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

Column: "As soon as they start embracing art in the PVV, right-thinking people should start watching out."

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 December 20108 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

The Hague is quite complicated for those who do not visit it on a daily basis. I was there last Monday, as a spectator at the discussion of the culture and media budget, and it has taken me until now to fully understand what is going on. For that understanding, being there live was essential. After all, to understand a social system like the Lower House, you not only have to listen to what is being said, and see who is speaking, much more important are the 'listening shots': the body language and actions of those who are not speaking.

Concert hall finds wealthy partner for education and development in Deutsche Bank

by one of our members
16 December 201029 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Concertgebouw Amsterdam has found its first 'partner' in the large capital-rich business community. With this, the Dutch world-famous crown jewel fulfils the Rutte Cabinet's desire to get more money 'from the market'. By the way, the capital-rich party found is not from the Netherlands, but from Germany: "With effect from 1 January 2011, Deutsche Bank and Het Concertgebouw NV will enter into a...

Arts budget debated in second chamber: hardly any discussion on 200 million cut to performing arts

by one of our members
14 December 201030 March 2022
14 min read
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We were at a debate day in The Hague that was as inconspicuous as it was historic on 13 December 2010: it was about the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the (first?) Rutte cabinet, and that was the budget in which, at the request of the supporting party PVV, the amount to be cut in the arts budget was set at 200 million, with heritage and museums having to...

Culture Council threatens to pronounce 'unacceptable' on cabinet plans with arts and media

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 December 20108 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

"It cannot be ruled out that previous choices made by the cabinet, such as on the VAT increase and the hefty cut to the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation's Music Centre, together with the announced cuts will do irreparable damage to the cultural sector." Of course, even though Halbe Zijlstra has thankfully banned the term "Leftist Hobby" when it comes to culture, the distinguished gentlemen...

The arts subsidy system is like a house that changes hands a little too often: new cultural policy Rutte cabinet is capital destruction

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 December 201029 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The art subsidy system is like a house that changes hands a little too often. In 2008, after long deliberations, the previous owner fitted a new kitchen, replaced the bathroom, installed a new central heating boiler + underfloor heating and freshly painted the exterior. However, he had to move out prematurely, and now the new owner plans to replace the old kitchen...

VAT increase performing arts possibly postponed, if it is up to VVD's Upper House faction

by one of our members
3 December 20108 July 2016
2 min read
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De VVD fractie in de Eerste Kamer dreigt de door het CDA-VVD-PVV kabinet voorgestelde verhoging van de BTW op kaartjes voor podiumkunsten op de lange baan te schuiven. Dat meldt het Nederlands Dagblad vandaag. Volgens Geassocieerde Pers Dienst-redacteur Laurens Kok blijkt dat uit de woorden van de fractieleider van de VVD in die kamer, Fred de Graaf. We citeren: Waarnemend…

Venues can switch to LED light and save money without artistic consequences

by one of our members
1 December 201029 March 2022
2 min read
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Ze hebben het onderzocht. En het blijkt dus waar. Ook op het podium kun je duurzame lampen gebruiken. En dat bespaart energie. Of we daardoor meteen ook van die idiote wraakbezuiniging van het kabinet afkomen, is nog de vraag. want 200.000.000 euro is best veel spaarlampen. Maar het begin is er. Uit het persbericht van de Vereniging van Podiumtechnologie: Met…

IDFA 2010 - State of the Stars double winner

by Leo Bankersen
26 November 201029 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Leonard Retel Helmrich's Stand of the Stars is a two-time winner of the Amsterdam documentary festival IDFA. At the awards ceremony at the Tuschinski theatre, it was announced that this dynamic and poetic portrait of a poor Indonesian family not only won the VPRO IDFA Award for best feature-length documentary, but was also chosen (by another jury) as the best of the...

IDFA 2010 – De documentaire Utopia in Four Movements als live ervaring

by Leo Bankersen
22 November 201030 March 2022
3 min read
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Het nieuwste op het gebied van de vertoning van documentaires heeft niets te maken met websites of andere nieuwe media. Integendeel, de presentatie van de ‘live documentaire’ Utopia in Four Movements, waar IDFA de Europese première van had, grijpt in feite terug op de oervorm van de cinema, toen films werden vertoond met live muziek en een zogenaamde explicateur. Die…

IDFA 2010 - George Sluizer wants to give Palestinians dignity with Homeland

by Leo Bankersen
20 November 201030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

After the opening film Stand of the Stars, the second major premiere of a Dutch documentary at IDFA was that of Homeland. The screening at the Tuschinski Theatre, by the way, was not just about the Palestinian cause, as it was also, of course, a celebration in honour of 78-year-old director George Sluizer (Spoorloos), perhaps our most internationally oriented filmmaker....

23rd IDFA opens with yellow ribbons and documentary State of the Stars

by Leo Bankersen
18 November 20108 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Als u een dezer dagen iemand een geel lintje zit dragen is dat bedoeld als protest tegen de bezuinigingen op kunst en cultuur. Zoals te verwachten viel trok Ally Derks, directeur van het International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, in haar toespraak bij de opening van de 23e editie van het filmevenement flink van leer tegen de dreigende aanslag op de kunsten.…

Conductor Ono does not stand with his boots in the blubber and so does not go home with a passing grade

by one of our members
14 November 20108 July 2016
5 min read
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Rotterdam - That every disadvantage 'hep' its advantage is often apparent with symphony orchestras. A chief conductor, for instance, is usually in charge of his own orchestra for no more than about 12 weeks a year. He divides the rest of his time among the other orchestras he is also already chief of. For instance, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is now chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic as well as...

Hou oud nieuws plots actueel wordt. “The Spy who loved Abstract Expressionism: vrije kunst als wapen tegen totalitaire vijand” stamt uit 1995.

by one of our members
12 November 201030 March 2022
2 min read
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Vandaag plaatsten wij dit bericht, en we beseften snel dat het nieuws al eerder was uitgebracht. Alleen drong pas een paar minuten later tot ons door dat het oorspronkelijke bericht, waar dit een vrije vertaling van is, al op 22 oktober 1995 op de site van The Independent verscheen. Door een aanpassing van de database en een opmerkzame sitebezoeker, die…

Order of Tax Advisers severely criticises VAT increase for performing arts: 'theatres will be in exceptional position'

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 November 20108 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

The Rutte government is defending the VAT increase on admission tickets to theatres and concerts, claiming that it will straighten out an exemption for the arts. However, this does not appear to be true, according to a response from the Order of Tax Advisers to the proposal. "The Bar Association additionally points out that the explanatory memorandum notes that for the performing arts on...

Anne Sofie von Otter in De Doelen: 'classical' Bach comes off worst, triumph for 'populist' Handel

by one of our members
5 November 201029 March 2022
4 min read
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Onder liefhebbers van de muziek van leeftijdgenoten Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) en George Frederic Handel (1685-1759) is het gekissebis goed vergelijkbaar met dat tussen de aanhangers van Beatles en Rolling Stones. Bach is klassiek, Handel populistisch, Bach schreef verheven muziek, Handel platvloerse , Bach was (zijn Matthäus Passion uitgezonderd) beknopt in zijn muzikale statements, Handel emmerde oeverloos door. En zo…

How much darkness can a theatre-goer handle? Alize Zandwijk tests it with 'Dog days'.

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 November 201030 March 2022
3 min read
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Beppe Costa. Who doesn't know him. And who wouldn't go to a show he plays in without thinking for a minute? After all, the little Italian musical jack-of-all-trades is capable of winning hearts with his music. And with his presence. Well. Director Alize Zandwijk must have thought: we're going to change that image completely this autumn,...

Cinekid Awards 2010 - Everyone loves Foeksia

by Leo Bankersen
30 October 20108 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Johan Nijenhuis' Foeksia de miniheks has become the big audience favourite of Cinekid, the festival for film, television and new media for young people. Friday evening, it was announced at the awards ceremony that Foeksia had won both the general audience award (Z@pp Cinekid Lion) and the audience award for best Dutch children's film. Foeksia the Mini-Witch, based on the book of the same name by Paul van Z...

GDMW: Seven learning moments about literature, Rotterdam, Utrecht and partying

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 October 20108 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

GDMW festival comes from the tube of the only literary magazine still doing a bit in the Netherlands: Passionate Magazine. A bit contrary, youthful but not juvenile and with an open eye to the many cultures in the city where it was founded: Rotterdam. The festival is a happy combo of literary content, happy poets, embarrassing displays and beer,...

Stand van de sterren opent documentairefestival IDFA

by Leo Bankersen
22 October 201030 March 2022
2 min read
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De Nederlandse documentaire Stand van de sterren van Leonard Retel Helmrich opent op 17 november de 23e editite van het International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA), zo werd gisteren bekend gemaakt. De film is tevens opgenomen in de competitie voor beste lange documentaire. Stand van de sterren is het derde deel van een drieluik waarin Retel Helmrich de lotgevallen volgt van…

Engeland bezuinigt 30% op uitgaven voor de kunsten

by one of our members
20 October 201030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Ook in Groot Brittanië worden de kunsten getroffen door bezuinigingen. Bij de begrotingsbehandeling in het Britse Lagerhuis is duidelijk geworden dat die bezuinigingen op kunnen lopen tot meer dan 30%. Het leeuwendeel van de bezuinigingen treft de Arts Council England. Dit ‘Superfonds’ dat het leeuwendeel van de Britse kunstsubsidies verdeelt, moet 29,9% inleveren. Van het budget van bijna 450 miljoen…

Free search for the differences between a lamp at the Rotterdam Schouwburg

by one of our members
18 October 201030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Incandescent bulbs are also out of the question in theatres. Plays, musicals and concerts will soon all have to switch to "sustainable" lighting. And, just as this affects the atmosphere in the living room, it also affects the atmosphere on stage: sustainable light has completely different colour values than old-fashioned light. Lighting designers have been complaining about this for some time. But how...

World-renowned conductor Simon Rattle calls cuts to broadcasting orchestras 'baffling'

by one of our members
13 October 201030 March 2022
2 min read
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Sir Simon Rattle is quite clear about it: "The entire musical world must be as horrified and puzzled as I am to see such a massive destruction of orchestral and choral institutions in Holland." (The entire musical world must be as horrified and puzzled as I am, at the sight of such massive destruction of orchestral and choral institutions in Holland)....

Art world via Facebook in action against culture cut even before Rutte-Verhagen cabinet installed

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 October 201010 July 2023
2 min read
ACTUAL

It was a pleasantly out-of-control flashmob: according to the police, there were around 3,000 people on The Hague's Malieveld at around noon. Young people, mostly: students from The Hague Art Academy and the Consevatorium. But that is not enough to make the Malieveld feel crowded. From all corners of the country, young art students were...

Netherlands Film Festival - Joy best film, now audience to watch

by Leo Bankersen
1 October 20108 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

The Golden Calf for the best Dutch feature film was awarded on the closing night of the Netherlands Film Festival to Joy, a modest arthouse film that, according to René Mioch, was seen by no more than 2,000 people. Joy was also the front-runner for the nominations, so in that respect the jury's decision was in line with expectations, although it had...

Netherlands Film Festival - Joy leads nominations for Golden Calfs

by Leo Bankersen
29 September 20108 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Joy, directed by Mijke de Jong to a screenplay by Helena van der Meulen, has become the leader in the battle for the Golden Calfs at the Netherlands Film Festival. With seven nominations, all attention has, deservedly, suddenly turned to a small but intensely filmed and acted drama that had hitherto remained somewhat in the shadows. This...

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