It appears that your browser has JavaScript disabled. The SecSign ID login requires your browser to be JavaScript enabled.SecSign Support

Please donate!

We invest in our journalism. We are independent. Thanks to donations from readers like you!

Donate

Choose a payment method

Would you like to share your details with us?

No Yes

Name

First name

Surname

E-mail (not compulsory)

Confirm E-mail (not compulsory)

Indien je een mens bent, laat dit veld leeg:.

BECOME A MEMBER

Because there should be no walls around cultural news. So you get the stories as a gift, because we have members who make that possible. Would you like to join that mission? That would be great! You support us best by becoming a member!

'Sender Boulevard': Intimate and grand. A successful exercise in getting closer.

by one of our members
September 3, 202030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Boulevard, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Under the banner 'Sender Boulevard', the organisers of Theatre Festival Boulevard signed up for six weeks of live encounters in 's-Hertogenbosch. More than 40 different projects delivered an extraordinary variety of performances, performances and installations. Based on the theme 'Nader de ander' (Closer to the other), Boulevard more than ever entered into dialogue with makers and audience, which led to an intense dialogue with results.

Aid schemes authors: counter opened

by one of our members
1 September 20201 September 2020
3 min read
ACTUAL, LITERARY, PRESS, BECOME A MEMBER

Writers and translators hit by the corona crisis can now apply for three support schemes set up especially for them. They can apply for up to €5,000 for a project grant or income support. The first submission deadline closes on 30 September 2020. Membership of the Authors' Association or affiliation to Lira is not compulsory.

Charlotte Köhler Prize 2020 for Manon Uphoff

by one of our members
31 August 202029 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, LITERARY, PRESS, BECOME A MEMBER

This year's Charlotte Köhler Prize, a triennial award for writers of literary works, has been awarded to Manon Uphoff (1962). Uphoff receives the €15,000 prize for her entire oeuvre and in particular for the novel Vallen is als vliegen (2019), which is rooted in reality.

Theme NBE composition competition 2021: STAY UP!

by one of our members
25 August 202029 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

The NBE calls on young composers to write music about something or someone they want to stand up for, or even rebel against. There are hardly any rules, anything goes and anything goes as long as it is self-invented.

Life has turned into a B-Movie, and no better location could be imagined than 'Sender Boulevard'

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 August 202030 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Exterior, day. A deserted street in a southern Dutch town, unusually bright daylight. No sound. A man drives up and parks at a vacant power point. He walks to the entrance of a large, empty, modernist building. He is greeted by a very very old veteran, who tells him that "the wife is in for a moment", "she asked me to go on the...