 | NorCal Annual Dinner and Dance Event (2008)"Rocking the Polder: An Evening with Jan Donkers" Dutch radio legend and journalist Jan Donkers, who is currently teaching at Berkeley, will discuss the impact of American music on the
Summary Dutch culture was still remarkably staid and sober in the 1950s, so Holland was slow to latch on to American Rock & Roll. It was only after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had presented their versions of American popmusic that our 'polder' started to rock. And it never stopped rockin' since...
Jan Donkers has been a DJ at VPRO Radio for almost 35 years. He is also known as a journalist and the author of fourteen books. At present, he is a Regents Lecturer at UC Berkeley.
Program The swinging presentation by Jan Donkers will be followed by a rijsttafel dinner and live dance music! Location: Ex’pression College, Emeryville Date: Friday, November 21 Time: 7pm Dresscode: business casual (feestelijke kleding)
Tickets Tickets are available at a discounted price when signing up for NAF membership . Please, go to our Members section and sign up first!
Ticket prices include the lecture, a rijsttafel dinner, drinks and live dance music.
Sign up and make sure to click Submit Form. After submitting the sign-up form, you will be able to pay your tickets via PayPal.
You can also order a table (1000 $) for you and your friends. Please contact Carl Hekkert chekkert@yahoo.com about this.
NAF Members $80
Non-Members $100
Students $50
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For further information, please contact Pauline Schrooyen (pschrooyen@yahoo.com), Inez Hollander (ihollander@berkeley.edu) or Paul Hoekstra (paulhoekstra@yahoo.com).
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