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NAPK

Campaign 1TP5Lettheclothnotfall collects over 30,500 statements of support

by one of our members
8 October 20248 October 2024
2 min read
ACTUAL, policy, PRESS, PODIUM ART

Amsterdam, 8 October 2024 - The "Don't let the curtain fall" campaign has successfully collected more than 30,500 expressions of support from loyal audiences. The initiative was launched by 59 members of the NAPK (Dutch Association for Performing Arts), which are in danger of closing down due to the lack of multi-year subsidies. Campaign results The signatures were presented on 8 October to the culture spokespersons of...

NAPK launches sustainability award for the performing arts

by one of our members
5 September 20245 September 2024
1 min read
ACTUAL, policy, PRESS

Amsterdam, 5 September 2024 - The Dutch Association for the Performing Arts (NAPK) launched a new award during the Dutch Theatre Festival 2024. This award is intended for a person, body or group that, according to the jury, has made a substantial contribution to making the Dutch performing arts (ecologically) sustainable. Purpose of the award With this award, NAPK wants to create a...

NAPK launches campaign 1TP5Don't drop the cloth

by one of our members
4 July 20244 July 2024
2 min read
policy, PRESS, PODIUM ART

Amsterdam, 4 July 2024 - Yesterday, the decisions and opinions of the Performing Arts Fund, Fund for Cultural Participation and the Council for Culture were announced. Besides a huge budget over-demand, we see major shifts in terms of new inflow and disciplines. This affects more than 50 companies affiliated to the Dutch Association for the Performing Arts (NAPK). If there is no budget...

Stages should be a safe place for everyone

by one of our members
27 March 202427 March 2024
1 min read
ACTUAL, Featured, PRESS, PODIUM ART

It is with concern that we see an increasing number of polarisation-inspired incidents in our houses and on our stages. Everyone, from creators to staff and audiences, should be safe inside our houses and on our stages. In doing so, even in this antagonistic time, there is no place for actions or intimidations motivated by...

Agreement collective labour agreement for theatre and dance 2024

by one of our members
13 September 202325 September 2023
2 min read
ACTUAL, policy, PODIUM ART

Amsterdam, 12 September 2023 - The collective labour agreement for theatre and dance has been declared approved by both NAPK and Kunstenbond supporters. The collective agreement agreed on a general salary increase of 5% plus a flat-rate increase of €150. This salary increase means an average pay rise of 9.44%. On 6 July last, the Arts Union...

Dutch version Theatre Green Book in the works

by one of our members
30 August 202325 September 2023
2 min read
ACTUAL, policy, PRESS, PODIUM ART

The VPT (Vereniging voor Podiumtechnologie), VSCD (Vereniging van Schouwburg- en Concertgebouwirecties) and NAPK (Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten) are joining forces to publish a Dutch version of the Theatre Green Book. The reference work is being used in more and more countries within Europe to structurally shape the achievement of sustainability goals. In our sector, too, the...

CLA retraining scheme for dancers declared universally binding

by one of our members
13 January 202325 September 2023
1 min read
ACTUAL, policy, DANS, PODIUM ART

The collective labour agreement social fund Omscholing Dansers Nederland (CAO ODN) has been declared universally binding by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment with effect from 1 January 2023. This means that all dance companies based in the Netherlands that employ dancers are obliged to participate in the omscholing scheme. Since 1986, Stichting Omscholing Dansers Nederland (hereinafter: omscholingsregeling) has played an important role in...

THEATRE AND DANCE COLLECTIVE LABOUR AGREEMENT DECLARED UNIVERSALLY BINDING

With its publication in the Government Gazette of 8 June 2022, the collective labour agreement for theatre and dance 2022-2023 has been declared universally binding (AVV). This means that all professional Dutch producers producing theatre and/or dance performances must apply this collective labour agreement for their staff. CLA parties Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) and Kunstenbond applied for the AVV to regulate working conditions for the entire theatre and...

CONFERENCE TACKLING CROSS-BORDER BEHAVIOUR IN CULTURAL SECTOR SUCCESS

by one of our members
17 May 202217 May 2022
ACTUAL, PRESS, PODIUM ART

On Monday 16 May, the Safe on the Floor conference took place at Amare (The Hague). This conference was organised to address transgressive behaviour at the workplace in the cultural sector and discuss how to tackle it. The conference was opened by state secretary of culture and media Gunay Uslu. During the opening, NAPK board member Ernestine Comvalius presented...

Culture sector takes action for residents of Ukraine #♥rtforUkraine

by one of our members
2 March 20222 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, PODIUM ART

The cultural field, like everyone else, is deeply shocked by developments in Ukraine. We are deeply concerned about the impact of the large-scale hostilities in Ukraine on the people of the country. To show solidarity and to express sympathy and support, the cultural field is organising the #♥rtforUkraine campaign next weekend 4, 5 and 6 March 2022 with...

No audience cap in theatres; playing to wider audiences possible again

by one of our members
24 June 202025 June 2020
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

From 1 July, more people will again be able to attend performances and cultural festivals. In theatres, cinemas and concert halls, a maximum of 30 people will no longer apply. From then on, the space will be leading instead of the number of visitors. However, basic rules such as 1.5 metres must be observed. In addition, a health check takes place beforehand, advance booking is necessary and...

Social Fund Performing Arts turns out to be moneypit: assets halved in five years. Why is this bad news?

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 August 201925 May 2020
8 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

'If we continue at the current rate, the fund will be exhausted in the foreseeable future.' This can be read in the 2018 annual report of the Performing Arts Social Fund. Plenty of reason to sound the alarm, indeed. Is this yet another victim of the cabinet's cuts? Not really, it turns out. When you look at the documents in detail, you see mainly that...

Performing artists miss out on million in European grant due to 'administrative inability'

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 December 201830 March 2022
9 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

'Indecent and rude,' is how Miep van Diggelen, former chairman of the board of the Performing Arts Social Fund (SFPK), calls the actions of the board of that same fund. That board, or at least about five members of the seven-member board, decided - outside the official meeting - to withdraw a subsidy application they had initiated earlier, without having read it. The promising...

Paradiso debate 2018: Optimistic arts sector wants less supply and better pay

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 August 201830 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODCAST

Less supply of subsidised art is good for the country. Antoinette Laan, culture spokeswoman for the governing VVD party, has thought so for at least eight years. Back in 2011, then still as alderman in Rotterdam, she stated that she did not understand why art institutions were open on weekdays. After all: everyone was at work then and so couldn't come and have a look anyway. Listen here...

Theatre from the sofa: from the South Bank of the Thames to Broadway in one evening.

by Fleur Jansen
12 April 201814 September 2018
6 min read
INTERNET, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, THEATER

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....

SPOT-LIVE takes you into the minds of leading, original and exciting creators and thinkers. 15 May 2018, Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie Leeuwarden

by Advertising sales department
28 March 201830 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, advertisement archive, ADVERTISEMENTS, For members only, PODIUM ART

What happens when original and exciting makers and thinkers shape the SPOT-LIVE programme? If a leading philosopher, theatre-maker or musician is allowed to fill the stage with debate, what would it be about? If they were allowed to inspire you with work that touches them, what would they showcase? Get inspired by three curators who will share with you their views on...

Culture Council wants review of system, but cautious 'Theatre Sector Opinion' is licence for arbitrariness by House of Representatives

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 February 201821 April 2020
9 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Today, the Culture Council comes out with one of the weaker advices in its existence. The Netherlands' highest cultural advisory body showed vision, leadership and boldness earlier this season with the 'Verkenning' and the 'Sectoradvies Muziek'. The exploration called for a reversal of subsidy flows, with urban regions taking the initiative. In the advice for the music sector, it broke...

Add 100 million for art. But then sing the national anthem.

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 October 201730 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

It succeeded. And that's even though we really didn't have a cent's worth of confidence left here. But still. It is there, in the financial section of the 'Confidence in the Future' coalition agreement: 'Intensification of 0.1 bln euros for the benefit of the cultural sector and historical democratic awareness. (RA_631)' That's 100 million euros, which is exactly what one of...

The theatre world is divided, but not diverse. A call to authors.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 September 201729 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

This week, two things already became clear about the Dutch theatre world. One: the topic of diversity is finally really on the map and two: the theatre world, however small, is hopelessly divided. During Het Theaterfestival, there were two debates/ meetings/ symposiums on the lack of diversity in theatre. One on Monday, the other on Thursday. Bit much in one...

Why it's good that the Holland Festival gets this general manager #HF17

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 June 201726 September 2017
5 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, PREMIUM, SPECIALS

Annet Lekkerkerker is one of the few women in the cultural sector for whom the glass ceiling is no longer an obstacle. That she is now, after several years as 'business director', formally becoming top woman of the country's most important performing arts festival is wonderful for more reasons. She is not only the first woman at that high position. Her appointment also makes clear why...

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Petition! NAPK wants to go to the barricades for the performing arts

by Ruben Brugman
25 October 201629 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The NAPK (Dutch Association for the Performing Arts) is sounding the alarm bell for the performing arts. The association of employers in the performing arts is launching a petition today and submitting a second fire letter to the Lower House on 1 November. Earlier this year, NAPK already sent a letter to the Lower House. And that was then written about here. Now, in preparation for the Lower House debate on the culture budget, a second...

Art world says thanks for bike bell, but now wants pedal back too

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 September 201619 September 2017
5 min read
ACTUAL

That 10 million is officially in. The art world is doing its best to sound grateful. The employers in the performing arts, gathered in the NAPK, have sent Bussemaker a thank you. Because she is not cutting 300 million from culture, but only 290 million. The extra money raked together last year by various lobbyists and parties is now anchored in the...

Performing arts employers (NAPK) angry: subsidy system must change

by one of our members
3 August 201619 August 2019
4 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

They totally agree with us, the employers in the performing arts sector. These company and theatre directors and other managers of dwindling coffers, gathered in the Dutch Association of Performing Arts (NAPK), are circulating a letter today, calling on the Lower House to review the system of subsidies. After all, now the middle class is falling between the cracks. Has happened before, and...

ISH Fund Performing Arts awards

Performing Arts Fund cuts dance subsidies. Not enough, according to some.

by Ruben Brugman
3 August 201629 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

The Performing Arts Fund announced the awards for the 2017-2020 period. What does this mean for the dance sector? Pluralism and 'bleeding through'. While everyone is on holiday, the Performing Arts Fund announced the grant awards for the performing arts for the 2017-2020 period. And it was reiterated: the fund is facing a previously initiated budget cut of 30 per cent. That would...

Theatre sector: "Municipalities, stop building theatres!"

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 December 201529 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

Always nice when someone sets up a committee to solve all the problems. The Dutch theatre sector did just that a few months ago. Led by former minister Guusje Ter Horst, Rinda den Besten (former Utrecht alderman), Sadik Harchaoui (Forum) and Ryclef Rienstra (VandenEnde Foundation) examined what could be better in the relationship between theatre and the...

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