Things we do for members and partners.
Utrecht - Last year (2023) was a great year for Theatre Kikker. Never before did the Utrecht theatre on the Ganzenmarkt receive as many visitors as in 2023. In a year when many Dutch venues were still searching to find their audience again after the Corona period, this is extra special. Visitor numbers grew by over 21% in 2023 compared to...
Robbert Maruanaija and Patricia de Weichs de Wenne have joined the supervisory board of the Amsterdam Museum. Amsterdam City Council's Alderman for Art and Culture Touria Meliani appointed the new members. Robbert Maruanaija (1986, born and living in Amsterdam) started his working life as a professional footballer and then switched to the creative sector. He explains that...
How do we ensure that the museum sector remains financially healthy and future-proof? In what ways can we transform museums into sustainable and attractive workplaces? And in what ways do we encourage inclusiveness and diversity? These pressing questions are at the heart of the new learning programme Leadership in Culture (LinC) x Museum Association. Challenges LinC x Museum Association was created at the initiative of the Museum Association...
Marmoucha Orchestra and Mehdi Nassouli present "Sonic Bridges" at Jazzahead 2024: A new era in Jazz and Gnawa exploration With great enthusiasm and pride, we announce that the Marmoucha Orchestra, in collaboration with renowned Gnawa musician Mehdi Nassouli, has been selected to perform at the prestigious Jazzahead! 2024 showcase. As the largest jazz fair in Europe, Jazzahead! offers a unique...
From 28 to 29 June, Georgina Verbaan will play the lead role for twenty-four hours at the Holland Festival in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon's play The Second Woman, a unique hallucinatory cinematic theatre experience. During this theatre marathon, live at ITA and simultaneously on screen at Koninklijk Theater Tuschinski, she plays with a hundred different, to her unknown, antagonists every...
Together with Alexandre Kordzaia, aka Kordz, Asko|Schönberg pays a special tribute to (film) composer and synthesiser pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died a year ago. Sakomoto (1952 - March 2023) became best known for his music for films such as Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, The Last Emperor, The Revenant and most recently the film Monster. He also pioneered synth and electropop with which...
Cinedans bestaat 20 jaar! De jubileumeditie Cinedans FEST ’24 vindt plaats van 20 tot en met 24 maart in Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam én online van 20 tot en 31 maart op Cinedans WEB.Vijf dagen lang staat Eye in het teken van de internationale dansfilm met bijzondere highlights en premières, een special filmprogramma met een postkoloniale thematiek Breaking the Chainsen…
’s-Hertogenbosch, 6 maart 2024 – Per 1 januari 2025 stopt Madeleine Matzer als artistiek leider en als directeur- bestuurder van MATZER Theaterproducties. Ze richtte het gezelschap in 2007 op en maakte sindsdien tientallen voorstellingen die speelden op uiteenlopende locaties: van Theater Carré tot zorginstellingen. In de afgelopen jaren regisseerde ze niet alleen, ze schreef ook de succesvolle voorstellingen Je kunt…
Be surprised, entertained, moved and stimulate your brain at the Delft Fringe Festival Delft, Tuesday 5 March 2024 - This year's Delft Fringe Festival will take place from 28 May to 9 June. It is the 13th time the festival has been organised in Delft. From 410 applications, 28 makers have been selected to be seen this summer...
Utrecht - On 30 March next, the Harm Lambers Building Block for Special Art in Utrecht will be awarded for the second time in Theater Kikker. Utrecht dance company De Dansers took this biennial award for the first time in 2022 and now passes the honourable trophy on to cultural free port De Nijverheid. The jury report Josephine van Rheenen and Guy Corneille of...
De in oost-Oekraïne geboren actrice Ksenia Marasanova toert al jaren met solotheatervoorstellingen door Nederland. Medio maart doet ze Leiden aan. In het imperium Theater speelt ze 3 solovoorstellingen en één voorstelling in een gezelschap. Ksenia maakt spraakmakend theater dat je echt raakt. Het kwartet opent op 14 maart met de anti-oorlog voorstelling Zij zagen Oorlog. Zes mensen hebben met elkaar…
The 77th edition of the Holland Festival presents innovative international performing arts with more than 40 productions and over 380 artists at 21 different venues in Amsterdam. The opening takes place on Thursday 6 June with a special programme in the Gashouder, where Stravinsky's iconic Sacre du printemps will be accompanied by a film by Evangelia Kranioti, and Caroline Shaw's Music in...
From 29 February to 29 May 2024, Blue Hour tours the country. A woman searches for a way through a nearly devastated world with her baby. Liliane Brakema directs Alejandra Theus in a musical theatre performance inspired by Cormac McCarthy's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel The Road. The premiere of this co-production by MATZER Theatre Production and &Brakema Productions is Friday, March 1,...
From Wednesday 6 to Friday 15 March, you will find a special exhibition at the NUT studio (Berlijnplein, Utrecht). Other people's debt explores the world of debt through the lens of visual art. One in five households in the Netherlands faces money problems. Unfortunately, help often comes only when debts are already sky-high. In Andermans...
Het winnende voorstel van de open call van de European Cultural Foundation voor het vormgeven en hosten van The European Pavilion 2024 werd bekendgemaakt tijdens een persconferentie in Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam op 14 februari. Een onafhankelijke jury koos unaniem voor het voorstel Liquid Becomings van het consortium onder leiding van het onafhankelijke kunstenaarscollectief espaço agora now, bestaande uit…
Twaalf dagen vol inspiratie, verbinding, diversiteit en reuring voor een breed publiek Amsterdam, 15 februari 2024 – ZID Theater presenteert de negende editie van het multidisciplinaire en internationale ExploreZ Festival in Amsterdam. Van 7 t/m 18 mei 2024 kunnen bezoekers twaalf dagen lang genieten van een rijke mix van theater, muziek, dans, workshops en artist talks, met als thema ‘Verandering/Change’.…
De Akademie van Kunsten krijgt 5 nieuwe leden: Alida Dors, Hella Jongerius, Erik van Lieshout, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer en Manon Uphoff. Leden van de Akademie van Kunsten zijn kunstenaars uit de hele breedte van de kunsten. De nieuwe leden worden op 28 maart 2024 geïnstalleerd. Leden van de Akademie van Kunsten hebben zich bewezen in hun vak en willen een…
Be taken on an extraordinary journey. Arin Keshishi, the virtuoso bassist and artistic director of the renowned Marmoucha Orchestra, unveils "Self-Reflection: The Live Experience" Self-reflection of masterful bassist and artistic director of the Marmoucha Orchestra. In this edition, we highlight Arin Keshishi, an exceptionally talented bassist and the new artistic director of the Marmoucha Orchestra. His...
The Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel will host the exhibition The Amsterdam of Piet van Eeghen: How a merchant changed the city from 29 March to 30 June 2024. The nineteenth-century businessman and philanthropist Van Eeghen left his art collection to the city and is now part of the Amsterdam Museum's collection....
A performance by Marmoucha featuring the dynamic duo of The Pig Factory, Mohammed Azaay and Karim El Guennouni. In a world of shadows and contrasts, Christiaan and Ali, each coloured by their own beliefs, are diametrically opposed. Their life experiences and circumstances have shaped their views and behaviour. Theatre-makers Mohammed Azaay and Karim El Guennouni take on a refreshingly outspoken and entertaining...
From 23 February 2024 to 5 January 2025, a new edition of Collecting the City will be on show at the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel. For the fourth time, museum and city join forces to bring stories of Amsterdam into the limelight. This time, the participating partners are Kazerne Reigersbos, Ongekend Zeedijk and Museum om...
ZID Theater maakt multidisciplinaire voorstellingen met heel diverse talenten, en is tegelijkertijd ookeen podium voor deze voorstellingen en voor producties van andere, gelijkgestemde makers. Wehebben daarom besloten om voor de tweede keer onze deuren te openen voor het landelijkeNationaal Theaterweekend. Wat kunt u bij ZID zien? Op vrijdag 26 januari (20.00 uur): de première van twee voorstellingen: Circles van Issam…
People do not have equal access to culture in the Netherlands. This is because the supply of culture varies greatly from region to region. Also, artists or cultural institutions do not yet have an equal chance of financial support everywhere. There are calls for change from the cultural and creative field. Therefore, at the request of the State Secretary for Culture and Media on 26 January, the Council for Culture...
Cinedans bestaat 20 jaar! De jubileumeditie Cinedans FEST ’24 vindt plaats van 20 tot en met 24 maart in Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam én online van 20 tot en 31 maart op Cinedans WEB.Vijf dagen lang staat Eye in het teken van de internationale dansfilm met bijzondere highlights en premières, waaronder de komst van special guest Celia Rowlson-Hall die een…
In the compelling performance WE, the EYES, dancers, together with virtuoso percussionists and experimental hip-hop/soul/jazz artist Pink Oculus, search for a new way of seeing. In a force field of mesmerising projections, seductive vocals, rousing beats and inspired dance, a new perspective is emerging. The performers start from the dark, forcing them to engage other senses....
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