New show

Our kitchen turned this weekend into an atelier! Tereza (my Kukulu fellow) arrived with a car loaded with materials, machines, stages, bicycles, puppets, parts of puppets, parts of bicycles… Now we just have to bring it all together and make it work. So exciting! 

I will keep you updated, and tell you all about it very soon.

Tradaaadaa! Now back to work! ;)

(And yes, we enjoyed some ate amounts of belgian chocolate. I'll miss you Terezka!)

June summary

This June begun with a successful try - out of the show for little children Hendrik and Poes, produced by Theater Savooi. Remember Hendrik? I introduced him here. You can see this show Hendrik and Poes also in July during the Gentse Feesten festival in Ghent. Check out the program here.

(Poes = Cat, but I guess it's quite clear from the photo)

Lena and Leen a.k.a. Hendrik and Poes

For more adventure I introduced this month also my good old Spaghetti Western to the Belgian public. My object theatre miniature, where two ketchup cowboys are trying to shoot each other was part of the festival of a Pedagogical center in Wagenschot. The theme of the festival was Spaghetti, so I couldn't just not bring it on there, although I am not sure now, if the audience was ready for so much blood. Some kids got bloody too... ooops :)

And in the end, June is also the month of the flea market fever. The popular one - on Lange Violettestraat didn't disappoint. Again there has been incredible choice of stuff to try, buy, take or just look at. If you are following my instagram you know what I am talking about.

Congratulations to all children who are done with the school for some time, congratulations to all of you for whom june acctually brings summer :) Any summer plans? 

For me it means a lot of work on our new Kukulu show. I can't tell you much, but there will be a bicycle, I promise. 

Why do I love Belgium #1

Almost a year ago, when we moved to Belgium I decided to find my top 10 things I love about this country. The first one was clear to me immediately. Biking. Not as a sport (oh my god, no!) but as a way of transportation.

Everybody bikes! Young people, old people, two people, little people, babies (sitting in a special cargo bikes). And the bike roads are wide, and signed and they don't just end somewhere... 

This was last spring. We were testing my brand new bike! Since than he went through a lot of rain, mud, even snow (!), one flat tire and two slight accidents ;) But I keep enjoying it and I look forward to some sunny days on the 'fiets'!