarship for pianoforte in Holland at the age of eight.
He migrated to Australia with his family in 1958, studied at the Sydney Conservatorium, graduated with honours, and was appointed junior lecturer in piano.
The first Australian and Dutch pianist to record the complete Beethoven Sonatas cycle on CD. In 2001, as the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Music Scholar, he researched Early Music training throughout the USA and Europe.
In 2003 Gerard was awarded a Centenary Medal for Services to Music. More.
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