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Friday the 25th. Bergen puts extra money into art, while new disasters emerge for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

by one of our members
25 November 20118 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

Amsterdam - Mayor finds cuts to Rijksakademie "beyond comprehension" During the official opening of RijksakademieOPEN 2011, Mayor of Amsterdam Eberhard van der Laan expressed his concerns about the government's severe cuts to the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. "Cutbacks are necessary. Capitulating is not necessary. There are limits." The mayor stressed that a healthy art climate is important for...

Culture day: not a penny for Oriëntalis, no brake on Amsterdam cutbacks and Vlissinger library unsaleable

by one of our members
24 November 201130 March 2022
3 min read
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PVV provincial councillor Faber earlier this year on the former Biblical Museum, now Orientalis: "I don't need 20 million euros to talk to a Muslim. Nor to talk to a Jew or Christian for that matter. The PVV already hates subsidies, but if it has anything to do with Islam we won't give anything." State secretary gives museum park...

Daily news: Sale in Rotterdam, protests in Amsterdam and an arts centre closes in the south

by one of our members
23 November 201130 March 2022
6 min read
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Culture sector signs agreement on youth pass Eight umbrella organisations in the culture sector signed a covenant on Wednesday advocating the continued existence, albeit in modified form, of the Culture Card. It should remain free, but will henceforth only give discounts on cultural outings. The 15-euro credit will disappear because the state will no longer provide subsidies. Instead, students in the...

Fransche School in jeopardy, blind library closed, nibbling on VAT measure via CJP and Volkenkunde/Tropen Institute merger possible

by one of our members
22 November 20118 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

Arnhem - Scepticism over success of cultural heart Rijnboog Arnhem city council has many doubts about the financial feasibility of the Rijnboog arts cluster. (...) [Alderman] assumes 16 million subsidy from the province and another 4 million in contributions from sponsors for the new arts centre containing the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, the Schouwburg and Focus Filmtheater....

Cuts also take philanthropists too far, and music lessons become unaffordable, Kerkrade retains its theatre

by one of our members
21 November 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

'Philanthropists cannot absorb cuts' (...) "Funds are less and less willing to just write a cheque. Owners want to be involved, contribute their expertise and measure impacts. They ask about the applicant's objective, how they intend to achieve it and whether it is measurable. (...) "On average, a fund disburses 4 per cent of its assets annually. So.

Tropenmuseum perhaps saved, fate of bakery museum uncertain Local politicians already cut 100m from art

by one of our members
19 November 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Culture sector already gets hit in 2012: 100 million (...) Already in 2012 at least 100 million will be cut on culture and heritage. Not by Halbe Zijlstra, state secretary for culture, but by municipalities and provinces. (...) The city of [Eindhoven] will cut half a million euros from next year on the culture sector. That's a pittance compared to The Hague, where the arts are in...

Crowdsourcing: Urgent help sought on complex legal document from ministry on Netherlands Music Institute

by one of our members
18 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
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We have received an initial response from the ministry to an objection from an institution to be cut away. In this case, the Netherlands Music Institute. Ministry products and services officer, appropriately named Drs Spijker, dismisses the objection, but we have some questions about the precise legal hedging of the whole thing. And we ourselves, of course, are...

Progress news: Give Act no more for culture, Utrecht more expensive and Purmerend stops all subsidies

by one of our members
18 November 20118 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Lower House approves Tax Plan 2012 (...) Furthermore, the adjusted Giving Act was also passed. The 7 million euro tax support shifts from cultural institutions to sports and music associations. Source: Belasting.nl 18 Nov 11 Utrecht - Culture may cost something - by Wouter de Heus (...) this week, when I finally saw the renewed operating plan for the Music Palace in...

Bright spots: Toneelschuur kind of saved, less discount at schouwburg Hoorn, but Bollenstreekse Bieb gets more expensive.

by one of our members
17 November 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Haarlem - Money new policy: national cuts softened (...) [theatre, film and production house] Toneelschuur Productions will lose its national subsidy from 2013. This threatens the disappearance of this unique production house. (...) Haarlem is economically heavily dependent on culture. The cuts will therefore not only lead to the impoverishment of our cultural climate, but also to fewer jobs and a blow to the creative economy in...

Bare-bones news: Give Act turned from monstrosity into monster, Brabant short 30% on performing arts, North Beveland no longer buys art.

by one of our members
16 November 201129 March 2022
4 min read
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House amends gift deduction in cultural sector (...) A majority of the House wants to limit the Cabinet plans for tax deductions in the cultural sector. At the same time, it should become more fiscally attractive to make donations to sports and music associations. VVD, CDA and PVV submitted amendment proposals to this effect to the Giving Act of state secretary Frans Weekers (Finance) on Tuesday. (...) The PVV felt that far too...

Discount news: cut in government websites and action for Metropole orchestra

by one of our members
15 November 201130 March 2022
4 min read
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Donner Puts Knife In Websites Central Government The ministries collectively run nearly 400 websites, most of which do not meet official accessibility requirements. Minister Donner wants a clean-up first. (...) The municipalities, of which only 2 per cent fully comply with the web guidelines, have until the end of 2012 to comply with the lowest level and another two years after that to fully...

We are going Liveblogging again! Monday, November 21, to be exact.

by one of our members
14 November 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

On Monday 21 November, the chamber has one more chance to stop the desertification of Dutch culture. After all, the disproportionate attack on the budgets for music schools, orchestras, theatre groups and drawing lessons will be discussed by the chamber then. It all happens in the Groen van Prinstererzaal in the House of Representatives building, and it is of course broadcast on the...

News summary: Children have nothing to do with free museums and opposition has effects of austerity calculated

by one of our members
14 November 201130 March 2022
2 min read
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Photo: The Press Opposition: have arts cuts calculated (...) These are cuts by the state, provinces and municipalities. The aim is to clarify how big the total cuts together are and what exactly will be the effects on supply and employment. (...) "With this request, we want to counter the politics of the short-term agenda. Good policy, including...

Halbe Zijlstra wanted to know what quality was, and got back 22 pages of vagueness.

by one of our members
12 November 201130 March 2022
5 min read
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Quality. It is such a nice civil service-political magic word. Sounds good and nobody can be against it. So shout as a politician that you want more quality and all heads start nodding busily. State Secretary for Cultural Affairs Zijlstra also likes quality. Says he. For instance, when it comes to cultural education. In his memorandum More than quality, he says he wants to make work of the...

"Culture is not a top priority for this college," the Schouwen-Duiveland Labour Party believes.

by one of our members
12 November 201130 March 2022
4 min read
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New Musical Express Poortvliet (Tholen) Gorkum - Culture sector is in dire straits (...) The major austerity exercise will come in the spring when, among other things, the new Culture Policy is on the table. (...) In the meantime, further consultations are being held with cultural bodies, among others, such as with the Toon Foundation and the Nieuwe Doelen theatre on 30 January. "They, like the Gorcums Museum, can...

Region review: chain letters in Rotterdam, only 1 year right to renewal in Zierikzee, and Eindhoven not happy with Chamber Choir

by one of our members
10 November 201130 March 2022
5 min read
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Groningen municipality cuts back on Gezinsbode The municipality is going to cut back 150,000 euros on publishing city notices in the Groninger Gezinsbode. The City Council wants to publish decisions and permits electronically from now on, for example on the municipality's website. (...) The number of pages in the Gezinsbode will be halved. (...) source: OogTV 10 Nov 11 Most councillors expect subsidies to be cut...

Concert hall cheers over failed share issue

by one of our members
10 November 201130 March 2022
2 min read
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The Concertgebouw announced jubilantly yesterday that last September's share issue was a resounding success. After all, out of 1,000 €12,500 shares, 400 had been ordered. Almost €5 million from private individuals raked in. Truly no mean feat in this thrifty little country, where everyone complains that patronage does nothing. The media, including Amsterdam's Parool, briefly took the jubilant news as...

Distress call for theatre school Roosendaal at last minute, arts venue Veenendaal scrapped Discount news from all regions

by one of our members
9 November 20118 July 2016
9 min read
ACTUAL

(...) 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. It was only this week that this apparently dawned on Hofplein's management. Which immediately started a...

As of 2013, the art scene in Amsterdam looks very different.

by one of our members
9 November 20118 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

Now then. 6.5 million goes off subsidised institutions. In Amsterdam. Qua municipality. The state was already doing away with just over 40 million, leaving 36 institutions in dire straits. Now Amsterdam has decided to keep at least 13 named institutions. Should we think of Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the IDFA, Holland Festival, Concertgebouw and the Muziekgebouw...

Rush to festival featuring Dutch youth theatre on Broadway

by one of our members
7 November 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

In the country where Jan Klaasen is only allowed to beat up Katrijn with a hot-air balloon, because a puppet show clubbing is not good for delicate children's souls, Dutch professional youth theatre turns out to be unexpectedly in demand. In short, a genuine Dutch youth theatre festival in New York has already sold 2,500 tickets, and it is still going strong. Of at least two of the four productions...

Trouw: Ernst Veen fears big deficits New Church, Holland Symfonia in kicking seat

by one of our members
6 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
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Ernst Veen The Trouw commentary addresses the problems that are now beginning to be felt even at the top of the arts sector: 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...

Orchestra members fired without waiting pay? A new collective agreement could cause that

by one of our members
4 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
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On Thursday 27 October, FNV KIEM, the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaarsbond (Ntb) and NAPK sector orchestras discussed the terms of employment of musicians employed by the Randstedelijke and Regionale Orkesten that fall under the collective labour agreement Dutch Orchestras. Out of a total of 11 Dutch orchestras, nine are covered by this collective agreement. The orchestras of the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep and the...

Performing Arts Fund announces plans; institutions must perform with performances

by one of our members
2 November 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Operation Fonds Podiumkunsten Since the decision in June to reduce the BIS, many eyes turned to the Fonds Podiumkunsten, which has an annual budget of €60 million to give away. However, the Fund is also facing a cut: the budget for the multiannual scheme will be reduced by 40% from 40 to 24.5 million euros. The multiannual scheme...

Arts colleges to cooperate more and get "partly or wholly" the same budget

by one of our members
26 October 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

On 5 July, the HBO Council came out with a sector plan for art education. Following the report of the Dijkgraaf committee and the Brinkman committee, it was concluded that the autonomous fine arts courses will reduce the intake of first-year students by 25%, the conservatoires with direction of classical and jazz by 10%, and the rest by 20%. This is to be achieved in a period...

Elektra: only five singers worldwide who can handle this part. Linda Watson sings scathingly Nietzschean.

by one of our members
24 October 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Elektra - stage photo: Hans van den Bogaard The fourth revival of Elektra by De Nederlandse Opera is over halfway through. In the final performances, two fresh dramatic sopranos take over. Why is an opera revived, even as many as four times? At the sleep-inducing Don Giovanni in the previous season of De Nederlandse Opera - also a revival - was...

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