The southern Dutch city of Telburg sees a more color than usual this week, with thousands of red gathering from all over the world in the Netherlands for a festival once a year to celebrate their burning locks.
The 2025 edition of the RedHead Days Festival includes music, food trucks and workshops designed to meet special red needs, from explaining makeup to prevention of skin cancer.
Organizers expect that the three -day event will attract several thousand attendees from about 80 countries.
Ellounda Bakker, an old warrior at the 15 -year -old Dutch festival, played papers with a group of limited friends from all over the world who meet together every year at the festival.
“I often got out of curiosity, just to see what would be the case in not standing out in the crowd. It was a really interesting first experience and I continued to come because I met some extinguished friends here,” said Bakker, 29, said.
The magician Daniel Hank has traveled six hours from Germany to join the celebrations, and now proud to be proud of the hair that made it a target of bullying when he was younger.
He said: “I think it is really easy to get to know me because there are not many people who have a red beard, there are not many players with long red hair.”
The festival is free and open to everyone, except for the group’s image on Sunday. This event is limited to “natural” red.
The 2013 edition set a record in Guinness’s global “The largest gathering for people with natural red hair” with 1672 people demonstrating in the collective image.
This tradition appeared two decades ago when the Dutch artist Bart Roinhour’s abolished an invitation to 15 red hair model for an art project in a local newspaper. He got ten times the response he was expecting and collected the group together to get a picture.
The project got a lot of attention, and Rouwenhorst systems a similar meeting in the following year and continued to oversee the festival as it expanded in the multi -day event today.
“The festival is really amazing because all people resemble each other and feel they are a family,” he said.