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Marijn Lems: 'I write for people who don't shy away from the adventurous in art.'

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 January 202130 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

More than 1,500 hours were spent by theatre critic Marijn Lems last year in theatres, in front of TV and, most importantly, with games. That's a lot of time and it raises questions. Questions especially about how you organise your time as a journalist, and how you divide it between watching art for work and what we will call 'normal life'. That's what this podcast is about, for just under three quarters of an hour.

13 foundations and one private limited company. Controversial Brabant grant decisions raise more questions every day.

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 January 20212 April 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FAITS DIVERS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

To get a subsidy in the Netherlands, you have to jump through a lot of hoops. Every farmer knows that, and so does every artist. In the cultural sector, for instance, it is important that you have a form of organisation that is controllable and approachable. You cannot have a profit motive either. That is why you can usually only apply for funding as a foundation, so you have statutes, a board and a...

Breaking: How motherly love is undermining Brabant's subsidy system.

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 January 202130 March 2022
4 min read
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Cinecitta Tilburg gets 280,000 euri a year from the province of Brabant, or rather the founder's mother. Despite there being quite a lot wrong with the application.

Frisian theatres are joining forces. The whole of the Netherlands can learn something from this.

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 January 202129 March 2022
3 min read
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Good news from Friesland. The five larger theatres in the Netherlands' most independent province are going to cooperate intensively to tackle the corona crisis together.

Carolien Gehrels new chair of Supervisory Board Holland Festival

by one of our members
26 January 202130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, PRESS, SPECIALS

Holland Festival's Supervisory Board appoints Carolien Gehrels as its new chair from 1 March 2021. Carolien Gehrels (1967) is well known to the Holland Festival as a regular visitor of performances and concerts and through her role as Amsterdam alderman responsible for art and culture from 2006 to 2014.

image accompanying article on martin koolhoven by udo prinsen

Animation & Martin Koolhoven: 'With animation, I kept thinking: what don't I know? That made me insecure.'

by Udo Prinsen
26 January 202129 March 2022
6 min read
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Animation came under accelerated attention as a replacement option for live-action in early 2020 thanks to Covid19 measures. While many film productions came to a standstill, several animation productions continued to work solidly 'just at home' on series, short and longer films. Of course, in the industry, we very much encourage the idea of using animation more, but how simple is it really to just switch...

Veni, Vidi, Vici

by Onno Weggemans
25 January 202129 March 2022
3 min read
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Every writer dreams of being translated. Into English (world language), Chinese (big market) or, if necessary, into Icelandic (always wanted to go there on holiday). Sometimes it is necessary to give that dream a helping hand.

Eddy Bellegueule live. Still impressive, but also makes you yearn for the real thing.

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 January 202129 March 2022
4 min read
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Yesterday, I finally saw 'Away with Eddy Bellegueule', the theatre hit of the previous broken and devastated theatre season, and saw that its creators had effortlessly bridged the gap between youth and grown-up theatre. The show is a nineties grunge concert with brilliant actors and intense visual direction by rising star Eline Arbo.

The stuffiness from Maeve Brennan's stories is easy to spot at the moment

by Onno Weggemans
10 January 202129 March 2022
3 min read
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It is no coincidence that I am rereading The Twelve Year Wedding just now. Because the tightness in the story resembles the tightness of our own time. Like Delia and Martin Bagot, we are trapped in a suffocating existence. Shun contact with fellow human beings. Miss the fresh air of visits to cafés, museums, film houses and theatres. Dublin 1917 is the Netherlands 2021.

Two unique (dance) productions created in pandemic Tears of Peter and the National New Year's Blessing

Two unique (dance) productions created in a pandemic: Tears of Peter and the National New Year's Blessing

by Ruben Brugman
9 January 202130 March 2022
4 min read
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It is remarkable to see two productions bringing together dance and faith in a short time. Dancer Marijn Rademaker (former soloist Het Nationale Ballet) portrays the suffering of the apostle in Di Lasso's Tears of Petrus by Nederlands Kamerkoor and Dance Company Nanine Linning, dancer and recently assistant artistic director of The Dutch Don't Dance Division Kiran Bonnema portrays the change in the life of the still-young patriarch Jacob in EO's National New Year's Blessing.

Online magic is possible. Audiences wear online Christmas gala of the Dutch National Ballet on their hands

by Ruben Brugman
20 December 202030 March 2022
4 min read
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Can you experience magic at home the way the Dutch National Ballet promises with its online stream of the Christmas Gala? If the comments during the stream are to be believed: yes.

Mistake BNR. Germany does not do more for the arts than the Netherlands. They just sell it better.

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 December 202029 March 2022
4 min read
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Germany has 80 million people, the Netherlands 17 million, so we can multiply the Dutch aid by five if we want to test the German claim. Still, we arrive at an amount three times higher.

Alaa al Aswani: 'Literature doesn't change politics, it changes people'

by A Quattro Mani
18 December 202029 March 2022
7 min read
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Four years ago at the Winternachten Festival in The Hague, we spoke about it with Egyptian writer Alaa al Aswani, who was disarmingly upbeat despite the fact that he can barely publish in his own country. On lack of freedom of expression and fiction in times of fake, this year's theme, Al Aswani could have a word. 'Freedom of expression is even worse now than under dictator Mubarak.'

Quizzing and dancing from the comfort of your own living room with The Home Show

by one of our members
17 December 202030 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, INTERNET, PRESS

With The Home Show, we want to provide our visitors with a cool programme no matter where or with whom they are. TivoliVredenburg is a place that connects people. If that's not possible in real life, we do it virtually. A moment like New Year's Eve, especially after a bizarre year like this, is then extra important'.

Guilt helps no one. Philosopher and writer Jannah Loontjens took a closer look at her gnawing conscience

by A Quattro Mani
16 December 202030 March 2022
7 min read
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I have come to realise that guilt creates a distance. To others, I sometimes come across as cool and reserved; this is because I unconsciously shut down to suppress my feelings and desires. I don't want to get in the way of others with my emotions. But that also means I rarely let the other person get close.

Leading starts with yourself. Learn more about that in this podcast on LinC-Artistics

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 December 202030 March 2022
2 min read
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In this podcast, I talk to Marjolein Verhallen and Paul Adriaanse from Public Administration, Nanna Verhoef from Media and Iris van der Tuin from Philosophy, and artistic directors Lars Ebert and Jente Hoogeveen about what that is: leadership. And we talk about how you can learn it.

When real stars seek relief in lockdown: Star Force makes you happy

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 December 202030 May 2022
2 min read
For members only, FILM, INTERNET, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

These actors sit at their kitchen table and we fly through space with them. Art can be that simple, because we, the viewers, actually make the story.

Culture Council still gives Cinekid green light

by Leo Bankersen
11 December 202030 March 2022
4 min read
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Earlier this year, Cinekid was in danger of dropping out of the basic cultural infrastructure due to a 'no, unless' advice from the Culture Council. An updated application has now changed the Council's mind. If the minister adopts it, Cinekid can go full steam ahead for four years. An interview with Cinekid director Heleen Rouw.

Province of Brabant makes FvD threat come true after all: halving art budget sold as support in Corona era

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 December 202029 March 2022
4 min read
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When it talks about 'some adjustments', of course, you have to be careful. They know that at the province, so they don't mention details. And those details include a cut of 1.3 million from previously promised amounts.

Heading into the New Year's concert: 13 finalists still in the race.

by one of our members
4 December 202029 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART

Thirteen young composers have been selected for the Final of the Dutch Wind Ensemble's (NBE) composition competition Towards the New Year Concert. This Finale will take place on Sunday 20 December in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.

One of our finest singers (also a pianist) sings Schubert and Bannink in coronaproof living room setting at TivoliVredenburg...enjoy!

by Wenneke Savenije
29 November 202029 March 2022
1 min read
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This video by Thomas Oliemans is really fun to watch, it lasts 1 hour and 14 min. That's how nice streaming can be. So much nicer when you are there!

NBE Composition Competition semi-finals to be seen via live stream from Junushoff Theatre

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 November 202030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART, TELEVISION

From over 100 entries, 24 young composers have been selected for the semi-finals of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble's (NBE) composition competition Towards the New Year Concert with the grand prize of a performance with the NBE at the New Year Concert on 1 January (19:00 NPO 2).

Frascati and Plan Brabant saved thanks to pastry fork Ingrid van Engelshoven #tkculture

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 November 202030 March 2022
4 min read
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With the saving of Frascati and at least a Chamber that does understand the importance of the sector, the most depressing event of the year - the culture budget debate - still ended with a few bright spots.

Do {not} touch: from calm, dreamy distance to the urge to touch in IDFA's virtual reality

by Helen Westerik
21 November 202030 March 2022
5 min read
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Today opens IDFA's The DocLab, perhaps my favourite part of the festival. With its own competition, commissions and exhibition, this is the realm of digital experimentation.

The Rolling Stones-Unzipped at the Groninger Museum: dynamic, yet somewhat well-behaved tribute

by Annika Hoogeveen
21 November 202029 March 2022
5 min read
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Fortunately, the Groninger Museum also puts enough focus on the aural aspect; not only are visitors treated to the various Stones songs, culminating in the concert in Cuba in 2016, but they also pass by fragments of der band members themselves and (popular) cultural figureheads such as director Martin Scorsese.

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