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Orchestra of the East reinstated: HET Symphony Orchestra has 'new' name

by Henri Drost
30 November 201518 March 2016
8 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

Van Nederlands Symfonieorkest met internationale ambities terug naar provinciaal orkest met vooralsnog helemaal niets. Nu, op de ijzersterke oorspronkelijke naam na dan. Het zou een reclamespot voor Telfort kunnen zijn. Daartussen zitten vele verloren rechtszaken, de groteske protestnaam *****Symfonieorkest en het al even schreeuwerige HET Symfonieorkest. Het is de ultieme capitulatie van het ooit door zo’n beetje alles en iedereen…

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The disaster surrounding the eastern orchestras only intensifies. A reconstruction

by Henri Drost
23 November 201518 March 2016
13 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

A damning report by organisational consultancy Berenschot, the voluntary or involuntary departure of director Harm Mannak, repeated bickering in the State Assembly and panting reports of high salaries for directors and artistic directors, all the way to the national newspapers. It marks the chaos at HET Symfonieorkest and the lack of any form of direction, not only at the orchestra itself,...

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HET Symphony Orchestra director steps down - just before scathing report on business plan

by Henri Drost
6 November 201530 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Failing directors stay put, the Supervisory Board disqualifies itself. No other conclusion is possible after reading the counter-expertise commissioned by the province of Overijssel and carried out by Berenschot. The provincial millions intended to make the orchestra subsidy-independent have not only evaporated, but show a negative balance in every aspect. Every estimate was too optimistic,...

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Let zzp'ers keep the supervisory boards of cultural companies on their toes!

by Giep Hagoort
23 August 201529 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

How next for boards in the cultural sector? Supervisory boards are under considerable pressure following publications about possible failures of supervision at Rotterdam's Wereldmuseum, Grand Theatre in Groningen and recently again from Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut. Previously, similar reports appeared about De Utrecht Games and the Groninger Museum, among others. In practically all cases, the cases involved a Council...

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Supervisory failure at HET Symphony Orchestra: drama that could have been avoided

by Henri Drost
2 April 201530 March 2022
9 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

The money at HET Symphony Orchestra has run out. Despite all the extra millions from the province and after years of writing off tons of general reserves, the end is in sight. And so the orchestra is scrapping concerts, will be seen less in theatres in Deventer and Zwolle, stops CD recordings and shuns any risky performances. To keep the...

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Groningen vindt ideale troubleshooter voor crisis Grand Theatre

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 March 201525 March 2015
4 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Ze hadden het niet beter kunnen uitkiezen, daar in Groningen. Want wie bel je, als er net een overambitieuze theaterdirecteur de kas van het ooit roemruchte Grand Theatre leeg heeft gebluft, een Raad van Toezicht heeft zitten dutten en er vervolgens 22 mensen ontslagen zijn omdat het geld op is? Dan zoek je iemand die daar ervaring mee heeft. Bij voorkeur…

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Grand Theatre disaster update: Performing Arts Fund saves creators from bankruptcy

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 March 201530 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

The misery in Groningen is a bit bigger than we thought. Meanwhile, the Grand Theatre appears to be at least 250,000 in the red. And counting. Money that the theatre subsidised by the city of Groningen owes mainly to artists. Choreographer Dunja Djocic, for instance, had received €90,000 in subsidies to create performances at the Grand for 2 years. Theatre-maker Andreas Denk had received...

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Disaster at Grand Theatre mainly due to supervision failure

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 March 201530 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We took another close look at the news surrounding the near bankruptcy of Groningen's illustrious Grand Theatre. Yesterday, it became clear that that theatre is in serious financial trouble. Problems that the municipality does not want to solve simply by an extra injection of thousands of euros. And they are right. After all, the Grand's coffers are as leaky as...

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Grand Theatre 'not too big to fail': bankruptcy looms for Groningen hotspot

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 March 201530 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Grand Theatre in Groningen is dying. Yesterday, the city council of the northern university city decided that no more money should be poured into the theatre, which is in acute cash trouble. Bills from suppliers and independent artists have not been paid for several months, and financial reserves are more than depleted. We have received reports from artists...

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Orkest vindt vond vindt naam: het HET Het Symfonieorkest

by Henri Drost
20 September 201429 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Hoera! We hebben een nieuwe naam. Nederlands Symfonieorkest mocht niet, *****Orkest vond iedereen een lachertje en terugkeren naar de perfecte naam Orkest van het Oosten kan niet, want gezichtsverlies. Wat dan wel?

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De beste vrouw op de beste plek: Ellen Walraven directeur Rotterdamse Schouwburg

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Dit was een mogelijkheid, waaraan in eerste instantie niet zoveel mensen dachten. Ellen Walraven was immers na haar tropenjaren als directeur van het Amsterdamse debatcentrum De Balie toe aan wat meer inhoudelijk werk en rust aan haar hoofd, Dus vermoedden we dat ze nog wel een tijdje zou blijven zitten in

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DUS behoudt subsidie, leiding vertrekt

by one of our members
25 October 201230 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Het meest markante gezelschap van Nederland, als het gaat om omgaan met subsidiegeld, is gered. De Theaterkrant meldt dat het Rijk akkoord is met de nieuwe, aangepaste begroting, die moest worden opgesteld nadat eerder dit jaar een verlies was ontstaan van ruim 2 miljoen euro. Het gezelschap behoudt dus de anderhalf miljoen euro en artistiek leider Jos Thie en zijn zakelijke partner Jelle Snijder worden met pek en veren de stad uit gejaagd, waar zij zich kunnen voegen bij de Raad van Toezicht die al eerder de ogen iets te dicht had gedaan. Immers, een peperdure productie inzetten om het tekort uit een eerdere run van diezelfde peperdure productie goed te maken: geen ondernemer zou dat ooit toestaan.

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Culture Council knew about 'Hole of DUS'

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 September 20128 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

Theatre company the Utrecht Games, city company of the Netherlands' fourth largest city, is on the brink of bankruptcy. It was recently revealed that the company led by artistic and business director Jos Thie has a deficit of €2.1 million. Correspondence that has since surfaced shows that it was already clear in May this year that the problems were getting out of hand. That was a month after the Utrecht subsidy advisory committee issued its laudatory opinion, and a few weeks before the Council for Culture issued its very thrifty advice.

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Friday the 25th. Bergen puts extra money into art, while new disasters emerge for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

by one of our members
25 November 20118 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

Amsterdam - Mayor finds cuts to Rijksakademie "beyond comprehension" During the official opening of RijksakademieOPEN 2011, Mayor of Amsterdam Eberhard van der Laan expressed his concerns about the government's severe cuts to the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. "Cutbacks are necessary. Capitulating is not necessary. There are limits." The mayor stressed that a healthy art climate is important for...

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