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Culture Council knew about 'Hole of DUS'
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.
Live from 11am: What remains of the arts? Culture Council pronounces verdict.
200 miljoen minder, de helft eruit bij de basisinfrastructuur van de kunsten in nederland. wat blijft er over, hoe reageert het veld. Volg het hier. advies raad voor cultuur … Je kunt nu inloggen om verder te lezen! Welkom in het archief van Cultuurpers! Als lid heb je toegang tot alle, meer dan 4000 berichten die we sinds onze oprichting…
Culture Council given little leeway
He barely showed his face in recent months, rarely engaging in debate with artists or the public. Now that the mega cut in culture is law, and nothing can be changed about it until 2016, we can follow Halbe Zijlstra's victory lap again. Also on twitter.
Slack start to art lottery, production houses don't fire, Krabbedans, Rivierenland Library, MuZIEum et al.
Poor economy hinders new art lottery The business market is not yet warming up to the National Art Lottery launched in July. The organisation is looking for sponsors, but the poor economic climate is playing tricks on the lottery. (...) The number of cultural organisations that applied to supply lottery tickets actually exceeded expectations (...) Only when there are enough sponsors will the...
Distress call for theatre school Roosendaal at last minute, arts venue Veenendaal scrapped Discount news from all regions
(...) The Youth Theatre School Roosendaal received a project subsidy of 36,779 euros from the municipality in 2010 and 2011. The school also fulfils a regional function. Forty per cent of its 330 pupils come from the surrounding villages. The proposal is to end the subsidy from 1 January. It was only this week that this apparently dawned on Hofplein's management. Which immediately started a...
Performing Arts Fund announces plans; institutions must perform with performances
Operatie Fonds Podiumkunsten Sinds het besluit in juni om de BIS te verkleinen, richtten vele ogen zich op het Fonds Podiumkunsten, dat jaarlijks een bedrag van 60 miljoen euro te vergeven heeft. Ook het Fonds heeft echter te maken met een korting: het budget voor de meerjarige regeling wordt met 40% verlaagd van 40 naar 24,5 miljoen euro. De meerjarige regeling…
It's final: the format for arts subsidies until 2016 is with the chamber
We have another letter from the secretary of state for culture. Halbe Zijlstra has sent it to parliament, to make it official that from 2013 a very bleak wind is going to blow in arts land. That makes cuts of 200 million final, still excluding the probably 150 million in so-called friction costs that the ministry also has to get from somewhere (u...
That was him then. The March of Civilisation. And so was the chamber's Culture Committee debate on Halbe Zijlstra's letter.
With a small break for much-needed sleep, we were active for over 27 hours with a liveblog on the March of Civilisation. Hard work, and at first we suffered from some start-up problems. After all: setting up such a liveblog requires some structure in the approach. We had introduced a few so-called #hashtags, such as #marsderbeschaving, which on twitter allow people to share their...
For the first time, a secretary of state openly lies and gets away with it. Or does he?
How bad is it really? A few lied lines in a Ministry of Education, Culture and Science booklet? Pretty bad. Because it's an outright lie, and a government that lies is not to be had. Because: how can you trust them anymore?
Rutteleaks 4 on orchestras: 'Mergers Brabants Orkest and Limburg Symphony Orchestra, Gelders Orkest and Orkest v.h. Oosten, Residentie Orkest and RphO'
Of course we are being horribly abused. By the coughing chain-smoker with his trench coat in that Hague car park. Is there a bigger plan behind it. Which again we know nothing about, but which will become clear on 23 May. So be it. Until then, we can do nothing but slavishly write down what the coughing oracle coughs at us. Well: We already knew that...
"RutteLeaks": Prime minister and state secretary don't know their own figures: income requirements for arts institutions already met in 2007 and most subsidy already going to successful institutions
We already thought something was wrong when Mark Rutte, in his much applauded show of strength in Buitenhof, spoke of 'all those empty halls with 10 people in the front row'. Ok, he hadn't been there himself for years, but according to his State Secretary Halbe Zijlstra, at least in The Hague, the emptiness was glaring, Rutte knew....
National Travel Opera possibly first victim of culture cuts
The rapid austerity operation of at least 200 million on the cultural sector has yet to be fleshed out, but one thing is already clear. If it were up to state secretary Halbe Zijlstra, the National Reisopera, operating from Enschede, would stand a good chance of being killed in that operation. His request for advice to the Culture Council, sent the week before Christmas, states the following:...
Column: "As soon as they start embracing art in the PVV, right-thinking people should start watching out."
The Hague is quite complicated for those who do not visit it on a daily basis. I was there last Monday, as a spectator at the discussion of the culture and media budget, and it has taken me until now to fully understand what is going on. For that understanding, being there live was essential. After all, to understand a social system like the Lower House, you not only have to listen to what is being said, and see who is speaking, much more important are the 'listening shots': the body language and actions of those who are not speaking.
Arts budget debated in second chamber: hardly any discussion on 200 million cut to performing arts
We were at a debate day in The Hague that was as inconspicuous as it was historic on 13 December 2010: it was about the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the (first?) Rutte cabinet, and that was the budget in which, at the request of the supporting party PVV, the amount to be cut in the arts budget was set at 200 million, with heritage and museums having to...
The arts subsidy system is like a house that changes hands a little too often: new cultural policy Rutte cabinet is capital destruction
Motto van de cultuurbrief van Zijlstra: "De 19e-eeuwse schilder Alma-Tadema zei: ‘Zolang ik schilder, ben ik kunstenaar, als het af is, ben ik zakenman’." Het kunstsubsidiesysteem is als een huis, dat iets te vaak van eigenaar verwisselt. De vorige eigenaar heeft in 2008 na lang vergaderen een nieuwe keuken ingebouwd, de badkamer vervangen, een nieuwe cv-ketel + vloerverwarming aangelegd en…
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