Cor’s 25 irc party: Corkokkerie

A plea for positive discrimination hiring gay men at IRC. This was the speech key message by Cor, the 25 year IRC jubilee. Food and dance made up the basic party ingredients. Klick here for the full Monty

Congratulations and celebrations!

Cor 25 (+) years at IRC, so Cor: congratulations and celebrations! (Cliff R. ha,ha). Your IRC colleagues offfer you this blog as part of the celebrations on 17 April.

It is becoming a living memory of your life inside and outside of IRC.

Dick

Talk to THE hand

Your colleagues in 2007

Quite a few of your colleagues who were present at the IRC event in September 2007.

How to interpret your face expression here???

 

 

The Sources

Cor: look, it is all about you Dick!
Dick: Yes yes yes…

Celebration of Dick’s 25 years at IRC, September 2007

Dutch with Cor

For our non-Dutch colleagues at IRC we offer this short course on Dutch language & culture. It’s a fun method based on Cor principles.

Once you’ve mastered the material presented on this site, you should be able to read simple words and have short conversations about Cor business.

If you wish to continue your studies and to expand your vocabulary! Use the worksheet and apply the Cor techniques yourself. You will find out that all you need is Cor, some tape, a camera and a colleague.

We hope you will enjoy your this Course. Please don’t forget to bookmark us. If you have any questions or corrections, you can correspond to Cor by mail.

Cor-psbal

Ultimately irritating male person, most of the times drunk, operating in a group with like minded annoying male persons. In Delft associated in Delft Student Association Phoenix at Phoenixstreet 30.

Cor-daid

A Ducth NGO with more then 90 years of experience in emergency aid and fighting poverty.

Cor-ddansen (noun Cor-danser)

Walking on tight rope while meanwhile doing some acrobacy. An activity also carriede out at the IRC Circus.

Cor-nelie

Typical Dutch girls name. Former ex-IRC colleague.

Cor-ry Konings

Famous Ducth singer, who had her major breakthrough with the hit song, ‘Crying is too late now’. She left her band De Rekels in 1972 for a solo career and scored more hits, with ‘I get a very particular feeling inside’ and ‘How your name was, I have forgotten”. Her new album will be released this month and will have a beautiful duet with her daughter Sharona.

Cor-sage

Decoration of mostly flowers or fake flowers worn on a piece of clothing. The use of decorative pictures on your jacket is so 2008!

Cor-te Poten

Famous Ducth street in the Monopoly game.

Cor-tslip

Infection on the lips caused by partnership building while on mission.

Cor-yfee

A star within your organization. A person who has earned her spurs. Not just a Geer & Goor, but a real star.

Cor-edits

We are very much grateful for DGIS cor funding which has made the development of this toolkit possible. Big thanks to the IRC models who have made this toolkit possible: Jan Teun, Bep, Carmen, Debby, Marion, Deirdre, Harry, Michel and Carmen. The models have nothing to do whatsoever with the words used.

DO DUTCH YOURSELF WITH COR

SUMMARY
Typology / Objective / Time / Target group / Situation: This sheet gives you instructions on how to work with models and Cor principles for improving your Cor Dutch.
DESCRIPTION
Objectives: To improve your Dutch & learn about Dutch culture.
Output: Improved Dutch vocabulary & fun
Topics: An overview of different models and considerations for the design of your Do Dutch Yourself
WHEN TO USE
Situation: It is appropriate to pay attention to the setting of the room for all sorts of sessions, but especially in venues, which are mainly used for meetings, presentations and more traditional ways of training and teaching.
Target group: Non Dutch IRC colleagues, anybody who wants to improve and play around with Cor
Time: Plan at least 30 minutes before a session for checking and (re-)arranging the room and your model /colleague
WHAT U NEED
Materials: First of all you need the picture below

• A pair of scissors
• Tape
• A Camera
• And the face of a colleague, e.g. the ones below:

METHODOLOGY

1. Print out Cor’s photo at any desired size. Take into account the face of your model
2. Take your scissors and carefully cut out Cor’s face
3. Now take the tape. Cut two pieces of tape and stick them on Cor’s picture on both sides of Cor’s head. It’s not necessary that the pieces of tape have the same size
4. Now get your camera and approach a model, preferably a colleague. If you plan to develop more than 1 Cor word, make sure there is a nice balance between male and female colleagues
5. Give a short explanation to the model. Keep it simple
6. Stick Cor’s face on the face of your model and take a picture

If your colleague doesn’t show any empathy with the objective of your activity

• Ask another colleague for help, distract your model, and stick Cor’s picture on his or her face anyways. This approach can be very efficient
• Now share this picture with all your non-Dutch colleagues at IRC. You can help to improve their Cor Dutch!!
• To improve the learning around the learning of learning Dutch, and to actually build our capacities and not to forget to become sustainable. It is essential that you capture the process in one or another creative way. You can either write a story about it, have yourself interviewed, make a movie about it and post it on YouTube or keep us all updated throughout a Learn Cor Dutch blog

Setting: You can think of any setting you like: e.g. TOILET
Setting: Put your models around a toilet, stick Cor’s face on each of the models faces. You now have created a new word. The Cordon sanitaire. Which is actually a French word, but also used in Dutch.

VARIATIONS
Be creative in finding the right location and setting. Some variations:
Variations

• Garden / Park: Being outside in fresh air and surrounded by nature has a relaxing influence. Sit in the garden or go to a park. Find yourself a nice and your model a nice spot.
• Museum: There are very nice places in museums, especially for working in small groups. It can be a very inspiring environment and it offers many opportunities for relaxation and recreation.
• Learning by walking around: Talk in small groups when walking. The environment can be inspiring; walking makes it easier to be silent now and then
• Lazy chairs: Putting your model in a comfortable in lazy chair relaxes its mind and makes people look like Cor in a different way.

Should I stay or should I go now?

In October 2004, Cor decided to go to the Internet Librarian International (ILI) Conference in London. It promised to be a great event: new technologies, new ways of working, lots of inspiration, nice colleagues, big pints and great audiovisual side events, such as theater, film, music. However, his colleague Ingeborg -also up for ILI – convinced him to stay in the Baden Powell House, a nice basic youth hostel, a brisk walk from the conference centre….

Should I stay by the Clash

(Ingeborg)

Hats & Chats

… of course Cor as bohemian … and striking hat-fits of direct colleagues …

The കേരളം connection

Instigator of Oppositional Papers for leaving IRC staff

Oppositional Papers are another example of Cor’s wit that started an IRC tradition. On the picture below you see Cor presenting one of the first Oppositional Papers to an IRC staff member Marieke Boot who left IRC in the 1990s. Cor instigated this present to leaving IRC staff that have had a meaningful contribution to IRC and the sector. He managed the production and handing over these OPs for many years and keeps a record of them.

They were (and still are) called “Oppositional Papers” and had the same yellow covers as the official Occasional Paper Series that IRC published for a number of years. This tradition continues until today.