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This bizarre labour dispute in Zeeland is just the tip of the iceberg

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 September 20227 September 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, Featured, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Alex Mallems, the artistic director who put Zeeland on the map in this century (since 2001), has left both the Zeeland Nazomer festival and its associated production house Zeelandia. This is the outcome of a protracted conflict with the business director appointed since last year, Sylvie Dees. According to a report in Theaterkrant, according to Dees, he would 'without permission make commitments...

Fear and trembling in the cultural sector: the dark side of the 'trickle down'

by Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen
7 December 202130 March 2022
16 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Featured, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Pure panic and existential angst: that's the picture you get when you approach makers in the arts personally about the effects of trickle down (the trickle down of corona funding from the government to those makers). The Creative Coalition may be making a fist for them, talking to the minister about it, the institutes debating it, but the creators are silent....