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NAPK

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...

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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...

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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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Reason 6 for no apology to Halbe: 'Premature, tendentious and damaging to the sector'

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 December 201430 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The distinguished part of the arts sector is also reacting furiously to the VVD's statements, chronicled by De Telegraaf this morning. This brings the number of reasons for the sector not to apologise to Halbe Zijlstra to six. Whereas we previously gave five reasons, the Dutch Association of Performing Arts now also declares that we are only in the course...

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Modern dance wins prizes at Dutch Dance Days

by Ruben Brugman
6 October 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

Tijdens de 16e editie van de Nederlandse Dansdagen zijn diverse dansprijzen uitgereikt: de Prijs Nederlandse Dansdagen 2013, de Zwanen en de Dioraphte Dansprijs. Respectievelijke winnaars zijn choreograaf Giulio D’Anna, danser Medhi Walerski, Club Guy & Roni voor Midnight Rising, danseres Bonnie Doets van Scapino Ballet Rotterdam en Keren Levi met The Dry Piece.

De uitreiking van de Zwanen werd dit jaar live uitgezonden door NTR Podium. In een voormalig industriële werkplaats in Maastricht ...

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Performing arts promotion office kaputt

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 August 201329 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We are far from having all the info, but we have enough by now: the Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten (BPP), funded by the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Managements, is quitting as of 1 October. Reason unknown, but surely the malaise in the cultural sector, and especially the performing arts, will have something to do with it.
Eerder werd al bekend dat de Nederlandse Associatie van Podiumkunsten, de NAPK, vrijwel gedecimeerd was dankzij de de subisdiekorting die de podiumkunsten zwaarder tro...

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Baldwin Live

by one of our members
31 July 201230 March 2022
18 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Woensdag 1 augustus 2012 maakt het Fonds Podiumkunsten de uitslag bekend van de loterij die het verlenen van subsidie aan kunst inmiddels is geworden. Er dreigen enorme kortingen: gezelschappen en makers die inmiddels vast onderdeel leken uit te maken van het Nederlandse kunstlandschap zullen verdwijnen. Hoe het er precies uit gaat zien, weten we officieel dus pas vanaf 12:00 uur woensdag 1 augustus. Om zaken vooraf te lekken heeft geen zin, daarvoor is de boel te dramatisch.
Wat we wel willen d...

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Slack start to art lottery, production houses don't fire, Krabbedans, Rivierenland Library, MuZIEum et al.

by one of our members
1 December 201129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Poor economy hinders new art lottery The business market is not yet warming up to the National Art Lottery launched in July. The organisation is looking for sponsors, but the poor economic climate is playing tricks on the lottery. (...) The number of cultural organisations that applied to supply lottery tickets actually exceeded expectations (...) Only when there are enough sponsors will the...

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Orchestra members fired without waiting pay? A new collective agreement could cause that

by one of our members
4 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

On Thursday 27 October, FNV KIEM, the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaarsbond (Ntb) and NAPK sector orchestras discussed the terms of employment of musicians employed by the Randstedelijke and Regionale Orkesten that fall under the collective labour agreement Dutch Orchestras. Out of a total of 11 Dutch orchestras, nine are covered by this collective agreement. The orchestras of the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep and the...

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Even if they quit, Halbe Zijlstra is cracking down on culture clubs

by Henri Drost
4 November 201130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

Brieven van Staatssecretaris van Cultuur Zijlstra zijn gevaarlijk, zeker wanneer ze over cijfertjes en regelingen gaan. En we hebben de laatste voorlopig nog niet gezien. Op dit moment gaat het dus over 'frictiekosten' voor de culturele sector. Dat zijn de kosten die gesubsidieerde instellingen moeten maken bij beëindiging van hun bestaan door de subsidiestop. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan afvloeiingsregelingen, schadevergoedingen, bloemstukken voor begrafenissen van zelfmoordenaars en het met verlies v...

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That could well be a big event next weekend

by one of our members
22 June 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

We are not big on copying press releases directly, but this one accidentally slipped in. For those who didn't know it yet, but tout art is going loopy on Sunday and Monday for the preservation of sanity in the Netherlands. Although that will have no effect on the architect of the cut, PVV member Martin Bosma. Even the cultural sector in Limburg (Geert...

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