Op 2 december 2024 hebben Kunstenbond en de Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) een principeakkoord bereikt over de Cao Toneel en Dans voor 2025 en 2026 en over de Cao Muziekensembles. Beide cao’s hebben een looptijd van twee jaar: 1 januari 2025 tot en met 31 december 2026. Inmiddels hebben ook de achterbannen van beide sociale partners met de cao-afspraken…
Op 1 april 2025 treedt Josine Gilissen aan als directeur-bestuurder van Theaterfestival Boulevard en Stichting BosseNova in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Samen met Dana Kibbelaar vormt zij de tweehoofdige directie van beide organisaties. Kibbelaar vervult haar rol sinds 2022 en vormde eerder een duo met Tessa Smeulers, die na de editie van 2024 afscheid nam. De Raad van Toezicht van Theaterfestival Boulevard heeft…
VMBO-scholieren in de Flevopolder hebben vertrouwen gekregen van hun docenten. Ze mochten zelf bedenken hoe ze een rondleiding op werelderfgoedlocatie Schokland leuker en leerzamer konden maken. Dus gingen de derdejaars leerlingen aan de slag voor een project dat de tweedejaars iets moest bieden dat leuker was dan het voorgekauwde programma dat zij hadden gevolgd. Ze deden dat via de regels…
Minister Bruins (Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap) heeft in negen[1] cultuurconvenanten afspraken gemaakt met provincies, gemeenten en de cultuurregio’s[2] voor de periode 2025-2028. Voor het eerst zijn alle twaalf provincies hierin vertegenwoordigd. In de convenanten staan afspraken tussen het ministerie en de medeoverheden, vanuit het gedeelde belang van cultuur, over de gezamenlijke verantwoordelijkheid voor de cultuursector en de onderlinge samenwerking op…
Deze fellowship biedt getalenteerde kunstenaars uit alle disciplines de mogelijkheid om 5 maanden onderzoek te doen in een internationale academische omgeving. Een onderzoeksvoorstel indienen kan van:15 januari t/m 17 maart 2025 12:00 uur.Meer informatie De fellowship Wat wordt aangeboden? Het doel van dit fellowship is om een diepgaande theoretische studie te doen naar een artistiek project, en om dit vervolgens uit te…
The Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) and the Authors' Union have agreed on adjustments to the Model Contract for writing a theatre text. The director of the NAPK and board members of the Auteursbond have just signed the new contract. The new version of the agreement incorporates recent developments in the regulations regarding the author's contract law, which the...
Toen de Rotterdamse Schouwburg het programma bekendmaakte voor het jaar (2001) dat de stad Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa zou zijn, organiseerde directeur Jan Zoet dat in de Amsterdamse Stadsschouwburg. In de voortdurende 010-020 strijd best een statement. Zoet wist dat de landelijke pers zetelde in de hoofdstad en zelden bereid was buiten de stadsgrenzen te kijken. Hij wist ook dat…
The public version of the advisory 'Access to culture; towards a new system in 2029' has won a gold International Creative Media Award. This award, in the "Visual Storytelling, Alternative Storytelling" category, recognises the creative and accessible presentation of the opinion, which focuses on the ideas of arts and culture for all. The award is presented by the International Editorial-Design &...
In a survey on aggression and harassment towards authors by Ipsos I&O commissioned by WritersSafe, 14% of authors said they had experienced one or more incidents in the past year. Half of these have even experienced multiple incidents. The majority faced verbal aggression (12%). Authors face by far the most verbal...
"LKCA only partially meets the first condition: providing insight into the activities to be undertaken for the 2025-2028 grant period. The requested planning and budget are missing. The addendum gives a picture of which activities will be divested, but only partly clarifies how these activities will be secured elsewhere and how the acquired knowledge will be safeguarded." The...
The meeting room in the attic of the building on Brouwersgracht began to fill. Prior to the meeting, Director Geert Dales of the Fonds Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst (BKVB) retreated with the chairman of the Fund Council. He wanted clarity on the role of that Fund Council by now. Where did the representatives of...
The VAT increase on culture and sports is off the table (VAT increase on culture, media and sports off the table: coalition struck deal with opposition). However happy everyone is, and however holy the cabinet's promise sounds: that message is only half true. During the parliamentary debate on the Schoof?Wilders tax plan, the rather intransigent and laconic minister Heinen...
Today (9:00 - 10:00), representatives of a broad alliance of organisations from culture, sports, events, media, books and accommodation will hand out an embarrassing receipt to members of parliament. These confrontational financial figures show what every Dutch person will soon pay extra if the VAT increase goes through. "This bill will soon literally hang over the head of every Dutchman," the alliance warns. The...
OCW Minister Eppo Bruins hopes citizens will buy more books, read more newspapers and go to the theatre more often thanks to the extra spending power hidden in the tax plans of the Schoof?Wilders Cabinet. This would offset the negative effects of the intensely 'ugly' VAT increase on vulnerable culture. During the Legislative Consultation OCW budget, Culture section, held on Monday,...
"Strengthening earning capacity is a necessary condition to improve the labour market position of workers in the sector. Martin Verboom is happy to share what came out of the evaluation of the Cultural and Creative Sector Labour Market Agenda in this area. Platform ACCT is forging a coalition with partners in the sector to take up the priorities for the coming years." This was why...
After a morning debate in the Lower House, Cabinet Schoof's tactics are clear. At least, when it comes to the controversial plan to selectively increase VAT on culture. In response to all questions from the House about why, Finance Minister Eelco Heinen replied that it should not be about details, but a "total package". Therefore, he wants...
On Thursday 7 November, a spin-off campaign from the cultural sector will be launched: Don't Tax My Audience. In this campaign, we ask creators, artists, performers, and everyone working in the cultural and creative sector to tell us why they do not want to burden their audiences with 21% VAT. In a promo video, Huub Stapel, Sanne Wallis de Vries, Jeangu Macrooy and Gijs Scholten van Aschat call on everyone to...
This morning, the Boekman Foundation announced the shortlist for the Boekman Dissertation Prize. After a careful procedure, three dissertation writers have now been selected from the longlist of nine dissertations that have a chance of winning the prestigious prize that will be awarded for the sixth time. The winner will be announced in April 2025 during the Culture as Problem Solver conference, in cooperation with theErasmus University Rotterdam...
Supreme court rules: renovation to start The Council of State has given the City of Amsterdam the green light on appeal to renovate the main location of the Amsterdam Museum on Kalverstraat. The Amsterdam Museum will have more and much better space for collection and public, become more sustainable and fully accessible. The renovation, which is due to this ruling by the Council of...
I remember it well, it was during a meeting of the magazine industry, sometime in 2012 or 2013. A grave mood hung in the Amsterdam debate centre De Balie, because the circulation and turnover figures of the major magazine publishers (plural at the time) had just been announced. The downward trend that had started years back had nothing to do with the crisis, but...
Amsterdam, 8 October 2024 - The "Don't let the curtain fall" campaign has successfully collected more than 30,500 expressions of support from loyal audiences. The initiative was launched by 59 members of the NAPK (Dutch Association for Performing Arts), which are in danger of closing down due to the lack of multi-year subsidies. Campaign results The signatures were presented on 8 October to the culture spokespersons of...
It was with a certain scepticism, I must confess, that I began Winny Sorgdrager's book "Oxygen of Society. Why Culture is a Government Issue".1 I won't elaborate; let's just say that a book about Dutch cultural policy has been published before. More than once, in fact, and in those books...
This year's Netherlands Film Festival conference for industry professionals emphasises collaboration, transparency and trust. With contributions ranging from a presentation of the Ketentafel Film en AV to a plea for more creative friction.
It was a remarkable report, this morning. According to newspaper Tubantia, the new cabinet was still willing to make extra money available for regional museums in Twente. It would be a sum of 1.5 million euros, earmarked to set up a joint presentation of Twente's history by De Museumfabriek in Enschede and Techniekmuseum Oyfo in Hengelo. According to...
Winfred Voordendag neemt per 1 november 2024 het zakelijk directeurschap ad interim over van vertrekkend directeur Bernadette Stokvis. Winfred werkt al 25 jaar als zakelijk leider of directeur in de kunstensector en kijkt er naar uit om aan de slag te gaan bij Maas. Cobi van Beek, voorzitter van de Raad van Toezicht van Maas theater en dans, over de…
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