While many Europeans will wait until the end of December for their Christmas celebrations, the Dutch have already got going. This evening (5 December) signifies the Sinterklaas evening with the ...
Kick Out Zwarte Piet (KOZP) ended its national campaign on December 5, declaring its mission largely accomplished, just as ...
Oké, het is Sinterklaas en KOZP is weg, dus Zwarte Piet kan weer terug komen. De overgrote meerderheid heeft Zwarte Piet op ...
Every year around Christmas, Belgium and the Netherlands enter a discussion about the controversial tradition of Zwarte Piet. The "celebration" involves adults and children painting themselves black, ...
Sinterklaas is the Dutch iteration of the classic Saint Nicholas legend, often called the “De Sint.” Unlike his American counterpart, Sinterklaas wears a more traditional bishop garb and delivers ...
Two members of the activist group Kick Out Zwarte Piet were awarded the Andreas Medal for their efforts to make the Sinterklaas celebration in Amsterdam more inclusive. Jerry Afriyie and Raul Balai ...
It’s not only in America that the nationalist, populist debate is raging onward — as exemplified in this year’s U.S. presidential elections. There’s plenty of a similar nature going on in the rest of ...
HOLLAND, MI – The Holland Area Convention & Visitors Bureau touts an annual Sinterklaas Eve Procession as a "Dutch folk tradition." But it's not exactly that. While the custom in The Netherlands to ...
My mother is from Holland and so, like every Dutch child, I celebrated Sinterklaas every year. According to Dutch tradition, Sinterklaas, or Saint Nicholas, arrives in the Netherlands from Spain each ...
Niels van der Laan, the actor who plays the role of “chief Piet” in the televised news story leading up to the Sinterklaas ...