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Every year in early January, a beautifully printed booklet falls through my letterbox. This tradition of Kopper Monday has almost been lost. Only some small printing companies still send their relations a Kopper edition. What exactly is it, and why is it so special? Copper Monday is the first Monday after Epiphany (6 January). Traditionally a holiday for the guilds. The...
It is easier than ever to produce and distribute your own videos. Every minute, more than 300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. Is this gigantic amount still manageable? No. The video platform has become too big to continue to exist without problems. By Nuno Blijboom There is no better source for cat videos, bullying vloggers and gaming youngsters
Johan Gijsen has been elected Utrechter of the Year. The organiser of the Le Guess Who? Festival succeeds FC Utrecht owner Frans van Seumeren (2015) and athlete Dafne Schippers (2014). The election for Utrechter van het Jaar was held by the AD Utrechts Nieuwsblad. Six columnists selected ten nominees who could be voted for. Gijsen founded Le Guess Who? in 2007....
The five nominees for the CCD Award 2017 are Hamlet by ZEP Theater Productions, Festival Mundial, Ongekend Bijzonder Festival 2016, Project Old Skool by Stichting Gebouw 52 and the Van Abbemuseum. The public can cast their votes from now until 18 January 2017 via this link. The jury will take the public vote into consideration. The prize of €5,000 will be...
In The Hague, they think it's a waste of money. Let them. Here are seven performances that were more than worth 'that sin'. Mona, Ariadne, Mariken, but also breathtaking circus theatre, a secret marriage, genre-transcending satire and the greatest set ever. Mona, NTJong (youth theatre/drama) 1. It is the biggest pitfall of the age indication in theatre performances. Put 6+ and you...
Tjeerd Posthuma: ‘Millennials, mensen van mijn generatie, kunnen heel slecht tegen teleurstellingen. Ik wilde een boek schrijven over een jongetje dat heel veel mee had in zijn leven en al op vrij jonge leeftijd slecht met tegenslagen kon omgaan. Dat idee evolueerde naar het perspectief van zijn oudere zus, die jaloers is op haar broertje maar dat zelf niet zo…
Five art experiences will always stick to this bizarre year for me. And one thing really scared me. Whether the worst is now behind us? At least the most extraordinary is still on view until 5 February 2017. A chronological overview of what was unbelievable, unthinkable, inconceivable, unbelievable and perhaps untrue. Much of it, by the way, will be in 2017...
Chris Keulemans visited the 5D InHuis Festival and was deeply impressed by what people with disabilities managed to achieve in theatre. Here is his report, for under the Christmas tree. About humour without pity, and totally unexpected displays of muscle. - Was Thomas born that way? - Well, I don't think he cut his legs himself... The jokers...
Geert Wilders was quick off the mark, after the attack in Berlin, in posting a photoshopped picture of Angela Merkel with blood on her hands. The message was all too clear. Even more opportunistic and shocking was the list posted half a day later by Martin Bosma, media and culture spokesman. Bosma's tweet included a list of names. Caption "These...
On 20 December, the general membership meeting of Coöperatief Cultureel Persbureau unanimously decided to accept a cooperation offer from The Co-operative/House of Journalism and Reporters Online. This is an important step in the development of independent cultural journalism. Culture Press, as the Cooperative Cultural Press Agency is known on the internet and social media, is growing significantly as a result. The...
Negen jaar oud was Amira Willighagen toen ze in 2013 met opera-aria’s het tv-talentenjachtprogramma ‘Holland’s got talent’ won. Haar Puccini-aria ‘O mio babbino caro’ trekt nog steeds miljoenen kijkers op YouTube. Wat maakt Amira zo immens populair? Zijn het haar zangkwaliteiten of is het haar schattige kinderlijke uitstraling? In Huizen, een dorp in het Gooi, gaf ze een concert met…
Two of the finest stories in world literature have recently been reissued. The Dead (1914) by James Joyce and The Clerk Bartleby (1853) by Herman Melville have effortlessly stood the test of time. They are still wonderful reads. 'His soul slowly ebbed away as he heard it gently snowing through the universe and gently snowing in the...
Austrian bass Günther Groissböck received the biggest applause in Parsifal on Thursday 15 December, for his role as Gurnemanz. A close second was Russian soprano Elena Pankratova. She signed for the vocal part of Kundry, who took shape on stage in the person of assistant director Astrid van den Akker. However, judging by the deafening cheers, the audience was the...
You instinctively flee from death, but in 'Have I been here before' choreographer Marie Goeminne actually brings death close. Not threatening, but close to your skin and hand in hand with life. She shows death and life in an intimate entanglement. Three dancers merge in a stream, concentrated and vulnerable, in which life arises,...
Ondanks de crisis in de podiumkunsten dwaalt er nog steeds veel jong talent door Nederland en omstreken. Zoveel dat bijhouden onmogelijk is. Wie kan immers alle festivals bezoeken, van festival Boulevard tot Noorderzon, van het Café Theaterfestival tot festival Cement en van het Amsterdam Fringe Festival tot het Zeeland Nazomerfestival? En dan ook nog precies die vier of vijf voorstellingen uit de…
Before I started studying, I had oceans of time to read. Besides high literature like The World of Sofie by Jostein Gaarder, I also read books from the Bruna Top Ten. This included Dan Brown's Angels & Demons series, the fourth part of which was recently filmed. However, director Ron Howard has addressed the ethical issue with which the book ends...
Voor zijn documentaire over de vluchtelingenproblematiek koos Guido Hendrikx een bijzondere vorm. In een schoollokaal op Sicilië confronteert een door een acteur gespeelde leraar de migranten met de harde feiten over Europa.
Tijdens haar leven ontving Astrid Lindgren bijna vijfenzeventigduizend brieven van fans van over de hele wereld. De schepper van eigenwijze personages als Pippi Langkous, de gebroeders Leeuwenhart en Ronja de Roversdochter, was zelf minstens zo eigenzinnig. Dat blijkt uit de omvangrijke biografie Deze dag, een leven. Terug naar Näs, waar Astrid Lindgren opgroeide en nog altijd voortleeft. Spelen, spelen, spelen…
In art, you work because of your passion, not because of the money. That's so, that was always so. In art, it's even suspicious if you care about money. And if you do worry about money once, it immediately comes out rotten. Are you going to shout about culture, march der your...
Tomorrow, Culture in View, the annual OCW conference for the cultural sector, is dedicated to diversity. Although the topic was already raised by Rick van der Ploeg in the late 1990s, diversity within the cultural sector anno 2016 still lags far behind the changing demographic composition of the population. Diversity should no longer remain just an agenda item. Under the motto: No...
Ik vertel je hier waarom je naar Parsifal zou moeten gaan, en niet eens alleen vanwege het object van Anish Kapoor dat erin een rol speelt. En je zou trouwens ook een keer naar toneel kunnen. Met De Meiden. Fel theater van ons allerbeste theatergezelschap (volgens de Amerikanen). De Nationale Opera, Parsifal (opera) Vier jaar geleden bezocht ik Pierre Audi’s…
De kosten van de crisis Kleine helden is de titel van de nieuwe roman van Almudena Grandes, een van de grootste schrijvers van Spanje. En om kleine helden gaat het: de roman is eigenlijk een bundeling van verhalen die met elkaar samenhangen en over mensen gaan zoals wij allemaal, alleen wonen deze mensen allemaal in Madrid. Rijk en arm, jong…
Yesterday, the chamber made €10 million available for the arts. This brings the tally of government cuts to at least €190,000,000 still. This hard-won extra is the last that could be asked for. Everyone agrees, the new system has been definitively embraced. The protest has made itself redundant now that the compromise has been made. And what have we got...
This month, early music pioneer Marijke Ferguson turned 89. She led the adventurous ensemble Studio Laren for 30 years and has been making radio for over 50 years, the last 23 for the Concertzender. Time and again, she manages to intertwine old and new music with pop and world music in an appealing way. On Sunday 11 December, the Concertzender puts her centre stage during...
Zeemonsters, verslindende draaikolken en verleidende sirenen – de oerkracht van de zee is voor de mens al eeuwenlang een bron van ontzag, angst, fascinatie en mythes. Over miljoenen jaren bestaat het getij niet meer, maar tot die tijd hebben we nog volop te maken met de schoonheid en de gevaren ervan. In Het getij, dat afgelopen maand verscheen, neemt de Britse…
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