Slack start to art lottery, production houses don't fire, Krabbedans, Rivierenland Library, MuZIEum et al.

Poor economy hinders new art lottery

The business market is not yet warming up to the National Art Lottery launched in July. The organisation is looking for sponsors, but the poor economic climate is playing tricks on the lottery. (...) The number of cultural organisations that applied to supply lottery tickets actually exceeded expectations (...).
Only when there are enough sponsors will the organisation start a campaign for the general public. The National Art Lottery aims to promote visual arts and other art and culture by bringing art to the people, promoting public art ownership and sponsoring art institutions and events. Source: News.co.uk    30 Nov 11

Production houses do not lay off subsidised people

The scheme that allows production houses to use next year's subsidy to lay people off, for example, is not used by any of them, as far as we know. (..)
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science gave the institutions the choice of using state money meant for core tasks such as productions, for "necessary measures" in connection with the upcoming subsidy freeze. The institutions rejected the plan on principle, saying it would make the cuts take effect even sooner. (..)
These are mainly production houses and youth theatre companies. Many of the institutions are expected to stop receiving state subsidies in two years' time.
According to NAPK, the long-term commitments that could be bought off with the money for core tasks were entered into not only with the state, but also with the municipalities. Stopping core tasks would therefore be a breach of contract anyway. (..)
[The cabinet] removed all production houses for dance and theatre from the basic infrastructure that assures cultural institutions of subsidies for four years. (...) Source: News.co.uk    30 Nov 11

Eindhoven - De Krabbedans in opposition to subsidy cut

(...) Eindhoven wants to cut its subsidy of over four tonnes by a tonne. De Krabbedans is an exhibition space for contemporary art combined with an art loan and a design shop. According to De Krabbedans, its survival is at stake because the cut will take effect as early as 1 January. According to ... the business leader . the organisation was told on Wednesday that the subsidy will be reduced with effect from 1 January. (..) Source: Broadcaster Brabant 01 Dec 11

Bilbiotheek Rivierenland signs for library with or without Lingewaal

(...) The municipal councils of Culemborg, Druten, Geldermalsen, Maasdriel, Neder-Betuwe, Neerijnen, Tiel, West Maas and Waal and Zaltbommel have decided they want to sign the agreement. Buren cancelled the partnership earlier. In Lingewaal, a proposal to cancel the regional cooperation will be discussed on 8 December. If the council agrees, the subsidy will be phased out in five years. (..)

With the phase-out scheme, those effects will begin in 2014. Then the status time of the library buses in the municipality will be halved. Less will be done on Children's Book Week and educational activities. From 2015, there will be no more biblio buses, no service to education, no focus on Children's Book Week and the Bookstart project in childcare in Vuren will stop. The organisation is also being phased out. In 2016, only a director will remain, who will draw up the final balance sheet. Lingewalers can still visit other libraries in Rivierenland during the phasing-out period. Source: Gelderlander    01 Dec 11

Nijmegen - MuZIEum gets green light for relaunch

The MuZIEum, Nijmegen's museum about seeing and not seeing, will definitely make a new start in the [much larger] cellars of the city theatre. On Wednesday evening, the Nijmegen council approved the one-off subsidy of two tons involved. The MuZIEum should reopen in March 2012. The museum went bankrupt in May 2010. (..)
The foundation that has been pushing hard for the relaunch over the past one-and-a-half years, which helps 15 blind and visually impaired people get jobs, is confident about the future. "On top of the money from the municipality, we have almost four tonnes of pledges from sponsors coming in" (...). Source: Gelderlander    01 Dec 111

Staff at museums in Goes and Kapelle can stay on

The boards of the museums in Goes and Kapelle think they will be able to keep professionals on staff after 2013, provided the Goes, Kapelle and Noord-Beveland municipalities maintain their current subsidies. [Historical Museum De Bevelanden in Goes and the Fruitteeltmuseum in Kapelle] Source: PZC    30 Nov 11

Bergen op Zoom - Museum no longer free on shopping Sundays

From 2012, municipal museum Het Markiezenhof will no longer be accessible free of charge during shopping Sundays. This is due to municipal cutbacks, the museum informs. "It simply saves us around ten thousand euros a year in income" (...). source: BNDeStem    01 Dec 11