Wad & Design Festival
Schiermonnikoog
Schiermonnikoog
and the Wadden Sea area gained a unique festival! Experience the first
edition of the Wad &Design Festival Schiermonnikoog!
With the island Schiermonnikoog as stunning décor and inspiration for
top designers and artists! This festival for all ages with design,
fashion, art and culture, is dedicated to journalist and writer Jan Abrahamse
who past away this spring. He worked towards a close relationship between
nature and art in the Wadden Sea area, along with Berber Soepboer he took the
initiative for this festival.
SOEPBOER & STOOKER Pop-up and
Shop Window Route
Pop-up shop: During the Wad & Design
Festival the Soepboer & Stooker Pop-up shop will under the direction
of Anne Stooker, after the successful edition of last year, again
temporarily settle on the Langestreek 19 on Schiermonnikoog. Soepboer &
Stooker offer young designers a platform to showcase their products to the
public. Exclusive clothing from young and renowned designers, but also
books, magazines and accessories can be found in the shop.
Shop window route - Soepboer & Stooker has
under the guidance of Anne Stooker organized a shop window route in
collaboration with some islander entrepreneurs. The Pop-up and the route
represent Dutch designers and photographers including: Louise te Poele,
Charlott Markus, Heidi Vogels, Mae Engelgeer, Nienke Sybrandy, J.C.Herman,
Femke Agema, Thera Hillenaar and Marloes Blaas.
SOEPBOER & STOOKER COLLECTION
A sampler is a work of embroidery
which is often produced as a test of
one's skills in needlework. The
sampler consisted usually of a piece of cloth on which could be
embroidered lots of things: figures, the alphabet, motives or decorations.
Modern samplers the ones that the designer duo will embroider for the Wad
& Design Festival, are no longer called samplers but memory rag or
embroidery rag. The reason that the samplers have been renamed is because
nowadays they are usually made for the occasion of a certain event.
Soepboer & Stooker created the
clothingcollection 'Latterdúeken' (in Schiermonnikoger dialect the name
for a sampler) of memory rags for the Wad & Design Festival. In
this collection are the characteristics of samplers (literally)
superimposed on square pieces of fabric. Visitors will be asked to
embroider their names on the collection, so that eventually their names will
function as a portable guestbook. Gradually, the collection will turn in a
reflection of the visitors to the Wad & Design Festival.
EXTRA
islander capes - As of Tuesday,
September 17th, the capes, which designer
Conny Groenewegen created on
the spot with the help of experienced islander women, will be available
for use by the festival audience. The capes are available at the pop-up shop.
Also, the Schiermonnikoog wax fabric will be for sale.
envelope book - The pop-up
shop in addition to being a store will also be a envelope collection point for
the products of 'Envelope Book'. The notebooks and notepads are made in
the Netherlands out of the paper of envelopes. During the festival you can hand
in your own envelopes at the Pop-up for this purpose.