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Boulevard experiences second Corona edition: 'It's organising a festival in the middle of a natural disaster. Nothing is business as usual'

Theatre festival Boulevard is going ahead this summer, just like last year. Everything is adapted to 'corona': safe at one-and-a-half metres, placarded, with registration for catering, but still just about a hundred performances. In this podcast, I speak to Nina Aalders and Tessa Smeulers, responsible for Boulevard's programming. They remained at the helm after the much-loved and... 

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Ticket sales Theatre Festival Boulevard started today

Last week, Theatre Festival Boulevard announced the first performances as well as the theme 'Hack the horizon'. Today at noon, online ticket sales start for a large part of the programming. The programme is still under development and will be announced through online channels in the coming weeks. Fans can buy tickets for Jan Martens/GRIP, Nastaran Razawi Khorasani,... 

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Theatre festival Boulevard changed the DNA of Den Bosch, even the Netherlands

Whether we want to speak only of 's-Hertogenbosch from now on. Apparently, a last vestige of decency has bravely survived in the provincial capital of Brabant. Nazmiye Oral, master of ceremonies at a party at Den Bosch's citadel on 9 June, forgot right the first time. City marketers and old nobility fight hand in hand for a respected name to trump the vernacular.... 

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First titles Theatre Festival Boulevard 2021 announced; Theme Theatre Festival Boulevard 2021: Hack the horizon

Theatre Festival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch will take place from Thursday 5 to Sunday 22 August 2021. The 37th festival edition features over 120 different performances, concerts, performances and installations in theatres, at unique locations and in the Zuiderpark. We also move into the night with Fomo Fatale, club nights with steaming sounds. The Zuiderpark serves as the new, spacious festival centre, including the... 

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Platform BK: Deferred work means deferred money. The artist cannot buy food from that.

What we feared at the beginning of the coronasteun appears to have become reality. The generous support money for culture should also reach the small self-employed in the arts via the institutions, but that is now happening too little. Of course, there are fine examples, such as the large subsidised arts institutions in Groningen and festivals like Boulevard and Holland Festival that have self-employed... 

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Viktorien van Hulst is leaving Theatre Festival Boulevard.

After more than six years as director, Viktorien van Hulst is leaving Stichting Theaterfestival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch and Stichting Bosse Nova. She will start on 1 July as director-director at the Fonds Podiumkunsten, where she will succeed Henriëtte Post. The Performing Arts Fund supports all forms of professional performing arts on behalf of the central government and has an annual budget of 62 million euros available for this purpose. Peggy Olislaegers... 

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Theatre festival Boulevard spreads in time and space; Festival this year from 5 to 22 August with new festival heart in Zuiderpark.

Theatre festival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch is preparing for its 37th edition. An edition in which the organisation is still reckoning with ongoing measures around the corona virus. To better ensure 1.5 metres distance between visitors, Boulevard is making a new festival centre this year. In the Zuiderpark in 's-Hertogenbosch, we will realise a new meeting place with a spacious layout. In addition... 

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Burn letter from festivals: 'It's going wrong with the performing arts in the Netherlands'

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.

'Sender Boulevard': Intimate and grand. A successful exercise in getting closer.

Under the banner 'Sender Boulevard', the organisers of Theatre Festival Boulevard signed up for six weeks of live encounters in 's-Hertogenbosch. More than 40 different projects delivered an extraordinary variety of performances, performances and installations. Based on the theme 'Nader de ander' (Closer to the other), Boulevard more than ever entered into dialogue with makers and audience, which led to an intense dialogue with results.

Life has turned into a B-Movie, and no better location could be imagined than 'Sender Boulevard'

Exterior, day. A deserted street in a southern Dutch town, unusually bright daylight. No sound. A man drives up and parks at a vacant power point. He walks to the entrance of a large, empty, modernist building. He is greeted by a very very old veteran, who tells him that "the wife is in for a moment", "she asked me to go on the... 

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Taking off and landing softly. That's what Schweigman& offers during Sender Boulevard, and we need it

Boukje Schweigman is een kunstenaar die dit land hard nodig heeft. Mijn diepe bewondering voor haar ontstond bij ‘Klep’, de voorstelling waarmee ze lang geleden afstudeerde aan de Amsterdamse mime-opleiding. Met acht anderen in een karretje, door hele kleine klepjes rondkijken in een wereld waarin lieve wezentjes  al even nieuwsgierig zijn naar jou, waarna een minimale aanraking de impact van… 

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Sender Boulevard pauses to remember the Dutch East Indies

'For Indonesian Dutch, 15 August is definitely not liberation day,' explains playwright Bo Tarenskeen. The last day of the alternative Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch, Sender Boulevard, coincides with the commemoration of Japan's surrender on 15 May 1945. The Dutch East Indies, the colony exploited by our country for centuries, had also been liberated from the Japanese, but the end... 

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Vincent Wijlhuizen is working on a coronaproof What You See Festival: 'a very large group of people are now much less visible.' 

Immediately after the lockdown was declared in March 2020, Vincent Wijlhuizen, co-founder (along with Annette van Zwol and Ieme Soes) and director of the What you See Festival, set to work to come up with alternatives for the festival, which takes place in the autumn. 'We made several plans. We already had an ordinary plan, which went to all the funds... 

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‘Afzender Boulevard’: een kleinschalig zomerprogramma met theater en méér, van de makers van Boulevard

Onder de noemer ‘Afzender Boulevard’ duiken deze zomer, vooral in de tweede week van augustus, 25 voorstellingen, performances en installaties op in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Hun gedeelde motto is ‘Nader de ander’. Want na maanden van afzondering, gepaste afstand en ontwijking gloeit het verlangen om [wat] dichterbij te komen. Boulevard viert in 2020 de veerkracht van makers en publiek met een programma… 

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The BIS is dead, long live the Puppets

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... 

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Minister van Engelshoven visits Brabant performing arts sector

Minister van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap Ingrid van Engelshoven sprak vandaag op uitnodiging van Theaterfestival Boulevard met Brabantse organisaties en individuele makers over de gevolgen van COVID-19. In aanwezigheid van de cultuurwethouders van de grote steden en de nieuwe gedeputeerde Vrije Tijd, Cultuur en Sport werd de impact van het virus op de podiumkunstensector in kaart gebracht. Én er werd… 

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The lobby has made art just a little too big. Now populism is reaping the benefits of that.

Natuurlijk sta ik sprakeloos langs de zijlijn te kijken hoe de Nederlandse kunst getroffen wordt door een ‘perfect storm’. Twee, misschien wel drie diepe depressies die elkaar kruisen op het slechtst denkbare moment en zo een golfslag veroorzaken die zelfs de sterkste schepen tot zinken brengt. In dit geval: een extreem zwakke minister, een tot op het bot verdeelde cultuursector… 

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Brabant FvD council cuts at least 25% (but probably 100%) on culture, and only talks about 'Leisure'

(8 mei: aangepast om duidelijk te maken dat de bezuiniging waarschijnlijk 100% is) Het nieuwe provinciebestuur van Noord Brabant gaat de zwaar door corona getroffen cultuursector nog wel helpen om de klap van dit jaar te boven te komen. Direct daarna volgt echter een bezuiniging die oploopt tot minstens 25 procent op het totale budget voor ‘vrije tijd’. Blijkens de… 

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Culture Press podcastcorona (21) - Oscar Kocken: 'Not being allowed to perform your work for six months is pretty gross.'

'Yes, of course it was something we already saw coming in every way. That made me mentally prepared. But then when you actually hear about it... It's just SO sour. It's every time - I don't blame anyone, to be clear - but every time you get bad news, you try... 

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Moet je in tijden van Corona nou echt een nieuw theater bouwen met een precorona-ontwerp? Cultuurperscoronapodcast in tijden van Den Bosch (20)

80 miljoen moet hij gaan kosten, en er moeten heel veel mensen in kunnen, met drie zalen, en het moet allemaal gebeuren op de kavel die nu wordt ingenomen door het Theater aan de Parade in Den Bosch. Dat is zo moeilijk gebleken dat er al sinds 2006 gedoe over is. Nu is er een ontwerp, goedgekeurd en wel, van… 

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Artists show Albania the way to EU accession

An artists' protest in Albania deserves extra attention. Especially as EU accession negotiations resume. Indeed, the protest action is impressive and offers a view of EU accession from an interesting perspective. That of a people who are committed to democratic values, who value their own history and culture, who do not want to give way to... 

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Geëngageerd zijn betekent niet enkel belangwekkend werk presenteren, het gaat óók over degenen aan wie je het laat zien.

Loopt een man met zijn dochter in een rolstoel door de gang van het theater. Stopt bij een zaalwacht. Aarzelt, zegt dan: ‘Ik wil niet zeuren, maar zij kan niet op de gehandicaptenwc. Ik zoek een plekje om haar te verschonen.’ Dus die zaalwacht, die helpt zoeken. Even later zitten ze achter een rek in de voorraadruimte. Suikerzakjes, koffie, speculaas, blikken… 

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