Astron astronomer featuring in film for national celebration of Liberation Day

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This year on May 5th, the official National Liberation Day will be organized by the Province Drenthe. The month of April was a sort of a warming up, called the "Month of Freedom", with many activities all over the province. In the centre of Assen, at the Kolk, you find a huge and remarkable statue made by artist Maria Koijk. The first days of May a fleet of antique vessels will visit the centre of Assen as well.

The National Committee 4 en 5 May and the province Drenthe set up the official program in the Nieuwe Kolk Theater in Assen. Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland and former High Commissioner for Human Rights will give the traditional 5 May speech this year. Also Prime Minister Rutte will address the audience of special guests. The Noord Nederlands Orkest and pop singer Ellen ten Damme will take care of the musical accents of this special ceremony

A short film on the theme of Freedom will be presented at the opening of the ceremony. The movie "follows" four people to present various views of freedom while highlighting important activities and other aspects of Drenthe. One of these is Raffaella Morganti, as astronomer of ASTRON. In this movie, ASTRON appears prominently with some nice shots of the building, the Dwingeloo telescope and of LOFAR (also taken using a drone). The movie will also be shown on national television.

A few weeks ago, a crew of four people have been filming at ASTRON/JIVE and at LOFAR. They had a lot of fun exploring and admiring the new building (including the view from the room of our director)!