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Ms Nancy Jouwe is to be appointed as a member of the Culture Council. The Council of Ministers has agreed to this on the proposal of State Secretary Uslu of Culture and Media. The appointment will take effect on 15 February 2023 for a period of four years. Jouwe studied General Literature at Utrecht and York Universities and specialises in Women's Studies and Cultural History. She has...
Stop the declining sales of Dutch-language books, ensure more attention to literature. That is the only way to reverse the trend of the CPNB figures presented on Thursday, thinks the Authors' Union, the interest group for writers and translators with 1,750 members. By 2022, 10% less Dutch-language fiction has been sold. One in five books will now be in a language other than...
Besides a permanent collection presentation at Amstel 51 and in Huis Willet-Holthuysen and changing exhibitions, the Amsterdam Museum offers a public programme. At various locations and for a diverse audience. The following events are scheduled for October 2022. Visit www.amsterdammuseum.nl for the latest information. ---------------- Female Gaze Tour 12 February 2023 The returning Female Gaze Tour...
Met het nieuwe jaar is ook de nieuwe jury van de Filter Vertaalprijs aan de slag gegaan. Dankzij de GAU (Groep Algemene Uitgevers) en in samenwerking met het ILFU (Internationaal Literatuur Festival Utrecht) zal de Filter Vertaalprijs 2023 tijdens het ILFU festival (22 sept – 7 okt 2023) worden uitgereikt. Er verschenen verrassend veel interessante vertalingen in 2022. De nominaties…
This 19th edition of the festival is the short three-day Practice & Potential edition of the Cinedans festival and focuses on the development of the dance film genre. For three days, Cinedans presents, the state of the art of Dutch dance film, the International Student Film Competition, special themed programmes and special documentaries. New Dutch Shorts A wide selection of...
Met een kring van bekenden – Bas Wiegers, Slagwerk Den Haag, Ensemble Klang en Katrien Baerts – werkt Asko|Schönberg aan de muziek van de toekomst. Dat gebeurt vanuit een rijke basis die gevormd wordt door ons 20ste-eeuwse erfgoed. De muziek van deze componisten verbinden we met de nieuwe generatie. In dit geval de Nederlandse Wilbert Bulsink, de Estse Helena Tulve…
Dresses made from Moroccan embroidery appliques and patchwork couture from upcycled designer fabrics. Amsterdam-based fashion designers Karim Adduchi and Tess van Zalinge have gained a lot of name recognition in recent years with their designs inspired by historical and regional handwork techniques. With sustainable collections like 'Natural' (Van Zalinge, 2022) and community projects like the 'Social [Distancing] Fabric' (Adduchi and The World Makers, 2021), both fashion designers offer...
The Amsterdam Museum - despite the impact of the corona pandemic and the move to a new temporary main location - had a successful year in 2022. The museum's exhibitions and public programmes attracted many visitors at various locations. The museum's pop-up exhibition at the National Monument on Dam Square was visited from mid-June to...
Utrecht, december 2022 – Het NUT (Nieuw Utrechts Toneel) onderzoekt in 2023 in alle theaterproducties die het maakt en speelt ‘de toekomst van geld’. Het is een feestjaar: het NUT viert de 10e editie van hun bekende zomervoorstelling op locatie, dit jaar is dat Goed goud geld (concept en spel: Greg Nottrot), te zien op festival Oerol op Terschelling en…
Besides a permanent collection presentation at Amstel 51 and at Huis Willet-Holthuysen and changing exhibitions, the Amsterdam Museum offers a public programme. At various locations and for a diverse audience. The following events are scheduled for January 2023. Visit www.amsterdammuseum.nl for the latest information. ---------------- Queer Gaze Tour: A guided tour from an LGBTQ+ perspective 22 January 2023....
Is art and culture of and for everyone? Is it also there for young people? What do they find important about art, culture and media? To get answers to these questions, the Culture Council is setting up a Youth Platform. The council is looking for young people aged between 15 and 20 who want to share their views on art, culture and...
From 16 to 18 December, Cinedans WEB presents WEB Special: Inevitable Dances. Available online at Cinedans WEB, the programme consists of the documentary When Arabs Danced by director Jawad Rhalib and four dance shorts by makers from Iran, Lebanon and Egypt. The programme is offered free of charge at https://cinedans.nl/inevitable-dances/ A donation is appreciated and benefits filmmakers in need. With.
The Culture Council is expected to issue an advice to state secretary Uslu (OCW) in March 2023 on the application and assessment process for the Cultural Basic Infrastructure for the period 2025-2028 (BIS 25-28). This was requested by the state secretary. To arrive at the advice, the council has, among other things, appointed a temporary committee for the part of its advice request that...
On 21 December, Jetse Batelaan, director at Artemis, will give a lecture at the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. Using visual fragments, he will show his development as a theatre maker and share the insights he gained in the process: from his initial discomfort with drama and conflict to his conviction that it is important to let children and adolescents experience panic in the...
State secretary Uslu (Culture and Media) wants to get rid of the sometimes difficult relationship the Netherlands seems to have with culture. In the Pieterskerk in Leiden, she delivered the 51st Huizinga Lecture. In it, she called for a reappraisal of the important role art and culture play in everyone's life: "Heritage, art and culture: they shape who we are. But that...
On Saturday 17 December 2022, The Ozard of Wiz will have its premiere at the Maaspodium in Rotterdam. This moving and quirky theatre production with an all-queer cast & crew presents vogue, pop music and melancholy in a seventies sauce. For this production, Maas theatre and dance enthusiastically joins forces with ROSE stories, with dance by Kiki House of Angels and...
Het kabinet maakt van Oekraïne een zogeheten focusland op het gebied van internationaal cultuurbeleid. Dat heeft staatssecretaris Uslu (Cultuur en Media) bekendgemaakt tijdens een overleg met Europese cultuurministers in Brussel. Door die status zijn er meer mogelijkheden voor culturele samenwerking, investeringen en uitwisseling. Staatssecretaris Uslu: ‘Juist nu is het belangrijk om ook op cultureel gebied samen te werken. Alles van…
The Amsterdam Museum has acquired the work Woman on top (2022) by artist Aukje Dekker. The work, which Dekker uses to highlight the fact that Femke Halsema is Amsterdam's first female mayor, was officially unveiled on Tuesday in Mayor Halsema's office at City Hall. The work Woman on top (2022) by Aukje Dekker (visual artist, co-founder Sociëteit Sexyland) consists...
De Amerikaanse zangeres, componist en choreograaf Meredith Monk presenteert in de 76e editie van het Holland Festival de wereldpremière van haar nieuwe werk Indras Net. De Belgische regisseur Lisaboa Houbrechts ensceneert een familie-epos dat drie generaties overspant: Vake Poes; of hoe God verdween. De Mexicaans-Chileense choreograaf Amanda Piña blaast met voorstelling EXÓTICA nieuw leven in werk van de in vergetelheid…
Besides a permanent collection presentation at Amstel 51 and at Huis Willet-Holthuysen and changing exhibitions, the Amsterdam Museum offers a public programme. At various locations and for a diverse audience. The following events are scheduled for December 2022. Visit www.amsterdammuseum.nl for the latest information. Female Gaze Tour: A guided tour from a female perspective 11 December 2022 On...
How do you get young people into your auditorium? Almost every theatre struggles with that question. Bran Remie (35), programmer and theatre maker at Wilminktheatre and Muziekcentrum Enschede, succeeds. With the online and offline theatre series Huize Enschede, about student life in that city. Students are hard to get to the theatre. Theatres do their best, with targeted marketing and special promotions...
Experience mime at the Zéro - Mime & Performance Festival: the first two-day festival in the Netherlands entirely devoted to physical and visual theatre. Expect new and established makers, location performance alongside large hall productions, comforting alongside abrasive, inside and outside de Meervaart 15 and 16 December 2022. Including turboslapstick performance Knock-Out and Erosion, winner of the BNG Bank Theatre Prize. The...
Op 8 december brengt Asko|Schönberg Islands, het nieuwste werk van componist Richard Ayres, in première. Samen met kunstenaarsduo Nest schept Ayres tien imaginaire eilanden, waarin live muziek, elektronica, beeldende kunst, fotografie, video en performance samengaan. ‘Eén van de meest eigenzinnige en originele componisten van dit moment. Het enige voorspelbare aan zijn premières is dat ze onvoorspelbaar zijn’. – The Times…
Op zondag 13 november sloot November Music in ’s-Hertogenbosch de 30e editie van het festival af met de bekendmaking van de composers in focus voor 2023: Aart Strootman en John Zorn. Bosch Requiem wordt dan gecomponeerd door Aart Strootman op een tekst die Jan Rot speciaal hiervoor schreef vlak voor zijn betreurde overlijden eerder dit jaar. Daarnaast komt John Zorn…
Marietje d'Hane Scheltema, her name be praised. How corny I used to think she was, with her neat rhymes with which she managed to transform classical Greek and Roman drinking bouts into Kralings-judged bake sale parties. And how wrong I could be. Because how well her translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses works in the hands of the people at Alum. Yesterday was the premiere...
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