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

Name

First name

First name

Surname

Surname

E-mail (not compulsory)

Confirm E-mail (not mandatory)

If you are human, leave this field blank.

BECOME A MEMBER

Omdat er om cultuurnieuws geen muren moeten staan. Dus krijg je de verhalen cadeau, omdat we leden hebben die dat mogelijk maken. Wil je meedoen aan die missie? Dat zou mooi zijn! Je steunt ons het beste door lid te worden!

Of course, when it comes to institutional racism, discrimination and exclusion, these are not feelings, as you claimed this week, but facts, Mr Rutte.

by Siela Ardjosemito-Jethoe
8 June 20208 June 2020
4 min read
ACTUAL, BECOME A MEMBER

Dear Prime Minister Rutte, Dear Mark, We have met before. For you one meeting out of many, so you probably won't remember. For we have nothing in common, not in terms of political colour or skin colour, not in terms of our socio-economic class, not in terms of our nest, not our gender, height and possibly other distinguishing characteristics: much NOT...

That's why concert halls need to reopen as soon as possible. By any means necessary.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 June 202019 August 2020
3 min read
Holland Festival, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

What an incredible bucket of guts Lucie Horsch has. Twenty years old. Quite world-famous by now, admittedly. But you just have to dare, in your acceptance speech for the prestigious Dutch Music Prize, to throw the minister's just-expressed words back in her face. Because that is what Lucie Horsch did, with a controlled fury that made a deep impression even from 25 metres away. The...

Why should the cultural sector level out when the problem is caused by external funders?

by Annelies van der Horst
28 May 202030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, BECOME A MEMBER

Het artikel van Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen over de hoge beloning voor sommige directeuren in de kunstsector (Vergeet KLM en Booking: ook in de gesubsidieerde kunsten zijn de directeuren grootverdiener.), en de toelichting daarop van Wijbrand Schaap in de nieuwsbrief van het Cultureel Persbureau missen context. Waarom vind ik dat? Salarissen binnen culturele instellingen volgen CAO’s/loonrichtlijnen die in de branches zijn…

Forget KLM and Booking: even in the subsidised arts, directors are big earners.

by Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen
24 May 202020 September 2020
7 min read
ACTUAL, BECOME A MEMBER

Just like in the world outside culture (call it capitalism), in the cultural sector itself you also see a huge payment gap between creators and 'the plush'. Only you can't talk about that taboo without being seen as a traitor.

'Artists have a special sensitivity to what is possible and what awaits in the future.' Rainer Hofmann prepares for SPRING's future in solitude.

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 May 202029 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, Utrecht, BECOME A MEMBER

'I have only met one person for more than 3 minutes in five weeks. I live alone, I see people at the groceries, I take walks and bike rides, but apart from that I don't see anyone live.' Rainer Hofmann, artistic director of Spring, is experiencing a very different spring than intended, thanks to Corona. This month, the major Utrecht festival of innovative art was supposed to...

'For museums, a reservoir of deferred rent and taxes awaits' Paul Baltus of Amersfoort in C is working hard on a plan B.

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 May 202029 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING, The City Spring, HERITAGE, PODCAST, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

'At some point, you get it again. then you just have to start paying again. Unless there will somehow be remission, but that is not the case for now.' For Paul Baltus, director of museum dome Amersfoort in C, a big challenge awaits if the intelligent lockdown will slowly be lifted. How can...

'Bring all the venues in Amersfoort together in one management group.' Bernard van Gellekom has an unorthodox vision of cultural survival at the time of Corona.

by Wijbrand Schaap
1 May 202030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, The City Spring, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

'If you can put only a quarter, or even less, in a hall that normally holds 600 people, then the tickets do become very expensive, because your costs don't change. Then my popular heart starts beating again: should we really want something so elitist?' Bernard van Gellekom is an important figure in the Amersfoort pop scene. In his home...

Reintroducing an old support measure would provide a new incentive for creatives.

by Erik Akkermans
22 April 202030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, BECOME A MEMBER

Het Kabinet trekt driehonderd miljoen euro extra uit om de schade van de coronacrisis in de culturele en creatieve sector te dempen. Dat is een belangrijke stap in de goede richting en zal een aantal instellingen ook echt over de brug helpen. Het kabinet geeft daarmee bovendien een signaal af: dat cultuur er toe doet. Bovendien onderkennen Rutte en zijn…

This Was The News is more enjoyable without an audience than Sunday with Lubach

by Peter Olsthoorn
21 April 2020
4 min read
MEDIA, TELEVISION, BECOME A MEMBER

We must continue to get through the already theatre-less weekends this spring and summer without Sunday with Lubach and This Was The News. Their season is over. The latter remained witty without an audience, Lubach in my opinion did not. How did that happen? Five weeks ago, when the shows first recorded it without an audience, it was noticeable that Sunday with...

Cultuurperscoronapodcast (19): Willemijn Mooij moest de Mattheus Passie annuleren: ‘Leidinggeven op afstand valt me zwaar.’

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 April 202027 July 2020
3 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, Utrecht, BECOME A MEMBER

‘Afgelopen (Stille, red.) zaterdag waagden we het weer eens om bij vrienden te gaan eten, mijn man en ik. We waren het zat om het alleen maar over Corona te hebben. Toen hebben we afgesproken om een muziekavond te houden. We werken allemaal in de klassieke muziek, maar spraken af om juist géén klassieke muziek te luisteren. Het werd een…

'A lot of people are waiting for the moment when they can sing together again. Make sure that by the time Corona is over, they still have that opportunity.'

by Pieter Hendriks
10 April 202029 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

Maybe I am not looking closely but I miss in the various media, as I did years ago during the demolition policy, the role of amateur music practice on which many a musician depends. At the moment, the focus is partly on venues and theatres asking their visitors to accept vouchers or donate their tickets. Fine...

Ministers, enable 'cultural ANBIs' to lend a helping hand to performing artists!

by one of our members
7 April 202030 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

Earlier this week, Minister Van Engelshoven appealed to the public to start donating en masse "to your favourite (cultural) institution". She also hinted at her willingness to explore within the cabinet the extent to which donations to cultural institutions can be made extra attractive as an income tax deduction at this very moment. Meanwhile, however, within...

Departing Lightfoot and Léon and Stacz Wilhelm, it's hard to be nice to each other in the dance world

Departing Lightfoot and Léon and Stacz Wilhelm, being nice to each other in the dance world remains difficult

by Ruben Brugman
3 April 202029 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

'The world around us is changing, after this period we will speak about a period BC and AC'. Words from a wise dance maker from the Hofstad, referring to the period before and after the Coronavirus. However, you can also relate it to the news from the Hague dance world. What is the news? Sol Léon and Paul Lightfoot decided that...

Troost uit een voorbije tijd. Een korte film over het Goudse multi-media project ‘Waarom gaat het goed in je leven’?

by Jaap Mees
27 March 202030 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, DOCUMENTARY, HERITAGE, FILM, Photography, PERSONAL, BECOME A MEMBER

In 2016 initieerde fotograaf en beeldend kunstenaar Jaap van den Berg een bijzonder project in Gouda. In het historische centrum op de Markt stelde hij diverse mensen van allerlei rangen en standen de vraag: Waarom gaat het goed in je leven? Mensen die op die vraag ingingen zette Van den Berg daarna op de foto. Er werden 140 portretten gekozen…

LKCA: First estimate: corona damage cultural associations already at least 12 million

by one of our members
26 March 202030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FAITS DIVERS, BECOME A MEMBER

The damage caused by the corona crisis for cultural associations, such as music societies and choirs, is already expected to be at least 12 million euros. This is according to an initial inventory conducted last week by KNMO, Koornetwerk Nederland, Raad van 12 and LKCA. In the cultural sector, the consequences are currently being mapped sector-wide and added to the...

Dutch artists call for massive support for free theatre producers.

by one of our members
25 March 202030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

In a fire letter to Minister van Engelshoven, more than a thousand actors and directors ask to financially support the free theatre producers in the Corona crisis. Together, the free theatre producers provide 60% of the supply in Dutch theatres and theatres every year. They do so with their own investments and without subsidies. Through the measures taken in the fight against Corona

Podcast in times of Corona (9): Cinedans goes online, but for the festival feel we have to wait until next year.

by Helen Westerik
25 March 202030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, FILM, INTERNET, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

We spoke to Andreas Hannes about the cancellation of Cinedans 2020. As a programmer, how do you deal with cancelling a festival you've spent a whole year working on? How do you still retain some of the sense of community that is so important to a festival when you are only online? For now, the festival is not going into the existing...

Cinedans 2020: the digital edition

by Helen Westerik
24 March 202029 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, FILM, BECOME A MEMBER

Cinedans, the festival for dance and film, was supposed to open 25 March and be the hub for dance film, as well as workshops and discussions, until 29 March. Obviously, this cannot continue. The festival will not be postponed but cancelled this year. An alternative that should ease the pain a little for this year is a nice and varied offering of short and...

PLATFORM COMMENCEMENT! LET'S BEGIN

by one of our members
10 March 202030 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

On 2 March, Platform Aanvang! launched the petition Nederland maakt kunst / art makes the Netherlands at the Solidarity evening in ITA. An evening that opened the conversation for a solidarity sector, but most of all sounded the alarm for the planned downsizing of the arts sector. The petition was signed by more than 11,000 people in a week. When we saw the...

That's how you give your city a real vision. (How Manchester became a leader in international arts in just a few years)

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 March 202029 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

I have often resisted thinking of the Netherlands as a business. After all, a country cannot lay off people, or divest unprofitable sectors to make more profit. So anyone who speaks of the BV Nederland has not understood it. There are no competitors that you can fight out of the market while being entrepreneurial on those few square kilometres of polder land,...

Eva's Klage at TivoliVredenburg: Lera Auerbach takes on the smothered female voice

by Thea Derks
25 February 202030 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

Russian Lera Auerbach (1973) does not shy away from big challenges. And that is an understatement. Most recently, she made a big impression with her cycle Goetia 72: in umbra lucis. She composed this setting of the names of 72 demons for the Netherlands Chamber Choir and the string quartet Quatuor Danel. A CD of 72 Angels: in splendore lucis, in which...

Bill T Jones is larger than life. Why Holland Festival 2020 will be a lot more topical than previous editions.

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 February 202030 March 2022
3 min read
Holland Festival, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

There are people who have a voice with which you can quiet a crowd in a whisper. Bill T Jones, choreographer and this year's associate artist of the Holland Festival, is one such person. Apart from that beautiful, heavy and full voice, he also has a presence with which he can quiet the cogs with a single hand movement. But all that would be nothing if...

Frida, poignant images of a tormented soul. Or vice versa.

Full-length classical ballet Frida once again creates the Annabelle effect

by Ruben Brugman
10 February 202030 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

How many female choreographers do you know who create a full-length ballet for a top classical ballet company? - I thought. Before going to Frida, I get word that a Latin American young woman has been hospitalised. Loss of a lot of blood, and unborn child. The happy-go-lucky girl I know weakly raises a thumb from the hospital bed on WhatsApp....

Opinion deputies Culture: 'For Culture, set the navigation a bit more often on Eastern Netherlands!'

by one of our members
28 January 202030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PERSONAL, BECOME A MEMBER

The new year often starts with new insights and resolutions. A critical reflection can then help. We were therefore delighted to read the Volkskrant of 2 January, in which columnist and theatre critic Merlijn Kerkhof concludes that in 2020, he wants to enjoy all that the Netherlands has to offer in terms of culture a bit more often outside 020. And that is only right,...

The new defence: don't talk but bring! (How a dinner argument leads to genius insights)

by Karin Bannink
17 January 202017 January 2020
6 min read
ACTUAL, PERSONAL, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

I am sitting at the dinner table at my parents' house. We are celebrating my mother's birthday with the whole family. I am there, but I am not quite there. In fact, I am so incredibly tired at the moment. As I jokingly tell my friends, "I can't say boo or boo anymore and am running on my gums". Suddenly, the conversation turns to...

" Previous
1
...
3
4
5
6
7
8
Next "

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