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Orchestra members fired without waiting pay? A new collective agreement could cause that

On Thursday 27 October, FNV KIEM, the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaarsbond (Ntb) and NAPK sector orchestras discussed the terms of employment of musicians employed by the Randstedelijke and Regionale Orkesten that fall under the collective labour agreement Dutch Orchestras. Out of a total of 11 Dutch orchestras, nine are covered by this collective agreement. The orchestras of the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep and the... 

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Even if they quit, Halbe Zijlstra is cracking down on culture clubs

Brieven van Staatssecretaris van Cultuur Zijlstra zijn gevaarlijk, zeker wanneer ze over cijfertjes en regelingen gaan. En we hebben de laatste voorlopig nog niet gezien. Op dit moment gaat het dus over 'frictiekosten' voor de culturele sector. Dat zijn de kosten die gesubsidieerde instellingen moeten maken bij beëindiging van hun bestaan door de subsidiestop. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan afvloeiingsregelingen, schadevergoedingen, bloemstukken voor begrafenissen van zelfmoordenaars en het met verlies v...

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Performing Arts Fund announces plans; institutions must perform with performances

Operatie Fonds Podiumkunsten Sinds het besluit in juni om de BIS te verkleinen, richtten vele ogen zich op het Fonds Podiumkunsten, dat jaarlijks een bedrag van 60 miljoen euro te vergeven heeft. Ook het Fonds heeft echter te maken met een korting: het budget voor de meerjarige regeling wordt met 40% verlaagd van 40 naar 24,5 miljoen euro. De meerjarige regeling… 

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Sports sponsor pays top price, culture sponsor sits front row for a pittance and expects no less

The smallest opera company in the Netherlands beats the biggest. Not in visitor numbers, not in subsidy received, but in bringing in sponsorship money. On closer inspection, however, it becomes painfully clear once again that there is no giving culture in the Netherlands and sponsorship is limited to a pittance. A rattling giving law will not change that.

Een maand geleden vertelde intendant Guus Mostart ons dat ondanks juichende recensies en uitverkochte zalen de Nationa...

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Reply Zijlstra (culture) to question on friction costs confirms chamber did not pay attention in June

It came as a shock that still hasn't quite worked out. Haf September, dozens of arts organisations received a letter from the State Secretary for Culture, informing them that they could start using the subsidy they thought they were getting for projects until 31 December 2012 for redundancy procedures, selling property at a loss and staff lawsuits against... 

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Weekers (finance): 'No reason yet to reverse VAT increase' despite dramatic start to season

The story continues. Op 1 juli werd de BTW-verhoging van kracht, op 8 juli citeerde NRC Halbe Zijlstra dat ‘het  niet de meest voldragen regeling’ van dit kabinet was, woorden die hij later nuanceerde tijdens kamervragen. Eind augustus kwam het Berenschot-rapport naar buiten met schrikbarende cijfers: de BTW-verhoging zou Nederland voornamelijk geld kosten in plaats van opleveren. Binnenhof TV Intussen werkten… 

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Saskia Kriekhaus has her director's job back. Now all that remains is a workplace.

She was accused of fraud and therefore suspended in September. However, a judgment has now been handed down in the summary proceedings that Saskia Kriekhaus, director of the Lucent Danstheater and the Anton Philipszaal, both in The Hague, had filed against her dismissal. And so Saskia Kriekhaus won that. So that suddenly everyone in The Hague's arts sector is heartbroken,... 

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Had the cabinet been a restaurant and the country's connoisseurs Johannes van Dam, Rutte could have closed the joint.

A nice side effect of the Giving Act is that it gives the tax authorities a vital role when it comes to determining what is art, and what is not. That was the outcome of the hearing on Tuesday 11 October in the House of Representatives. The MPs there listened to people from the philanthropic sector and tax experts in turn. Outcome of the two... 

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Henk and Ingrid screwed again: Dutch tax advisers burn new Giving Act to the ground

The new Giving Act, the cultural palliative with which the Rutte Cabinet claims to be accommodating the art world, is flawed. We don't say this, because we only know about art, but this is what the Dutch tax consultants say. And they know a lot about your taxes, and little about art. Extremely reliable, in other words. And what virtues... 

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Mayor Hoes provides proof: for the VVD, art is only about sport anymore

Anyone who was still left wondering what the vision of the governing VVD party on art is now out. For that vision is simple. Art is sport. According to the VVD. So said the alderman of Rotterdam, so said the spouse of top wrestler Albert Verlinde, the as mayor of Maastricht ancillary runner Onno Hoes. During the opening of the Dutch Dance Days, he gave... 

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Red Bull: the ideal power boost for languishing museums?

"If 1 person can prove that by collaborating with Red Bull, a sixteenth-century painting thins out or falls off the wall, I will stop working on it immediately." Edwin Jacobs, director of Centraal Museum Utrecht, opened his doors to the soft drink manufacturer. Under the title 'Art of Can', the museum is exhibiting artworks made from Red Bull cans. "Red Bull gives you wings,... 

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Letter Zijlstra is just a request for information. But it does include a tickable invitation to suicide

Has state secretary Halbe Zijlstra the Lower House lied or misled in June when he stated that rushing through the culture cuts was necessary to absorb friction costs? Or does it just turn out to be improper governance?

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"1 billion loss? There are other figures." Halbe Zijlstra refers Berenschot report to trash.

At the end of August came the figures. And what figures they were. Due to the stacking of extreme cuts by government, provinces and municipalities, the abolition of the successful Work and Income for Artists Act and the equally successful culture card, plus the VAT increase on the arts, the Netherlands' cultural sector would end up missing out on €1 billion in revenue. Berenschot had estimated that in... 

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Budget note: We put together the cultural haircut percentages

Image via Wikipedia Laten we maar weer eens beginnen met de zoveelste slordigheid van het kabinet Rutte: die vermaledijde BTW-maatregel op de kunsten, die als enige naar het ‘normale’ tarief van 19% worden gebonjourd. VVD vindt het niks, CDA is er niet blij mee, maar omdat gedoogspecialist Martin Bosma ooit een keertje een rode paddenstoel moest spelen in het schooltoneelstuk… 

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Royishment threatens Gouds Museum over sale of Dumas painting to unknown party

Ok. It is not Victory Boogie Woogie, the Mondrian painting that, in a distant and then cultural past, embarrassed ministry and municipality of Hilversum, because of the planned sale of the canvas to pay for the renovation of the town hall. Still. 'Schoolboys' by Marlene Dumas is also a canvas by a cherished painter, and you don't sell that either 

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New Culture Council president? 'Van Klink creates a crisis himself so he can then solve it'

Pim van Klink is his name. He has been popping up everywhere lately. Especially when the malign subsidy orientation of the cultural sector needs to be pointed out, every medium calls Van Klink first. Last week, he once again threw his hobbyhorse into the henhouse in the NRC and was invited to join Buitenhof. And according to our trench-coat-clad... 

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Kick off subsidy addiction requires greater government effort than Zijlstra wants

De tweet van Bart de Liefde Kunstinstellingen zijn subsidieverslaafd en dus trekken we de subsidies in. De insteek van de VVD is helder. Over het precieze hoe, daar blijken ze langer over na te moeten denken, nu er zoveel tegenstand uit het land komt. Cold Turkey, de behandeling die gedoogpartner (leuk woord in dit verband) PVV voorstelt, zou wel eens… 

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Theatre festival opens with call for new leadership

Het Nederlands Theaterfestival opende met strijdbare speeches van de directeur, de juryvoorzitter en de mecenas. Joop van den Ende riep op tot een grote lobbyist. Wij vragen ons af wie daar sterk genoeg voor is. … Je kunt nu inloggen om verder te lezen! Welkom in het archief van Cultuurpers! Als lid heb je toegang tot alle, meer dan 4000… 

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Rotterdam alderman shocks cultural sector over total lack of knowledge

'En waarom moeten al die kunstinstellingen open op maandag, dinsdag, woensdag en zelfs donderdag? Ik snap dat niet. Ik heb het veel te druk met werken op die dagen.' Zomaar een vraag tijdens het Paradisodebat, het jaarlijkse afsluitertje van de Uitmarkt in Amsterdam. En normaalgesproken kun je dit soort vragen na een paar glazen bier wel verwachten uit het publiek, maar deze vraag kwam dus van de Wethouder Cultuur van Rotterdam, een stad met toch al gauw een paar honderdduizend inwoners.
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It's final: the format for arts subsidies until 2016 is with the chamber

We have another letter from the secretary of state for culture. Halbe Zijlstra has sent it to parliament, to make it official that from 2013 a very bleak wind is going to blow in arts land. That makes cuts of 200 million final, still excluding the probably 150 million in so-called friction costs that the ministry also has to get from somewhere (u... 

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Cackling fresh location artists prepare for Festival DE BASIS

With a few creative friends and a nice budget, romp around in a playground of many tens of acres of pristine nature. Surrounded by the remains of military might. It automatically makes you go roaring. But that's how it goes sometimes. With art. So, to get right to the point: cuts are not always bad. For instance, divesting the... 

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Rutte cabinet answers chamber questions on 'unsupported' VAT measure

Dat wordt voer voor kamerstukken-exegeten, al is de vraag of het iets gaat uitmaken. Maar Halbe Zijlstra zegt dat hij niet heeft gezegd dat de BTW-maatregel 'niet de meest voldragen maatregel uit het regeerakkoord was.' Al stond dat dus wel in dat interview met hem in NRC Handelsblad van 8 juli 2011. Destijds vond iedereen dat een grappige knieval voor de redelijkheid door de doorgaans nogal hard en zonder achtergrondkennis opererende verandermanager Zijlstra. Immers: ook de jeugdige politiespec...

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Grassroots Arts Centre in Lucas

Small arts initiatives in the US are going to have a very tough time

Opponents of government support for arts and culture quite often cite the United States of America as an example of how things can be done differently. There, according to these people, no tax money goes to art and culture, and art is there despite this. Others point out that government support for art does exist in America, and that much of the top art in the US is partly... 

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Delft opens with fewer chamber music surprises than other years

For another 15 years, the Delft Chamber Music Festival, so named to reflect its international character, has encompassed 15 years. Violinist Isabelle van Keulen handled the chamber music festival's programming for the first ten years, Lisa Ferschtmann - also a violinist - took over from her five years ago. But even this already successful festival fears the upcoming budget cuts. A pity, because what... 

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