Workshops: ages 10-Adult, materials provided, in Dutch en English

Dec, 4e- SINTERKLAAS and PIET RE(AD)DRESS is a 2 hours workshop where participants will create a new look and a new wardrobe for Sinterklaas and the hardworking Piets. Using drawing and collage, put a new spin on the old guys.  

Dec. 5e- FLIP THE SCRIPT for SINTERKLAAS is 2 hours workshop where participants create poems in "Sinterklaasgedicht" tradition and rewrite traditional songs for Sinterklass and Piet. Participants can work individually or in groups to create their writings. All writings will be performed by participants at end of workshop. 

* Zaterdag 28 november 15:00<17:00 SINT WANDELING BOS EN LOMMER
* Zaterdag 4 december 14:00<16:00 RELOOK THE SINT AND THE PIETS
* Zondag 5 december 14:00<16:00 REWRITE SINT SONGS AND PERFORM - met optreden PEZZ kinderband 16:00.

---> info: julie@kulter.nl |  06 17 404 955

OVER GLORIA HOLWERDA-WILLIAMS

Gloria Holwerda-Williams is a Brooklyn, NY born visual artist, poet, writer, and  vocalist with the music group Kanipchen-Fit: www.myspace.com/kanipchenfit. Her art work includes, sculpture, indoor/outdoor installations, and two-dimensional works. She uses natural and manufactured materials, embroidery, photographs and computers in fabricating her works. Solo exhibitions at Delicatessen in Amsterdam (2010), Diesel gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2005) and at Galerie Art-Contact in Karlsruhe, Germany (1990). Her work has been in group exhibitions including; Brooklyn Bridge Park (NY), Islip Art Museum (E. Islip, NY) Socrates Sculpture Park (LIC, NY), Exit Art (NYC), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts (NYC),The Drawing Center (NY), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (NY) and in Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit, Holland and Germany. Her work will also be exhibited in Arkansas and Georgia in 2010, and in Nashville in 2011 in the U.S.A.. She received an MFA from University of Michigan and a BFA with honors from the School of Visual Arts in NY in the U.S.. She has been a professor for art at the School of Art + Design at State University of New York' Purchase College and The Cooper Union', School of Art, taught art, poetry composition/performance poetry, and writing for educational arts organizations including residencies in public schools in New York.

As part of A Sint You Want: Sinterklaas in the 21nd Century, artist G. Holwerda-Williams will also engage in a public performance on Sunday, November 28th, starting at 16:00, in Bos en Lommer. 

Please contact julie@kulter.nl if you are interested in participating in workshop(s).