.......for NL northeast

[The north eastern part of the Netherlands, including the provinces of Drenthe, Overijssel and Friesland]

30 December 2025

Dear all

Just before the year is out, a quick update.

As per the details below, I will give a special performance at the Hommeltuin (Elim area) on Friday 16 January. And then on the Sunday, 18th, a collaborative performance with improvisation specialist Robijn Tilanus (Uffelte)

Further along the line, Saturday 27 June, another day workshop, also at the Hommeltuin.

May these events provide you with an injection of creative inspiration for 2026!

With best regards
Francois (HA!Man)

Link to this page: haworld.net/northeast

Event Announcements
HA! School Workshops
  • Date: Fri 16 Jan 2026
  • Time: 10h05-11h25; 11h40-13h00
  • Venue: Carmelcollege Emmen
  • Enquiries: Marcel Mulder marcelmulder87@gmail.com
HA!Man Performance
  • Date: Fri 16 Jan 2026
  • Time: (evening)
  • Venue: De Hommeltuin, Elim area, Drenthe
  • All bookings and Enquiries: Alida Grundman +31644310440
Improvisation Concert with Robijn Tilanus
  • Date: Sun 18 Jan 2026
  • Special features:
    • Francois and Robijn engage in a series of improvisation items, challenging themselves with given themes and motives, also with room for solo improvisations and input from the audience.
  • Time: 13h45 for 14h00
  • Venue: Improvisasie Academie
  • Address: Dorpsstraat 39 Uffelte
  • Entrance: Free. Doen navraag / Enquire!
  • na concert aansluitend feestelijke nieuwjaarsthee met taart!
  • BOOKINGS / Enquiries: Robijn Tilanus +316 400 66 402 robijntilanus@gmail.com


Spontaneous Creativity Day

  • Date: Sat 27 Jun 2026
  • Venue: De Hommeltuin, Elim area, Drenthe
  • Preliminary bookings and Enquiries: Alida Grundman +31644310440
 
Help to Grow the Network


  • Request: as this is the only and best way to make the HA! enterprise viable in the longer term, kindly spread the word now, and any time into the future, so more people in your area can become connected and have the opportunity to attend events
  • Network status: we currently stand on 70 subscribers for this area. Let's see if we can make it to 100 by the end of 2026?
  • How: share the Join the Network info pdf with its subscription link: haworld.net/network
  • Rewards:
    • You may note to people that every new subscriber gets a surprise pack of HA! creations as a welcome gift.
    • And as for you, you also get a surprise pack for every three people that join through you
 
Summary of Schedule


Fri 16 Jan 2026
Carmelcollege Emmen Workshops
HA!Man Performance, Hommeltuin

Sun 18 Jan 2026
Improvisation Concert with Robijn Tilanus

Sat 27 Jun 2026
 Day Workshop, Hommeltuin

Next
December 2026 (possibly), 2017
 

Your work, I feel, is much more than
the making of music. It is muse-ic.
You are using music as a tool, and it is
clearing and creating the old and new, respectively.

(Biren Shah, India)


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