Making culture more accessible, fairer remuneration for cultural and creative professionals, and making more use of creative brainpower in major social issues. These are key principles of cultural policy in the coming years. The Council of Ministers has approved the Long-term Letter on Culture by State Secretary Uslu (Culture and Media). In this letter, titled 'The power of creativity', the state secretary sets out how she will...
What happens in 2022, when refunds are due or not, we will determine on 17 March. But we may just have to count on the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science changing its name already.
With the saving of Frascati and at least a Chamber that does understand the importance of the sector, the most depressing event of the year - the culture budget debate - still ended with a few bright spots.
As this is D66 culture minister Van Engelshoven's presumably last budget year, the press release once again emphasises that a total of 95 million extra has now come into the culture budget during her tenure. It is too early to draw far-reaching conclusions.
For Mark Rutte, this must be a defeat, or else a U-turn of sorts. Although, there are indications that he is taking a milder view. In 2016, his speechwriter actually managed to cycle the K-word into the speech from the throne
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.
On top of the general support measures, the cabinet is allocating an additional 482 million euros for the cultural sector. The cultural and creative sector can also draw on the general support measures, so over 700 million is expected to be available for culture.
De cultuursector moet beter luisteren naar de moeder van de minister. Die zei: ‘Je kunt lang treurig zijn over wat je niet hebt gekregen, wees ook blij met wat je wél hebt gekregen.’ Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven haalde haar moeder erbij in de slotfase van het ingelaste begrotingsoverleg over de incidentele steun aan de sector, die vorige week werd afgekondigd.…
Update Wednesday 15-4, 16:00: this afternoon, the government has decided to come over as yet with additional schemes for the cultural sector, which are now no longer taken out of the culture budget. Apparently, the massive pressure helped. We will let you know when more is known about it. Update Wednesday 15-4, 20:00: Drop on glowing plate arrived, leaving the message below only...
Hebben we toch een kleine drie uur aan iets heel onzinnigs besteed. Stom natuurlijk, want we hadden nota bene zelf al op 27 november 2019 geschreven dat het debatje van vandaag in de Troelstrazaal van de Tweede Kamer totaal zinloos zou zijn. Iedereen wist dat ook al, niet in de laatste plaats de indieners van de motie, waaronder Lodewijk Asscher…
The culture sector will have to be patient for a while yet. Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven had no intention of changing any of her policies on Monday 18 November, during the discussion of the culture budget in the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Culture. Despite a fairly widely supported desire, especially from the opposition, to do something about the 8.6 million cut in the...
Amersfoort heeft wat in te halen op cultuurgebied. Festivals als Spoffin hebben bijvoorbeeld geen geld om echte honoraria te betalen voor optredende artiesten. Die staan er dus met de naamsbekendheid als beloning. Datzelfde geldt niet voor tennissers, blijkt. De Amersfoortse wethouder sportzaken besloot namelijk om het dit jaar gehouden atp-tennistournooi te verrijken met een subsidie van 50.000 euro, om bijvoorbeeld…
Vanmiddag is er een hoorzitting in de Tweede Kamer over de uitgangspuntennota van Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven. Die nota waarvan iedereen inmiddels doorheeft dat het een sigaar uit eigen doos is. Insprekers hebben hun mooiste speeches voorbereid, en er zal na afloop zeker het een en ander viraal gaan binnen de verschillende culturele social media-bubbels. Ik werd een beetje moedeloos…
A little pity was in order during the debate on the culture budget in the Lower House. Thierry Aartsen, the VVD's brand-new culture spokesperson, still hadn't done his homework and therefore got terrible on his mitre from fellow culture spokesmen in the Lower House. And then also from the minister. Was he allowed to speak around 11...
Duizend scholieren per dag in de Tweede Kamer. Niet minder dan dat. Dat wil Cultuurminister Ingrid van Engelshoven. Kost 4,8 miljoen. Geld dat u feitelijk gaat betalen via uw theaterkaartje, het bibliotheekboek, de museumticket. Want van die 4,8 miljoen had ook echte kunst gemaakt gemaakt kunnen worden. Het is een grote vraag waarom het verplichte Tweedekamerbezoek bekostigd moet worden vanuit…
Culture minister van Engelshoven says it is inevitable that the number of productions in the arts sector will go down. This is necessary to make the labour market for the arts sector healthy. She stated this in an interview after the presentation of her vision letter at Rotterdam's Maaspodium. 'You see that a lot has been produced in recent years to...
This post has been updated following a response from VVD The Hague. Yesterday I wrote: But so that was misunderstood. Today the VVD called. A transcript of the conversation can be found below: With Frans Schuyt fraction chairman The Hague VVD. I think two things have been mixed up. You have the programme in the budget, Culture and Library, of 102 million,...
Het debat over de cultuurbegroting 2017 op maandag 13 november was een verademing. Niet omdat er opeens veel meer geld uit enige hoge hoed kwam, maar wel omdat er een minister zat met visie. En met ruimte om die visie ook te kunnen uiten. Na zeven jaar vol duwen en trekken en afgewezen moties, kasschuifoperaties en fietsbelhandel was er eindelijk…
Perplexity all round. How could D66 possibly vote against a minimal repair of the draconian cultural cuts of both Rutte cabinets? After all, only ten million is involved. That while party leader Alexander Pechtold, as culture spokesman, has been hammering on for an extra 10 million in every meeting over the past year. But exactly that happened last night. During the campaign, D66 went much further: from...
On the day that in the Lower House, Minister Bussemaker passes up a chance for extra money for culture, young artists further down the street are winning prizes. On Monday 21 November, the Education, Culture and Science Committee spoke to Minister Bussemaker about the Culture Budget. Something that has far-reaching implications for the culture sector. Later in the evening, the presentation of...
De NAPK (Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten) luidt de noodklok voor de podiumkunsten. De vereniging van werkgevers in de podiumkunsten start vandaag een petitie en dient op 1 november een tweede brandbrief in bij de Tweede Kamer. Eerder dit jaar stuurde de NAPK al een brief naar de Tweede Kamer. En daar is hier toen over geschreven. Ter voorbereiding op de Kamerbehandeling van de cultuurbegroting volgt nu een tweede…
That 10 million is officially in. The art world is doing its best to sound grateful. The employers in the performing arts, gathered in the NAPK, have sent Bussemaker a thank you. Because she is not cutting 300 million from culture, but only 290 million. The extra money raked together last year by various lobbyists and parties is now anchored in the...
Update 4-12-15: During the plenary discussion of the culture budget on 3 December, Messrs Monasch (PvdA) and Van Veen (VVD) withdrew the controversial amendment. Instead, an amendment was adopted in which a one-off 10 million was released from the additional proceeds of the tax on polluting companies. From this contribution, festivals will be supported, talent development facilitated and...
There is turmoil in the performing arts. This is because Culture Minister Jet Bussemaker has implemented a couple of motions from the opposition. The minister has also ignored the advice of the Council for Culture for a more balanced budget distribution. So, after much agitation on social media, we received a letter on Friday 28 August 2015. From the festivals, addressed to the minister,...
The Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra is getting a new main hall. Questions about exploitation were carelessly brushed aside in the Arnhem city council last night. And so construction-minded Holland is happy. Moreover, Arnhem will save half a million a year on its culture budget by immediately making the yet-to-be-built new hall independent. Another headache file closed. Until huge budget deficits arise at the independent halls....
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