• Keep up to date

    A newsletter from SENSE drops into members’ e-mailboxes once a month. Each newsletter brims with news about the society, training opportunities from sister societies, and notices of various kinds. There are also handy links to upcoming SENSE events and links to the latest blog posts. And if you haven’t been on social media for a while, the newsletter provides an insight into that as well.

    About three times month, SENSE sends out notices about upcoming events, society business, and important news from the industry. Members can also access past occasional mails via the website.

    SENSE members who use Facebook and LinkedIn can join SENSE’s members-only Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Around 100 members are on the Facebook group and around 150 members are on the LinkedIn group. SENSE also has a public presence on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, where our social media manager very regularly posts news about SENSE events, events from sister societies, and various other interesting posts related to our industry. These pages are accessible to the public.

  • Get-togethers

    SENSE regularly hosts meetings for members based on region or special interest. These meetings can be in person or online. There are several SIGs (special interest groups), such as one for educators, for medical translators and editors, for academic editors, for starters, etc.

    The society hosts workshops about 3-6 times a year that are open to both members and the public. Some of these are in person, while others are in the form of webinars. Some workshops are interactive, while others feature a guest speaker.

    An established tradition in SENSE is our annual summer social and our annual winter dinner. At these two events, members may bring their partners or a guest. The summer social is usually some kind of touristy outing. The winter dinner may be a formal sit-down or an informal buffet dinner.

  • Reaching out

    Potential clients can use the SENSE freelance register to find suitable freelance translators, editors, interpreters, copywriters, etc. etc. from among SENSE members. The register is right there on SENSE’s public website. Any member of SENSE may join the freelance register for no extra charge.

    SENSE members are encouraged to make contact with other members. That is what being in a society is all about. All SENSE members can search for or browse the list of current SENSE members. As a member, you can edit your own profile page via our website and ensure that only the information that you wish to reveal, are visible to other members.

    The society has had a monthly newsletter pretty much since the beginning in 1992. Most of these newsletters have been preserved and can be viewed by members via the website. This is a very interesting way of getting to know the society and its members, or to get new ideas from past events and activities.

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2017 Summer Social

From 08 July 2017 11:00 CEST until 08 July 2017 17:00 CEST
Posted by Paul Baker
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This event will give you the chance to discover more about the attractions of Utrecht, a very interesting city for urban explorers. And of course it will be a great opportunity to meet up and discuss the wonderful new SENSE website!!
Registration for this event costs €25.00 for members and €35.00 for guests. Click ‘Register’ to sign up and pay. Just follow the simple procedure and you will be delighted to discover how easy it is to do so.

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Our Summer Social will start at 11:00 when we meet at De Rechtbank, Korte Nieuwstraat 14, for an early-ish lunch: ‘2 belegde, dik gesneden boterhammen, groene salade, een zacht bolletje met een kroket en onbeperkt melk, jus d’orange en mineraalwater’ www.derechtbank.com. Vegetarian options need to be ordered in advance, so please indicate this preference in the comments when you register and pay.

  

jvdd deel met kijk op domtorenAt 12:45 we will head for the Oudegracht (about 12 minutes away) to board an exclusively booked boat for a 90-minute waterborne tour around the city, along the ‘Oudegracht, stadsbuitengrachten en singels’. The boat will depart at 13:15. We suggest you bring at least a bottle of water with you for this trip, particularly if the weather is sunny and warm.

 

museum speelklok logoWe return to the Oudegracht at 14:45 and then walk to the Museum Speelklok (about 6 minutes away): www.museumspeelklok.nl We will divide into groups for two guided tours that will interchange after about an hour. This is bound to be an enjoyable experience with insights into the music, technological features and history of the self-playing instruments in the museum’s fascinating collection.

Admission to the museum is free to those of you who hold a museum card, so please bring it with you on the day. As many members probably do have a museum card, we deemed it wiser not to burden SENSE with a per-person admission charge for the group as a whole. This means that the €12 for entry is not included in the individual ticket price for the Summer Social.

The Museum Speelklok currently has a free-of-charge temporary exhibition, ‘Selfie Automaton’, featuring 42 mechanically driven humanoid and animal figures set up in various different scenes. The tour guide will make these move. This is a visual spectacle with the underlying question as to who is moving whom? If you are interested in seeing this exhibition, a tour starts at 16:30 and will take 20 minutes.

Our museum visit concludes the pre-arranged part of the day, but of course there will be plenty of time and opportunity for further socialising afterwards. Broers Stadscafe, Janskerkhof 9 has plenty of space and a very pleasant atmosphere for ‘borrelling’. www.stadscafe-broers.nl.
Another refreshing location worth a visit if you’re en route for the train station is Belgisch Bier Café Olivier, Achter Clarenburg 6a; this is a former schuilkerk in which many of the ecclesiastical features (including the organ!) have been retained. utrecht.cafe-olivier.be.

DOM UNDER, the underground archaeological space below the Domplein, is another attraction well worth a visit. And if any of you are planning to remain in Utrecht until dusk, you can view the Trajectum Lumen and even take -another - guided tour: www.trajectumlumen.nl.

We look forward to seeing you at the SENSE Summer Social in Utrecht on 8 July.