Leisure & Events

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  • A conversation with Hardwell: on roots, rhythm and reality in the events industry

    A conversation with Hardwell: on roots, rhythm and reality in the events industry

    We spoke to Robbert van de Corput, known worldwide as DJ Hardwell. A born and bred Breda native, who despite his international success is still based...

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    The zoom that never quite lands

    While geopolitics fractures supply chains and artificial intelligence rewires entire industries, it is tempting to treat climate change as yesterday's...

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    From Planetary Boundaries to beneath Our Soil

    Sustainability transitions are, at their core, about reimagining how we organise life on this planet. They are about fundamentally rethinking how we...

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  • The Joint Strategic Ambition of TURF Event and Breda: Becoming more than an event

    The Joint Strategic Ambition of TURF Event and Breda: Becoming more than an event

    With TURF, Breda gained a new multi-day event focusing on innovation and creativity, in line with the ambition to position the city as an...

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    The Places and Flows Lab: Where people, places and data come together

    Imagine standing over a physical model of Breda's inner city, running your fingers across the contours of the Grote Markt, the Valkenberg park, the...

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  • How Urban Living Lab Breda puts community agency before research agendas

    How Urban Living Lab Breda puts community agency before research agendas

    Urban Living Labs across the world face a fundamental tension: Who sets the agenda? Researchers or residents? The standard living lab model focuses on...

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  • Becoming the Most Accessible City of Europe

    Becoming the Most Accessible City of Europe

    Breda aims to be an accessible and inviting city for everyone. Breda improves accessibility with and for everyone. The motto ‘nothing about us...

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  • How Blind Walls Gallery Navigates Inclusion and Co-Creation

    How Blind Walls Gallery Navigates Inclusion and Co-Creation

    When you walk through Breda, you will encounter them everywhere: large-scale murals painted on the sides of apartment blocks, parking garages and...

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    From Experience to Impact

    In recent years, the concept of impact has moved to the centre of cultural policy discussions. Theatres and other cultural organisations are...

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  • Space for Young Creative Talent: Investing in the Future of Breda’s Appeal

    Space for Young Creative Talent: Investing in the Future of Breda’s Appeal

    In many cities, young creative talents have helped shape and colour the city over recent decades. The pop sector once began as a collection of bottom...

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  • Breda Brings People Together: From City Marketing to City Making

    Breda Brings People Together: From City Marketing to City Making

    There is something special about Breda. It is hard to pinpoint, but you can feel it straight away. At the Valkenberg park, where a walk easily turns...

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  • The Story of Revolution Earth

    The Story of Revolution Earth

    The quality of life on earth related to human activities: it is a theme that could not be more significant or urgent. But significant and urgent does...

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    When Students Turn Music into Meaning

    In January 2026, something quite special took place at Breda University of Applied Sciences. Second-year students of Live Music and Dance Events did...

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  • Live on Different Levels: Navigating Between Global Superstars and Local ‘Hobbyism’

    Live on Different Levels: Navigating Between Global Superstars and Local ‘Hobbyism’

    Live music takes many forms. From emerging bands in local bars to national heroes in pop music venues to global superstars in arenas. Though they...

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  • Balancing Nature, Mobility and Experience: The MONA Approach

    Balancing Nature, Mobility and Experience: The MONA Approach

    On the ground, Europe’s landscapes reveal a direct and vital connection between nature, cities and infrastructure. Yet, these very landscapes are...

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    The Zeeland Movement Towards a Healthy Region

    Research by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) shows that leisure activities are a key source of happiness...

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    Brabant’s Plant-Based, Nature-Inclusive and Hospitable Focus

    Brabant is a province with a strong network of vibrant medium-sized cities and hospitable villages, embedded in a green landscape of natural areas...

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    Climate-Neutral Fryslân: Moving Towards a Circular and Sustainable Sector

    The leisure, tourism and hospitality (LTH) sector is vital to the economy and identity of Friesland (Fryslân), but at the same time it is also highly...

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  • Regenerative Placemaking in the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam

    Regenerative Placemaking in the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam

    From the canals of Amsterdam to the windmills of Zaanse Schans, the beaches of the North Sea to the reclaimed polders, the Metropolitan Region of...

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  • Hospitable Transitions: Building New Systems From the Ground Up

    Hospitable Transitions: Building New Systems From the Ground Up

    The leisure, tourism and hospitality (LTH) sector is at a crossroads. Which way will we go? The sector is one of the world’s largest employers and...

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