"Walk into the senior complex is empty. A friendly elderly woman takes pole height. Curach? Ah, yes, the eurythmists. Who practice in the hall. Behind the glass of the door hangs a curtain. One player rushes to the door and points to a chair. Something happens here.
To the beat of the music moves a particular company. Men and women of different generations tell a story with their movements. The artistic director last one pause: "It's good, but the movement must be more to the music. Then it is better. "Pianist asking when to bet. If she looks, she will see.
The rehearsal continues. With melodious voice, the narrator adds its contribution to the whole. The old woman, the servants, the geese. The crackling of the walls, the sound of the shabby little house turns into a magnificent palace. Motion after motion is repeated, slightly used or otherwise exported refined. Loose sentences seem to say something. If you understand more and more spectators waiting for the spectacle. Slowly but surely is clear that this plays a fairy tale: The Goose Girl at source, recorded by the Brothers Grimm.
Chantal Heijdeman leads Curach from Zeist, a semi-professional euritmiegezelschap. The members work every Wednesday afternoon on a story they eventually increase in schools, therapeutic communities and care for the elderly, many on anthroposophic footing.
After seven years playing for groups which are familiar with this art form, enter Heijdeman with Curach out. "We want to be visible," says the artistic director who recently joined the FAP, the Zeist Federation of Amateur Arts Associations. "Maybe we can even occur, on the top Slot Zeist. On the Day of the Arts may, these art forms part of the amount which you can practice in this region. "The public performance at the Theatre in Bussum Elcker went down well. Now watch the show in the art house The Werkschuit. Heijdeman: "We are wondering what that will bring us."
"The theme of the tale brings new light. It's about resolving grief at the source. And it has plenty of humor. "
Presentation" The Goose Girl ", a fairy tale for young and old, can be seen on Wednesday, February 16th, 15.00 hours, the arts center Egelinglaan 2b, Zeist. Tickets at E 8, -, children 6 E - book: bestuur@eigenbeweging.org '
Other news stands today in Wedding, where John writes about The Peace "The organic farmers has more organic seeds needed':
"Even organic farmers are mostly dependent on the conventional seed companies. Netherlands traditionally played a major role in seed improvement, but many small businesses have been bought by large corporations. Impoverishment and the organic sector is likely to suffer. (...)
ten large companies now have more than half of the seed market. They increasingly determine the future of nutrition, because these multinationals with their knowledge and innovations to determine the capital. New varieties are now on patents and therefore they disappear behind factory walls. Farmers have more limited access to basic material and gradually to become executors of the plans of multinationals. "
that story we know, that's been discussed here often. There are therefore a few acquaintances over:
"This trend has implications for the organic sector, says chairman Bert Ruiter Seeds of the Foundation, which fights to preserve the widest possible variety of seeds. "Farmers are increasingly less to say about the seed, which is the foundation of our food system. In the U.S. Food writer Michael Pollan, I read that nearly 70 percent of the food supply in U.S. supermarkets comes from just four crops. That is an impoverishment of our diet. The major groups focus on the most efficient and therefore profitable crops. "
And a little further to another friend:
" Edith Lammerts van Bueren, professor of biological breeding in Wageningen, agrees that in the seed sector, fewer companies are make fewer products. "There is clearly a development that when grafting is the most productive parent lines. Minor crops, and fennel for example, be divested. That is also in large and small business case. There's the organic sector to suffer, because that is a very small market. "
Acute is not the threat, says Lammerts. "But we need more players to the full desired range of existing varieties also organically produced and to get that far we have not. The development of new varieties do little business. Since there should be quite more than one, because we want to 100 percent organically produced seed in the sector. That is good for biodiversity. "
But it also contributes solutions:
" The organic sector does not have to sit in the towel. With additional efforts are indeed opportunities, says professor Lammerts, who is also working on various projects. "With wheat, for example. The Dutch organic wheat market has a new breed needed because of the currently used - the Lavett - resistance to rust fungus is slowly disappearing. But a new breed viability will have to add 50,000 ha. In the Netherlands, the organic wheat market but 2000 acres available. This is not enough to recoup the investment. So you have different approaches. The Louis Bolk Institute for Sustainable Agriculture has brought together all chain to the problem. Organic bakers bake bread 8 million annually. With a storage of 2 cents per loaf, you can form a fund to invest in breeding. There is now a consortium formed by all concerned to arrange this. Chain approach that might be the right approach for our problem may be. "
But if the consumer is also a gray pumpkin instead of an orange, as developed by Bart Vossen?
'Scientist Lammerts knows the story of Bart Vossen. "We must make additional efforts as a sector like those green-gray pumpkin, orange is indeed from within, but to sell them. Bart has a great story and should therefore retail MacDonald. Health food stores and a sales and Odin with their bags and matching vegetables newsletter, since the possibilities , but in the Netherlands, we make too little use. Sometimes the chain a try, but it must be structured. "
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