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jet bussemaker

Minister finds important advice from Culture Council too pricey

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 March 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Council for Culture, recently reinforced with new members with a lot of management talent and business acumen, has to accept a defeat. This is because Culture Minister Jet Bussermaker is disregarding a key pillar of the Council's latest advice. In a letter to the room, she reveals that she is looking for alternatives to the Council's proposal to protect 'Objects of National Importance' through the designation of a 'Core Collection'. Instead, Bussemaker says: "My starting point ....

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Well-timed gift from Bussemaker

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 December 20128 July 2016
3 min read
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Rijksmuseum Twente can probably stay open now that culture minister Jet Bussemaker (PvdA) has promised the chamber to halve the planned 50% cut in operations. Moreover, she is going to fight hard to keep the Cultural and Artistic Formation subject in secondary education as a compulsory examination subject 'left or right',

Another necro. Sort of: Theatre Institute Netherlands to continue as TIN Foundation

by one of our members
13 December 201229 March 2022
3 min read
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We are just reporting the press release in full. For your information. Every now and then, more news like this comes along. We don't post them all, because that would make the world very bleak. The world as many people knew it, and thought it was the pride of the Netherlands, is coming to a squeaking halt to make room for. Well. We will report on that in the years to come. Of what comes in its place.
Theatre Institute Netherlands to be dismantled from 31 December ...

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Jet's letter: 'alas, peanut butter'

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 November 201230 March 2022
2 min read
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The previous secretary of state for culture, Halbe Zijlstra, cast his draconian cuts in concrete. Cuts of 35 to 40 per cent on the budgets of orchestras, theatre companies and some museums have become law. The new culture minister, PvdA star Jet Bussemaker, cannot change that at all an iota. And if she even wanted to: the architect of the cuts she has to authorise sits in the chamber as the ruling party's group leader. No chance he will to...

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