Nice scoop from the Noord Hollands Dagblad today. Rick Engelkes, the perpetually wobbly soap opera actor who learnt the trade as a successful producer at Joop van den Ende, devised a musical that was never performed because of coronasteun. It earned him millions. Read the story here. Tl;dr: Engelkes announced in 2020 that he was working on a musical to...
Dat de Nederlandse animatiefilm in de lift zit beschreef ik hier eerder al. En nu ik deze week rondkijk op het animatiefestival in het Franse Annecy lijkt het me aardig om te zien hoe onze animatiefilmers en producenten zich hier presenteren. Zeker omdat Annecy geldt als het belangrijkste evenement wereldwijd in deze sector. ‘Het Cannes van de animatiefilm’ hoor ik…
Tackling tax fraud and money laundering, as we reported earlier, also affects the arts sector. Money can no longer be hidden in shadowy limited companies behind foundations, which in turn hide behind other companies and individuals. Everything has to be transparent from now on. A new measure was added last week, according to Artnet. The European union is going to introduce a...
Our government leaders, united in Europe, have come up with something to combat the masking of corruption. It is called UBO register. The Netherlands is also going to introduce it in the near future. This has consequences, also for cultural foundations and associations. Because every organisation has to determine who is a UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner). This causes some complications. In the cultural sector, it is...
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...
A small miracle did happen, in recent months. The result of that miracle can now be found in letter Jet Bussemaker, minister of OCW, sent to the chamber yesterday. And actually, it is not one miracle, but three. We list them for you. 1: The art world pulls together. Artists often find actors...
Dat het niet goed ging bij Codarts, de Rotterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, was al bekend. Bestuursvoorzitter Jikkie van der Giessen moest in 2011 het veld ruimen nadat
Een tijdje terug was er in Nederland gedoe over de BUMA, de club die de auteursrechten int voor muzikanten en uitgevers. Er was geld verloren gegaan bij speculatie en een bestuurder deed aan vriendjespolitiek. Deze gevallen blijken niet op zichzelf te staan. Ze worden tenminste ook genoemd in een overzicht van alle bekende gevallen van machtsmisbruik en corruptie bij auteursrechtenorganisaties wereldwijd.
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,...
"I love westerns," says one of the African players. "Because you always know how they end. Clearly. With only one winner." On the stage floor are four smoothly twirling, stomping dancing, trained performers from the Ivory Coast. They are a stark contrast to their co-stars: two lumbering, yoghurt-pale and uncoordinated German actors. The Africans speak French, the Germans mostly English. The...
De Nationale Theaterweek is nieuw en heel erg klein. En, vreemd voor een klein festival, adverteert groot op de site met het logo voor het Thuiswinkelwaarborg. Dat riep vragen op. Want klikken op het logo van het waarborg levert een heel ander resultaat op. Crimineel is het overigens niet, als je het logo van Thuiswinkel-waarborg gebruikt zonder dat je daarbij…
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