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A breathtaking Shakespearean royal drama during the 60th presidential election in the United States. Utrecht, 2 September 2024 - In November, all voting Americans will go to the polls and choose their new president. In the weeks leading up to and during the election, the show King Krump can be seen in theatres across our country. King Krump is a breathtaking Shakespearean...
Artists depict the future of Europe On 27 August, the first of four boats with an artistic crew taking part in The European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings sailed up the Danube in Baja, Hungary. This marks the start of four sailing trips on four European rivers - the Danube, Vistula, Rhine and Tagus - crossing 11 countries....
ZID Theatre enthusiastically launches the fourth edition of FATE, the talent development programme for young, creative newcomers and creators with a refugee or migration background! Ambitious performing artists up to 30 years old are given the chance to develop their talents and realise their artistic dreams through flexible training, coaching and unique presentation opportunities. FATE opens doors to the Dutch arts and cultural landscape and offers a springboard to professional careers. Do you know any talents? Share this initiative and make sure they sign up for this special programme soon!
Elisabeth Hetherington has been named winner of the Dutch Music Prize. The award is the most prestigious recognition for a musician in classical music, awarded by the Performing Arts Fund on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Minister Eppo Bruins will present the award on Friday 4 October 2024 at concert hall de Doelen in Rotterdam. The commission on Elisabeth Hetherington
Netherlands' largest circus festival launches programme 14th edition From 18 to 27 October, Tilburg's Spoorpark will once again transform into the vibrant festival heart of Festival Circolo. For ten days, the largest circus festival in the Netherlands will present top-level contemporary circus. Today, Festival Circolo launches the programme of its 14th edition, in which it seeks intimacy between visitor and performer....
21/5/2024 | The Gaudeamus Festival will take place in Utrecht from 6 to 10 September 2024. The festival includes more than 45 concerts, interdisciplinary performances, the Gaudeamus Award, workshops, lectures and a seminar. Among the highlights are the opening night in TivoliVredenburg, which will focus on Louis Andriessen's iconic work De Staat and will also feature a brand new piece by composer Oscar...
7 August 2024 - The Gaudeamus Festival announced its full programme this week. The festival, which takes place from 4 to 8 September at numerous venues in Utrecht, includes more than 45 concerts, interdisciplinary performances, the Gaudeamus Award, workshops, lectures and a seminar. Festival highlights New announcements Hashtag Ensemble - Second:ary The Polish Hashtag Ensemble, in collaboration with volunteers and...
Asko|Schönberg opens the new season with the programme The State, in collaboration with Gaudeamus Festival, Ensemble Klang, Muziekgebouw and Musica Festival Strasbourg. In the 1970s, Louis Andriessen wrote the masterpiece De Staat (The State). A musical and political rebel, he sent out a critical signal with this composition. He opposed established musical life and the symphony orchestra in particular. All this entirely in line...
Plein Theater provides a stage for contemporary music. Adventurous and small-scale performances, new compositions and leading musicians; in the Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam series, audiences are given monthly opportunities to experience this unique concept in an intimate setting. In the summer of 2024, Plein Theater will open its doors wide. In the Summer of Music in and around...
Anyone can create an ode to add to the city's story The Amsterdam Museum is launching a digital platform where anyone can share a story about a woman who has had an impact on Amsterdam. For centuries, women have been underrepresented in the city's story. The Amsterdam Museum thinks it is high time to change this and calls on everyone, from within...
The return to downtown Bossche, the beautiful weather, 48,000 visitors to performances (37,000 tickets sold, 11,000 visitors to the free programme) and a total of 100,000 visitors to the festival crowned the 40th anniversary of Theatre Festival Boulevard. 'A homecoming experienced by the team, artists and visitors. The central location of the festival centre on the Parade...
Going over the edge, exploring and pushing boundaries, pushing the limits of bystanders' comprehension, performing feats no one expects. And seeing gnomes walking through a forest. Or reading things in water. Seeing half a boy save the world. The first 11 days of August 2024 were legendary, never to be forgotten. And all in the...
"How nice it would have been if, as a (male) viewer, I had really been taken out of my comfort zone by the fact that the anger was not so obviously played and commented on. How thought-provoking I would have been when they weren't making goofy faces at their Rudi Carell-German that - if implemented consistently - would have made me laugh....
The Amsterdam Platform Cultuureducatie MBO, on the initiative of the cultural coordinators of ROC Amsterdam and Flevoland and Mediacollege Amsterdam, together with the Amsterdam Museum, Stichting Museumnacht Amsterdam, MOCCA expertise centre for cultural education and CJP, is organising the first cultural introduction week especially for MBO students in Amsterdam. The cultural INTROWEEK MBO will be festively launched on Tuesday 3 September 2024 at the Amsterdam Museum in the presence of...
The nice thing about festivals like Boulevard in Den Bosch is that after a few days, you automatically make connections between everything you experience. Not that everything starts to look alike, like in sport. There, a single chromosome or hundredth of a second determines the difference between world peace or the apocalypse. There, everything has to be so similar that over...
Right by St John's, next to the Tower Stage where Theatre Festival Boulevard holds its talk shows and free live concerts, is 'Tent Purple'. That tent is different, this year. Outside, kids in baggy trainers are doing break moves, inside it is steaming hot. For ten days, Tent Purple is Cypher HQ, the home of Bossche hip-hop and street culture, also known as...
Yesterday, someone from Amsterdam told me that he had long thought Boulevard was a provincial version of an Amsterdam rosé party: lots of conviviality, food, drink and mediocre art. Fortunately, after just one visit he was convinced that something has grown in Den Bosch over the past forty years that cannot be compared to other Dutch festivals. There...
The arrival of an international research facility for Holocaust research - headquartered in the Netherlands - is a step closer. So write Minister Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) and State Secretary Karremans (Health, Welfare and Sport) in a letter to the Lower House. The cabinet has submitted the plan for this on behalf of several countries, and in cooperation with the NIOD, among others...
Staal is artist-in-residence at KNIR in 2024 Artist and propaganda researcher Jonas Staal is artist-in-residence at the Royal Dutch Institute Rome (KNIR) in 2024. Here, he will spend three months researching the role family plays within (neo)fascism and investigating his own family history. Mussolini in the Family Under the title Mussolini in the Family, Staal presents the...
On Saturday 19 October, Maas theatre and dance's new toddler performance PRRRT PRRRT FLAP FLAP (3+) will premiere at the Maaspodium in Rotterdam. Creators Sara Giampaolo and Esther Schouten build on the line of toddler theatre that Maas has developed in recent years: big themes brought in a playful way. After the premiere, the show will tour until February 2025
ROTTERDAM CHILDREN PENETRATE THE FIBRES OF THE MAASPODIUMIN PERFORMANCE WE (8+) CHILDREN SHARE THE STAGE WITH PROFESSIONAL PERFORMERS. From 24 August to 1 September 2024, the performance WIJ (8+) plays at the Maaspodium, Rotterdam. The performance is a theatrical route through the Maaspodium and explores the power of change. A group of Rotterdam children dabble in the fibres of theatre and...
Street theatre festival in Tilburg's Piushaven is about to start Festival Circolo is proud to present the second edition of Porto Circolo, the free street theatre festival taking place during the Tilburg Fair. On Saturday 20 July and Sunday 21 July, the Piushaven in Tilburg will be transformed into a vibrant stage for circus, dance and theatre, suitable for young and old. Throughout the weekend,...
This summer, the fortieth edition of Theatre Festival Boulevard will be celebrated in 's-Hertogenbosch, with new names and old acquaintances. For director-director Tessa Smeulers, this special anniversary year is a moment to change her tack. After 15 years, she will bid farewell to Boulevard on 1 September. Head and heart "For years, my head and heart have been linked to Theatre Festival Boulevard. With great...
Who will be the new members of the Academy of Arts? For 2025, the Academy is again looking for outstanding artists from all disciplines who have distinguished themselves on the basis of demonstrable artistic achievements. Do you know any eligible artists? Nominate them! Nomination deadline is 15 September 2024, 23:59. New members The Academy of Arts brings distinguished...
Star actress Sigrid ten Napel can be seen in theatre this autumn in Het NUT's (Nieuw Utrechts Toneel) new play: King Krump. Koning Krump is a breathtaking Shakespearean king's drama in a modern twist that can be seen in Dutch theatres at the time of the US presidential elections. The new play is by Jibbe Willems, directed by Greg Nottrot. Besides...
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