Festive Closing Day
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Programme subject to change.
Closing Day, Volunteers' Bread Meal.
Today is the grand finale of this folklore season. For years we have tried to thank all our volunteers by offering them a special programme. This year it is being celebrated with an open-air bread meal on the Markt.
At approx. 12:45 we hope to welcome many participants in West Frisian costume on the Markt in front of restaurant 'de Posthoorn' for a joint lunch to close the West Frisian Thursdays. The meal is provided by Bakkerij Slijkerman and Restaurant 'de Posthoorn', with musical accompaniment by “de Uienhoop”. Should it rain, the meal will be held in the Makado shopping centre. Before and after the meal, the “battle for the man and the woman” will be fought out.
09:00 Harnessing and hitching the horses in the Muziektuin behind Museum Vreeburg.
09:00 – 15:00 Curiosities and crafts market in the Nieuwstraat.
10:00 – 15:00 The tower on the Markt can be climbed for a small fee; inside the tower is the exhibition with many historical photographs of the Westfriese Folklore.
10:00 The West Frisians gather at the corner of Nieuwe Laagzijde/Stationsweg (café Spoorzicht) for the parade.
10:00 – 13:00 Wood turner in the smithy at the Vreeburg museum farm.
10:45 The parade sets off from the Nieuwe Laagzijde.
11:00 – 15:00 Organ recital by Hanneke Muntjewerf and Dennis van der Heijden in the Dutch Reformed Church (N.H. Kerk) on the Markt.
11:25 Performance by the children's dance group on the church square on the Markt.
11:45 Children's bread meal on the Markt.
11:45 Performance by the West Frisian dance group on the church square on the Markt.
12:00 – 13:00 The farrier shoes horses in front of the Vreeburg museum farm on the Loet.
12:45 Closing meal for the volunteers on the Markt (if it rains, the lunch is in the Makado).
13:15 – 15:00 Skroifgroep Hoogkarspel (West Frisian writers' group) in the coffee room of the N.H. Kerk on the Markt. They sing and tell anecdotes in the wonderfully rich West Frisian dialect.
Don't forget to visit our beautiful Vreeburg museum farm and the Carriage Museum.
