Take a seat (together with your child) at an embroidery table and embroider without compromise, without prescribed rules or patterns.
Our tables were specially designed for small children to embroider on in a simple way. We find the ‘doing’ and the pleasure in doing it more important than the result.
You will cut and file a simple rhythm instrument made of bamboo.
The workshop instructors are members of the Nederlandse Pijpersgilde, a bamboo flute association. The association operates under the traditional guild system, where you undergo internal training as an apprentice to advance to the journeyman level. The examination encompasses four components: AMV, construction, playing, and conducting/teaching.
Musical instrument-making demonstrations
On Saturday
Demonstration of making a block and tuning a recorder by Jan Bouterse. Information about building a bowed instrument, with demonstrations of making a clog violin by Onno Lotgering and a violin by Harry van Zutphen. Demonstration of building a barrel organ by Wim Draaijer and building an organetto (accordion with organ pipes, after a model by Leonardo da Vinci) by Reijnier Kloeg.
On Sunday
Demonstration about voicing a harpsichord: cutting goose feather keels (picks) and adjusting them to size. This provides insight into the mechanics of a harpsichord by Rik van Pelt. Information about building a bowed instrument, with demonstrations of building a violin by Harry van Zutphen and in the afternoon of a clog violin by Onno Lotgering. Demonstration of building different guitars by Maarten Borstrok.
There is documentation material for, among other things, organ building, viol building, gamba building and various other instruments.
Bouwerskontakt is part of Huismuziek, an association for music and instrument making and aims to exchange, make available, expand and spread knowledge and experience about building musical instruments. Bouwerskontakt currently has 350 members: a large number of hobbyists but also semi-professional and professional builders. Individually or in a course, they build historical and modern instruments such as guitars, violins, harpsichords, organs, barrel organs, flutes and recorders.
Métier Magazine is an independent magazine, which focuses at art and craft, material and technique. During the festival you can have a look at the magazine, purchase it or take a subscription.
Under the guidance of an actual carpenter and his team, you can help build a tiny, tiny house. For small and older children: sawing wood, planing, drilling holes, driving in screws and hammering in nails. Super fun, even if you’ve never done it before, we’ll help you on your way!
Ruud Dubel is a furniture maker and fine woodworker in Amsterdam. He likes fun, crazy, challenging, simple and unexpected ideas, and he likes to supervise the creative building process during the festival.
Will you help build?
Young children must be under the supervision of parents/guardians.
Parents/guardians are responsible for their children at all times. The festival accepts no liability.
How does a plane stay in the air? Why does the sound of a car change when it passes you? Can you launch a rocket with a bicycle pump? Find out in the surprising and interactive NEMO Science Tour. In 20 minutes, you will see spectacular experiments that amaze young and old, challenge you to participate, and, above all, make you curious!
NEMO Science Museum, the science museum in Amsterdam, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with a major anniversary programme. With the theme Nederland Curious, NEMO will pay tribute to curiosity both inside and outside the museum walls and encourage people to ask questions. One of the components of the festive programme is the NEMO Science Tour. With a surprising and interactive programme, NEMO will travel throughout the Netherlands this autumn. Have you got a burning question of your own? Submit it at the tour or on the website www.nemo100jaar.nl.
During the previous festival, our youngest visitors made this fantastic animal!
This year, children can again help build and paint a life-size, colourful papier-mâché fantasy animal for free, guided by visual artist Edson Bruno Filho.
The minimum age is 12 years.
Turn a square lath into an almost round stick that you can hammer into a piece of wood to lock a joint. You learn to plane with a hand plane and stab with a chisel. You will also learn about working posture while planning and how to adjust the planning chisel. We work with pine or larch. After the workshop, you will have your own toenail. The advanced woodworker can also pierce a worvel with a chisel. Of course, we will be happy to tell you more about the Technician Wood and Restoration course.
Technician Wood and Restoration is the only full-fledged MBO level 3 course to become a restoration carpenter. It is taught at 3 locations in the Netherlands: Hengelo, Arnhem and Zaandam. You will learn carpentry by hand, with machines and even with CNC-controlled machines during the 3-year course. So you can ‘get by’ in the machine shop and on-site. Restoring panelling and buildings is the core of the course. And you are also making new objects, with modern techniques.
SBB’s Expertisepunt Specialistisch Vakmanschap supports small, specialist and unique occupations and their courses at mbo-level and with relevance for the Dutch economy.
What if there are no more courses for very small branches? That is already the case for many professions. And there is demand for these skills. That is why we must try to keep the small education courses that still exist alive. And we have to get young people interested in them. The Education Days and the Festival are an excellent opportunity to do so.
The Expertisepunt Specialistisch Vakmanschap contributes to the preservation and visibility of small, specialist professions and their training courses and to lifelong development (lateral entry). We also work to encourage cooperation between funded and non-funded education for small, craft and specialist professions.
We would like to engage with visitors to the Ambacht in Beeld Festival about interesting opportunities in secondary vocational education and the labour market.
For deans, mentors and parents of students who will participate in the Ambacht in Beeld Education Days, the Expertisepunt Specialistisch Vakmanschap will give a presentation on small, artisanal and specialist education courses in senior secondary vocational education (MBO) and their labour market opportunities.
Baptist Arnhem has been offering high-quality tools and machines for woodworkers in the Netherlands and Belgium for almost 40 years. Its range of products is aimed at the furniture makers, wood carvers, wood turners, handyman and for schools, among others. A selection can be seen and bought during the festival.
Baptist Arnhem also has its own course workshop, where course centres from all over the country are invited to give introductory lessons in woodworking techniques, such as kumiko, fretsawing, woodcarving, furniture-making and pyrography.
During the Ambacht in Beeld Festival, Baptist itself will give small workshops! In about 15 minutes, you will go through various woodworking techniques such as measuring and marking, sawing, sanding and pyrography. You will make your own wooden gadget! A fun introduction to woodworking. This workshop is mainly for children. Parents can, of course, help! The workshops run throughout the day.
Baptist staff will be on hand to explain the tools and different techniques. There will be support for all four techniques.
Festival address:
NDSM Loods
NDSM-Plein 85
1033 WC Amsterdam
Postal address:
Stichting Ambacht in Beeld
Kalf 158
1509AH Zaandam
The Netherlands
