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Unaccustomedness was to be expected at this rare summer festival #TFBoulevard

For a year and a half, there was hardly any playing, festival tents remained in mothballs and artists were busy doing living room concerts or attic sessions on Zoom. Now everything is allowed out again and the discharge is just barely there. Unaccustomedness characterises the fresh start of Theatre Festival Boulevard, which has moved to a park south of downtown Bossche for the next few years,... 

PODCAST: Joseph Toonga at Theatre Festival Boulevard: 'My daughters help me bring empathy to Hiphop' (English)

This podcast is recorded in English. For those who do not speak the language, or who do not have time to listen to the full podcast, here are some quotes. 'Originally I didn't have a title. Someone came up with 'Born to' and then I thought it would be nice to put 'manifesto' after it. After all, it is about appearing,... 

'Vanished talent and manpower will break up culture sector as it relaunches in September'

The uncertainty of the events sector and cultural institutions, after 17 months of lockdowns and one-half-meter openings, is not only disastrous for the mood of executives, artists and spectators. According to the Creative Sector Taskforce, much more is being lost. In fact, a 'Marshall Plan' is needed to help the cultural and creative sector get back on its feet,... 

PODCAST - Naomi Velissariou's permanent quest: 'I wonder if I should do interpretation or connection as an artist.'

Naomi Velissariou (1984) zou tijdens het Bossche Festival Boulevard 2021 eigenlijk met meer voorstellingen staan. Dit jaar zou haar hele trilogie ‘Permanent Destruction’ in een setting als clubrave worden uitgevoerd. Woest muziektheater, gebaseerd op toneelauteurs Sarah Kane en Heiner Müller, en afgesloten met het meer ingetogen werk ‘Pain against Fear’. Alle delen zijn lovend ontvangen door publiek en pers, maar… 

Boulevard experiences second Corona edition: 'It's organising a festival in the middle of a natural disaster. Nothing is business as usual'

Theaterfestival Boulevard gaat deze zomer, net als vorig jaar, door. Alles is aangepast aan ‘corona’: veilig op anderhalve meter, geplaceerd, met registratie voor de horeca, maar wel nog gewoon een stuk of honderd voorstellingen. In deze podcast spreek ik met Nina Aalders en Tessa Smeulers, verantwoordelijk voor de programmering van Boulevard. Zij bleven aan het roer, nadat de geliefde en… 

'Minister bans art!' - How dangerous propaganda gets a chance in cucumber time

Up to and including the union, the message was shared: outgoing culture minister Ingrid van Engelshoven had allegedly gone overboard with her diversity policy and now wants to ban non-diverse art from universities. It was big in the Telegraaf and former cabaret artist Hans Teeuwen got a few hundred thousand likes with it on Instagram. Meanwhile, it has also reached the columns of Het Parool thanks to 'artist' 

The NUT delivers splendour with Never Work Again.

On the day that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the world's Facebook, announced his launch to the 'Metaversum', in order to trounce his collegatechies Bezos, Musk and Branson, who had only had a little sniff of the Universe, I attended the performance 'Never work again' by the Nieuw Utrechts Toneel in Utrecht Leidsche Rijn. In these times of lockdown and... 

Nerd podcast #15 with Dick Zijp: 'Humour usually follows power, and is more effective in it than serious expressions.'

Met zijn opiniestuk in de Volkskrant haalde hij zich de gramschap op de nek van geinfabrikanten als Bert Brussen en Hans Teeuwen. In niet mis te verstane persoonlijke aanvallen werd ‘Suck My Dick Zijp’ verweten een ‘genderneutrale rotkop’  te hebben, die aantoonde dat ‘woke’ mensen geen humor hadden. Reden voor de wakkere nerds, Marijn Lems en ik, ook wel de… 

Dear Hans Teeuwen, art has nothing to fear from boring men.

It is a great thing that there are comedians who keep a finger on the pulse of society. Hans Teeuwen, for instance, has once again made himself angry. He has joined the small chorus of (mostly) men who see the end of the world coming because of a rebuttal. That is the rebuttal that now comes via social media 

A dangerously hurt little bird. Writer Caroline De Mulder delved into the world of girl gangs and sugardating

Girl gangs and sugar dating - these are the themes of Bambi likes you raw. Caroline De Mulder (44) wanted to talk about the violence of women rather than against women. 'I could work out the dark, aggressive sides in myself without bashing someone's head in.' Bambi's protagonist, 16-year-old Hilda, or Bambi, as her... 

Leiding geven begint bij jezelf. Leer daar meer over in deze podcast over LinC-Artistiek

In deze podcast praat ik met Marjolein Verhallen en Paul Adriaanse van Bestuurskunde, Nanna Verhoef van Media en Iris van der Tuin van Filosofie, en artistiek leiders Lars Ebert en Jente Hoogeveen over wat dat nou is: leiderschap. En we hebben het over hoe je dat kunt leren. 

Making our own music and singing are essential to our sense of security

Het is niet alleen gezonder, maar ook effectiever als we in onze maatschappelijke instellingen de overgang gaan maken van rigide controle naar leerprocessen en training van de gevoeligheid voor de signalen van het autonome zenuwstelsel, de signalen van veiligheid en gevaar. Het is relevant om dit maatschappelijk in te bedden, bijvoorbeeld in onderwijsinstellingen en verzorgingsinstellingen.

Iedereen gered? Alleen een paar festivals hebben zware schade opgelopen.

De in totaal acht festivals die dankzij een forse politieke lobby een plekje kregen in de Culturele Basisinfrastructuur zijn het haasje. Zij profiteren niet van de de extra miljoenen die op Prinsjesdag door het Kabinet zijn vrijgemaakt voor redding van het Fonds Podiumkunsten, omdat ze daar niet (meer) onder vallen.

Herman Brusselmans: 'In my head I am not a bourgeois dick'

With an average of two novels a year, the Flemish writer has built a huge and unique body of work in over thirty-five years - he turns 63 this week, but the number of books he has written far exceeds that number. Interview with the man who writes faster than his shadow, in ten quiz questions. 'Well, I don't appear to be a connoisseur of my own work, do I?'

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