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Heart's cry: Get cultural base in order in every municipality

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... 

Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel open to visitors from Wednesday 9 March

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 has fired all 700 human reviewers.

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... 

Culture Council supports action #hArtforUkraine

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... 

‘Het was als een rampenfilm’ Filmjournaliste Lena Rubashevskaya over haar vlucht uit Oekraïne

Lena Rubashevskaya is een bekend filmjournaliste en documentairemaakster uit Oekraine. Ze was aan het werk aan een nieuwe film in Donetsk, toen Russische troepen hun invasie van Oekraine begonnen. Ze moest halsoverkop vluchten. Nu, 8 dagen later, vertelt ze ons haar verhaal vanuit Warschau. Wanneer je luistert naar haar snap je voorgoed dat vluchten voor oorlog en geweld een van… 

Amsterdam Museum suspends opening temporary home in Hermitage

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... 

Culture sector takes action for residents of Ukraine #♥rtforUkraine

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... 

Investeren in verkoopvaardigheden kan kleinbedrijf uit slop trekken

Macro-economisch gaat het Nederland voor de wind. De recent gepubliceerde cijfers van het CBS laten een economische groei zien van 4,8 procent in 2021. Heel anders is de situatie van het Kleinbedrijf, dat hard wordt getroffen door een sterke terugval van de bedrijfsresultaten. Hierdoor is het aantal te verwachten sluitingen verdubbeld van 2,6 procent naar 5,9 procent. Dat blijkt uit… 

The Utrechtichting is coming! Corona-time theatre graduates present themselves.

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… 

Amsterdam Museum presents revamped museum brand

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... 

Always a new failure. Why internationally lauded writer László Krasznahorkai experiences all his work as a failure

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... 

'We really thought it would only take three weeks' - Young actors on graduating at Corona time

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... 

More Dutch thriller authors in top 10 suspense

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… 

'The Traveller': René Groothof and Leny Breederveld sublimely show how the world can turn into a prison.

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... 

Everyday objects hijack Square Theatre all spring break

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… 

Visually strong documentary on Colombia at Concordia 

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… 

Stefan de Walle plays in 'Poison': 'We hope people will now appreciate extra what they had to miss all this time, just like us actors.'

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,... 

Jetse Batelaan and Bambie otherwise do quite well together in youth theatre

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... 

For future municipal councils: take a look at how Drachten found its strengths

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... 

Matzer brings SMART - an unguarded moment that changes everything

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… 

Asko|Schönberg brings Inhabit_inhibit: Crushing sound experience

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,... 

Unesco: wereldwijd in 2020 al 10 miljoen banen verloren voor culturele sector

Vandaag is een nogal omvangrijk (331 pagina’s) rapport verschenen van de UNESCO, de VN-organisatie die zich bezighoudt met cultuur, ontwikkeling en onderwijs. De organisatie evalueert daarin de mate waarin de doelen zijn gehaald die in 2005 zijn gesteld bij de conventie voor de bescherming en promotie van culturele diversiteit. Het beeld is niet rooskleurig. Vooral vanwege Corona is het banenverlies… 

TASK FORCE WANTS TO OPEN IN TWO STEPS: 15 FEBRUARY AND 8 MARCH MAKE OR BREAK THE CORONA POLICY OF CABINET RUTTE IV 

While in most countries in Europe, cultural life is already well underway, Dutch audiences still have to wait for full-fledged programming of concerts, film and theatre performances, festivals and night culture. Great is the desire, gone is the mental stretch. The new cabinet presented a glimpse of its new strategy. But the most important thing of all is missing: a... 

Kabinet versterkt aanpak seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag en seksueel geweld met regeringscommissaris

Op voordracht van het kabinet wordt Mariëtte Hamer regeringscommissaris seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag en seksueel geweld. Verschillende incidenten in de afgelopen jaren leggen een breder vraagstuk bloot waarop actie vereist is. Met de nieuwe regeringscommissaris wil het kabinet meer doen aan bewustwording en een veilige cultuur, want intimidatie en misbruik horen niet thuis in Nederland. Daarbij moet onder andere de cultuur… 

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