(...) The Youth Theatre School Roosendaal received a project subsidy of 36,779 euros from the municipality in 2010 and 2011. The school also fulfils a regional function. Forty per cent of its 330 pupils come from the surrounding villages. The proposal is to end the subsidy from 1 January. Only this week did this apparently dawn on Hofplein's management. Which immediately launched a desperation and closing offensive (...).
[Alderman] "That will be seen on Thursday. It is up to the council. Converted, a pupil at the theatre school gets 100 euros subsidy this year. Compared to a child playing football or being in the scouts, that's a lot, because they only get a tenner a year." (..)
Source: BN DeStem 09 Nov 11
(...) The law is a monstrosity. After all, who can explain that the donation for an instrument for a brass band orchestra should be treated differently from the donation to the Concertgebouw Orchestra ?
It is absolutely right that the Chamber has the utmost difficulty with the law, which would cost the government 16 million euros a year. Why this law, when the cabinet could also have chosen not to increase VAT on performing arts ? (..)
Source: Wed 09 Nov 11
The Art Place on Dairy Street will not be maintained. (...) The 15 artists have to leave their studios by 1 December next year. How to proceed, the artists do not know. (..)
September 2003, the Art Place was officially opened. According to councillor Arianne Hollander, the municipality has no financial resources to keep the building open, it will be demolished. (..)
"It costs the municipality nothing on balance, it's just a squat." (..)
Grimberg of the local Arts Aktief Foundation referred to the cultural memorandum adopted by the council, which stressed that artists should have a place to work. (..)
Source: Veenendaal Newspaper 09 Nov 11
..) The music societies ULTO from Winssen, NAG from Weurt, K&V from Beuningen, Music4All, Vita Nuova, Vision, OBK, Bronzen Stemmen, Genoot, Surprise, dance group Brigida and drama club Plankenkoorts should also be happy. Their subsidy will not be cut. (..)
Source: The Gelderlander 09 Nov 11
Culture house CODA in Apeldoorn is to cut 45 jobs. This is due to municipal cutbacks. CODA, with a library, museum and archive and knowledge centre under one roof, has to cut 1.3 million euros. (..)
Source: Omroep Gelderland 08 Nov 11
Due to the cuts, some 50 cultural institutions in Amsterdam will lose their subsidies in 2013. The municipality, which is cutting 10 million from arts and culture, will also sell cultural properties. (..)
The outline memorandum states that 13 institutions are indispensable to Amsterdam's image. Yet they too - including the Stedelijk and Toneelgroep Amsterdam - must collectively cut 6.5 million. Money must be generated in other ways (...).
Apart from the major companies and venues, 16 places are available that are subsidised by the municipality, such as a dance workshop and a theatre production house. Also, [the councillor] is betting on cultural institutions with a neighbourhood function (...).
That leaves 13.6 million for the smaller cultural players. 'In that free space, competition is intensifying; also because the current cabinet is hitting many Amsterdam institutions hard. At the smaller ones, it becomes really crowded,' (...).
To free up more money, the municipality is looking into selling some of its 29 cultural properties. Properties owned by the municipality include the Marionnet Theatre, the Angel Box and the Rose Theatre. (..)
The [Amsterdam Uitburo] will hand in half a million and be placed under city marketing. (..)
>Source: Parole 09 Nov 11
Today, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science published the friction cost regulation. This states in which cases cultural institutions that are now included in the Basic Infrastructure and no longer receive a subsidy from 2013 can claim money to reduce obligations already entered into. Depending on how long a cultural institution receives a structural subsidy, as a rule 2 to 4 months of subsidy will be paid out. According to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, this is roughly the same as how friction costs have been handled in the past. Customisation will apply to institutions with B3 status, the reason being the special labour law position of staff employed by these institutions. The explanation warns institutions that subsidies are always granted for four years and a similar arrangement cannot be counted on when entering a subsequent policy period. Scheme for friction and transition costs*.
Source: Cultural policy.co.uk 02 Nov 11
Negotiations on a new collective agreement for Dutch orchestras have broken down by FNV KIEM and the Dutch Toonkunstenaarsbond. As a result, actions are now imminent. The employers do not accept the unions' proposal to extend the existing collective agreement for Dutch orchestras unchanged until 1 July 2012. As a result of the cuts by State Secretary Zijlstra of OCW, about 450 musicians will lose their jobs. The unions are fighting hard for a good redundancy scheme but the employers do not want to guarantee that the current waiting pay scheme will be included in a new collective agreement.
source: Cultural policy.co.uk 31 Oct 11
"The Lower House has criticised State Secretary Frans Weekers of Finance's Giving Act, which is intended to give a tax break to the cultural sector. For instance, the PVV thinks the tax advantage on donations to cultural institutions should disappear. The opposition parties call the Giving Act a curtain-raiser because the cabinet is cutting subsidies to the cultural sector sharply and has increased VAT."
Source: Golden Mountains 03 Nov 11
Cultural entrepreneurship can produce great things. Ernst Veen, who brought De Nieuwe Kerk and Hermitage Amsterdam to great fruition as new exhibition spaces in the capital, is a successful example.
Yesterday, he complained in Trouw that despite that success, he still has to give up two tonnes of subsidy on the operating costs of The New Church, ten per cent of the budget. And no, no matter how successful he has been in generating sponsorship funds, those two tonnes are not easy to find. (..)
The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra can take over Holland Symfonia's concert duties, according to the state secretary. En passant, therefore, one orchestra has been cut after all, and the Haarlem Philharmonic, renovated with a lot of public money, is losing its main player. It's called capital destruction.
source: Wed 01 Nov 11
(...) The municipality wants to cut one and a half million euros from the Breda Museum. The museum has to look at whether it is still able to pay for the current interpretation of the building. It must also further explore the possibilities of a merger with the North Brabant Museum.
If it is up to the Stichting Cultuurbeleid Breda's Museum, which represents owners of the collections, the institution will remain independent. According to the foundation, the museum would need 950 thousand euros of structural subsidy to do so. Almost 45 per cent of the budget would then come from its own income.
(...) The board of the Van GoghHuis had asked the municipality for a structural contribution of 75,000 euros, otherwise it would no longer be able to keep its doors open.
According to an earlier agreement, the museum was supposed to receive only a one-off project subsidy of 375,000 euros for its operation, and then fend for itself, but at the end of last year the board raised the alarm with the municipality again. (..)
One reason is the economic malaise, which makes it much harder to find sponsors. (..)
(...) Director Huib Tijssens of Kasteel-Museum Sypesteyn in Loosdrecht also sees the flow of money dwindling. The annual municipal subsidy of 20,000 euros will have to be reduced to zero over the next four years. (..)
Source: Close to t Gooi
The development of the Waerdse Tempel in Heerhugowaard as a regional pop facility is not realistic. This is the conclusion of consultancy BMC (...).
The study shows that a facility with a capacity of 500 to 600 visitors is sufficient. "The Waerdse Tempel is just way too big" (...)
The Waerdse Temple will close its doors from January 2012. (..)
[Alderman] " It is very unfortunate that a regional pop stage in the Waerdse Tempel is not feasible. Now it is up to Alkmaar to take its responsibility. " (...) "The activities that do catch on well can be organised in other places such as [arts and culture centre] Cool or [pop and dance centre] Kompleks."Source: Close to Alkmaar
A majority of the People's Assembly in the Provincial Council supports the €2 million cut to RTV Noord-Holland. (..)
RTV Noord-Holland believes the province is not honouring agreements made, and it is not legally allowed to reduce the subsidy in the interim. (..)
The verdict in a court case pending between the province of North Brabant and Omroep Brabant is now awaited. There, too, the province wants to cut back on regional broadcasting. (..)
Source: radio freak
Music education in Cothen is in danger of disappearing because Wijk bij Duurstede, which includes Cothen, has to cut over one and a half million euros.
There is still subsidy for the coming year but after that, the music school will have to fend for itself, the city council meeting revealed on Tuesday night. (..)
Source: RTV Utrecht
Ede will again get an art loan in cultural centre Cultura. The Utrecht-based company Artlease is breathing new life into the initiative in January. (..)
From January, Artlease will move into Cultura, giving Ede its own art rental service once again. Earlier, the Centrum Beeldende Kunst Gelderland (CBKG) closed its doors due to financial problems. This was partly due to the province of Gelderland turning off the subsidy tap. (..)
Source: Ede City
(...) Due to budget cuts, the library-on-wheels is in danger of disappearing in many villages. The SP wants an emergency fund from which the bus will be paid. (...) Several children's book authors this week spoke out in favour of keeping the library bus.
Source: Omroep Gelderland
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