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Distress call for theatre school Roosendaal at last minute, arts venue Veenendaal scrapped Discount news from all regions

(...) The Youth Theatre School Roosendaal received a project subsidy of 36,779 euros from the municipality in 2010 and 2011. The school also fulfils a regional function. Forty per cent of its 330 pupils come from the surrounding villages. The proposal is to end the subsidy from 1 January. It was only this week that this apparently dawned on Hofplein's management. Which immediately started a... 

Arts colleges to cooperate more and get "partly or wholly" the same budget

On 5 July, the HBO Council came out with a sector plan for art education. Following the report of the Dijkgraaf committee and the Brinkman committee, it was concluded that the autonomous fine arts courses will reduce the intake of first-year students by 25%, the conservatoires with direction of classical and jazz by 10%, and the rest by 20%. This is to be achieved in a period... 

Reply Zijlstra (culture) to question on friction costs confirms chamber did not pay attention in June

It came as a shock that still hasn't quite worked out. Haf September, dozens of arts organisations received a letter from the State Secretary for Culture, informing them that they could start using the subsidy they thought they were getting for projects until 31 December 2012 for redundancy procedures, selling property at a loss and staff lawsuits against... 

Had the cabinet been a restaurant and the country's connoisseurs Johannes van Dam, Rutte could have closed the joint.

A nice side effect of the Giving Act is that it gives the tax authorities a vital role when it comes to determining what is art, and what is not. That was the outcome of the hearing on Tuesday 11 October in the House of Representatives. The MPs there listened to people from the philanthropic sector and tax experts in turn. Outcome of the two... 

Letter Zijlstra is just a request for information. But it does include a tickable invitation to suicide

Has state secretary Halbe Zijlstra the Lower House lied or misled in June when he stated that rushing through the culture cuts was necessary to absorb friction costs? Or does it just turn out to be improper governance?

Rotterdam alderman shocks cultural sector over total lack of knowledge

'En waarom moeten al die kunstinstellingen open op maandag, dinsdag, woensdag en zelfs donderdag? Ik snap dat niet. Ik heb het veel te druk met werken op die dagen.' Zomaar een vraag tijdens het Paradisodebat, het jaarlijkse afsluitertje van de Uitmarkt in Amsterdam. En normaalgesproken kun je dit soort vragen na een paar glazen bier wel verwachten uit het publiek, maar deze vraag kwam dus van de Wethouder Cultuur van Rotterdam, een stad met toch al gauw een paar honderdduizend inwoners.
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Thousands of runners, thousands of website visitors during Civilisation March 2011

Natuurlijk zijn er ’trollen’. Tegenstanders van ‘linkse hobby’s’ en aanhangers van de stelling dat goede kunst vanzelf wel overleeft. Onze liveblog over de Mars der Beschaving, die we mede lieten vullen door twitter-hashtags te volgen, werd er een beetje zuur van. We hebben dat een beetje opgeschoond, de hardste schreeuwers eruit gehaald (ook pro, overigens) en een paar markante politieke… 

Cultural policy Rutte cabinet advised against by patrons and entrepreneurs; PVV absent from hearing on future of Dutch culture

This is an infographic from a series made by Abel, Niels and Willem at Mediamatic. Based on an idea by Ruben Pater. Eigenlijk was er maar één compliment voor het kabinet, dat bezig is om gemiddeld 30% te korten op een sector die werk geeft aan tienduizenden Nederlanders. Tijdens de hoorzitting die de tweede kamer op maandag 20 juni belegde… 

'There are provinces where you can vote VVD or CDA just fine'; new website gives voting tips to art lovers

It looked like a party. Coffee and flan, a Maastricht song, brass band music and a speech by Prince Carnival. Optimism surrounded the launch of the website nadeschreeuwnudestem.nl on 21 February. Surely the cry for culture in November was mainly a voice of dissent. Now there is a chance to take forward-looking action. 'Mobilise everyone you know to join the March 2... 

Rutteleaks 3: we now know how barren it will look in the coming years: decimate culture and libraries, spare regional broadcasters

We had done the necessary research work ourselves, and then it turned out that something had also been sent to the House of Representatives, which contained many more figures. We asked for those figures and were shocked. After 2012, when the current arts plan expires and after a year of inaction and wait-and-see for the entire sector, a... 

Column: "As soon as they start embracing art in the PVV, right-thinking people should start watching out."

The Hague is quite complicated for those who do not visit it on a daily basis. I was there last Monday, as a spectator at the discussion of the culture and media budget, and it has taken me until now to fully understand what is going on. For that understanding, being there live was essential. After all, to understand a social system like the Lower House, you not only have to listen to what is being said, and see who is speaking, much more important are the 'listening shots': the body language and actions of those who are not speaking.

Arts budget debated in second chamber: hardly any discussion on 200 million cut to performing arts

We were at a debate day in The Hague that was as inconspicuous as it was historic on 13 December 2010: it was about the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the (first?) Rutte cabinet, and that was the budget in which, at the request of the supporting party PVV, the amount to be cut in the arts budget was set at 200 million, with heritage and museums having to... 

The arts subsidy system is like a house that changes hands a little too often: new cultural policy Rutte cabinet is capital destruction

Motto van de cultuurbrief van Zijlstra: "De 19e-eeuwse schilder Alma-Tadema zei: ‘Zolang ik schilder, ben ik kunstenaar, als het af is, ben ik zakenman’." Het kunstsubsidiesysteem is als een huis, dat iets te vaak van eigenaar verwisselt. De vorige eigenaar heeft in 2008 na lang vergaderen een nieuwe keuken ingebouwd, de badkamer vervangen, een nieuwe cv-ketel + vloerverwarming aangelegd en… 

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