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Win tickets to opera at Paradiso! Whether you like opera or not: five reasons to go to The News today

by Henri Drost
31 May 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, OPERA

Win tickets for The NEWS at Paradiso

Big new, small news. News is everywhere, there is no escape. On the street, in one's own living room. What starts at the breakfast table can become world news. So: what is your news today? Let us know, share this page and take a picture, post it on facebook and twitter. Add #thenewsnl and win two tickets to the reality opera that will permanently change your view of the news.

Jubilant reviews. With the 'reality opera' The News, the Nederlandse Reisopera has a hit on its hands. However, the familiar theatre setting is being abandoned for pop temple Paradiso. Whether you like opera or not: five reasons to go.

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Is Anne too big for reviews? 3 reasons why I find it hard to review Anne

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Someone commented on Facebook that it looked a bit odd for a newspaper to hand out stars for a play based on The Diary of Anne Frank. Although I myself shudder to give out stars this early for a Godwin make, surely there is something to The Play and The Review. Indeed, reviews of The Play to The Diary seem superfluous. For how do you review such a play, with such a history? Isn't fuss about layering or no layering, adventurousness or no adventurousness in the direction even a little irreverent? So these are three issues, which led me to consider that maybe it shouldn't be possible at all. Anne review.

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Orchestra war escalates: Enschede's star orchestra has to hand in instruments

by one of our members
13 March 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Seizure of the instruments of the former Netherlands Symphony Orchestra is imminent. The orchestra, which has been banned from using the word "Dutch" since a lost legal battle with Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, is thus not allowed to sell instruments or take them abroad. Pending a countermove from the former Orchestra of the East, they changed the name there to ***** Symphony Orchestra.

Jan Willem De Vriend, conductor of the troubled Enschede-based orchestra, wrote this morning in ...

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5 lessons from a Tilburg riot: superficial newspaper determines superficial cultural politics

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 January 201430 March 2022
21 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Regional newspapers hardly do any real cultural journalism anymore. We know this because it was the reason we once founded Culture Press. Just how bad things are now, five years later, with art in the region and the way newspapers deal with it, was evident this month in Tilburg. A local journalist from the Brabants Dagblad had written a piece on questions raised by a PVV MP in the province. In the news story, this former sports journalist qualified...

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Through Facebook, writers return to origins #wu14

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 January 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

It's because of Facebook. Says Ton van de Langkruis, artistic director of writers' festival Writers Unlimited: "You can no longer be that anonymous figure bombarding the world with hermetic texts from a locked attic room. The market is no longer for it. Your main means of communication is facebook. There you have to be open to questions, you communicate with your readers. We are back in the village square where the first stories were once told."

With 'Like me' being the fest...

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'Thanks to facebook I have time to spare': writers embrace the social network at Writers Unlimited

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 January 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Fouad Laroui does not do internet. The Moroccan-born author and professor does not even have a mobile phone. "I realise that this makes me part of a small elite," he declared during a debate at Writers Unlimited, "but I don't see the point of it." His tablemates did not share his opinion, which is quite remarkable. Just a few years ago, most of the international writing elite regarded social media as something with which they did not need to interfere.

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Artists' acquittal: March of Civilisation was civilised after all

by one of our members
10 January 201430 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Police cracked down too hard at the March of Civilisation on 27 June 2011 in The Hague. The demonstration against art cuts, which was controversial because of its rather elitist naming, ended with a few charges by the ME on artists. Their friendly sit-in thereby degenerated into something that opponents of all those elitist subsidy slimmers (according to Martin Bosma of the PVV) were only too happy to see: violence.

The fa...

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'Gay propaganda is not about homophily': Rotterdam backs Gergiev

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 December 201311 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

They were horrified by it. There in Rotterdam, at De Doelen. Because 'their' Valery Gergiev, former chief of the local orchestra and namesake of the prestigious festival that sometimes to be held in September, doesn't like gays. At least, that's what we all believed

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Art. Videos for those who did not already know

by one of our members
16 August 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Sponged from facebook: those who wondered why there was art again. Or why it costs money. Those people are there .

Series of videos now.

John Maeda

Meryl Streep:

Lyn Heward:

http://youtu.be/RaN89k01V-4

Josh Groban:

http://vimeo.com/4396242

Sir Andrew Motion:

Denzel Washington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpW...

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Social media and art connect people, but Egypt stays away for a while #vvu

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 May 201330 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Treaty of Utrecht

Experiments may well have a different outcome than you hope for beforehand. The Community Arts Lab is now discovering through the Face to Face project that the world of the internet still has to deal with real borders. A project in which ordinary people in Egypt would create a work of art with ordinary m...

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Future of opera or soporific experience?

by Henri Drost
18 April 20138 July 2016
6 min read
Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS

I have seen the future of opera.

A work of remarkable arrogance.

Soporific.

The most perfect

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'Anti-Greek' facade banner Theatre Frog destroyed after protests

by one of our members
12 January 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We received this via Facebook: "During the night of Friday 11 to Saturday 12 January at 1.30am, a group of about seven young men destroyed a large canvas hanging on the facade of Theater Kikker on the Ganzenmarkt in Utrecht. The canvas, which had a size of about 7 by 7 metres, referred to the Greek flag and served as an announcement of the project 'De NUTtige Winkel, Greece in de uitverkoop' that the Utrechts Toneel is performing at Theater Kikker from 8 to 26 January. The poli...

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Rejected for a missed rule overturn?

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 December 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Unrest in poetry land. Due to an error 'unclear' in the website of the National Turing Poem Competition, several hundred poems have disappeared from the competition probably for the wrong reasons. Alexis de Roode, himself a multiple prize winner, raised the issue on facebook. His poem 'Monday Morning' turned out - once in the system - not to be a poem anymore, but a piece of prose, without the line breaks associated with a poem.

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Anna Mikhailova: 'Black Perfume is about addiction and fear'

by Thea Derks
10 December 201230 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC

Amsterdam, 10-12-2012 - Last weekend saw the start of the Babel Festival at the Ostadetheater, an initiative of the Diamantfabriek. Founded two years ago, this production group offers young makers the chance to develop small-scale musical theatre. This weekend sees the premiere of Black Perfume, by Russian composer Anna Mikhailova and Dutch director Annechien Koerselman, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's story Morphine.
Mikhailova (Moscow, 1984) studied with the notorious Tichon Chren...

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Spuiforum: copy of 181 million?

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 December 20128 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

While the city has to make huge cuts in music schools, libraries, a few drama clubs and other nice things for the people, like public transport and healthcare, The Hague does build a new art building. Rather, the municipality is putting 181 million into demolishing and renovating the theatres on the Spui, because the architect who built the complex 20 years ago apparently did not do his job properly.

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NDT in motion: on stage, the silver screen and behind it

by Ruben Brugman
20 November 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Being active on social media like Facebook or Twitter is now a must for any dance company. But broadcasting a dance performance (live) via 600 cinemas worldwide is no mean feat either. NDT (The Hague) has been chosen by Pathé theatres to join the illustrious list of The Metropolitan Opera (New York), The National Theatre (London) and the Bolshoi Ballet (Moscow) as a partner in high-level performing arts.

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Germany investing in culture? Not really.

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 November 201230 May 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We too retweeted it: "Germany increases culture subsidy by 100 million". And we thus fed a half-truth. That half-truth is, that Germany is a heaven for culture lovers, a haven for people fed up with the chilly austerity measures of the Rutte governments. Germany may seem nice, but, as Volkskrant correspondent Merlijn Schoonenboom noted in March this year, there are at least as many cuts there as here.

What went wrong?

H...

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If you don't have Twitter in Egypt. Community Arts 'Mahatat' works from the bottom up. #vvu

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 October 20128 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

The government has made little effort in recent decades to create a cultural scene getting off the ground. There are no workspaces. No galleries. Only a very large library and a "cultural palace". Both of which opened only five years ago. There are also a few small independent initiatives. In public spaces.

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'Arts education virtually eliminated'

by one of our members
10 September 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

Update 11 September 2012: Labour Party corrects election manifesto in response to reporting below:

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Drama awards party in year of gloom

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 September 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

It had to be a party, because there has been enough shouting and complaining and it doesn't help anything anyway. After a year in which the theatre sector in particular felt the hard hand of Mark Ruttes happy crisis policy, awards had to be handed out again. So the already not-so-huge crème de la crème of the Dutch theatre world gathered again for the gala at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg. It was a valiant attempt at optimism, while in the corridors it was also briefly revealed again that it was no ko...

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Do we still like Facebook?

by Leo Bankersen
4 September 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

As the internet becomes increasingly synonymous with big companies like Facebook for many people, the old ideal of an open and free world net is starting to fade.

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Halbe Zijlstra: 'nothing to do with local arts policy'

by one of our members
27 August 20128 July 2016
10 min read
ACTUAL

Halbe Zijlstra is proud of his policy, and keen to come and tell it in front of the entire cultural sector. So on Sunday 26 August, he appeared on stage during the annual 'Paradiso Debate' to reiterate how well things had gone with the 200 million cut in the arts sector. He praised the resilience of the affected art world, and would be happy to do the same again.

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Baldwin Live

by one of our members
31 July 201230 March 2022
18 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

On Wednesday 1 August 2012, the Performing Arts Fund will announce the results of the lottery that granting arts subsidies has now become. Huge cuts are looming: companies and makers that by now seemed to be a permanent part of the Dutch arts landscape will disappear. So what exactly it will look like, we will officially only know from 12:00 on Wednesday 1 August. To leak things in advance makes no sense, things are too dramatic for that.
What we do want ...

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Opening Holland Festival on twitter and facebook: tenue de wtf, ns-#fail, sublime dance theatre and mozzarella sticks #hf12

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 June 201229 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

[View the story "Opening Holland Festival 2012" on Storify]Opening Holland Festival 2012On 1 June, the Holland Festival opened at Theater Carré. We were there, saw Platel's C(h)oeurs and tasted the atmosphere. Although it almost went wrong. Here's what to make of it on social mediaStorified by Cultureel Persbureau - Sat, Jun 02 2012 08:37:18The Dodo goes...

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Cultural Press Agency reinvents itself

by one of our members
21 May 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

What Rabobank can do, we can do too, thought the journalists of the Cultural Press Agency: working together in a cooperative association. In June, the new form for the news agency will become a reality. This will increase our clout and boost our innovative capacity. The Cultural Press Agency Foundation received time and money from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 2010 and 2011 to...

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