Rutgers today won its lawsuit against Civitas Christiana. The judge called a halt to disinformation, lies and online hatred with this verdict. According to the judge, Civitas went too far with its allegations about Rutgers, its teaching materials and Spring Fling Week. The judge vindicated Rutgers on all counts: the black book is banned and Civitas must...
Prize for dissertation on live experience and media at cultural events Esther Hammelburg is the winner of the sixth Boekman Dissertation Prize for Art, Culture and Policy. The prize was awarded during the research conference Culture as a problem solver?, organised by the Boekman Foundation and Erasmus University Rotterdam in Theater Zuidplein. Jury chairman Prof Susanne Janssen presented the prize in the presence of representatives of...
The cultural and creative sector shows further recovery in audience reach, but faces continued financial pressure . Reflected in Culture Monitor 2024: In the latest edition of the Culture Monitor, the Boekman Foundation analyses key developments such as recovery in audience reach, financial pressures and changes in funding streams. This edition contains updated figures for 2023 (and where possible 2024) and is...
Today is a day of joy and relief. A burden increase of over €900 million on our sector is permanently off the table. Raising the VAT rate would not only make culture, art and reading more inaccessible; it would also hit the earning capacity of thousands of creators. This result really did not happen by itself. Over the past year, an awful lot of hard work has gone into the...
In Belgium, unpaid work without a contract is prohibited and there is a social safety net for artists. This approach provides more security and prevents market distortion. The Netherlands could learn from this to better protect self-employed workers.
The Council for Culture endorses the need for radical changes to the public broadcasting system and is positive about the course proposed by the government. However, the council does give a number of points of attention for further elaboration, such as how the NTR's statutory tasks can be safeguarded in a careful manner. This is stated in a letter to minister Eppo Bruins....
Substantial interventions are needed to enable fair payment in the Dutch film and audiovisual sector. This is according to the report Additional costs in the film and audiovisual sector by PPMC Economic Advice, commissioned by Kunsten '92. The costs of realising Fair Pay amount to an average of 42% of total remuneration and 23% of...
Investing in cultural incubators contributes to the regional business climate for residents and companies. That is what the president of the Council for Culture Kristel Baele said last weekend at the opening of the new breeding ground 'Nesse' in the municipality of Terneuzen. In her speech, she broke a lance to continue investing in easily accessible cultural facilities in every city, village and region....
"Let us together continue to build a cultural and creative sector that continues to connect and innovate". With this call, chair Kristel Baele opens the online annual report 2024 of the Council for Culture, published today. In her foreword, she reflects on the challenges faced by institutions, artists, creators and audiences in the past year. For instance, she mentions the...
Dat de Nederlandse podiumkunsten, zeker in verhouding tot ons omringende landen, in een gespreid bedje liggen, mag misschien een flauwe woordspeling lijken, maar het is toch waar. Gisteren presenteerden we een best alarmerend rekenvoorbeeld over de gevolgen van de nadruk op spreiding bij de beoordeling van subsidieaanvragen door het Fonds Podiumkunsten. Vandaag blijkt uit een vervolgreactie van datzelfde fonds dat…
On Thursday 3 April, in collaboration with the Dutch Unesco Commission and representatives from the scene, the Boekman Foundation will present the spring issue of Boekman magazine, which this time is entirely dedicated to 'the culture'. This artistic movement and dynamic lifestyle is rooted in hip-hop and is at the centre of the cultural life of millions of people worldwide. The diversity of...
Er was de laatste maanden nogal wat gedoe over subsidies, vooral voor de podiumkunsten. Een paar geliefde middengroepen met een mooie staat van dienst kregen geen subsidie meer, ten gunste van nieuwkomers. De redenen voor de verschuiving waren legio. De woede erover ging vooral over de nadruk op Diversiteit en Inclusie en regionale spreiding in de beoordeling door Fonds Podiumkunsten…
Amsterdam, 26 March 2025 - With the publication in the Staatscourant of 20 March 2025, the collective labour agreement for theatre and dance 2025-2026 has been declared generally binding (AVV). This means that all professional Dutch producers producing theatre and/or dance performances must apply this collective labour agreement for their staff.Collective bargaining parties Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) and Kunstenbond applied for the AVV to regulate the terms of employment for...
The Culture Council is starting an advisory process on how to make funding for the cultural sector broader and more sustainable. The Financing Advisory Committee has been set up for this purpose. This committee examines how the alignment between public and private funding can be better organised and what barriers governments, financiers and cultural institutions experience in attracting private money. The council presents the advice...
Fonds Podiumkunsten awards a total of €26.8 million in grants to 136 venues for the period 2025-2029. With the podium scheme, the Fund supports the presentation of professional performing arts offerings across the country. The production grant enables 51 stages to (co)produce and invest in talent development. Stages in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom The stages that from 1...
From 1 March 2025, the Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) and the Verenigde Podiumkunsten Festivals (VPF) will work together in the new Platform Festivals. The Platform Festivals will become part of the NAPK. The cooperation between NAPK and VPF strengthens the representation of interests for both producers and performing arts festivals and provides access to a larger network and more expertise. This strengthens the position of...
In the coming years, the Council for Culture will monitor how subsidised cultural institutions within the Basic Cultural Infrastructure (BIS) implement their plans. We do this with 17 monitoring committees, consisting of over a hundred experts from the cultural field. The insights gained help the council monitor the institutions, interpret trends and developments and contribute to a well-functioning system. The...
Minister Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) wants to prevent a gold medieval ring from being sold abroad. He has started the process to preserve the ring for the Netherlands, following a request to transport it for sale abroad. The minister has decided that in principle, the object should not leave the Netherlands because the ring has irreplaceable historical...
Het is verrukkeluk wanneer grote kranten kleine media klakkeloos overschrijven, en dat ze dat gratis doen? Ach, ze hebben het ook moeilijk. Zo is het kleine niche-weblog Jazzenzo na ruim een jaar gerehabiliteerd dankzij een artikel dat de chef kunst van de Volkskrant vorig jaar had overgenomen van deze site. Waar het om ging? De recensent en columnist van het…
Owners of a U-pas can go to almost all concerts, festivals and other programmes in TivoliVredenburg for 5 euros in the coming months. The Utrecht music venue thus wants to further lower thresholds for culture attendance and make live music accessible to everyone in the city - including Utrechters with a small wallet. TivoliVredenburg's mission statement is: a lifetime of music for everyone. The music venue...
The Netherlands returns 113 'Benin Bronzes' from the National Collection at Nigeria's request. Minister Eppo Bruins (OCW) has decided on this return. In 1897, British soldiers looted these objects from the Kingdom of Benin (in present-day Nigeria) and sold them, eventually ending up in Dutch National Collection. The 'Benin Bronzes' are of great importance to Nigerian society, these objects...
The Culture Council is launching an advisory process on artistic freedom. The reason is signals from the arts sector that safety and artistic freedom are sometimes under pressure. To this end, the council has set up an advisory committee. This committee examines the background to the issue and comes up with recommendations on how artistic freedom can be better safeguarded in practice. The advisory committee...
Creative freelancers are bursting with talent and passion for their craft, but self-employment can sometimes take a back seat. For this reason, De Creatieve Coalitie, Platform ACCT and Cultuur+Ondernemen are organising CreativeRoadz on 3 April. The first edition will be opened by actress and creator Hanna van Vliet, who is known from the acclaimed series ANNE+, among others. CreativeRoadz is...
Literary translators in the Netherlands and Flanders are in an increasingly vulnerable position in the labour market. Factors such as the dominance of English, rising sales of foreign-language titles and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) are having a significant impact on their already precarious situation. This is according to a qualitative study conducted by the Boekman Foundation on behalf of the...
Dr Elly Jaffé Prize of €40,000 for literary translator French - Dutch The Dr Elly Jaffé Prize 2024 for the best literary translation from French into Dutch has been awarded to Kiki Coumans. She receives the prize for her oeuvre and, in particular, for her translation of Zomer '80 by Marguerite Duras, which was published in 2022 by...
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