There will be no fireworks shows in Tilburg at seven o’clock. Shows on New Year’s Eve were planned in two places in the city: at the Piushaven and in the Reeshofpark. Because strong gusts of wind are expected, according to a spokesperson for the municipality, it is irresponsible to allow the shows to go ahead. … Read more
1/6 Charles Dickens himself also thinks it is all becoming a bit expensive (Photo: Alice van der Plas) It is not due to the number of visitors. Every year, Dickensnight attracts between 7,500 and 10,000 visitors in the Brandevoort district of Helmond. But the atmospheric festival is under pressure after more than twenty years. Laws … Read more
Tilburg’s Sep Jansen (13) finished seventh at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Nice on Sunday. Together with Jasmijn Torrico (14) he sang ‘Holding On To You’, an upbeat dance number. The festival was won by France, as the young duo had predicted. On Sunday afternoon they were the last of the sixteen participating countries. … Read more
The lights will turn on again this weekend in Eindhoven for the 18th edition of the GLOW art festival. There are 24 works of art to admire on the five-kilometer route through the city center. All that lighting will cost more electricity again this year. During the 9-day festival, the light artworks consumed 4,750 kilowatt … Read more
A severed head, a dislocated horse and the bicycle with ET, from the movie of the same name. Furthermore, many rods, tubes and planks. On Monday afternoon, there was not much left of the car with which Vriendenkring De Rijten won the Brabantsedag the day before. Three months of work demolished and removed in one … Read more
In the center you can see YouTube star Peet MontzingoRedhead Days festival Next 1/2 In the middle you see YouTube star Peet Montzingo Hundreds of redheads gathered this weekend at the Redhead Days in the Spoorpark in Tilburg. The visitors from more than eighty different countries celebrated together that they have red hair. Because this … Read more
Sofie (28) from Volkel and Bastiaan (29) from Tilburg are back at the place where their special love story began a year ago: the Sziget pop festival in Hungary. She posted a message on Instagram asking if anyone wanted to join her. One of her friends had dropped out, so she had one ticket left. … Read more
Dwight Heitzer (23) from Tilburg has a special part-time job. The student appears as a drummer on stage at the live concerts of the world-famous band Coldplay in Amsterdam. The prettiest? He does that without drumming. “I pretend,” he says in the radio program Afslag Zuid. “I playback on the drums.” Written by Ron Vorstermans … Read more
Some local residents have serious nuisance from the Tilburg Railway Park: “They are urinating against my wall and throwing up against the garage. It’s like living in a ghetto.” Manager of the Spoorpark Sophie Peters finds it really annoying for these residents: “But the park is there, I think that’s a matter of accepting it.” … Read more
It was a tradition in Geldrop. For almost fifty years, the Mei’se Mert was held on the last Sunday of May, an event that attracted between 20,000 and 30,000 visitors annually. However, bleating shopkeepers and catering entrepreneurs have made the organization decide to stop. Written by Willem-Jan Schampers / Studio040 Hein van Lieshout, board member … Read more