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How to choose from the profusion offered by the Tefaf

by Madeleine Red
18 March 201330 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Suppose you have a small capital in your pocket. And you go to the Tefaf for a day. That's a festive feeling: an art gift for yourself. But once inside, there's a good chance you'll be shocked. Because how to choose from 30,000 objects? In those 265 stands from renowned galleries from 20 countries: Argentina, United States, Canada, Italy, Japan? And which corner will you look in? Antiquities? Or modern, antiquarian, design? Will you go for a sculpture, a canvas, jewellery, chair or a book?

Help! England is also going to cry out for culture

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Cry for Culture with which the Dutch cultural world launched its opposition to the scrapping of art subsidies in 2010 was, in retrospect, a publicity disaster. Perhaps not yet as unfortunate as

The best woman in the best place: Ellen Walraven director Rotterdam Schouwburg

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

This was a possibility not many people initially thought of. After all, after her tropical years as director of the Amsterdam debating centre De Balie, Ellen Walraven was in need of some more substantive work and peace and quiet on her mind, So we suspected that she would stay on in

Film project makes lives of ISK students visible: 'That's my grandmother, that's my heart'

by one of our members
14 March 201329 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Treaty of Utrecht Munira wrote a letter in Somali. Before she

Mini festival of extremes at Nederlands Dans Theater's young guard

by one of our members
13 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

ADVERTORIAL They could hardly be further apart. Alexander Ekman and Sharon Eyal both make dance pieces, and are both children of the Nederlands Dans Theater, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. In the

Peter the Great: the curious tsar is back in Amsterdam

by Madeleine Red
8 March 201329 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Netherlands-Russia year is kicking off and what better way to start than with an exhibition dedicated to the most famous Russian of all time? In

Which Africa will the Holland Festival bring to our country?

by Maarten Baanders
7 March 20138 July 2016
4 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Rokia Traoré, Dieudonné Niangouna, Brett Bailey, Compagnie La Baraka by choreographer Abou Lagraa, El Gusto with Kashba Blues: there is a lot of Africa in the Holland Festival 2013. Performances that

Prokofiev's satirical fairy tale is a visual feast

by Henri Drost
5 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

What makes an opera a success? The eccentrics, airheads, comedians, lyricists and tragedians think they know, proclaiming their point of view at the craziest moments and not even bothering to intervene in the action. Welcome to the wonderful world of Prokofiev's L'amour des trois oranges, back on stage this month at the Amsterdam musical theatre.

Prokofiev fairytale opera on repeat

by Thea Derks
20 February 201330 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, OPERA, PODIUM ART

L'amour des trois oranges

In 2005, director Laurent Pelly and conductor Stéphane Denève enchanted Dutch audiences with their vision of L'amour des trois oranges By Sergei Prokofiev.

Cultural anthropologist on stage

by Madeleine Red
17 February 201330 March 2022
5 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Treaty of UtrechtMarjolein Jegerings (21) studies cultural anthropology at Utrecht University and went to Guatemala last year for her undergraduate research on conflict mediation. When she had just returned, she called

Crystal Pite: 'The most exciting choreographer on the planet'

by one of our members
31 January 201330 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Advertorial Mysterious shadows. Puppets controlled by dozens of invisible hands and music that emphasises the very silence. An evening with Crystal Pite is an adventurous journey into the unknown regions of our imagination. On 7 February 2013

Only in final scene does Guillaume Tell bathe in golden sunlight

by Henri Drost
30 January 201330 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

After more than four hours, it happens: emotion. Free Switzerland is bathed in golden sunlight and the choir swells over the most beautiful orchestral sounds Rossini composed. Unworldly sounds, which have little to do with the best-known sounds from Guillaume Tell - The canter from the overture.

Utrecht deploys army at opening of festive year

by one of our members
30 January 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

200 military personnel and JunkieXL are expected to cause a spectacle on the A2 motorway near Utrecht on 13 April. The roof of the new tunnel trench will be the stage for a battle of medieval proportions, in which peace will be conquered by our army over something with a wall and 'war' on it.

'Mogadishu' fits into zeitgeist of moral confusion

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 January 201329 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Once upon a time, subsidised theatre was a left-wing hobby. Now, two years on, subsidised theatre has effortlessly conformed to the prevailing, much more right-wing trend.

Writers Unlimited successful thanks to tight direction

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 January 20138 July 2016
2 min read
SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Writers like to talk, and people like to talk about, with and through writers. As much as that may be reason to organise a literature festival, it is also why

'Oh, it's being torn apart a bit' #wu13

by Daniel Bertina
20 January 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

At 1 strip or 1,000 words blogger and columnist Peter Breedveld spoke with three influential illustrators, Barbara Stok, Peter van Dongen and Thé Tjong-Khing using projected images from their beautiful work. The relaxed conversation was a breath of fresh air among the other ferocious debating violence at the festival.

Writers Unlimited 2013: about writers and people with a story #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 January 201329 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Whether Tahmina Akefi is a good writer, I dare not say. The Afghan beauty can at least glue sentences together, and knows how to add an erotic layer on top. But whether this means she surpasses the average penny novel, or whether she has nothing to offer but oriental soft porn anyway? Tricky.

Blogging vs demons #wu13

by Daniel Bertina
19 January 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

"We don't use social media because it's cool," says Tunisian internet activist Sami Ben Gharbia. "But in a dictatorship, it is the only way to inform people about what is really going on. To fight the demons in society. I am not a techny Became because it's fun. I just needed useful knowledge about internet codes, to improve my civic activism possible."

Really free poetry can be learned #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 201329 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

We spoke briefly at Writers Unlimited 2013 with the woman who has been giving workshops in poetry to schoolchildren for a few years now. And we wondered again if rap wasn't enough for them, those kids. No. So it turns out. And she explains it clearly.

Hassnae Bouazza's Thousand Shades of Arabia on #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

John de Mol is doing good business in the Arab world. He acts rather dismissively about this, according to Hassnae Bouazza. According to her, the television producer talks publicly mostly about the many restrictions on his formats because of Islam and the sentimentalism of TV in the Middle East in general. That De Mol's success number The Voice of Arabia during the final in

'For me, only the text exists' - Alberto Manguel & Hans Goedkoop on black pages #wu13

by Daniel Bertina
19 January 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

With a jam-packed programme like Writers Unlimited 2013, it sometimes happens that, even as a professional journalist, despite everything, you end up dropping in somewhere too late, and then just catching a glimpse of something really great. In this case, after the tour de force of Amos Oz and Adriaan van Dis, was that Kenyan Ngwatilo Mawiyoo's spoken word performance. Mea culpa for that.

Does it luckily still involve sex on #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

How many male genitalia Yasmine Allas had weighed in her hand. For a while, that was the question during Writers Unlimited's most shameless programme to date. This latenight talk show addressed the question of how shameless writers actually dare to be these days. Kristien Hemmerechts, always good for a few firm statements, met her peers in

Presenters can make a Winternight. And break it. #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 201329 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

And then, just like that, you can miss the highlight of the first Winternacht because you don't pull it together with a presenter. Flemish author Bart van Loo, according to many a twitterer, seems to have uttered beautiful sentences in the programme 'Daar geef ik mijn leven voor', but that was well after midnight and I was already

A lot of Oz & a little Van Dis on impossible dreams and ideals #wu13

by Daniel Bertina
19 January 201329 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

During the kick-off of Winternacht 1, publicist Bas Heijne brought the two literary giants Amos Oz and Adriaan van Dis closer together. What remains of their former idealism? Oz's barrage of wonderful one-liners proved difficult to tame and made for a hilarious but somewhat unbalanced conversation.

Heartfelt plea against Arab shame culture #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 January 201330 May 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Lebanese writer Hanaan Al-Shaykh (Beirut, Lebanon, 1945) opened Wrtiters Unlimited on Thursday 17 January with a blazing argument against Arab culture of shame. This, according to the writer whose books The story of Zahra, Women between sky and sand, Beirut blues and Only in London have been translated into Dutch, so deep in

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