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Met weliswaar het kleinste aantal vierkante meters van alle podia in TivoliVredenburg, doet de Rabo Open Stage in de centrale hal niet onder voor de rest: sinds 2014 betreden jaarlijks ruim 300 lokale artiesten het podium, bestemd voor aanstormend talent. Na acht jaar intensief gebruik is het podium volledig vernieuwd. Rabo Open Stage biedt de toekomst een podium. Meermaals per…
We can already chalk up Angélique Kidjo as one of the most disarming appearances at the 2022 Holland Festival. The Benin-born singer is this year's associate artist, together with German director Nicolas Stemann. On Wednesday 9 March, she performed as a commanding speaker at the press conference with which the Holland Festival opens its public relations offensive each year. It was a...
Culture brings people together, and this often starts in one's own municipality. Unfortunately, in more and more municipalities, less and less money is available for basic cultural facilities, such as the library, amateur associations and cultural centres. This affects residents' well-being and living together. It also makes a municipality less attractive as a place of business. The Council's heartfelt cry...
This Wednesday, 9 March, the Amsterdam Museum, in full consultation with Hermitage Amsterdam, will open the doors of its new temporary home in the Hermitage building on the Amstel to the public. The festive opening was scheduled for last Saturday but was postponed by the museum. ''We have been renting a wing of the Hermitage Amsterdam since 2014. I am looking forward to being in...
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...
The cultural field is deeply shaken by the war in Ukraine. This weekend, the cultural sector is taking concerted action for Ukraine with #hArtforUkraine. To show solidarity and to express sympathy and support, participating organisations adorn their buildings in blue and yellow and donate proceeds to Giro 555 of the Cooperating Relief Organisations. The Culture Council supports...
Lena Rubashevskaya is a well-known film journalist and documentary filmmaker from Ukraine. She was working on a new film in Donetsk when Russian troops began their invasion of Ukraine. She had to flee headlong. Now, eight days later, she tells us her story from Warsaw. When you listen to her, you understand forever that fleeing war and violence is one of...
The Amsterdam Museum has decided to keep the doors of its new temporary home in the Hermitage building closed until further notice. The opening, scheduled for Saturday 5 March, will not take place because of the war in Ukraine and sentiment about these poignant events across the country and the city. ''The war in Ukraine has had terrible consequences for...
The cultural field, like everyone else, is deeply shocked by developments in Ukraine. We are deeply concerned about the impact of the large-scale hostilities in Ukraine on the people of the country. To show solidarity and to express sympathy and support, the cultural field is organising the #♥rtforUkraine campaign next weekend 4, 5 and 6 March 2022 with...
Macroeconomically, the Netherlands is doing well. Recently published CBS figures show economic growth of 4.8 per cent in 2021. Very different is the situation of small businesses, which have been hit hard by a sharp downturn in business results. As a result, the number of expected closures has doubled from 2.6 per cent to 5.9 per cent. This is evident from...
Tijdens de aankomende Makersdag op 7 maart in Het Huis Utrecht presenteert de Utrechtse Lichting zich, een groep Utrechtse theatermakers die tijdens de pandemie is afgestudeerd. De omstandigheden waarin deze makers hun eerste stappen in het werkveld hebben moeten zetten, waren in coronatijd zwaar. HKU Theater, Theater Kikker en Het Huis Utrecht bieden deze theatermakers daarom gezamenlijk de mogelijkheid om…
De absurde tragedie Donbass van de Oekraïense filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa keert terug in de filmtheaters. De opbrengst komt ten goede aan vluchtelingen uit Oekraïne.
Completing its rebranding, the Amsterdam Museum is introducing a new visual identity and the first version of a new digital platform. Both projects match the 95-plus-year-old city museum's ambitions to develop into a 'museum of the future'. The new brand identity is visible for the first time in a campaign that also marks the move...
Great international recognition notwithstanding, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai himself considers every novel a failure. 'I strain my brain to the limit, but it never becomes the book it should be. So I start again. And again.' Hope for redemption lost Film adaptations of his novels and winning the prestigious Man Booker International...
Susannah Elmecky and Emma Remmelts were in the third year of the Utrecht School of Theatre when Covid struck. Now they have both graduated and started careers on stage. In this podcast, they tell how they experienced the time of lockdowns. Also joining us is Victorine Plante, director of theatre group Aluin, where Susannah Elmecky is now playing a beautiful role in...
In 2021 behaalden 15 verschillende Nederlandse thrillerauteurs de top 10 spanning van de bestsellerlijst. Dat zijn er meer dan in voorafgaande jaren. Een gunstige ontwikkeling voor de Nederlandse thriller. Het marktaandeel van de Nederlandse auteurs op de thrillermarkt (spannende boek minus fantasy en true crime) bedroeg in 2021 21%. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van onderzoeksbureau KVB-SMK/Gfk in opdracht van de…
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. Remember that name. A writer who left us only two books, and whose life history reads like a twentieth-century horror novel. He wrote, in 1939, three years before his death by a torpedo in the Indian Ocean, 'The Man Who Took Trains', under his English pseudonym John Grane. This book, published in 2018 in the original German...
STIP-theaterproducties en Plein Theater presenteren de gehele voorjaarsvakantie de jeugdtheatervoorstelling Micro… de dingen komen in opstand (7+). In deze fantasievolle en humoristische voorstelling worden alledaagse objecten leven in geblazen. Ze krijgen stemmen en gevoelens en gaan in fel protest. In het theater zijn dagelijks tal van extra bonusactiviteiten die kinderen voor en na de voorstelling kunnen beleven. Over de voorstelling…
Maandag 21 februari om 19:30 vertoont Concordia eenmalig de film ‘Colombia in My Arms’, over het Colombia na de vredesovereenkomst tussen de regering en de FARC-guerrilla’s. Overleeft de fragiele vrede het wantrouwen en de rancune opgebouwd door decennia van oorlog? Met verkiezingen in aantocht, hopen sommige politici te profiteren van het nog verder opstoken van de spanningen. Voorafgaand en na…
From this week, try-outs of Poison, about an ex-couple who lost a child, are playing. After the premiere on 19 February in Leiden, as many as 70 performances will follow throughout the country. Actor Stefan de Walle is ready for it. The wonderful play Gif by Lot Vekemans has been performed in 21 shows since its premiere in 2009 at NTGent under Johan Simons,...
We like to play by the rules. That's quite OK if you're driving through a historic city centre in a tractor or truck combination, for instance, but it gets tricky when the rules stop obeying themselves one day. The actors of the rather physical theatre group Bambie, Paul van der Laan, Jochem Stavenuiter and Tessa Jonge Poerink, have worked with...
The House of Representatives elections are less than a year behind us. The start of the new cabinet a month. Local council elections are coming up. And in the meantime: the clash between municipalities and the state, as witnessed, for instance, in January 2022, sharp statements by VNG chairman Jan van Zanen. If nothing changes, freshly elected municipal councillors are going to have a tough time with the...
Een dag als alle andere. Gewoon, onderweg. Naar je werk. Naar huis. Je kent het wel. Je kent de weg, de auto, het is rustig. Geen tegenliggers, vrijwel geen zijwegen… Je ontspant achter je dashboard. Zo’n dag dus, als allerlei andere. Tot dat bericht, dat ogenblik… dat alles verandert. Voor haar en voor hem en vooral: voor altijd. SMART is een…
Belgian composer Stefan Prins rattles the conventions of musical practice with his innovative approach. His brand new inhabit_inhibit is a visionary work, based on the ideas of Timothy Morton, in which man's loss of control over his environment is made audible and tangible in a penetrating way. To do so, Prins uses spatially arranged instruments, electronics and feedback loops. Follow the news,...
A rather voluminous (331 pages) report was published today by UNESCO, the UN organisation that deals with culture, development and education. In it, the organisation evaluates the extent to which the goals set by the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Diversity have been met. The picture is not rosy. Mainly because of Corona, job losses are...
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