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tícMovie Night: The Good Liar Review

9 December 2019 2:32 pm / Leave a comment

by Tanya Krupiy

22 Nov 2019. On Friday we went to see a movie ‘The Good Liar.’ The movie took unanticipated turns and kept the audience in suspense. I found the quality of acting very good.

We went to the Havana café for drinks afterwards. It was a very relaxed evening. I had a lot of fun hearing about cross-cultural experiences in different countries. I laughed so much that my mascara started leaking at some point.

 

#TilburgInternationalClub #Expatlife #movienight #thegoodliar #pathe

Day Pass to Sligro

Did you know that with the tíc membership card, you can get a day pass to shop at the Tilburg wholesale store, Sligro?

Sligro is a modern, volume-shopping warehouse that covers 11.000 m² and offers fresh produce, wine, food and food supply items. Typical clients of Sligro are businesses, restaurants and self-employed business owners that buy their supplies in bulk. Sligro also has in-store samples of many of their food items as well as product tasting evenings.

With the tíc membership card shown at the door*, our members can shop like the professionals or just stock up on kitchen favourites!

Check the Sligro website for information about their assortment and opening hours!

*Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to enter.

#tilburginternationalclub #expatlife #shopping #sligro #volumediscount

5 December 2019 2:54 pm / Leave a comment

tíc Walkie Talkies in the Wandelbos!

3 December 2019 2:42 pm / Leave a comment

3 Nov. 2019. Here are a few reviews from our walkers!

“Thanks for organising today’s walk and for the lovely chat & great company…”
– Petra

“Thank you all, it was fun to be and walk together!!”
– Victoria

“Great company and beautiful autumn woodland to brighten up a rainy day”
– Wendy

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Global Climate Strike

2 December 2019 2:03 pm / 1 Comment on Global Climate Strike

by Anne van Oorschot

The date chosen for a Global Climate Strike in The Netherlands was Friday, 27 September  2019 in The Hague. Since I live in Tilburg, my day started with a bike ride to the train station where I started off for The Hague. It was heartening to see I was not alone – trains to The Hague from across the country were crowded with climate strikers carrying signs. (more…)

tic Walkie Talkies in Moerenburg!

29 November 2019 2:46 pm / Leave a comment

12 Oct. 2019. The tíc Walkie Talkies had its second outing in the areas of Enschot and Moerenburg.

We had another 6 km route walking through open fields and around a small lake. The meeting start and end point was at Café Zomerlust where the group enjoyed a delicious lunch afterwards.

 

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Book Review: Becoming

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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#TBT Movie: The Light Between Oceans

14 November 2019 2:55 pm / Leave a comment

light-between-oceans-1Next 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…)

Book review: Slaughterhouse 5

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…)

8 November 2019 2:12 pm / Leave a comment

tíc raising awareness for Make-A-Wish Nederland!

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

tíc’s first Dutch Conversation Meet-up!

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?

tic Walking Group gets its start!

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…)

President’s message – Oct 2019

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…)

#FBF: Maisdoohof (Corn Maze) Run!

25 October 2019 2:50 pm / Leave a comment

Running through the mazeIn 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…)

Review tícMovie Night – Blinded by the Light

23 October 2019 2:04 pm / Leave a comment

27 September 2019. by Dietrich Haas.  For September’s tíc movie night, we were all “Blinded by the Light” at Cinecitta.

Without spoiling too much for those who still want to watch this film about the impact of “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen’s music has on a Pakistani teenager living in England, I give it two thumbs up!

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#TBT: Book Club review: All The Light We Cannot See

17 October 2019 2:35 pm / Leave a comment

Next week we will be meeting for our next book club; a gathering that sometimes has intense debates, but is always a lot of fun. For #ThrowbackThursday, let’s take a look at a book club review from 2017!

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29 Aug 2017 reviewed by Jessica Lipe. While no one is happy to see the summer holidays come to end, one benefit of the end of summer is that the TIC book club meets again!  Before the summer holidays, we had chosen a novel with more pages than our typical choices since we would have the whole summer to savor the book. However, this book turned out to be far more intriguing and suspenseful than expected, such that many of us couldn’t put it down.

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Good morning all! Friday has arrived and I imagine some of you are just as happy as me because of that 😆 A nice group braved the damp and blustery weather to meet and discuss The Lost Girls of Paris on our last #bookclub session 📖. We gathered around the cosy fireplace at one of our member's place and, while we all liked the book's storyline, we found the characters a bit unrealistic and the writing so-so. . A group member brought 3 really interesting book choices and (after explaining to us what a "crawdad" is ;-) we decided on: ✳️Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens (368 pages). . Many people have claimed this book is a "must read" so we hope you will get the book, read it and join us for a nice evening to discuss the book ☕. . We will meet on Tuesday, February 18th - 7:30 so make a note of it and plan to join us (location to be confirmed via email). All the best, Anne #expat #expatlife #dutchculture #holland #netherlands #visitnetherlands #visitholland #thenetherlands . . . . . . . . . . . #multicultural #tilburginternationalclub #tilburginternational #tilburg #tilburgdrinkt #tilburgismooi #visittilburg #ditistilburg #brabant #noordbrabant #visitbrabant #tilburgcom #inbrabant
Happy? That's not enough to describe how we feel! 🤗 We have always known that this is one of the events people like the most but after 3 days we sent the first invitation our tickets are fully booked now!💪 We will of course let you know if we have any cancellations before the RSVP date but for now, no more tickets available from #tilburginternationalclub ! Should we get more next time maybe? Who knows, who knows!!
Dear TIC movie lovers, The movie programs for the coming weekend are out and we have picked a great movie for us to see, this time at the Pathé cinema @pathe on the Pieter Vreedeplein - #1917 🎥 The film begins at 19:45, so please meet in the lobby of Pathé at 19:20 so we can go up to the theater and get settled in plenty of time. . Tickets are 9.95 pp, so please transfer money for your ticket(s) to the TIC account, or bring cash on Friday evening. . RSVP is via e-mail 📨 by 12 noon on Friday so we will know how many tickets to pre-purchase. . See you there! #expatinholland #expatlife #pathetilburg
#upcomingevents dear members and guests! Enjoy the rest of your week and see you soon!

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