Skip to content

one of our members

Members of Culture Press co-own our cooperative for a small monthly or annual fee, and may also contribute content to the site where appropriate. For members with an institutional membership, we offer the possibility of posting their press releases unabridged. Also want to become a member? You can. Please visit this page

Holland Festival chooses KesselsKramer: Pioneering performing arts festival and communications agency work on first campaign

KesselsKramer is the Holland Festival's new communications agency. After an extensive selection process, they decided on this collaboration that does justice to the design history of the Holland Festival. KesselsKramer is developing a new campaign for the Holland Festival 2024, in which they will focus on the artists who make the Holland Festival groundbreaking. Photography for the campaign will be provided by the... 

Read More "Holland Festival chooses KesselsKramer: Pioneering performing arts festival and communications agency work on first campaign
Bernadette Stokvis by Fred Ernst

BERNADETTE STOKVIS LEAVES END OF SUMMER AS BUSINESS DIRECTOR OF MAAS THEATRE AND DANCE

Bernadette Stokvis is leaving after 11 years of service as business director of Maas theatre and dance. Her successor will be recruited soon. Stokvis has been business director at Maas since 2013. Before that, she was initiator, artistic coordinator and later business director of Korzo The Hague. Thanks in part to her leadership, Maas is a BIS company and also the largest theatre and dance company for youth in... 

Read More "BERNADETTE STOKVIS LEAVES END OF SUMMER AS BUSINESS DIRECTOR OF MAAS THEATRE AND DANCE
Forever and ever and ever © Sjoerd Derine

Forever and ever and ever and ever

A festive wedding about death From 9 May to 2 June, NUT (Nieuw Utrechts Toneel) plays its 11th summer performance on location in Utrecht Leidsche Rijn: Forever and ever and ever and ever. Theatre-makers Greg Nottrot and Floor Leene stage their own wedding, assisted by musician Pascal van Hulst and directed by Maurits van den Berg. For... 

Read More "Forever and ever and ever and ever
Fltr: actress Juul Vrijdag, director Madeleine Matzer, author Peer Wittenbols, campaign image (Rene van der Hulst)

War drama 'The Stone in my Mouth' tours the country from 29 April

From 29 April to 18 May, the war drama The Stone in My Mouth - eighty years after the liberation of Brabant - is set in Camp Vught. The true story of the Eindhoven girl Marietje, on which the gripping performance is based, was partly set at this special, historic location. The premiere is Sunday, 5 May. After the playing period in Kamp Vught, the performance will be at various locations along... 

Read More "War drama 'The Stone in my Mouth' tours the country from 29 April
DFF campaign image

Festival season Dutch performing arts 2024 kicks off with Delft Fringe Festival

From 28 May to 9 JuneDelft, Monday 15 April 2024 - From 28 May to 9 June, 28 creators will turn Delft on its cultural head for nine days and you can visit 31 locations throughout the city for cabaret, dance, family theatre, cabaret, music and everything in between. With this, Delft bites the dust of the cultural festival season... 

Read More "Festival season Dutch performing arts 2024 kicks off with Delft Fringe Festival

ZID Theatre presents programme for ExploreZ Festival 2024

A varied programme that takes visitors through groundbreaking performances and different perspectives Amsterdam, 4 April 2024 - Today, ZID Theatre is proud to present the programme for the ninth edition of the ExploreZ Festival. The multidisciplinary and international festival will take place from 7 to 18 May at various locations in Amsterdam. It promises an inspiring mix of local and international talents... 

Read More "ZID Theatre presents programme for ExploreZ Festival 2024
Timeline of the Dutch period in New York

Exhibition on New Amsterdam from an Indigenous perspective 

Amsterdam Museum werkt samen met het Museum of the City of New York en oorspronkelijke bewoners van New York Vierhonderd jaar geleden arriveerden de eerste Nederlandse kolonisten in het gebied dat nu New York is. Hun opdracht vanuit de Nederlandse West-Indische Compagnie (WIC) was om de kolonie Nieuw Nederland te stichten, met de hoofdstad Nieuw Amsterdam, op de zuidpunt van… 

Read More "Exhibition on New Amsterdam from an Indigenous perspective 

2 x Steve Reich and world premiere Tansy Davies: 18 April - Muziekgebouw

De polsslag in het werk van Steve Reich leent zich bij uitstek om de sfeer van een metropool in muziek om te zetten. Straatgeluiden Voor City Life ging Steve Reich de straat op om de geluiden van New York op te nemen. Gesprekken, getoeter en alarminstallaties van auto’s, een heimachine, dichtslaande deuren, maar ook het kloppen van een hart. Gespeeld op samplers… 

Read More "2 x Steve Reich and world premiere Tansy Davies: 18 April - Muziekgebouw

"There is a wealth of new knowledge and insights in our museums"

Musea zijn niet alleen een schatkamer waarin steeds nieuwe kwaliteiten en verhalen kunnen worden gevonden, maar ook een werkplaats waarin museale professionals en het publiek samen nieuwe kennis, inzichten en ervaringen opdoen. Het museale wetenschappelijke onderzoek is van groot belang om de kennis over de collectie te verdiepen en die te onderzoeken vanuit de vragen die de samenleving van vandaag… 

Read More ""There is a wealth of new knowledge and insights in our museums"
The team of De Nijverheid, photographer Eric Kampherbeek

De Nijverheid receives Harm Lambers Building block for Special Art in Utrecht 2024

Utrecht - Last Saturday 30 March, cultural free port De Nijverheid received the Harm Lambers Building Block for Special Art in Utrecht. This honourable challenge trophy was presented by Utrecht dance company De Dansers, which received this biennial award for the first time in 2022. Laudatory words from the jury Josephine van Rheenen of De Dansers was laudatory in the jury report on... 

Read More "De Nijverheid receives Harm Lambers Building block for Special Art in Utrecht 2024
Miranda July (photo: Elizabeth Weinberg)Miranda July (photo: Elizabeth Weinberg)

Filmmaker and writer Miranda July to Utrecht for ILFU

American writer, filmmaker and artist Miranda July (1974) is coming to Utrecht on Saturday 15 June 2024. For the ILFU literature festival, she will give a one-off Book Talk in TivoliVredenburg about her long-awaited new novel All Fours. Miranda July gained worldwide fame with the 2005 feature film Me and you and everyone we know, for which she wrote the screenplay, directed and starred in... 

Read More "Filmmaker and writer Miranda July to Utrecht for ILFU
logo Netherlands Association for Performing Arts

Stages should be a safe place for everyone

Met zorg zien we dat er in onze huizen en op onze podia in toenemende mate sprake is van incidenten die door polarisatie zijn ingegeven. Iedereen, van makers tot medewerkers en publiek, moet veilig zijn binnen onze huizen en op onze podia. Er is daarbij ook in deze door tegenstellingen gekenmerkte tijd geen plek voor acties of intimidaties ingegeven door… 

Read More "Stages should be a safe place for everyone

WINNERS CINEDANS FEST '24

Tijdens een feestelijke ceremonie zijn op de slotavond van Cinedans FEST ’24 (zondagavond 24 maart) in Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam de volgende internationale prijzen uitgereikt voor beste dansfilms 2024: Cinedans JURY AWARDS Beste Korte Dansfilm tot 25’ € 5.000 Until Regisseur & Choreograaf |Tanin Torabi |Iran| 2023|13′ Uit het juryrapport: Until portretteert dans als een vorm van verzet en verlegt de… 

Read More "WINNERS CINEDANS FEST '24

Nieuwe montage- & theaterstudio in Amsterdam

Top of the Bill voor nieuwe generatie makers: ‘Theaterstudio Artist Space’ Op 21 maart heeft ICK Dans Amsterdam de deuren geopend van haar nieuwe, state-of-the-art montagestudio aan het WG-terrein in hartje Amsterdam. Dankzij de nieuwe sponsor ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls) is de studio nu voorzien van hoogwaardige, duurzame LED-verlichting en is daarmee een ideale montagestudio voor nieuwe (dans)makers geworden. Met… 

Read More "Nieuwe montage- & theaterstudio in Amsterdam
publiciteitsbeeld door Pauline Matusiak en Eddy Wenting

Van 3 t/m 7 april presenteren Plein Theater en Cat Smits Company het Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!

Het Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam biedt een podium aan genre-overstijgende vormen van beeldend theater, objecttheater, poppenspel en queer perspectieven. De derde editie van het festival heeft het thema ‘Weapons of the Weak’, waarmee de kracht van kwetsbaarheid als politiek instrument wordt belicht. Hoogtepunt van het festival is de afscheidsvoorstelling van Neville Tranter, een van ’s werelds bekendste poppenspelers, die na… 

Read More "Van 3 t/m 7 april presenteren Plein Theater en Cat Smits Company het Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!
Pete Wu (photo: Kevin Kwee) and Maxim February (photo: Linette Raven).

Maxim February and Pete Wu new editors-in-chief of ILFU.com

Writers Pete Wu and Maxim February will each be guest editor-in-chief of ilfu.com, the online platform of literature festival ILFU, for two months from April. During their chief editorship, they will contribute pieces themselves, highlighting themes and authors they find of interest. The daily literary contributions on the platform are free to all. ILFU Members create the stories with their financial contribution... 

Read More "Maxim February and Pete Wu new editors-in-chief of ILFU.com

Appointment of two new supervisory board members Amsterdam Museum

Robbert Maruanaija and Patricia de Weichs de Wenne have joined the supervisory board of the Amsterdam Museum. Amsterdam City Council's Alderman for Art and Culture Touria Meliani appointed the new members. Robbert Maruanaija (1986, born and living in Amsterdam) started his working life as a professional footballer and then switched to the creative sector. He explains that... 

Read More "Appointment of two new supervisory board members Amsterdam Museum

New learning programme for corporate museum professionals

How do we ensure that the museum sector remains financially healthy and future-proof? In what ways can we transform museums into sustainable and attractive workplaces? And in what ways do we encourage inclusiveness and diversity? These pressing questions are at the heart of the new learning programme Leadership in Culture (LinC) x Museum Association. Challenges LinC x Museum Association was created at the initiative of the Museum Association... 

Read More "New learning programme for corporate museum professionals

Marmoucha Orchestra and Mehdi Nassouli chosen for prestigious Jazzahead! 2024

Marmoucha Orchestra and Mehdi Nassouli present "Sonic Bridges" at Jazzahead 2024: A new era in Jazz and Gnawa exploration With great enthusiasm and pride, we announce that the Marmoucha Orchestra, in collaboration with renowned Gnawa musician Mehdi Nassouli, has been selected to perform at the prestigious Jazzahead! 2024 showcase. As the largest jazz fair in Europe, Jazzahead! offers a unique... 

Read More "Marmoucha Orchestra and Mehdi Nassouli chosen for prestigious Jazzahead! 2024

Georgina Verbaan plays lead role in 24-hour theatrical marathon The Second Woman. One woman, one role, one hundred men.   

From 28 to 29 June, Georgina Verbaan will play the lead role for twenty-four hours at the Holland Festival in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon's play The Second Woman, a unique hallucinatory cinematic theatre experience. During this theatre marathon, live at ITA and simultaneously on screen at Koninklijk Theater Tuschinski, she plays with a hundred different, to her unknown, antagonists every... 

Read More "Georgina Verbaan plays lead role in 24-hour theatrical marathon The Second Woman. One woman, one role, one hundred men.   
Credit Irakli Chelidze, Giorgi Nakashidze

Kordz x Sakamoto: Festive tribute to (film) composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (23 March - Muziekgebouw)

Together with Alexandre Kordzaia, aka Kordz, Asko|Schönberg pays a special tribute to (film) composer and synthesiser pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died a year ago. Sakomoto (1952 - March 2023) became best known for his music for films such as Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, The Last Emperor, The Revenant and most recently the film Monster. He also pioneered synth and electropop with which... 

Read More "Kordz x Sakamoto: Festive tribute to (film) composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (23 March - Muziekgebouw)

Cinedans FEST '24: programme announced

Cinedans bestaat 20 jaar! De jubileumeditie Cinedans FEST ’24 vindt plaats van 20 tot en met 24 maart in Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam én online van 20 tot en 31 maart op Cinedans WEB.Vijf dagen lang staat Eye in het teken van de internationale dansfilm met bijzondere highlights en premières, een special filmprogramma met een postkoloniale thematiek Breaking the Chainsen… 

Read More "Cinedans FEST '24: programme announced
Fltr: Madeleine Matzer, Martine Manten, Agnes Bolwiender

MATZER becomes polyphonic

’s-Hertogenbosch, 6 maart 2024 – Per 1 januari 2025 stopt Madeleine Matzer als artistiek leider en als directeur- bestuurder van MATZER Theaterproducties. Ze richtte het gezelschap in 2007 op en maakte sindsdien tientallen voorstellingen die speelden op uiteenlopende locaties: van Theater Carré tot zorginstellingen. In de afgelopen jaren regisseerde ze niet alleen, ze schreef ook de succesvolle voorstellingen Je kunt… 

Read More "MATZER becomes polyphonic

13th edition Delft Fringe Festival in full swing

Be surprised, entertained, moved and stimulate your brain at the Delft Fringe Festival Delft, Tuesday 5 March 2024 - This year's Delft Fringe Festival will take place from 28 May to 9 June. It is the 13th time the festival has been organised in Delft. From 410 applications, 28 makers have been selected to be seen this summer... 

Read More "13th edition Delft Fringe Festival in full swing

Small Cultural Membership
175€ / 12 Months
Subscribe
For turnover less than 250,000 per year.
Posting press releases yourself
More details in the confirmation email!
Most Popular
Cultural Membership
360€ / Year
Subscribe
For cultural organisations
Posting press releases yourself
Collaboration
In the confirmation e-mail you will find the details for press release forwarding
Private Membership
50€ / Year
Subscribe
For natural persons and self-employed persons.
Exclusive archives
Own mastodon account on our instance
en_GBEnglish (UK)
nl_NLNederlands fr_FRFrançais en_GBEnglish (UK)