You are also from Israel?
No.
No, I'm from here.
There's going to be lots of fun stuff to do here tomorrow.
Is there anybody out here who would like to come up and share with us what redhead days is for you and what it means?
Hello. It's very strange being back here. So for those of you who don't know me, I was here last year. I'm a filmmaker. I made a film called Being Ginger, which is having its first theatrical screening tomorrow at 1.30.
And please come to it. It's good, I promise. It's actually really cool to be back here seeing so many people that I met last year. And I hope I can remember everybody's names.
No, this was a really special experience for me last year. And if you come see the film, you'll understand why I don't want to say too much about why it was so special. I think it's sort of why I made the film.
I'm speechless being back. The film, if you don't know, it started off, it was a project I started making two years ago as a student in Edinburgh about my experience as a redhead.
And it sort of morphed into this really weird thing that I can't explain. It's sort of about me coming to terms with myself and liking myself and loving myself.
Loving my hair, I guess. Yeah, so it's playing twice. It's playing tomorrow at 1.30 and it's playing on Sunday at 2 o'clock. Is it the chase? How do you pronounce it? I can't pronounce it. My Dutch is awful.
This is an amazing experience and thank you, thank you to Mark and thank you to especially all of the volunteers for last year who have made it such an amazing experience. And I wouldn't have a film without all of them. So thank you very, very much.
Hi guys. So my name's Emma. I'm from gingepara.co.uk which is basically a website aimed for redheads and it reports on news and features about fashion, beauty, films, celebrities, you name it, anything to do with gingers is on there.
Yeah, we were here last year. It's a great experience. So I think we'll be coming here every year basically. And yeah, so tomorrow we're going to be having these temporary tattoos. Some of them are just like the parrot.
You can put them on your wrist or your face if you really want to. But yeah, so good experience and we'll definitely be coming again next year and all the years at the festival as well because it's an amazing experience.
I am a redhead. I'm fading. My wife is a wonderful redhead. I'm Scottish redhead. She's an Irish redhead. Our son was born in Australia. He's a redhead. And our daughter has got fabulous redhead.
When I grew up, I was called Duracell, carrot type, red, and lots of unmentionable names. Yeah, we get abuse. And you put up with it, it pisses you off and it's a big deal.
What really upset me was my children had the same problem. They came back from school and they were in tears because they were the other kids. Even their friends protecting the Mickey elephant. Oh, you're ugly. You've got red hair. Horrible stuff.
And the reason I got in touch with Bart and you was I went into it. I was so angry one time. I got on the internet and I searched redheads. There was some fantastic stuff there. The redhead parrot, the stuff like that going on, but also the redhead festival.
And so we've been trying to come here for the last three years, not just for me, because I've grown out of it. I've got thick skin. But for my kids, the idea of coming here and being immersed in redhead culture to be amongst thousands of other redheads.
Just walking into redhead states. We've got the train from Amsterdam for a great couple of days in Amsterdam. And thank you very much to the Dutch people for making us so welcome. But we got into redhead and we played, you know, Spot the Redhead. And the first one to get to 31.
It took five minutes. I've had five minutes of my life one. I've had five minutes, 30 redheads. And then we said we've got to 100. No, no, no. We're going to get done for stalking. But I'd just like to thank the organizers for this.
Because for me, this is its empowerment, not for me, but for my kids for the next generation, that you actually embrace your redhead culture. Because we have a wonderful culture, some great softball figures, some great cultural figures as well.
Filmmakers, artists. And one of the nice things about the internet is seeing people showing their redhead from, you know, performing artists to film actors to musical artists. And I think gatherings like this, if they can get over some of the stigma to do with redhead,
and actually show that while we're a minority, we're actually quite a cultural and inventive and quite spiritual minority. It is a great thing, both for us and for our children and for our children's children.
So I'd just like to thank the volunteers and the organizers for this, for making such a brilliant, brilliant day at a weekend. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
When I was at school, there were a few kids. It was more primary school. Back then, we didn't know right from long as much as we do now. But when we were much younger, it was quite bad.
There were certain exiles. I don't really get carrot head because carrots, heads are green and we have oranges.
But looking back at it, it was just petty arguments most of the time. It didn't break into fights most of the time.
But yeah, some days it was better than others. Usually it was just when people were bored and being schooled, that was most of the time.
So yeah, I don't know. School wasn't too good of a thing for me. It's just moved on from that now in secondary school because no one really does it anymore.
So yeah.
Thank you.
