Oerol Festival
oerol dutch pronunciation ˈuːrɔl cultural festival island terschelling netherlands held annually june tenday festival focused live public theatre well music visual art festival founded joop mulder owner café de stoep midsland first edition took place june oerol grown one largest location theater festival europe oerol programmed beginning summer island full greenery terschelling form location festival working intensively one partner staatsbosbeheer oerol room experimental young maker also room established group premiere oerol every year visitor come dutch international theater performance music expedition talk popup performance temporary society island premise festival use entire island stage although two primary stage groene strand westerkeyn set beach wood dune landscape function performance space show also taken place farm shed boathouse army bunker ticket sold form passport allowing access island part week ticket available individual performance street theatre act art podium musical performance free festival people visited island ticket sold festival due covid pandemic physical festival cancelled short time oerol developed imagine island online environment visitor could still experience oerol special performance talk show podcasts produced online platform radio oerol also created online dagkrant daily paper available everyone read focus mainly maker worked together oerol lab number additional residency possibility group finish performance future play location terschelling dialect oerol mean everywhere literally overall sense covering entire land oeral standard frisian oerol take name old terschelling tradition short time early spring cattle allowed roam freely island grazing available greenery oerol tradition continued arrival paved road since car bicyclist collided night sleeping cattle finally ended german occupation island world war ii year festival faced financial difficulty several time lowest point edition festival director mulder announced opening negotiation ministry wvc provincial government friesland failed time festival would held last time believing last time visitor left island disappointed however solution found shortly thereafter final day oerol mulder announced continued existence festival threatened although record number visitor come organization financial difficulty subsidy € enough continue organize finance festival following year want least € otherwise wont happen next year mulder said closing day rd oerol edition structural support festival actually extended th edition secured since oerol solid position system part basic infrastructure bi modest structural subsidy thanks extra subsidy covid pandemic oerol financial jeopardy staff creator still able claim part agreed fee january joop mulder festival founder passed away age tribute joop mulder marc van vliets artwork de streken placed wadden sea summer coming year help private donation side wadden sea sense place placed bench titled whatdataangaat famous quote mulder official website