OCW Minister Eppo Bruins hopes citizens will buy more books, read more newspapers and go to the theatre more often thanks to the extra spending power hidden in the tax plans of the Schoof?Wilders Cabinet. This would offset the negative effects of the intensely 'ugly' VAT increase on vulnerable culture. During the Legislative Consultation OCW budget, Culture section, held on Monday,...
De creatieve sector zet in op een ingrijpende wijziging van het systeem van kunstsubsidies. Dat blijkt uit de lobbystukken (position papers en suggesties) die naar de verkiezingsprogrammaschrijvers van de politieke partijen zijn gestuurd. De grootste en belangrijkste daarvan, de schouwburgdirecties (VSCD) en Kunsten 92, willen dat het Rijk voortaan aan gemeenten een duidelijk en specifiek cultuurbudget (‘geoormerkt’) geeft. Daarmee wil…
We zijn er groot mee geworden: live tweets vanuit het hart van onze democratie. Nu waren debatten over cultuur de laatste jaren natuurlijk wel even wat anders dan we nu verwachten. Er hoeft geen strijd meer gevoerd te worden om de reputatie van de kunsten, zoals tijdens alle debatten tot een jaar geleden. Waar het nu om gaat? Energie, denken…
He will not be thanked, the headline above this article. After all, if there is one thing you don't want, it is to give a minister of a Rutte cabinet a compliment. And certainly not one of culture, the sector that, under Rutte's 10-year premiership, suffered the heaviest blows in post-war history. Rutte is the...
It is a great thing that there are comedians who keep a finger on the pulse of society. Hans Teeuwen, for instance, has once again made himself angry. He has joined the small chorus of (mostly) men who see the end of the world coming because of a rebuttal. That is the rebuttal that now comes via social media
We are a bit done with sex, drugs & rock'n'roll in culture. At least, not in what is presented through our galleries, film screens and venues, but in how that comes about. Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven has asked the Council for Culture for advice, and the Council is going to set up a commission to do so. This was just announced via...
Honourable members of the House of Representatives, It is with great concern that we look at the Temporary Test Act that will be voted on in your House on Tuesday 11 May. This new law means even more hurdles and restrictions for visiting culture. Restrictions that will be introduced but where the end date is not given. This new testing law could be a godsend for...
Vandaag maakten zowel de Koninklijke Horeca Nederland als de Taskforce van de culturele en creatieve sector bekend dat het testen om ergens binnen te komen wat hun betreft omstreden is. De Taskforce wil het testen voor toegang alleen handhaven in extreme gevallen, en niet voor culturele attracties die nu al aantoonbaar veilig zijn. De horeca vind testen zelfs volledig onbespreekbaar,…
Godfried Bomans died half a century ago. Almost immediately afterwards, the Netherlands' best-loved writer sank into oblivion. It is time for a reappraisal of Bomans' literary work and even his political views. I delved into the archives, also looking for the few traces of Bomans in Amersfoort. First some round figures. Seventy years ago, he delivered a lecture...
Hebben we een nieuwe taal nodig, en zijn we overgeleverd aan de gedachtenpolitie van de Code Diversitiet en Inclusie? Of is dat geen gedachtenpolitie en dreigt Wijbrand in een oude boze witte man te veranderen? Het blijft spannend. In deze podcast hebben we het dus over de door Mounir Samuel opgestelde ‘Handreiking’ voor inclusief taalgebruik voor de culturele sector.…
A good friend calls me, sounding like he wants to share and check something important. He was talking to his sister this week about the Nieuwsuur headline: Black Lives Matter: Was it a turning point or a hype? His sister stumbles over the title and notices that important parties are left out of this item and that stings. On the...
De beste kunstwerken zijn mislukt, en het is aan het publiek om er een betekenis aan te geven, waar de kunstenaar geen controle over heeft, betoogde cabaretier Micha Wertheim in een essay voor De Correspondent. Dat vonden we een goed onderwerp voor onze vierde nerdpodcast. Marijn Lems (NRC,Theaterkrant) botst wel eens met mensen die hem in zijn recensies te veel…
‘Er is geen andere sector in Nederland die zo gecontroleerd en gereguleerd wordt als de culturele sector.’ D66-kamerlid Salima Belhaj verzucht dit tegen het einde van het debat dat de verzamelde lobbyclubs voor de culturele sector op maandag 8 februari organiseerden. ‘Het kost ongelooflijk veel werk, tijd en vooral geld. En de basis is wantrouwen.’ De meest cultuurvriendlijke partij van…
With the saving of Frascati and at least a Chamber that does understand the importance of the sector, the most depressing event of the year - the culture budget debate - still ended with a few bright spots.
The hybrid German-English model combines the best of three worlds. But it also involves major changes. Artists will no longer all live in Amsterdam, but in one of eight or 10 urban cultural regions.
For Mark Rutte, this must be a defeat, or else a U-turn of sorts. Although, there are indications that he is taking a milder view. In 2016, his speechwriter actually managed to cycle the K-word into the speech from the throne
The cultural centre of gravity in Limburg has been in the south for years. However, to encourage southern institutions to programme outside the region, only 1 extra point is available. Examples of the problem of geographical spread also exist at the Council of Culture and the Performing Arts Fund.
A fire letter from the United Performing Arts Festivals. One of more than a hundred lobbying organisations in the arts, but a very important one. After all, the festivals are the place where audiences were introduced to arts and entertainment in its full breadth. That doesn't happen anywhere else. And beautiful: they stand up for all performing arts, because, as loyal readers of this site know: they are quite the hare, and become even more the hare with every half-hearted rescue.
That 8.6 million the fund is now minimally short of will probably be found somewhere, so the saw line will be shifted again. Then the sector can - virtually - continue for another four years. Another one and a half million may be added to shape the spread. Pleasing the art world is not that expensive, The Hague will notice.
Creativity expresses itself in Dutch politics mainly in bookkeeping. On 29 June, just before the start of the three-month summer recess, the Lower House actually found money to save pop festival Noorderslag and dance company Scapino from collapse. That demise would become a reality in the new arts plan, which takes effect in 2021, as the Council for Culture...
On Monday 29 June, the Lower House will discuss the advice of the Council for Culture. An advice that, as the Volkskrant rightly noted on Friday 26 June, receives much more criticism than previous advice. In doing so, the newspaper reaffirms what we already wrote down immediately after its release on 4 June: there is a total lack of transparency, a...
Er moet dringend noodsteun komen voor de grote groep zzp’ers in de culturele sector. De 300 miljoen aan noodsteun die de overheid aan het begin van de corona-crisis heeft vrijgemaakt voor deze sector, sijpelt nauwelijks naar hen door. Dat blijkt uit een survey onder meer dan 1500 freelancers, met name musici, makers en technici, aan de vooravond van het debat…
2.6 billion euros. It is a sum so large that it means nothing to anyone. It is less than the tax support KLM gets, though. Today Kunsten 92, the arts-wide lobbying organisation, in an unprecedented collaboration with all interest groups and industry associations, brought out that that 2.6 billion is the damage to the arts sector caused by the restrictive measures....
29 juni is een belangrijke dag voor de cultuur: de Tweede Kamer gaat dan in debat over de noodsteun aan de sector. Onze boodschap aan de politiek: “300 miljoen euro noodsteun die OCW voor de cultuursector beschikbaar heeft is bij lange na niet genoeg om de sector overeind te houden. Neem de motie van PvDA, GroenLinks en SP aan!” In…
The Council for Culture acted in violation of all policy agreements, its own advice and rules when it reduced the subsidy for the Holland Festival by over five hundred thousand euros. The Holland Festival, which is in serious trouble as a result, is now expressing its anger in a letter that went to the Lower House today. The organisation even speaks of "improper administration": a...
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