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Cabinet strengthens approach to sexually transgressive behaviour and sexual violence with government commissioner

by one of our members
8 February 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

On nomination by the cabinet, Mariëtte Hamer will become government commissioner for sexual transgressive behaviour and sexual violence. Several incidents in recent years expose a broader issue on which action is required. With the new government commissioner, the cabinet wants to do more to raise awareness and create a safe culture, because intimidation and abuse do not belong in the Netherlands. In doing so, among other things, the culture should...

Tessa Smeulers and Dana Kibbelaar form new management of Theatre Festival Boulevard

by one of our members
1 February 20221 February 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, Boulevard, PRESS, SPECIALS

The Supervisory Boards of Stichting Theaterfestival Boulevard and Stichting Bosse Nova announced on 1 February that Tessa Smeulers and Dana Kibbelaar will be appointed as director-directors of both foundations. They will succeed Peggy Olislaegers from 1 April, who, as interim director-director, was tasked with finding a new governance model for the festival, appropriate to its mission, environment,...

Additional support for cultural and creative sector, especially for self-employed workers

by one of our members
31 January 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

Since 26 January, the doors of the cultural and creative sector have been open again, but with conditions. There are still strict restrictions on the number of people in a venue and a mandatory closing time at 10pm. That is why, on top of the previous support of €195.1 million for the period from 12 November, the cabinet is drawing an additional €56.5 million...

Amsterdam Museum moves temporarily to Hermitage Amsterdam

by one of our members
25 January 2022
10 min read
ACTUAL, HERITAGE, PRESS

3.5 years of permanent presentation, temporary exhibitions and programming The Amsterdam Museum will move to the Hermitage Amsterdam, where it will be open to the public from Saturday 5 March 2022. The Amsterdam Museum's current location, the former Civic Orphanage at Kalverstraat 92, will close due to a large-scale renovation. From March 2022 until 2025, the Amsterdam Museum will display...

Taskforce: This is the Opening and Recovery Plan the cultural sector needs

by one of our members
19 January 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

Today, the Cultural and Creative Sector Taskforce presents its Opening and Recovery Plan to the cabinet and the House of Representatives. The aim is a predictable and careful corona approach for audiences, creators and cultural organisations. An approach where the policy reflex is no longer 'closing', but 'staying safely open'; an approach with prospects for recovery. In the plan, the Taskforce makes six proposals to...

Plein Theatre is open as a Pop Up Gallery & Store! The Gallery features the Dutch premiere of the 3D video simulation installation Event Horizon by digital sculptor, simulator and animator Jaehun Park.

by one of our members
18 January 2022
4 min read
PRESS, SERVICE

From 16 January, Plein Theater will be open as a Pop Up Gallery & Store, where the Dutch premiere of the 3D video simulation installation Event Horizon by artist Jaehun Park will be on display. Jaehun Park (born 1986, South Korea) is a digital sculptor, simulator and animator. The artist's work and his book Real-time limbo will also be on sale. Besides the...

Cultural and creative sector taskforce: open up the cultural sector!

by one of our members
14 January 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

The Cultural and Creative Sector Taskforce calls on the government to adopt consistent policies across sectors and assumes that: - now that commercial flow-through venues (such as the Bijenkorf) are reopening, cultural flow-through venues such as museums, monuments and presentation institutions can also open their doors. - now that indoor sports are possible again, active arts and culture will also be possible again. This...

Amsterdam Museum displays Golden Carriage in open air despite lockdown

by one of our members
13 January 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, HERITAGE, PRESS

Today, King Willem-Alexander announced that the Golden Coach will not be used for the time being. However, the restored Golden Coach, which will remain in a glass enclosure in the courtyard of the Amsterdam Museum until 28 February after more than five years of restoration, will be on display again. Indeed, the Amsterdam Museum is opening the gates to its courtyards

MESH GIVES LIGHT THANKS TO CHILDREN

by one of our members
13 January 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

The façade of the Maaspodium in Rotterdam will be colourfully lit with children's drawings for the next few weeks. In the idea of "theatre gives colour to life", children could submit colour plates over the past few weeks, which the theatre uses to drag its façade through the dark days and a lockdown. Business leader Bernadette Stokvis: "Children literally keep our stage alive". A lockdown during the...

TASK FORCE: CABINET, OFFER CULTURE SECTOR A CLEAR PERSPECTIVE

by one of our members
12 January 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

The virus may be unpredictable, but how we respond to it need not be. The Cultural and Creative Sector Taskforce calls on the government to quickly come up with a predictable government strategy aimed at different stages of the pandemic. Indicate at which corona signal values restrictive measures for the cultural sector come into effect or can be lifted. Link...

TWO LIVESTREAMS AND PRESS CONFERENCE FOR TODDLERS BY MAAS THEATRE AND DANCE

by one of our members
28 December 202129 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SERVICE

The weekend of Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 January 2022 will be a special theatre weekend despite the lockdown, because then Maas theatre and dance will broadcast live two existing performances as well as a unique Toddler Press Conference. The Great Save Your Ass Show (6+) and Lampje (8-108 yrs) were due to play several times in front of an audience during the Christmas holidays, but will instead play...

Amsterdam Museum: Visitor figures 2021 and outlook 2022

by one of our members
28 December 202129 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, PRESS, SERVICE

Like other museums, 2021 was another difficult year for the Amsterdam Museum. The museum was closed for the first five months of the year due to corona measures and was only allowed limited visitors after that. Nevertheless, the Amsterdam Museum still welcomed 138,000 visitors in 2021. The museum's digital reach grew strongly. A record number of digital visitors were attracted with...

Cultural sector representatives and Culture Minister Van Engelshoven agree to continue paying self-employed workers as much as possible

by one of our members
22 December 202130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Featured, PRESS

Today, outgoing Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands Association for the Performing Arts (NAPK) and the Free Theatre Producers Association (VVTP) agreed to use funds from the support packages to pay self-employed people as fully as possible. This is a prelude to broader agreements on the pass-through of the specific support packages within the entire cultural sector, which the Taskforce...

For a festive family outing in the Christmas holidays, head to Square Theatre with the theatre production Nietsnut! (6+) by theatre group Who Whale!

by one of our members
9 December 202130 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, PRESS

This Christmas holiday, the performance Nietsnut! by Theatre Group Who Whale is playing at Plein Theatre! To be seen from Boxing Day 26 December to 2 January at 13:00 and 16:00. The performance is an ode to nonsense. To a world you only see when everything falls silent and you have time to look very carefully. A world full of fantasy that you...

Words & Music: cut-ups & fuck ups, Berio & Burroughs at Asko|Schönberg

by one of our members
15 November 202130 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SERVICE, THEATER

For the second time, Asko|Schönberg organises Words & Music, a festival full of cut-ups & fuck ups. A rush of sensations: fantastic, grim, absurd, disruptive and with humour. A day of cut-up, cut-up and brand-new performances in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and Tolhuistuin. After the successful first edition in 2020, Asko|Schönberg will once again bring together makers from different disciplines in unique ways,...

Amsterdam Museum organises symposium on the Netherlands' colonial past with partners

by one of our members
15 November 202130 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, HERITAGE, PRESS, SERVICE

On Friday 26 and Saturday 27 November 2021, the Amsterdam Museum is organising an English-language symposium on the Dutch colonial past and the ways in which this history is treated and shapes contemporary practices in cultural and academic institutions. The Amsterdam Museum is organising the symposium together with ASCA, NIOD, Rijksmuseum, The Black Archives, University of Amsterdam, NMVW & Vrije Universiteit and Stadsarchief Amsterdam....

November Music presents Joey Roukens and Bryce Dessner as composers in focus 2022

by one of our members
15 November 202130 March 2022
2 min read
November Music, PRESS, SERVICE, SPECIALS

On Sunday 14 November, November Music closed the 28th edition of the festival with the announcement of the composers in focus for 2022: Joey Roukens and Bryce Dessner. Joey Roukens will be commissioned for the Bosch Requiem 2022 to be performed by Nederlands Kamerkoor and Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Also from guitarist and composer Bryce Dessner - known from The National -...

November Music successfully launched with Bosch Requiem and highlights until 14 November 2021

by one of our members
8 November 202129 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, MUSIC, November Music, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

November Music 2021 kicked off on Friday 5 November with a sold-out Bosch Requiem composed this time by Hawar Tawfiq. The kick-off weekend featured a variety of concerts including FAQ's electronic music nights and Dez Mona's beautiful pop songs with baroque orchestra B.O.X. November Music continues until 14 November. Some 55 more concerts are in the offing on...

Culture Council in advice: Smart approach to recovery and transition of cultural system is now the art

by one of our members
4 November 202129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

It is thanks to support measures that the cultural sector did not go down in the corona crisis. But unfortunately, the pandemic is not over yet. Time, money and space are needed to prevent the cultural sector from collapsing after all. So writes the Council for Culture to outgoing minister Van Engelshoven (OCW). The council points out that many...

Amsterdam Museum nominated for Friends Lottery Museum Prize 2021

by one of our members
3 November 202129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, HERITAGE, PRESS, SERVICE

The Amsterdam Museum has been nominated for the Friends Lottery Museum Prize 2021 and has a chance to win 100,000 euros to realise its museum dream: to collect the city of today together with residents and visitors of Amsterdam. Besides the Amsterdam Museum (Amsterdam), Museum Volkenkunde from Leiden and Kasteel Hoensbroek from Hoensbroek (Limburg) are also nominated. The public can vote until 26 November 2021...

Johannes Vermeer Prize 2021 awarded to visual artist Natasja Kensmil

by one of our members
1 November 202130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, PRESS

Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven of Education, Culture and Science today presented the Johannes Vermeer Prize 2021, the Dutch state prize for the arts, to visual artist Natasja Kensmil. At Het HEM in Zaandam, Minister Van Engelshoven handed over the trophy to Kensmil. Natasja Kensmil was praised by the jury for her work that is healing, edifying and critical at the same time. Minister ...

With Odysseus, Calliope and Awoiska confront us with the consequences of our human actions in the here and now.

by one of our members
1 November 202130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, Photography, MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SERVICE

A stormy journey full of virtuosity and drama marks the new work Odysseus by two Dutch artists: Calliope Tsoupaki (Composer of the Fatherland) and Awoiska van der Molen (visual artist/photographer).Odysseus confronts us with the consequences of our human actions. Odysseus - by Calliope Tsoupaki, premiere. - 10 Nov to 2 Dec What happens when we are in danger of losing control, when an action leads to irreversible...

November Music presents Children's Art Music Route on Sunday, November 7, 2021

by one of our members
1 November 202129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, November Music, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

Thinking up your own music, directing a group of musicians or playing with colourful synthesizers? There is also plenty to do for younger audiences during the November Music 2021 festival! Visit the very first edition of the KinderKunstmuziekRoute in 's-Hertogenbosch on Sunday 7 November 2021 and create your own music! The presentation of "So You Think You can Write a String Quartet?!" is on Wednesday 10 November. Or drop by for the...

Jam-packed opening weekend of Festival Circolo - Audiences' ears and eyes are in short supply during first weekend of Netherlands' biggest circus festival

by one of our members
22 October 202130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, CIRCUS, PRESS, PODIUM ART

After two years of dreaming and planning, today is finally the day: Festival Circolo - the largest circus festival in the Netherlands - is back! From 22 to Sunday 31 October, Tilburg's Leijpark will transform into an oasis full of spectacle, acrobatics and humour. Framed by the beautiful autumnal colours of the park, visitors will be treated to modern circus of international top level....

Hawar Tawfiq composes Bosch Requiem 2021 - To be heard exclusively during November Music 2021 and in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

by one of our members
4 October 202130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, November Music, PRESS

Not a standard death mass, but an ode to life. Iraqi-Dutch composer Hawar Tawfiq has been commissioned by festival November Music and Ammodo Fonds to compose a brand new Bosch Requiem in which he opts for a very personal musical approach. With his Requiem des fleurs et des nuages, Tawfiq joins the ranks of earlier Bosch Requiem composers such as Kate Moore, Calliope Tsoupaki and Seung-Won...

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