De genomineerden voor de Jos Brink Oeuvreprijs en de Jos Brink Innovatieprijs zijn bekend. Een onafhankelijke jury onder leiding van Jeangu Macrooy heeft voor de Oeuvreprijs Wielie Elhorst, Judith Schuyf en stichting Roze 50+ geselecteerd. What You See Festival, Gio van den Heuvel en Jess, en Paul van Dorst zijn de genomineerde kandidaten om de Innovatieprijs te winnen. De regeringsprijzen…
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...
De Nederlandse cultuursector verkeert in nood. Met de bezuinigingen van Halbe Zijlstra begon tien jaar geleden een vrije val die nog altijd niet gestopt is. De Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER) becijferde dat deze bezuinigingen van 200 miljoen niet alleen zorgden voor een verschraling in het culturele aanbod, maar ook een ravage aanrichtten op de arbeidsmarkt. Er verdwenen 20 duizend vaste banen…
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.
Dit is de registratie van de presentatie: En hier is de volledige tekst van het persbericht. Duiding volgt, maar we gaan eerst lezen. Meer ruimte voor vernieuwing en cultuur buiten de Randstadprovincies 04-06-2020 | 14:00 | Den Haag De Raad voor Cultuur adviseert om meer instellingen met vernieuwend cultuuraanbod en instellingen van buiten de Randstadprovincies de kans te geven op…
Ik bevind me, als professioneel kunstbezoeker, zelden in lege zalen. Premières zijn altijd vol, persbezichtigingen en vernissages ook. Vol is natuurlijk hartstikke tof. Al kosten die volle ruimtes waar ik dan in zit meestal meer geld dan ze opleveren, want de kaarten zijn vrij en de drankjes van het huis. Buiten de première, maar vooral buiten de premierestad, is de…
Of course, it takes Italians to make this poetic statement about the Netherlands, the headline of this article. The old Italian saying refers to the carillon that signals time in public spaces. Typical tradition of the Low Countries. Since the fourteenth century. Nice and practical, of course, because then the whole city knows what time it is. Does everyone hear hits from the...
‘Alsof je na een toneelvoorstelling of een concert vraagt welke stoelen ze in de zaal hadden.’ Volgens Gerrit Heijkoop is het niet interessant te weten welke software je kunt gebruiken om online kennis te kunnen delen, of videochats te organiseren. ‘Je kunt naar Facebook, naar YouTube, en dan zijn er ook nog allerlei programma’s. Als je wilt communiceren gaat het…
Travelling makes you a better person. Everyone thinks so, and it is a great favour to be able to travel. A privilege to be able to do it. If you go to England by train, the last few minutes before you disappear under the Channel at Calais, you see more and more fences appearing. And we are not talking about the average...
Fifty years ago, some tomatoes and smoke bombs flew through Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg. This will be commemorated on 4 November at ITA, the former Stadsschouwburg, with a gathering for which, according to the many e-mails I receive, not all tickets have been sold yet. Meanwhile, voluminous essays are appearing in the trade magazine and many are wondering whether there might not be another tomato...
What will shake up the cinema world the most in the coming years? The new James Bond film? Or a personal film tip tailored to your previous cinema visits that just pops up on your smartphone? Or perhaps a technical innovation that creates a whole new cinematic experience? Just a few things that loom around the topic of this week's New Cinema conference. A day and a half...
‘Wij zullen nooit genoeg ‘hetzelfde’ zijn, wij randfiguren: bipolair, borderline, homo, lesbo, onbestemd, narcistisch, autistisch, hysterisch – en we zijn allemaal dodelijk onzeker en we hebben allemaal een knuffel nodig.’ Permanente, schijnbaar onvermijdelijke onzekerheid is de theatersector eigen. Ramsey Nasr trof dat scherp in zijn toespraak bij het ontvangen van zijn tweede Louis D’Or. De moed, of soms bijna masochistische…
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...
The art world needs to be more entrepreneurial. The VVD thinks so, D66 thinks so, in fact the entire Lower House thinks so. But how do you get that combined with the 'intrinsic value' that the last two culture ministers say it should also be about? The Council for Culture has now, in response to a question from minister Ingrid van Engelshoven in March last...
Water and dance have agility in common. Yet there is much more to be gained from this interface. Two choreographies in the New Adventures series give audiences a water experience that is both playful and reflective. Under the title New Adventures, Dansmakers Amsterdam presents work by selected dancers and choreographers that they created during a four-week study residency at the production house,...
Is production house Dansmakers Amsterdam losing its housing? Together with other institutions in the dance sector, it has made every effort to align and further develop the whole spectrum of dance facilities in Amsterdam. In 2018, for example, the joint plan Danswerf was developed and submitted as an application for a two-year development grant to the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK)...
'The first Dutch WhatsApp thriller' was launched at the end of January. For five days, a select group of screen readers could follow this 'real time' story. Writers Jowi Schmitz and Louis Stiller were among them, app'ing with each other about this new form of storytelling. Sunday Louis > Suddenly a whole pile of names in my whatsapp (including 'paps' and 'mums'). Jowi > I give them...
Cultural summit will take place Friday, February 1, 2019, at the North Brabant Provincial House. Reason: The 'Orkexit', or, the decision by the Philharmonie Zuid Nederland to cease all education activities in North Brabant with immediate effect. This not only deprives thousands of children of culture, but also puts a number of small youth theatre companies in dire financial straits. The Philharmonic, a merger orchestra, formed...
Would it happen after all? Would Liesbeth Coltof's dream really come true? For 36 years, she made theatre in which the age of the audience played no role. On Saturday 6 October, she received the Oeuvre Prize from the Association of Theatre Directors (VSCD) from the hands of Hedy d'Ancona. In doing so, she surpassed Ivo van Hove. The internationally breakthrough leader of the...
For many a theatre lover, watching from the bench will be swearing in church. The atmosphere in the theatre and direct contact is missing. Totally true, and yet the advantages of sitting comfortably, watching when you want, subtitles and the on-demand W.C. break are also worth something. While enjoying a fireside chat, you're not looking at the back of anyone's head....
The neat couple next to me, in the front row at the Holland Festival press conference, hadn't counted on it for a moment. Four members of the Nederlands Kamerkoor starting to undress one by one down to their pecker-sized nakie. A giggle, a small cough, but hey, this is the Holland Festival, they said to each other. So too...
Musicians are no longer allowed to perform for a pittance. At least, not if the club they work for, or in which they perform, receives a subsidy. In a sector opinion released today, the Culture Council argues that the structural underpayment of workers in the creative sector is no longer sustainable. 'If that means fewer programmes can be made (or that there...
With a 500-million-year-old pebble, Jonathan Harris began his lecture. IDFA presents the first international retrospective of this artist. As IDFA's chief guest, Harris gave the 'Master Talk' on Friday, about his life and work. His remarkably analogue vision was also the common thread during Sunday's well-attended DocLab conference. Fundamentally analogue Harris, who once started out in computer science...
Most young artists only find out after their studies that they lack important entrepreneurial skills. That is why ELIA, the network organisation for colleges of arts in Europe, is organising the conference: Making a Living From the Arts. On 14 and 15 September, academics, cultural entrepreneurs and artists from different countries will gather in Amsterdam. Together, they will discuss creative solutions for...
Veel dansstudenten hebben een eenzijdig beeld van wat een succesvolle danscarrière inhoudt. Namelijk: dansen bij het dansgezelschap van je dromen, in een theater, op een podium. Dat vertelt Ulrika Kinn Svensson, artistiek adviseur van de Fontys Dansacademie in Tilburg tijdens Inclusive Dance Event. Maar wegens de zwakke arbeids- en inkomenspositie, mede door wegvallende subsidies, gaat die droom niet altijd op. Er is…
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