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A tribunal to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes: the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC)

The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) is a collaboration between Indian writer, lawyer and activist Radha D'Souza and Dutch artist Jonas Staal, produced by Framer Framed, Amsterdam. The project consists of a large-scale installation in the form of a tribunal prosecuting intergenerational climate crimes. The tribunal's inauguration will take place on 24 September 2021. From 28... 

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PROUD ALIENS: A colourful exhibition by Framer Framed's Open Atelier

Is het oké om een trotse alien te zijn in een wereld waar gemarginaliseerden zich vervreemd voelen? De LGBTQ+-projectgroep van Framer Framed’s Open Atelier voor i-psy deelnemers hebben een utopische toekomst gecreëerd waarin verschillen en diversiteit worden gevierd en worden erkend als iets moois. Proud Aliens is de jaarlijkse tentoonstelling van de i-psy Arts, Amsterdam, gemaakt in samenwerking met Framer… 

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Michiel Peeters (TivoliVredenburg) - We want to make visual art a more prominent part of our programme

Public space is dressed up with visualisation, music video and art in many places, including TivoliVredenburg. Either via projection mapping on buildings during events, or via LED panels in shop windows and abris, but also as digital art during performances and lobbies in theatres. In TivoliVredenburg, in the heart of Utrecht, they even create separate events for it. Canvas is a programme that... 

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Theatrical installation looking at current events from the Maroons' perspective, this summer at Plein Theatre

Swart Gat/ Golden Age (Dunguu olo - katibo-ten) is a theatrical installation about Amsterdam's slavery past and Maroon culture from Suriname. The concept is by Tolin Erwin Alexander, Berith Danse and designer Bartel Meyburg. The theatrical installation, which has lost none of its urgency, has been further finished and will start again in summer 2021! From 17 June (19 June... 

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Dans- & theatercollectief Movementalist presenteert in samenwerking met Plein Theater de Movement Expo Aceleratio in de NDSM Fuse van 27 mei (première) t/m 30 mei.

De kunst van het vertragen in tijden van een pandemie. Aceleratio is een interdisciplinaire performance installatie, die het on- en offline publiek beoogt te confronteren met strijd, vrijheid, moed en troost, vanuit de noodzaak deze tijd te belichamen. Artistieke leiders Dayna Martinez Morales & Vincent Verburg zijn de initiatiefnemers van Movement Expo Aceleratio. Tien ervaren en zeer verschillende performers in… 

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Theatre festival Boulevard spreads in time and space; Festival this year from 5 to 22 August with new festival heart in Zuiderpark.

Theatre festival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch is preparing for its 37th edition. An edition in which the organisation is still reckoning with ongoing measures around the corona virus. To better ensure 1.5 metres distance between visitors, Boulevard is making a new festival centre this year. In the Zuiderpark in 's-Hertogenbosch, we will realise a new meeting place with a spacious layout. In addition... 

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In the Netherlands, time sings

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... 

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When was the last time I hopped? Eye impresses with Francis Alÿs' expo on the world as child's play

An exhibition with only children playing, doesn't that quickly become too tacky or cosy? Not if the artist is Francis Alÿs. Although it is hard not to smile at the sight of a sandcastle, I left the room with a head full of questions about the nature of humanity. No small feat of hopscotching kids and girls 

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'Playing a game is fun, especially if it's a sneaky game.' What is Yan Duyvendak doing at Noorderzon with his spectators?

Slechts gewapend met instructies, die bestaan uit een kort scenario en getuigenverslagen van eerdere deelnemers, voer je samen met maximaal elf anderen een aantal stiekeme opdrachten uit. Op straat.  Wat deze subtiele verstoringen van het alledaagse precies zijn, blijft geheim totdat de voorstelling begint. Het belooft een van de bijzonderste projecten te worden op Festival Noorderzon, dat van 15 tot… 

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'There's a limit to crowdfunding, you can only do it twice' - Growing pains of the dance film, part 2

The dance film occupies a unique place among the film offerings. Not driven purely by psychologising or text, it offers every opportunity for experimentation in form and content. But that also means it is difficult to place. And therefore difficult to make. The second part on the growing pains of the dance film features 2 dancers and performance artist.... 

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People no longer want to be seen as toys. We can't get around it. Museums can't get around it.

Searching for what I stand for and which way to go, time and again I come across facts that confuse and amaze me. I live in a country where only a single woman is in De Volkskrant top ten most influential people - in tenth place, that is. Only three out of 100 young Dutch millionaires... 

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Zwierende parachutes en trillende spieren op Playful Arts Festival: ‘Als de bezoeker niets doet, bestaat het werk niet’

Af en toe schuurt het bij Playful Arts, een intiem festival dat spel en kunst samenbrengt. Alles draait om interactie, zelf doen, ervaren. Sommige bezoekers moeten even een drempel over. Maar dan gebeurt er wel iets. ‘Die dansers moeten echt een keigoeie conditie hebben’, hoor ik iemand achter me vol eerbied mompelen. Aan de overkant van de straat wijst een… 

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Rainer Hofmann (SPRING): 'After the populist attack from the right, the performing arts now face an attack from the left.'

Thursday 17 May opens SPRING Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht with, among others, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi by Dries Verhoeven and to come (extended) by Mette Ingvartsen. Over ten days, more than twenty-five international dance and theatre productions, installations and performance works will be on show in public spaces and urban environments. A week earlier, festival director Rainer Hofmann looks relaxed. 'Until now... 

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Why The Hague Central Station square is again failing to get the allure it deserves.

Ever travelled to The Hague by train? Then you must have been surprised when you walked out of The Hague Central Station. A more desolate square than the Koningin Julianaplein hardly exists. And that in the capital. Rough and crooked paving, a few hundred haphazardly parked (and sometimes broken) bicycles, some sales carts for flowers or snacks and hardly any place to... 

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Hier word je gegarandeerd vrolijk van. Hoe kunstenaarscollectief toyisme al 25 jaar blijft verrassen

Ze bestaan al 25 jaar maar bruisen alsof ze gisteren zijn opgericht. Met de creatie van een kunstwerk bij vliegveld Eelde – vanaf vandaag live te volgen – én exposities op 25 locaties in en rondom Groningen vieren de kunstenaars van het internationale kunstenaarscollectief toyisme hun jubileum. Eigenzinnig, origineel en geëngageerd zijn misschien wel de belangrijkste kenmerken van dit internationale… 

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New artists get place in Style Pavilion: 'They must be able to drill'

In the Style Year, events mainly look back at the art movement that began 100 years ago. Yet there are also contemporary initiatives that look ahead, such as in Amersfoort. In the Keistad, the Style Pavilion is being built from scaffolding material. Twenty contemporary, mostly young, visual artists will give their own interpretation to the outside of the pavilion. They draw inspiration from the building... 

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Joop Oonk maakt van haar buurt een bühne

Joop Oonk (27) maakt dansvoorstellingen met de Misiconi Dance Company, maar niet van een standaard soort. Ze noemt het ook wel: inclusiedans. Dansen met rolstoelen bijvoorbeeld en dat dan in de openbare ruimte. Tijd voor een gesprek met deze bijzondere choreografe. Gelukkig hoef je geen kunstbarbaar te zijn om het woord inclusiedans niet te kennen. Joop Oonk choreograaf, artistiek leider… 

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What is the relevance of contemporary dance?

Last weekend's workshop The Relevance of Dance, organised by Dansmakers Amsterdam and the European Dance House Network, sought to answer the question: What is the relevance of contemporary dance art for audiences? Suzy Blok, general director of Dansmakers Amsterdam, opened the atelier by talking about the desire of production houses to bring dance more to the... 

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'Daphne' on the patio of museum Beelden aan Zee (author's photo)

Everything is temporary, however beautiful - exhibition Iris Le Rütte at Beelden aan Zee

Last spring, while looking at Catinka Kersten's newly installed sculpture on the patio of museum Beelden aan Zee, Iris Le Rütte's sculpture Daphne caught my eye. A woman who instead of a head and arms stretched branches to the sky. It is a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses: the nymph Daphne, on the... 

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Amersfoort absurdist Ron Jagers seeks the limits of the everyday

Ron Jagers has been providing playful commentary on culture in Amersfoort and elsewhere for 45 years. His latest find is the 'Prince Bernhard Fanclub'. But the 63-year-old absurdist and multi-artist also made a gripping book about East Berlin before the fall of the wall. 'hop, two-three-four!' He walks along in the Silent Fanfare, an orchestra that marches forward with much fuss 

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2015 is not left: 5 reasons why art is becoming more exclusive

Art ends its 70th anniversary as a 'Leftist Hobby' in 2015. There is not much more to predict for this year. Art goes back to the bourgeois status it held since the start of the industrial revolution. 1: Art was never left Art, of course, has never been 'left'. Subsidy may have come from the thinking tubes of social and Christian democrats, but art an sich... 

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4 reasons why the arts are going to lose a lot more. Municipal culture congress wrongly optimistic

Het was donderdag 30 januari bal in Rotterdam. Op het Gemeentelijk Cultuurcongres waren een paar honderd ambtenaren, lokale politici en kunstinstellingen bijeen om te praten over waar ze elkaar konden helpen. Het moest een positieve dag worden. Er was al lang genoeg geklaagd en ruzie gemaakt: blik vooruit, hoopvol de toekomst in. Ook al moet het ergste nog komen.

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Ech Uterechse rondleiding door het Cetraol Stetion en Hoog Ketrijne #callofthemall

“Even doorlopen mensen! Ik wil u voorstellen aan Frans van Montfoort. Eén van de allereerste straatmuzikanten in het oude Hoog Catharijne en zelf bijna een living statue.” Gids Ton van den Berg, vandaag in de gedaante van zijn alter ego Koos Marsman, geeft Van Montfoort een klap op zijn schouder. “Goed om je weer te zien jongen.”

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Kunst doorbreekt de sleur van Hoog Catharijne in Call of the Mall

Je staat er eigenlijk weinig bij stil, hoe raar stilstaan in een winkelcentrum als Hoog Catharijne is. Tenminste: als je niet stilstaat met je hoofd naar een etalage of je vingers in een bak fastfood. De code om met glazige blik door een shopping mall te zweven is zo algemeen dat het ook voor jezelf wennen is wanneer iets je dwingt om opeens

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