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The ball is in the court: the VAT increase on culture, art and reading will definitely not happen!

Today is a day of joy and relief. A burden increase of over €900 million on our sector is permanently off the table. Raising the VAT rate would not only make culture, art and reading more inaccessible; it would also hit the earning capacity of thousands of creators. This result really did not happen by itself. Over the past year, an awful lot of hard work has gone into the... 

Uncoordinated pile of cuts to arts and culture leaves 350 million barren

Increase in VAT and gambling tax + reduction in municipal and government subsidies disastrous The cabinet's proposed cultural policy will result in a €350 million haircut and a negative domino effect in the arts and culture sector. This is shown today in an analysis of data from private funders, municipalities and the arts and culture sector. "Just before Budget Day, we as a consortium are sounding the alarm.... 

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The far-right coalition Schoof 1 has - even before there is a cabinet - created a first. Never before has there been such a wide protest against a proposed tax measure. An ad appeared in all daily newspapers against plans to increase VAT on sports, culture, events and media from 9% to 21%. So we take those here... 

Madety with MS Co-Pilot on the prompt: a fridge bursting at the seams

Bring in 953 million with a VAT increase on culture? Wilders' protocabinet certainly can't do maths.

The new far-right cabinet is not going to cut cultural subsidies, even though ending subsidies for art altogether was one of Wilders party's sacred points. That those subsidies are virtually untouched should really be the big news after the presentation of the agreement between PVV, VVD, BBB and NSC, on Thursday, 16 May. That was the news only... 

Beumer&Drost presents theatre thriller 'Murder on the Wega' (after the recently discovered 1937 book by Marten Toonder)

On 24 to 28 June and 2, 3 and 4 July, at Theater Bouwkunde in Deventer, you will enjoy a unique and intimate theatre experience: While enjoying a drink, seated 1.5 metres away from each other and from the actors, Peter Drost and Paul R. Kooij perform all the roles in this classic whodunit. Peter & Paul 'young men' in front of your eyes,... 

Into the bookstore with a shopping basket. Booksellers are grasping at the straw called behavioural change.

Last December, we had no internet and no TV/netflix for a week. The Customer Disconnection Department of KPN, formerly XS4All, had not understood that a broken cable in our neighbourhood could have had anything to do with it. One of the funny effects of these fibre-less days was, I finished reading four books. Something I normally do only on... 

Still some places available on 9 May 2019 - Workshop: Storytelling in writing

On stories, message and social media Storytelling is the latest buzzword. Every organisation these days has to have a story to tell. Is it a fashionable marketing phrase? Not really. Storytelling is not new. We were always telling each other stories. It's just that we sometimes forget. Thinking that passing dry facts to each other is an effective way to get people moving.... 

Bussemaker: 'increase' subsidy paid for with artists' pensions

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... 

Chamber listens to culture sector. And hears nothing new.

Five hours of talks with more than 30 invited guests. That's what the Round Table discussion on the 'Principles of Cultural Policy 2017-2020' offered. There was hardly any debate. It consisted mainly of repeating one's own views, but very carefully so as not to offend anyone. The chairman mainly watched the clock. The debate in five quotes. "How do we do it? Very simple: about the... 

78 M€ download damage and 6 more things I learned about copyright

78 Miljoen euro is de omzet die de film- en dvdbranche in Nederland misloopt als gevolg van illegaal downloaden. Dat werd onlangs in een persbericht bekend gemaakt. Gisteren was het ook een van de onderwerpen op een door Filmproducenten Nederland (FPN) georganiseerde discussiemiddag over ontwikkelingen rond het auteursrecht.
Ooit, in de boekentijd, was alles simpel. Nu, in de beeld- en internetwereld, is iedereen boos op elkaar, aldus auteursrechtexpert Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm. Een ingewikke...

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Jet's letter: 'alas, peanut butter'

De vorige staatssecretaris van Cultuur, Halbe Zijlstra, heeft zijn draconische bezuinigingen in beton gegoten. De korting van 35 tot veertig procent op het budget van orkesten, toneelgezelschappen en een aantal musea is wet geworden. De nieuwe minister van Cultuur, PvdA'ster Jet Bussemaker, kan daar helemaal geen iota aan veranderen. En als ze al zou willen: de architect van de bezuinigingen die zij moet toelaten zit als fractieleider van de regeringspartner in de kamer. No chance dat hij zal to...

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Art for all: €3 per person, per month

De discussie was en is oeverloos, maar inmiddels hebben we cijfers. Dankzij de nieuwe 'kengetallen' van het Ministerie van OCW weten we nu hoeveel het Rijk (wij met zijn allen) over hebben voor de mogelijkheid om kunst mee te maken: per inwoner geeft de staat 38,90 per jaar uit aan subsidies voor dans, toneel, musea, jeugdtheater, opera en orkesten. Dat is dus iets meer 3 euro per maand. Inderdaad wel iets om elkaar over in de haren te vliegen, vinden we.
In dit klimaat, waarin deze 3 euro per N...

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Henk Pröpper: 'Writers Unlimited has always opposed panting and short-term ambition.'

He is now a publisher, and the man who was director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature until last year will be quite happy with that. As director of the Bezige Bij, one of the country's largest publishing houses, he will surely never again have to submissively toast the sarcastic State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra. At least the relief was audible in Pröpper's... 

Austerity year review 2011. Or how the PVV cry 'Arts subsidies we abolish' was widely heard

While 2010 was still the year of PVV positions on culture that were suddenly shared by other parties ("we are abolishing art subsidies"), the year 2011 fell under their implementation. What was striking was the ease with which regional and local administrators also wielded this same machete, as PVV spokesperson Bosma did not fail to testify. For instance, in the municipality of Almelo, 30 % went àff from... 

Krabbendijke loses library, North Holland 'saves' youth theatre, while Brabant 30% cuts further on arts

The cut-away Metropole Orchestra is getting some air from the minister. She is willing to use the necessary friction costs to support the transition over the next four years from the Media Budget, provided it stays there. That is, the orchestra may use its own severance payments to be independently 'on the market' from 2017. As much as it shows... 

A'dam: big loss of art subsidies, fact-free politics at art colleges, sacred museum collections, N-H halts small cultural education, culture in abandoned railway station

'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... 

Library not culture, EU money for visual culture, Corbijn in The Hague, VAT implications in Maastricht

Tropenmuseum a bit exotic due to international contacts (...) "The Tropenmuseum still seems to be an issue for political The Hague, but I don't hear anything about the library service and the theatre." There seems to be no question of transfer to subsidy by the Ministry of OCW. Heemskerk also wonders whether state secretary Knapen has sufficient insight into the importance of the library. "The library service... 

Fransche School in jeopardy, blind library closed, nibbling on VAT measure via CJP and Volkenkunde/Tropen Institute merger possible

Arnhem - Scepticism over success of cultural heart Rijnboog Arnhem city council has many doubts about the financial feasibility of the Rijnboog arts cluster. (...) [Alderman] assumes 16 million subsidy from the province and another 4 million in contributions from sponsors for the new arts centre containing the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, the Schouwburg and Focus Filmtheater.... 

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