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41.5 million a year for improving cultural education

by one of our members
24 October 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science is investing time and money in improving cultural education in primary schools in the coming years. Through a combination of existing pots and money contributed by the state, municipalities and provinces, 41.5 million euros a year will be freed up for arts education in the coming years. And before every self-employed artist starts making plans now: that money will mainly go towards research and procedures, with the most concrete goal being: 'the development of a curriculum for cultural education'.

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Nederlands Kamerkoor 75 years young

by Thea Derks
10 October 201229 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC

Amsterdam, 10-10-2012 - Already last summer, the Dutch Chamber Choir (NKK) through our country, working with amateur choirs at surprise station concerts to draw the attention of the general public to its seventy-fifth anniversary. In the coming weeks, this anniversary will be celebrated with a series of concerts in seven different cities, under the recruiting title 'A tradition of renewal'.

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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 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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Those who are not already become fans of Kubrick now. Exhibition and all films at EYE, kicking off on #HF12 with 2001 plus orchestra

by Leo Bankersen
20 June 20128 July 2016
4 min read
FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Hear Vera Lynn sing as the atomic bombs explode in Dr Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick did wondrous things with the music in his films. Rightly so, the Holland Festival is making space for a special screening of 2001 with orchestra. Space ships to Strauss' waltzes, prelude to a Kubrick summer. Much has been written and speculated about the films of Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999),...

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'Community Art is Slow Art': Margreet Bouwman and Eugene van Erven on the Community Arts Festival 2013 #vvu

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 May 201230 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Young people from Guatemala, nightingales from Northern Ireland and theatre-makers from the interior of Peru. Just some of the guests at the Community Arts Festival to be held in Utrecht in June 2013. Music, film and theatre with ordinary people behind and in front of the scenes, accompanied by professional artists. What else do they have in common?

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Tjitske Reidinga launched as star of new summer programming Amsterdam Delamartheater

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 March 20128 July 2016
9 min read
ACTUAL

The general public knows her as the rock-hard lawyer Claire from Gooise Vrouwen. Tone lovers have known her longer as that actress with the striking voice. A diplomat's daughter, born in Africa, later raised in Bussum. Tjitske Reidinga now dares to come forward:

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Arts colleges to cooperate more and get "partly or wholly" the same budget

by one of our members
26 October 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

On 5 July, the HBO Council came out with a sector plan for art education. Following the report of the Dijkgraaf committee and the Brinkman committee, it was concluded that the autonomous fine arts courses will reduce the intake of first-year students by 25%, the conservatoires with direction of classical and jazz by 10%, and the rest by 20%. This is to be achieved in a period...

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According to US film magazine, our Oscar entry does not stand a chance

by Leo Bankersen
14 October 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

It is not very often that Dutch films attract the attention of the film trade magazine Screen International. Now that the web edition ScreenDaily happens to publish two reviews in a row, it is nice to quote something from them. Screen editor-in-chief Mike Goodridge saw Dutch Oscar contender Sonny Boy and Marco van Geffen's debut film Onder ons (international title Among Us) and came to the...

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The hottest day of this summer is dedicated to Festival De Basis at Soesterberg. Be there. #thebasis

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 September 201129 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

With temperatures above 25 degrees, it will be a sweltering but also unique summer day, that 10th September. The Cultural Press Agency will be present that day with four journalists at the former Soesterberg Air Base to report on festival De Basis. When you get there, you will make lots of nature, even more impressive war history and a piece or two of theatre performances and visual...

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Rotterdam Theatre's International Choice has always been a personal choice

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 August 201129 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Last year, it was still about 'a sense of belonging': about the ability to feel at home somewhere, to know you belong somewhere. This year, the motto of the quirky Rotterdam festival De Internationale Keuze is almost diametrically opposed to that: parallel reality. Instead of one place offering warmth, the festival now says that place is there...

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'Conceptual thundering won't get you far in London': guest column Teunkie v.d. Sluijs

by one of our members
23 August 20118 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

"I can fire anyone here. Except the actors." Sam Walters, artistic director of London production house the Orange Tree Theatre does not mince words. "Everyone in the office could leave. The directors too. But without actors no performance." The actor is unequivocally central to this theatre. As a director, you only prove yourself here when you get top performances out of your...

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Wagner premiere: mangled Lohengrin kind of straight out of Wagner temple in Bayreuth

by Henri Drost
16 August 20118 July 2016
4 min read
MUSIC, OPERA

"Kinder!, macht Neues!, Neues!, und abermals Neues!" wrote Wagner to Franz Lizt. And after the very first Festival, he concluded that next year everything had to be different. Even an entirely new theatre he did not consider out of the question.

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Limburg lion awakens: the heartland of the PVV rebels against culture cuts

by one of our members
26 May 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

When even André Rieu gets involved, the asparagus is done. In Maastricht, but also in The Hague. Because André Rieu, that's Limburg, that's popular culture, that's, according to the ministry, the country's most important export product and if it says you have to keep your hands off the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, then you keep your hands...

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'They want to put everything on the line. In Western Europe, that desire is stupidly lacking': Algerian B-Boyz vulnerable and unyielding in Nya

by Fransien van der Putt
24 May 201130 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

This year, the Holland Festival brings the extraordinary French-Algerian co-production Nya, which combines achievements of modern and classical dance with hip-hop and, in addition, Ravel's Bolero sounds alongside Houria Aïchi's Algerian evergreens.

Parade prepares for new summer tour in glorious weather

by one of our members
18 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Terts Brinkhoff , founder of De Parade, has a set of sheds on the frayed edge of Weesp in which all the travelling festival's tents are stored, when not rented out. In April, the management (now Ray van Santen and Nicole van Vessum) gathers all the artists from the upcoming summer tour there for an introduction. Press time, of course. And with the weather like...

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Director Thomas Ostermeier advocates 'dramatic non-dramatic' theatre in his masterclass #tf2010

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 September 201029 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

She has just returned from a long holiday in her native Norway and, although many Norwegians find Ibsen boring these days, she herself loves his work. Maren Bjorseth is a third-year directing student at the AHK. Her Dutch is flawless; it is hard to believe she has only lived here for two years. Maren is one of four directing students chosen to take a master class from German director Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Schaubühne Berlin. Last year, the Stadschouwburg showed his Hamlet (starring a nasty, rather fat Hamlet) and in December, Ostermeier will direct Ibsen's Spoken at Toneelgroep Amsterdam.

The master class is a collaborative project of TF with the AHK and actors from ACT. It is the first day of school for the students and, as Maren says, they were immediately thrown into the deep end: 'It was very short and intensive, we worked from ten to three and Thomas Ostermeier came to watch twice. So it really is a work in progress.'

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