‘Veel mensen vinden hedendaagse dans moeilijk. Vooral voorstellingen van jonge makers die experimenteren en nieuwe wegen zoeken. Op het Moving Futures festival kan iedereen ontdekken hoe dans je kan raken. We doen dit niet alleen door goede voorstellingen van jonge makers te laten zien. We bieden ook activiteiten eromheen, contextprogramma’s. Daarmee geven we het publiek handvatten om een verbinding te leggen met…
In 'My Secret City' on Saturday at the Winternachten festival, seven writers recited a story about 'their own hidden city': Mircea Cartarescu, Rodigro Hasbún, Hanna Bervoets, Piotr Ibrahim Kalwas, Olga Grjasnowa, Maarten van der Graaff and Salena Godden wrote about the city they don't see when they walk out the door, but encounter occasionally and unexpectedly. In fiction,...
The positive effects of culture are demonstrated again and again. It is high time the sector used these facts in improving its image. Our western and southern neighbours have boosted the image of culture with a number of successful initiatives. The sports sector is another example of image building that the cultural sector can learn from. There...
The Council for Culture is the statutory advisory body to the government and parliament in the field of culture and media. The council is independent and advises, solicited and unsolicited, on current policy issues and subsidy applications. The council aims to make opinions with vision and boldness; opinions that make a difference and contribute to a rich cultural life. In accordance with Article 11, third...
Zeemonsters, verslindende draaikolken en verleidende sirenen – de oerkracht van de zee is voor de mens al eeuwenlang een bron van ontzag, angst, fascinatie en mythes. Over miljoenen jaren bestaat het getij niet meer, maar tot die tijd hebben we nog volop te maken met de schoonheid en de gevaren ervan. In Het getij, dat afgelopen maand verscheen, neemt de Britse…
On the day that in the Lower House, Minister Bussemaker passes up a chance for extra money for culture, young artists further down the street are winning prizes. On Monday 21 November, the Education, Culture and Science Committee spoke to Minister Bussemaker about the Culture Budget. Something that has far-reaching implications for the culture sector. Later in the evening, the presentation of...
Hij heeft meer dan vijfentwintig boeken geschreven, waarvan de helft voor de jeugd, maar eigenlijk wilde Jan Terlouw helemaal niet schrijven. Hij was wis- en natuurkundige, deed kernfusieonderzoek en werd later ook nog politicus – dat was meer dan genoeg. Bovendien was rechtshandig schrijven (zoals het op school werd aangeleerd) voor iemand die linkshandig is, een kwelling. Het had dan…
Een van de sterkste argumenten van de tegenstanders van kunstsubsidies is, dat de gewone man niets aan kunst heeft. Dat argument is nu door wetenschappelijk onderzoek weerlegd. ‘Geluksprofessor’ Ruut Veenhoven presenteerde deze week een onderzoek waaruit bleek dat vooral lager opgeleide mensen gelukkiger worden van kunst. Ze worden er zelfs gelukkiger van dan van sport, zowel passief als actief, of…
Culturele broedplaats DE WAR moet wijken voor projectontwikkelaar Rovase. Het is niet de enige creatieve opdoffer die kunstminnend Amersfoort heeft moeten incasseren. Enkele tientallen kunstenaars moeten eveneens op zoek naar een nieuwe werkplek. Dit keer treft de gemeente geen enkele blaam. Een gedeelte van de fabriek die hun thuishaven was, is door brand verloren gegaan. Het gaat om de voormalige ‘vleesconserven’ NOACK-fabriek, schuin…
Het staat er echt, al is onduidelijk of er nou tweemaal 100 miljoen bijkomt of dat de publieke omroep en de hele cultuursector het met één keer 100 miljoen meer moeten doen. Maar het is in ieder geval duidelijk: net als in de rest van het concept-verkiezingsprogramma neemt de partij vooral afstand van de VVD en het vier jaar lang…
De afgelopen weken is in Amersfoort een stevige culturele proteststorm opgestoken. Aanleiding was het besluit van de gemeente om de thuishaven van culturele broedplaats DE WAR na een aanbestedingsprocedure te gunnen aan een projectontwikkelaar. DE WAR huurt sinds een jaar of tien de voormalige kleurstoffenfabriek van Warner & Jenkinson. Kunstenaars en uitvinders vinden er een werkplaats, kennis en een plek voor…
There is no such thing as free money. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has shown that many times. Extra money turns out to be a cigar from its own pocket. The ministry has elevated cash shifting to an art. Of course, it sounds so nice, all that extra money for the cultural sector, but where does it actually come from? Simple: by abolishing tax breaks for private individuals with listed buildings....
What is a memory worth? A first kiss, for instance: how much poorer are you if it is forgotten? In hard euros. Such questions Greg Nottrot likes to ask his audience, and we, his grateful listeners, gladly join in his money thought experiments. The man who, with Oscar Kocken, came up with the revolutionary concept of the live talk show Order of the Day, now makes,...
After it was announced in January this year that Jan Willem de Vriend was leaving at the end of the 2016/2017 season, the Orchestra of the East announced that it was in no hurry to find a successor. One would start working with "renowned guest conductors". Just over six months later, a few months before the departure of interim director Bart van Meijl, a successor was still presented. That this successor, Ed Spanjaard, is given the title of 'permanent conductor' seems mainly a semantic issue.
Maarten Baanders saw an opera that remained an island. An omnivore was Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680). No phenomenon in the universe could escape his urge to investigate. A universal scholar he was, but also a fantasist. Hence, he did not count in science. But for a grotesque opera, you can hardly imagine a more attractive protagonist. Louis...
No actor to be seen in the auditorium of Theatre de Veste in Delft. Just a house with walls and roof of transparent cloth. It holds thirty people. On the walls of the hall around it, projected images pass by at whirling speed. This is fascinating: usually, when you are in a house, the walls close you off from the surroundings, but this time they actually give a view of a world as big and beautiful as you never experience in ordinary life.
For Theatre of the World, his fifth full-length opera, Louis Andriessen (1939) drew inspiration from the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680). He was the last Renaissance man, someone who could do everything and knew everything. Kircher wrote books full of the most diverse subjects, from the meaning of hieroglyphics to vulcanology and musical instruments. He even designed a cat piano, based on the idea that each cat screams at a different pitch when you tap its tail. After his death, Kircher fell into disrepute as a charlatan.
However, unusable for science, he forms gefundenes Fressen for a composer like Andriessen, who likes to explore the boundaries between reality and fiction. His opera Writing to Vermeer (1999) is based on fictional letters to the Delft painter; Rosa, a Horse Drama (1994) is about the murder of a composer, allegedly part of a conspiracy against music.
Champagne at BAK in Utrecht, deep disappointment at The New Institute in Rotterdam: the Council for Culture has spoken. Today, Thursday 19 May 2016, the first advice after the draconian art cuts by the first Rutte cabinet came out, and heads are rolling. Amsterdam loses prestigious presentation institution De Appel, in The Hague fellow institution Stroom has to redo its homework. The Orkest van het Oosten and the Gelders Orkest have to come up with merger plans within two years. In Utrecht, the city company Theater Utrecht will no longer receive funding despite artistic appreciation. Het Zuidelijk Toneel in Eindhoven Tilburg must make new plans and Opera Zuid must quickly raise its artistic quality. These are the main conclusions of the Culture Council's opinion.
As dramatic as some of this may sound, the advice is actually not, when you look over the whole battlefield. Thanks in part to
Can a robot understand our feelings? Can we know others. Japanese drama Sayonara and American stop-motion animation Anomalisa have an unexpected common ground.
29th Cinekid children's film festival opens with new television drama for youngsters. In the Medialab, children can make their own VR glasses and do virtual bungy jumping.
Always wanted to learn Old Irish or Sranan Tongo? Still prefer to learn to rap with Nitrogen? Do you wonder how aid workers communicate when they are deployed? In a couple of days, the Drongo Festival will start, two days covering all facets of language. You can take crash courses in Chinese, as well as listen to all kinds of lectures. We take a sneak preview with...
Over 70% of the talking heads on TV are men, Simone van Saarloos told us in the introduction to her own talk show. Niña Weijers and she thought that surely something like this could be done better, without talking about glass ceilings and other women's topics. And so, in October 2013, they launched their sexist talk show series with guests from the arts, literature, politics and...
Every company 50,000 euros more. Youth theatre in the Netherlands should be very happy with the letter culture minister Bussemaker sent to the chamber last Monday. After years of squeezing under Halbe Zijlstra, finally more air for the makers. But the investment of 4 tonnes a year turns out to be a cutback. In fact, Bussemaker is only giving a gift to eight companies. Company...
For eight years, the Mauritshuis researched and restored his painting 'Saul and David'. As a result, it can now be definitively attributed to Rembrandt. But the small exhibition 'Rembrandt? The Case of Saul and David' mainly shows how the museum collaborated with all kinds of different scientists and laboratories to unravel the numerous mysteries surrounding the canvas. As a visitor, you will be taken through the...
Fort Nieuwersluis is de grootste verrassing van de kunstmanifestatie Gimme Shelter. Tot anderhalf jaar geleden was het verdedigingswerk een no go-area. De BB (‘Bescherming Burgerbevolking’) zat er tot 1989 om telefoonlijnen te beschermen tijdens, maar vooral na de Derde Wereldoorlog, als de rest van Nederland onder de keukentafel zou zitten te schuilen voor de H-Bom. Toen de atoomvrije vesting definitief overbodig…
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