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Culture Council sounds alarm: 29.5 million needed to preserve arts sector

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 April 201529 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

What is already going on on a small scale in Groningen, Enschede, Zaltbommel, Amersfoort, Gorinchem and Vlaardingen, is threatening to happen nationwide as well: cultural institutions falling over while politicians look on helplessly. According to the Council for Culture, the situation is alarming: 'Institutions are draining their own funds, cultural funds are maintaining schemes by drawing on reserves. We therefore make the urgent...

Grand Theatre disaster update: Performing Arts Fund saves creators from bankruptcy

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 March 201530 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

The misery in Groningen is a bit bigger than we thought. Meanwhile, the Grand Theatre appears to be at least 250,000 in the red. And counting. Money that the theatre subsidised by the city of Groningen owes mainly to artists. Choreographer Dunja Djocic, for instance, had received €90,000 in subsidies to create performances at the Grand for 2 years. Theatre-maker Andreas Denk had received...

Joop Daalmeijer Marathon (6): 'The Rijksakademie will go to pieces if we don't intervene'

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 September 201430 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING

Wijbrand Schaap: 'The basic infrastructure was keelhauled by Zijlstra while it was not yet ripe. That, in its smaller version, now runs the risk of leading to further rigidity.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'That's a good observation. We are also working on that in our Culture Exploration. We are having a lot of discussions, which we are also taking out into the country. We are starting...

Joop Daalmeijer Marathon (5) "All balls on Amsterdam", I'm not into that at all.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 September 201429 March 2022
11 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING, MUSIC, THEATER

Wijbrand Schaap: 'Now on the role of cities. One of the reactions on our site is about the role of the randstad in cultural policy. Melle Daamen puts the primacy in the randstad, and goes further than the council in this.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'The council has no position yet.' Wijbrand Schaap: 'But there is something in the Culture Outlook. Cities form...

Why the National Ballet should stay and Melle Daamen should become chairman of the Culture Council.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 December 201311 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Update

Meanwhile, in NRC Handelsblad reacted somewhat panicked to the opinion of Melle Daamen, whom he calls an impatient entrepreneur: "You can imagine structurally subsidising two instead of four dance companies anymore. The other two could apply for grants for projects from the Performing Arts Fund, which should then get more funding."

BPP kaputt (5): what exactly is a dead body in the closet, or: is 4 million enough?

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 August 20138 July 2016
7 min read
ACTUAL

The dissolution of the Performing Arts Promotion Office continues to stir minds. So another piece, even though we are actually supposed to be walking around the Uitmarkt to expensive advertising leaflets to sell.

Enfin.

BPP Kaputt (4): 1.7 million available for international performing arts promotion: who has plans?

by one of our members
28 August 20138 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

Het Fonds Podiumkunsten neemt de internationale promotie van de podiumkunsten over van het Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten, dat binnenkort wegens wanbeheer geldgebrek wordt opgeheven. Dat blijft het fonds doen tot 1 juni 2014. In de tussentijd zoekt men daar naar een nieuwe partij die de boel kan overnemen. Ook het programma waarmee belangrijke bezoekers uit het buitenland kunnen worden uitgenodigd, zal…

Rutte 2: No real recovery holes, but different tone

by one of our members
29 October 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

There it is: the coalition agreement of the new cabinet of the man who previously managed to associate the terms 'subisidy slave' and 'empty halls' with the fine arts. The tone is different now, and we owe that to the input of the PvdA, just as earlier we apparently owed the sneering tone to Martin Bosma's PVV.

Culture Council knew about 'Hole of DUS'

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 September 20128 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

Theatre company the Utrecht Games, city company of the Netherlands' fourth largest city, is on the brink of bankruptcy. It was recently revealed that the company led by artistic and business director Jos Thie has a deficit of €2.1 million. Correspondence that has since surfaced shows that it was already clear in May this year that the problems were getting out of hand. That was a month after the Utrecht subsidy advisory committee issued its laudatory opinion, and a few weeks before the Council for Culture issued its very thrifty advice.

'Windfall cuts': bricks saved, people sacrificed

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 August 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

The major research and management consulting firm Berenschot has calculated that, on balance, the cuts to the arts turn out to be not too bad. Client of the study, De Volkskrant, then headlined that big. And indeed, it is kind of good news that the pile-up of cuts (the state 24% less, the provinces 20% less and the municipalities only 9 % less) is so low in net terms. We were surprised for a moment, but when we asked around, we found out

Cronyism at the Performing Arts Fund?

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 August 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In the small Dutch art world, it is impossible to put together a committee of experts which is entirely independent. Anyone with knowledge of business also has knowledge of people, or has worked at an institution that is now to be judged. Or works there now. Reason enough, then, for speculation and conspiracy theories.

Europese bezuinigingskaart raakt vol

by one of our members
9 August 20128 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

The Guardian, de krant die voorop loopt met crowdsoursing, heeft een interactieve kaart beschikbaar gesteld waarop de bezuinigingen op cultuur zichtbaar zijn die regeringen in heel Europa doorvoeren. Dat Nederland voorop loopt, weten we al, maar in Spanje gaat het ook niet best, zoals we hadden kunnen verwachten. Je kunt zelf meewerken aan de opbouw van de kaart, en dat…

Volkskrant fails: not 'region' but Randstad suffers

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 August 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

I would like to take a moment to put this one to you. Quote from this morning's volkskrant, where editor Harmen Bockma makes a valiant attempt to list all the figures of culture carnage, but fails a little in doing so. It also remains difficult to identify the breakdown in the basic infrastructure add to the dropout at the fund, but it is proving altogether difficult to discern what

Baldwin Live

by one of our members
31 July 201230 March 2022
18 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

On Wednesday 1 August 2012, the Performing Arts Fund will announce the results of the lottery that granting arts subsidies has now become. Huge cuts are looming: companies and creators that by now seemed to be a permanent part of the Dutch arts landscape will disappear. Exactly what it will look like, we know

"Janine Dijkmeijer to National Ballet"

by one of our members
24 June 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

The message below has since been confirmed. But we like to cherish our firsts. Hence. Of course, the merger event in and around Amsterdam's Muziektheater, where ballet, opera and theatre will work in unison, also produced a game of musical chairs. Stijn Schoonderwoerd, for instance, announced a month or so ago that he was going to do something else, and so the Dutch National Ballet was looking...

Halbe Zijlstra has made history.

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 April 201229 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

After the presentation of the Rotterdam and The Hague arts recommendations, and a few days to weeks before the harsh judgements of the Council for Culture, and a few months before the devastating reports of the Performing Arts Fund, it is starting to become clear how drastically the Dutch cultural sector is being hit

Read More "Halbe Zijlstra has made history.

Increase in 'wish headlines' in arts news around grant applications

by one of our members
1 March 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

The last opportunities for grant applications for 2013 and beyond closed today. Numerous mergers have been announced, new collaborations, high-profile relocations (Amsterdam in particular is emptying out). Many arts media now also carry news about those plans. News that is often presented as fact, while in almost all cases these are wishes. Applications are even fewer than ever...

Cultural merger fever could have serious consequences

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 February 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

In Amsterdam, Holland Festival, Theaterfestival, Toneelgroep Amsterdam and a few more clubs will 'work closely together'. In The Hague, this applies to Het Nationale Toneel and youth theatre house Stella Den Haag, while in Rotterdam

"The city's leading free spirits have discovered and embraced classical music, but on their own terms"

by one of our members
13 December 20118 July 2016
6 min read
SPECIALS

An alternative scene for classical events outside the ice palaces of classical music is growing. Last month you could 'classical clubbing' at the Yellow Lounge at the Westergasfabriek venue. The club was sold out, indeed with a large

Discount news: cut in government websites and action for Metropole orchestra

by one of our members
15 November 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Donner Zet Mes In Websites Rijksoverheid De ministeries beheren gezamenlijk bijna 400 websites, waarvan het merendeel niet aan officiële eisen van toegankelijkheid voldoet. Minister Donner wil eerst een sanering. (..) De gemeenten, waarvan slechts 2 procent volledig aan de webrichtlijnen voldoet, hebben tot eind 2012 om aan het laagste niveau te voldoen en nog twee jaar daarna om volledig te…

"Culture is not a top priority for this college," the Schouwen-Duiveland Labour Party believes.

by one of our members
12 November 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Gorkum - Culture sector is in dire straits (...) The major austerity exercise will come in spring when the new Culture Policy, among others, is on the table. (...) In the meantime, further consultations are being held with cultural bodies, among others, such as the Toon Foundation and the Nieuwe Doelen theatre on 30 January. "They, like the Gorcums Museum, can come up with innovative, cost-saving plans....

Performing Arts Fund announces plans; institutions must perform with performances

by one of our members
2 November 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Since the decision in June to reduce the BIS, many eyes have focused on the Performing Arts Fund, which has an annual budget of €60 million to give away. However, the Fund is also facing a cut: the budget for the multiannual scheme will be reduced by 40% from 40 to 24.5 million euros. The multiannual scheme is meant for...

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