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FAITS DIVERS

News stories from the big outside world. From our telex. Messages important enough to be briefly discussed here.

'The decision to underpay freelancers is incomprehensible and a blot on the record' - 'Leaders in Culture' call for fair payment of freelancers

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 November 201929 March 2022
2 min read
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'How many more talented creators do we have to lose to other sectors because they cannot reconcile the undervaluation with the quality of their product? People choose eggs for their money in the long run, when children need to be fed or mortgages paid. The sector is hollowing itself out if we don't take better care of our talent.' Thirty leaders in the cultural sector speak out

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'Library has no respect for artists!' Sale of works from Art Loan against sore leg Amersfoort art world.

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 November 201920 November 2019
2 min read
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This weekend, gallery owner Henk Logman discovered to his horror that artworks from the Amersfoort Art Loan were being offered for sale on a Belgian auction site. On his facebook page, he reports: 'The extraordinary thing about the whole thing is that the now still living artists were not informed of this. I would at least have expected that to have happened....

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Opinion researchers: Amersfoort, see artists more as business cards!

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 October 201929 March 2022
2 min read
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Amersfoort is investing in culture again. This is very good news after a period when cuts dominated. So now it becomes extra interesting what the city will do with the extra money. Some research is already under way. Last week, another study was added from an unexpected source. The main outcome: Amersfoort could be a bit prouder...

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We predicted it right: Swans for Conny Janssen Dances and Schuitemaker

by one of our members
5 October 2019
2 min read
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Ruben Brugman predicted it on 22 June. So it was not a total surprise. On Friday 4 October, the VSCD Dance Awards, the Swans, were presented at The Dutch Dance Days Gala of Festival de Nederlandse Dansdagen 2019 at Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht. Conny Janssen, artistic director of Conny Janssen Danst, received the Golden Swan from minister van Engelshoven....

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Striking: Amersfoort subsidises sports event with culture money

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 August 201930 March 2022
1 min read
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Amersfoort has some catching up to do when it comes to culture. Festivals like Spoffin, for instance, have no money to pay real fees for performing artists. So they are there with the name recognition as a reward. The same is not true for tennis players, it turns out. Indeed, Amersfoort's alderman for sports decided to enrich this year's atp tennis tournament with a €50,000 subsidy to, for instance,...

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Gijs Naber takes forced rest and abandons lead role in Lazarus. Dragan Bakema replaces him.

by one of our members
22 August 2019
3 min read
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Dragan Bakema will play the lead role of Newton in David Bowie's Lazarus. Gijs Naber has been forced to hand back the role after coming to the conclusion that he has made too much hay in recent times. Gijs Naber: "In the run-up to the rehearsal period, I came to the conclusion that I have been making too much hay in recent years...

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'Meat sandwich' still most popular at food festivals Festival Atlas sees festivalisation declining

by one of our members
18 June 201930 March 2022
4 min read
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The peak of the festivalisation of the Netherlands seems to be behind us. The number of festivals has declined by over 10% in two years. This is according to research by the Hogeschool van Amsterdam into the festival landscape in the Netherlands. Responsible lecturer Harry van Vliet (Crossmedia): "The decline in the number of music festivals was already visible in 2017, but the decline is the...

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How a small riot in Eindhoven could have major consequences for all subsidies (But for now, it's just a blunder)

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 May 20193 May 2019
5 min read
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Thanks to a tip-off from a reader, we saw that there is fuss about subsidies in Eindhoven. Now that happens quite often, but here something special was going on. Eindhovens Dagblad reported (Blendle link €) that the entire Supervisory Board of Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven had resigned. There was trouble because, writes the ED, the...

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Creativity must have a greater place in the process of film production, argues the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers in the New Deal manifesto

by Leo Bankersen
20 April 201930 March 2022
3 min read
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Dutch cameramen also join the chorus of concern about Dutch cinema. The New Deal manifesto carries suggestions for improvement.

Panic over nothing? Vis à Vis sounds alarm over forced departure from Almere.

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 April 201930 March 2022
3 min read
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Shocking mail, this afternoon. Theatre group Vis à Vis, the company that has been making very fine open-air spectacles on the beach near Almere for many years, would have to leave their just-built accommodation in just under a month. At least, so it seems. Read the text of the emergency message: 'After 10 years of uncertainty, Vis à Vis has been told by the college of...

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After 'Prey', 'The Conductor' also goes to China

by Leo Bankersen
15 April 201929 March 2022
2 min read
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After the Dutch thriller Prooi, The Conductor has also been acquired for release in Chinese cinema.

Is the boom in the art trade really about art? The European Parliament has its doubts.

by one of our members
4 April 201919 August 2019
2 min read
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Tackling tax fraud and money laundering, as we reported earlier, also affects the arts sector. Money can no longer be hidden in shadowy limited companies behind foundations, which in turn hide behind other companies and individuals. Everything has to be transparent from now on. A new measure was added last week, according to Artnet. The European union is going to introduce a...

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Fistfuls of books and plagiarism by ghost writers: when writing becomes an industrial revenue model

by one of our members
29 March 201930 March 2022
2 min read
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The Amazon version of Kobo-plus, Kindle Unlimited, is great for self-publishers. As a writer, you get paid $0.005 per page read. However, this also leads to abuse and scams on a gigantic scale, reports The Guardian in an in-depth piece. For instance, there are 'authors' who offer very thick books through the subscription system, offering readers in it a reward when they read all 3,000...

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