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Festivals full of theatre, dance and music from the comfort of your own living room

by one of our members
14 December 202318 December 2023
2 min read
Holland Festival, INTERNET, MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART, THEATER

ITA, HOLLAND FESTIVAL AND NDT PRESENT BIBERATING PROGRAMS ONLINE, IN DIGITAL THEATER International Theatre Amsterdam, Holland Festival and Nederlands Dans Theater will present groundbreaking programmes online, in the Digital Theatre, during the Christmas holidays. In order to connect makers, companies and (inter)national visitors, the initiators choose a programme during the Christmas holidays. The ideal period to be together, to feel...

14 June Action Day Screenwriters Everywhere: Dutch screenwriters and directors in solidarity with striking US colleagues

by one of our members
12 June 202325 September 2023
2 min read
ACTUAL, policy, INTERNET, LITERARY, MEDIA, PRESS

On 14 June 2023, the Authors' Association's Screenwriters Network and the Dutch Directors Guild are joining the global day of action Screenwriters Everywhere. In doing so, we support the 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East, who have been on strike since 2 May. Actions are planned in more than 20 countries. Screenwriters in the...

Verdwaalde oloifant wordt vriendelijk onthaald door de kudde

Culture Press now has its own server on Mastodon. Read why here.

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 January 2023
3 min read
ACTUAL, INTERNET, MEDIA, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

This site became big thanks to Twitter and Facebook. We were also created at roughly the same time. In 2009, Twitter was just getting off the ground, and the Netherlands still thought Hyves was going to be the be-all and end-all, while Belgium was already on Facebook. Anyway, tl;dr: social media was still fun. Only in the years that followed did...

IN PERSPECTIVE 6: The meter case and media art

by Erik Akkermans
13 July 202213 July 2022
8 min read
VISUAL, HERITAGE, Featured, FILM, INTERNET, MEDIA

In the series In Perspective, Erik Akkermans looks back and ahead at developments in cultural policy and practice. Today: media art. Aan het Haagse Spui It were tough negotiations. The battle for the meter cupboard symbolised that. The chairman of the Hague Filmhuis, a former alderman, went hard at it. And the board of the World Wide Video Centre & Festival...

ILFU launches new online medium for literature

by one of our members
12 April 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, INTERNET, LITERARY, MEDIA, PRESS

ILFU is launching 12 April an online platform for fiction that responds to current events. According to the initiators, fiction is at least as important for understanding the world as the facts we hear in the news. With contributions from writers, thinkers and poets, the platform aims to counterbalance the BNs, influencers and opinion makers that dominate the media. Writers like...

NBD Biblion has fired all 700 human reviewers.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 March 20221 April 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, Featured, INTERNET, LITERARY

NBD Biblion, the world's largest online library, has announced that it is laying off all its human reviewers. Company spokesman Jonathan D'Angelo said the decision was taken to speed up the review process. "Using our new AI software, we can now review books much faster and more accurately than ever before," D'Angelo said. "So there are really no human...

Pearl Diving with radio maker Stef Visjager - Pearl Radio is the Canon of the Lower Belgium podcast

by Anna Roos van Wijngaarden
19 November 202122 November 2021
6 min read
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We are approaching episode 200 of Pearl Radio, a series of audio material that matters. Face of the cultural podcast is independent radio maker Stefanie Visjager. Delving into listening archives, interviewing creators and carrying the audience along in calm storytelling voice are all part of her remit. Since the birth of the term podcast in a 2004 Guardian article, it has been running wild...

The lesson to be learned from the sale of Primephonic - and what the Culture Council has to do with it

by Erik Akkermans
8 November 202129 March 2022
10 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, HERITAGE, Featured, INTERNET, MEDIA, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The Every (The Everything) is the name of a successful and widely loved company, the world's largest combination of a tech giant and a commercial giant. Dave Eggers describes this in his latest novel "The Every", follow-up to bestseller The Circle. On sale from mid-November 2021 at Amazons and Bol.Coms, but those who wanted it earlier could already...

Daan Roosegaarde falls through. But what about Zara?

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 August 202126 August 2021
3 min read
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There is a bit of a buzz about Daan Roosegaarde. Again, we might say, because Daan Roosegaarde, it turns out, cannot be described as a creator of original work, but as someone with a rather remarkably sensitive antenna for other people's ideas. Which he then presents as his own work. From the article in the Volkskrant on this, one and...

On citation law, De Wereld Draait Door and John de Mol's claim robot (Angry Spirits Podcast with Ewout Jansen)

by Michiel Lieuwma
11 July 202111 July 2021
1 min read
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In 2014, The Cutter published a review of De Wereld Draait Door. What not many people will know is that prior to that moment, there was a weeks-long battle behind the scenes over this publication. De Wereld Draait Door tried with all its might to stop the episode by not giving permission to quote the footage. Initially,...

You only really experience the magic of an actor when you are there live.

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 May 202129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, INTERNET, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Sometime in 2022, if you can again, please go to a theatre where you can see 'Sadness is the thing with feathers'. There you can watch and listen to Jesse Mensah's phenomenal talent - if he hasn't won the Song Contest before then - and experience the magic that sticks to Jacob Derwig. Forget, before then...

Waarom ik nostalgisch wordt bij het zien van Variations van Hans van Manen bij Het Nationale Ballet

Why I get nostalgic seeing Variations by Hans van Manen at the Dutch National Ballet

by Ruben Brugman
28 February 202128 February 2021
4 min read
DANS, INTERNET

If every ballet is about discipline, it is certainly something that applies to Hans van Manen's ballets. Discipline in the music, in the beat, in the simplicity. How ballet creates order in movement, measures space, establishes relationships: you will find it all in the works of Holland's most renowned dance maker. The six parts of the programme Variations...

ITAlive reached 871,000 twitter followers via stream #romantragedies anyway. And special it was.

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 February 202115 February 2021
5 min read
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That Shakespeare is still relevant after four centuries doesn't even require putting him in modern clothes, but of course it helps. The worldwide success of Ivo van Hove and his 'Internationaal Theater Amsterdam' is therefore partly due to his Shakespeare adaptations 'Kings of War' and 'Roman Tragedies'. Marathons, hours of theatre with food in between. Valentine's Day 2021...

No one else is Micha Wertheim's best failure to date

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 February 2021
4 min read
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On social media, and in mainstream media for that matter, it is not helpful to be overly clever. The adage of my father, who was a journalist and taught me not to be afraid to ask stupid questions, has been elevated to a code of honour. You only have to watch 15 minutes of Op1, or WNL on Sunday, and you make...

Who develops the dark kitchens for the theatre?

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 February 20213 February 2021
5 min read
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No making shows for a while as if nothing happened, but developing concepts, experimenting, boldly going where no one in this sector has dared to go so far (sorry, I watch a lot of Star Trek during the lockdown). That strikes me as an excellent use of grant money and could also bring back some momentum in these crappy times.

Eddy Bellegueule live. Still impressive, but also makes you yearn for the real thing.

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 January 202129 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, INTERNET, MEDIA, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Yesterday, I finally saw 'Away with Eddy Bellegueule', the theatre hit of the previous broken and devastated theatre season, and saw that its creators had effortlessly bridged the gap between youth and grown-up theatre. The show is a nineties grunge concert with brilliant actors and intense visual direction by rising star Eline Arbo.

Quizzing and dancing from the comfort of your own living room with The Home Show

by one of our members
17 December 202030 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, INTERNET, PRESS

With The Home Show, we want to provide our visitors with a cool programme no matter where or with whom they are. TivoliVredenburg is a place that connects people. If that's not possible in real life, we do it virtually. A moment like New Year's Eve, especially after a bizarre year like this, is then extra important'.

TivoliVredenburg celebrates Christmas Eve with online midnight mass

by one of our members
16 December 202030 March 2022
2 min read
INTERNET, PRESS

For a while, corona seemed to throw a spanner in the works, but thanks to the flexibility of the makers, speakers and artists as well as the crew, we recorded the Night Mass coronaproof. With extra intimate footage and beautiful atmosphere, for the Night Mass feeling at home on the couch.

When real stars seek relief in lockdown: Star Force makes you happy

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 December 202030 May 2022
2 min read
For members only, FILM, INTERNET, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

These actors sit at their kitchen table and we fly through space with them. Art can be that simple, because we, the viewers, actually make the story.

TivoliVredenburg presents programme on US election night - Historic election live on 3 November

by one of our members
6 October 202029 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, INTERNET, MEDIA, PRESS

On Tuesday 3 November 2020, America goes to the polls. TivoliVredenburg in
Utrecht presents a live programme around these exciting elections. From
the Great Hall to monitor exit polls, enter scientists, journalists and
campaigners take the stage and call in several Americans. The programme will be
'coronaproof' produced.

Marije Vogelzang makes you look at food differently at Maas' Wild Kitchen.

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 September 202023 September 2020
6 min read
INTERNET, PODIUM ART, SPONSORED, THEATER

Marije Vogelzang is food designer: 'It's about getting people to take a different look at things they think they know, that they deal with every day and therefore overlook.'

Milo Rau at opening Theatre Festival: 'Maybe we should deliver a little less and listen a little more'

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 September 20204 September 2020
4 min read
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Things need time and distance to become a story. Good, then, that in his 'State of Theatre,' the traditional opening of the theatre season, Rau did not take the floor himself, but handed it over to people who are now in the midst of the confusing time of austerity, coronasteun and political turmoil. Because the 100 international makers he asked for a book entitled "Why Theatre?" could not come because of the pandemic, six Dutch makers were invited.

'We're done with Zoomen for now'. Holland Festival looks back on 2020 edition with mixed feelings (with sound)

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 June 202030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, INTERNET, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

The three of them are back together in the office for the first time since the lockdown on 13 March. The interview, in which director Emily Ansenk, music programmer Jochem Valkenburg and theatre programmer Annemieke Keurentjes take stock of the first - and hopefully only - online edition of the country's most prestigious performing arts festival, takes place a day after the lockdown. There was no...

HOLLAND FESTIVAL ONLINE PROGRAMME 2.0-2.0

by one of our members
2 June 2020
4 min read
DANS, Holland Festival, INTERNET, MUSIC, OPERA, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

From 11 to 21 June, the Holland Festival will present an online programme as close as possible to the core and essence of the original programme, which was cancelled due to the corona crisis. Together with artists from around the world who were due to perform in the 2020 festival, an alternative online programme has been put together. The festival theme, suggested by...

The Encounter, Complicit / Simon McBurney, foto: Alex Aitchison

Why you should listen to Simon McBurney with headphones on between 15 and 22 May

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 May 202030 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, INTERNET, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

We are fairly bombarded to death with online theatre experiences. Frankly, I avoid them. I always thought theatre was something to be experienced live. Bobbing shoes are terrible, visible consumption when speaking is something I can't stand at the moment and the sound is always mediocre. I want live theatre, and nothing else. Leave TV to the TV makers, they have studied for that. Still...

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