“Laten we samen verder bouwen aan een culturele en creatieve sector die blijft verbinden en vernieuwen”. Met deze oproep opent voorzitter Kristel Baele het online jaarverslag 2024 van de Raad voor Cultuur, dat vandaag is gepubliceerd. In haar voorwoord staat ze stil bij de uitdagingen waar instellingen, kunstenaars, makers en publiek het afgelopen jaar voor stonden. Zo noemt ze de…
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...
Het beeld was een beetje Da Vinci. Aan een lange tafel zaten ze in mooi licht en het ging over weemoed en dreiging. Dit was op 1 februari 2025 in het Amsterdamse Debatcentrum De Balie het toneel van Laatste Avondmaal. Ter kruisiging: een aantal theatergroepen waarmee ik ben groot gegroeid. ‘t Barre Land gebroederlijk naast De Warme Winkel, Orkater naast…
Marlou Stolk will be the new business director of Maas theatre and dance. From 1 April, she will take over from interim business director Winfred Voordendag and form the board of Maas theatre and dance with artistic director René Geerlings and interim artistic director Carole van Ditzhuyzen. Marlou has worked in the cultural sector for 30 years, largely in Rotterdam,...
The Council for Culture has launched an advisory process on supervision in the cultural and creative sector. With its Governance Committee, the council is examining how internal supervision can be improved so that organisations can function sustainably and strengthen their position. The advice is expected to be presented around summer 2025. Why this advice? Supervision in the cultural...
Mels Huige has joined the supervisory board of the Amsterdam Museum. The Amsterdam Municipal Executive Board recently appointed the new member. Last week, the first meeting of the supervisory board took place in which Huige participated. Mels Huige (1978) was educated in Maastricht (Master in Business Economics) and Rotterdam (RSM Erasmus University) and...
In de serie In Perspectief kijkt Erik Akkermans terug en vooruit naar ontwikkelingen in cultuurbeleid en -praktijk. Vandaag: wat is echt nodig voor cultuurspreiding? In de Glazen Stad In een van de grote ruimtes van het veilingcomplex In Naaldwijk repeteerde het Westlands Mannenkoor onder leiding van dirigent Piet Struijk. Het koor, bestaande uit meer dan honderd tuinders, chauffeurs, middenstanders en…
Utrecht, 27 January - Leonie Kuhlmann will start as business director of NUT (Nieuw Utrechts Toneel) from 1 February. Kuhlmann brings with her a wealth of experience both inside and outside the theatre sector. She will apply her skills to NUT's strategic and organisational growth. Leonie Kuhlmann studied Administrative & Organisational Science and Teaching Theatre Making. She worked in recent years as...
The international research facility European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) was launched today as the European Research Infrastructure and will have its headquarters in the Netherlands. On 26 January, on the eve of the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz 80 years ago, the inauguration ceremony took place at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The research infrastructure pools the available public...
On 2 December 2024, Kunstenbond and the Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) reached an agreement in principle on the Collective Labour Agreement for Theatre and Dance for 2025 and 2026 and on the Collective Labour Agreement for Music Ensembles. Both collective agreements will run for two years: 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026. Meanwhile, the constituencies of both social partners have also agreed to the CAO agreements....
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