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Plein Theatre hands over petition to Arts and Culture alderman Touria Meliani AND launches crowdfunding: Support Plein Theatre now!

by one of our members
26 October 202030 March 2022
2 min read
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Three weeks back, the Plein Theatre started a petition, asking the City of Amsterdam, and in particular Alderman for Art and Culture Touria Meliani, to provide financial support to preserve the theatre. On Thursday 22 October, the petition with more than 1,600 signatures was handed over by director Berith Danse and chairman Bert Barten to alderman of Art and Culture Touria Meliani.

TivoliVredenburg hosts US election night in four venues

by one of our members
26 October 202030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS, BECOME A MEMBER

On Tuesday 3 November 2020, America will go to the polls. TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht presents a live programme around this exciting election. Current measures allow a maximum of 30 visitors in a room. Therefore, a live stream will be set up in four halls, so that as many people as possible can still enjoy it live.

Dansfilm The Garden toont de zeer draaglijke lichtheid van het bestaan

Dance film The Garden shows the very bearable lightness of existence

by Ruben Brugman
26 October 202030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, FILM, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

The Garden is a new dance film by Sem, now also a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, which premiered last week. The choreography is by British dancer Pascal Johnson, with five dancers dancing on the roof of artist Jean Dubuffet's famous artwork Jardin d'émail in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Möller Museum. That in itself is special enough, however, it is the optimism of the dance film that impresses.

Voor de prijs van een pakje pleisters een meesterwerk van Het Nationale Ballet bekijken

Netherlands' first video ballet proves fascinating online too. Live.

by Ruben Brugman
11 October 202020 October 2020
3 min read
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Since Saturday 10 October, you can watch the Dutch National Ballet's ballet Live online for 2.95 euros. I did it. It was worth it.

Creation returns: Nederlands Blazers Ensemble and Bart Moeyaert on tour again

by one of our members
10 September 202030 March 2022
2 min read
MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

In October, the Blazers and Bart Moeyaert will tour again with De Schepping, the first part of this successful musical theatre trilogy. During this performance, Bart Moeyaert (winner of the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the 'Nobel Prize for children's literature') tells the story using a self-written text to this old, but never performed this way, music by Haydn.

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

by Wijbrand Schaap
September 7, 202030 March 2022
3 min read
MUSIC, November Music, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

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
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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
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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.

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.

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
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'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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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.

'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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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
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER, Utrecht, BECOME A MEMBER

'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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Bart Rutten: we need to keep a close eye on parents in the Miffy museum in particular

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 June 202027 July 2020
7 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, SPECIALS, Utrecht, BECOME A MEMBER

'The spontaneous breeze should be planned at least 15 minutes in advance. After all, you have to buy tickets for a block of time. When you enter our venue, you immediately see all the security measures we have taken to protect staff and visitors. There are huge screens to separate the flow of visitors. There's a chance you won't get lost in... this time.

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Of course, when it comes to institutional racism, discrimination and exclusion, these are not feelings, as you claimed this week, but facts, Mr Rutte.

by Siela Ardjosemito-Jethoe
8 June 20208 June 2020
4 min read
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Dear Prime Minister Rutte, Dear Mark, We have met before. For you one meeting out of many, so you probably won't remember. After all, we have nothing in common, not in terms of political colour or skin colour, not in terms of our socio-economic class, not in terms of our nest, not our gender, height and possibly other distinguishing characteristics: many NOT...

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That's why concert halls need to reopen as soon as possible. By any means necessary.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 June 202019 August 2020
3 min read
Holland Festival, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

What an incredible bucket of guts Lucie Horsch has. Twenty years old. Quite world-famous by now, admittedly. But you just have to dare, in your acceptance speech for the prestigious Dutch Music Prize, to throw the minister's just-expressed words back in her face. Because that is what Lucie Horsch did, with a controlled fury that made a deep impression even from 25 metres away. The...

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Why should the cultural sector level out when the problem is caused by external funders?

by Annelies van der Horst
28 May 202030 March 2022
3 min read
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Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen's article on the high pay for some directors in the arts sector (Forget KLM and Booking: directors are big earners in the subsidised arts too.), and Wijbrand Schaap's commentary on it in the Cultural Press Agency newsletter lack context. Why do I think so? Salaries within cultural institutions follow collective agreements/wage guidelines that are in place in the industries...

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Forget KLM and Booking: even in the subsidised arts, directors are big earners.

by Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen
24 May 202020 September 2020
7 min read
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Just like in the world outside culture (call it capitalism), in the cultural sector itself you also see a huge payment gap between creators and 'the plush'. Only you can't talk about that taboo without being seen as a traitor.

'Artists have a special sensitivity to what is possible and what awaits in the future.' Rainer Hofmann prepares for SPRING's future in solitude.

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 May 202029 March 2022
5 min read
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'I have only met one person for more than 3 minutes in five weeks. I live alone, I see people at the groceries, I take walks and bike rides, but apart from that I don't see anyone live.' Rainer Hofmann, artistic director of Spring, is experiencing a very different spring than intended, thanks to Corona. This month, the major Utrecht festival of innovative art was supposed to...

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'For museums, a reservoir of deferred rent and taxes awaits' Paul Baltus of Amersfoort in C is working hard on a plan B.

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 May 202029 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL, The City Spring, HERITAGE, PODCAST, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

'At some point, you get it again. then you just have to start paying again. Unless there will somehow be remission, but that is not the case for now.' For Paul Baltus, director of museum dome Amersfoort in C, a big challenge awaits if the intelligent lockdown will slowly be lifted. How can...

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'Bring all the venues in Amersfoort together in one management group.' Bernard van Gellekom has an unorthodox vision of cultural survival at the time of Corona.

by Wijbrand Schaap
1 May 202030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, The City Spring, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

'If you can put only a quarter, or even less, in a hall that normally holds 600 people, then the tickets do become very expensive, because your costs don't change. Then my popular heart starts beating again: should we really want something so elitist?' Bernard van Gellekom is an important figure in the Amersfoort pop scene. In his home...

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