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Tandeloos cultuurdebat biedt weinig nieuwe inzichten

Donderdagochtend 12 november gingen de woordvoerders cultuur van Christen Unie, VVD, D’66 en Groen Links met elkaar in gesprek over cultuur. Sprankelend werd het door LACK  (Landelijk Kennisinstituut Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst) Kunsten ’92, het Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie en de Boekmanstichting georganiseerde debat echter geen moment.

Plein Theatre hands over petition to Arts and Culture alderman Touria Meliani AND launches crowdfunding: Support Plein Theatre now!

Drie weken terug is het Plein Theater een petitie gestart en verzoekt daarmee de Gemeente Amsterdam, en in het bijzonder wethouder van Kunst en Cultuur Touria Meliani, om financiële steun te verlenen voor het behoud van het theater. Donderdag 22 oktober werd de petitie met meer dan 1600 handtekeningen door directeur Berith Danse en voorzitter Bert Barten overhandigd aan wethouder van Kunst en Cultuur Touria Meliani.

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.

There are also problems with the region in Limburg (and people suspect the advisers of being arbitrary and pre-emptive)

The cultural centre of gravity in Limburg has been in the south for years. However, to encourage southern institutions to programme outside the region, only 1 extra point is available. Examples of the problem of geographical spread also exist at the Council of Culture and the Performing Arts Fund.

Where did things go wrong between culture decision-makers and the region?

It could have been so beautiful. In a not so grey past, the Council for Culture, then under a different management, initiated a movement that would give more authority to the region outside the Randstad. That was three years ago. Now there is an (entirely justified) angry letter in the newspaper from the culture deputies of 9... 

The city as we knew it is doomed. Long live rural art?

Verontrustende berichten, de afgelopen dagen, in diverse media. Eerst was daar Patrick van IJzendoorn in De Volkskrant, die constateerde dat het leven was weggetrokken uit het Londense zakenhart. Ik zag een paar verward verheugde reacties langskomen van vrienden op mijn culturele tijdlijn. Immers, in het artikel werd een duidelijke relatie gelegd tussen de sluiting van musea en theaters en de… 

Subsidy crisis: if the House comes up with a fix for region and saw line soon, we will be even further home.

That 8.6 million the fund is now minimally short of will probably be found somewhere, so the saw line will be shifted again. Then the sector can - virtually - continue for another four years. Another one and a half million may be added to shape the spread. Pleasing the art world is not that expensive, The Hague will notice.

And what about those codes of conduct? 'The Fund sees the tick marks as a baseline measurement.'

According to the minister, when applying for your grant this year, the Fair Practice Code, the Diversity and Inclusion Code and the Governance Code of Culture would be decisive. In several reviews by the Culture Council in the BIS and also locally, artists have been rejected on the basis of poor substantiation of their following the code of conduct. If not at... 

'It's important for Shai to make something again.' Ka Yan Tang and Shailesh Bahoran on Illusionary Rockaz Company in times of Corona

Illusionary Rockaz Company was due to release a new work by Shailesh Bahoran this spring. A new production for the first time in two years, after a time in which the Utrecht-based choreographer was constantly winning awards. And then Corona broke out. For Shai, reason to pause for a while: 'For Shakti, the performance that is coming up now, we have to... 

Raad voor Cultuur past advies marginaal aan, maar blijft bij omstreden besluiten

De Nationale Opera had een foutje gemaakt bij de opstelling van zijn aanvraag. Het met vele miljoenen gedoteerde nationale instituut had volgens de Raad voor Cultuur nagelaten de prestatiegegevens uit te splitsen over dans en muziek. Daardoor moest het gezelschap al voor 1 november met een geheel nieuwe aanvraag komen. Nu blijkt dat mee te vallen. Wat blijkt, de gegevens… 

Cultural big earners: jump through your karma for once

My story about cultural big earners turned out to be the talk of the town in the cultural sector. Not publicly, i.e. mainly behind the scenes, I was approached. One of the few people who did speak out publicly was Henk Scholten. On Facebook, he responded to a column by journalist Aukje van Roessel about the questions raised by The Hague city council 

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