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indonesia

Cultural objects returned to country of origin Indonesia again

by one of our members
20 September 202420 September 2024
2 min read
policy, HERITAGE, PRESS

The Netherlands is returning 288 objects from the National Collection at the request of Indonesia. During the colonial period, these objects, of cultural significance for Indonesia, were wrongfully taken to the Netherlands. Minister Eppo Bruins (OCW) has decided on the return. In doing so, he is following advice from the Colonial Collections Committee chaired by Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You. The works are located...

Reinout Bussemaker is the dream JP in Aluin's 'This is ours'

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 December 202324 December 2023
4 min read
Featured, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

You must be a white man of a certain age. Some of us are so fed up with being blamed for everything that they voted PVV or worse in the last elections out of sheer desperation. That is why it is good that playwright Erik Snel, himself a white man of a certain age, has written a play about the archetype of the Dutch...