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Aan de makers, beleidsmakers en cultuurliefhebbers van Nederland: Statement van Kristel Baele, voorzitter Raad voor Cultuur, bij de opening van het culturele seizoen. 

“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.… 

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ITA leaves exactly the wrong things to the imagination in Age of Rage. #HF21

In Electra, one of the finest tragedies handed down to us by the ancient Greeks, there is at least one piece of text that made history. It is the account of a horse race. You see nothing, but the language puts your imagination to work. 25 centuries later, they tried to turn the images described into real images for the... 

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To blaat or not to blaat. FC Bergman puts the sheep on a nice pedestal in The Sheep Song #HF21

Wie gezegend is met de achternaam ‘schaap’ weet niet alleen dat hij uit een rijk en eerbaar geslacht stamt, maar kent ook alle spreekwoorden, gezegden en al dan niet beledigend bedoelde naamgrappen uit het hoofd. Tot en met kameraadschappelijk blatende chefs kunst. Dan is het feit dat het Vlaamse theatergezelschap FC Bergman een voorstelling maakt met als titel ‘The Sheep… 

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Ine Aya: Wodan's state visit to Kalimantan raises quite a few questions #HF21

Na drie eeuwen koloniale onderdrukking en uitbuiting is het inmiddels pay-back time. Wij, het nageslacht van de zeemacht die er nootmuskaat kwam halen, zijn daar echter niet zo goed in. Want wij komen terug naar Indonesië met massatoerisme, goedkope kledingververijen en multinationals als Unilever. We doen weinig anders dan de boel verder leegtrekken. Economisch, maar ook cultureel. Dit kan onderwerp… 

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Theatrical installation looking at current events from the Maroons' perspective, this summer at Plein Theatre

Swart Gat/ Golden Age (Dunguu olo - katibo-ten) is a theatrical installation about Amsterdam's slavery past and Maroon culture from Suriname. The concept is by Tolin Erwin Alexander, Berith Danse and designer Bartel Meyburg. The theatrical installation, which has lost none of its urgency, has been further finished and will start again in summer 2021! From 17 June (19 June... 

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First titles Theatre Festival Boulevard 2021 announced; Theme Theatre Festival Boulevard 2021: Hack the horizon

Theatre Festival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch will take place from Thursday 5 to Sunday 22 August 2021. The 37th festival edition features over 120 different performances, concerts, performances and installations in theatres, at unique locations and in the Zuiderpark. We also move into the night with Fomo Fatale, club nights with steaming sounds. The Zuiderpark serves as the new, spacious festival centre, including the... 

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'This new law means even more hurdles and restrictions for visiting culture.'

Honourable members of the House of Representatives, It is with great concern that we look at the Temporary Test Act that will be voted on in your House on Tuesday 11 May. This new law means even more hurdles and restrictions for visiting culture. Restrictions that will be introduced but where the end date is not given. This new testing law could be a godsend for... 

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Het draagvlak onder de testsamenleving valt weg.

Vandaag maakten zowel de Koninklijke Horeca Nederland als de Taskforce van de culturele en creatieve sector bekend dat het testen om ergens binnen te komen wat hun betreft omstreden is. De Taskforce wil het testen voor toegang alleen handhaven in extreme gevallen, en niet voor culturele attracties die nu al aantoonbaar veilig zijn. De horeca vind testen zelfs volledig onbespreekbaar,… 

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Het eerste jaar van de coronacrisis is beschreven, en het levert een prachtboek op.

TivoliVredenburg is een gebouw als een festival. ontelbare podia, bars, een café en een restaurant, honderden mensen aan het werk, duizenden binnen op een avond. Ik kwam er altijd te weinig. Maar als ik er kwam was het feest. Een gebouw gerund door en bezocht door supergemotiveerde mensen met maar één doel: zoveel mogelijk muziek voor zoveel mogelijk mensen. Tot… 

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Free producers have been saved, but some more than others; self-employed people seem especially solidary.

Is the government generous and generous for once, it's no good again. You could say that after I received questions from various quarters about the corona grant for free productions announced by the Performing Arts Fund last week. The amount in question is €27 million, for a total of 251 producers, so an average of a tonne per application. With that... 

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Follow The Money confirms suspicion: VNO-NCW oversteps boundaries in setting up cultural sector pilots

Last Friday, we reported on the rather mysterious and lacking in transparency surrounding the pilots to reopen theatres and museums. The questions we asked in that article have now been partly answered thanks to the efforts of 3 contributors to Follow The Money (FTM), and the answers they found are not reassuring. Just a recap:... 

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Platform BK: Deferred work means deferred money. The artist cannot buy food from that.

What we feared at the beginning of the coronasteun appears to have become reality. The generous support money for culture should also reach the small self-employed in the arts via the institutions, but that is now happening too little. Of course, there are fine examples, such as the large subsidised arts institutions in Groningen and festivals like Boulevard and Holland Festival that have self-employed... 

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Netherlands third in world with Coronasteun for arts sector

The United States of America has spent $18 billion (€15 billion) on coronasteun for the arts. That is more than any other country in the world and quite remarkable for a country not famous for arts funding. France is second, with an aid package worth $8.3 billion (€6.9 billion). hefty sums, where the 1.8... 

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The Rolling Stones-Unzipped at the Groninger Museum: dynamic, yet somewhat well-behaved tribute

Fortunately, the Groninger Museum also puts enough focus on the aural aspect; not only are visitors treated to the various Stones songs, culminating in the concert in Cuba in 2016, but they also pass by fragments of der band members themselves and (popular) cultural figureheads such as director Martin Scorsese.

Unmissable livestreams in November Music

Ondertussen houdt November Music de moed erin: de directie zet in op live concerten met maximaal dertig man publiek. In een email-update naar pers en publiek uitte ze wel haar zorgen: ‘Het worden enkele spannende dagen. Na de persconferentie van a.s. dinsdag weten we of November Music 2020 definitief door kan gaan.

Everyone saved? Only a few festivals suffered heavy damage.

The total of eight festivals that were given a place in the Basic Cultural Infrastructure thanks to vigorous political lobbying are in the clear. They do not benefit from the extra millions released by the Cabinet on Budget Day to rescue the Performing Arts Fund, because they are not (or no longer) covered by it.

Burn letter from festivals: 'It's going wrong with the performing arts in the Netherlands'

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.

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