26 Feb: Special Crossroads-card and Expat Tour during Cement Theatre Festival
January 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
The theatre company Huis van Bourgondie is offering a discount card exclusively for Crossroads readers during the upcoming Cement Theatre Festival in Maastricht.
The Crossroads-card will give access to a total of four performances during the Cement Festival for the price of EUR 12,50.
Expat Tour on Saturday 26 February:
Crossroads-card holders will be given the opportunity [...]
Health hazards
January 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
Singaporean expat Musliha Ajmain Janssen gives a testimonial of her experience with Dutch doctors and the Dutch health care system.
9 Feb: Informal get-together for internationals in Maastricht
January 28, 2011 2 Comments
Dear all,
How about another get-together: Wednesday 9 February, 20.00 hrs at the Poshoorn, Stationstraat, Maastricht?
Totally informal, anyone and everyone welcome, pay for your own drinks etc. Pass the word on, and bring your friends, both Dutch and non-Dutch.
But please let me know if you are coming so that if there are too many of us [...]
Vacancies: German Linguist, Italian Linguist
January 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
Are you looking for a challenge as well as a career? What bigger challenge can there be than making real, tangible improvements in peoples’ lives and health? Everyone at Medtronic is committed to doing just that.
Medtronic is a leading medical device company with offices around the world. For our Bakken Research Center (BRC), in Maastricht, [...]
Serious Beans and Pop Music in Maastricht
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
With three rehearsal rooms, one concert hall, a DJ-lab and a recording studio and ongoing events on its agenda, the Muziekgieterij has now established itself as a leading centre for pop culture and music in Maastricht. It recently organised a brainstorm meeting about the future of the pop music scene in the city. A report by Crossroads editor Sueli Brodin.
21-27 Feb: Festival Cement in Maastricht
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
An overview of the Festival CEMENT program. All performances displayed in red are suitable for non native Dutch speakers.
Program may be subject to changes.
Festival CEMENT. Experience it!
From February 21st until 27th 2011, Maastricht. Seven days to enjoy more than 25 special theatre and dance performances at various locations in town. From industrial shed [...]
15-20 Feb: Queer It Up Festival in Maastricht
January 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
Queer It Up Festival // Manifesto
The Queer It Up Festival is an independent project initiated by students from different faculties and different backgrounds in Maastricht, coming together to respond to a lack of activities surrounding queer and LGBTI issues in the student community. Sexuality is hardly discussed or negotiated, and there is [...]
Zoekjaar: license to work
January 20, 2011 7 Comments
Frieda Gultom is an Indonesian graduate from Maastricht University currently living in the Netherlands on a one-year zoekjaar permit. Her dream is to find a job in the field of media, preferably in the Maastricht region. Will she succeed?
Dear Maastricht: A Love Letter
January 13, 2011 15 Comments
US citizen Becky Castle Miller only spent a few days in Maastricht last September but immediately “fell head over heels in love with the city.” For the past three months, she and her husband have been scheming about ways to get back. Becky shares her feelings in a love letter to Maastricht.
Flooding in Limburg and Gelderland
January 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Snow from last year is melting and the excess water is causing flooding in the provinces of Limburg and Gelderland. Authorities say they are prepared for the flooding and that the situation is not particularly dangerous, but one man in Limburg has lost his life as a result.
Source: Radio Netherlands
26 Jan: spymonkey - MOBY DICK A glorious mis-telling of the Herman Melville novel
January 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
Four whalers find themselves trapped in the belly of a literary monster. As they ponder the irony of their fate they recount a story of Moby Dick, sparkling with their own fantastical flourishes. The novel’s epic examination of good, evil, fate and obsession is lost on them. And then, mysteriously, found on them again.
Will Ahab’s [...]
6 Feb: Oleta Adams live in concert
January 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
Since the runaway success of her 1990 debut album Circle of and the impassioned hit single Get Here Oleta Adams has inspired a growing legion of fans in the U.S. and Europe with journeys of the heart via songs that draw deeply from her roots in gospel, while crossing effortlessly into the realms of soul, [...]
Brainport International Community embraces social media
January 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
Brainport International Community is the network for all internationals living (and working) in the Southeast Netherlands.
It helped realise the development of two Expat Centres (in Eindhoven and Maastricht) in the Southeast
Netherlands, creating a one-stop shop for all expats and their families. From 2011 onwards,
these Expat Centres will be running the corresponding website www.expatguideholland.com.
Brainport [...]
Roman Maastricht
January 2, 2011 Leave a Comment
Maastricht came into existence as a Roman settlement.
Source and more information: Zicht op Maastricht, the biography of a city.
