This summer, everything revolves around music at Museon-Omniversum.
Come to the free opening festival of MUSIC on July 5!
Visit the new exhibition MUSIC! Move. Feel. Connect.
Experience the new full-dome screening Baby Symphony for the little ones (0-3 years),
Swing in your chair and sing along to America’s Music, and
Experience a night out at the new fulldome experience “Resolution,” with an immersive experience about hope.
A free festival with lots to listen to, see, and do. How fun.
Opening Festival MUSIC!
On Saturday, July 5, we open our new exhibition MUSIC! Move. Feel. Connect. And we celebrate with a free festival for the whole family. Enjoy live music from (Hague) artists, participate in more than 20 workshops and activities, discover fulldome music films in the dome theater, and be one of the first to visit the new exhibition MUSIC! Move. Feel. Connect. A day for the whole family.
What does music do to you? In the new interactive exhibition MUSIC! Move. Feel. Connect., you will discover how music touches, connects, and inspires you. Listen, move, and make music yourself as you discover how sound evokes emotions and brings people together. From your favorite songs to the music of the future. From human music to rhythms and sounds from nature. In this exhibition, you experience how music is everywhere.
Every morning in the summer: Baby Symphony (0 – 3 years)
Especially for babies and toddlers, there is Baby Symphony this summer. A gentle and moving film experience full of colors, shapes, and soothing music. Watch, listen, and marvel together in the largest cinema dome in the Benelux. The specially composed music stimulates the senses of young children and makes a first visit to the cinema a special experience.
From jazz in New Orleans to rock ‘n’ roll in Memphis: together with Aloe Blacc, you discover the roots of the music we still listen to today. A cheerful big-screen film full of music, culture, and recognizable songs for young and old. Swinging in your seat and singing along guaranteed!
In addition to the exhibition and the films, there is something new to experience every day this summer.
Make your own musical instrument. Build a musical instrument together from cardboard, rubber bands, and other materials and discover how sound is created.
Music & Nature Quiz. Can spiders make sounds? Why does a woodpecker drum on trees? Discover surprising animal sounds during this interactive quiz.
Chill room. Listen to music, nature sounds, and soundscapes from various cultures. A nice place to unwind together for a moment.
All activities are freely accessible and suitable for various ages.
For music lovers: Resolution –A cinephonic rhapsody for the soul
Looking for a special night out with a musical spectacle and a story about hope?
Resolution is an impressive combination of music and visuals by the band The Polyphonic Spree. Around a campfire, stories of uncertainty, hope, and connection unfold, supported by a compelling soundtrack. Do you love Pink Floyd, Queen, or The Beatles? Then you won’t want to miss this unique fulldome experience.
Joe Eagan Comedy Productions brings stand-up comedians to The Hague, guesting Branoul approximately 10 times per year with shows entirely in ENGLISH. Always a fun mix of pro headliner comics, local talents, stars of tomorrow and stars of yesterday. Note: Each show has approx 3-4 different comedians and a lovely MC host from Canada, Ireland or the UK guiding you through the evening. The line-up per show is published on our Facebook events page.
Good News Alert!!! Branoul now runs the eatery next door! Enjoy drinks and a pre-show dinner in a lovely setting – veggie or black angus beef burger plate with onions, bacon, cheese, pickles, tomato & their very own scrumptious homemade buns. Open from 17.30. Reserve a table via: bistro@branoul.nl
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–>You can book 1-3 Comedians to perform Stand-up Comedy for 25 – 60 minutes. Or a Quizmaster for a Quiz & Games lasting 1 – 2.5 hours as you compete in teams against colleagues & friends to win prizes.
Welcome to Joe Eagan Comedy Productions – providing entertainment solutions for corporate events/parties, conferences, kick-offs, weddings & more!
Our history and motto: Established in Nov of 2015, The Hague English Comedy Nights has called the lovely Branoul Theatre its home from day one. The shows are all about enjoying great stand-up comedy in English in a lovely setting great for meeting expats and internationally-minded social Dutch natives! Who knows what’ll happen! Each show has a fun mix of at least one pro headline comedian flown in with support acts made up of stars of tomorrow, semi-pros, rookies & stars of yesterday 🙂 + an MC host guiding you through the evening from Canada, Ireland or the UK!
On Sunday 5 July, Stichting DRAMTUNE and Stichting I’M Binck will once again host a special afternoon in the Binckhorst. This edition takes place at De Besturing, Saturnusstraat 89-91, 2516 AG The Hague, a bold and artistic venue on the quay in the heart of the Binckhorst industrial area.
For this edition of Binck’s Garden Sessions, taking place on Sunday afternoon from 15:00 to 18:30, the organisers have invited Klezmagic, a fantastic eight-piece band from Amsterdam. The band will perform a lively mix of Klezmer, Balkan and Roma-inspired music.
For a contribution of €25, visitors can enjoy two 45-minute sets by Klezmagic, including a plate of delicious pasta after the performance, at around 18:00.
The pasta sauce will be made with peeled tomatoes from Salerno, fresh red garlic from Sicily, olive oil from Bolsena in Italy, and fresh basil. Grated Parmesan cheese and spicy peperoncino oil will also be available.
Drinks can be purchased at the bar at De Besturing.
Anyone going on holiday this summer who wishes to renew their passport or identity card no longer needs to make a separate appointment for an official passport photo. A Photo.ME photo booth has been located at The Hague Central Station for some time now: fast, no reservation required, and available day and night. On Tuesday, July 7, ME Group Netherlands is organizing an event at the station to draw the attention of travelers in the region to this convenience, especially now that the summer holidays are just around the corner.
Sound familiar? You book a flight, open the drawer for your passport, and see that the thing expires in three months. Passports and identity cards were given a ten-year validity period for the first time in March 2014. This means that the first large batch of documents will expire starting in 2024, and the expectation is that this flow of applications for new documents will continue through 2028. Last year, an average of between 65,000 and 236,000 passports were issued monthly in the Netherlands. In the busiest months, more than a quarter of a million Dutch people even applied for a new travel document. This year promises to be similarly busy. The Hague Central Station is a place where many people from the entire region pass by daily: therefore, it is a logical place to take care of this.
Travelers are not always aware that a passport or identity card photo must be no more than six months old. Bringing a photo from a few years ago to the town hall can therefore lead to a rejected application. The Photo.ME booth immediately checks via software whether the photo meets all official requirements: from lighting to facial expression. Moreover, an increasing number of documents, including the driver’s license, can now be renewed online. A recent, approved photo is required for this as well.
“People often don’t think about it until it’s too late. The booth is there every day and is available 24 hours a day. With the activation on July 7, we want travelers waiting at the station to experience the convenience of the photo booth: check your passport, get your photo taken now. It literally takes you two minutes,” says Jan Willem Bredewout, Director of ME Group Netherlands.
Visitors who stop by the activation at The Hague Central Station on July 7 will receive a free Photo.ME passport as a souvenir, while supplies last.
Photo booths for fun too The booth isn’t just for photos for official documents. Photo strips and fun photos are making a comeback—partly due to social media. People like to share physical memories alongside their digital content, and a photo strip has something in that regard that a screenshot doesn’t: it’s tangible, a bit crazy, and ready instantly. In the photo booths, you can choose from a wide range of themes to suit the time of year or personalized filters, which are also regularly adjusted and updated.
ME Group now operates more than 300 Photo.ME locations in the Netherlands, at stations, in town halls, and in shopping centers. From the booths, photos can be securely and directly forwarded for official document requests, thanks to collaborations with government authorities.
About ME Group Netherlands ME Group International plc is a British listed company specializing in consumer self-service equipment. In the Netherlands, ME Group operates more than 300 Photo.ME photo booths at stations, town halls, and other public locations. The booths are used for official passport photos for travel documents, identity cards, and driving licenses, as well as for photo strips and fun photos. Thanks to partnerships with government authorities, photos from selected booths can be securely and directly forwarded for official document applications.
The Haagse blues-roots trio Jimding returns to the intimate confines of JAZZ, Coffee and Wines for another “jazz adjacent” session on Sunday afternoon, July 12. We’ll be featuring guest artist Konstantin Iliev on tenor sax and clarinet. Jimding has an extensive repertoire of originals inspired by blues, rock ’n’ roll, rhythm and blues, country and even Latin icons ranging from Muddy Waters and Sonny Boy Williamson to the Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, the Buena Vista Social Club and Tom Waits, among many others. But not to the exclusion of jazz giants like Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Mose Allison, Duke Ellington and on and on and on.
Jimding brings together three old souls who’ve paid their dues — blues growler Jim Wake on lead vocals, guitar and blues harp, with Nico Hart on bass, and John den Exter on percussion. In an extensive repertoire of originals that somehow seem familiar, Jimding ponders love and loss, trial and error, betrayal and abandonment, the sublime and the ridiculous, and good times and bad, with a mix of irony, exasperation, and an appreciation for the absurdities of life.
Following last year’s great success, Ensemble Klang and organist Geerten van de Wetering return to the Waalse Kerk on July 3 for an atmospheric French summer evening. With the brand-new program Tour de France!, they build upon a fresh tradition: an annual summer concert with a French atmosphere, perfectly attuned to warm temperatures.
The concert offers a unique crossover in which the contemporary instrumentation of Ensemble Klang – saxophones, trombone, guitar, percussion, and piano – merges with the organ. Organist Geerten van de Wetering: “The concert centered on Erik Satie last year was so well received that we want to make a tradition of it. Not too heavy fare, but music that suits the summer. The beautiful French Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Walloon Church is, of course, perfectly suited for this. We already have the ideas ready for the coming years!”
Cycling rhythms and French lyricism
The program Tour de France! bridges the gap between the lyricism of French music from the fin de siècle and the driving minimalism of composers such as Philip Glass and Tom Johnson. Pete Harden, artistic director of Ensemble Klang, explains the link to the race: “The repetitive, incessant rhythms of cycling form a beautiful contrast with the lush French countryside. The evening includes, among others, the sublime melodies of Ernest Chausson – who tragically lost his life in a cycling accident – and works for organ by Tailleferre and Chaminade. Claude Debussy’s impressive La cathédrale engloutie will also be performed.”
Nod to Spain and harbinger of minimalism
Because the real Tour de France starts this year with a Grand Départ in Barcelona, the concert will have a Spanish touch. The evening concludes with one of the most recognizable works of classical music: the famous Bolero by Maurice Ravel, given a brand-new arrangement especially for this ensemble.
Harden: “The swirling repetitions in the Bolero are undoubtedly a harbinger of the minimalism that would emerge later in the twentieth century. It is the perfect, rousing conclusion to a dreamy summer evening.”
Tickets and drinks
Tickets for this Tour de France on July 3 from 8:15 PM can be ordered via https://podium21.nl/ . After the concert, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy a drink.
