The Cultural and Creative Sector Taskforce calls on the government to adopt consistent policies across sectors and assumes that: - now that commercial flow-through venues (such as the Bijenkorf) are reopening, cultural flow-through venues such as museums, monuments and presentation institutions can also open their doors. - now that indoor sports are possible again, active arts and culture will also be possible again. This...
The virus may be unpredictable, but how we respond to it need not be. The Cultural and Creative Sector Taskforce calls on the government to quickly come up with a predictable government strategy aimed at different stages of the pandemic. Indicate at which corona signal values restrictive measures for the cultural sector come into effect or can be lifted. Link...
Dit zijn de verhalen die in 2021 de muisarmen en klikvingers in beweging brachten, en dat is precies het materiaal waaraan Cultuurpers zijn bestaansrecht aan ontleent. Het is de top tien van meest gelezen verhalen, in een jaar dat ruim 250.000 paginabezoeken werden afgelegd. Angst en beven in de cultuursector: de schaduwzijde van de ’trickle down’ Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen deed…
Marijn Lems heeft een hobby die mooi samenvalt met zijn werk als recensent voor NRC Handelsblad, Theaterkrant en Cultuurpers. Hij speelt namelijk ontelbaar veel games, ziet bizar veel televisieseries en gaat ook nog eens meer naar het theater dan menig collega zich kan permitteren. Elk jaar maakt hij een top-lijst aan, die hij op Facebook plaatst. Ooit was dat de…
Vandaag hebben demissionair minister Ingrid van Engelshoven van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, de Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) en de Vereniging Vrije Theaterproducenten (VVTP) afgesproken met de middelen uit de steunpakketten zelfstandigen zo volledig mogelijk door te betalen. Dit is een opmaat naar bredere afspraken over de doorwerking van de specifieke steunpakketten binnen de gehele culturele sector, die de Taskforce…
Rutte 4 says sorry to Rutte 1, 2 and 3. We cannot explain the new coalition agreement very differently. Almost all the crown jewels of 11 years of neoliberal policies have been abandoned. That the budget for the cultural and creative sector is now (including marginal repairs during Rutte 3) back to 2010 levels is almost unbelievable. That...
Een vangnetregeling voor freelancers in de culturele sector: vijftig belangen- en brancheorganisaties hebben deze week opnieuw een beroep gedaan op kabinet en Tweede Kamer voor financiële steun aan deze grote groep. Het gaat om zeventig procent van de zogenoemde cultuurwerkers, dus een meerderheid die geen vast dienstverband heeft. Door de zojuist heringevoerde avondsluiting van podia zien zij hun inkomsten opnieuw…
Pure panic and existential angst: that's the picture you get when you approach makers in the arts personally about the effects of trickle down (the trickle down of corona funding from the government to those makers). The Creative Coalition may be making a fist for them, talking to the minister about it, the institutes debating it, but the makers are silent....
The theatres are struggling to fill up, technicians have hung up their lights, but tickets are not on sale for Het Nationale Theater's Trojan Wars. So in this long-awaited Nerd podcast (the AVROTROS thinks the tune is really terrible), we talk to Cees Debets, the director of that great theatre company from The Hague. Marijn Lems also happens to have a few...
Het is aan de steunmaatregelen te danken dat de culturele sector niet ten onder is gegaan in de coronacrisis. Maar helaas is de pandemie nog niet voorbij. Er is tijd, geld en ruimte nodig om te voorkomen dat de cultuursector alsnog omvalt. Dat schrijft de Raad voor Cultuur aan demissionair minister Van Engelshoven (OCW). De raad wijst erop dat veel…
Er is opschudding in de wereld van het circus en openluchttheater, nu een belangrijke werkplaats annex festival in het beroemde kunstenaarsstadje Diepenheim zijn directie verliest. Ruth Semmekrot, sinds 2013 directeur van Kunsten op Straat Overijssel, legde afgelopen vrijdag plotseling haar functie neer. In een verklaring op Facebook stelde ze: ‘Ik heb gestreden. De bestuurlijke en politieke dynamiek waar ik in…
Last weekend's #unmuteus parades might lead you to believe that, as soon as the weather allows, the cultural world will be out of its misery in less than no time. The tens of thousands who took to the streets are soon populating the halls again, and with a little more water with the beer, and slightly more expensive mints, the night and event industry - which is also there for the...
“Dit weekend markeert de opening van het culturele seizoen, maar levert ook gemengde gevoelens op. Steeds meer mensen vinden de weg naar museum, theater en concertzaal langzamerhand weer terug. De klanken en kleuren daar grijpen ons aan, troosten ons en brengen ons weer samen. We ervaren de cultuur nu misschien wel als mooier dan ooit. We kijken er naar uit.…
Bosses start to look like their dogs. Or vice versa. Or owners like dogs who look like them. Or vice versa. Either way. If you want proof of this statement, rush to Theatre Festival Boulevard where John Buijsman plays the gem 'Cosmic Cowboy', assisted by Kees, a labradoodle. Or something that should pass for that. John Buijsman is one of the...
It was supposed to be Ivo van Hove's big break on Broadway. And it was meant to be, but fate decided otherwise. It was announced today via US show news Variety that West Side Story, in Ivo van Hove's modern, raucous version, will not be revived. Despite a jubilant reception and virtually sold-out theatres,...
We don't look upward enough. Maybe we do a quick glance at the horizon to see if that shower is really going to ruin our terrace afternoon, but that's not looking for the sake of looking. And I was able to do that thanks to the people of BLOOS. In Bossche Zuiderpark, they have a...
Young artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and other new thinkers are drowning in the effects of the Corona crisis, as a cry for help from Jett Rebel in de Volkskrant again showed. Assignments are falling away and there is little room for new initiatives. A whole generation of creative talents seems to be lost in jobs in the hospitality industry or at the GGD. The European Recovery Fund...
The uncertainty of the events sector and cultural institutions, after 17 months of lockdowns and one-half-meter openings, is not only disastrous for the mood of executives, artists and spectators. According to the Creative Sector Taskforce, much more is being lost. In fact, a 'Marshall Plan' is needed to help the cultural and creative sector get back on its feet,...
Naomi Velissariou (1984) was actually supposed to be at the Bossche Festival Boulevard 2021 with more performances. This year, her entire trilogy 'Permanent Destruction' would be performed in a setting like club rave. Fierce musical theatre, based on playwrights Sarah Kane and Heiner Müller, and concluded with the more subdued work 'Pain against Fear'. All parts have received rave reviews from audiences and press, but...
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...
Many employers (37 per cent) do not know that they have to apply for the final calculation of their NOW allowance themselves. In the cultural sector, it even threatens to go completely wrong. The UWV says it is still waiting for more than half of the applications for final calculations from the cultural sector. This is according to the implementing body's own research. One is worried there...
Despite persistent corona uncertainty in the cultural sector, International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU) today announces a large part of its programme. The largest literary festival in the Netherlands will take place from 23 September to 2 October 2021 and will programme a host of international writers, poets, musicians and theatre-makers in TivoliVredenburg. On 25 September, the festival theme #WhyFictionMatters will include the French...
Public space is dressed up with visualisation, music video and art in many places, including TivoliVredenburg. Either via projection mapping on buildings during events, or via LED panels in shop windows and abris, but also as digital art during performances and lobbies in theatres. In TivoliVredenburg, in the heart of Utrecht, they even create separate events for it. Canvas is a programme that...
From Thursday 2 to Sunday 12 September 2021, the Netherlands Theatre Festival will show the best productions of the past theatre season. The Netherlands Theatre Jury, headed by jury president Hadassah de Boer, selected the eight best theatre productions of the moment. Today, the jury announced its selection. The full selection can be seen during the upcoming edition of the festival
He is known as a writer of comedy series, such as SamSam and Het zonnetje in huis, and as presenter of the satirical TV programme Dit was het nieuws. But during Harm Edens' (59) youth, there was little to laugh at. 'Even though the whole country claps for you, if your parents don't, it's still a loss.' The 'intelligent lockdown' was last...
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