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Talk to our reporters. Exclusive: spot in the #hf12 hangout for our most loyal followers

by one of our members
25 June 201230 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

There have been days when we had 1500 page views. You, 2500 of our most loyal visitors, came so far to provide 14000 views on dedodo.co.uk, and you stayed around for an average of three minutes. On average. We are proud of that. Apparently, we managed to attract and keep your attention. So those are good figures for an online festival day newspaper like De Dodo, which has to make do with no screaming, no marketing budget but an overdose of enthusiasm and professional innovativeness.

Dodo Holland Festival journal becomes Dodo Holland Festival Hangout #HF12

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

We've already had one episode on it, and it was obviously a huge success, but right at the climax you have to start something new. That's why tonight at 22:30 we have a new thing: The Dodo Holland Festival Hangout. Live, interactive and online. Innovative, in other words, as you know it from us. You know them: those reporter trucks with metres of spaghetti...

Dodo Holland Festival journal becomes Dodo Holland Festival Hangout #HF12

by one of our members
6 June 201213 February 2019
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

We've already had one episode on it, and it was obviously a huge success, but right at the climax you have to start something new. That's why tonight at 22:30 we have a new thing: The Dodo Holland Festival Hangout. Live, interactive and online. Innovative, in other words, as you know it from us. You know them: those reporter trucks with metres of spaghetti...

The Dodo goes out of its way to tell you all about the Holland Festival 2012 #hf12

by one of our members
1 June 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Top theatre from all corners of the world, big names we had never dared hope for, and a newsreel that we will broadcast at unexpected times. Festival day newspaper The Dodo, now a household name in festival land, is going all out at this year's Holland Festival. Of course. It is the dream of every blogger, professional or amateur, to be at the performances of the...

The Cultural Press Bureau goes full steam ahead for ten days with The Dodo at Springdance

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 April 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

It may be a crisis and the cultural winds may also be blowing from the wrong right corner, but that doesn't stop The Dodo from flying. The festival day newspaper we launched two years ago as a new commercial product is ready for another 10 days of Springdance. We're going to review a lot of performances, and compare even more. And we're going to make a journal. It...

Free: Festival diary Writers Unlimited 2012

by one of our members
27 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

They were great days, the four days we reported on Writers Unlimited (v/h Winternachten) in The Hague. We saw a new self-aware generation of writers from Africa, experienced debates and played - in the foyer of The Hague's Theater a/h Spui - for VJ during the salsa dancing class. Daniël Bertina and Wijbrand Schaap did their best to attend as many...

Holland Festival: diary of the 2011 edition

by one of our members
27 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

On 28 February, Pierre Audi will present the programme of the 2012 Holland Festival at the City Theatre. As in 2010 and 2011, we will follow that festival closely with our online festival daily newspaper at www.dedodo.nl. That daily newspaper has now proven its right to exist, as more and more festivals want to collaborate with the Cultural Press Agency on this unique initiative. To the 'product-range'...

PEN Award for Iranian founder 'Stop Stoning Forever' campaign #wu12

by one of our members
19 January 201230 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

She now lives in Norway, after she had to leave her homeland Iran for her own opinion. She was detained for five days, and in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, that is an eternity. Now Asieh Amini is free in a foreign land, and Oxfam-Novib is presenting her with the PEN Award. A great opening for the Writers Unlimited Winternachten Festival, which, with this presentation,...

One hundred and thirty thousand visitors for the Cultural Press Office in 2011. The bar for 2012 is high.

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 December 201130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

That frightens us quite a bit ourselves. We knew that the Cultural Press Agency was doing pretty well, but we didn't really think a reach of more than 100,000 people was possible. After all, we had done nothing in the way of marketing. Just posting content and not giving away free tickets. And only once something with a bare female breast in it. Enfin....

Rebellion and resignation hand in hand during beautiful opening weekend The International Choice at Rotterdam Theatre #hechoice

by one of our members
19 September 20112 April 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

Opinion pollsters take note: "People give the moderate answer to most questions they are asked in life. The characters in 'This is not a love story' are very ordinary, very average. In that, it clicks between those two. It's an ending where you feel an enormous satisfaction." Enthusiasm prevails after the opening weekend of The International Choice of the...

Hot and sunny weekend at Soesterberg airbase: time for new experiment with The Dodo

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 September 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

With temperatures above 25 degrees, it will be a sweltering but also unique summer day, that 10th September. The Cultural Press Agency will be present that day and Sunday with four journalists at the former Soesterberg Air Base to report on festival De Basis. When you get there, you will make lots of nature, even more impressive war history and a theatre performance or two...

Rotterdam Theatre's International Choice has always been a personal choice

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 August 201129 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Last year, it was still about 'a sense of belonging': about the ability to feel at home somewhere, to know you belong somewhere. This year, the motto of the quirky Rotterdam festival De Internationale Keuze is almost diametrically opposed to that: parallel reality. Instead of one place offering warmth, the festival now says that place is there...

Cackling fresh location artists prepare for Festival DE BASIS

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 August 201130 March 2022
2 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

With a few creative friends and a nice budget, romp around in a playground of many tens of acres of pristine nature. Surrounded by the remains of military might. It automatically makes you talk riotously. But that's how it goes sometimes. With art. So, to get right to the point: cuts are not always bad. For instance, divesting the...

Successful Holland Festival closes record edition amid uncertainty over future

by one of our members
26 June 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Photo: Pierre Nydegger To conclude. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we were able to meet with...

#HF11: We chat with Jeroen Stout, Daniël Bertina, Fransien vd Putt and Wijbrand Schaap.

by one of our members
25 June 201113 February 2019
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

In conclusion. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we had a great time with our new...

The Dodo revives for Holland Festival edition 2011 #HF11

by one of our members
30 May 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

This week the Holland Festival erupts and we are there. We are producing a Dodo Festival Day newspaper with a sizeable team of professional journalists, as we did before for Springdance and The International Choice of the Rotterdam Schouwburg, for example. We follow the festival closely to bring news as it happens. We go to see performances where others...

The Dodo reports on the 27th edition of Springdance

by Madeleine Red
18 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The 27th edition of Springdance in Utrecht is in full swing. Cultural Press Agency reviewers are there, attending dance performances from all corners of the world. For instance, Fransien van der Putt visited the opening performance Sideways Rain by Brazilian Guilhermo Botelho and the jazzy tap dance performance by Broadway star Savion Glover. Maarten Baanders attended Studium by Belgian dance collective...

The Dodo spreads its wings in dire times for subsidised art

by one of our members
25 August 201030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Then you just have to have Twan Huys. The presenter of Nova who managed to kill all Job Cohen's election ambitions in a few schoolmaster questions. He will be able to pull the same trick on Sunday 29 August with a few left-wing politicians and arts bobos in the traditional Uitmarkt debate in Paradiso.

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