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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...

CALL: Are you an independent entrepreneurial artist in Amsterdam and have you been (or are you) affected by the consequences of the corona crisis? Then the UvA is looking for you!

by one of our members
1 October 202130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

A request came in from the University of Amsterdam. After all, they like to get in touch with independent artists. Only from Amsterdam, admittedly, but still. We share the main part of the request here. Research on self-employed artists in times of crisis The corona crisis has (had) a major impact on self-employed artists. The University of Amsterdam is investigating the impact of the corona crisis on...

Monique Hendriks wins NK Poetry Slam 2021

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 September 202130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, PRESS

Jury and audience unanimous on new Dutch Poetry Slam Champion Monique Hendriks has become Dutch Poetry Slam Champion 2021. After preliminary rounds across the country, eleven poetry slammers faced each other in the final on Friday evening 24 September, during the International Literature Festival Utrecht. Monique Hendriks took on Lucas Kloosterboer in the final battle and captured the national...

Mahat Arab wins ILFU Storytelling Competition 2021: Out of 723 entries, his spoken word recording 'Part-time fathers' was voted best story

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 September 2021
3 min read
ACTUAL, LITERARY, PRESS

Mahat Arab (born 1996) is the winner of the second edition of ILFU's Storytelling Competition. He won with a spoken word recording titled 'Part-time fathers'. During festival day Exploring Stories, he received the grand prize of five thousand euros, from the hands of ILFU's organisation. More than 700 people participated in the ILFU Stories Competition; 723 stories were entered in five categories. Apart from Mahat...

Plein Theatre and The Market Theatre present FOODCHAINZ: A culinary evening and theatre performance about our food chain.

by one of our members
23 September 2021
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, PODIUM ART

FOODCHAINZ is an intermedial project and evening-long programme consisting of a tomato dinner with special guests from the food chain, the exhibition HARVEST FROM THE HOOD, the audio tour From Farmer to Plate and the theatre performance FOODCHAINZ! To be seen on 7, 8, 9, 14 and 15 October at Plein Theater in Amsterdam Oost! Tickets include dinner and bonus programming and are available at...

Olivia Colman, Olga Zuiderhoek and Anna Bonaiuto read Elena Ferrante's Belle van Zuylen lecture - Opening night literary festival ILFU dedicated to women's freedom

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 September 202130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, PRESS

The Belle van Zuylen lecture at this year's ILFU literature festival will be written by Italian success author Elena Ferrante and spoken in three languages by Anna Bonaiuto, Olivia Colman and Olga Zuiderhoek. Ferrante herself never appears in public and has kept her true identity a secret for 30 years. Her lecture is titled "A tangle of written words" and promises to follow on from...

Festival Circolo gets ready for 16-day circus festival in Tilburg

by one of our members
20 September 202130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Circolo, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

Festival Circolo takes place from 22 to 31 October in Tilburg. With the festival centre in the Leijpark and various satellite locations in the city, it will be one big circus party in Tilburg for ten days. Although, ten days... This year, Festival Circolo has secretly added six days. Because Les Choses de Rien's show L'Absolu - in a towering...

Meesterprijs voor thrillerauteur René Appel

by one of our members
17 September 2021
2 min read
LITERARY, PRESS

Thrillerauteur René Appel ontvangt zaterdag 18 september de Meesterprijs uit handen van het bestuur van de Misdaadauteurs van de Auteursbond. Appel is de vierde winnaar van deze prijs voor auteurs die een belangrijke bijdrage hebben geleverd aan de ontwikkeling van het thrillergenre in het Nederlands taalgebied. Appie Baantjer (2003), Saskia Noort (2013) en Tomas Ross (2018) gingen hem voor. Hoge…

Golden coach door opens

by one of our members
15 September 202130 March 2022
2 min read
HERITAGE, PRESS

Especially for Budget Day, the Amsterdam Museum opens the door wide. The door of the Golden Coach, that is! After a restoration of more than five years, the Golden Coach has been in a glass case in the courtyard of the Amsterdam Museum since 18 June. Visitors can view it there in peace and quiet. Until now, the door of the Golden Coach was...

November Music 2021 starts ticket sales and presents the programme.

by one of our members
12 September 202113 September 2021
4 min read
MUSIC, November Music, PRESS, PODIUM ART

November Music 2021 starts ticket sales and presents the programme. The festival cuts across musical genres with 90 concerts in 10 days with 20 commissioned works and 25 premieres. November Music takes place from 5 to 14 November 2021 at various venues in 's-Hertogenbosch, including the Bosch Requiem 2021 composed by Hawar Tawfiq, festival composers Rebecca Saunders and Kaija Saariaho, Brad...

The Golden Coach around Prince's Day. Lectures and evening opening at the Amsterdam Museum

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

22 Sept: Prinsjesdaglezing - Stalmeester Bert Wassenaar Two special lectures will be held on Wednesday 22 September from 14.00 - 14.45 and at 15.00 - 15.45 by the King's Stalmeester Bert Wassenaar especially for Prinsjesdag. On the rituals and symbols surrounding Prinsjesdag. The Golden Coach is a recognisable part of the Prinsjesdag ceremony. H.M. King Willem-Alexander and HM Queen...

Literary festival ILFU adds new festival day on hot topics of our time

by one of our members
7 September 20217 September 2021
4 min read
ACTUAL, LITERARY, PRESS

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lale Gül, Roberto Saviano and Alfred Birney, among others, make their appearance in Utrecht On Saturday 25 September, the first edition of Exploring Stories will take place: a special festival day at ILFU dedicated to the 'hot topics' or topical issues of our time. At Exploring Stories, topics such as climate, inequality, old and new colonialism, feminism and the...

Peter Pannekoek new blood! - Try-out New Year's Eve conference

by one of our members
3 September 202130 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Yes, it is true, also this year's tryout of the New Year's Eve conference at Concordia.

Elena Ferrante gives Belle van Zuylen lecture at ILFU - Italian bestselling author receives Belle van Zuylen ring from Utrecht municipality

by one of our members
31 August 202130 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, LITERARY, Literature House, PRESS

On Thursday 23 September, Italian writer Elena Ferrante will deliver the thirteenth Belle van Zuylen lecture at the ILFU International Literature Festival Utrecht. She will also receive the Belle van Zuylenring, an international honorary award of the ILFU in cooperation with the municipality of Utrecht. Elena Ferrante is the author of, among others, the four-volume bestseller De geniale vriendin (Edizione e/o; Wereldbibliotheek). Unique event...

Winnie Sorgdrager leads committee on transgressive behaviour cultural sector

by one of our members
30 August 2021
1 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

Minister of State and former chairman of the Council for Culture Winnie Sorgdrager is chairing the committee advising on countering cross-border behaviour in the cultural and creative sector. As previously announced, the council is setting up this committee in response to a request for advice from outgoing minister Van Engelshoven (OCW). The advice should provide insight into what is going on at...

To the makers, policymakers and culture lovers of the Netherlands: Statement by Kristel Baele, president of the Council for Culture, at the opening of the cultural season.

by one of our members
27 August 202130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

"This weekend marks the opening of the cultural season, but also brings mixed feelings. More and more people are gradually finding their way back to museums, theatres and concert halls. The sounds and colours there grab us, comfort us and bring us together again. We experience culture now perhaps more beautiful than ever. We look forward to it....

A tribunal to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes: the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC)

by one of our members
24 August 202129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MEDIA, PRESS

The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) is a collaboration between Indian writer, lawyer and activist Radha D'Souza and Dutch artist Jonas Staal, produced by Framer Framed, Amsterdam. The project consists of a large-scale installation in the form of a tribunal prosecuting intergenerational climate crimes. The tribunal's inauguration will take place on 24 September 2021. From 28...

TOBIAS KOKKELMANS NEW DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR NEDERLANDS THEATRE FESTIVAL AND AMSTERDAM FRINGE FESTIVAL

by one of our members
19 August 2021
3 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, SERVICE

Today, the Supervisory Board announced that Tobias Kokkelmans has been appointed as the new director/manager of Stichting de Theaterdagen, organiser of the Nederlands Theater Festival, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, NTFJong and the in-depth platform for professionals NTF-Pro, as of 1 September. In doing so, he succeeds Jeffrey Meulman, who in May this year left the Foundation after sixteen years for the Verkadefabriek....

Pull free short stories by well-known authors from the vending machine- ILFU Storytelling Machine makes summer tour of Utrecht

by one of our members
18 August 202129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, PRESS, SERVICE

This summer, the Netherlands' first Verhalenmachine (Storytelling Machine) will again tour Utrecht hotspots. From the ILFU Verhalenmachine you don't pull out a croquette or a can of soda, but one of hundreds of free short stories. In the coming weeks, the Verhalenmachine will tour busy Utrecht locations, such as the Neude Library, the Uitalage on Steenweg and TivoliVredenburg. This tour is...

'Jett Rebel, we heard you and the money for the cultural sector you are asking for is ready. In Brussels!'

by European Cultural Foundation
9 August 202130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FAITS DIVERS, PRESS

Young artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and other new thinkers are drowning in the effects of the Corona crisis, as a cry for help from Jett Rebel in de Volkskrant again showed. Assignments are falling away and there is little room for new initiatives. A whole generation of creative talents seems to be lost in jobs in the hospitality industry or at the GGD. The European Recovery Fund...

Amsterdam Museum runs conversational campaign for Golden Coach

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

The Amsterdam Museum is running an innovative campaign for the exhibition The Golden Coach in collaboration with various agencies and creatives. Sharing knowledge and starting a national conversation about the controversial carriage is the goal. Head of Communications & Marketing at the Amsterdam Museum Maurice Seleky explains why this was chosen: ''The exhibition The Golden Coach tells...

PROUD ALIENS: A colourful exhibition by Framer Framed's Open Atelier

by one of our members
30 July 2021
4 min read
PRESS

Is it okay to be a proud alien in a world where marginalised people feel alienated? The LGBTQ+ project group at Framer Framed's Open Studio for i-psy participants have created a utopian future where differences and diversity are celebrated and recognised as something beautiful. Proud Aliens is the annual exhibition of the i-psy Arts, Amsterdam, created in collaboration with Framer...

Lower Germanic Limes third new Dutch world heritage site

by one of our members
27 July 202129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

The Netherlands has added three new historical world icons. Placement on the World Heritage List adds them to a selection of areas that are unique in the world. For the Netherlands, the Lower Germanic Limes - the former border of the Roman Empire -, the Colonies of Weldadigheid and the Dutch Waterline have been added to the list. During the meeting of the World Heritage Committee, which...

PRIDE at Plein Theatre with Sappho the Jar Cupboard, a love tragedy between two women!

by one of our members
27 July 202130 March 2022
1 min read
PRESS

Plein Theater and Annie Gerretsen present with Pride Amsterdam 2021 the musical theatre performance: Sappho the Pot Cupboard! Sappho the Pot Cupboard is an unmissable operatic musical narrative. It makes one feign whether it is a podcast or a rock opera after all. A love tragedy between two women that is going to crack, sand and flame! After such a dyke of a story, all you want is more....

Joint committee considers plans national museum of slavery history

by one of our members
20 July 202126 July 2021
2 min read
ACTUAL, FAITS DIVERS, PRESS

A joint committee of the Amsterdam Arts Council and the Council for Culture will examine plans for a national museum of slavery history in Amsterdam in the coming months. Amsterdam's Municipal Executive and outgoing minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) have asked the advisory councils for a joint opinion. The advice, expected this autumn, will, among other things, address...

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