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Voorzitter Raad voor Cultuur roept op tot samenwerking in uitdagende tijden

“Laten we samen verder bouwen aan een culturele en creatieve sector die blijft verbinden en vernieuwen”. Met deze oproep opent voorzitter Kristel Baele het online jaarverslag 2024 van de Raad voor Cultuur, dat vandaag is gepubliceerd. In haar voorwoord staat ze stil bij de uitdagingen waar instellingen, kunstenaars, makers en publiek het afgelopen jaar voor stonden. Zo noemt ze de… 

Beleef de wereld door de ogen van nieuwe makers op Delft Fringe Festival

Geniet van de toekomst van podiumkunst met persoonlijke voorstellingen door de hele stad Delft, maandag 31 maart – Van 27 mei tot en met 8 juni kan je Delft Fringe Festival beleven op 30 locaties door de hele stad – van historische parels tot het rauwe Kabeldistrict. Delft staat negen dagen lang in het teken van podiumkunsten zoals cabaret, dans, familietheater, kleinkunst,… 

Amsterdam Museum looks to the future of the city in festive year

Exhibition Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the Future from 11-07 to 30-11-2025 An exhibition about the future will open at the Amsterdam Museum on Friday 11 July 2025: Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the Future. For the third edition of the biennial Refresh Amsterdam exhibition, this time not only artists are contributing, but the general public will also have the chance to share a vision of... 

Magazine Boekman delves into the culture

On Thursday 3 April, in collaboration with the Dutch Unesco Commission and representatives from the scene, the Boekman Foundation will present the spring issue of Boekman magazine, which this time is entirely dedicated to 'the culture'. This artistic movement and dynamic lifestyle is rooted in hip-hop and is at the centre of the cultural life of millions of people worldwide. The diversity of... 

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CLA Drama and Dance declared generally binding

Amsterdam, 26 March 2025 - With the publication in the Staatscourant of 20 March 2025, the collective labour agreement for theatre and dance 2025-2026 has been declared generally binding (AVV). This means that all professional Dutch producers producing theatre and/or dance performances must apply this collective labour agreement for their staff.Collective bargaining parties Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) and Kunstenbond applied for the AVV to regulate the terms of employment for... 

Madeleine Matzer receives North Brabant Culture Award 2025

We are proud to share that our founder and former artistic director Madeleine Matzer is this year's recipient of the Culture Award of the North Brabant Cultural Fund. The jury praised her performances that touch on social themes and make audiences think. 'She gives a voice to the unspeakable,' said jury chair Machteld Postma. The award will be presented by Queen's Commissioner Ina Adema. To... 

Culture Council examines funding in culture sector

The Culture Council is starting an advisory process on how to make funding for the cultural sector broader and more sustainable. The Financing Advisory Committee has been set up for this purpose. This committee examines how the alignment between public and private funding can be better organised and what barriers governments, financiers and cultural institutions experience in attracting private money. The council presents the advice... 

Tero Saarinen Company and Asko|Schönberg join forces at the Holland Festival on 24 & 25 June 2025 

Asko|Schönberg presents Study for Life with Tero Saarinen Company at the Holland Festival. Tero Saarinen's new choreographic work is an ode to the music of Kaija Saariaho. In Study for Life, the nuanced and delicate world of Kaija Saariaho is brought to life by a group of six dancers, the musicians of Asko|Schönberg and soprano Raquel Camarinha. An innovative... 

Holland Festival 2025 opens 11 June with Thai AI dance, Butoh, a focus on the vulnerable body, a special three-week project and a performance in The Hague 

Holland Festival 2025 opens on 11 June at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam with the European premiere of Cyber Subin by Thai choreographer Pichet Klunchun. Dancers and avatars dance together in a co-created by AI choreography that reinterprets the traditional Thai Khon dance. For the first time in 35 years, the Holland Festival is back in The Hague 

Theatre Sonnevanck & The NUT present: Rose & Ariadne (8+): About love and other disgusting things 

March 2025 - Theatre Sonnevanck and the NUT return in 2025 with the remake of the successful play Roos & Ariadne. The 'plea for emotions of all shapes and sizes' (Theaterkrant, 2020) is a co-production, in which traditionally Floor Leene's stage text finds inspiration in ancient, Greek myths: this time the story of Ariadne's thread. Directed by... 

Stage grant award: €26.8 million for programming and audience connection

Fonds Podiumkunsten awards a total of €26.8 million in grants to 136 venues for the period 2025-2029. With the podium scheme, the Fund supports the presentation of professional performing arts offerings across the country. The production grant enables 51 stages to (co)produce and invest in talent development. Stages in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom The stages that from 1... 

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Cooperation between NAPK and VPF

From 1 March 2025, the Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) and the Verenigde Podiumkunsten Festivals (VPF) will work together in the new Platform Festivals. The Platform Festivals will become part of the NAPK. The cooperation between NAPK and VPF strengthens the representation of interests for both producers and performing arts festivals and provides access to a larger network and more expertise. This strengthens the position of... 

American YA bestselling author Jandy Nelson is coming to Utrecht

On Sunday 6 April, American YA author Jandy Nelson is coming to Utrecht! At Vogelfrei, ILFU is organising a YALFU Book Talk with Nelson about her work and her new book Als de wereld wankelt, a rock-solid novel brimming with love, secrets and enchantment. She previously wrote the award-winning bestseller I Give You the Sun. Jandy Nelson will be interviewed by our regular YALFU host, Samya Hafsaoui. After... 

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Culture Council sets up monitoring committees for BIS 2025-2028

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 wants to keep special medieval ring in the Netherlands

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... 

Holland Festival launches digital archive

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... 

U-pas pass holders go to TivoliVredenburg for €5

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... 

'Friede auf Erden': art and war at Huis Willet-Holthuysen from 18 April to 9 November 2025

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.... 

3 years since large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine: Two special film screenings in Amsterdam

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... 

Netherlands returns looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

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... 

Culture Council sets up advisory committee on artistic freedom

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... 

Dutch premiere Hush at the Saariaho Festival 13 to 16 March 2025 

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 ... 

New event brings creative freelancers together

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... 

EXPRESSIVE DANCE PERFORMANCE ON CONFRONTATIONAL TRASH HEAP

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... 

Podcast series on the art of Dutch youth theatre

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... 

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