Organizers of Leeuwardens’ Sinterklaas parade withdraw over Zwarte Piet discussion
The organization “Stichting Sinterklaas Intocht Leeuwarden” (SSIL) announced that it won’t be organizing a Sinterklaas parade in Leeuwarden this year. ...
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Groningen’s giant Christmas Tree erected on Grote Markt
The Grote Markt has looked a little bare in the run-up to Christmas As all things take their time, so ...
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Sinterklaas: treats, poems, and racist caricatures
Whilst Sinterklaas is a children’s holiday celebrated across the Netherlands, his blacked-up helper Zwarte Piet should have been left in ...
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Christmas tree madness begins earlier this year due to Coronavirus outbreak: “people want a feeling of homeliness”
Even though it’s the beginning of November, large numbers of Christmas tree sellers are seeing trees fly off their premises ...
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Sinterklaas festivities’ future uncertain in Groningen
Various cities have already cancelled their arrival parades It is not yet clear whether the arrival of Sinterklaas in Groningen ...
Read moreEnd in sight for blacked-up Piets in Leeuwarden
The organisation responsible for welcoming Sinterklaas to the city has performed a stunning U-turn Translated by Thomas Ansell At the ...
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Leeuwarden stands on the wrong side of history: Sinterklaas party will “only feature blacked-up Zwarte Piets”
Cees Anceaux, the head of the Sinterklaas committee, says that “it’s not for discussion” this year Translated by Thomas Ansell ...
Read more‘Zwarte Piet’ dropped from Sinterklaas incoming in Groningen
Sinterklaas will go without his blacked-up helpers this year From now on there will be no more ‘Zwarte Piets’ during ...
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Action groups pro and against Zwarte Piet to demonstrate on Saturday in the North
A schism is developing in Dutch society According to many, Zwarte Piet is an outdated symbol, and a caricature with ...
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Zwarte Piet protests planned in Groningen
The new November tradition of furiously debating whether Sinterklaas’ helper ‘Zwarte Piet’ is a racist throwback has begun early this ...
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