Een sterke culturele sector heeft een belangrijke economische en maatschappelijke aanjaagfunctie. Cultuur draagt niet alleen positief bij aan mentale gezondheid en welbevinden, maar is ook een belangrijke bouwsteen in het herstel na de huidige coronacrisis. Om deze aanjaagfunctie maximaal te benutten is jaarlijks bijna 500 miljoen extra nodig. Dat concludeert de Raad voor Cultuur in een brief aan informateur Tjeenk…
Donderdagochtend 12 november gingen de woordvoerders cultuur van Christen Unie, VVD, D’66 en Groen Links met elkaar in gesprek over cultuur. Sprankelend werd het door LACK (Landelijk Kennisinstituut Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst) Kunsten ’92, het Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie en de Boekmanstichting georganiseerde debat echter geen moment.
As this is D66 culture minister Van Engelshoven's presumably last budget year, the press release once again emphasises that a total of 95 million extra has now come into the culture budget during her tenure. It is too early to draw far-reaching conclusions.
The cultural centre of gravity in Limburg has been in the south for years. However, to encourage southern institutions to programme outside the region, only 1 extra point is available. Examples of the problem of geographical spread also exist at the Council of Culture and the Performing Arts Fund.
A fire letter from the United Performing Arts Festivals. One of more than a hundred lobbying organisations in the arts, but a very important one. After all, the festivals are the place where audiences were introduced to arts and entertainment in its full breadth. That doesn't happen anywhere else. And beautiful: they stand up for all performing arts, because, as loyal readers of this site know: they are quite the hare, and become even more the hare with every half-hearted rescue.
It could have been so beautiful. In a not so grey past, the Council for Culture, then under a different management, initiated a movement that would give more authority to the region outside the Randstad. That was three years ago. Now there is an (entirely justified) angry letter in the newspaper from the culture deputies of 9...
That 8.6 million the fund is now minimally short of will probably be found somewhere, so the saw line will be shifted again. Then the sector can - virtually - continue for another four years. Another one and a half million may be added to shape the spread. Pleasing the art world is not that expensive, The Hague will notice.
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...
I have often resisted thinking of the Netherlands as a business. After all, a country cannot lay off people, or divest unprofitable sectors to make more profit. So anyone who speaks of the BV Nederland has not understood it. There are no competitors that you can fight out of the market while being entrepreneurial on those few square kilometres of polder land,...
The Cinekid youth film festival opens this week with Binti, a catchy, highly topical youth film brimming with optimism. That sounds good, because optimism is what the Dutch youth film can use right now. Too bad, then, that Binti, about a girl from Congo who does everything in her power to be allowed to stay in Belgium with her father, is a largely Belgian production....
Dit is een ingezonden brief van Wim Claessen, die in 1984 oprichter was van Boulevard, en in 2002 het stokje doorgaf aan Geert Overdam, die in 2014 werd opgevolgd door Viktorien van Hulst. “Het is een blamage dat we nog altijd hier staan”, sprak Viktorien van Hulst bij de opening van Theaterfestival Boulevard in het Theater aan de Parade. “Hoe…
Museums often manage more art objects than they can display. What they cannot display in the museum galleries they keep safely in the depot. Collections with motley collections of objects from different periods are a growing problem for museums. Marketers stress the need for focus, a clear story and strong branding. Objects that no longer fit the new vision...
‘Als Paul zijn pink beweegt gebeurt er wat. Ze hebben een scène waarin Jochem een tekening maakt van Paul. Paul zit naakt te poseren. En dat duurt. Dat duurt lang. Jij en ik zouden dat als amateurs vullen met allerlei houdingen en bewegingen, maar Paul doet niks. Denk je. En er gebeurt van alles. HIj doet dus wel wat, maar…
Every five years, the art world turns upside down. Then it is time for the fourteenth Documenta. At that time, the German city of Kassel turns into a veritable Mecca for art connoisseurs and art lovers, snobs and connoisseurs. And, of course, tourists looking for that other Efteling. This year's Documenta has a sizeable Dutch contribution. But there is more: for the...
In art, you work because of your passion, not because of the money. That's so, that was always so. In art, it's even suspicious if you care about money. And if you do worry about money once, it immediately comes out rotten. Are you going to shout about culture, march der your...
Goed, het is altijd nog meer dan voormalig gedoogpartner PVV, die het hele conceptverkiezingsprogramma op een enkel A4’tje wist te proppen. Maar in de halve pagina die de VVD, ’s lands grootste partij, aan cultuur besteedt is het eigenlijk erger. Hier is nog overduidelijk de door Wilders en Zijlstra ingegeven rancuneuze lijn jegens alles wat maar naar Nederlandse cultuur ruikt…
That 10 million is officially in. The art world is doing its best to sound grateful. The employers in the performing arts, gathered in the NAPK, have sent Bussemaker a thank you. Because she is not cutting 300 million from culture, but only 290 million. The extra money raked together last year by various lobbyists and parties is now anchored in the...
Drie dansers en drie dansproducties zijn genomineerd voor de Zwanen 2016. Op vrijdag 7 oktober laten Daphne Bunskoek en Art Rooijakkers in Maastricht tijdens het Openingsprogramma 2016 van de Nederlandse Dansdagen weten wie de winnaars zijn. Maar je kunt alvast een paar conclusies trekken uit het lijstje van genomineerden.
After it was announced in January this year that Jan Willem de Vriend was leaving at the end of the 2016/2017 season, the Orchestra of the East announced that it was in no hurry to find a successor. One would start working with "renowned guest conductors". Just over six months later, a few months before the departure of interim director Bart van Meijl, a successor was still presented. That this successor, Ed Spanjaard, is given the title of 'permanent conductor' seems mainly a semantic issue.
The show Sketches/Notebook (2013), which has its Dutch premiere at the Holland Festival on 6 June, is virtuosic, radical and extremely gentle. Choreographer Meg Stuart loves small scale, even when she occupies the biggest stages with partners like the Volksbühne (Berlin), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) or the Münchner Kammerspiele. Details win out over big lines and often play a leading role in pieces that scrutinise human behaviour incredulously.
Sketches/Notebook stands out
Een week geleden presenteerden de schouwburgen aangesloten bij de VSCD tijdens het jaarlijkse congres mooie figures. Het aantal voorstellingen daalde weliswaar, maar de gemiddelde zaalbezetting was andermaal gestegen. Menigeen in de sector fronste de wenkbrauwen, en na enig narekenen kwam Wijbrand Schaap na aanvankelijk positief nieuws tot de conclusie dat het helemaal not zo goed gaat met de podiumkunsten. En ook op dat bericht is weer kritiek mogelijk; de VSCD omvat niet alle theaters, sommige zijn gefuseerd etc. Weer een dag later legde Jeffrey Meulman in zijn blog de vinger op de zere plek:
De Tweede Kamer heeft een paar weken terug ernstige problemen veroorzaakt voor de cultuur in Nederland. In een nobele poging om een paar festivals en een jeugdtheater te redden veroorzaakten SP, D66, CDA en PvdA een chaos. Ze namen een motie aan waarin onze minister van Cultuur werd opgedragen alsnog geld te reserveren voor een paar festivals en een extra…
Those who apply for grants but do not receive them must be given insight into the applications of others who have been honoured. That is the most remarkable ruling by the Council of State in the case Holland Opera won against the Performing Arts Fund. Much more important for the company itself, of course: according to our highest court, the Performing Arts Fund decided in 2012 to grant Holland...
Every company 50,000 euros more. Youth theatre in the Netherlands should be very happy with the letter culture minister Bussemaker sent to the chamber last Monday. After years of squeezing under Halbe Zijlstra, finally more air for the makers. But the investment of 4 tonnes a year turns out to be a cutback. In fact, Bussemaker is only giving a gift to eight companies. Company...
What is already going on on a small scale in Groningen, Enschede, Zaltbommel, Amersfoort, Gorinchem and Vlaardingen, is threatening to happen nationwide as well: cultural institutions falling over while politicians look on helplessly. According to the Council for Culture, the situation is alarming: 'Institutions are draining their own funds, cultural funds are maintaining schemes by drawing on reserves. We therefore make the urgent...
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