Dit bericht is aangepast na een reactie van de VVD Den Haag. Gisteren schreef ik: Maar dat was dus verkeerd begrepen. Vandaag belde de VVD. Een transcriptie van het gesprek vind je hieronder: Met Frans Schuyt fractievoorzitter Haagse VVD. Volgens mij zijn er twee dingen door elkaar gehaald. Je hebt het programma in de begroting, Cultuur en Bibliotheek, van 102 miljoen,…
‘De BIS en de Rijksfondsen zijn door opeenvolgende ingrepen uitgekleed, gejuridiseerd en geamendeerd. Maar belangrijker nog dan dat, trends en ontwikkelingen in en rond het culturele leven stellen nieuwe eisen aan het cultuurbestel. Het is in meerdere opzichten niet meer bij de tijd.‘ Dat zegt de Raad voor Cultuur in de vandaag verschenen ‘verkenning’. Hierin zijn de contouren van de toekomst…
Het debat over de cultuurbegroting 2017 op maandag 13 november was een verademing. Niet omdat er opeens veel meer geld uit enige hoge hoed kwam, maar wel omdat er een minister zat met visie. En met ruimte om die visie ook te kunnen uiten. Na zeven jaar vol duwen en trekken en afgewezen moties, kasschuifoperaties en fietsbelhandel was er eindelijk…
[This post was already online under the title 'Save us from the Transition Office', but has been modified in a few details] While you are preparing for a well-deserved holiday, people in the arts sector are working on a new model. That new model is needed because the old model is no longer adequate. That old model, and we are of course talking about our...
In contemporary dance, artistic leaders are often in place for decades, at least in the Netherlands. This week, Leo Spreksel announced his departure from Korzo, as of September 2017. After 29 years, the director and programmer of dance at the theatre and production house in The Hague is calling it a day, because "in the Netherlands, commercialisation is pushing away the voice of artists: procedures and formats are...
Vacancy: Advisors one-off grants - Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) From 1 March 2017 The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) invests in art that enriches life in the city. The AFK provides grants to artists and cultural organisations, drives innovation and stimulates the quality, dynamism and pluriformity of Amsterdam art. The AFK supports both experiment...
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) seeks a member for the Supervisory Board from 1-1-2017 The AFK invests in art that enriches life in the city. The AFK provides subsidies to artists and cultural organisations, drives innovation and stimulates the quality, dynamism and pluriformity of Amsterdam art. The AFK supports both experimentation and proven quality,...
Boulevard flags fly everywhere in Den Bosch in the sunshine. The office of the 32-year-old Theatre Festival Boulevard on Sint Josephstraat is a jumble of people walking in and out. The beaming director, Viktorien van Hulst, has bags under her eyes like a festival director should have three days before the opening.
Apetrots they are, the MPs Jacques Monasch, Jasper van Dijk, Mona Keijzer and Alexander Pechtold. After all, they saved a youth theatre company and managed to add a few festivals to the basic cultural infrastructure of the Netherlands. In addition, they have also already earmarked an amount for some other festivals. Yesterday, the motions from the June debate were put to a vote. Almost...
There is turmoil in the performing arts. This is because Culture Minister Jet Bussemaker has implemented a couple of motions from the opposition. The minister has also ignored the advice of the Council for Culture for a more balanced budget distribution. So, after much agitation on social media, we received a letter on Friday 28 August 2015. From the festivals, addressed to the minister,...
The second chamber was also keen to know what exactly Culture Minister Bussemaker meant by that 'cash shift'. After all, it was that cash shift with which she could festively announce that she would put an extra 18 million into culture, after 2017. In a letter to the chamber, the minister has now shown how creatively she can bookkeep. A few costs...
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...
It sounds great, that Amsterdam Arts Plan 2017-2020. The city is increasing the culture budget to almost 90 million a year. And there suddenly seems to be a vision: away with all those different advisory bodies, one capital 'basic infrastructure' and for the rest there is the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK). The municipality should stick to the main lines, not with individual subsidies....
The General Court of Auditors, a high college of state that independently audits government spending, is blowing the whistle on Culture Minister Bussemaker. Indeed, in an interim opinion, published on 12 February, the Court of Audit states that nothing at all is yet clear about the real consequences of the previous cabinet's cuts. That cabinet, with the widely beloved Halbe...
Art ends its 70th anniversary as a 'Leftist Hobby' in 2015. There is not much more to predict for this year. Art goes back to the bourgeois status it held since the start of the industrial revolution. 1: Art was never left Art, of course, has never been 'left'. Subsidy may have come from the thinking tubes of social and Christian democrats, but art an sich...
Twee artikelen publiceerde ik vorig jaar in NRC Handelsblad. Het eerste (6 juli 2013) was kritisch over het overheidsbeleid. Daar kwam weinig reactie op. Het tweede artikel (7 december 2013) was kritisch over de kunstensector: die moet zelf scherpe keuzes maken. Dat zorgde wel voor veel beroering, hoewel ik ervan overtuigd ben dat veel collega’s het met de inhoud grotendeels eens…
'Amsterdam loses 127 million arts subsidy' (...) The 127.1 million euros is a sum of cuts from the state (70 million), the increase in VAT to 19% (45.6 million) and the announced municipal cuts to the 2013-2016 Arts Plan of 8 million annually. In addition, the so-called ID jobs (subsidised jobs) are being phased out more quickly. This will give Amsterdam's arts and cultural institutions another...
We hadden zelf al het nodige researchwerk gedaan, en toen bleek er ook iets naar de Tweede Kamer gestuurd te zijn, waarin nog veel meer cijfers stonden. We vroegen die cijfers op en schrokken ons een klein tot middelgroot hoedje. Na 2012, wanneer het huidige kunstenplan afloopt en na een jaar van nietsdoen en afwachten voor de hele sector een…
We dachten al dat er iets niet klopte, toen Mark Rutte in zijn door velen bejubelde krachtdadige optreden in Buitenhof sprak van ‘al die lege zalen met 10 mensen op de eerste rij’. Ok, hij was zelf al jaren niet meer geweest, maar volgens zijn Staatssecretaris Halbe Zijlstra was de leegte in ieder geval in Den Haag schrijnend, wist Rutte…
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