Strictly speaking, prioritisation is another word for wielding a saw line, but it feels different. 'Prioritisation within the applicable criteria', as stated on the site, smacks of possible arbitrariness, as nowhere is it indicated which criteria were weighted how heavily.
De uitvoering is uitmuntend, er is duidelijk veel tijd aan besteed. Dit kan echter niet verhinderen dat de voorstelling halverwege een beetje inzakt.
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.
As this is D66 culture minister Van Engelshoven's presumably last budget year, the press release once again emphasises that a total of 95 million extra has now come into the culture budget during her tenure. It is too early to draw far-reaching conclusions.
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.
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.
Writers and translators hit by the corona crisis can now apply for three support schemes set up especially for them. They can apply for up to €5,000 for a project grant or income support. The first submission deadline closes on 30 September 2020. Membership of the Authors' Association or affiliation to Lira is not compulsory.
On top of the general support measures, the cabinet is allocating an additional 482 million euros for the cultural sector. The cultural and creative sector can also draw on the general support measures, so over 700 million is expected to be available for culture.
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...
De rusteloze kop voor de romp, vuisten nerveus zoekend naar houvast onder de vaalblauwe trui. Z’n leven een meedogenloze teistering van generaties onderdrukking onder fabrieksarbeid, alcoholisme en huiselijk geweld. En diepe liefde toch, tussen deze getormenteerde vader en zoon. Tot bijna aan het einde van de monoloog ‘Wie heeft mijn vader vermoord?’ blijft het hoge bed onaangeroerd. Pas dan vernemen…
What festival director Viktorien van Hulst, together with her team, is pulling off seems almost impossible, but it fits the tradition she has developed since taking office. For a few years now, Boulevard has been as much about massive events as intimate encounters.
In de tweede helft van de jaren tachtig, toen Wim Deetman nog een kaassoufflé was en veel Utrechters van mijn leeftijd klettervestjes met gebroken geweertjes droegen, was het heel eenvoudig om te weten waar je tegen was. Dat kwam door een paar heldere uitgangspunten: iedereen die rechts was, was slecht. Christenen waren dom, hypocriet en eng. Iedereen die vastgoed verhuurde…
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…
‘Natuurlijk heeft Corona impact op mij, maar de impact van Black Lives Matter is veel groter. Ik wil aan het werk gaan om jongeren te activeren. Zij moeten voelen dat dit ons land is. Ik vind het belangrijk om steeds elk podium te gebruiken om dat duidelijk te maken.’ Bright Richards is twintig jaar na zijn afstuderen aan de Arnhemse…
Just over a year ago, Culture Press carried the story that Wim Hupperetz, director of the capital's Allard Pierson, had resigned from his post as chairman of the museums and heritage advisory committee to the Culture Council. The reason was Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven's decision to hand over control of the policy of the national museums to...
Immediately after the lockdown was declared in March 2020, Vincent Wijlhuizen, co-founder (along with Annette van Zwol and Ieme Soes) and director of the What you See Festival, set to work to come up with alternatives for the festival, which takes place in the autumn. 'We made several plans. We already had an ordinary plan, which went to all the funds...
Gisteravond ontvingen we het volgende persbericht, met het verzoek het pas om 06 uur te plaatsen, uit piëteit met de mensen die het betreft. We plaatsen dit, ook al is Paradiso geen lid, vanwege het maatschappelijk belang. volgt hier de tekst van het persbericht Door de aanhoudende coronacrisis en de beperkte mogelijkheden die een 1,5 metersamenleving de komende periode biedt…
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
Creativity expresses itself in Dutch politics mainly in bookkeeping. On 29 June, just before the start of the three-month summer recess, the Lower House actually found money to save pop festival Noorderslag and dance company Scapino from collapse. That demise would become a reality in the new arts plan, which takes effect in 2021, as the Council for Culture...
On Monday 29 June, the Lower House will discuss the advice of the Council for Culture. An advice that, as the Volkskrant rightly noted on Friday 26 June, receives much more criticism than previous advice. In doing so, the newspaper reaffirms what we already wrote down immediately after its release on 4 June: there is a total lack of transparency, a...
In recent days, tentative proposals for a new system to fund the arts in the Netherlands have appeared in various places. Tricky pieces, and so far not attesting to very much incisiveness. In Het Parool, a number of prominent figures, including Tinkebel and advertising man Kessels, think that we should think less in pigeonholes, and that, besides quality, we should also...
2.6 billion euros. It is a sum so large that it means nothing to anyone. It is less than the tax support KLM gets, though. Today Kunsten 92, the arts-wide lobbying organisation, in an unprecedented collaboration with all interest groups and industry associations, brought out that that 2.6 billion is the damage to the arts sector caused by the restrictive measures....
29 juni is een belangrijke dag voor de cultuur: de Tweede Kamer gaat dan in debat over de noodsteun aan de sector. Onze boodschap aan de politiek: “300 miljoen euro noodsteun die OCW voor de cultuursector beschikbaar heeft is bij lange na niet genoeg om de sector overeind te houden. Neem de motie van PvDA, GroenLinks en SP aan!” In…
Na de publicatie van sociaal-maatschappelijke boeken als In de tuin van het beest, Seks en leugens en de Prix Goncourt-winnende roman Een zachte hand groeide de Frans-Marokkaanse schrijfster Leïla Slimani (39) de afgelopen jaren uit tot een belangrijke stem in de Franse literatuur. Ze werd door president Macron benoemd tot ambassadeur van de Franse taal en cultuur en door het…
Let's just start with the good news: De Staat is a regular fixture in the Netherlands from now on. And so we are talking about the band De Staat. Who make fantastic music videos these days. They have been promoted from a four-year grant with the Performing Arts Fund to a four-year grant according to the Cultural Basic Infrastructure (BIS). With 55 other newcomers. All weighed...
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