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Anything to get amateurs into the stands: money for 'Dance Gardens', local residents and the Concert Hall

PR photo of Zina takes the District, performed in Groningen last year

About 8 million Dutch people do something with art. They have music lessons, macramé plant pendants, paint plates or put together Christmas cards. But they also play theatre, sing in a choir, are part of a hip-hop crew or death metal band. That these practitioners of amateur art are not automatically also regular visitors to professi...

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PR photo of Zina takes the District, performed in Groningen last year

About 8 million Dutch people do something with art. They have music lessons, macramé plant pendants, paint plates or put together Christmas cards. But they also play theatre, sing in a choir, are part of a hip-hop crew or death metal band. That these practitioners of amateur art are not automatically also regular visitors to professi...

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