Saturday October 3, 2026
Good morning, The Hague. Today: primary schools lose 15 million euros for at-risk pupils, a new chocolate and Japanese coffee shop opens on Noordeinde, and oliebollen return to the city centre at 20 degrees.
The activities listed below are just a curated sample of what’s going on in The Hague. Check out our completely redesigned events calendar here.
At a glance
🌦️ Weather: Hi 20°C / 68°F (about the same as yesterday) · Lo 12°C / 54°F · 0% chance of rain · wind SW 10 km/h (5 knots)
🚲 Cycling: Good cycling all day.
🌙 Sun & moon: Sunrise 07:46 · Sunset 19:15 · Last Quarter · Moonrise 23:24 · Golden hour 18:45 to 19:15
🌊 Outdoors: Air quality moderate (AQI 45) · grass pollen low
💶 Markets: AEX 1,117 (+1.3%) · S&P 500 7,723 (+0.7%) · €1 = $1.12 · $1 = €0.89
Hague woman's 1999 school photo travels the world: Dorien van Leuven shared an old class photo in a work group chat as a joke, and it became a sticker. Seven years on, her thirteen-year-old face turns up as far away as China.
KunstPost to leave Het Kleine Loo at the end of the year: The art initiative closes its premises at Het Kleine Loo 364 on 31 December and continues from three basement spaces nearby. Exhibitions, walks, film and music fill the final months.
Hague primary schools to lose 15 million euros for pupils at risk of falling behind: Schools in the city will have about 15 million euros less from next year to help pupils at risk of falling behind. Boards say that means roughly 150 fewer teachers and larger classes.
New chocolate and Japanese coffee shop From: opens on Noordeinde: Sanna van Geld and Raymond Soerodikromo have sold chocolate from home for almost ten years. Their shop From: is now open at Noordeinde 126, in the former Stoop furniture store.
Oliebollen stall is back in the city centre at 20 degrees: The first customers queued for oliebollen and appelbeignets while the temperature sat around 20 degrees. A change pushed through by two aldermen now lets the stall open from 1 October.
The Hague to tackle unsafe Vroondaal roads, but the money falls short: Den Haag says the unsafe roads around the upmarket Vroondaal district need fixing quickly. The money to carry out the work is not there, and a crash on the Oorberlaan has already brought emergency services out.
ROC Mondriaan wins European teaching award for musical: The Hague vocational college won a European Innovative Teaching Award for a musical built from students' own stories about identity and belonging. Students from the Netherlands, Finland and Germany made the show together.
French storytelling and crafts for children: French-speaking children aged three to seven gather for an informal story reading followed by related craft games. 3 October, 11:00, Bibliotheek Scheveningen. 📅 STORY / READING
Songs and stories in Portuguese for young toddlers: Babies and toddlers gather for Portuguese picture books, gentle rhymes, and musical group games. 3 October, 10:00, Centrale Bibliotheek, DOK B. 📅 STORY / READING
Ballet gala concert and Snow White at Amare: A classical ballet gala afternoon featuring an excerpt from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 3 October, 14:00, Amare Studio, Amare. 📅 FAMILY SHOW
Het Geheim van de Wondere Wereldboom, in Dutch with no subtitles: Children move to the English countryside and find a tree into other worlds, 110 minutes, spoken Dutch and no subtitles. 3 October, 13:00, Filmhuis Den Haag: Studio B. 📅 FAMILY SHOW
Sculpting fantasy creatures at Art-S-Cool's workshop: Children aged six to twelve design futuristic airplanes and imagined beasts using assorted craft materials. 3 October, 14:00, Bibliotheek Escamp. 📅 KIDS WORKSHOP
Interactive animal storytelling with Duo Jess en Tam: Children aged four to seven can sing and act along during this staged reading about performing animals. 3 October, 12:00 - 12:45, Bibliotheek Scheveningen. 📅 STORY / READING
Japandi pairs Japanese and Nordic choral song with organ improvisation: Vocal ensemble Chordiality sings Takemitsu, Sandström and Linkola, plus the Dutch première of Vikman's Japanese Seasons, in a hidden church. 3 October, 20:15, Oud-katholieke schuilkerk van de H.H. Jacobus en Augustinus. 📅 CLASSICAL
American jazz visionary Jason Moran plays Amare: The celebrated jazz pianist performs a live evening concert in the main concert hall complex. 3 October, 20:00, Amare Studio, Amare. 📅 JAZZ / BLUES
The Ramblers turn 100 with a jubilee concert: Trumpeter Loet van der Lee leads the orchestra through jazz classics, Dutch songs and standards, with singers Léah Kline and Ronald Douglas. 3 October, 20:30, Podium aan Zee. 📅 JAZZ / BLUES
World premieres and experimental piano works at SoundHouse: Dante Boon sits at the keyboard for six recent pieces alongside a 1962 score by Elisabeth Lutyens. 3 October, 20:00 - 21:30, SoundHouse Den Haag. 📅 CLASSICAL
From Studio Ghibli to One Piece, scored live by fifty musicians: Hisaishi and Tanaka themes from Ghibli films, Naruto and Demon Slayer, played by the fifty-piece Grand Symphonique across nearly two hours. 3 October, 20:00, World Forum Theater. 📅 CLASSICAL
Back for one Motorkontje Reünie Show, free on the Grote Markt: Three hours of live music from a duo that already played its farewell tour, returning to where they started, no ticket. 3 October, 22:00, De Zwarte Ruiter. 📅 POP / ROCK
Perfume bar and pop quiz for Museumnacht Den Haag: More than forty venues in The Hague and Voorburg open late on 10 October. The Huygens Museum runs two programmes, one on perfume at Hofwijck, one on sixties pop at the Notarishuis.
Short talks and open collections at Open Dag Haags Gemeentearchief: Archive material out on the tables, short lectures through the day and something to make yourself, free, within Maand van de Geschiedenis. 3 October, 10:45, Atrium Den Haag. 📅 TALKS / IDEAS
Journalists set up shop in Central Library for ten weeks: Reporters from Trouw, Omroep West and Den Haag FM will spend ten weeks in a small house built inside the Central Library. Visitors can walk up and ask them anything, from complaints to compliments.
Kunstmuseum holds free evenings for Hague districts: The museum is opening without tickets on five evenings between October and February, each one tied to particular city districts. Entry, activities, drinks and bus transport are all free.
Curaçaoan resistance retold in Tula·Verse II, Sœurité: Vernon Chatlein's Afrofuturist piece mixes music, spoken word and visual art around two women from the 1716 Rif Sint Marie uprising. 3 October, 20:00, Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 2. 📅 THEATER
Beanbags, legal truffles and a ten-piece orchestra at Sofia's Trip: You take a microdose, then listen from a beanbag to Gubaidulina and kamancheh improvisation, screened beforehand and watched over by trip guides. 3 October, 19:00, Korzo theater. 📅 DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Screening Icelandic folk horror Lamb for Gather Round Folks: Noomi Rapace stars as an isolated sheep farmer who adopts an uncanny newborn creature in the Icelandic highlands. 3 October, 19:30, Filmhuis Den Haag: Studio B. 📅 FILM
Find the wild plants of Westduinpark on a morning walk: A morning on foot through the park, looking at which plants grow wild there and learning how to recognise them. 3 October, 10:00, Westduinpark. 📅 TOUR
Beach sauna returns to Scheveningen for the winter: Dankjewellness has set up its sauna next to a beach club on the sand at Scheveningen for a second winter season. It stays there until 1 April.
Spin, sketch and solve at Design Constraint Roulette: Small teams spin for a user, a problem and a constraint, sketch a fix, then adapt when a twist lands, in Eindhoven. 3 October, 11:00 - 13:00, The Social Hub. 📅 WORKSHOP
Make your own Coraline-style doll with Toona Studio: Three hours of guided dollmaking let you craft a button-eyed miniature portrait of yourself to keep. 3 October, 14:00 - 17:00, Brouwersgracht 50. 📅 WORKSHOP
Masks, DJs and a dress code at Masquerade Ball Den Haag: Dress code runs from Peaky Blinders to Great Gatsby, masks on, while DJs and live musicians play house, R&B and 90s hits. 3 October, 18:30, Grand Hotel Amrâth Kurhaus. 📅 SOCIAL / DRINKS
Sketching opposite words at Typin' Around with @faebiou: Drop-in drawing exercises explore letterforms by sketching words and flipping their descriptive meanings on paper. 3 October, 11:00 - 15:00, The Social Hub The Hague. 📅 WORKSHOP
Tao Te Ching study and mindful park walking: A quiet reading of chapter fifty opens into a shared twenty-minute mindful stroll through the park grounds. 3 October, 13:30, Parkpaviljoen. 📅 SPORTS
Coffee, Code and Chat at Lebkov & Sons: Bring a laptop or drop by for tech conversation around the shared station table, with no agenda required. 3 October, 10:00, Lebkov & Sons. 📅 NETWORKING
Good to know
New on Dutch streaming: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Prime Video), Last Seen (Apple TV), Cocomelon (Netflix), Safe House (SkyShowtime)
New on the big screen: Moppervis opens Wednesday at Pathé Spuimarkt and Pathé Ypenburg, and Yugly arrives at 3 cinemas. Showtimes here.
Overheard on Reddit: A journalist seeking The Hague youth with experience in youth criminality for an article about social media's role in criminal networks received suggestions to contact youth workers and community centers, though several commenters questioned whether the subreddit would reach the intended audience and doubted young people involved in crime would respond to a post there.
Today's supermarket deals: De Koffiejongens Long coffee capsules (25% off) from Albert Heijn, Alle Jumbo's coffee beans (2e halve prijs) from Jumbo.
Did you know? Judges on The Hague's International Court of Justice are bound by a rule that no two of them may share the same nationality, guaranteeing a globally diverse bench.
779 years ago today: On October 3rd, 1247, Count Willem II of Holland was elected anti-king in Aachen; his hunting court became The Hague's Binnenhof.
Looking ahead – next week
The bigger things coming up in The Hague over the next seven days.
• Museum Night The Hague · Saturday 10 October
• Science Weekend The Hague · Sunday 4 October
• The Hague Cocktail Week · Friday 2 October to Sunday 11 October
• Food La Route - Scheveningen Harbour · Thursday 8 October
In case you missed it
Our three most clicked-on items from yesterday’s newsletter.
In tomorrow’s edition: In tomorrow's edition: the royal waiting room opens at Station Hollands Spoor, a tour takes in the former American Embassy at West Den Haag, and the NK Surftour crowns the Netherlands' best wave surfer.
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