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  15 June 8:00 pm William Hogarth, Noon, (detail), 1738 Online Event Historian and curator Tessa Murdoch will examine the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide. First-generation Huguenot refugees included hundreds of trained artists, designers, and craftsmen. Beyond the French borders, they raised the quality of design and workshop practice, passing on skills to their apprentices; sons, godsons, cousins, and to successive generations, who continued to dominate output in the luxury trades. Although silver and silks are the best-known fields with which Huguenot settlers are associated, their significant contribution to architecture, ceramics, design, clock and watchmaking, engraving, furniture, woodwork, sculpture, portraiture, and art education provides fascinating ins...

 Additional information recruitment refugees – English We, Rogier De Nijs and Erik Vink, are looking for refugees who would like to participate in helping to create a beautiful project about freedom, for the Bosch Parade 2016. As the creators of this project, ‘Performance Voor Vrijheid’ (‘Performance for Freedom’), we want to portray the ultimate freedom. We also want to give people the opportunity to consider the question what freedom actually is. Why do people here have such a need for freedom, when they generally have never known differently? The majority of people in the Netherlands barely realise what it is to live in a situation where your freedom is questioned. The project For us as artists, Art is Freedom. A huge bird, floating on the water, symbolises that freedom. The bird comes to life by setting it in motion. This will be done by people who escaped their living situation, for their freedom. The bird will interact with musicians and performers found o...