For the second year in a row, the four higher educational institutes in Enschede (UT, ITC, Artez and Saxion) took the joint initiative to organize the ISME 2009. Janneke Kalf, communications director of the ITC, estimated that fifty procent of the target group, first year international students, attended on Saturday.
The folklore dance group `De Plaggenmijers' arrived from the village of Rekken dressed in 1900s vintage clothing to revive folk dances from the past to a modern international generation. `The young people come easily to talk to you,'said Annette Karel. `It's sometimes difficult with the language barrier, but we speak a little English and with hands, feet and heart, we can communicate well enough.'
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Looking behind at the mechanisms of the `Laplander`street organ, built by Jan van Eijk, students experienced the complex sounds of the instrument.
(Foto's: Gijs van Ouwerkerk) |
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| Racha Shah gets a kiss on the hand from organ player Benno Molenkamp. |
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| Two international students painted images of their homeland on a canvas. The work of art will later be displayed at the City Hall in Enschede. |
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| Armed with a potato masher and cheese slicer in hand: Students listened to the humorous presentation on Dutch language and culture. Originally designed by senior university lecturer David Rossitier, the presentations was adapted and presented by Jane Edwards, an English language teacher at the Language Coordination Centre (TCP) at the UT. |
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| Local craftsman Theo ter Horst demonstrated the art of carving handmade wooden clogs. A typical factory can produce 20,000 wooden shoes a month with only ten employees. Around three million clogs are produced for the tourist market every year. |
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| Artist and instructor at the ArtEZ Albert Bouhuis, in a green jumpsuit, said the 6x6 meter canvas was based on a map from the 1700s of the stars and planets. `First we painted the skeleton of the Compagis Brahea map as a background for the students to fill in the details. During one moment, I counted sixty students painting. We didn't expect it. I had my doubts if people would be inspired to paint.' |
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| Iranian student Mehrdad Bekhrad learns to turn the barrel organ with the instructions of Benno Molenkamp. `When I was six years old, standing in my father's office at the Dutch agriculture company Rijk Zwaan in Iran, I always saw the Dutch flag. The Netherlands is a great country,' said Bekhrad who arrived on August 23. He intends to follow the master's study at the UT in Civil Engineering and Mangement. |
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| Bust a move, legs in air: Edwin Dollekamp (UT Physics), left, Lyban Muhamed (Saxion) and Cor Heerdes (UT Industrial Design). Inside the Saxion building, the dance group Break Even performed acrobatic moves to funk and hip-hop music. Break Even comes to action again on October 9 at the UT Sports Centre on campus, giving a six-minute demonstration that will be fully cheorgraphed. |
