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The Bosch Parade will start on Thursday 20 June: the theatrical and musical art spectacle on the Dommel river. For three days, the public can experience a procession of sixteen floating, paddling and swimming works of art from the banks, right in the middle of the historical centre of 's-Hertogenbosch. The tenth edition is dedicated to our contemporary demons. Fantasy, absurdities and wonder Bosch...
Amsterdam, 7 May 2024 - The cultural landscape is flourishing again after the corona pandemic. Visitor numbers are rising at museums, cinemas, pop stages and theatres. And nine in ten Dutch people visit one or more cultural activities every year. This is according to new analyses by the Boekman Foundation for the Culture Monitor using, among others, CBS' Vrijetijdsomnibus 2022. Still...
Delft, Monday 26 April 2024 - The Supervisory Board of Delft Fringe Festival Foundation has changed in composition with effect from 24 April 2024. Corné Ran has been appointed the new chairman of the supervisory body, of which he was already vice-chairman since 2019. In addition to his appointment, the Supervisory Board has also been strengthened with the arrival of a new supervisor, Pim...
KesselsKramer is the Holland Festival's new communications agency. After an extensive selection process, they decided on this collaboration that does justice to the design history of the Holland Festival. KesselsKramer is developing a new campaign for the Holland Festival 2024, in which they will focus on the artists who make the Holland Festival groundbreaking. Photography for the campaign will be provided by the...
Bernadette Stokvis is leaving after 11 years of service as business director of Maas theatre and dance. Her successor will be recruited soon. Stokvis has been business director at Maas since 2013. Before that, she was initiator, artistic coordinator and later business director of Korzo The Hague. Thanks in part to her leadership, Maas is a BIS company and also the largest theatre and dance company for youth in...
A festive wedding about death From 9 May to 2 June, NUT (Nieuw Utrechts Toneel) plays its 11th summer performance on location in Utrecht Leidsche Rijn: Forever and ever and ever and ever. Theatre-makers Greg Nottrot and Floor Leene stage their own wedding, assisted by musician Pascal van Hulst and directed by Maurits van den Berg. For...
From 29 April to 18 May, the war drama The Stone in My Mouth - eighty years after the liberation of Brabant - is set in Camp Vught. The true story of the Eindhoven girl Marietje, on which the gripping performance is based, was partly set at this special, historic location. The premiere is Sunday, 5 May. After the playing period in Kamp Vught, the performance will be at various locations along...
From 28 May to 9 JuneDelft, Monday 15 April 2024 - From 28 May to 9 June, 28 creators will turn Delft on its cultural head for nine days and you can visit 31 locations throughout the city for cabaret, dance, family theatre, cabaret, music and everything in between. With this, Delft bites the dust of the cultural festival season...
A varied programme that takes visitors through groundbreaking performances and different perspectives Amsterdam, 4 April 2024 - Today, ZID Theatre is proud to present the programme for the ninth edition of the ExploreZ Festival. The multidisciplinary and international festival will take place from 7 to 18 May at various locations in Amsterdam. It promises an inspiring mix of local and international talents...
Amsterdam Museum werkt samen met het Museum of the City of New York en oorspronkelijke bewoners van New York Vierhonderd jaar geleden arriveerden de eerste Nederlandse kolonisten in het gebied dat nu New York is. Hun opdracht vanuit de Nederlandse West-Indische Compagnie (WIC) was om de kolonie Nieuw Nederland te stichten, met de hoofdstad Nieuw Amsterdam, op de zuidpunt van…
Utrecht, February 2024 - In 2024, NUT (Nieuw Utrechts Toneel) will produce a family production (6+), a location production with dinner in Utrecht and (for the first time!) a tour of major venues across the country. Every year, NUT explores the future of a particular theme. In 2023 this was the 'future of money' and in 2024 we dive into the...
De polsslag in het werk van Steve Reich leent zich bij uitstek om de sfeer van een metropool in muziek om te zetten. Straatgeluiden Voor City Life ging Steve Reich de straat op om de geluiden van New York op te nemen. Gesprekken, getoeter en alarminstallaties van auto’s, een heimachine, dichtslaande deuren, maar ook het kloppen van een hart. Gespeeld op samplers…
Musea zijn niet alleen een schatkamer waarin steeds nieuwe kwaliteiten en verhalen kunnen worden gevonden, maar ook een werkplaats waarin museale professionals en het publiek samen nieuwe kennis, inzichten en ervaringen opdoen. Het museale wetenschappelijke onderzoek is van groot belang om de kennis over de collectie te verdiepen en die te onderzoeken vanuit de vragen die de samenleving van vandaag…
Utrecht - Last Saturday 30 March, cultural free port De Nijverheid received the Harm Lambers Building Block for Special Art in Utrecht. This honourable challenge trophy was presented by Utrecht dance company De Dansers, which received this biennial award for the first time in 2022. Laudatory words from the jury Josephine van Rheenen of De Dansers was laudatory in the jury report on...
American writer, filmmaker and artist Miranda July (1974) is coming to Utrecht on Saturday 15 June 2024. For the ILFU literature festival, she will give a one-off Book Talk in TivoliVredenburg about her long-awaited new novel All Fours. Miranda July gained worldwide fame with the 2005 feature film Me and you and everyone we know, for which she wrote the screenplay, directed and starred in...
Met zorg zien we dat er in onze huizen en op onze podia in toenemende mate sprake is van incidenten die door polarisatie zijn ingegeven. Iedereen, van makers tot medewerkers en publiek, moet veilig zijn binnen onze huizen en op onze podia. Er is daarbij ook in deze door tegenstellingen gekenmerkte tijd geen plek voor acties of intimidaties ingegeven door…
Tijdens een feestelijke ceremonie zijn op de slotavond van Cinedans FEST ’24 (zondagavond 24 maart) in Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam de volgende internationale prijzen uitgereikt voor beste dansfilms 2024: Cinedans JURY AWARDS Beste Korte Dansfilm tot 25’ € 5.000 Until Regisseur & Choreograaf |Tanin Torabi |Iran| 2023|13′ Uit het juryrapport: Until portretteert dans als een vorm van verzet en verlegt de…
Top of the Bill voor nieuwe generatie makers: ‘Theaterstudio Artist Space’ Op 21 maart heeft ICK Dans Amsterdam de deuren geopend van haar nieuwe, state-of-the-art montagestudio aan het WG-terrein in hartje Amsterdam. Dankzij de nieuwe sponsor ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls) is de studio nu voorzien van hoogwaardige, duurzame LED-verlichting en is daarmee een ideale montagestudio voor nieuwe (dans)makers geworden. Met…
Het Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam biedt een podium aan genre-overstijgende vormen van beeldend theater, objecttheater, poppenspel en queer perspectieven. De derde editie van het festival heeft het thema ‘Weapons of the Weak’, waarmee de kracht van kwetsbaarheid als politiek instrument wordt belicht. Hoogtepunt van het festival is de afscheidsvoorstelling van Neville Tranter, een van ’s werelds bekendste poppenspelers, die na…
Writers Pete Wu and Maxim February will each be guest editor-in-chief of ilfu.com, the online platform of literature festival ILFU, for two months from April. During their chief editorship, they will contribute pieces themselves, highlighting themes and authors they find of interest. The daily literary contributions on the platform are free to all. ILFU Members create the stories with their financial contribution...
Utrecht - Last year (2023) was a great year for Theatre Kikker. Never before did the Utrecht theatre on the Ganzenmarkt receive as many visitors as in 2023. In a year when many Dutch venues were still searching to find their audience again after the Corona period, this is extra special. Visitor numbers grew by over 21% in 2023 compared to...
Robbert Maruanaija and Patricia de Weichs de Wenne have joined the supervisory board of the Amsterdam Museum. Amsterdam City Council's Alderman for Art and Culture Touria Meliani appointed the new members. Robbert Maruanaija (1986, born and living in Amsterdam) started his working life as a professional footballer and then switched to the creative sector. He explains that...
How do we ensure that the museum sector remains financially healthy and future-proof? In what ways can we transform museums into sustainable and attractive workplaces? And in what ways do we encourage inclusiveness and diversity? These pressing questions are at the heart of the new learning programme Leadership in Culture (LinC) x Museum Association. Challenges LinC x Museum Association was created at the initiative of the Museum Association...
Marmoucha Orchestra and Mehdi Nassouli present "Sonic Bridges" at Jazzahead 2024: A new era in Jazz and Gnawa exploration With great enthusiasm and pride, we announce that the Marmoucha Orchestra, in collaboration with renowned Gnawa musician Mehdi Nassouli, has been selected to perform at the prestigious Jazzahead! 2024 showcase. As the largest jazz fair in Europe, Jazzahead! offers a unique...
From 28 to 29 June, Georgina Verbaan will play the lead role for twenty-four hours at the Holland Festival in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon's play The Second Woman, a unique hallucinatory cinematic theatre experience. During this theatre marathon, live at ITA and simultaneously on screen at Koninklijk Theater Tuschinski, she plays with a hundred different, to her unknown, antagonists every...
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