Our very own potato

OUR VERY OWN POTATO

Manifestation about our potato
-Project: more than 125 years of potato trading 2023-2025
-Cause: the establishment of the Hettema potato trading company in 1898
Date: Saturday 23 November 2024
Place: Towhall Franeker, Raadhuisplein 1
Program: 10.30-15.00

10.30: Entry
+ coffee or tea with orange pastry
+ sale poetry collection Us aller ierdappel: € 15,00 (bookshop price: € 20,00) – with the cooperation of asylum seekers
11.00: Huub Mous, The tuber in art
+ exchange with audience
11.45: Declamation in Lower Saxon (Achterhoeks), Bildts and Frisian
+ soprano Nataliia Gryshchenko with potato song from Ukraine
12.00: Potato grower Theun de Jong about potato varieties and Jacob Jensma from Restaurant De Zwarte Haan about six new potato snacks
12.10: Break
>Potato snacks and drinks
>sale Book table, among others:
-collection of poems Us aller ierdappel
-the new lyric novella by Peter Popma: De seis fan Gatske
>exhibition in the medieval cellar
13.00: Introduction of Tsead Bruinja at poetry collection Us aller ierdappel/Our very own potato
13.30: Declamation in Catalan, Limburgs and Lower Saxon (Stellingwerfs)
14.00: Large and small scale potato cultivation
-Question interview by Margriet Brandsma with Jenny Fokkema, Willem Bruinsma and Gerard Backx
+ exchange with audience
15.00: Potato snacks and drinks
+ talk and get away
Between the programme music from Hein Jaap Hilarides and Piter Wilkens and folk dancing by the Fryske Dûnsers.

Admission free. You don’t have to register, but you can: post@frysk-en-frij.nl
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Organisation: Stichting Erfgoed Fundaasje/Heritage Foundation–Frysk en Frij,
Klaas van Zandbergenstraat 28, 9076 GB Sint Annaparochie – 06-11 26 05 94.

Overall management: Margriet Brandsma

Topics: the potato in our earlier times, potato farming now, the potato in literature, as a phenomenon in the visual arts, as music to the ears, as pleasure on the tongue, as daily food for thought.
Solid experience of processing of voltage fields. Critical remarks.
And at the same time cross-pollination.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS:

>PRESENTATION OF NEW BOOK

–Us aller ierdappel, collection of forty forty poems on the theme potato.
New potato poems in Achterhoeks, Bildts, Catalan, Dutch, Frisian, language of Groningen, English, language of Limburg, Lower Saxon.
Jury: Tsead Bruinja, Doutsen van Gosliga, Albertina Soepboer, Eelke Veltman.
With an introduction by Tsead Bruinja, in 2019 and 2020 Poet of the Fatherland of the Netherlands.
And self-evident declamation in different languages ​​and tongue strokes.

>LARGE AND SMALL-SCALE POTATO CULTIVATION, NOW AND IN THE FUTERE
Using pesticides? Organic potato cultivation? Or both?
Interview by Margriet Brandsma
-with Jenny Fokkema from Fokkema Farming in Slappeterp and Willem Bruinsma from Bruinsma Bio in Seisbierrum
-with Gerard Backx, outgoing director/ceo of HZPC.

>POTATO MUSIC
Hein Jaap Hilarides
The classic:
–Lofbaarne of Douwe Tamminga.
And two rascals of the poet himself in Bildts language:
–Bakspikere
–Nije eerpels.

Piter Wilkens
-among others: De Ballade fan de Befrijde Ierdappel/The Ballad of the Liberated Potato, the one and only, specially written for this potato festival.

Click on the Piter’s photo for a soundfragment of his potato balad.
Sound recording: Pieter Meindertsma – AD-Productions.

>EXHIBITIONS 2023-2025 at different locations, including in the medieval cellar in the Townhall at Franeker.

The Stichting Erfgoed Fundaasje/Heritage Foundation-Frysk and Frij has 2023-2025 stalls about more than 125 years of private potato trade following the establishment of the Trading House Hettema in 1898 at Beetgum, in 1999 HZPC – after the merger with former arch rival Z.P.C. -, starting in 2023 Royal HZPC Group. The Heritage Foundation has contributed to the anniversary book of HZPC and the obtaining of the royal resignation of the multinational in 2023.
In addition there are fitrines with heritage from other potato company’s, like Braaksma, Cultura, Fobek, Runia-Van der Schaaf, Westra, Zijlstra, etc.
Furtheron the origins of the potato trade from small potato cultivation are incisively depicted.

>POTATO TUBER DANCING
Performance Fryske Dûnsers/the Frisian dancers, swirling living fitrins.

>THE TUBER IN ART

–Huub Mous, as an art historian about the – artistic? – potato.
Obvious challenging texts with ditto light images.

–Douwe Idema, new work:

>THE POTATO ON THE TONGUE, ON STAGE ÀND WITH THE LESSONS
-Too much new potato meals:
>salty Hettemahunger-snacks
>peppery Peru-potatoes
>sweet ZPC-seeds
>+ potatobeer, both with and without.

–On a yourney to Potato Countries with Inke and Inca, play for children.
–De ierdappel – Lês- en lesbrief, reading and lesson book about the potato, appetizing for young and old.