Listening to voices from old walls
Franeker, as an old university city, holds many secrets. A number of these hidden stories can be discovered with your phone. From the walls of Franeker, you'll hear characters from the past and present telling their tales. Short stories via your smartphone. Moving, funny and sometimes stern stories about the city and its history.
QR codes can be found at 41 locations in the city centre. Scan these codes and listen to stories about the place. Listen to them all!
How?
1. Get your smartphone.
2. Open your camera.
3. Point the camera at the QR code and follow the link you see on your screen.
4. Press the PLAY button and listen to the story!
p.s. Not working via the camera? Download one of the many QR code reader apps from the Google Play store (Android) or AppStore (Apple) and use it to open the link behind the QR code.
Listen to a sample
Locations of all voices of Franeker
Background
Franeker attracts increasingly more new visitors. And rightly so! The Eleven Cities city boasts a beautiful old city centre with historic buildings with a rich academic history. Which you can still experience daily, among other places, in the Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium. But the Academy of Franeker has not existed since 1811 when Napoleon closed the University of Friesland. However, since 5 October 2017, the Academy of Franeker has been re-established.
Since then, Franeker has been reinvigorating itself and letting its rich and inspiring history speak. Through the activities of the Academy of Franeker, a series of 11 'Academic stories' with accompanying photographs and many other 'dedicated and ingenious' initiatives. At the moment, the Planetarium is in line to become a UNESCO World Heritage site. From summer 2021 onwards, Franeker brings stories from the walls to life at 41 locations, telling the rich history through various characters.
The stories are narrated in Dutch or in Franekers. Stories where the academy is never far away…
With thanks to:
A project of Waadhoeke Municipality, 2021.
Texts: Josse Pietersma and Douwe Gerlof Heeringa
Translation into Franekers: Theo Kuipers (Genoatskap foar ut Behoud fan ut Franekers)
Voice actors: Joop Dijkstra, Femmy Heeringa-Attema, Josse Pietersma, Hillie Scheepsma, Jurjen Rollingswier and Koen van Velzen as themselves.
Audio: Harry Zwerver Producties Franeker
Photography: Jan Edwin Geertsma, SayWad Franeker
Concept: Rumspringa Communicatie