The Great War Centenary

The Great War Centenary The Great War Centenary This project launches, besides the classical ceremonies, an artistic alternative program to draw young people also into this top event.

‘The Great War Centenary’ has all the signs to be a special event by which the Westhoek (Flanders Fields) and Flanders will receive a lot of national and international attention during the period 2014-2018. Several events will be organized in different categories: music, visual arts, literature, performing arts… spread out over the whole province West-Flanders. ‘The Great War Centenary’ wants to put the history of WW1 and peace tourism in the spotlights, in 2014-2018 and afterwards.

29/03/2018

29/3/18 - ‘Coming World Remember Me’ is a work of art by Koen Vanmechelen erected in the landscape at Zillebeke outside Ieper. 600,000 terracotta figures represent the victims of the Great War. The site was once located in No Man’s Land and was hotly contested 100 years ago. At the centre of t...

Just in time for International Women's Day today, here are five stories of remarkable bravery and courage during the Gre...
08/03/2018

Just in time for International Women's Day today, here are five stories of remarkable bravery and courage during the Great War:

06/03/2018
02/03/2018

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31/12/2017
23/11/2017

Though Thanksgiving on the Western Front was spent far away from families, Americans and Canadians who fought in the Great War were still able to pause for a moment and come together with their friends and fellow soldiers on their respective days of thanks.

This image shows Canadian soldiers coming together for Thanksgiving in France in 1918.

17/11/2017
16/11/2017

It's estimated that 50-100 nurses worked in the hospitals and clearing stations surrounding the Ypres Salient. As the war went on, they became some of the first women to work as anaesthetists and also performed small surgeries. They even learned to treat shock using mixtures of saline, brandy and coffee.

Nurses also wrote letters recording soldiers' final moments to the families of the men who had died or were unlikely to survive.

25/10/2017

Will you be visiting Flanders Fields on 11 November? Each year, a special Last Post at 11 am takes place at the Menin Gate, Ypres.

This year, the service is followed by a 'Great War Remembered' concert at 4:30 and 7:30 PM in the Ypres Cathedral. Tickets to the concert can be bought here http://www.lastpost.be/nl/concert

Image: © T. Kapoen

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