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

House amends gift deduction in cultural sector (...) A majority of the House wants to limit 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... 

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

Donner Zet Mes In Websites Rijksoverheid De ministeries beheren gezamenlijk bijna 400 websites, waarvan het merendeel niet aan officiële eisen van toegankelijkheid voldoet. Minister Donner wil eerst een sanering. (..) De gemeenten, waarvan slechts 2 procent volledig aan de webrichtlijnen voldoet, hebben tot eind 2012 om aan het laagste niveau te voldoen en nog twee jaar daarna om volledig te… 

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

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 debated 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... 

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

Foto: De Pers Oppositie: laat kunstkortingen doorrekenen (..) Het gaat om bezuinigingen van het Rijk, de provincies en de gemeenten. Het doel is inzichtelijk te maken hoe groot de totale bezuinigingen samen zijn en wat precies de gevolgen zullen zijn voor aanbod en werkgelegenheid. (..) “Met dit verzoek willen we de politiek van de korte termijnagenda tegengaan. Goed beleid, ook… 

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

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... 

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

New Musical Express Poortvliet (Tholen) Gorkum – Cultuur-sector zit in het nauw (..) De grote bezuinigingsoperatie komt in het voorjaar als onder andere het nieuwe Cultuurbeleid op tafel ligt. (..) Ondertussen wordt er met onder andere culturele instanties verdergaand overleg gevoerd, zoals met stichting Toon en schouwburg de Nieuwe Doelen op 30 januari. “Zij kunnen net als het Gorcums Museum… 

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

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... 

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Concertgebouw juicht over falende aandelenemissie

Het Concertgebouw liet gisteren juichend weten dat de aandelenemissie van september jl een doorslaand succes was. Immers, van de 1000 aandelen van 12.500 € waren er 400 besteld. Bijna 5 miljoen euro van particulieren binnengeharkt. Voorwaar geen geringe prestatie in dit zuinige landje, waarin iedereen klaagt dat mecenaat niets uitricht. De media, waaronder het Amsterdamse Parool, namen het juichbericht even… 

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

(...) 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... 

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Vanaf 2013 ziet het kunstleven in Amsterdam er heel erg anders uit.

Nu dan. 6,5 miljoen gaat er van de gesubsidieerde instellingen af. In Amsterdam. Qua gemeente. Het Rijk deed al iets meer dan 40 miljoen weg, wat 36 instellingen in hoge nood bracht. Nu heeft Amsterdam besloten om in ieder geval 13 instellingen op naam te behouden. Moeten we denken aan Toneelgroep Amsterdam, het IDFA, Holland Festival, Concertgebouw en het Muziekgebouw… 

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Stormloop op festival met Nederlands jeugdtheater op Broadway

In het land waar Jan Klaasen Katrijn alleen met een luchtballonnetje in elkaar mag slaan, omdat een poppenkastknuppelpartij niet goed is voor de tere kinderziel, blijkt onverwacht veel vraag naar Nederlands professioneel jeugdtheater. Kortom, een heus Nederlands jeugdtheaterfestival in New York heeft inmiddels al 2500 kaarten verkocht, en het loopt nog steeds storm. Van zeker twee van de vier producties… 

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

Ernst Veen Het commentaar van Trouw gaat in op de problemen die nu ook in de top van de kunstsector voelbaar beginnen te worden: Cultureel ondernemerschap kan mooie dingen opleveren. Ernst Veen, die in de hoofdstad De Nieuwe Kerk en de Hermitage Amsterdam als nieuwe tentoonstellingsruimten tot grote bloei bracht, is er een succesvol voorbeeld van. Gisteren beklaagde hij zich in… 

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

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... 

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Performing Arts Fund announces plans; institutions must perform with performances

Operatie Fonds Podiumkunsten Sinds het besluit in juni om de BIS te verkleinen, richtten vele ogen zich op het Fonds Podiumkunsten, dat jaarlijks een bedrag van 60 miljoen euro te vergeven heeft. Ook het Fonds heeft echter te maken met een korting: het budget voor de meerjarige regeling wordt met 40% verlaagd van 40 naar 24,5 miljoen euro. De meerjarige regeling… 

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

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... 

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

Elektra – scenefoto: Hans van den Bogaard De vierde reprise van Elektra door De Nederlandse Opera is over de helft. In de laatste voorstellingen nemen twee verse dramatische sopranen het stokje over. Waarom wordt een opera hernomen, zelfs maar liefst vier keer? Bij de slaapverwekkende Don Giovanni in het vorige seizoen van De Nederlandse Opera – ook al een reprise – was… 

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Reply Zijlstra (culture) to question on friction costs confirms chamber did not pay attention in June

It came as a shock that still hasn't quite worked out. Haf September, dozens of arts organisations received a letter from the State Secretary for Culture, informing them that they could start using the subsidy they thought they were getting for projects until 31 December 2012 for redundancy procedures, selling property at a loss and staff lawsuits against... 

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Weekers (finance): 'No reason yet to reverse VAT increase' despite dramatic start to season

The story continues. Op 1 juli werd de BTW-verhoging van kracht, op 8 juli citeerde NRC Halbe Zijlstra dat ‘het  niet de meest voldragen regeling’ van dit kabinet was, woorden die hij later nuanceerde tijdens kamervragen. Eind augustus kwam het Berenschot-rapport naar buiten met schrikbarende cijfers: de BTW-verhoging zou Nederland voornamelijk geld kosten in plaats van opleveren. Binnenhof TV Intussen werkten… 

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Sculpted Ovation for 'ingenious' conductor Iván Fischer

"Programmatic ingenuity goes hand in hand with Fischer's ebullient and finely crafted performances". So when someone says that about you, you have earned a prize. So that is what the jury of formerly the Classical Music Prize thought of Iván Fischer, the Hungarian-born conductor who was therefore awarded the 'Ovation' on Monday 17 October 2011. And so then the 'Ovation'... 

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Saskia Kriekhaus has her director's job back. Now all that remains is a workplace.

She was accused of fraud and therefore suspended in September. However, a judgment has now been handed down in the summary proceedings that Saskia Kriekhaus, director of the Lucent Danstheater and the Anton Philipszaal, both in The Hague, had filed against her dismissal. And so Saskia Kriekhaus won that. So that suddenly everyone in The Hague's arts sector is heartbroken,... 

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The 1 per cent and the concert hall; classical music as a henchman of the rich against 'the 99 per cent'

While anti-capitalists were plotting to occupy Amsterdam's Beursplein this week - if you can at least put the protesters under that heading - in the US, anger over THE 99 PERCENT shifted to the concert hall. The discussion flared up in response to two events. Wall Street was occupied; and the Metropolitan Opera received $182 million in donations in one year, a record amount.... 

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Record amount of donations for New York Metropolitan Opera, but ticket sales down for years

The New York Times reports that the Metropolitan Opera in New York has brought in record donations this fiscal year. The tally stands at $182 million. This is 50 per cent more than the previous year. However, revenue from ticket sales has been declining for a few years. In addition, since general manager Peter Gelb took office, spending patterns have been soaring.... 

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Henk and Ingrid screwed again: Dutch tax advisers burn new Giving Act to the ground

The new Giving Act, the cultural palliative with which the Rutte Cabinet claims to be accommodating the art world, is flawed. We don't say this, because we only know about art, but this is what the Dutch tax consultants say. And they know a lot about your taxes, and little about art. Extremely reliable, in other words. And what virtues... 

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Mayor Hoes provides proof: for the VVD, art is only about sport anymore

Anyone who was still left wondering what the vision of the governing VVD party on art is now out. For that vision is simple. Art is sport. According to the VVD. So said the alderman of Rotterdam, so said the spouse of top wrestler Albert Verlinde, the as mayor of Maastricht ancillary runner Onno Hoes. During the opening of the Dutch Dance Days, he gave... 

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