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Ms Nancy Jouwe is to be appointed as a member of the Culture Council. The Council of Ministers has agreed to this on the proposal of State Secretary Uslu of Culture and Media. The appointment will take effect on 15 February 2023 for a period of four years. Jouwe studied General Literature at Utrecht and York Universities and specialises in Women's Studies and Cultural History. She has...
'Dutch-language music has been unabatedly popular for years in a variety of genres; from pop to hip-hop, competing with English-language music. That's where you see what you can achieve with attention. The same can happen with books.' This quote by author Gustaaf Peek, recorded in a press release from the Authors' Union, is quite inspiring. The press release, in which the advocate of 1,750 Dutch writers...
Stop the declining sales of Dutch-language books, ensure more attention to literature. That is the only way to reverse the trend of the CPNB figures presented on Thursday, thinks the Authors' Union, the interest group for writers and translators with 1,750 members. By 2022, 10% less Dutch-language fiction has been sold. One in five books will now be in a language other than...
With The river is a wound full of fish, Colombian Lorena Salazar Masso makes a powerful literary debut. What does it mean to be a mother, when do you actually BE a mother? Can you be a mother even if you did not give birth to your child yourself? As a mother without a child, are you still a mother? That is the theme of the...
Besides a permanent collection presentation at Amstel 51 and in Huis Willet-Holthuysen and changing exhibitions, the Amsterdam Museum offers a public programme. At various locations and for a diverse audience. The following events are scheduled for October 2022. Visit www.amsterdammuseum.nl for the latest information. ---------------- Female Gaze Tour 12 February 2023 The returning Female Gaze Tour...
The Dutch government distrusts citizens. And that stands in the way of a healthy art sector. This emerged on 17 January during a well-attended symposium at Amsterdam's Veem House. The occasion was the essay published in book form by Renée Steenbergen, who also published articles on this site. At the event, co-organised by Veem and Platform Beeldende Kunst, many makers were...
Eighty-six journalists and media workers were murdered worldwide in 2022 - one every four days, according to UNESCO data, highlighting the serious risks and vulnerabilities journalists continue to face in the course of their work. "After several years of consecutive decreases, the sharp rise in the number of journalists killed in 2022 is alarming. Authorities must step up their efforts...
Nice message from the Theatre and Concert Visit Promotion Foundation: last year, we went out again quite often after the lockdowns, and also gave each other a unique experience as a gift quite often. 138,000 stage visits were gifted. That earned the SPTC a nice 6.6 million. That means the Pokadoka (Podium Gift Card) included an average gift of 48 euros....
The collective labour agreement social fund Omscholing Dansers Nederland (CAO ODN) has been declared universally binding by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment with effect from 1 January 2023. This means that all dance companies based in the Netherlands that employ dancers are obliged to participate in the omscholing scheme. Since 1986, Stichting Omscholing Dansers Nederland (hereinafter: omscholingsregeling) has played an important role in...
Scored a new bullshit bingo card, today. 'Art must no longer tingle, I quit'. Big headline in a quality newspaper, with below it the terrible story of gallery owner Jeanette Dekeukeleires of Gallery Art Kitchen. The 60-year-old says she is quitting her job because nothing more is allowed. (Read the story here) For instance, she received complaints from young people about the famous PSP poster with that naked woman....
This is a pre-publication from the book The Art of Different, which will be available from 17 January 2023 via the author's site The arts sector is vulnerable, as was unmistakably demonstrated during the pandemic years. It is also clear that these are not just temporary setbacks, but problems of a structural nature. These were already in play before Corona but were anticipated...
The Rotterdam Council for Arts and Culture (RRKC) has been disbanded from 1 January 2023. I wrote about this in June this year2, and earlier the editor-in-chief did3. At that time, formal decision-making in Rotterdam had yet to take place. Given the question marks in the city council, it is safe to say that the college finally pushed through the dissolution. The...
Deze site is groot geworden dankzij Twitter en Facebook. We zijn ongeveer ook in dezelfde tijd ontstaan. In 2009 was Twitter net een beetje van de grond aan het komen, en Nederland dacht nog dat Hyves het helemaal zou worden, terwijl België al op Facebook zat. Enfin, tl;dr: de sociale media waren nog leuk. Pas in de jaren daarna werd…
Een verhaal over de liefde, maar vooral een ode aan de verbeeldingskracht. Perfecte dagen van de Spaanse schrijver Jacobo Bergareche is een hartstochtelijke roman. Doodgebloed huwelijk Met de smoes dat het nodig is voor zijn werk bezoekt de Spaanse journalist Luis een congres in Austin, Texas. Maar eigenlijk is het uitstapje vooral een excuus om zijn doodgebloede huwelijk met Paula…
Waar houd je je aan vast als niet alleen de wereld wankelt, maar ook je eigen leven? Waar vind je dan nog een veilige plek, een toekomst? Daarover gaat Tasmanië, het nieuwe boek van Paolo Giordano. Crisis Wat was er eerst: de zorgen om klimaatverandering en andere wereldcrises, of de crisis in zijn eigen leven? De ik-verteller in Tasmanië, een…
Het Amsterdam Museum heeft – ondanks de impact van de coronapandemie en de verhuizing naar een nieuwe tijdelijke hoofdlocatie – een succesvol jaar gehad in 2022. De tentoonstellingen en publieksprogramma’s van het museum trokken op diverse locaties veel bezoekers. De pop-up tentoonstelling van het museum bij het Nationaal Monument op de Dam werd in de periode van half juni tot…
As you know, Culture Press is an important voice in cultural news coverage. We were founded in 2009, at a time when all newspapers and broadcasters were reducing their arts editorships, and many zzp arts journalists were on the street. Publishers no longer wanted to pay for what they called 'low-hanging fruit' (reviews, interviews, announcements). Culture Press jumped into that gap, and in the nearly 14...
Is kunst en cultuur van en voor iedereen? Is het er ook voor jongeren? Wat vinden zij belangrijk aan kunst, cultuur en media? Om antwoord te krijgen op deze vragen richt de Raad voor Cultuur een Jongerenplatform op. De raad is op zoek naar jongeren tussen de 15 en 20 jaar die hun mening willen delen over kunst, cultuur en…
Van 16 t/m 18 december presenteert Cinedans WEB Special: Inevitable Dances. Het programma is online te zien op Cinedans WEB en bestaat uit de documentaire When Arabs Danced van regisseur Jawad Rhalib en vier dans shorts van makers uit Iran, Libanon en Egypte. Het programma wordt gratis aangeboden op https://cinedans.nl/inevitable-dances/ Een donatie wordt gewaardeerd en komt geheel ten goede aan filmmakers in nood. Met…
The Culture Council is expected to issue an advice to state secretary Uslu (OCW) in March 2023 on the application and assessment process for the Cultural Basic Infrastructure for the period 2025-2028 (BIS 25-28). This was requested by the state secretary. To arrive at the advice, the council has, among other things, appointed a temporary committee for the part of its advice request that...
The website where the Dutch umbrella organisation of museums, the Museum Association, keeps track of audience and number of people employed by its members was unreachable today. Perhaps that is because today the leading website Artnet also came out with revealing figures on the arts sector in the US. The report, titled The Burns Halperin Report, includes an overview of the...
Sinds Roberto Saviano zijn boek Gomorra publiceerde en zich de haat van de Italiaanse maffia op de hals haalde, leeft hij ondergedoken. Hoe dat is, laat de graphic novel Ik leef nog messcherp zien en voelen. Roberto Saviano is twaalf als hij van nabij meemaakt dat een man in zijn wijk wordt vermoord door de maffia. Vijftien jaar later publiceert…
1: Het kunstmatige onderscheid tussen profs en amateurs werkt uitbuiting in de hand. In Nederland kunnen 115 schrijvers leven van de verkoop van hun boeken. De rest van de mensen die zich schrijver noemen, doen dat als bijverdienste. In de popmuziek zullen de cijfers niet heel veel anders liggen. Schrijvers met een paar euro verdienste op hun Lira-afrekening zullen niet…
Why is the largest retrospective on Italian designer Gianni Versace yet on show in Groningen? "Why not?" jokes Andreas Blühm, general director of the Groninger Museum. Indeed, it seems like a bizarre choice, but if you look a little closer, you will discover a few commonalities between the museum in the down-to-earth north and the maximalism of Gianni Versace, who on 2...
De eerste 10 jaar leidinggeven zaten erop. Het leek me hoog tijd te worden voor bijscholing: even ademhalen, afstand nemen, nieuwe vaardigheden en kennis opdoen. Maar wat en waar? Specifiek aanbod voor leidinggeven in de kunst was er niet. Er was de optie om naar Banff in Canada te gaan, voor een toen nog unieke cultuurgerichte managementopleiding. Een enkele cultuurmanager…
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