Author: JH

May 2018: The Royal Archives

JH

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY OF THE NETHERLANDS takes great pleasure in inviting you to a guided tour of the Royal Archives in The Hague

The Royal Collections of the Netherlands include the archives of the House of Orange-Nassau and unique collections of manuscripts and the special cartographic collection. As well as the personal papers of individual members of the houses of Nassau and Orange-Nassau, these include archives of royal estates and former estates in the Netherlands and overseas, those of the Royal Household and some third-party archives. A small part of the Royal Collections of the Netherlands is displayed in the family museum at the Royal House Archive, where the Royal Collections of the Netherlands are based.

The guided tour lasts about 75 minutes.

Date: Friday,  May 25th
Time: Meet in front of the entrance to the palace gardens at 13:30. Walk through gardens to Royal Archives at 13:45. Guided tour from 14:00 – 15:15.
Location: Prinsessewal, Den Haag http://www.koninklijkeverzamelingen.nl/en/contact-directions
Registration: Free for members who have paid their 2018 annual membership subscription. Maximum 22 participants due to limited space.

For more information, look [here]

March 2018: Tour of Gazing Ball by Jeff Koons

JH

Please join alumni of MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Fulbright, McGill, Oxbridge and many others for a tour of De Nieuwe Kerk’s 2018 Masterpiece: Gazing Ball. The work is from the Gazing Ball Paintings series by American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), which began in 2014. Gazing Ball (Perugino Madonna and Child with Four Saints) is a wondrous combination of a handpainted version of Madonna and Child with Four Saints (1500–01) by Italian Renaissance painter Perugino and a smooth cobalt-blue glass ball.

The Nieuwe Kerk Masterpiece series presents works of art so extraordinary that they are almost never loaned out, because of their fragility or their status as beloved favourites. Many of the works featured in the series have an obvious or unexpected religious or spiritual dimension. Each one is a work that calls for contemplation and introspection and dazzles visitors in the breath-taking surroundings of De Nieuwe Kerk’s gothic interior.

Date: Sunday 18 March
Time: Meet at the entrance of De Nieuwe Kerk at 15:30. Private tour from 16:00 – 16:45. Thereafter a drink (on own account) from 16:45 – 18:00 at the Cafe adjacent to De Nieuwe Kerk.
Location: De Nieuwe Kerk, Dam, Amsterdam
Open to: Harvard alumni and Ivy Circle members.
Registration: Please sign up before 15 March to c.demeyere@inter.nl.net on a first come first serve basis. Places are limited.
Price: EUR 19 without Museum Jaarkaart and EUR 10 with Museum Jaarkaart p.p. Please wire the fee before 15 March after you have received a confirmation from Carine to: Harvard Club of the Netherlands, NL66 TRIO 0198 487 622, stating your name and “Jeff Koons”.

March 2018: 164th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

JH

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is one of the oldest sporting events in the world. The 164th race will be held this year on Saturday, March 24th with both the Women’s Boat Race and the Men’s Boat Race being rowed on the Thames. The scores since the races first began in 1829 (men) and 1927 (women) now stand at:

Men: Oxford 80 : Cambridge 82

Women: Oxford 30 : Cambridge 42

This year our traditional boat race dinner will be held at the Royal Boat Club in Heemstede.

Date: Saturday, March 24th, arrival from 5 pm, women’s race from 5:30 pm, AGM meeting afterwards before the men’s race at 6:30, dinner at 7:00 pm
Place: KR&ZV Het Spaarne, Marisplein 5, 2102 AC Heemstede
Price: €35 (members and first guest), €40 (all other guests)

More information [here].