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In the coming years, the Council for Culture will monitor how subsidised cultural institutions within the Basic Cultural Infrastructure (BIS) implement their plans. We do this with 17 monitoring committees, consisting of over a hundred experts from the cultural field. The insights gained help the council monitor the institutions, interpret trends and developments and contribute to a well-functioning system. The...
Minister Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) wants to prevent a gold medieval ring from being sold abroad. He has started the process to preserve the ring for the Netherlands, following a request to transport it for sale abroad. The minister has decided that in principle, the object should not leave the Netherlands because the ring has irreplaceable historical...
The Holland Festival has preserved a wealth of information since its inception in 1947.This archive is a feast of recognition for lovers of the performing arts. It offers a unique opportunity to rediscover iconic performances, get to know artists and their work better and delve into the rich history of the festival. The video clips, performance information, artist biographies and famous festival posters form...
Owners of a U-pas can go to almost all concerts, festivals and other programmes in TivoliVredenburg for 5 euros in the coming months. The Utrecht music venue thus wants to further lower thresholds for culture attendance and make live music accessible to everyone in the city - including Utrechters with a small wallet. TivoliVredenburg's mission statement is: a lifetime of music for everyone. The music venue...
On the occasion of 80 years of freedom, the Amsterdam Museum invited the visual artist duo Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen to create an exhibition of new work, taking the war past of Huis Willet-Holthuysen as the starting point. For this exhibition, Breure and Van Hulzen delved into the history of the Second World War and the role the monumental canal house played in it....
February 24, 2025 marks the third anniversary of Russia's large-scale attack on Ukraine. Not only the country was attacked, from the beginning it was clear that Russia was also and precisely attacking Ukraine's culture. Recent geopolitical developments bring great uncertainty to Ukraine, with potentially dramatic consequences. With two special film screenings, DutchCulture, the European Cultural Foundation and the International...
The Netherlands returns 113 'Benin Bronzes' from the National Collection at Nigeria's request. Minister Eppo Bruins (OCW) has decided on this return. In 1897, British soldiers looted these objects from the Kingdom of Benin (in present-day Nigeria) and sold them, eventually ending up in Dutch National Collection. The 'Benin Bronzes' are of great importance to Nigerian society, these objects...
The Culture Council is launching an advisory process on artistic freedom. The reason is signals from the arts sector that safety and artistic freedom are sometimes under pressure. To this end, the council has set up an advisory committee. This committee examines the background to the issue and comes up with recommendations on how artistic freedom can be better safeguarded in practice. The advisory committee...
Asko|Schönberg and the Muziekgebouw honour composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, with the Saariaho Festival. When she died, she was at the height of her fame and was honoured as the composer who gave modernism a face that was as human as it was fairy-tale. At the opening concert, her latest work Hush will be played for the first time in the Netherlands. Dutch premiere ...
Creative freelancers are bursting with talent and passion for their craft, but self-employment can sometimes take a back seat. For this reason, De Creatieve Coalitie, Platform ACCT and Cultuur+Ondernemen are organising CreativeRoadz on 3 April. The first edition will be opened by actress and creator Hanna van Vliet, who is known from the acclaimed series ANNE+, among others. CreativeRoadz is...
After its success at Oerol Festival 2024, the dance and musical theatre performance Waste Me returns in a theatre version. On Friday 14 March at 20:15, co-producers Maas theatre and dance and Cecilia Moisio Company will celebrate the premiere of the theatre tour at Maaspodium, Rotterdam. Waste Me by choreographer and theatre maker Cecilia Moisio, is a robust commentary on the out-of-control...
STIPcast is a podcast series that gives an insight into behind-the-scenes theatre life in the Netherlands. Six episodes cover important aspects of theatre-making, such as artistic vision and innovation, talent development, writing texts and programming. Dutch youth theatre is currently at an unprecedented high level. More than 16 BIS companies, several production houses with talent development programmes and a stage infrastructure for...
Literary translators in the Netherlands and Flanders are in an increasingly vulnerable position in the labour market. Factors such as the dominance of English, rising sales of foreign-language titles and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) are having a significant impact on their already precarious situation. This is according to a qualitative study conducted by the Boekman Foundation on behalf of the...
Dr Elly Jaffé Prize of €40,000 for literary translator French - Dutch The Dr Elly Jaffé Prize 2024 for the best literary translation from French into Dutch has been awarded to Kiki Coumans. She receives the prize for her oeuvre and, in particular, for her translation of Zomer '80 by Marguerite Duras, which was published in 2022 by...
Renovated foyers, redesigned streets and new entrance open to public Utrecht gains an extraordinary cultural meeting place. On Vredenburgplein, TivoliVredenburg will open its doors to the public every day. The renovated foyers, the redesigned streets and the new entrance together form an architectural tribute to architect Herman Herzberger. During the day, from now on, there will be an almost daily free music programme here...
Marlou Stolk will be the new business director of Maas theatre and dance. From 1 April, she will take over from interim business director Winfred Voordendag and form the board of Maas theatre and dance with artistic director René Geerlings and interim artistic director Carole van Ditzhuyzen. Marlou has worked in the cultural sector for 30 years, largely in Rotterdam,...
Enjoy new talent with personal performances throughout the city Delft, Monday 3 February - From 27 May to 9 June, Delft will be the stage for talented new makers for nine days. At 30 special locations in the city, 26 talents will surprise and move visitors with dance, theatre, music, cabaret and everything in between. The performances often tell very personal stories. Own...
The Council for Culture has launched an advisory process on supervision in the cultural and creative sector. With its Governance Committee, the council is examining how internal supervision can be improved so that organisations can function sustainably and strengthen their position. The advice is expected to be presented around summer 2025. Why this advice? Supervision in the cultural...
Mels Huige has joined the supervisory board of the Amsterdam Museum. The Amsterdam Municipal Executive Board recently appointed the new member. Last week, the first meeting of the supervisory board took place in which Huige participated. Mels Huige (1978) was educated in Maastricht (Master in Business Economics) and Rotterdam (RSM Erasmus University) and...
Utrecht, 27 January - Leonie Kuhlmann will start as business director of NUT (Nieuw Utrechts Toneel) from 1 February. Kuhlmann brings with her a wealth of experience both inside and outside the theatre sector. She will apply her skills to NUT's strategic and organisational growth. Leonie Kuhlmann studied Administrative & Organisational Science and Teaching Theatre Making. She worked in recent years as...
The international research facility European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) was launched today as the European Research Infrastructure and will have its headquarters in the Netherlands. On 26 January, on the eve of the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz 80 years ago, the inauguration ceremony took place at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The research infrastructure pools the available public...
During Holland Festival 2024, The Bird of a Thousand Voices was performed at the Muziekgebouw. For those who could not be there then, or would like to see this special performance again, it is possible to watch the performance online (as a video on demand). The stream will be available from Friday 28 February 00:01 until Sunday 2 March 23:59. 'Phenomenal musicians, stunning storytelling and...
Launching a new alliance: The Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts, a pioneering partnership of 11 leading European philanthropic foundations, launches this week to promote the power of socially engaged arts in driving meaningful social change across the continent. Progress in Europe Socially engaged art is vital to achieving the vision of the...
On 2 December 2024, Kunstenbond and the Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) reached an agreement in principle on the Collective Labour Agreement for Theatre and Dance for 2025 and 2026 and on the Collective Labour Agreement for Music Ensembles. Both collective agreements will run for two years: 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026. Meanwhile, the constituencies of both social partners have also agreed to the CAO agreements....
In the family concert series Groove Beast, you will find out why some music makes you want to dance really hard or start tapping your foot. Together with MC Groove Beast and the band members, you will search for the groove. Sitting still is not an option, so jump, dance and clap along and unleash the beast in you.
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