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Square Theatre loses facebook page over nipple in poster image

Social Media censureert op vrouwentepel en Plein Theater verliest facebookpagina om tepel in posterbeeld van de voorstelling Nouveau Fuck van Cat Smits Company. Deze digitale preutsheid en seksistische ongelijkheid gaat veel te ver, vinden Berith Danse en Cat Smits. Facebook staat bekend om een strikt ‘geen naakt’-beleid, tenminste niet voor mannen, want naakte mannentorso’s zijn geen enkel probleem. Foto’s die… 

Kasia Tórz new theatre and dance programme manager Holland Festival 

Kasia Tórz joins the Holland Festival from 1 September as programme manager Theatre and Dance. Together with director Emily Ansenk and programme manager Music and Music Theatre Jochem Valkenburg and programmer Katinka Enkhuizen, who joins on 1 October, she will form the new artistic team of the Holland Festival. Emily Ansenk on Kasia's appointment: "Her broad experience with... 

Asko|Schönberg in Gaudeamus Openingsavond en concert ter ere van Reinbert de Leeuw in het Muziekgebouw

Gaudeamus 2022 Opening Festival Enerverend programma met o.a. sheng-grootmeester Wu Wei Tijdens de openingsavond van dit jaarlijkse festival laat Gaudeamus de vele gezichten van nieuwe muziek zien: verrassend, ontroerend en wie weet frustrerend. Asko|Schönberg, vaste gast bij dit festival, maakt deel uit van de feestelijke openingsavond en presenteert een programma dat generaties en continenten omspant. Met onder meer het knotsgekke… 

Walking: about walking and literature with Midas Dekkers, Henk Schiffmacher, Jeroen Theunissen, Marjoleine de Vos and Bente van de Wouw

Zondagmiddag 25 september International Literature Festival Utrecht – TivoliVredenburg Wanderlust! Op 25 september, tijdens een geheel aan het wandelen gewijd programma, vertellen Midas Dekkers, Henk Schiffmacher, Jeroen Theunissen, Marjoleine de Vos en Bente van der Wouw over hun onbedwingbare wandeldrift. Het wordt een middag vol wandel-literatuur, met en voor wandelaars, natuurliefhebbers, pelgrims en mijmeraars. De aanwezige auteurs zullen vertellen over… 

Asko|Schönberg opens 2022/2023 season with festival Words & Music

After the successful first edition in 2020, Asko|Schönberg presents Words & Music, a festival full of cut-ups & f*ck-ups, on 3 September. In unexpected ways, various art disciplines come together in an adventurous programme that plays with the relationships between music and language. This time, Words & Music is inspired by composer Luciano Berio (1926-2003) and literary enfant terrible of the sixties.... 

30 years of Bijlmervliegramp, Club RoXY and Amsterdam's housing crisis - Second edition Collecting the City opens 25 September at Amsterdam Museum

On Sunday 25 September 2022, the second exhibition from the Collecting the City project will open at the Amsterdam Museum. In the Collecting the City project (2021-2025), the Amsterdam Museum 'collects' and presents the stories and objects of the city of today together with communities, individuals and institutions from Amsterdam. In this second exhibition of the programme line, the Amsterdam Museum brings... 

Events at the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel

Month September 2022 In addition to a permanent collection presentation at Amstel 51 and in Huis Willet-Holthuysen and changing exhibitions, the Amsterdam Museum offers a rich public programme. At various locations and for a diverse audience. The following events are scheduled for September 2022. Visit www.amsterdammuseum.nl for the latest information. Smell Tour From 1 September Explore the bygone... 

Biting brothers, Moroccan all-rounders, juggling rock stars and more at Holland's biggest circus festival - Festival Circolo 2022: a ten-day celebration of circus

Van 21 tot en met 30 oktober neemt het aantal open monden, gesperde ogen en samengeknepen billen in hartje Tilburg drastisch toe. Het grootste circusfestival van Nederland, Festival Circolo, strijkt dan neer in Spoorpark Tilburg voor tien dagen eigentijds circus van topkwaliteit. Vandaag maakt het festival haar programma bekend voor de 10e editie. Een line-up gevuld met grensverleggers, waaghalzen en… 

Storytellers wanted for ILFU Storytelling Competition 2022

Deze zomer wordt voor de derde keer de ILFU Verhalenwedstrijd georganiseerd. De enige interdisciplinaire verhalenwedstrijd van Nederland staat open voor verhalen in alle vormen. Proza, films, poëzie, fotografie, non-fictie, columns, strips, spoken word, muziek of TikToks: alle verhalen zijn welkom. Want bij ILFU vinden we dat goede verhalen op allerlei manieren verteld kunnen worden. Er zijn vijf categorieën om in… 

Happy faces, a reunion with old acquaintances, water, cake and a magical moment: press presentation Of Cotton and Water

Happy faces, a reunion with old friends, water, cake and a magical moment that closed the day with a golden edge. On Wednesday, the Stadslab on the Indiëterrein in Almelo was the stage for the press presentation of the theatre performance Van Katoen en Water. The headline is off. Wednesday saw the kick-off of a unique city musical that will bring Almelo and the surrounding area... 

Playing with shapes in first Dutch solo exhibition by Andrea Canepa (Peru)

Voor haar eerste solotentoonstelling in Nederland heeft de Peruaanse kunstenaar Andrea Canepa (Lima, 1980) de Aula-ruimte van de Appel tot haar beschikking als de locatie voor haar voortdurende onderzoek naar de organisatie van de fysieke en sociale structuren, ofwel organisatiesystemen, die ons dagelijkse leven vormgeven. Canepa laat zien dat hoewel de ruimtelijke en architecturale parameters van deze organisatiesystemen duidelijk gemarkeerd kunnen lijken,… 

Anthony Heidweiller: Secretary of State, come up with a Delta Plan for a fundamental place of art in society.

Let's start yesterday with a fundamental dialogue with the entire arts sector, using the vitality and creativity of the arts as inspiration, both for the sector itself and for society as a whole. Our sector talking, thinking, participating, deciding! in good times and in bad times. Never be silent again ...

Asko | Schönberg brings Small World - Grachtenfestival 13 and 14 August - premiere  

Small World is a colourful film symphony about a mouse that moves right through the music. Composer Camiel Jansen wrote the piece especially for Asko|Schönberg and the Grachtenfestival, where it will be premiered. In viewing and listening spectacle Small World, we follow a mouse that moves through the big world and experiences increasingly wild adventures. The music, played live... 

New exhibitions Amsterdam Museum 

Since March 2022, the main location of the Amsterdam Museum on Kalverstraat has been closed due to a large-scale renovation of the museum building, the former civilian orphanage. In the new temporary main location of the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel (Amstel 51, Hermitage building), the museum will show a new permanent collection presentation Panorama Amsterdam and three changing exhibitions since March 2021. In... 

NOMINATIONS BNG BANK CIRCUS AWARD 2022

On 10 July 2022, the four nominees for this prize were announced for the BNG Bank Circus Prize 2022. From 32 graduation acts from the two Dutch higher vocational circus schools, the jury selected four that have a chance of winning the €5,000 prize. The nominees are; - Fenja Barteldres (Codarts) with her cyr wheel act 'Cyrrealism' - Harvey Cobb (Codarts) with his object manipulation act 'Something about Pink'... 

Shabnam Baqhiri (born 1996) studies Writing for Performance at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). She wrote the autobiographical text Kankerthee, which she is developing through this summer in residency with Theatre Group Aluin.

Shabnam and Theatre Group Aluin meet as part of her directing internship for the performance I Say Sorry. Aluin considers it important to give young people with an interest in text theatre the opportunity to develop as autonomous creators. Being able to create alongside your writing can be a great added value. This residency gives Shabnam... 

November Music 2022 presents 30th edition with record number of concerts and premieres

 3 to 13 November in 's-Hertogenbosch Never before have so many new works been heard as during the upcoming edition of festival November Music. With no fewer than 50 premieres by makers and performers from home and abroad, 21 composition commissions and more than 100 different concerts, the 30th edition of November Music shows how diverse and vital the latest music is. November Music... 

DOX and the Toneelmakerij present: The Hot Peaches

The Hot Peaches is a new coming-of-age production by DOX and the Toneelmakerij. Director Timothy de Gilde makes the performance in co-creation with eight performers with diverse backgrounds, both private and in artistry. Each brings their own discipline and together they shape a multifaceted performance, sharing their history of finding and shaping their... 

Jonathan Franzen opens ILFU 2022:

American writer Jonathan Franzen will give a Book Talk on the opening day of the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU). Also present live in Utrecht will be Olivia Laing, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Ayelet Gundar Goshen, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Tash Aw. ILFU takes place from 23 September to 8 October. Jonathan Franzen broke through internationally in 2001 with his masterpiece The Corrections, for which... 

Isaac Israels painting to Amsterdam Museum

Chamber of Commerce donates 'Factory Girls on the Prinsengracht' from 1894 The Amsterdam Museum's collection is being expanded with a special donation. The Chamber of Commerce donated the museum the painting 'Fabrieksmeisjes op de Prinsengracht te Amsterdam' (ca. 1894) by the famous Amsterdam impressionist Isaac Israels. Israels' painting hung for many years in the meeting room of the General Administration 

Theatre Kikker is 50 and treating: Theatrical happening with 50 hours of non-stop programme and playgrounds in the city

Theatre Kikker is 50 and that deserves a celebration! For audiences, makers and for everyone from the city who does not yet know Theater Kikker very well. From Saturday 1 to Sunday 9 October 2022, Utrecht will be treated to theatrical explosions, pop-up performances, out-of-the-box work and epic DJs. It will be a week of celebration with a touch of nostalgia, a... 

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Incidents of cross-border behaviour just tip of the iceberg

Grensoverschrijdend gedrag in de cultuur- en mediasector is een hardnekkig en urgent probleem dat niet eenvoudig kan worden opgelost. Het oplopend aantal meldingen van de afgelopen tijd laat alleen het topje van de ijsberg zien. Dat staat in het advies ‘Over de grens, op weg naar een gedeelde cultuur’ dat de Raad voor Cultuur vandaag heeft aangeboden aan staatssecretaris Gunay… 

Filter Translation Prize 2022, the nominations: A wide & utterly surprising choice

Diverse werelddelen, op z’n minst drie wereldtalen en zo’n zeven eeuwen beslaan de onverwachte nominaties voor de Filter Vertaalprijs 2022, die op 28 september uitgereikt zal worden tijdens het Internationaal Literatuurfestival Utrecht (ILFU). Het zijn stuk voor stuk markante en exceptionele prestaties, aldus de jury, die de wereld ook nog eens afzocht naar geuren en vergeten talen. En het hangt… 

Officiële Juryselectie 2022 is bekend!

Van donderdag 1 tot en met zondag 11 september 2022 toont het Nederlands Theater Festival de mooiste producties van het afgelopen theaterseizoen. De Nederlandse Toneeljury, onder leiding van juryvoorzitter Hadassah de Boer, selecteerde de twaalf meest indrukwekkende theaterproducties van het moment. Vandaag maakte de jury haar selectie bekend. Tien van de twaalf producties uit de selectie zijn te zien tijdens de komende editie van het festival… 

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