About us
Where stories become reality.
Waar vind je de echte verhalen van Valkenburg? Precies in de herinneringen van de Valkenburgers. Een online verhalenbank waar de Valkenburgers hun Valkenburg verhalen kunnen achterlaten, met publicatie toestemming wat weer een tegoed oplevert op het Land van Valkenburg Paspoort voor de Valkenburgers zelf.
Tevens te koppelen aan thema avonden rond het Valkenburg gevoel stijl ‘de film van Valkenburg’ zoals deze vroeger georganiseerd werd door Leon Pluymakers zaliger. Valkenburgers houden ervan wanneer ze in hun Valkenburger zijn worden aangesproken en met name ook tijdens evenementen in de stillere periodes.
Where can you find the real stories of Valkenburg? In the memories of Valkenburgers themselves. Not in a book, not in a brochure — at people's kitchen tables. Land van Valkenburg is the place where those stories come together and are preserved.
Why
Memories disappear silently. Someone dies and half a village's worth of stories go with them. We will record them as long as we can, in the words of the person who experienced them, and we will ensure that they remain findable — for grandchildren, for researchers, for those who still want to know what it was like here in a hundred years.
Four entries
The story bank is divided into four parts: Stories (what people experienced themselves), Creatures (sagas and traditions), Crafts (the work and the people who did it) and Buildings (the places and what happened there).
Where stories become reality
A story does not stop here. With the permission of the storyteller, it becomes raw material for something else: an image, a piece of music, a poem, a performance during the Story Night, or a page in the magazine that we want to publish together with partners in the region. The narrator is always mentioned, unless he or she decides not to do so.
Who's behind this
[Brief introduction of the initiative: who set it up, which partners are collaborated with, and how the editorial staff is composed.]
Careful with what you give us
Submitting a story is a matter of trust. You decide whether your name will be included and what else will happen to your story. Your address and telephone number will never be published; We only use it to inquire about something. How we deal with this is stated in the privacy statement and the submission conditions.
