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Dutch focus on November Music 2020: Ticket sales start Thursday 10 September

by Wijbrand Schaap
September 7, 202030 March 2022
3 min read
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This year, November Music awards 10 commissions to Dutch and two to foreign composers, including a choral work for Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Traditionally, November Music opens with the Bosch Requiem on Friday 6 November, which of course takes on an extra charge this year. Korean-Dutch composer Seung-Won Oh draws inspiration from the YeonDo death ritual that links Korean funeral traditions with the Catholic faith. After Kate Moore and Calliope Tsoupaki, she is the third female composer of the Bosch Requiem in a row.

Livestream : Creative lectures by Eat Designer Marije Vogelzang

by one of our members
September 3, 2020September 3, 2020
3 min read
PRESS, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

Maas theatre and dance presents from Saturday 5 September to Friday 16 October 2020
Every week a 60-minute creative lecture by eat designer Marije Vogelzang as part of the
of summer performance The Wild Kitchen. Vogelzang's aim with the lectures is to use the
inspire visitors and viewers to improve their relationship with food.

'Sender Boulevard': Intimate and grand. A successful exercise in getting closer.

by one of our members
September 3, 202030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Boulevard, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Under the banner 'Sender Boulevard', the organisers of Theatre Festival Boulevard signed up for six weeks of live encounters in 's-Hertogenbosch. More than 40 different projects delivered an extraordinary variety of performances, performances and installations. Based on the theme 'Nader de ander' (Closer to the other), Boulevard more than ever entered into dialogue with makers and audience, which led to an intense dialogue with results.

Aid schemes authors: counter opened

by one of our members
1 September 20201 September 2020
3 min read
ACTUAL, LITERARY, PRESS, BECOME A MEMBER

Writers and translators hit by the corona crisis can now apply for three support schemes set up especially for them. They can apply for up to €5,000 for a project grant or income support. The first submission deadline closes on 30 September 2020. Membership of the Authors' Association or affiliation to Lira is not compulsory.

Charlotte Köhler Prize 2020 for Manon Uphoff

by one of our members
31 August 202029 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, LITERARY, PRESS, BECOME A MEMBER

This year's Charlotte Köhler Prize, a triennial award for writers of literary works, has been awarded to Manon Uphoff (1962). Uphoff receives the €15,000 prize for her entire oeuvre and in particular for the novel Vallen is als vliegen (2019), which is rooted in reality.

The three-quarters empty hall gives more intimacy than a full hall. HNT always plays; warming and confusing

by Peter Olsthoorn
30 August 202030 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

What impressions, what images stick? Why am I enjoying this so much? The performances during the corona crisis deliver great gratitude: that I get to experience this, that actors, writers, directors and collaborators are faithful to perform for me for weeks or even months on end. The declaration of love is mutual.

Cabinet comes up with 700 million for culture (and solves - temporarily - the problem for the Performing Arts Fund)

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 August 202029 March 2022
5 min read
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On top of the general support measures, the cabinet is allocating an additional 482 million euros for the cultural sector. The cultural and creative sector can also draw on the general support measures, so over 700 million is expected to be available for culture.

Theme NBE composition competition 2021: STAY UP!

by one of our members
25 August 202029 March 2022
1 min read
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The NBE calls on young composers to write music about something or someone they want to stand up for, or even rebel against. There are hardly any rules, anything goes and anything goes as long as it is self-invented.

God and Devil play a game with man - Holland Opera's Flying Dutchman: a feast for the eyes and ears

by Thea Derks
22 August 202030 March 2022
5 min read
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With its expressive music, stylish costumes, dazzling video images and beautiful lighting, The Flying Dutchman is a feast for the eyes and ears.

Down with the veil! Three gutsy girls found Iranian Women Composers Union: 'We want to form a global home front'

by Thea Derks
21 August 202030 March 2022
12 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Things can change. In 1979, Iran changed from a Western-oriented secular state to a spiritual dictatorship, where Islamic leaders call the shots. Women must henceforth go through life veiled and music is banned as extremely sinful. Four decades later, three women founded the Iranian Female Composers Association. In America, though. 'Music is like a drug, those who feel...

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Where did things go wrong between culture decision-makers and the region?

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 August 202030 March 2022
6 min read
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It could have been so beautiful. In a not so grey past, the Council for Culture, then under a different management, initiated a movement that would give more authority to the region outside the Randstad. That was three years ago. Now there is an (entirely justified) angry letter in the newspaper from the culture deputies of 9...

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The city as we knew it is doomed. Long live rural art?

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 August 202030 March 2022
5 min read
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Disturbing reports, over the past few days, in various media. First, there was Patrick van IJzendoorn in De Volkskrant, who observed that life had moved away from London's business heartland. I saw a few confusedly delighted reactions come along from friends on my cultural timeline. After all, the article made a clear connection between the closure of museums and theatres and the...

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Divers

by Ingmar Heytze
17 August 202030 March 2022
3 min read
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The best book I know is called Arthur, King once and for all. That is, that's the name if you buy the latest translation by Jolande van der Klis. Everything you need to know about the world is in this book. It begins like a children's book - I started reading it too when I was a boy

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Youngsters

by Ingmar Heytze
12 August 20202 April 2022
2 min read
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94-year-old Jan Hoek from Rotterdam wrote a letter to the youth that everyone will have read by now - there has not been so much attention paid to a message from an elderly person since that string from Terlouw's letterbox. That message is sympathetic and clear: young people, just hang in there a little longer, for our sake, then you can...

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Life has turned into a B-Movie, and no better location could be imagined than 'Sender Boulevard'

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 August 202030 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Exterior, day. A deserted street in a southern Dutch town, unusually bright daylight. No sound. A man drives up and parks at a vacant power point. He walks to the entrance of a large, empty, modernist building. He is greeted by a very very old veteran, who tells him that "the wife is in for a moment", "she asked me to go on the...

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Taking off and landing softly. That's what Schweigman& offers during Sender Boulevard, and we need it

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 August 202030 March 2022
3 min read
Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Boukje Schweigman is an artist this country desperately needs. My deep admiration for her arose with 'Klep', the performance with which she graduated from the Amsterdam mime school long ago. With eight others in a trolley, looking around through very small flaps in a world where sweet creatures are equally curious about you, after which a minimal touch has the impact of...

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Sender Boulevard pauses to remember the Dutch East Indies

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 August 202029 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, Boulevard, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

'For Indonesian Dutch, 15 August is definitely not liberation day,' explains playwright Bo Tarenskeen. The last day of the alternative Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch, Sender Boulevard, coincides with the commemoration of Japan's surrender on 15 May 1945. The Dutch East Indies, the colony exploited by our country for centuries, had also been liberated from the Japanese, but the end...

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Pierre Jarawan: 'In Lebanon, people fill the gaps in society with stories'

by A Quattro Mani
7 August 202030 March 2022
9 min read
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This week, a massive explosion of 2,700 tonnes of poorly preserved ammonium nitrate destroyed most of the Lebanese capital Beirut. For German-Lebanese writer Pierre Jarawan, who lives in Munich, the disaster is yet another black page in the history of Lebanon, which he himself has only just come to know.

Greg Nottrot offers vision of a new future for theatre at the time of Corona with 'Graves'

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 August 202029 March 2022
3 min read
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Ok, the Mauerpark in the real Berlin is more grubby, but what they call the Berlinplein in Utrecht's new Leidsche Rijn centre has something in common with it. Of course, a frayed edge organised by the local government is a bit suspicious, with a megabios as its biggest attraction, but property developers, the biggest abusers of artistic frayed edges, can't do much else on...

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Sender Boulevard: Seeking a coronaproof future for summer festivals

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 August 202029 March 2022
5 min read
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What festival director Viktorien van Hulst, together with her team, is pulling off seems almost impossible, but it fits the tradition she has developed since taking office. For a few years now, Boulevard has been as much about massive events as intimate encounters.

DBS

by Ingmar Heytze
3 August 202030 March 2022
3 min read
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In the second half of the 1980s, when Wim Deetman was still a cheese soufflé and many Utrechters of my age wore kletter vests with broken rifles, it was very easy to know what you were against. This was because of a few clear principles: anyone on the right was bad. Christians were stupid, hypocritical and scary. Anyone who rented real estate...

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'It's important for Shai to make something again.' Ka Yan Tang and Shailesh Bahoran on Illusionary Rockaz Company in times of Corona

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 July 202029 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, Utrecht, BECOME A MEMBER

Illusionary Rockaz Company was due to release a new work by Shailesh Bahoran this spring. A new production for the first time in two years, after a time in which the Utrecht-based choreographer was constantly winning awards. And then Corona broke out. For Shai, reason to pause for a while: 'For Shakti, the performance that is coming up now, we have to...

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Culture Council marginally updates opinion, but sticks to controversial decisions

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 July 202029 March 2022
4 min read
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The National Opera had made a mistake in preparing its application. According to the Culture Council, the multi-million-dollar national institution had failed to break down performance data between dance and music. As a result, the company had to come up with an entirely new application before 1 November. Now it turns out that was not so bad. As it turns out, the data...

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Bright Richards remains combative in times of Corona: 'Why don't we use art to bring about inclusion?'

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 July 202030 March 2022
6 min read
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'Of course Corona has an impact on me, but the impact of Black Lives Matter is much bigger. I want to get to work activating young people. They need to feel that this is our country. I think it's important to always use every stage to make that clear.' Bright Richards is twenty years after graduating from the Arnhem...

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'It was as if I had ended up in my book.' How Tatiana de Rosnay's dystopian new novel suddenly became suspiciously similar to reality

by A Quattro Mani
19 July 202030 March 2022
8 min read
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It is scorching hot in Paris on the day of the interview with Tatiana de Rosnay (58). In her new novel Flowers of Darkness, Paris suffers yet another heatwave, with the thermometer touching 48 degrees. 'The past few days have been almost as bad as in my book,' De Rosnay tells via Zoom from her Parisian study....

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