A Belgian professor was good enough to compare the own revenues by venues from the US, the UK and Belgium; in all three countries, the companies raise about 42% of their budgets themselves. The innovation professor also reiterated that research shows that investing in culture contributes to economic prosperity ... a wisdom that ...
That this cabinet does not like the creators of art is well enough known by now. That this klabinet also wants to get rid of complaining artists as soon as possible, too. That is why the cabinet is rushing to end laws that give artists a helping hand, such as the Work and Income for Artists Act (WWIK). That law now regulates that professional artists for...
Entrepreneurship is in young theatre-makers' blood (...) A new theatre circuit seems to have emerged in recent years. More and more young groups, such as Stichting Nieuwe Helden, PSTheater and Circus Treurdier, work relatively independently of subsidies and almost always outside the theatre building. They seek out their audiences anywhere, whether on the street, by a canal or in a...
State secretary does not give museum park Orientalis a cent (...) Interim director Peter Berns had asked Zijlstra, state secretary for Education, Culture and Science, for a one-off subsidy of six million euros. The province of Gelderland is willing to make a one-off contribution, if necessary, but only if the government also comes over the bridge. So that is not the case now, confirms a disappointed Berns. Source:...
Culture sector signs agreement on youth pass Eight umbrella organisations in the culture sector signed a covenant on Wednesday advocating the continued existence, albeit in modified form, of the Culture Card. It should remain free, but will henceforth only give discounts on cultural outings. The 15-euro credit will disappear because the state will no longer provide subsidies. Instead, students in the...
Cultuursector krijgt al in 2012 klappen: 100 miljoen (..) Al in 2012 wordt zeker 100 miljoen bezuinigd op cultuur en erfgoed. Niet door Halbe Zijlstra, staatssecretaris van cultuur, maar door gemeenten en provincies. (..) De stad [Eindhoven] bezuinigt vanaf volgend jaar een half miljoen euro op de cultuursector. Dat is een schijntje vergeleken bij Den Haag, waar de kunsten in…
Tweede Kamer stemt in met Belastingplan 2012 (..) Verder werd ook de aangepast Geefwet aangenomen. De 7 miljoen euro fiscale steun verschuift van culturele instellingen naar sport- en muziekverenigingen. Bron: Belasting.nl 18 nov 11 Utrecht – Cultuur mag wat kosten – door Wouter de Heus (..) toen ik deze week eindelijk de hernieuwde exploitatieopzet van het Muziekpaleis in…
Opposition: have arts cuts calculated (...) These are cuts by the state, provinces and municipalities. The aim is to clarify how big the total cuts together are and what exactly the effects will be on supply and employment. (...) "With this request, we want to counter the politics of the short-term agenda. Good policy, including austerity policy, takes into account...
(..) De Jeugdtheaterschool Roosendaal ontving in 2010 en 2011 een projectsubsidie van 36.779 euro van de gemeente. De school vervult ook een regiofunctie. Van de 330 leerlingen komt veertig procent uit de omliggende dorpen. Het voorstel is de subsidie per 1 januari te beëindigen. Pas deze week is dat kennelijk bij de directie van Hofplein doorgedrongen. Die startte meteen een…
On 5 July, the HBO Council came out with a sector plan for art education. Following the report of the Dijkgraaf committee and the Brinkman committee, it was concluded that the autonomous fine arts courses will reduce the intake of first-year students by 25%, the conservatoires with direction of classical and jazz by 10%, and the rest by 20%. This is to be achieved in a period...
The Dutch Dance Days are not yet a mad hive of dance, but for Maastricht they are increasingly a fun tourist attraction. Day trippers and weekend tourists come from all over the country to combine the delights of the South with those of the art of dance. For that matter, all of Maastricht seems to float on VVV leaflets. In this sphere of promotion, is there still room for...
This week, the Connecting Arts festival takes place in Utrecht. This festival, contrary to the expectation raised by the title, revolves entirely around the organ. The instrument is in a bottomless identity crisis. The solution lies in connecting with other art forms: connecting arts. The organist. One of those guys with a beard. Not a meticulously trimmed weekend shadow, but a wild...
A procession of bright red and green bicycles snakes along the Meuse, ridden by people looking around curiously, conferring with each other and wondering at every moment if 'this is part of it'. The Parfum de BoemBoem ticket in their pocket is proof: this is not an ordinary bike ride, but one with theatrical surprises. Guide Sereh enjoys the questioning looks and leads the group to the first location: the waste incinerator in Rotterdam-South.
At the end of August came the figures. And what figures they were. Due to the stacking of extreme cuts by government, provinces and municipalities, the abolition of the successful Work and Income for Artists Act and the equally successful culture card, plus the VAT increase on the arts, the Netherlands' cultural sector would end up missing out on €1 billion in revenue. Berenschot had estimated that in...
Spain and God. The two have had something in common for a long time. And to outsiders, not always in a positive sense. Spaniards invented the Inquisition and converted the entire native population of South America to the eternal hunting grounds. When artists delve into the relationship between supreme being and Spaniard, it also quite often produces confrontational works. Take...
Far more people waved at the Queen on Princes Day than stood on Malieveld a day earlier to protest against austerity. Why are we unable to revolt? And what can we learn from the Tahrir Square uprising. These were some of the questions that came up during 'Lessons in revolt', the debate...
Let's start again with yet another sloppiness of the Rutte government: that damned VAT measure on the arts, which are the only ones to be bounced to the 'normal' rate of 19%. VVD doesn't like it, CDA isn't happy about it, but, because tolerance specialist Martin Bosma once had to play a red toadstool in the school play, he has eternal...
Kunst op vliegbasis Soesterberg is bijna per definitie een paradox. Het natuurterrein dat een militaire basis was, is dat ook. En daarom vindt beeldende kunst hier een perfecte thuisbasis. Voor festival De Basis zijn kunstenaars uit vijf landen gevraagd een dialoog met dit absurde, tot voor kort nog verboden terrein aan te gaan. Dat levert mooie tegenstellingen op. Allereerst in…
Ooit geweten dat ‘De bruiloft van Kloris en Roosje’ in 1707 voor het eerst werd opgevoerd, en dat dit de voorloper is van de huidige oudejaarsconference? Dankzij de theaterencyclopedie die vanaf 1 september online te vinden is, zijn deze en nog vele wetenswaardigheden te vinden. Het Theaterinstituut Nederland (TIN) is initiatiefnemer en levert een groot deel van de inhoud van…
We have another letter from the secretary of state for culture. Halbe Zijlstra has sent it to parliament, to make it official that from 2013 a very bleak wind is going to blow in arts land. That makes cuts of 200 million final, still excluding the probably 150 million in so-called friction costs that the ministry also has to get from somewhere (u...
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 go roaring. 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...
YXIE is afgeschoten. Het is misschien geen groot landelijk nieuws, maar het is wel weer een van die vele schrijnende voorbeelden die laten zien hoe guur de wind is die door het culturele landschap waait. YXIE, het woord komt uit de koker van dichter-schilder Lucebert, een van de kunstenaars van de COBRA-beweging. Het moest ook de naam worden van een…
We waren met een kleine onderbreking voor de broodnodige nachtrust ruim 27 uur actief met een liveblog over de Mars der Beschaving. Hard werken, en in het begin hadden we last van wat opstartproblemen. Immers: het opzetten van zo’n liveblog vereist wat structuur in de aanpak. We hadden een paar zogenaamde #hashtags ingevoerd, zoals #marsderbeschaving, waarmee op twitter mensen hun…
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...
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...
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