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Dutch festival draws thousands of redheads in celebration of ginger |
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By Associated Press |
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2:34 PM EDT, Sat August 30, 2025 |
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The southern city of Tilburg is seeing more color than usual this |
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weekend, as thousands of redheads from all over the world gather in the |
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Netherlands for a once-a-year festival to celebrate their flaming |
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locks. |
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The 2025 edition of the includes music, food trucks and workshops |
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tailored to particular needs of redheads - including make up explainers |
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and skin cancer prevention. |
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Organizers expect over several thousand attendees from some 80 |
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countries to join during the three-day event. |
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The festival is free and open to all, with the exception of the group |
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photo on Sunday. |
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That event is restricted to “natural” redheads. |
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The 2013 edition set a Guinness World Record for the “largest |
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gathering of people with natural red hair” with 1,672 people posing |
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for the group photo. |
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Two decades ago, Dutch artist Bart Rouwenhorst put out a call for 15 |
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red-haired models for an art project in a local newspaper. |
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He got ten times the response he was expecting and brought the group |
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together for a photo. |
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The project got so much attention, Rouwenhorst organized a similar meet |
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up the following year and has continued to oversee the festival as it |
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has expanded into the multiday event it is today. |
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“The festival is really amazing because all the people, they resemble |
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each other and they feel like it’s a family,” he told AP. |
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Magician Daniel Hank traveled six hours from Germany to join the |
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festivities. |
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He says that while his coloring made him the target of bullying when he |
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was younger, now his red hair is an asset. |
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I think it’s really easy to recognize me because there are not that |
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many people with a red beard, there are not many guys with long red |
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hair,” he said. |
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