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- BCP -
Welcome to the English page on licht +
ruimte, coaching en inspiratie.
 
In the heart of Holland, in the centre of the town Abcoude,
licht + ruimte is a special meeting place along the river
Angstel. Located centrally, with a first floor view of the town’s
main bridge. It is not only light and spacious but also
artistic and thought provoking. A place to inspire and be inspired,
to be accompanied on your travels to wherever it is you are heading
or life is leading you to.
licht en ruimte would literally translate to: light
and space/ious
The Oxford dictionary tells
us:
Light; (a) kind of natural radiation that makes things
visibleSpace(ious); unused area between two ore more
points/ having or providing much space
The space at licht + ruimte offers room to work in
peace, to hold a meeting or to have an intimate party. It’s all up
to you. It’s a place to celebrate your successes with your team or
company relations or to mark a special occasion. For business or for
private. For serious matters or for the less serious. There is
room for all of it and there is light and much, much
more.
For me, licht + ruimte is a relaxed great place to be in, and to
coach in. A place where new ideas are easily born, and a great
place to meet with inspiring people.
Let's discuss what you have in mind.
Wishing you lots of light
and space in your life,
A. Nicoline Smoor
nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl
+31
6 11003354
Hoogstraat 35 (above bar/restaurant De
Eendracht)
Postal Box 43
1390 AA Abcoude
The
Netherlands
A.
Nicoline Smoor facilitator &
coach
background
After studying
Business at the Nyenrode Business Universiteit (BBA), Nicoline
worked in various management positions. In 1994, she took the Coach
Training at The MMS Worldwide Institute in The Netherlands.
Following this period, until 2001, she managed her own company from
London and Amsterdam in coaching, communication advice and text
& editing.
Coaching has been her main professional activity since 2001. For
corporate and for private clients, both inside and outside of The
Netherlands. Nicoline has facilitated many of the activities of the
MMS in The Netherlands until mid 2008. She enrolled in the masters
course Conflict Management at Maastricht University and
participated in many different workshops on (systemic) family
constellations (Bert Hellinger). In 2008 she finished a course in
systemic thinking and working, in 2009 followed by ‘Living and
Working from the soul’. Since March 2009 Nicoline is a
certified facilitator of the Inner Links Transformation Game.
Nicoline is married to Elias Woudenberg and mother of son Wieger
(12).
on her work and approach as a
coach
Does your job make full use of the talents
you have? Do you doubt your own approach or the path that you are
on? Do you sometimes feel you are stopping yourself in some way or
maybe even obstructing others? Is your team not creating the changes
you set out for them to reach? Or, are you getting ready for your
ultimate challenge?
If you are ready for taking new steps but you aren’t quite sure
how to go about it or which direction you should take, coaching
could be an option for you (and your team). You may discover new
ways to reach your goal in a more effective way, by venting your
feelings and giving them some space, shining some light on to your
self or those areas that you find harder to deal with.
During an intake I will ask you to describe your goals and
together we will make a plan. This will include some ongoing
evaluations. Depending on your goals and your starting point, the
amount of coaching meetings usually varies between 4 and 8 sessions.
On average, a meeting takes about one and a half hours.
My approach is facilitating and reflecting. It’s all about
listening to the signals you are giving me – and about you making
your own choices and agreements with yourself. That starts with a
good conversation with yourself and ends with putting this into
action to bring your talents and dreams alive.
what others
say
I am a different person compared to when
I started. Today I have the instruments to follow up on the chosen
path. Today, I am a happier person, getting more and more
reconnected with who I am in essence.
Dianne Smeets
Nicoline is an
intelligent, empathic and warm person who has shown me the mirror to
help me move forward. I can highly recommend her.
Paul Kampman
As a coach, Nicoline holds
the perfect mirror with ease, provides genuine and incisive insights
into behaviours that are easy to connect with, simple to adapt and
to practice. She made a 'real difference' to me.
Sanjay Seghal
During the Inner Negotiation Workshop (INW) I have been
coached by Nicoline. During these two days I felt looked at
objectively, sharing her findings without judgement.
Priceless. Asking in depth questions. For me that's the
essence of coaching: this way I myself could feel and see where
I was and where I wanted to move towards. She was sharp and
present until the last moment of the workshop. For me as an
exhausted participant after two intense days, extremely
valuable.
Barbara Piper
Nicoline brings a fresh perspective to every problem. As my
personal coach for 8 months, her partnership was outstanding. With
her support I confronted some of my deepest fears and got in touch
with my dreams once again. She is perceptive and has a great ability
to listen to the unsaid and voice it for you. She brings great
warmth and empathy into every client relationship. Her
professionalism, tenacity and energy are worth emulating. She adds
value both to the individual, the processes and the organisation
through her interactions.
Leena
Nair
Through her coaching, Nicoline has brought a
fresh level of confidence and energy in me. She is a very caring
person and her approach to her coachees is very friendly, warm,
gentle yet firm and persuasive enough, clearly bringing out the
areas where the coachee can improve. She has been able to not only
highlight what to improve, but really given some very useful, doable
suggestions on the way to improve. With this she helped me regain
the self-confidence I had lost.
Sanjay
Gupta-Kumar
licht
+ ruimte
licht + ruimte is located on the first
floor, above bar/restaurant De Eendracht across the town's main
bridge bridge. Through its eight windows the centre of Abcoude
and the river Angstel are always nearby without being intrusive. The
bright and comfortable atmosphere in the two adjacent rooms is a
perfect surrounding for outdoors meetings or activities of your
team, special celebrations (private or business), workshops or
trainings for a maximum of 49 people.
The changing art
exhibitions give the rooms a different look and feel every few
months - one never knows the space for ever. Just a ten minutes walk
away, the river Gein flows, a beautiful nature area for a walk or a
bike tour.
The restaurant can serve meals upstairs and
downstairs and so can other caterers. All is there to assist
you in making your experience exactly what you want it to be.
licht + ruimte can be rented per block of four
hours.
For more information, please contact Nicoline Smoor at
nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl
or 06-11003354.
    
   
inspiration
licht + ruimte offers great opportunities for a variety
of cultural activities, regular exhibitions being part of that.
Various artists have exhibited (and sold) their works in licht +
ruimte, excellent musicians have performed and talented actors have
played.
Nicoline is always happy to brain jog on the
perfect activity for your celebration, marking or team gathering in
order to help you make a real difference.
As of early
October, painter Barbara Houwers exhibits het
work in licht + ruimte. More information to follow. Please be so
kind to arrange an appointment to visit licht + ruimte upfront: nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl
pr +31 6 11003354.
past and current exhibitions v
     
 
    
  
Marieke Bolhuis
Marian
Bijlenga
Barbara Houwers
Sanne
Meijer
Mica Okuno
Françoise Stoop
Hester van
Dapperen
Marian Smit
Pieter Schunselaar
Wouter
Stips
Marleen Leysen
Hans Keuls
Marijke de Goey
Niels Smits
van Burgst
Pien Maso
Hester Van
Dapperen
Christie
Rusche
past
performances
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Eveline Juten (ssinging & lute)
Julia Tom
(cello)
Carla
Leurs (violin)
Messrs. Ikegaya (Shakuhachi)
enToyama (singing and Shamisen)
Rinus Vlaming (accordion)
Theater Draad
(theater van de ontmoeting)
Mirjam
Rietberg (harp)
acting beauty
Carezza (Sjoukje Kooistra, Rica
Dijkstra and Wouter de Koning)
Jacqueline Edeling
(accordion-family)
Leine (singing/guitar)
Stijn &
Mirjam van der Loo (text, piano & singing)
Habiba
(harp/singing)
Guy Sonnen & Rudolf Nottrot (violin)
Meindert Velthuis (bariton/counter tenor) &
Marieke de Vries (accordieon)
Living
Productions with 'Kunst' and 'Who's afraid of Virginia
Woolf?'
Nora Mulder
(pianorgani) & Winnifred Beldman (chello)
Jasper de
Clerq (violin) & Tjitske Jansen (poet)
activities
to come
These are the activities currently
listed for the months to come. Please make sure you sign up for
activities of your choice after which you will receive a message of
confirmation. With any questions, ideas or remarks, please contact
Nicoline Smoor at nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl
or +31 6 11003354.
18 April
– 9 July 2010
Marieke Bolhuis:
Plutonics and the Amazing Atmosphere
 
This
spring Marieke
Bolhuis brings some recent works to licht + ruimte.
This
artist loves the city while longing for the countryside. She is
facinated by human impact on our landscapes. As a child she
withdrew in the dunes to come to peace and reflect. To end up just
inside herself. Later in life she became an artist, painting
landscapes and creating installations. "By creating landmarks,
I try to catch the spectator attention for a hidden layer of meaning
to a landscape. These layers can question the history of
civilization. Or are about the way the earth crust grows and vanish.
My personal involvement leads me from one track to another from my
home grounds near the beach of The Netherlands (series 'home
ground'), to the Silk-route, Mesopotamia in search of the
source of our civilization (series 'search out')]to Japan,
Iceland and Tenerife to walk on volcanic surface. I keep wondering
how on earth this ever happened and how long it will last (series 'a
whole hole swallow up all')." Bolhuis travels the world in search
for answers, travels that inspire her work greatly. "Volcanoes
spit molten lava and gasses into our atmosphere. They form a bridge
between the molten mass on earth and the heavenly arches. Standing
on the beginning of the universe and (maybe) responsible for the
great (climate) change. I am fascinated by these magnificent
Phenomena."
Marieke Bolhuis (1962) attended the Rijksacademie voor
Beeldende Kunst, National Visual Art academy, Amsterdam (1980-1981)
followed by the A.K.I., Academy for Art and Industry in
Enschede (1982-1984). Ze exhibited both solo and as group
member in The Netherlands and abroad, especially in New York and
Japan, with many installations (Oerol festival at
Terschelling, NL). She is visiting professor at the Art School in
Amsterdam, was lecture and member of the national jury, as well as
advisor visual arts for various organisations and city
councils. Her work can be found in many collections, like that
of the Dutch embassies of Aby Dhabi, Dubai, Manila, Teheran,
Washington and Shanghai, the Akzo-Novel Foundation and the ABN
Amro collection.
     
Works by Marieke Bolhuis are exhibited in licht + ruimte between
18 April and 9 July. You are more than welcome during the
events listed or on special appointment. Please call Nicoline
Smoor at 06-11003354 or e-mail to kunst@licht-ruimte.nl. For
more information on Marieke Bolhuis and her works: www.mariekebolhuis.com.
Sunday 18 April 14.00
- 18.00 uur
opening exhibition Marieke
Bolhuis
 
You
are more than welcome for the opening of the exhibition of Marieke
Bolhuis on Sunday afternoon 18 April. At 3, 4 and 5pm there
will be a short performace by Eveline Juten,
song and liuto attiorbato (lute). She brings 17 century Italian
songs, music of Caccini, Strozzi, Frescobaldi and Constantijn
Huygens. All music and songs come from the concert 'Amor, che
fai?. You are welcome, alone or by bringing your own compan, to join
us or to make a special appointment. Please call Nicoline Smoor at
06-11003354 or e-mail to kunst@licht-ruimte.nl.
Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 May
14.00 – 17.00 uur
doors
open
 
Two afternoons open, an opportunity to see the
works of Marieke Bolhuis. During this weekend,
many artists in Abcoude have their work on show as
well.
Sunday 27 June 14.00 - 17.00
uur
doors open
 
You
are more than welcome during the events listed or on special
appointment. Please call Nicoline Smoor at 06-11003354 or e-mail to
kunst@licht-ruimte.nl.
For more information on Marieke Bolhuis and her works: www.mariekebolhuis.com.
activities
that were
Below are some activities that took
place recently. With any questions, ideas or remarks, please contact
Nicoline Smoor at nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl
or +31 6 11003354.
7 February - 7 April
2010
textile and glass works by Marian
Bijlenga
 
The first exhibition of 2010, Marian
Bijlenga (1954) presents her textile and glass works. With
this, she returns to her birth grounds. Born in Loenersloot, she
went to school in Baambrugge, followed by high school in Amsterdam.
“I have good memories of these surroundings and like the idea
of going back there with my works. As a child, I spent
lots of time drawing and sculpting. I remember the time
money was raised for the opening of the community centre in
Baambrugge. There might be people who since then have a small
work made by me." After some different studies,
Bijlenga started at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
After having finished the Rietveld Academie, Bijlenga soon
developed a very unique style. Each piece of work is
constructed from loose elements, together a structure. “Whereas
others make drawings on papier, I use the wall." Bijlenga's work has
a personal, rythmic, two dimensional handwriting in building
structures that play with light. She uses flexible, soft but also
strong materials like textile, paper and horsehair. Not the material
itself is the main goal, but the shape. Bijlenga is fascinated
by graphic patterns. “I am fascinated by tracks: leaves
eaten, torn surfaces, wholes in a wall, spots of wear, the
pattern of chair legs in a rug." Her work consists of dots and
lines, horsehair and fabric, invisibly connected, build into
transparant structures in front of the wall. Via their shadows they
come to life.
Summer 2008, after having worked in Iceland,
Bijlenga started using fish scales in her work. The results can be
seen in licht + ruimte. Her recent stay in Mali as artist
in residence will leave its trails. Special attention for
Palimpsest 3, a work based on the trails artist Herman Scholten
(1932) left behind in his workshop in Baambrugge. Trained as
painter, since 1955 Scholten created tapestries, strongly
infuenced by De Stijl. In our country he was ons of the
precursors of textile arts coming up in the sixties. In
creating his geometric motifs, circles and bow motifs, he wove with
the help of nails on the wall. Bijlenga was inspired by this trail
of thousands of nail wholes. Palimpsest 3 refers to precious
parchments being reused whereby the original text shined through the
previous one. Scholten's work breathes through that
of Bijlenga.
In 2001 HRH Queen Beatrix was invited to be guest curator for the
exhibition, The Presentation of Dutch Art in the Stedelijk Museum.
The Queen chose a work of horsehair and cotton, consisting of
brightly coloured dots. The inspiration for this piece came from the
floating, round patterns on Japanese paper. There was much interest
and appreciation from the public for this work.
Bijlenga exhibits her works in important museums and
galleries both in and outside The Netherlands. So is her
work part of the collections of eg the Stedelijk Museum in
Amsterdam, the Dutch Textile Museum in Tilburg and the Craft Museum
in Finland. She has won many awards, including the Excellence Award
at the 1999 International Textile Competition in Japan, the
Biennale Prize at the Second International Tapestry Art Biennale
2002 in Beijing and the OBG Award at the 2002 International
Textile Art Biennale in Belfast, UK.
 
10 october -
31 december 2009
Barbara
Houwers: lifeline
opening 10 October 4 - 7
pm
Until end of December 2009, Dutch painter Barbara
Houwers will exhibit her paintings in licht + ruimte. On
Saturday afternoon 10 October, the exhibition will be opened by
Abcoude's mair, Jan Streng. This afternoon, you are morst welcome
between 4 and 7pm to enjoy Barbara's work and accessories of BY-BAR AMSTERDAM in a relaxed atmosphere.
After the official opening, cellist Julia Tom will play solme parts
of Bach Suites. Born and raised in California, Julia Tom studied
with Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School of Music while completing
a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature at Harvard University.
Until 2005, Julia was principal cellist of the Bremen
Philharmonic. Since then, she has been playing regularly with the
Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen,
as well as pursuing her engagements as duo partner of the Dutch
pianist, Eildert Beeftink, and as cellist of the Amsterdam Ensemble.
Barbara Houwers works with themes like movement, space and
development. Lifeline is a new theme for her: "There have always
been recurring theme's in my work, seemingly separated. Now a
connecting line occurs to me. Human beings remain visible in my
paintings, but now bring luggage. The squares I have been fascinated
by for quite some time, became suitcases, memories and sometimes the
pedestrian carrying talents. Together they represent our life
journey." With this insight the development towards more abstract
works becomes more natural.
The use of space is not only visible by the size of het works -
within them we recognise the expressive movements of the painter. In
her work, Barbara has succeeded in bringing spaciousness and light.
Definitely work that adds to licht + ruimte and all that is
happening in here.
   
For more information on Barbara Houwers and her work: www.barbarahouwers.com
october - december
2009
jewelry BY-BAR
AMSTERDAM
This autumn licht + ruimte presents the very tasteful jewelry
collection of BY-BAR AMSTERDAM. To enjoy looking at, to try and to
buy. In times that tasteful preferably combines with affordable, the
BY-BAR collection offers a good choice for all. For impulse
shoppers, Sinterklaas, Santa Claus and all others in search of great
presents a must see.
BY-BAR items are for sale - be
welcome to the home sale on Wednesday 18 November
from 2-8pm in licht + ruimte.
    
For more information: www.by-bar.com
sunday 31 May
2009
whitsun concert top violinist Carla
Leurs
A very
special Sunday morning concert, where all present could enjoy Carla
Leurs's great performance, her depth, passion and her quality. She
played the first three sonates of Johan Sebastiaan Bach
for violin.
Dutch virtuoso Carla Leurs finished her
studies at the Juilliard School, as a student of Itzhak Perlman and
Donald Weilerstein. Currently she receives intensive coaching from
Daniël Gaede, former concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, at
the Hochschule für Musik in Nürnberg. She was awarded several
notable prizes, including the first prize at the International ‘Jean
Francaix Competition’ in Paris (2006), as well as both the First
Prize and the coveted Audience Award at the Tibor Varga
International Competition in Sion, Switzerland (2001). Carla Leurs
has performed with orchestras throughout Europe, Russia, Asia and
the US. She appears regularly at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
This past season Carla served as First Concertmaster of the
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic under the direction of Jaap
van Zweden.
The outstanding instrument being used by Carla is a
violin of Nicholas Lupot of Paris (1808) on loan from the National
Musical Instrument Foundation in Amsterdam.
For Carla,
everything that needs to be said is said in the violin works of
Bach, written in 1720. ‘They are the utmost pinnacle of the violin
repertoire. They are also the most discussed violin music. Everybody
has an opinion about how they should be played and interpreted.
Modern, baroque, romantic interpretations, there are so many ways.
These Bach violin works speak so directly to my heart. I research,
practice, learn about baroque and modern interpretation, and I hope
to combine these together with my intuition as a musician. This will
be a life long journey.’
the Japanese culture in tasting, words, art,
sounds and view
  
thursday 23
April 7.30 - 10 pm
do's en don'ts - when
Japanese and Dutch meet
A very
interesting interactive lecture in both English and Dutch by Ms
Zita Meijer, PhD, Japan Specialist (eg. Koninklijk Instituut voor de
Tropen), also daughter of Sanne Meijer and Ms Chie Misumi,
Intercultural Communication Specialist (eg. Japanese Chamber of
Commerce). To understand more of the Japanese culture, we had to
learn more about ourselves first. Fun
& educating!
 
sunday 10
May 1 - 4 pm
doors open
You are more than welcome to visit licht +
ruimte this afternoon on Mother's Day. Let yourselve be inspired by
the glass works of Mica Okuno and the paintings of Sanne Meijer. The
space will do the rest. No need to register, whoever comes is
welcome, not only mothers ...
 
tuesday 19 May
7 - 10 pm
manga &
anime
Interactive lecture on manga by Maaike
Ona-Boots, followed by us watching the Japanese award winning
animation 'Hotaru no haka' ('Grave of the Fireflies') by
Takahata Isao (Studio Ghibli). An impressive movie during which
we actually forgot it's an animation. Great theme, great evening,
super audience. Maaike is Japan specalist and former publishing
manager at VIZ Media, currently active as Japan Travel Advisor (eg
Michi Travel).
 
sunday 7 June 11.30 - 1.30
am
shinto-reading & presentation martial
arts
Lecture ‘Shinto, practical wisdom for modern
times’ by drs Paul de Leeuw of the Japanese Dutch Shinzen
Foundation, and the only non-Japanese Shinto master. Shinto leads to
harmony with nature. This tradition is still active in Japan and
contributes to mental and physical health. The reading was followed
by ‘Samurai Synergy’: a demonstration of martial arts, aikido en
kyudo by Bart Sensei of the Aqaiqion Foundation.
 
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addition, groups 6, 7 and 8 of the CNS Abcoude visited the
exhibition. Prior to that they were visited by Ms Zita Meijer, PhD,
Japan Specialist, together with two Japanese kids. She explained
some about Japan, answered questions and introduced the
crane project. Ovbiously, this was very inspiring since within
three weeks the kids folded 1.000 cranes of origami paper, which
will be sent to the memorial in
Hiroshima.
Exhibition and events were organized
in cooperation with Madeleine Wardenaar of Magna Arte
Communication. Click here for
a link to the website of Four centuries of Japanese-Dutch trade
relations.
     
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