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Catinka Kersten in Images by the Sea - one year after academy

by Frans van Hilten
16 April 20154 November 2015
11 min read
ACTUAL, IMAGING

Museum Beelden aan Zee placed a concrete sculpture by 26-year-old artist Catinka Kersten on the patio at the end of March: 'And everyone held their breath during that fraction of centuries'. It consists of five concrete human figures stacked on top of each other, which appear to be made of fabric. Kersten completed her studies at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in 2013 with a series of hunting animals in plaster and cotton. The museum, with associated scientific institute and plaster library, is considered one of the figureheads of sculpture in the Netherlands. How did this museum come to choose such a young artist and what does inclusion in its collection mean for her?

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Culture Council sounds alarm: 29.5 million needed to preserve arts sector

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 April 201529 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

What is already going on on a small scale in Groningen, Enschede, Zaltbommel, Amersfoort, Gorinchem and Vlaardingen, is threatening to happen nationwide as well: cultural institutions falling over while politicians look on helplessly. According to the Council for Culture, the situation is alarming: 'Institutions are draining their own funds, cultural funds are maintaining schemes by drawing on reserves. We therefore make the urgent...

Five questions to Willem Jeths, Composer of the Fatherland

by Thea Derks
17 March 201530 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Willem Jeths (1959) is one of the most successful Dutch composers. Through his enormous craftsmanship and drive, he manages to create his own sound world, which is surprising yet accessible. His work is regularly performed at home and abroad and has appeared on many CDs. In 2014, he received the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts and later that year he was appointed

Top performance of rarely heard Sonata by Bartók

by one of our members
27 February 201530 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC

Ralph van Raat is by far the leading solo pianist in the contemporary repertoire in our country, while fellow pianist Maarten van Veen pursues an idiosyncratic course in ensemble playing in modern music. When the two musicians work together, they prove to complement each other perfectly. Under the aegis of the Doelen Ensemble, they played together with percussionists Colin Currie and Benjamin Ramirez, for whom the same...

theatre the new goals in gorinchem

'Just badly fucked and hugely cunt': Gorinchem theatre director says goodbye in advance.

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 February 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL

Theatre De Nieuwe Doelen in Gorinchem will close its doors on 31 May, due to lack of support in local politics. The city council, which also previously closed the music school, would like to continue using the building as a Village Hall for amateur artists. For professional theatre, a CDA party leader reported, those few enthusiasts can just go to Dordrecht. Theatre director Rob van Wijk...

Celtic & Balfolk festival: folk back on the big stage at Rotterdam's Doelen

by one of our members
19 February 201519 February 2015
5 min read
MUSIC

Barcelona, the old medieval Barriò at midnight, in the square where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella welcomed Columbus after his return from his travels to America. In the Netherlands at the time, it was Queen's Day 2010. Four generations of people were dancing to the cheerful notes of a clarinet, a whistle, a violin and a simple drum. Until the wee hours of the morning, a...

Four reasons to go to Words & Beyond II: Nan Sul Hun

by Thea Derks
30 October 20147 October 2020
5 min read
DANS, MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

After the world premiere of Words & Beyond II: Nan Sul Hun by Seung-Won Oh yesterday at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, the audience stood up as one to applaud Slagwerk Den Haag and the soloists. It was therefore a magical performance, which will be repeated at De Doelen in Rotterdam and at Theater aan de...

Orchestra finds name: the HET The Symphony Orchestra

by Henri Drost
20 September 201429 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Hooray! We have a new name. Nederlands Symfonieorkest was not allowed, *****Orkest everyone thought was a joke and reverting to the perfect name Orkest van het Oosten is not possible, because loss of face. What then?
Drumroffel…
Gewoon, het symfonieorkest. Of HET Symfonieorkest. Het Symfonieorkest.
Niet Die Orkest, wat wel een coole naam geweest zou zijn, niet 'dat', 'dit' of 'de', maar het. Alleen 'een' was nog nietszeggender geweest, maar wanhoopt niet: het blijkt wel ergens voor te staan: herke...

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Hoe moet het nu verder met Rotterdam? 5 redenen waarom Simons het moeilijk krijgt

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 August 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

De grote theatermaker Johan Simons heeft laten weten dat hij naar Rotterdam wil komen, om een groot Europees theater op te zetten. Hij ziet zijn kans schoon nu er over twee jaar een plek vrijkomt in de artistieke leiding van het stadsgezelschap van de Maasstad, het ro theater. Wanneer ze Simons aanstellen, kan er groots gedacht worden, zegt Simons. En…

Ironing or hitting

by Thea Derks
2 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Het wordt moeilijk kiezen hoe we ons volgende weekend muzikaal gaan invullen: blijven we in Amsterdam voor het Amsterdam Marimba Weekend, of reizen we af naar Den Haag, waar Dag in de Branding geheel is gewijd aan het strijkkwartet? Kortom: gaan we strijken of slaan? Wie niet kan kiezen, kan later deze maand terecht bij Amsterdam Sinfonietta en Slagwerk Den Haag - die doen het gewoon allebei!
Het Amsterdam Marimba Weekend loopt van 9 t/m 11 mei en heeft als thema ‘The Eastern Connection’. Het is...

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4 reasons why the arts are going to lose a lot more. Municipal culture congress wrongly optimistic

by Wijbrand Schaap
31 January 201411 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

It was ball in Rotterdam on Thursday, 30 January. At the Municipal Culture Congress, a few hundred officials, local politicians and arts organisations gathered to talk about where they could help each other. It was supposed to be a positive day. There had been long enough complaining and arguing: look ahead, hopeful into the future. Even if the worst is yet to come.

43rd Rotterdam Film Festival celebrates 25 years of Hubert Bals Fund with opening film Qissa

by Leo Bankersen
23 January 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

9000 Euro was tien jaar geleden het bedrag waarmee Qissa van de Indiase regisseur Anup Singh uit de startblokken werd geholpen. Dat geld kwam van het aan het International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) gelieerde Hubert Bals Fonds (HBF), dat nu al 25 jaar filmmakers in ontwikkelingslanden steunt. Gisteravond opende Qissa de 43e editie van het Rotterdamse festival. De havenstad is daarmee tien dagen lang wereldhoofdstad voor de onafhankelijke film, zoals zakelijk directeur Janneke Starink bij de ...

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'Gay propaganda is not about homophily': Rotterdam backs Gergiev

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 December 201311 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

They were horrified by it. There in Rotterdam, at De Doelen. Because 'their' Valery Gergiev, former chief of the local orchestra and namesake of the prestigious festival that sometimes to be held in September, doesn't like gays. At least, that's what we all believed

Yannick Nézet-Séguin turns Rotterdam Doelen into a swirling sea of sound

by Henri Drost
15 September 201311 July 2016
4 min read
MUSIC, OPERA

In a letter to Franz Liszt in 1852, Wagner stressed that in his Der fliegende Holländer should be shown as realistically as possible, full of violent waves. One hundred and sixty years later, Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes that advice very much to heart in port city Rotterdam. Nothing about this Holländer ripples, from the first notes it storms, culminating in a third act at hurricane force, with a leading role for the Netherlands Opera choir.

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Legislation follows at an appropriate distance from technological developments

by Henri Drost
10 January 20138 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

What does a dissertation on a forgotten Victorian novelist have in common with a rushrelease from multinational Sony?

Gergiev Festival full of Sunday afternoon music

by one of our members
16 September 201229 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

What could be the matter with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival - the official name to emphasise its international appeal anyway? As soon as you enter concert hall de Doelen, you immediately get the feeling that you have arrived at an ordinary, weekday concert, even though Valeri Gergiev is on the posters. No decoration of the large rooms...

'Publicity after the show is more important than before'

by one of our members
20 June 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

He is a professor of it, so if there is a problem in the economics of culture, Arjo Klamer knows about it. He says there has been growing resentment against subsidies for years. So the arts sector will have to get used to making a living in a different way from now on.
We denken nu te traditioneel het eerst aan subsidie, vertelt de Rotterdamse hoogleraar in het interview dat we met hem hadden tijdens het Congres Podiumkunsten 2012, in de Rotterdamse Doelen, eind me...

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Save a museum: make sure you make friends

by one of our members
17 June 201229 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In de manier waarop mensen soms proberen geen antwoord proberen te geven op een vraag, liggen grappige antwoorden besloten. Dirk van Delft wist als directeur van Museum Boerhaave een slordige 1 miljoen euro binnen te hengelen uit de markt. Daarmee werd hij meteen lieveling van Rutte's kabinet. Na twee keer doorvragen blijkt dat hij eigenlijk vindt dat er teveel wilde dingen in podiumkunsten gebeuren, en dat dat wel eens de reden zou kunnen zijn waarom ze zo hard zijn aangepakt. Maar we hebben da...

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Het is allemaal de schuld van de “Rotondekunst”

by one of our members
7 June 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In theaters met gesubsidieerd toneel zie je Henk en Ingrid niet, dus daaraan kan de haat van de VVD en PVV jegens de schone kunsten niet geweten worden, aldus Hans Onno van den Berg, voormalig directeur van de Vereniging van Schouwburg- en Concertgebouwdirecties. Nee. het is de schuld van de rotondes in Nederland. Daar moeten Henk en Ingrid steeds om kunst heenrijden op weg naar de musical. En daar houden ze niet van. Van die rotondes.
Rotondekunst
Op het Congres Podiumkunsten, eind mei in de Ro...

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Dodo Holland Festival journal becomes Dodo Holland Festival Hangout #HF12

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 June 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

We already have one episode on it, and it was of course a huge success, but right at the climax you have to start something new. That's why tonight at 22:30 we have a new thing: The Dodo Holland Festival Hangout. Live, interactive and online. Innovative, in other words, as you know it from us. You know them: those reporter trucks with metres of spaghetti...

Dodo Holland Festival journal becomes Dodo Holland Festival Hangout #HF12

by one of our members
6 June 201213 February 2019
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

We already have one episode on it, and it was of course a huge success, but right at the climax you have to start something new. That's why tonight at 22:30 we have a new thing: The Dodo Holland Festival Hangout. Live, interactive and online. Innovative, in other words, as you know it from us. You know them: those reporter trucks with metres of spaghetti...

Henk Pröpper: 'Writers Unlimited has always opposed panting and short-term ambition.'

by one of our members
20 January 20128 July 2016
7 min read
SPECIALS

He is now a publisher, and the man who was director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature until last year will be quite happy with that. As director of the Bezige Bij, one of the country's largest publishing houses, he will surely never again have to submissively toast the sarcastic State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra. At least the relief was audible in Pröpper's...

Friday the 25th. Bergen puts extra money into art, while new disasters emerge for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

by one of our members
25 November 20118 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

Amsterdam - Mayor finds cuts to Rijksakademie "beyond comprehension" During the official opening of RijksakademieOPEN 2011, Mayor of Amsterdam Eberhard van der Laan expressed his concerns about the government's severe cuts to the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. "Cutbacks are necessary. Capitulating is not necessary. There are limits." The mayor stressed that a healthy art climate is important for...

Cuts also take philanthropists too far, and music lessons become unaffordable, Kerkrade retains its theatre

by one of our members
21 November 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

'Philanthropists cannot absorb cuts' (...) "Funds are less and less willing to just write a cheque. Owners want to be involved, contribute their expertise and measure impacts. They ask about the applicant's objective, how they intend to achieve it and whether it is measurable. (...) "On average, a fund disburses 4 per cent of its assets annually. So.

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

by one of our members
18 November 20118 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Lower House approves Tax Plan 2012 (...) Furthermore, the adjusted Giving Act was also passed. The €7 million tax support shifts from cultural institutions to sports and music associations. Source: Belasting.nl 18 Nov 11 Utrecht - Culture may cost something - by Wouter de Heus (...) this week, when I finally saw the renewed operating plan for the Music Palace in...

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