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November Music 2021 starts ticket sales and presents the programme. The festival cuts across musical genres with 90 concerts in 10 days with 20 commissioned works and 25 premieres. November Music takes place from 5 to 14 November 2021 at various venues in 's-Hertogenbosch, including the Bosch Requiem 2021 composed by Hawar Tawfiq, festival composers Rebecca Saunders and Kaija Saariaho, Brad...
22 sept: Prinsjesdaglezing – Stalmeester Bert Wassenaar Speciaal voor Prinsjesdag worden op woensdag 22 september van 14.00 – 14.45 en om 15.00 – 15.45 uur twee speciale lezingen gehouden door de Stalmeester van de Koning Bert Wassenaar. Over de rituelen en symbolen rondom Prinsjesdag. De Gouden Koets vormt een herkenbaar onderdeel van het Prinsjesdag-ceremonieel. ZM Koning Willem-Alexander en HM Koningin…
O.a. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lale Gül, Roberto Saviano en Alfred Birney maken hun opwachting in Utrecht Op zaterdag 25 september vindt de eerste editie van Exploring Stories plaats: een speciale festivaldag op het ILFU gewijd aan de ‘hete hangijzers’ oftewel actuele thema’s van onze tijd. Op Exploring Stories staan onderwerpen als klimaat, ongelijkheid, oud en nieuw kolonialisme, feminisme en de…
Ja, het is waar, ook dit jaar de try-out van de oudejaarsconference in Concordia.
On Thursday 23 September, Italian writer Elena Ferrante will deliver the thirteenth Belle van Zuylen lecture at the ILFU International Literature Festival Utrecht. She will also receive the Belle van Zuylenring, an international honorary award of the ILFU in cooperation with the municipality of Utrecht. Elena Ferrante is the author of, among others, the four-volume bestseller De geniale vriendin (Edizione e/o; Wereldbibliotheek). Unique event...
Minister van Staat en oud-voorzitter van de Raad voor Cultuur Winnie Sorgdrager zit de commissie voor die adviseert over het tegengaan van grensoverschrijdend gedrag in de culturele en creatieve sector. Zoals eerder bekendgemaakt stelt de raad deze commissie in naar aanleiding van een adviesaanvraag van demissionair minister Van Engelshoven (OCW). Het advies moet zicht geven op wat er speelt op…
“Dit weekend markeert de opening van het culturele seizoen, maar levert ook gemengde gevoelens op. Steeds meer mensen vinden de weg naar museum, theater en concertzaal langzamerhand weer terug. De klanken en kleuren daar grijpen ons aan, troosten ons en brengen ons weer samen. We ervaren de cultuur nu misschien wel als mooier dan ooit. We kijken er naar uit.…
The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) is a collaboration between Indian writer, lawyer and activist Radha D'Souza and Dutch artist Jonas Staal, produced by Framer Framed, Amsterdam. The project consists of a large-scale installation in the form of a tribunal prosecuting intergenerational climate crimes. The tribunal's inauguration will take place on 24 September 2021. From 28...
Today, the Supervisory Board announced that Tobias Kokkelmans has been appointed as the new director/manager of Stichting de Theaterdagen, organiser of the Nederlands Theater Festival, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, NTFJong and the in-depth platform for professionals NTF-Pro, as of 1 September. In doing so, he succeeds Jeffrey Meulman, who in May this year left the Foundation after sixteen years for the Verkadefabriek....
This summer, the Netherlands' first Verhalenmachine (Storytelling Machine) will again tour Utrecht hotspots. From the ILFU Verhalenmachine you don't pull out a croquette or a can of soda, but one of hundreds of free short stories. In the coming weeks, the Verhalenmachine will tour busy Utrecht locations, such as the Neude Library, the Uitalage on Steenweg and TivoliVredenburg. This tour is...
Young artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and other new thinkers are drowning in the effects of the Corona crisis, as a cry for help from Jett Rebel in de Volkskrant again showed. Assignments are falling away and there is little room for new initiatives. A whole generation of creative talents seems to be lost in jobs in the hospitality industry or at the GGD. The European Recovery Fund...
The Amsterdam Museum is running an innovative campaign for the exhibition The Golden Coach in collaboration with various agencies and creatives. Sharing knowledge and starting a national conversation about the controversial carriage is the goal. Head of Communications & Marketing at the Amsterdam Museum Maurice Seleky explains why this was chosen: ''The exhibition The Golden Coach tells...
Is het oké om een trotse alien te zijn in een wereld waar gemarginaliseerden zich vervreemd voelen? De LGBTQ+-projectgroep van Framer Framed’s Open Atelier voor i-psy deelnemers hebben een utopische toekomst gecreëerd waarin verschillen en diversiteit worden gevierd en worden erkend als iets moois. Proud Aliens is de jaarlijkse tentoonstelling van de i-psy Arts, Amsterdam, gemaakt in samenwerking met Framer…
The Netherlands has added three new historical world icons. Placement on the World Heritage List adds them to a selection of areas that are unique in the world. For the Netherlands, the Lower Germanic Limes - the former border of the Roman Empire -, the Colonies of Weldadigheid and the Dutch Waterline have been added to the list. During the meeting of the World Heritage Committee, which...
Plein Theater and Annie Gerretsen present with Pride Amsterdam 2021 the musical theatre performance: Sappho the Pot Cupboard! Sappho the Pot Cupboard is an unmissable operatic musical narrative. It makes one feign whether it is a podcast or a rock opera after all. A love tragedy between two women that is going to crack, sand and flame! After such a dyke of a story, all you want is more....
A joint committee of the Amsterdam Arts Council and the Council for Culture will examine plans for a national museum of slavery history in Amsterdam in the coming months. Amsterdam's Municipal Executive and outgoing minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) have asked the advisory councils for a joint opinion. The advice, expected this autumn, will, among other things, address...
Despite persistent corona uncertainty in the cultural sector, International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU) today announces a large part of its programme. The largest literary festival in the Netherlands will take place from 23 September to 2 October 2021 and will programme a host of international writers, poets, musicians and theatre-makers in TivoliVredenburg. On 25 September, the festival theme #WhyFictionMatters will include the French...
The exhibition Taking Stock shows the results of an artistic research project that took place from January to March 2020 in Cairo, Egypt. The project is a response to the closure of the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art. The closure prompted an examination of a series of events in central Cairo and Egypt's cultural scene. Taking Stock is...
With the contemporary composers Kaija Saariaho and Rebecca Saunders, jazz pianists Brad Mehldau and Vijay Iyer, the groups Musikfabrik, The Gurdjeff Ensemble and Ensemble Modern and guitarist Julian Lage, festival November Music rolls out the red carpet for a great diversity of top international composers. There is also another Bosch Requiem, this time composed by Hawar Tawfiq and performed by philharmonie zuidnederland....
From Thursday 2 to Sunday 12 September 2021, the Netherlands Theatre Festival will show the best productions of the past theatre season. The Netherlands Theatre Jury, headed by jury president Hadassah de Boer, selected the eight best theatre productions of the moment. Today, the jury announced its selection. The full selection can be seen during the upcoming edition of the festival
Over the past year, the global pandemic and reignited Black Lives Matter protests have had a huge impact on our daily reality. A Funeral for Street Culture seeks to explore and make visible the sense of loss and other consequences of these events within art and culture. The group project, curated and initiated by Metro54 and curator Rita Ouédraogo,...
The 74th edition of the Holland Festival closed last weekend with the performances Transverse Orientation by Dimitris Papaioannou, Age of Rage by ITA-Ensemble and Pierrot Lunaire by Marlene Monteiro Freitas. The festival collaborated with two associate artists, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and French-Austrian theatre maker Gisèle Vienne. Twenty-three companies played one hundred and eleven performances in twenty-five days. The festival presented seven world premieres and co-produced 11 international...
ILFU (International Literary Festival Utrecht) is launching a national storytelling competition for the second time - in which stories in all possible forms are welcome. The ILFU Verhalenwedstrijd is the first interdisciplinary story contest in the Netherlands, organised on the belief that good stories can and should be told in all conceivable forms. The theme of this year's contest is What matters...
Marjolijn Vencken will become the new chair of the supervisory board of Cultuur+Ondernemen, the knowledge platform for entrepreneurship in the cultural sector, from 1 July. She succeeds Steven de Waal, who is stepping down from his chairmanship after the full eight-year term. Marjolijn Vencken has been a member of the supervisory board since 2015. An experienced public affairs adviser, she...
Plein Theater presenteert van 13 juli t/m 30 juli de bijzondere vierkanaals video-installatie Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta van kunstenaar Su Tomesen. De video-installatie laat het dagelijkse leven van straatverkopers zien op vier verschillende werelddelen. Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta gaat over hoe private ondernemingen elke dag weer de stedelijke publieke ruimte innemen en…
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