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Loving Vincent - Bringing van Gogh to life

On the evening of 27 July 1890, a fatally wounded Vincent van Gogh stumbled down a street in the small French town of Auvers-sur-Oise. In the twenty-first century Van Gogh is the most famous artist in the world, but during his short, erratic and tortured...

Reinventing Yourself Abroad

I never truly felt I belonged in Russia. Although my parents had never been abroad, my mom’s favourite actress was Marilyn Monroe — I know many of her movies by heart. My father could watch Benny Hill or National Geographic for hours, and I’d sit...

An incredible connection

“Like many internationals who move around, I felt somehow misplaced,” says Janine Beukes-Almeida, a volunteer at ACCESS. “Like I had forgotten where I belonged. That was until I moved to the Netherlands and began researching my family history.” Beginning the search “Growing up I heard...