Nieuwe Held?

‘A hero is a character who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice – that is heroism – for some greater good, originally of martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.’
[Wikipedia]

My name is Pam and I’m doing an internship at Nieuwe Helden.
So am I a Nieuwe Held? A New Hero?
Well, I’m working on it. And I will display courage and the will for self-sacrifice to become one. Or is it, when I do, I already have become one?
For me, after three weeks in company with heroes, it slowly starts to feel like I actually am a Nieuwe Held.

At the moment I’m working on 2 projects: ‘Tot slot/That’s it’ and a performance with Niels that still hasn’t got a name.

In ‘Tot slot/That’s it’ (totslot.stichintgnieuwehelden.nl) I’m designing an installation that will give you the experience of the philosophy and intensity of the project with all the movies. At the moment I’m busy with brainstorming, thinking, drawing, drinking coffee and talk with Lucas, testing ideas, getting more ideas, killing my darlings, drawing more, reading, drinking tea and discuss with Lucas, drinking diet coke and brainstorm with Lucas, searching for images, getting more inspiration, trying to sleep and still thinking about it, talking with people about it, making mistakes, solving the problems…
Yeah, being a hero is not that easy.

I want to end with a proverb:

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Insight/inzicht

Insight/inzicht

Er is niemand maar dan ook niemand op de hele wereld die echt weet hoe het moet.

There is nobody, nobody in the whole world that really knows how it should be done.

And makes this place a whole lot more of fun to live in.

what the F

ok, so we’re back. Almost three moths touring through the Balkan, doing performances, meeting artists, writing songs, bringing energy, collaborating energy, making images, thinking, making possible statements about energy…

Being back I noticed myself ignoring our own familiar theatrescene for a while… Maybe cause I needed to be alone for a while, but also because of the fear of loosing connection with this small, but familiar, scene. And now after two weeks of being back home, the night I played with BLONT in Goes, I went for a drink in ‘de Blincker’ (our former home-pub) and fuck I was right to ignore my own base. The narrow-minded discussions about the actions/ images we made, I had to declare (as if I’m a small child begging for recognition) to some colleague-artist… there is one thing I have to blog about: fuck the “I’m an artist, hope my colleague artists see me” vibe here! I’d rather be ignored by my colleagues than be punished for my will to go with ‘just’ some energy, some music and some more energy to roll with, to meet and to deal with… because that’s it! it’s the only thing we’ve got to go/ roll with. It’s a burning question mark that I have to provoke. It’s all I have, It’s all I dare to compare with my audience. The audience I would rather ask to interact with my question marks than to give them any kind of answer. But sadly enough my colleague in ‘de Blincker’ can’t join: he’s to busy with finding the new form for new forms of new forms of making something like ART, bah I’ll try to get some sleep after my will to punch him in the conscience

“Nothing” on the radio

When we were in Prishtina Kosovo we slept at the popular city radiostation Urban FM. They heard our band LnSaint playing and liked it so much that they played some of our songs on the radio and Bas performed a live version of “nothing”.

Apparently the audience of Urban FM likes us too because today we got an email from one of the radio Dj’s that “Nothing” was requested three times in a week . LnSaint still buzzing through the Kosovo Ether.

We are planning to go back to Prishtina in December to play again with the band and to perform with MTG Blont.

Question Mark in Amsterdam

our good friend and writer Oscar Kocken is the organiser of many Theatrical, musical and Literary events in Holland. As a tribute to our performance in Skopje he showed our action with the ? in the latest WOOF/NIGHTof the forgotten theatre awards in Amsterdam. Thank you Oscar.

Biennial of Skopje

The project roll with it was selected by the jury of BJCEM to be part of the 2009 Biennial in Skopje. Over 700 artists from all over Europe and from various disciplines are in Skopje from 3rd till 12th of September. Thanx to support from the EU and Macedonia this year the Biennial is free of entrance for all people. This means that also the relatively poor people of Macedonie {a doctor earns 300 euro per month} can enjoy the variety of shows and happenings.

Nhelden has decided to make a huge image on the main square of the city that represents everything they stand for and that captures the philosophy of the roll with it tour. They will make a burning question mark at 20.30 the 7th of september. The power of not knowing. People from all groups [macedonians, students, albanians, roma, artists, scouts, etc.] are invited to come to the city square. We arranged a huge lot of torches to hand out to the people who will stand in the form of a question mark. Then at 20.50 the lights will go out and the fire will be lit. [if all goes well] We arranged camera people and photographers on the roofs of the building around the square and on the ground.

Friday 11th LnSaint will perform on the main stage also on the city square.

The footage of both actions will be shown on the website.

for more info check

www.bjcem.org

www.rollwithit.nl

Visitors

Our website is a very important part of the Nhelden project|movement. We do more than just informing people about our projects or saving memory of all that we do. The website is a project on its own. It gives an overview of the whole philosophy of Nhelden and it also reaches an audience that won^t easily come to the theater or venues where we perform. The blogs, videos and pictures give an insight in our work, thoughts and search that many people can follow.

Every big project will get its own sistersite on the main website as we do now with BOOM and with Roll With It and as we will do with MTGBlont and future projects.

The project `website` is growing in popularity since we have now a monthly rate of over 5000 unique visitors. We will work hard to keep updating and reinventing this project in order to reach as many people as possible as thorough as possible.

All comments, tips or others are welcome.

Nhelden international

Because of the many international encounters of Nhelden (edinburgh, roll with it tour, MTG Blont, insted, …) and the fact that the coming years we plan to do much more international work, we have decided to use Nhelden as the brand name.

Stichting Nieuwe Helden is the name of the institution, the company but Nhelden are the people, the philosophy. In concreto it means that Nhelden does something somewhere. Nhelden doing a performance in Prague, Nhelden making a new show, Nhelden on Kosovo TV and all run by the company: Stichting Nieuwe helden.

Of course the logo as you know with will be used in all occasions.

3VOOR12 over LnSaint @ Club Oostpool II

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En dan als grote afsluiter van het live act gedeelte LnSaint, vier acteurs die een band vormen. Serieus, maar met een knipoog. Ze spelen als het ware de coole muzikant. Muzikaal zijn ze niet altijd even sterk, maar de performance en beleving zijn absoluut goed. De knipoog is duidelijk voelbaar. De sound neigt een beetje naar Joy Division. Een prettige afsluiting van een avond met een uitgebreid aanbod van kunstenaars, die af en toe een beetje neigde naar een open podium. Maar waar ligt de grens?
Tekst: Norma Textor (3VOOR12)

Edinburgh Festival

Lucas (als regisseur) is een paar maand geleden gevraagd door zanger/zakenman Donald Hawkins om mee te werken aan een Jacques Brel zangprogramma dat 25 keer zal spelen op het Edinburgh Fringe festival 2009. De repetities zijn in volle gang, er wordt gewerkt met twee pianisten en een stukje documentaire over Donald zelf, gezien hij een fascinerend persoon is en ook gezien hij pas op late leeftijd is begonnen met zingen. Op die manier heeft het publiek een duidelijker kader waardoor ze naar de voorstelling kijken. Naast Brel liederen zitten er ook nog een vijftal andere liedjes in het programma.

Wie dit jaar in Edinburg is tijdens het festival is bij deze uitgenodigd om te komen kijken op de grassmarket studio 1.