44 employees of the company donor, come together for an evening’s dinner. The Havendiners take place once a month in the Haarlemmermeerstation on the Amstelveenseweg. They are inspiring evenings with a human touch that often end with Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian, Kurd or Eritrean dance. Art & culture Art Zuid Art Camp The Art Zuid association organised the Art Zuid Art Camp over multiple days in the summer of 2018 for kids between five and twelve year’s old. The kids spent five days as real artists and developed their creative skills. They went for walks, played games, went to a city farm and visited company art collections at AkzoNobel amongst others. Get Lost In June 2018 the second edition of the Get Lost Art Route opened on the Gustav Mahlerplein, an art route where companies such as AkzoNobel and Flow Real Estate work together with twelve young artists. The Get Lost organisation aims to bridge the gap between art and business and believes that artists and business people can inspire each other. Guided tours were organised and live Sport Padel courts Padel is a mix of tennis and squash and is played on a brightly-coloured court. Three courts were commissioned in July 2018 in Zuidas at the Claude Debussylaan. The three blue courts were made possible thanks to the Zuidas Amsterdam Development Office. These performances were held in addition to the sculptures and paintings exhibited. Pure market In July the travelling Sunday market ‘Pure Markt’ set up shop in the Beatrixpark. Visitors could meet honest and wholesome entrepreneurs. The Pure Markt was founded in 2008 and after ten years has become a staple attraction of Amsterdam parks. From blooming flowers to liqueur On the initiative of Frans Taselaar (Hompe & Taselaar) 6000 red tulips were planted on the embankment of the A10. A large part of these were harvested and processed into a unique tulip liqueur ‘Primeur Zuidas’. Planting tulips somewhere in the Zuidas, enjoying the colours in the spring and drinking the liqueur afterwards: a cycle that we hope will be repeated every year. professional courts can host worldchampionship-level games. Everybody is welcome to play on them after paying a fee and lessons as well as tournaments and social evenings are organised regularly. ROC & RAI Amsterdam collaboration ROC started offering the ‘Urban Sport’ degree in 2018. Its mission is to get Amsterdam exercising by educating sports trainers who can then organise challenging sports activities for everybody. RAI Amsterdam started cooperating with the ROC Urban Sport course. In coming years around twenty ROC Urban Sport students will use the empty rooms in the RAI every Thursday as a urban sport education location. Through this collaboration, previously unused rooms in the RAI are given social value. Houthoff Heroes The Houthoff Heroes programme supports charities that Houthoff employees have personally engaged with throughout the year. In 2018 Sportclub Only Friends received a financial donation. This association offers children with disabilities or a chronic disease opportunities to practice sports. With the company’s contribution three football teams could take part in an international tournament in Austria.
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