Observations of A Celebration NL&NY 2009
Observations of A Celebration NL&NY 2009
Interviews with Roger Panetta, Frans Timmermans, Henrik Spoon, Edwin Smulders, Ben van Berkel, Donna Henes, Angela Haines & Gert Tetteroo, Alexandra Oswald, Bruno Doedens, George Way and Henk Scholten
Eva Pel

Editor(s)
Eva Pel
Publication
Amsterdam : Eva Pel, 2019
Scope
30 Pages, illustrated, 22.5 cm.
ISBN
9789081496513

"This summer, I went to conduct fieldwork in New York. My plan was to visit all the events the Dutch government (co-)organized to celebrate 400 years of Dutch-American relations. To be more precise: to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson and his ship the "Halve Maen" in nowadays New York. I wanted to see the events to get an idea of how the Netherlands is being represented in New York. What does it mean to be Dutch? Which audience does the festival reach? And what does the Netherlands want to show to New Yorkers about our history, present and future? Curious about other people's views on these topics, I interviewed eleven Dutch and American people, who were in one or another way involved in the NY400 celebrations."


Person as subject
Ben van Berkel, Donna Henes, Bruno Doedens, …[et al.]
Keywords
cultural planning
Location
Cabinet 17 - 5: Culturele planologie
Remarks