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Nerd podcast #s2e1: On the necessary lightness of something heavy. A conversation about reviews and witches with Club Gewalt #tfboulevard

There is a huge amount happening in theatre, this summer, as many summer festivals have special corona editions where they show a lot of what was made in attic rooms last year during the forced closure of theatres. One such show was Die Hexe, by Club Gewalt, a fresh point theatre band/theatre collective that is/was showing at Theatre Festival Boulevard this summer. Nerd... 

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The 'weird life' of all-rounder Jef Last is not over

Better to die standing than to live kneeling. The statement is fresh in memory after the murder in the Lange Leidse Dwarsstraat, as a mantra in praise of Peter R de Vries, his fearlessness, non-conformism, straightforwardness and honesty. This same statement jumps out even from the first paragraphs of the introduction to the biography of poet Jef Last, written by Rudi Wester.1.... 

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OFFICIAL 2021 DUTCH DRAMA JURY SELECTION IS KNOWN!

Van donderdag 2 tot en met zondag 12 september 2021 toont het Nederlands Theater Festival de beste producties van het afgelopen theaterseizoen. De Nederlandse Toneeljury, onder leiding van juryvoorzitter Hadassah de Boer, selecteerde de acht beste theaterproducties van het moment. Vandaag maakte de jury haar selectie bekend. De volledige selectie is te zien tijdens de komende editie van het festival… 

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Marjolijn Vencken new chair of supervisory board Culture+Enterprise

Marjolijn Vencken wordt per 1 juli de nieuwe voorzitter van de raad van toezicht van Cultuur+Ondernemen, het kennisplatform voor ondernemerschap in de culturele sector. Ze volgt Steven de Waal op, die na de volle termijn van acht jaar afscheid neemt van zijn voorzitterschap. Marjolijn Vencken is al sinds 2015 lid van de raad van toezicht. Als ervaren Public Affairs adviseur… 

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Culture Council to investigate cross-border behaviour across cultural sector

We are a bit done with sex, drugs & rock'n'roll in culture. At least, not in what is presented through our galleries, film screens and venues, but in how that comes about. Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven has asked the Council for Culture for advice, and the Council is going to set up a commission to do so. This was just announced via... 

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'This new law means even more hurdles and restrictions for visiting culture.'

Honourable members of the House of Representatives, It is with great concern that we look at the Temporary Test Act that will be voted on in your House on Tuesday 11 May. This new law means even more hurdles and restrictions for visiting culture. Restrictions that will be introduced but where the end date is not given. This new testing law could be a godsend for... 

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New stage for Dutch thriller at Utrecht Library

Onder de titel ‘De Nederlandse thrillerprijzen 2021’ worden op zaterdag 5 juni vanuit de Bibliotheek Utrecht de vier belangrijkste thrillerprijzen (Gouden Strop, Hebban Thrillerprijs, Schaduwprijs en Zilveren Strop) uitgereikt. De uitreiking vormt het startschot voor ‘De week van het spannende boek’ die op maandag 7 juni begint. Met ‘De Nederlandse thrillerprijzen 2021’ bundelen de Bibliotheek Utrecht, lezersplatform Hebban.nl en de… 

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Godfried Bomans: respectively loved, vilified, misunderstood and forgotten

Godfried Bomans died half a century ago. Almost immediately afterwards, the Netherlands' best-loved writer sank into oblivion. It is time for a reappraisal of Bomans' literary work and even his political views. I delved into the archives, also looking for the few traces of Bomans in Amersfoort. First some round figures. Seventy years ago, he delivered a lecture... 

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Commercial interest in test events hurts confidence. That test result is already in.

Rather unexpectedly, it was announced this week that cultural and entertainment venues will be test sites for reopening society next month. It came rather out of the blue, as everyone was still working on petitions and other pleas to reopen cultural buildings. After all, they have their corona protocols in place there better than the Albert Heijn on my corner.... 

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You don't forget tap, but tap dancing does. Why it is bad that art is not mentioned

Everyone balks. Let's put that first. And a lot of people are badly affected. Hospitality, retail, schoolchildren and especially students: everything that is not necessary for survival balks. So does the arts. Not all art, of course, especially larger institutions are coming through the corona crisis reasonably well so far. Quiet and closed, but not bankrupt. We can't take that from... 

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Nerd podcast #4: Marijn Lems and Micha Wertheim clash over moral judgements in art criticism

The best works of art are failures, and it is up to the public to give them a meaning over which the artist has no control, argued comedian Micha Wertheim in an essay for De Correspondent. We thought that was a good topic for our fourth geek podcast. Marijn Lems (NRC,Theaterkrant) does sometimes clash with people who give him too much in his reviews,... 

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Down with the veil! Three gutsy girls found Iranian Women Composers Union: 'We want to form a global home front'

Things can change. In 1979, Iran changed from a Western-oriented secular state to a spiritual dictatorship, where Islamic leaders call the shots. Women must henceforth go through life veiled and music is banned as extremely sinful. Four decades later, three women founded the Iranian Female Composers Association. In America, though. 'Music is like a drug, those who feel... 

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Het Platform voor Freelance Musici in actie

29 juni is een belangrijke dag voor de cultuur: de Tweede Kamer gaat dan in debat over de noodsteun aan de sector. Onze boodschap aan de politiek: “300 miljoen euro noodsteun die OCW voor de cultuursector beschikbaar heeft is bij lange na niet genoeg om de sector overeind te houden. Neem de motie van PvDA, GroenLinks en SP aan!” In… 

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The BIS is dead, long live the Puppets

Let's just start with the good news: De Staat is a regular fixture in the Netherlands from now on. And so we are talking about the band De Staat. Who make fantastic music videos these days. They have been promoted from a four-year grant with the Performing Arts Fund to a four-year grant according to the Cultural Basic Infrastructure (BIS). With 55 other newcomers. All weighed... 

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Mattijs van der Woerd hopes to sing again one day, but is especially happy that Splendor is making music again

Muzikantenvereniging Splendor heeft de coronacrisis tot nu toe overleefd, ondanks het feit dat de twee zalen niet gebruikt konden worden, repetitieruimtes vervielen en de bar niet open kon. Mattijs van der Woerd, bariton, vertelt erover in onze podcast/video. Hoe dat kan, zo’n klein concertgebouw dat zo sterk staat? Het geheim, dat ook Cultuurpers overeind houdt, en dat deze maand ook… 

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Rights Sector Support Fund established for creators in culture and creative industries

Creators in the cultural and creative industries affected by the Corona crisis will soon be able to appeal to the Rights Sector Support Fund. Agreement was reached on Wednesday 27 May on the establishment of the support fund, which has a budget of 10 million euros available. Members of the Authors' Union can also start appealing to the fund. Where will the support fund... 

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Podcast in times of Corona (2): Oscar Kocken on the bible of an anonymous war victim. And what his grandfather has to do with it me.

When he started for himself in 2006, the CoC's question was not, how Oscar Kocken would later deal with a global pandemic of apocalyptic proportions, income-wise. This is just to point out what a stooge our minister of economic affairs is, and how we can yet gain some understanding of the wall of misunderstanding where the... 

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Divided loyalties, racism and a split house in HBO's The Plot Against America

I had the chance to attend the 500th anniversary - it took place at the beautiful Teatro La Fenice - of the first Jewish ghetto during my visit to Venice in 2016. One of the speakers was historian Simon Schama. During his lecture, I was given a brief history of Jewish suffering in Italy. According to... 

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70ste Berlinale, onder nieuwe leiding, opent met My Salinger Year en herdenkt de slachtoffers van Hanau

“We hebben goede hoop”, is het antwoord als ik vlak voor de start van het filmfestival in Berlijn een collega aanspreek. Want nieuwsgierig hoe de keus voor Carlo Chatrian als nieuwe artistiek directeur gevallen is bij de Duitse kritiek. Chatrian, hiervoor directeur van het toonaangevende arthousefestival in Locarno, ligt goed, begrijp ik. Of deze 70ste Berlinale al dat nieuwe elan… 

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Waarom ik hoop die jongeren van dat bijzondere leesclubje hier te treffen: Olga Neuwirth componeert soundtrack bij Die Stadt ohne Juden

Het opkomende fascisme wordt steeds meer salonfähig. Vooral onder jongeren, ontdekte ik onlangs tijdens een concert van het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest in het Concertgebouw. Een leesclubje van twintigers zei genoten te hebben van het Tweede Slagwerkconcert van James MacMillan. Ze hekelden mét mij de draconische kortingen op cultuur. Maar opeens klonk het onbekommerd: ‘We stemmen allemaal op Thierry.’ Toen ik ontsteld… 

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