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Shortlist Boekman Dissertation Prize announced

by one of our members
23 October 202423 October 2024
3 min read
policy, PRESS

This morning, the Boekman Foundation announced the shortlist for the Boekman Dissertation Prize. After a careful procedure, three dissertation writers have now been selected from the longlist of nine dissertations that have a chance of winning the prestigious prize that will be awarded for the sixth time. The winner will be announced in April 2025 during the Culture as Problem Solver conference, in cooperation with theErasmus University Rotterdam...

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Available from now on: Bookman #139 on culture in the region

by one of our members
13 June 202413 June 2024
3 min read
policy, PRESS

Amsterdam, 13 June 2024 - Culture in the region was a recurring theme during the Lower House elections. The Council for Culture also pays attention to this. The council suggests distributing subsidies more evenly across the country. But how should this be achieved? How is the money distributed now? And how do different regions look at the plans? On these and other...

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Culture Monitor update: Audiences are coming back, but concerns remain

by one of our members
7 May 20247 May 2024
3 min read
policy, PRESS

Amsterdam, 7 May 2024 - The cultural landscape is flourishing again after the corona pandemic. Visitor numbers are rising at museums, cinemas, pop stages and theatres. And nine in ten Dutch people visit one or more cultural activities every year. This is according to new analyses by the Boekman Foundation for the Culture Monitor using, among others, CBS's Vrijetijdsomnibus 2022. Still...

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'Self-employed workers during corona especially let down by large structurally subsidised arts institutions'

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 June 202325 September 2023
2 min read
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"The corona crisis exposes some weaknesses of the cultural and creative sector. In this most flexibilised sector of the economy, the flexible shell proved to be an easy austerity option during the corona crisis. As a result, self-employed workers have partly had to seek refuge outside the cultural and creative sector and may not return." What we already heard, saw and knew...

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Dramatic decline in self-employed in cultural sector - Culture Monitor shows growth among architects and designers

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 January 202325 September 2023
3 min read
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Of the 1910 self-employed people still working behind the scenes of the performing arts in 2019, only 1090 will be left in 2022. So what we suspected turns out to be true: technicians have gone up onto the roof to install solar panels and heat pumps, audience workers found a destination in healthcare. Although the Culture Monitor does not capture this migration, it is clear

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