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Holland Festival celebrates Amsterdam 750 with performance Otemba - Daring Women 

Music theatre brings 17th-century painting from the Rijksmuseum to life in a conversation about female indomitability On the occasion of the kick-off of the anniversary year Amsterdam 750, we are pleased to announce in advance a festival performance focusing on the complex history of the city and the country. With this performance, the Holland Festival aims to explore from the arts - painting, music, theatre and design -... 

Timeline of the Dutch period in New York

Exhibition on New Amsterdam from an Indigenous perspective 

Amsterdam Museum werkt samen met het Museum of the City of New York en oorspronkelijke bewoners van New York Vierhonderd jaar geleden arriveerden de eerste Nederlandse kolonisten in het gebied dat nu New York is. Hun opdracht vanuit de Nederlandse West-Indische Compagnie (WIC) was om de kolonie Nieuw Nederland te stichten, met de hoofdstad Nieuw Amsterdam, op de zuidpunt van… 

scene photo by Sanne Peper

Reinout Bussemaker is the dream JP in Aluin's 'This is ours'

Je zal maar witte man zijn van zekere leeftijd. Sommigen van ons zijn het zo zat overal de schuld van te krijgen dat ze uit pure wanhoop PVV of erger hebben gestemd bij de laatste verkiezingen. Daarom is het goed dat toneelschrijver Erik Snel, zelf witte man van zekere leeftijd, een stuk heeft geschreven over het archetype van de Nederlandse… 

cover I Say Sorry Anyway

'I say sorry' is now a book. Go read it, together. 

"Listening, not always understanding, but trying to go along with (the black) voices ensured that, in my opinion, there was a beautiful text at the heart of the performance Ik zeg toch sorry." If a short preface to a play has as much meaning as this quote by Raymi Sambo, the text itself must offer much more.... 

Urmie Square by Johan Horst

Urmie Plein wins Colombina for her role in I Say Sorry Anyway 

At the Gala of Dutch Theatre on Sunday 17 September, it was announced that Urmie Plein has won the Colombina for her role in Ik zeg toch sorry. The Colombina is a theatre award given annually to the actress who, in the opinion of the Dutch Theatre jury, has performed the most impressive female contributing role. The jury about... 

National Archives, 1.05.12.02, inv. 154 (Caption: Register on the Rekwesten tot den uitvoer van Slaven van het Jaar 1834-1835)

INDICES OF SLAVERY HISTORY ARUBA AND SINT EUSTATIUS ONLINE

Searching for information on persons who lived in slavery on Aruba and Sint Eustatius has become easier with the online posting of two indexes and corresponding scans of colonial archives. The indexes can be searched from 30 June on the website of the Archivo Nacional Aruba (ANA) and on the website of the National Archives. In the index Aruba: slavery... 

The Maasdamme Collection at the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel. Photo Amsterdam Museum, Inez Agnese

Amsterdam Museum freely accessible during Keti Koti weekend - 1 and 2 July

As part of the Remembrance Year of Slavery, the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel will open its doors free of charge the weekend of 1 and 2 July. Everyone, young and old, can visit the permanent collection and exhibitions this weekend and take part in various activities. These include free Heri Heri meals, guided tours, a concert in the garden, and children can... 

Anne Fay Kops Source: DOX website

Anne-Fays Reaspora makes tangible how the slavery past still echoes in our generations

Ooit komt het wel goed met de diversiteit van het theater en het publiek dat erop afkomt. Donderdag 16 februari zat ik in het Haagse Theater aan het Spui in een zaal die gemiddeld 50 jaar jonger was dan het gemiddelde toneelpubliek en ook nog eens alle kleuren van de regenboog had. U raad het al: jongerentheater. Het theater waar… 

'I Say Sorry' masterfully makes tangible what a madness our slavery past is.  

Saying sorry seems to be difficult, if the songs about it are to be believed, and if we measure the time it takes Dutch governments to do it. But sorry is also very easy, if you consider how often you are not pushed aside in the queue for something or other, after the word 'sorry' has sounded behind you, or -... 

Gold from the Golden Coach originating in Suriname; Unknown provenance investigated by Amsterdam Museum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and NICAS

Het Amsterdam Museum heeft samen met de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Institute for Conservation+Art+Science+ (NICAS) en Naturalis Biodiversity Centre onderzoek gedaan naar de herkomst van het goud van de Gouden Koets. Lang was onbekend waar het bladgoud waarmee de koets is verguld vandaan kwam. De samenstelling van het goud is in een uitgebreid onderzoek vergeleken met monsters uit Suriname en Zuid-Afrika.… 

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