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Incubators we already had, but where was the incubator? Is Art-up Incubator the salvation for cultural Holland?

Vijftig jaar geleden vlogen enkele tomaten en rookbommen door de Amsterdamse Stadsschouwburg. Dat wordt op 4 november herdacht in ITA, de vroegere Stadsschouwburg, met een bijeenkomst waarvoor blijkens de vele mailtjes die ik krijg nog niet alle kaarten zijn verkocht. Ondertussen verschijnen er lijvige essays in het vakblad en vraagt menigeen zich af of er niet weer eens een tomaat… 

Nog enkele plaatsen beschikbaar op 9 mei 2019 – Workshop: Storytelling in schrift

Over verhalen, boodschap en sociale media Storytelling is het nieuwste buzzword. Elke organisatie moet tegenwoordig een verhaal te vertellen hebben. Is het een modieus marketingverzinsel? Niet echt. Storytelling is niet nieuw. We vertelden elkaar altijd al verhalen. Kwestie is alleen: we vergeten dat weleens. Denken dat elkaar droge feiten doorgeven een effectieve manier is om mensen in beweging te zetten.… 

Artists, get out into nature, before it's too late (and other reasons for hope)

There are those, including in the arts, who still think the world has not changed for good. Who suspect that a vote for a culture-friendly party will at a stroke turn back the clock eight years. Those people will wake up after 15 March to a new world, even if the Netherlands has suddenly chosen whether or not... 

Culture Council fill-in exercise offers hardly any surprises

Champagne at BAK in Utrecht, deep disappointment at The New Institute in Rotterdam: the Council for Culture has spoken. Today, Thursday 19 May 2016, the first advice after the draconian art cuts by the first Rutte cabinet came out, and heads are rolling. Amsterdam loses prestigious presentation institution De Appel, in The Hague fellow institution Stroom has to redo its homework. The Orkest van het Oosten and the Gelders Orkest have to come up with merger plans within two years. In Utrecht, the city company Theater Utrecht will no longer receive funding despite artistic appreciation. Het Zuidelijk Toneel in Eindhoven Tilburg must make new plans and Opera Zuid must quickly raise its artistic quality. These are the main conclusions of the Culture Council's opinion.

As dramatic as some of this may sound, the advice is actually not, when you look over the whole battlefield. Thanks in part to

De Vriend leaves Orchestra of the East, former chief Van Zweden new boss New York Philharmonic

It is not often that Norman Lebrecht, author of the globally widely read blog Slipped Disc, covers conductors of the Orchestra of the East two days in a row. First on the departure of principal conductor Jan Willem de Vriend, then on the appointment of former principal conductor Jaap van Zweden to the world-famous New York Philharmonic. Naturally, Lebrecht brought both... 

Musicians pay to save their orchestra. TV programme Maestro helps a little.

Het Orkest van het Oosten zet de tering naar de nering, richt zich primair op Overijssel en heeft collectief ontslag aangevraagd. Dat – en heel veel meer – is te lezen in het nieuwe businessplan. Het is genoeg voor de provincie om eenmalig 1,1 miljoen euro vrij te geven en voortaan weer jaarlijks 3,5 ton subsidie beschikbaar te stellen. Het… 

Orchestra of the East reinstated: HET Symphony Orchestra has 'new' name

Van Nederlands Symfonieorkest met internationale ambities terug naar provinciaal orkest met vooralsnog helemaal niets. Nu, op de ijzersterke oorspronkelijke naam na dan. Het zou een reclamespot voor Telfort kunnen zijn. Daartussen zitten vele verloren rechtszaken, de groteske protestnaam *****Symfonieorkest en het al even schreeuwerige HET Symfonieorkest. Het is de ultieme capitulatie van het ooit door zo’n beetje alles en iedereen… 

The disaster surrounding the eastern orchestras only intensifies. A reconstruction

A damning report by organisational consultancy Berenschot, the voluntary or involuntary departure of director Harm Mannak, repeated bickering in the State Assembly and panting reports of high salaries for directors and artistic directors, all the way to the national newspapers. It marks the chaos at HET Symfonieorkest and the lack of any form of direction, not only at the orchestra itself,... 

HET Symphony Orchestra director steps down - just before scathing report on business plan

Failing directors stay put, the Supervisory Board disqualifies itself. No other conclusion is possible after reading the counter-expertise commissioned by the province of Overijssel and carried out by Berenschot. The provincial millions intended to make the orchestra subsidy-independent have not only evaporated, but show a negative balance in every aspect. Every estimate was too optimistic,... 

HET Symphony Orchestra won't get its 2016 budget done

THE Symphony Orchestra does not have a balanced budget for 2016. Without additional money from the province, it can no longer perform its core task, nor can it fulfil all the commitments it made earlier. That is the gist of the letter CDA deputy commissioner Hester Maij sent to Provincial Council, ahead of its meeting on 7 October. The subject of the letter: "progress business plan/redemption subsidy HET Symfonieorkest".... 

No 'cash shift', no cheese slicer, but the blunt axe in Enschede

Where minister Bussemaker tries to sell the same overall budget as "an extra investment of 18 million" with the new "cash shift" and municipalities like Amsterdam use the old-fashioned cheese slicer to make cuts, the municipality of Enschede uses the blunt axe. Despite fierce opposition and 27,000 signatures from concerned citizens, the city council agreed to an additional annual cut of 600,000 on the library and... 

Provincial millions for HET Symphony Orchestra evaporated without results

What happened to the five million Overijssel gave the orchestra in 2011 to 'get more money from the market'? This was also what councillor Van Abbema wondered, and the answers the province gave her mostly raise more questions. What is abundantly clear is that the province wants to keep the orchestra no matter what and of no merger 

New annual figures show: THE Symphony Orchestra is virtually bankrupt

THE Symphony Orchestra is as good as bankrupt. The 2014 figures show that. So it is total nonsense that responsible minister Jet Bussemaker reported in her answers to questions by MP Jacques Monasch less than a month ago that the orchestra was well within the own income norm of 21.5%. Not only did she already use incorrect figures in her answers, now... 

Arnhem decides: who takes decisive lead in the battle of the orchestras?

Tonight, the Arnhem city council will take an important decision on the renovation of Musis Sacrum, the monumental concert hall located at a prominent point in the city. But the real news is not in what will be decided tonight, but in the far-reaching consequences. Musis Sacrum dates back to 1847 and is part of the cultural heritage. The venue complex is in dire need of refurbishment and with... 

Crisis at The Symphony Orchestra only gets worse thanks to fact-free politics

HET Symfonieorkest's financial problems have not gone unnoticed. Regional newspaper Tubantia reported last Monday that PvdA MP Jacques Monasch had minister Jet Bussemaker (also PvdA) summoned to the Lower House. In that report, Monasch passes with seven-mile boots advice, applications and decisions that have already been made or are yet to come, and immediately reports that a symphony orchestra will continue beyond 2017... 

Free money from the bank? Why some get itchy about the Guarantee Fund

Last week, the Metaalkathedraal was celebrating. This 'creative breeding ground' in the picturesque no man's land between Utrecht and Leidsche Rijn can, thanks to a loan from a bank, grow into something that might become great fun for the neighbourhood, but also for people on the other side of town. The Metal Cathedral is an initiative of two artists. They... 

2015 is not left: 5 reasons why art is becoming more exclusive

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... 

Sterretje. Vijfmaal. En dan Symfonieorkest.

Vijfsterren Symfonieorkest. Zo gaat het Nederlands Symfonieorkest volgend seizoen heten. Het voormalige Orkest van het Oosten probeerde ‘Nederlands’ te worden, maar kreeg een rechtszaak aan de broek van het Philharmonisch Orkest, dat al ‘Nederlands’ was.  ‘De politiek moet zich met de rechtsgang gaan bemoeien. Want zo kan het niet langer. Dit kost bakken met geld.’ Aldus Harm Mannak.

How two orchestras sold an international revenue model as regional

Recap: Er zijn teveel orkesten in Nederland, vindt de regering, en dus moeten er een paar weg. Of samengaan. Nu schijnt dat gedwongen fuseren niet erg van harte te gaan. Maar je kunt er wel geld mee verdienen. In Gelderland en Overijssel leidt dat tot bizarre taferelen. Het zou komisch geweest zijn als het niet zoveel geld had gekost.

Om vijf ton extra binnen te kunnen halen, trekken het Nederlands Symfonie Orkest en het Gelders Orkest één lijn. En met succes: de provinciale overheden van Overijssel en Gelderland vangen de subsidiekorting van het rijk op. Nu blijkt echter dat de plannen waarmee die redding is binnengeharkt, dubieus zijn. De politiek heeft daar nauwelijks naar gekeken. Vragen over het businessplan kwamen in Overijssel vooral van de PVV, maar in Gelderland stemde die zelfde partij na een – opmerkelijk vernietigende – contra-expertise juist enthousiast in met de miljoeneninjectie.

Orchestras in eastern Netherlands go slating

Bijna dertien miljoen vroeg Het Gelders Orkest (HGO) aan de provincie Gelderland. Het kreeg drie-en-een-half. Precies genoeg om de korting op de rijkssubsidie de komende twee jaar op te vangen en toe te werken naar een nieuwe organisatiestructuur en een nieuw verdienmodel, zoals omschreven in een zeer ambitieus businessplan, dat…… wacht even. Hier hebben we toch al over geschreven?

Amsterdam daagt Nederlands Symfonie Orkest voor de rechter

We schreven al uitvoerig over de naamsverandering van het Orkest van het Oosten in het Nederlands Symfonie Orkest (NSO). Ook de merkwaardige operasubsidieaanvraag gebaseerd op een businessplan dat enorme risico’s in zich draagt had onze volle aandacht. Vaste partner de Nationale Reisopera was not amused.

'Ajax states' in sudden war between Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and National Travel Opera

This week, the National Travel Opera begins rehearsals of Mozart's Le nozze di figaro. In the bin, the brand-new Netherlands Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend. Business as usual, as the two companies have been working closely together for years and are united in the National Music Quarter Enschede. Only: orchestra and opera company have not been talking to each other since last week.

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