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ACTUAL

All about politics, policy, society and how those things relate to culture and art.

Bright spots: Toneelschuur kind of saved, less discount at schouwburg Hoorn, but Bollenstreekse Bieb gets more expensive.

by one of our members
17 November 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Haarlem - Money new policy: national cuts softened (...) [theatre, film and production house] Toneelschuur Productions will lose its national subsidy from 2013. This threatens the disappearance of this unique production house. (...) Haarlem is economically heavily dependent on culture. The cuts will therefore not only lead to the impoverishment of our cultural climate, but also to fewer jobs and a blow to the creative economy in...

IDFA 2011 kicks off with Danish documentary stunt work: The Ambassador

by Leo Bankersen
16 November 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The crisis rages on and the Arab world is in flux, but in the documentary world, the time for big stories is over. At least that was the conclusion drawn by festival director Ally Derks at a press conference ahead of the 24th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (16-27 November). Unlike a decade ago, documentary filmmakers now focus...

Bare-bones news: Give Act turned from monstrosity into monster, Brabant short 30% on performing arts, North Beveland no longer buys art.

by one of our members
16 November 201129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

House amends gift deduction in cultural sector (...) A majority of the House wants to limit the Cabinet plans for tax deductions in the cultural sector. At the same time, it should become more fiscally attractive to make donations to sports and music associations. VVD, CDA and PVV submitted amendment proposals to this effect to the Giving Act of state secretary Frans Weekers (Finance) on Tuesday. (...) The PVV felt that far too...

Arts Council 020 reacts to Culture alderman's austerity plan: 'Don't cut!'

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 November 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

You can throw your ass to the curb, as an art sector, but you can also do something else, while staring with your big rabbit eyes into the headlights of an oncoming balderdash monster. And what is that other thing, the Amsterdam Arts Council wondered? Cuddling to death, was the answer. When Amsterdam's alderman of culture unfolded her plan for the...

Discount news: cut in government websites and action for Metropole orchestra

by one of our members
15 November 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Donner Puts Knife In Websites Central Government The ministries collectively run nearly 400 websites, most of which do not meet official accessibility requirements. Minister Donner wants a clean-up first. (...) The municipalities, of which only 2 per cent fully comply with the web guidelines, have until the end of 2012 to comply with the lowest level and another two years after that to fully...

We are going Liveblogging again! Monday, November 21, to be exact.

by one of our members
14 November 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

On Monday 21 November, the chamber has one more chance to stop the desertification of Dutch culture. After all, the disproportionate attack on the budgets for music schools, orchestras, theatre groups and drawing lessons will be discussed by the chamber then. It all happens in the Groen van Prinstererzaal in the House of Representatives building, and it is of course broadcast on the...

News summary: Children have nothing to do with free museums and opposition has effects of austerity calculated

by one of our members
14 November 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Opposition: have arts cuts calculated (...) These are cuts by the state, provinces and municipalities. The aim is to clarify how big the total cuts together are and what exactly the effects will be on supply and employment. (...) "With this request, we want to counter the politics of the short-term agenda. Good policy, including austerity policy, takes into account...

Halbe Zijlstra wanted to know what quality was, and got back 22 pages of vagueness.

by one of our members
12 November 201130 March 2022
5 min read
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Quality. It is such a nice civil service-political magic word. Sounds good and nobody can be against it. So shout as a politician that you want more quality and all heads start nodding busily. State Secretary for Cultural Affairs Zijlstra also likes quality. Says he. For instance, when it comes to cultural education. In his memorandum More than quality, he says he wants to make work of the...

"Culture is not a top priority for this college," the Schouwen-Duiveland Labour Party believes.

by one of our members
12 November 201130 March 2022
4 min read
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Gorkum - Culture sector is in dire straits (...) The major austerity exercise will come in spring when the new Culture Policy, among others, is on the table. (...) In the meantime, further consultations are being held with cultural bodies, among others, such as the Toon Foundation and the Nieuwe Doelen theatre on 30 January. "They, like the Gorcums Museum, can come up with innovative, cost-saving plans....

Region review: chain letters in Rotterdam, only 1 year right to renewal in Zierikzee, and Eindhoven not happy with Chamber Choir

by one of our members
10 November 201130 March 2022
5 min read
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Groningen municipality cuts back on Gezinsbode The municipality is going to cut back 150,000 euros on publishing city notices in the Groninger Gezinsbode. The City Council wants to publish decisions and permits electronically from now on, for example on the municipality's website. (...) The number of pages in the Gezinsbode will be halved. (...) source: OogTV 10 Nov 11 Most councillors expect subsidies to be cut...

Concert hall cheers over failed share issue

by one of our members
10 November 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Concertgebouw announced jubilantly yesterday that last September's share issue was a resounding success. After all, out of 1,000 €12,500 shares, 400 had been ordered. Almost €5 million from private individuals raked in. Truly no mean feat in this thrifty little country, where everyone complains that patronage does nothing. The media, including Amsterdam's Parool, briefly took the jubilant news as...

Distress call for theatre school Roosendaal at last minute, arts venue Veenendaal scrapped Discount news from all regions

by one of our members
9 November 20118 July 2016
9 min read
ACTUAL

(...) The Youth Theatre School Roosendaal received a project subsidy of 36,779 euros from the municipality in 2010 and 2011. The school also fulfils a regional function. Forty per cent of its 330 pupils come from the surrounding villages. The proposal is to end the subsidy from 1 January. It was only this week that this apparently dawned on Hofplein's management. Which immediately started a...

As of 2013, the art scene in Amsterdam looks very different.

by one of our members
9 November 20118 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

Now then. 6.5 million goes off subsidised institutions. In Amsterdam. Qua municipality. The state was already doing away with just over 40 million, leaving 36 institutions in dire straits. Now Amsterdam has decided to keep at least 13 named institutions. Should we think of Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the IDFA, Holland Festival, Concertgebouw and the Muziekgebouw...

Rush to festival featuring Dutch youth theatre on Broadway

by one of our members
7 November 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

In the country where Jan Klaasen is only allowed to beat up Katrijn with a hot-air balloon, because a puppet show clubbing is not good for delicate children's souls, Dutch professional youth theatre turns out to be unexpectedly in demand. In short, a genuine Dutch youth theatre festival in New York has already sold 2,500 tickets, and it is still going strong. Of at least two of the four productions...

Trouw: Ernst Veen fears big deficits New Church, Holland Symfonia in kicking seat

by one of our members
6 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Trouw's commentary addresses the problems that are now beginning to be felt even at the top of the arts sector: Cultural entrepreneurship can produce great things. Ernst Veen, who brought De Nieuwe Kerk and Hermitage Amsterdam to great fruition as new exhibition spaces in the capital, is a successful example. Yesterday, he complained in Trouw that...

Orchestra members fired without waiting pay? A new collective agreement could cause that

by one of our members
4 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

On Thursday 27 October, FNV KIEM, the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaarsbond (Ntb) and NAPK sector orchestras discussed the terms of employment of musicians employed by the Randstedelijke and Regionale Orkesten that fall under the collective labour agreement Dutch Orchestras. Out of a total of 11 Dutch orchestras, nine are covered by this collective agreement. The orchestras of the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep and the...

Even if they quit, Halbe Zijlstra is cracking down on culture clubs

by Henri Drost
4 November 201130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

Letters from Culture Secretary Zijlstra are dangerous, especially when they are about figures and schemes. And we haven't seen the latest one for now. So right now, it is about 'friction costs' for the cultural sector. These are the costs that subsidised institutions have to incur when their existence ends due to the subsidy freeze. Think redundancy payments, damages, flower arrangements for funerals of suicides and selling real estate at a loss.

Performing Arts Fund announces plans; institutions must perform with performances

by one of our members
2 November 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Since the decision in June to reduce the BIS, many eyes have focused on the Performing Arts Fund, which has an annual budget of €60 million to give away. However, the Fund is also facing a cut: the budget for the multiannual scheme will be reduced by 40% from 40 to 24.5 million euros. The multiannual scheme is meant for...

"22 fascinating, deeply engaging pages on human failure, for which we can only be very grateful.

by Madeleine Red
29 October 201130 March 2022
4 min read
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''Look mum! You have that book too!'' Harry Mulisch's granddaughter points to a book on the reading table named after her grandfather at the Café Américain in Amsterdam. Mulisch's entire oeuvre is displayed on the table at which he loved to sit. In the café that was dear to him. Anna Mulisch smiles. She and her sister Frieda, the...

Libraries hope for more digitisation as well as more readers of collection, after TNO study

by Madeleine Red
27 October 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

The joint public libraries in the Netherlands have asked TNO to research the size and costs of digital collections between 2012 and 2016. State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra is consulting with provinces and municipalities on amending library legislation. That law will also determine how much purchasing digital collection (e-books and music) costs. To...

Arts colleges to cooperate more and get "partly or wholly" the same budget

by one of our members
26 October 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

On 5 July, the HBO Council came out with a sector plan for art education. Following the report of the Dijkgraaf committee and the Brinkman committee, it was concluded that the autonomous fine arts courses will reduce the intake of first-year students by 25%, the conservatoires with direction of classical and jazz by 10%, and the rest by 20%. This is to be achieved in a period...

Sports sponsor pays top price, culture sponsor sits front row for a pittance and expects no less

by Henri Drost
25 October 201130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

The smallest opera company in the Netherlands beats the biggest. Not in visitor numbers, not in subsidy received, but in bringing in sponsorship money. On closer inspection, however, it becomes painfully clear once again that there is no giving culture in the Netherlands and sponsorship is limited to a pittance. A rattling giving law will not change that.

Elektra: only five singers worldwide who can handle this part. Linda Watson sings scathingly Nietzschean.

by one of our members
24 October 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Netherlands Opera's fourth revival of Elektra is over halfway through. In the final performances, two fresh dramatic sopranos take over. Why does an opera get revived, even as many as four times? With the sleep-inducing Don Giovanni in the previous season of De Nederlandse Opera - also a revival - this might have been a logical question. The decision turned out to be...

"Battle of the Orchestras" kicks off with name change Orchestra of the East Netherlands Symphony Orchestra

by Henri Drost
19 October 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

The Netherlands has a new orchestra: the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. At least, new in name. The Orkest van het Oosten does not seem to be waiting for possible forced mergers, and is already claiming its position as the national orchestra outside the Randstad by means of this striking name change that was announced today before the start of a concert with the Jussen brothers.

Read More ""Battle of the Orchestras" kicks off with name change Orchestra of the East Netherlands Symphony Orchestra

Reply Zijlstra (culture) to question on friction costs confirms chamber did not pay attention in June

by one of our members
19 October 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

It came as a shock that still hasn't quite worked out. Haf September, dozens of arts organisations received a letter from the State Secretary for Culture, informing them that they could start using the subsidy they thought they were getting for projects until 31 December 2012 for redundancy procedures, selling property at a loss and staff lawsuits against...

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