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Queues to the door for Knausgård at Winternachten #wu16 #wn16

Lots of audience and wonderful stories made the Saturday of the literary festival Winternachten a party. For the visit of Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård in the afternoon, queues stretched from the auditorium to the front door of the Theater aan het Spui. The festival's evening programming was also well attended. While American-German philosopher Susan Neiman spoke in... 

Storioni Festival: champagnefles waarvan de kurk bijna afknalt

Op donderdag 21 januari start de negende editie van het Storioni Festival, gewijd aan het vijfhonderdste sterfjaar van Jeroen Bosch. Vrij naar diens beroemde triptiek Tuin der lusten kozen de musici van het Storioni Trio en Frank Veenstra, artistiek manager van Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, voor het thema ‘Dromen en Demonen’. Composer in residence is de Pool Krzysztof Penderecki, die beroemd werd… 

blab.im

Forget Jinek. The conversation about art can go to a new dimension: blab.im at #wu16

On Friday 15 January, we conducted a first experiment with the platform 'blab.im'. During festival Winternachten, we reported live, via the internet. We did so in English, because most of the viewers we had were English-speaking. We could see that. That is already the most striking difference between something like Blab.im, and ordinary television. Blab.im in the Netherlands is still... 

Winternachten: an engaging and amusing evening of talking about Evil #wu16

Literature is not a means to bring about political change, but to change people. That is exactly what he aims for with his books, Egyptian writer Alaa al Aswani said yesterday at Winternachten, where his new novel The Automobile Club of Cairo was presented. That is probably how visitors to the literary festival at the end of the evening also came to... 

winter nights on blab

On the sofa with The Signature Hunter, The Translator and Abdelkader Benali

Three and a half hours of streaming video from a seating area at The Hague's Winternachten festival. I won't blame you if you didn't follow everything. I wasn't quite there myself at the end. Still, it was a success. If only because it hasn't been done here in the country before. Blab is so new that... 

winter nights opening: debate

'Western writers are part of oppression'

The annual presentation of the International PEN Awards during the opening of Winternachten in The Hague is never a truly convivial affair. After all, every year at least one of the awardees cannot receive the prize herself. Because she has been captured, because he is missing, or ill. This year, Thursday 14 January at the Theater aan het Spui, could... 

Apple was not just messing around

Ten years after his death, Karel Appel turns out to be more timeless than you would think with only Cobra in mind. This can be seen at a large and impressive retrospective at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. It showcases the oeuvre of a highly versatile artist who continued to develop into an old age. An impression of the exhibition under construction. Drawings Next to... 

Winternachten is about something

Hello Darkness is the theme of the international literary festival Winternachten, this coming weekend in The Hague. It takes guts, in a time when everything has to be fun and cosy and we prefer not to spend our free time dealing with misery or 'heavy topics'. That is why we love Winternachten, because that festival really goes... 

Billy & Bowie

Aangezien ik toch niet al mijn muziekmijmeringen over Bowie kwijt kan in de (al reeds voor z’n overlijden geplande) animatiecolumn medio maart, mijmer ik nu gewoon met de rest van de wereld mee na B-day 10 01 2016. Zie namelijk nogal vaak de hoes van Heroes voorbijkomen in de media. Die zwart-wit foto waarbij hij in een soort marionetachtige houding… 

‘The President’ eindelijk te zien in Nederland

Movies that Matter organiseert op 10 januari een vertoning van Mohsen Makhmalbafs ‘The President’ met als speciale gast -schrijver en journalist- Alexander Münninghoff (De Stamhouder). In ‘The President’ wordt een afgezette dictator in een Oost-Europees land geconfronteerd met zijn daden nadat hij zich schuil moet houden met zijn kleinzoon. In Mohsen Makhmalbafs satire zijn de rollen even omgedraaid en daarmee… 

Susan Neiman chief guest at Winternachten 2016: Why the atomic bomb really fell on Hiroshima

Propaganda is not just something that occurs in, say, Russia, but also in the West - more so than we ourselves realise. For example, is it widely believed today that the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan to capitulate and thus end World War II, nothing could be further from the truth. In that respect, Germany goes... 

Vijf redenen waarom de Nederlandse Reisopera Amahl and the Night Visitors ieder jaar moet uitvoeren

Alleen Maastricht, Den Bosch en Enschede konden genieten van Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. Veel te weinig voor een opera die slechts tweemaal eerder in ons land te zien was (in 1988 en 1965) maar alles in zich heeft om een jong publiek voor het genre te winnen én de decemberopera bij uitstek is. Zeker als de mini-opera zo… 

Van Veen (vvd), Pechtold (d66) and Monasch (pvda) during the culture budget debate

We were read in 2015: 300,000 visitors, a total of 10,000 hours of reading time.

Tijd voor ons succeslijstje. In 2015 trokken we 60.000 bezoekers meer dan in 2014. Dat is iets om trots op te zijn. Een website die zich richt op de verhalen die de bestaande media de klein vinden, en dan zulke cijfers. Dat we die 300.000 bezoekers trokken is één, dat ze gemiddeld 2 en een halve minuut per verhaal besteedden,… 

Wat te doen met de VVD?

Wie in de cultuursector werkt, hoeft niet heel veel te verwachten van de VVD. De partij probeert de laatste tijd echter een ander gezicht te laten zien. De nieuwe cultuurwoordvoerder van de rechtsliberalen heeft immers nog maar kortgeleden een motie ingediend waarin de VVD zowaar 10 miljoen teruggeeft van de ruim 250 miljoen die de landelijke overheid van de kunsten afpakte.… 

Violinist Daniel Rowland: 'One spontaneous action can change the world'

The healing power of music, some firmly believe in it - in 2013, it was even the premise of the City of London Festival. Believing that music can connect people and have a healing effect on conflictual societies, festival director Ian Ritchie asked the Brodsky Quartet to commission a composition around this theme. Thus was born the by... 

Bowie expo in Groningen more compact than the British original, but well worth seeing

Cultural philosopher Ad Verbrugge has never had very much with David Bowie. He told that at the beginning of his lecture, Friday night 18 December, as a special attraction of the David Bowie Late Night at the Groninger Museum. That was the first disappointment for the assembled fans. More were to follow. Indeed, Ad Verbrugge had not quite prepared for his... 

'So Anyway'. A political Christmas column

But then. A day before Christmas, the prime minister experiences a sleepless night. He has no appetite for the Glühwein provided by the housekeeping service. The Christmas pastry, delivered by a friendly VVD baker, remains untouched. The security guards see their object sitting upright in his bed... Read and shudder That summer evening, Michelle de Kat sits smugly in a corner of the blood-hot studio 

Legendary alto Aafje Heynis died

'So, that one is hanging again', the alto Aafje Heynis is said to have exclaimed after a performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion. The statement is probably apocryphal and is also attributed to the soprano Jo Vincent, but fits perfectly with her typically Dutch sobriety*, which was diametrically opposed to her lived performances of very diverse music. In 1983, she quit until... 

Firma Mes - BOT (photo by Joris Jan Bos)

BOT by Firma MES: delightful drama for laughers and thinkers

'KUT TONEEL' has been spray-painted over BOT's poster. Another features penises and a clown's nose. Does Firma MES' new show arouse so much aggression? In any case, the young theatre company from The Hague promises us a play about "unkind people". But that doesn't quite pan out. On the flat floor of Theater aan... 

Welcome back to Amsterdam Huang Ruo!

Zaterdag 13 december presenteert de NTR Zaterdagmatinee de wereldpremière van Unscrolled voor piano en orkest van de Chinees-Amerikaanse componist Huang Ruo (Hainan, 1976), met de pianist Emanuele Arciuli en het Residentie Orkest onder leiding van Emilio Pomàrico. Hiermee start zijn drie maanden durende verblijf als composer in residence van het Amsterdamse Concertgebouw. Ruo is de eerste die deze eer te… 

Good Grief! The Charlie Brown Christmas special turned 50!

Hele generaties kinderen zijn opgegroeid met Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy en hun vrienden. Het universum waarin volwassenen schitteren door afwezigheid, maar de emoties van de kinderen opvallend complex zijn. En dat is waarschijnlijk ook de aantrekkingskracht van de televisiecartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas, die precies vijftig jaar geleden voor het eerst werd uitgezonden.  Charlie Brown heeft helemaal geen zin in… 

Nederlandse Reisopera, Orkest van het Oosten, Consensus Vocalis ánd 600 sing-alongs give lessons in the capital: connecting is how you do it!

Tight and razor-sharp? No. But that's not what this afternoon is about at all. Here the feast of singing together is celebrated, the end result being a performance of Handel's oratorio that you wouldn't want on CD, but which is of a surprisingly high standard and, above all, one you wouldn't have wanted to miss for the world. Much has been written about the problems... 

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