\u201cTraditions are traditions, and have a sort of nostalgia to them. They need to be kept and don\u2019t change very strongly\u201d Hendriks said when asked about the changes within the traditional activities. <\/em>While traditions such as handing over the key and the burning of the knoeris have stayed as is, the Baggem\u00e9rt however has been through a shift. The carnaval\u2019s Baggem\u00e9rt is an event in honour of the actual trading of the pigs.<\/p>\n Erik Hendriks with Baggepongen at the Baggem\u00e9rt<\/p><\/div>\n The Baggem\u00e9rt used to have old crafts such as the making of clogs. These were used to be kept running by elderly people. However, slowly these crafts start to disappear due to the lack of people who are still able to perform these crafts. Due to this, the festivities are starting to become a bit more superficial, Hendriks noticed. Furthermore, the Baggem\u00e9rt used to symbolically trade real pigs in the first few years in remembrance of the old days.\u00a0 The current Baggem\u00e9rt still has a tight program with old games and traditions such as rope braiding, baggepongen (beerpong), rikken (a typical Brabant and Limburg\u2019s card game), blaaskapellen, and other ludic shows. It is a continuous program led by the \u2018mertmister\u2019 (market master) and 4 other traditionally clothed committee members. The Baggem\u00e9rt attracts a lot of people, mostly parents with their kids, and friends of the organisation as well as elders who have been attending for more than 30 years. There is, however, one group of people who haven\u2019t been attending the Baggem\u00e9rt as much as others, students. The organisation has been trying to figure out new ways to attract the youth to come to the Baggem\u00e9rt, for instance, this year the organisation tried to attract the youth by setting up an electronic pig. However, since the Baggem\u00e9rt is during the day on Monday, and a lot of the caf\u00e9\u2019s host programs for the youth, which makes it less attractive for them to attend.<\/p>\n The local community plays a big role in the celebration of Carnaval. \u2018\u2019Without the local community, the association wouldn\u2019t exist.\u201d The association visits a lot of organisations and companies to keep people involved. However, by keeping the community involved, the needs have shifted. \u201cCarts are becoming smaller, the youth have more possibilities to go out and with that less time to volunteer, and participants just want to celebrate\u201d Hendriks noticed. <\/em><\/p>\n Traditions can only be kept by organising activities around those traditions that align with the needs and expectations of the public. Even with the growth of Carnaval among people from \u2018above the rivers\u2019 this will continue to be the case. \u201cWhile big cities such as \u2018S-Hertogenbosch (Oeteldonk) and Eindhoven (Lampegat) will notice the biggest changes, the traditions in Uden are from the people from here, and they will continue to be exactly that\u201d Erik finally shared. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carnaval, originally a catholic party preluding the 40-day fasting period lasting until easter. The party is mainly celebrated in the southern parts of the Netherlands, which is also where its roots lay. The cities celebrating Carnaval also has its traditions along with the city of Uden. The city has found a way to combine history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3266,"featured_media":11424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acls","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2024\/02\/Baggepongen-225x300.jpg\")