21 November 2019 2:23 pm / Leave a comment
review by Renata Kenda
21 Oct. 2019. It was a rainy autumn evening, when we gathered to discuss our latest book “Becoming” by Michelle Obama. We had a fruitful discussion while enjoying the drinks and tasty nibbles next to a warm fireplace.
All of us joining this book club session liked the book, even those, who were not very in favor of
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20 November 2019 1:43 pm / Leave a comment
Date: Tuesday, 26 Nov 2019
Time: 18:30 – 21:00 (6:30 pm) (90 mins standing while baking)
Register by: 21 Nov 2019 (registration form below)
Members: €20 p.p. (Normal price €30 p.p.)
Guests: €30 p.p. (READ about how €5,00 can be pro-rated towards your membership fee)
Location: de smaeck van Brabant, Kerkstraat 8, 5056 AC Berkel-Enschot
You are welcome to join tíc for a Brabant’s worstenbroodjes/ sausage roll/ Pigs-in-a-blanket workshop in the very beautiful Brabant’s bakery, de smaeck van Brabant.
Worstenbroodjes are a local delicacy of Brabant in which Tilburg is located. They are great for the cold winter nights!
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19 November 2019 2:15 pm / Leave a comment
Date: Friday, 22 November 2019
Place: Pathé (Pieter Vredeplein)
Time: 19:45 (Please arrive at 19:15)
Cost: €9,95 p.p.
RSVP: by 21 November 2019 (register below)
The weather is getting chillier & wetter, and the days shorter – time for a nice evening with others to enjoy a movie and ease into the weekend. This coming Friday will be another tíc movie night and we hope you will join us for an interesting film.
The film we’ll be seeing is The Good Liar, with British acting legends, Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen …
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15 November 2019 2:53 pm / Leave a comment
tíc is a non-profit volunteer organization that provides social and educational activities for expatriates and internationals living in and around Tilburg.
- tíc helps internationals feel more at home in the Netherlands. We strive to help ease the adjustment process with practical tips, advice and information on daily life in the Netherlands. We offer a relaxed and fun social atmosphere for introducing partners and children to new people and for learning more about the Tilburg, Noord Brabant and the Netherlands.
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14 November 2019 2:55 pm / Leave a comment
Next week we’ll meet up for another Movie Night. For #ThrowbackThursday, here’s a look back at the Cinecitta movie “The Light Between Oceans”!
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11 November 2016. by Anne van Oorschot. We had our first #TilburgInternationalClub movie evening of the club year at Cinecitta to see the film The Light Between Oceans. This beautiful film is based on the debut novel by M. L. Stedman and tells the story of Tom (Michael Fassbender), a Lighthouse keeper in Western Australia and his wife, Isabel (Alicia Vikander). Tom, a WWI veteran, is damaged by the atrocities he has seen as a soldier and feels his past will prevent him from having a happy future, so accepts the job of lighthouse keeper on a desolate island. He is surprised by the affection of Isobel, a lovely girl who lives on the mainland and they are married and head off to the island where they create a solitary, yet happy life together. (more…)
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by Anne van Oorschot
3 Sept 2019. Our first gathering of the Book Club took place on September 4th – very early in the club year and prior to the tíc Welcome Event. That may explain why we were quite a small group, including 1 brand new member. We had all read the book – not hard since we’d had the entire summer and it was quite a short story.
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. This atrocious act was (more…)
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8 November 2019 2:12 pm / Leave a comment
7 November 2019 2:09 pm / Leave a comment
tíc has set a goal to support a different charity every year whether by fundraising, event participation or volunteer work.
This past June, tíc chose to support the charity Nacht van de Vluchteling (Night of the Refugees). A small of group of tíc members not only participated in the event by walking a 20 km route, they also raised a total €950 for the foundation!
This year, our members voted on their choice of charity from a list of worthy causes including the Ronald McDonald Huis Middenwest-Brabant (Tilburg), CARE Nederland, WorldGranny, Connect2Us and Moviera (Tilburg).
We are happy to announce that tíc will be supporting Make-A-Wish Nederland this year through combined contributions of time, goods and monetary donations from the Tilburg MeiMarkt. We’re proud to be working with Make-A-Wish and we look forward to raising awareness for this charity.
#tilburginternationalclub #expatlife #volunteer #goodcause #makeawishfoundation
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6 November 2019 2:35 pm / Leave a comment
by Jessica de Swart
9 Oct. 2019. tíc has officially started its ‘no books/no teacher/no pressure/all levels welcome’ Dutch conversation group. The idea is to discuss a pre-designated topic for the evening to guide the flow of conversation.
On our first get together, we split up into 2 groups and gave Dutch conversation our best efforts while sharing a drink and getting to know each other. The shock of the night was that the person in my group who carried much of the conversation was actually the person who has been in the Netherlands the shortest amount of time! (Shout out to Wendy, carrying on interesting conversation after only 6 weeks here!) Especially after talking with her, we were all inspired to make more effort to use Dutch and plan to have this meet up again. A special thanks to our native speaker member, Marloes, who joined the meet up and chatted with us too! Who says language learning has to be boring or stressful?
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4 November 2019 2:02 pm / Leave a comment
Date: Monday, 2 Dec 2019
Time: 19:30 (7:30 pm)
Register by: 29 Nov 2019 (registration form below)
Member Cost: Free!
Guests: €5,00 pp (READ about how this can be pro-rated towards your membership fee)
Location: To Be Announced!
For our upcoming Book Club, we had 3 choices for our next read – a very diverse list of books from which it was hard to choose. We ended up with a slight majority for…
The 100 Secret Senses by Amy Tan
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1 November 2019 2:59 pm / Leave a comment
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Subscribe to our TIC e-newsletter to receive your updates!
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30 October 2019 2:57 pm / Leave a comment
Date: Tuesday, 26 Nov 2019
Time: 18:30 – 21:00 (6:30 pm) (90 mins standing while baking)
Register by: 21 Nov 2019 (registration form below)
Members: €20 p.p. (Normal price €30 p.p.)
Guests: €30 p.p. (READ about how €5,00 can be pro-rated towards your membership fee)
Location: de smaeck van Brabant, Kerkstraat 8, 5056 AC Berkel-Enschot
You are welcome to join tíc for a Brabant’s worstenbroodjes/ sausage roll/ Pigs-in-a-blanket workshop in the very beautiful Brabant’s bakery, de smaeck van Brabant.
Worstenbroodjes are a local delicacy of Brabant in which Tilburg is located. They are great for the cold winter nights!
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29 October 2019 2:39 pm / Leave a comment
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by Mala Raman
6 Oct. 2019. By popular demand from our members for more sporty activities, tíc has started with the newly formed walking group – the ‘tíc Walkie Talkies’. (more…)
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28 October 2019 2:22 pm / Leave a comment
I don’t know about you, but sometimes it seems life is so busy and goes so fast that if you don’t slow down, you’ll miss it! I made a commitment to myself to take a step back and start enjoying more of the things I love doing. And one of those things is being the president of tic! With such a busy work schedule, I found myself passing on some of the fun activities the event team has been putting together. This club season, I decided to have more fun with my fellow club members while also taking more initiative to get the club increased exposure in the community. (more…)
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25 October 2019 2:50 pm / Leave a comment
In keeping with the Fall spirit, for #FlashBackFriday, let’s take a look back at our run through a local corn maze!
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22 Sept 2013. by Patricia Gonzalez. It was a cool, cloudy Saturday afternoon – the kind you get when autumn follows fast on the heels of summer as if determined to obliterate memories of 30-degree days. A fifteen-minute drive from Reeshof brought us to the Dutch countryside where the roads were lined with trees and every few hundred meters, farmhouses dotted the landscape.
Our little group gathered at a maisdoolhof (corn maze) in Dongen to go on a speurtocht (trailhunt). The instructions were simple: walk through the cornfield looking for letters and pictures. The letters, when combined, form a message. Sounds easy? Not quite. Once in the maze, (more…)
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by Anne van Oorschot
