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A tribunal to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes: the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC)

The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) is a collaboration between Indian writer, lawyer and activist Radha D'Souza and Dutch artist Jonas Staal, produced by Framer Framed, Amsterdam. The project consists of a large-scale installation in the form of a tribunal prosecuting intergenerational climate crimes. The tribunal's inauguration will take place on 24 September 2021. From 28... 

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Antonio Scurati wrote novel about Mussolini: 'Of my readers, 99 per cent consider the book to be anti-fascist. The other 1 per cent were already fascist and recognise themselves in it.'

Formation of the Fasci di combattimento (the Black Shirts) Milan, Piazza San Sepolcro, 23 March 1919 We look out on Piazza San Sepolcro. Barely a hundred people. All men who don't count. We are few and we are dead. They are waiting for me to speak, but I have nothing to say. The stage is empty, awash with eleven million corpses,... 

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It is not too late to make a European Cultural New Deal central to recovery funds

Recently, US geopolitician Joseph Nye1 drew attention once again to the fact that transnational culture is one of the great forces of the European project. For those looking at the European Union from the outside, this common culture is evident, but we, citizens of the Union, are less and less aware of it. Moreover, we tend to... 

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Godfried Bomans: respectively loved, vilified, misunderstood and forgotten

Godfried Bomans died half a century ago. Almost immediately afterwards, the Netherlands' best-loved writer sank into oblivion. It is time for a reappraisal of Bomans' literary work and even his political views. I delved into the archives, also looking for the few traces of Bomans in Amersfoort. First some round figures. Seventy years ago, he delivered a lecture... 

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Amsterdam Museum presents exhibition Golden Coach - 18 June 2021 to 27 February 2022 

The exhibition The Golden Coach opens at the Amsterdam Museum on Friday 18 June. After a restoration of more than five years, the Golden Coach is back on public display for the first time. The carriage will be on loan to the Amsterdam Museum until February 2022. With this, the carriage temporarily returns to the city that used it in... 

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‘Als je maar één iemand raakt, kan dat de wereld veranderen.’ “Wanhopige optimist” Adriaan van Dis schreef een boek vol vrolijke boosheid

Het is een fris en levendig boek, de nieuwe roman van Adriaan van Dis (74). Op de hem kenmerkende humoristische toon snijdt Van Dis in KliFi de grote thema’s van deze tijd aan: klimaatverandering, de vluchtelingencrisis, politiek populisme, (on)vrijheid. Als in de republiek Nederland een verpletterend warme zomer uitmondt in een orkaan en een dorp van vluchtelingen wordt weggevaagd, zwijgen… 

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ITAlive bereikt via stream #romantragedies toch mooi 871.000 twitteraars. En bijzonder was het.

Dat Shakespeare na vier eeuwen nog steeds actueel is, daarvoor hoef je hem niet eens in moderne kleren te steken, maar het helpt natuurlijk wel. Het wereldwijde succes van Ivo van Hove en zijn ‘Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’ is dan ook mede te danken aan zijn Shakespearebewerkingen ‘Kings of War’ en ‘Romeinse Tragedies’. Marathons, urenlang theater met eten tussendoor. Valentijnsdag 2021… 

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Opinie: Kunst en cultuur worden in Brabant bij oud vuil gezet

Op 24 december 2020 bracht de provinciale hoor-en bezwaarcommissie n.a.v. een 8-tal ingediende bezwaarschriften een advies uit aan de het College van GS van de Provincie Noord-Brabant. Daarna verscheen -pas een maand later- op 26-1-2021 een mededeling d.d. 26-1-2021 van het College van GS aan Provinciale Staten en een persbericht aan de culturele instellingen die een aanvraag 2021-2024 hebben ingediend.… 

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13 foundations and one private limited company. Controversial Brabant grant decisions raise more questions every day.

To get a subsidy in the Netherlands, you have to jump through a lot of hoops. Every farmer knows that, and so does every artist. In the cultural sector, for instance, it is important that you have a form of organisation that is controllable and approachable. You cannot have a profit motive either. That is why you can usually only apply for funding as a foundation, so you have statutes, a board and a... 

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Alaa al Aswani: 'Literature doesn't change politics, it changes people'

Four years ago at the Winternachten Festival in The Hague, we spoke about it with Egyptian writer Alaa al Aswani, who was disarmingly upbeat despite the fact that he can barely publish in his own country. On lack of freedom of expression and fiction in times of fake, this year's theme, Al Aswani could have a word. 'Freedom of expression is even worse now than under dictator Mubarak.'

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Sinds deze week weet ik het verschil tussen een kind van twaalf en een man van vijftig. Dat wil zeggen, wat mezelf betreft. Toen ik een jaar of twaalf was demonstreerde ik met mijn moeder mee tegen de weg door Amelisweerd. Het was een gelukzalige ervaring om door de stad te lopen tussen al die mensen. Een demonstratie is een… 

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Ruim zeven jaar geleden begon ik als huisdichter bij de Late Night Show van Sven Ratzke in de Blauwe Zaal van Utrecht. Het was een bijzondere tijd. Niet voor Sven, die is waarschijnlijk al zingend en in designerkleding ter wereld gekomen door een gordijn van pauwenveren en imitatiehermelijnenbont. Voor hem was de broeierige, permanent ramvol uitverkochte nachtclub-voorstelling gesneden koek. Voor… 

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‘Samenleven met anderen is moeilijk.’ De Franse schrijfster Leïla Slimani over identiteit, wortels en het gevoel nergens bij te horen

Na de publicatie van sociaal-maatschappelijke boeken als In de tuin van het beest, Seks en leugens en de Prix Goncourt-winnende roman Een zachte hand groeide de Frans-Marokkaanse schrijfster Leïla Slimani (39) de afgelopen jaren uit tot een belangrijke stem in de Franse literatuur. Ze werd door president Macron benoemd tot ambassadeur van de Franse taal en cultuur en door het… 

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The sneaky demolition of the National Theatre in Tirana during Corona is just the beginning

The sneaky demolition of the National Theatre during Corona: This is just the beginning.

Albania's National Theatre, recently declared a protected monument by Europa Nostra, was unexpectedly destroyed on Sunday, 17 May, after two years of protests. Early in the morning, when it was still dark, the bulldozers came. A sudden wave of policemen wearing mouth caps chased activists and artists out of the theatre and formed a cordon around the audience.... 

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Brabant FvD council cuts at least 25% (but probably 100%) on culture, and only talks about 'Leisure'

(8 mei: aangepast om duidelijk te maken dat de bezuiniging waarschijnlijk 100% is) Het nieuwe provinciebestuur van Noord Brabant gaat de zwaar door corona getroffen cultuursector nog wel helpen om de klap van dit jaar te boven te komen. Direct daarna volgt echter een bezuiniging die oploopt tot minstens 25 procent op het totale budget voor ‘vrije tijd’. Blijkens de… 

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Artists show Albania the way to EU accession

An artists' protest in Albania deserves extra attention. Especially as EU accession negotiations resume. Indeed, the protest action is impressive and offers a view of EU accession from an interesting perspective. That of a people who are committed to democratic values, who value their own history and culture, who do not want to give way to... 

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European Cultural Foundation seeks new imagination on anniversary.

'Nothing can make up for the past. But the real, enduring power of the past lies in how it affects our present and our future. What we can do is shape a future history in which we consciously and determinedly carry with us only the best of our past.' Not keep rooting, but cognitive behavioural therapy for the whole of Europe, you might... 

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'Art tax cuts and a cultural fund will be created as an incentive for homeowners to invest in works of art.' (How we think the throne speech should have read)

Members of the States General, This year about 72 years ago we had the first Holland Festival. After years of enslavement and tyranny, hope for a better future literally came from above, in the form of Maria Callas. Eyewitnesses who saw the lights in the Stadsschouwburg turn red that day would never forget that image. 72 years later, it seems... 

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Ivo van Hove directed a top-notch broadcast of Zomergasten, with a wonderful lead role for Janine Abbring.

Janine Abbring has managed to pull the somewhat ramshackle institution Zomergasten out of the doldrums. She has fun, is excellently prepared, is genuinely interested in her guests and has managed to push the eternal battle element into the background without making the broadcasts less exciting. That battle element was always: does the interviewer succeed in 'breaking' the guest? Because. 

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Colonisation is not a relationship. But we still need to establish that relationship, this Holland Festival showed.

Post-colonial criticism and reflection ran like a thread through this year's Holland Festival programme. Not only William Kentrigde and Faustin Linyekula, the associate artists with whom the festival's programmers collaborated, their work addresses the devastating effects of centuries of Western European trade and commerce. In reframing political and social history and reclaiming... 

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Laundry is still hanging on the line and food is still on the tables in restaurants. The doomsday scenario of Chernobyl, now as an HBO TV series.

On 26 April 1986, an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. To this day, it is one of the most catastrophic disasters caused by man. The effects of the nuclear disaster are felt even today. For many, Chernobyl represents a long-forgotten memory. Places with a macabre history have always drawn people and... 

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'I now understand how complex "guilt" actually is': Takis Würger wrote novel about Jewish betrayer (and put his email address in it).

'That I have perpetrators in my family gives me the responsibility to keep remembering. Many of my contemporaries say we should never forget and that it should never happen again, but do nothing else. Being a writer gives me the opportunity to do something. To write about it, make readers feel... 

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Baudet wants the rebirth of a civilisation. The question is which one. (But actually we already know)

It was just missing the heavy music and gothic storm images in the Game of Thrones trailer whose lyrics Thierry Baudet uttered on the night of Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 March 2019. 'And so here we stand, at the eleventh hour, among the debris of what was once the greatest and most beautiful civilisation the world has known. A... 

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Another day of life: a film experience that continues to irritate under the skin long after leaving the movie house.

Het blijft wonderlijk hoeveel emotie intelligente animatie kan genereren. In Another day of life (vanaf 14 maart in de bioscoop) wordt de Angolese verslaggeving door de legendarische Poolse journalist Ryszard Kapuściński groots in getekende beelden gevat. In combinatie met live footage en welgekozen archiefmateriaal levert dat een hellevaart van 85 minuten op die op meerdere niveau’s valt te waarderen. Kapuściński… 

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