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OCW vindt berichtgeving ‘voorbarig’: ‘Geen extra Coronageld voor redding culturele sector.’ Ministerie van OCW moet crisis binnen bestaande begroting oplossen.

Binnenkort krijgt de Raad voor Cultuur opdracht voor een plan om de cultuursector de anderhalvemetersamenleving te laten overleven. De inzet van het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap is, om dat binnen de bestaande financiële kaders op te lossen. Dat hebben bronnen in de top van dat ministerie gemeld.

'A lot of people are waiting for the moment when they can sing together again. Make sure that by the time Corona is over, they still have that opportunity.'

Maybe I am not looking closely but I miss in the various media, as I did years ago during the demolition policy, the role of amateur music practice on which many a musician depends. At the moment, the focus is partly on venues and theatres asking their visitors to accept vouchers or donate their tickets. Fine... 

Het steunpakket van het cultuurministerie is een lachertje. Waarom een cultuurstaking nodig is. En makkelijker dan ooit.

Langzaam maar zeker daalt de absurditeit van de reddingsmaatregelen voor de cultuursector in. De rijksmusea hoeven drie maanden even geen huur te betalen, maar moeten die wel met terugwerkende kracht terugbetalen zodra de crisis voorbij is. Ondernemers kunnen extra steun ter waarde van 4000 euro krijgen, mits zij een bedrijfspand buitenshuis hebben. Acteurs, regisseurs (overigens ook freelance journalisten) en kunstenaars… 

De nieuwe verdediging: niet praten maar meenemen! (Hoe een diner-ruzie tot geniale inzichten leidt)

Ik zit aan de eettafel bij mij ouders. We vieren de verjaardag van mijn moeder met de hele familie. Ik ben er, maar ik ben er niet helemaal. Ik ben namelijk momenteel zo ontzettend moe. Zoals ik grappend tegen mijn vrienden zeg: “Ik kan geen boe of bah meer zeggen en loop op mijn tandvlees”. Plots komt het gesprek op… 

Waarom meten leidt tot minder weten en nog meer meten. Over de zinloosheid van trendrapporten en indexen

Ze hebben bij Boekman iets geleerd. De stichting die sinds dit jaar de eer heeft de cultuurindex te beheren, snapt dat trendgrafiekjes bitter weinig zeggen. Dat constateerden we op deze site al meerdere malen, de onderzoekers beamen dat nu ook volmondig. Dus pakt de club het dit jaar anders aan. De afgelopen maanden hebben zestig wijze mannen en vrouwen zich… 

'It is crucial that people who mature here - also as artists - can stay connected to Amersfoort'

For De Stadsbron, Amersfoort's journalistic background site, I chart the cultural sector of the Keistad. On that site now, an interview with Friederike Weisner, director of Theatre De Lieve Vrouw. 'According to Weisner, the lack of a university or college ensures that the need for knowledge is visible: 'You will always have to be innovative as a city. There ... 

Performing arts happy with Chamber's clamour

Modest cheers in the performing arts world. A motion tabled on 18 November by Corinne Ellemeet (GroenLinks), together with PvdA, CDA and D66, forces minister Van Engelshoven to investigate the consequences of the cuts to the Performing Arts Fund before the subsidy is distributed. The House approved this on 26 November. Wonderful, you might say, because if clear... 

OK Boomer. The Diversity & Inclusion Code is going to change the art world. Or had it changed long ago?

From 42 to 18 pages. Actually, that says it all about the new Diversity and Inclusion Code that saw the light of day on Friday 1 November. After all the wooliness and ifs and buts of the original Cultural Diversity Code, the new thing is a miracle of clarity. Is perhaps also necessary, in these times of identity wars, where on the left and... 

If no one comes up with a Plan B... 

On 23 October, website Theaterkrant.nl wrote a piece on the future of the performing arts. A future that is black and gloomy when you, as a creator, count on growth, or even survival at all. In short: so much money is going away from the Performing Arts Fund, that from next year only between 50 and 60 applications can be honoured, in... 

Advies onderzoekers: Amersfoort, zie kunstenaars meer als visitekaartjes!

Amersfoort investeert weer in cultuur. Dat is heel goed nieuws na een periode waarin bezuinigingen de boventoon voerden. Nu wordt het dus extra interessant wat de stad met het extra geld gaat doen. Er ligt al het nodige aan onderzoek. Vorige week kwam er uit onverwachte hoek nog een onderzoek bij. De belangrijkste uitkomst: Amersfoort mag wel wat trotser zijn… 

Why does the fair practice code really only apply to the arts?

Our administrators and elected representatives will not openly admit it, but they do not really care about a healthy cultural sector, let alone the position of individual creators and artists. Indeed, making a Fair Practice Code compulsory without increasing the budget for culture is a slap in the face for everyone working in the arts sector. 'Then be... 

Social Fund Performing Arts turns out to be moneypit: assets halved in five years. Why is this bad news?

'If we continue at the current rate, the fund will be exhausted in the foreseeable future.' This can be read in the 2018 annual report of the Performing Arts Social Fund. Plenty of reason to sound the alarm, indeed. Is this yet another victim of the cabinet's cuts? Not really, it turns out. When you look at the documents in detail, you see mainly that... 

At last. Interest groups arts and creative industries seek collaboration

It is actually a footnote in the press release that lobby organisation Kunsten '92 sent out into the world today. But, as always with footnotes, it did contain the most important news. Because Kunsten 92, the club in which organisations in the arts sector polder, is "exploring cooperation" with the Creative Industry Federation. The latter is the Arts '92 of everything that is also culture and creativity,... 

Niemand in de kunst bedacht een plan B. (Waarom de huidige chaos is veroorzaakt door lobbyisten)  

‘Hier ga ik niet iedereen blij mee maken.’ Deze woorden sprak minister Ingrid van Engelshoven uit tijdens het debat over haar uitgangspuntennota, vorige week donderdag. Ware woorden. De glans van haar ministerschap is er inmiddels inderdaad wel af. Van Engelshoven is, na Bussemaker, de tweede cultuurminister die Mark Rutte’s cultuurbeleid moest uitvoeren, en niets anders te bieden had dan een… 

Kunst is totaal nutteloos, en dat moet de politiek beter duidelijk maken. (Waarom Mark Rutte vaker uit moet gaan)

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… 

New arts plan cabinet-Rutte III: 25 million less arts supply. (But more happy artists)

How harrowing the payment of artists, musicians and theatre actors, screenwriters and all those other 'creators' is, became clear again in recent weeks. In newspaper Trouw, a musician - finally - came out of the closet of poor working conditions. Against the prevailing mores, she revealed how much she earned. What transpired: top national institutions like the Concertgebouw allow musicians to perform for free, orchestral musicians... 

Hoe erg is de zelfmoord van een opblaaspop? Chileense meiden spelen zich vrij in Paisajes para no colorear op het Holland Festival

‘Ik ben het afgelopen jaar op weg naar school twee keer lastiggevallen.’ De jonge actrice, krap 15, zegt het met flink wat woede in haar stem. Het is de ochtend na de Berlijnse première van het Chileense stuk Paisajes para no colorear, waarin ze meespeelt, met 8 leeftijdsgenoten. Die woede was er de voorgaande avond, tijdens de voorstelling die 14… 

All power to the city! Culture Council's opinion dissected into 9 opportunities and 10 threats

When the Council for Culture released its long-awaited musical advice a month ago, its president Marijke van Hees was remarkably nervous. This was particularly evident in her choice to act as moderator at her own presentation. When there, at Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum, came (very mild) criticism of the advice, she shot to the defence. That became... 

Innovation in dance: give young creators space and you'll get it!

Water and dance have agility in common. Yet there is much more to be gained from this interface. Two choreographies in the New Adventures series give audiences a water experience that is both playful and reflective. Under the title New Adventures, Dansmakers Amsterdam presents work by selected dancers and choreographers that they created during a four-week study residency at the production house,... 

What is it with the dance sector in Amsterdam? Once again, a dance production house is being deprived of subsidies.

Is production house Dansmakers Amsterdam losing its housing? Together with other institutions in the dance sector, it has made every effort to align and further develop the whole spectrum of dance facilities in Amsterdam. In 2018, for example, the joint plan Danswerf was developed and submitted as an application for a two-year development grant to the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK)... 

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All balls to Cuijk. Why it really is a good idea for the Netherlands to have a Capital of Culture every year.

How nice it would be if Zutphen were to be Cultural Capital of the Netherlands next year, proudly representing itself and thanks to a strong impulse from its surrounding area: the province of Gelderland. They could immediately tackle the hopeless situation of the local theatre, the kids from the suburbs could also go to hip-hop in a real hall and everyone in the Netherlands would know... 

Brabant feud between orchestra and province comes at the expense of children, schools and small companies.

Cultural summit will take place Friday, February 1, 2019, at the North Brabant Provincial House. Reason: The 'Orkexit', or, the decision by the Philharmonie Zuid Nederland to cease all education activities in North Brabant with immediate effect. This not only deprives thousands of children of culture, but also puts a number of small youth theatre companies in dire financial straits. The Philharmonic, a merger orchestra, formed... 

Kind of a recovery in the performing arts, but pay particular attention to what's happening in the southern Netherlands

In het kader van ‘Hoi, Cijfers!’ kwam het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek vandaag met de geüpdatete cijfers over de podiumkunsten in Nederland. Die laten een voorzichtig herstel zien, al zijn de gevolgen van de ingrepen door de VVD en PVV in 2011 nog steeds pijnlijk zichtbaar. Uit de cijfers blijkt dat vooral het toneel het moeilijk heeft. Daar nam… 

Performing artists miss out on million in European grant due to 'administrative inability'

'Indecent and rude,' is how Miep van Diggelen, former chairman of the board of the Performing Arts Social Fund (SFPK), calls the actions of the board of that same fund. That board, or at least about five members of the seven-member board, decided - outside the official meeting - to withdraw a subsidy application they had initiated earlier, without having read it. The promising... 

Why something needs to happen soon for amateur theatre in Utrecht

The Utrecht Centre for the Arts is bankrupt after a long ordeal. It was axed. There is no more room in the Netherlands' fourth city for a large, centrally organised music and culture school. Nor for pottery, painting and video filming. The city council has found a solution. For the soon-to-be homeless UCK students, the municipality thinks... 

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