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Austerity year review 2011. Or how the PVV cry 'Arts subsidies we abolish' was widely heard

While 2010 was still the year of PVV positions on culture that were suddenly shared by other parties ("we are abolishing art subsidies"), the year 2011 fell under their implementation. What was striking was the ease with which regional and local administrators also wielded this same machete, as PVV spokesperson Bosma did not fail to testify. For instance, in the municipality of Almelo, 30 % went àff from... 

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One hundred and thirty thousand visitors for the Cultural Press Office in 2011. The bar for 2012 is high.

That frightens us quite a bit ourselves. We knew that the Cultural Press Agency was doing quite well, but we didn't really think a reach of more than 100,000 people was possible. After all, we had done nothing in the way of marketing. Just posting content and not giving away free tickets. And only once something with a bare female breast in it. Enfin.... 

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Investing in culture is economically valuable, but not with us ...

A Belgian professor was good enough to compare the own revenues by venues from the US, the UK and Belgium; in all three countries, the companies raise about 42% of their budgets themselves. The innovation professor also reiterated that research shows that investing in culture contributes to economic prosperity ... a wisdom that ... 

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Daily news: Sale in Rotterdam, protests in Amsterdam and an arts centre closes in the south

Culture sector signs agreement on youth pass Eight umbrella organisations in the culture sector signed a covenant on Wednesday advocating the continued existence, albeit in modified form, of the Culture Card. It should remain free, but will henceforth only give discounts on cultural outings. The 15-euro credit will disappear because the state will no longer provide subsidies. Instead, students in the... 

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Progress news: Give Act no more for culture, Utrecht more expensive and Purmerend stops all subsidies

Tweede Kamer stemt in met Belastingplan 2012 (..) Verder werd ook de aangepast Geefwet aangenomen. De 7 miljoen euro fiscale steun verschuift van culturele instellingen naar sport- en muziekverenigingen. Bron: Belasting.nl    18 nov 11   Utrecht – Cultuur mag wat kosten – door Wouter de Heus (..) toen ik deze week eindelijk de hernieuwde exploitatieopzet van het Muziekpaleis in… 

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Regio-overzicht: kettingbrieven in Rotterdam, slechts 1 jaar recht op vernieuwing in Zierikzee, en Eindhoven niet blij met Kamerkoor

Gemeente Groningen bezuinigt op Gezinsbode De gemeente gaat 150.000 euro bezuinigen op het publiceren van stadsberichten in de Groninger Gezinsbode. Het Stadsbestuur wil de besluiten en vergunningen in het vervolg elektronisch bekendmaken, bijvoorbeeld op de website van de gemeente. (..) Het aantal pagina’s in de Gezinsbode wordt gehalveerd. (..) bron: OogTV 10 nov 11   Meeste raadsleden verwachten korten subsidies… 

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Sculpted Ovation for 'ingenious' conductor Iván Fischer

"Programmatic ingenuity goes hand in hand with Fischer's ebullient and finely crafted performances". So when someone says that about you, you have earned a prize. So that is what the jury of formerly the Classical Music Prize thought of Iván Fischer, the Hungarian-born conductor who was therefore awarded the 'Ovation' on Monday 17 October 2011. And so then the 'Ovation'... 

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Mayor Hoes provides proof: for the VVD, art is only about sport anymore

Anyone who was still left wondering what the vision of the governing VVD party on art is now out. For that vision is simple. Art is sport. According to the VVD. So said the alderman of Rotterdam, so said the spouse of top wrestler Albert Verlinde, the as mayor of Maastricht ancillary runner Onno Hoes. During the opening of the Dutch Dance Days, he gave... 

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We say goodbye to a festival that was once again unique. For the last time? #decision

There was a time, when art did not have to draw full theatres to be accepted by the population. After all, out of the total budget of a municipality, something like art costs no more than a penny, so you don't get worse, while at best you can only get better. So is... 

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Seeing, building and tasting the future during an exciting bike ride through Rotterdam with Parfum de BoemBoem #dekeuze

A procession of bright red and green bicycles snakes along the Meuse, ridden by people looking around curiously, conferring with each other and wondering at every moment if 'this is part of it'. The Parfum de BoemBoem ticket in their pocket is proof: this is not an ordinary bike ride, but one with theatrical surprises. Guide Sereh enjoys the questioning looks and leads the group to the first location: the waste incinerator in Rotterdam-South.

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Future food of nuisance beasts scrambled with talk on energy #dekeuze

Listen here to the podcast/work in progress by Jowi Schmitz who attended the event with chef Natasja Postma: Fantasising about 2020 in International Choice 2011 Liposuction fat. Blood. Vomit. 'You can look at it that way too!' says the Appetitheque's food designer excitedly. It doesn't bother her that her thin-walled jelly pudding, processed cola and her yellow-white lumps of beef salad are still... 

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Irony and purity want to stand side by side in 'Free Mason' by Tjon Rockon #International Choice

It takes guts: walking down Rotterdam's Kruiskade with a big wooden cross and shouting "Mason was a fish!" shouting. The drug-addicted residents of St Paul's Church, the dishwashers at Chinese restaurants and waiting passengers at the tram stop look on in bewilderment. Sandro Lima shouts lyrics about Mason the saviour like a possessed religious maniac. Moments before, we are at... 

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'This is not a love story' is intimate and simple, but takes you on a journey for which the globe is not big enough #International Choice

What is your relationship with whales? A. Totally not interested in it. B. Somewhat interested. C. Very fond of whales.
You don't often hear such a question in everyday life. It appears in 'This is not a love story', a narrated, danced and musically performed 'Swedish road movie' by choreographer/filmmaker Gunilla Heilborn. A journey Heilborn took with dancers Johan Thelander and Kristiina Viala from Tromsö to Lisbon provided the material for this performance.

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Pollesch and Hinrichs turn opening night The Choice into a theatrical philosophical happening #The International Choice

For the opening night of The International Choice, the Rotterdam Schouwburg was briefly transformed into Berlin's Volksbühne. The same black plastic rags on the walls, the same ugly yellow front curtain and - most strikingly - the seats in the auditorium have been replaced by white beanbags. Those beanbags, by the way, are widely despised and mocked in Berlin. They should... 

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Superbly performed opera by Rimsky Korsakoff provisional highlight of changeable opening weekend Gergiev Festival

"My commitment to the city (Rotterdam) and the orchestra knows no end," Valeri Gergyev spoke on the occasion of the Gergyev Festival taking place in Rotterdam this week. This is good news, as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the former principal conductor still get along well. And to be backed by this global top-five conductor is... 

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Argentijnse levens draaien onafwendbaar de vernieling in bij Mariano Pensotti

Draaimolens en toneel hebben iets met elkaar. Vooral de laatste jaren loopt een theaterbezoeker steeds vaker de kans om tegen een zogenaamd draaitoneel aan te kijken. Nadat Johan Simons van deze technische stijlfiguur gebruik maakte bij zijn regie van Hiob bij de Münchener Kammerspiele en Christoph Schlingensief het toneel spectaculair liet draaien bij zijn zwanenzang Mea Culpa is het nu… 

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De Internationale keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg was altijd al een persoonlijke keuze

Vorig jaar ging het nog om ‘a sense of belonging’: om het vermogen je ergens thuis te voelen, je ergens bij weten te horen. Dit jaar staat het motto van het eigenzinnige Rotterdamse festival De Internationale Keuze daar bijna lijnrecht tegenover: de parallelle werkelijkheid. In plaats van één plek die warmte biedt, zegt het festival nu dat die plek er… 

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Delft opens with fewer chamber music surprises than other years

For another 15 years, the Delft Chamber Music Festival, so named to reflect its international character, has encompassed 15 years. Violinist Isabelle van Keulen handled the chamber music festival's programming for the first ten years, Lisa Ferschtmann - also a violinist - took over from her five years ago. But even this already successful festival fears the upcoming budget cuts. A pity, because what... 

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Trouwe festivalganger laat zijn festival niet in het water vallen

Regen, regen, regen. Dat ziet er slecht uit voor de festivals. Toch? “Het weer is minder van invloed op een festival dan men denkt”, zegt Mark Hospers van Noorderzon. En zij kunnen het weten. Vorig jaar hebben ze veel regen gehad, en tegelijkertijd een recordaantal kaarten verkocht. Hoe kan het dat het slechte weer de festivals weinig lijkt te deren?… 

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Eszter Salamon en Daniel Linehan juweeltjes van uiterst divers Julidans

Holland Festival, Julidans, IT’s, Over ’t IJ. Einde seizoen wordt er altijd een bak theater over Amsterdam uitgestrooid. Het internationale performance aanbod migreert tussen april en september van Utrecht (Springdance en Festival aan de Werf) via Amsterdam naar Rotterdam (Internationale Keuze). Wil je iets van de hedendaagse, internationale dans meekrijgen, dan moet je bij Springdance, HF en Julidans zijn. [Voor… 

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dat zou best eens een grote manifestatie kunnen worden, komend weekend

We zijn niet zo van het rechtstreeks overnemen van persberichten, maar deze schoot er per ongeluk tussendoor. Voor wie het nog niet wist, maar tout kunst gaat zondag en maandag loos voor het behoud van het verstand in Nederland. Al zal dat op de architect van de bezuiniging, PVV-er Martin Bosma, geen effect hebben. Zelfs de cultuursector in Limburg (Geert… 

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Die Jahreszeiten past in de versie van OT perfect in de Vlaams-Nederlandse Operadagen

In Nederland wordt de visie op opera vooral gestuurd vanuit de concertpraktijk. Daarmee wijkt de Nederlandse omgang met dit genre flink af van wat in de rest van Euroa gangbaar is. Dat blijkt alleen al uit het feit dat er de afgelopen eeuw vooral werd geïnvesteerd in concertzalen die direct dan ook tot de beste ter wereld horen: het Amsterdamse… 

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Gergiev komt met een toporkest en toprepertoire naar Rotterdam, maar dat is het publiek van hem gewend

De Russische dirigent Valeri Gergjev was even terug in Rotterdam, voor één concert. Hij voerde in de Doelen zijn eigen orkest aan, het London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). Het beroemde orkest speelde repertoire dat we in ons land van haver tot gort kennen: Gustav Mahler’s 1e symfonie en het 1e pianoconcert van Dmitri Sjostakowitsj. Een inmiddels historische combinatie: omdat Nederland vergroeid… 

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