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Keeping is no good, throwing away is wrong: comical lesson in self-reflection from Firma MES

Twenty-five per cent of people have a room they can no longer enter because it is too full of stuff. This is oppressive and it is no wonder that some resort to the other extreme: radical consumerism. In TROEP, theatre group Firma MES follows Barbara, a woman who wants to live with no more than eight objects. Just like Buddhist monks. This results in a delightful, witty play that is seriously thought-provoking and shows how giving up can become just as oppressive as keeping it.

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Another boost for the Netherlands: ministry understands usefulness of music education.

'The experts have written an inspiring guide, which demonstrates the importance of good music education and also makes clear which steps need to be taken to achieve this. The experts spoke to representatives of primary education, teacher training institutes and the cultural sector. The guide has broad support. Like the experts, I believe that good music education is a responsibility of... 

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'Art only exists if it is written about.'

At the presentation at the Netherlands Film Festival of the Louis Hartlooper Prize for Film Journalism will not be handed a Golden Calf, but a Black Mirror. In ancient times a tool for viewing, now a token of appreciation for a contribution to written film culture.

Members of various film trade associations will designate the winner. Some believe there is no such thing,

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A mirror from the bench: 12 much-needed lessons for cultural marketers

Since the Amsterdam Uitmarkt is no longer run by the Uitburo but by a separate foundation, things have become a tad more commercial. The folder-fair-with-bands that has become the national opening of the cultural season over the past decades has to. The government has found art scary for a while now, usual suspects are pulling out as sponsors, and malaise is hitting... 

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6 reasons why you should support Culture Press

Recently, you can also become a supporter of Culture Press. For 60 euros a year, you support our work, with no further obligations. That's a great way to further advance a unique news medium! 1: Culture Press is a readers' cooperative. Unlike, say, your favourite newspaper, with us you are not the product, with which we lure advertisers in. At... 

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Legendary director Peter Brook (89): Theatre is the field given to me

The Valley of Astonishment. Titles don't come much prettier than that of 'The Valley of Astonishment'. Theatre legend Peter Brook's tentative last play is coming to Amsterdam. The Holland Festival gave me and two journalists from Parool and NRC, respectively, the opportunity to talk to the already legendary director when he was alive. Pretty special, because the man who enchanted an entire generation of theatre-makers and audiences with performances such as the nine-hour Mahabharata in Avignon, is considered a deity among theatre connoisseurs and enthusiasts.

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We hebben kaartjes: u mag zeggen waar we heen moeten in het Holland Festival

The Holland Festival, dat doen we al jaren. Het is zonder meer het hoogtepunt van het culturele seizoen. Op het Holland Festival zie je hoe de internationale kunstwereld erbij hangt. Onder de vaardige leiding van Pierre Audi is het hele gebeuren de laatste jaren ook nog eens een stuk minder elitair en hoogdravend geworden dan vroeger. Een kaartje kost ook vaak een stuk minder dan een avondje André Rieu in Maastricht, om maar wat te zeggen.

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"Forbidden!" Or is it? Reinbert de Leeuw performance makes curious about biography

It is the kind of publicity even literary agency Sebes and Van Gelderen dreams of. An argument between biographer and subject that makes it into all the national newspapers. Especially when it is not a biography of, say, an ex-soccer player who squandered his fortune, but one of wayward composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw.

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La Grande Bellezza and Borgman best films 2013 according to Dutch film press

Members of the Dutch Circle of Film Journalists (KNF) and other film critics reviewed the Italian tragicomedy La Grande Bellezza voted best cinematic film of 2013. According to the same critics, Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam the best Dutch film of this year, the KNF announced.

La Grande Bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino received the most points after

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Gergiev onder vuur. Hoe een domme uitspraak en een halfslachtige poging tot nuancering Rotterdam zorgen baart. En een groter probleem blootlegt.

Ook vanavond wordt er weer volop geprotesteerd bij een concert onder leiding van Valery Gergiev, ditmaal in het Londense Barbican. Een groot deel van de demonstranten verlangt dat het orkest zich nadrukkelijk distantieert van de Russische sterdirigent en zich openlijk uitspreekt tegen de homowetgeving in Rusland.

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Publiek podiumkunst naar dieptepunt

Goed nieuws van de VSCD: dit jaar zijn er meer theater- en concertkaarten in de voorverkoop verkocht dan vorig jaar. Het persbericht dat dit meldt, raadt nijvere journalisten echter aan om niet bij het lokale theater te gaan checken of dat klopt. Het gaat volgens de propaganda van de schouwburgdirecties immers om een landelijk gemiddelde, en om ‘dingen die ze horen van hun leden’.

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Dutch Academy For Film - for a good story about Dutch cinema

The Dutch film world has a new club. Dutch filmmakers can join the Dutch Academy For Film (DAFF). With the aim, in short, of raising the profile of Dutch cinema. The DAFF was founded on 24 June this year following the example of similar academies in, for example, England, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. A press conference at the Netherlands Film Festival

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Een eeuw nieuwe muziek: Ruyneman en De Leeuw

Deze maand viert Reinbert de Leeuw zijn vijfenzeventigste verjaardag. Niet alleen wijden televisie, radio, internetmedia en geschreven pers uitvoerig aandacht aan de niet geringe prestaties van deze voorvechter van de hedendaagse muziek, maar ook wordt hij geëerd met een eigen festival, ‘Reinbert 75’. Dit wordt georganiseerd

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'Everyone is happy to be part of something so beautiful.' Stut Choir and Irish performers sing together for the first time. #vvu

Stralende gezichten en swingende lijven vulden zondag de repetitieruimte van het Utrechtse Stut Koor in Overvecht. Voor het eerst werkten de leden samen met de Ierse zangeres Lorna McLaughlin van The Henry Girls en dirigenten Neil Burns en Anna Nolan van het Inishowen Gospel Choir. Op 21 juni staan de twee koren samen met de drie Henry Girls zusjes op het podium van de Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.

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Culture Press ratings: thick 300,000 minutes of attention

With paper, you never know ('0.3% of newspaper readers read the reviews on the art page'), and with TV it's always a bit of estimating and extrapolating too, but the internet is rock hard. We know how many times you read one of our pieces, and how long you lingered at our videos. Well: we were already proud last year, now we are well over 200,000

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Magnesium van Sam de Jong beste afstudeerfilm Filmacademie (volgens Nederlandse filmpers)

Het is nu officieel. Magnesium, waarmee Sam de Jong als regisseur afstudeerde aan de Filmacademie, werd eerder dit jaar al in diverse publicaties lovend besproken. Helemaal als een verrassing kwam het dus niet dat de Kring van Nederlandse Filmjournalisten gistermiddag tijdens de borrel op het dakterras van de Filmacademie bekend maakte dat Magnesium zich winnaar van de KNF-Prijs voor beste… 

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