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'Everyone is happy to be part of something so beautiful.' Stut Choir and Irish performers sing together for the first time. #vvu

by one of our members
28 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Radiant faces and swinging bodies filled the rehearsal room of the Utrecht-based Stut Choir in Overvecht. For the first time, the members collaborated with Irish singer Lorna McLaughlin of The Henry Girls and conductors Neil Burns and Anna Nolan of the Inishowen Gospel Choir. On 21 June, the two choirs will join the three Henry Girls sisters on stage at the Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.

Wishful thinking in press and politics? "Cultural subsidy saves Iceland's economy"

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 March 201329 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Het is al even hardnekkig als het bericht dat in Duitsland alles beter is. Geplaagde liefhebbers van cultuur die het opbreken van de status quo door het haatbeleid van Rutte I nog steeds (en terecht) verafschuwen, roepen dat vaak.

Culture Council with two new women on business tour.

by one of our members
26 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Annick Schramme

Jessica Mahn

Two new members of the Council for Culture once again show how thinking about art is changing: Jessica Mahn and Annick Schramme are women, which was necessary in this white male stronghold, but they are especially

16th Holland Animation Film Festival opens with Monty Python and abstract animation in 3D

by Leo Bankersen
20 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

That almost all major US family films and many action films are in 3D is by now self-evident. But contrary to predictions

Vredenburg Friday in 'Red Box' for one more season

by Thea Derks
19 March 201330 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

When Muziekcentrum Vredenburg closed its doors in 2007 for an ambitious renovation, symphonic concerts were moved from the centre of Utrecht to the emergency location Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn on the A2 motorway. The broadcasting series 'Vredenburg Friday'

How to choose from the profusion offered by the Tefaf

by Madeleine Red
18 March 201330 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Suppose you have a small capital in your pocket. And you go to the Tefaf for a day. It's a festive feeling: an art gift for yourself. But once inside, there's a good chance you'll be shocked. Because how to choose from 30,000 objects? In those 265 stands from renowned galleries from 20 countries: Argentina, United States, Canada, Italy, Japan? And which corner will you look in? Antiquities? Or modern, antiquarian, design? Will you go for a sculpture, a canvas, jewellery, chair or a book?

Help! England is also going to cry out for culture

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Cry for Culture with which the Dutch cultural world launched its opposition to the scrapping of art subsidies in 2010 was, in retrospect, a publicity disaster. Perhaps not yet as unfortunate as

The best woman in the best place: Ellen Walraven director Rotterdam Schouwburg

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

This was a possibility not many people initially thought of. After all, after her tropical years as director of the Amsterdam debating centre De Balie, Ellen Walraven was in need of some more substantive work and peace and quiet on her mind, So we suspected that she would stay on in

Film project makes lives of ISK students visible: 'That's my grandmother, that's my heart'

by one of our members
14 March 201329 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Treaty of Utrecht Munira wrote a letter in Somali. Before she

Mini festival of extremes at Nederlands Dans Theater's young guard

by one of our members
13 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

ADVERTORIAL They could hardly be further apart. Alexander Ekman and Sharon Eyal both make dance pieces, and are both children of the Nederlands Dans Theater, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. In the

Peter the Great: the curious tsar is back in Amsterdam

by Madeleine Red
8 March 201329 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Netherlands-Russia year is kicking off and what better way to start than with an exhibition dedicated to the most famous Russian of all time? At

Which Africa will the Holland Festival bring to our country?

by Maarten Baanders
7 March 20138 July 2016
4 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Rokia Traoré, Dieudonné Niangouna, Brett Bailey, Compagnie La Baraka by choreographer Abou Lagraa, El Gusto with Kashba Blues: there is a lot of Africa in the Holland Festival 2013. Performances that

Prokofiev's satirical fairy tale is a visual feast

by Henri Drost
5 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

What makes an opera a success? The eccentrics, airheads, comedians, lyricists and tragicists think they know, proclaiming their point of view at the craziest times and not even bothering to intervene in the action. Welcome to the wonderful world of Prokofiev's L'amour des trois oranges, back on stage this month at the Amsterdam musical theatre.

Prokofiev fairytale opera on repeat

by Thea Derks
20 February 201330 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, OPERA, PODIUM ART

L'amour des trois oranges

In 2005, director Laurent Pelly and conductor Stéphane Denève enchanted Dutch audiences with their vision of L'amour des trois oranges By Sergei Prokofiev.

Cultural anthropologist on stage

by Madeleine Red
17 February 201330 March 2022
5 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Treaty of UtrechtMarjolein Jegerings (21) is studying cultural anthropology at Utrecht University and went to Guatemala last year for her undergraduate research on conflict mediation. When she had just returned, she called

Crystal Pite: 'The most exciting choreographer on the planet'

by one of our members
31 January 201330 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Advertorial Mysterieuze schaduwen. Poppen, bestuurd door tientallen onzichtbare handen en muziek die juist de stilte benadrukt. Een avond met Crystal Pite is een avontuurlijke reis naar de onbekendere regionen van onze verbeelding. Op 7 februari 2013 brengt

Only in final scene does Guillaume Tell bathe in golden sunlight

by Henri Drost
30 January 201330 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

After more than four hours, it happens: emotion. Free Switzerland is bathed in golden sunlight and the choir swells over the most beautiful orchestral sounds Rossini composed. Unworldly sounds, which have little to do with the best-known sounds from Guillaume Tell - The canter from the overture.

Utrecht deploys army at opening of festive year

by one of our members
30 January 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

200 military personnel and JunkieXL are expected to cause a spectacle on the A2 motorway near Utrecht on 13 April. The roof of the new tunnel trench will be the stage for a battle of medieval proportions, in which peace will be conquered by our army over something with a wall and 'war' on it.

'Mogadishu' fits into zeitgeist of moral confusion

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 January 201329 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Once upon a time, subsidised theatre was a left-wing hobby. Now, two years on, subsidised theatre has effortlessly conformed to the prevailing, much more right-wing trend.

Writers Unlimited successful thanks to tight direction

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 January 20138 July 2016
2 min read
SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Writers like to talk, and people like to talk about, with and through writers. As much as that may be reason to organise a literature festival, it is also why

'Oh, it's being torn apart a bit' #wu13

by Daniel Bertina
20 January 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

At 1 strip or 1,000 words blogger and columnist Peter Breedveld spoke to three influential illustrators, Barbara Stok, Peter van Dongen and Thé Tjong-Khing using projected images from their beautiful work. The relaxed conversation was a breath of fresh air among the other ferocious debating violence at the festival.

Writers Unlimited 2013: about writers and people with a story #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 January 201329 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Whether Tahmina Akefi is a good writer, I dare not say. The Afghan beauty can at least glue sentences together, and knows how to add an erotic layer on top. But whether this means she surpasses the average penny novel, or whether she has nothing to offer but oriental soft porn anyway? Tricky.

Blogging vs demons #wu13

by Daniel Bertina
19 January 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

"We don't use social media because it's cool," says Tunisian internet activist Sami Ben Gharbia. "But in a dictatorship, it is the only way to inform people about what is really going on. To fight the demons in society. I am not a techny Became because it's fun. I just needed useful knowledge about internet codes, to improve my civic activism possible."

Really free poetry can be learned #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 201329 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

We spoke briefly at Writers Unlimited 2013 with the woman who has been giving workshops in poetry to schoolchildren for a few years now. And we wondered again if rap wasn't enough for them, those kids. No. So it turns out. And she explains it clearly.

Hassnae Bouazza's Thousand Shades of Arabia on #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

John de Mol is doing good business in the Arab world. He acts rather dismissively about this, according to Hassnae Bouazza. According to her, the television producer talks publicly mainly about the many restrictions on his formats because of Islam and the sentimentalism of TV in the Middle East in general. That De Mol's success number The Voice of Arabia during the final in

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