'Think carefully about the future' - Culture Council comes up with most unnecessary advice in years.
How nice it would not be if the Culture Council really 'got its hands on' supporting freelancers and self-employed people! There is a possibility.
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David Grossman: 'I know what it's like to live on with trauma'
More than 20 years ago, David Grossman's phone rang. A woman named Eva Panić Nahir had some things to say about an article he had published in an Israeli newspaper. Grossman smiles at the memory. 'What my piece was about I don't remember, I do remember that she thought I had not gone far enough in my criticism of the government. I did find it refreshing to be attacked for once by someone from the left, instead of - as usual - the right wing.'
Gaudeamus: as a 75-year-old younger than ever
Anno 2020, Music Week is buzzing like never before. Even corona has barely caught on. How many 'Mozarts' have emerged by now I will leave open, but the rich and varied off- and online offerings create some choice stress. At 75, the organisation is younger than ever: Gaudeamus is the place to be.
'There was a lot that was great about Joost, but this was him too.' Arielle Veerman on her tumultuous marriage to Joost Zwagerman
An ambitious young writer turned Dutch celebrity - Joost Zwagerman's life was turbulent, as was his character. That his marriage ended in divorce after almost twenty years, he could not bear. A year later, on 8 September 2015 - so exactly five years ago today - he ended his life. In her book The Longest Breath, his ex-wife Arielle Veerman looks back. There appears to be no resentment, only sadness.
ik laat het zo
Als kind speelde ik jarenlang matig piano op een grote, afgeragde Kaps uit Dresden. Het instrument ontviel me toen ik ging studeren, want het bleek onmogelijk om het ding in mijn eerste zelfstandige woning, een van de HAT-eenheden in het pand Boekhoven aan de Breedstraat, de trap op te krijgen.
Aid schemes authors: counter opened
Writers and translators hit by the corona crisis can now apply for three support schemes set up especially for them. They can apply for up to €5,000 for a project grant or income support. The first submission deadline closes on 30 September 2020. Membership of the Authors' Association or affiliation to Lira is not compulsory.
Theme NBE composition competition 2021: STAY UP!
The NBE calls on young composers to write music about something or someone they want to stand up for, or even rebel against. There are hardly any rules, anything goes and anything goes as long as it is self-invented.
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Het beste boek dat ik ken heet Arthur, koning voor eens en ooit. Dat wil zeggen, zo heet het als je de nieuwste vertaling door Jolande van der Klis aanschaft. Alles wat je over de wereld moet weten staat in dit boek. Het begint als een kinderboek – ik begon het ook te lezen toen ik nog een jongen was…
Jongelui
De 94-jarige Jan Hoek uit Rotterdam schreef een brief aan de jeugd die iedereen inmiddels wel zal hebben gelezen – sinds dat touwtje uit de brievenbus van Terlouw is er niet meer zoveel aandacht geweest voor een boodschap van een mens op leeftijd. Die boodschap is sympathiek en duidelijk: jongelui, hou het nou nog even vol, voor ons, dan kun…
Pierre Jarawan: 'In Lebanon, people fill the gaps in society with stories'
This week, a massive explosion of 2,700 tonnes of poorly preserved ammonium nitrate destroyed most of the Lebanese capital Beirut. For German-Lebanese writer Pierre Jarawan, who lives in Munich, the disaster is yet another black page in the history of Lebanon, which he himself has only just come to know.
And what about those codes of conduct? 'The Fund sees the tick marks as a baseline measurement.'
According to the minister, when applying for your grant this year, the Fair Practice Code, the Diversity and Inclusion Code and the Governance Code of Culture would be decisive. In several reviews by the Culture Council in the BIS and also locally, artists have been rejected on the basis of poor substantiation of their following the code of conduct. If not at...
Cultural big earners: jump through your karma for once
My story about cultural big earners turned out to be the talk of the town in the cultural sector. Not publicly, i.e. mainly behind the scenes, I was approached. One of the few people who did speak out publicly was Henk Scholten. On Facebook, he responded to a column by journalist Aukje van Roessel about the questions raised by The Hague city council
#Corona-classics 4 Hannes Minnaar: ‘Ik rolde in het frame van klassiek-romantische pianovirtuoos’
Hannes Minnaar valt met zijn neus in de boter. Zijn #coronatournee met de Goldbergvariaties van Bach start op 1 juli, precies de dag waarop het maximum aantal concertbezoekers wordt losgelaten. – Mits 1,5 meter afstand et cetera. Hoewel de Grote Kerk in Zwolle aanzienlijk meer dan honderd personen kan toelaten is het concert al helemaal uitverkocht. De gelukkigen die een…
The Platform for Freelance Musicians in action
29 June is an important day for culture: the Lower House will then debate emergency support for the sector. Our message to politicians: "300 million euros of emergency support that OCW has available for the cultural sector is nowhere near enough to keep the sector afloat. Adopt the motion of PvDA, GroenLinks and SP!" In...
'Living with others is hard.' French writer Leïla Slimani on identity, roots and the feeling of not belonging anywhere
Following the publication of social science books such as In the Garden of the Beast, Sex and Lies and the Prix Goncourt-winning novel A Soft Hand, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani (39) has become an important voice in French literature in recent years. She was appointed ambassador of French language and culture by President Macron and by the...
Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón (55) has died. 'I put a lot of pressure on myself.'
With the million-seller The Shadow of the Wind, the first part of the four-part The Graveyard of Forgotten Books, Carlos Ruiz Zafón established his name as a writer in one fell swoop. His novel The Labyrinth of Spirits, published in late 2017, was the culmination of a year-long showdown with himself. Not long after, he fell ill; in early 2018, Zafón was told that...
Festival Annecy 2020 - Are animated films too white?
Animation Festival Annecy 2020 is online. The Black Women in Animation panel addresses the paucity of black role models for young viewers in the animation world.
#metoo and me
In the Theatererkrant, 445 theatre makers posted an open letter addressed to Toneelgroep Oostpool, calling on creators and players to stop being afraid and report abuses to https://mores.online/. Summary of the foregoing: there were several complaints of sexual harassment by Oostpool's artistic director Marcus Azzini. An investigation ensued and Azzini...
On uncertainty, drift and desire for freedom, and yes, sports too: 7 life questions to Wilfried de Jong
Freedom and openness are essential in Wilfried de Jong's life. Don't pin him down on one trait, because then he will get pissy. 'I am not "that guy from sports".' That's right, De Jong is a theatre and television producer and writer, among other things. About sports, for instance. His new book The man and his cycling stories will be in stores from this week,...
Why the art world, subsidised and commercial, must stop campaigning NOW
A few months ago, I reported via this site that Eurovision Song Contest wanted an orchestra to perform, for less than no money. The post, including follow-ups, was read just under a hundred thousand times, so can be assumed somewhat familiar. Yesterday, I received a press release from a rather expensive public relations agency, which the culture world took action on...
'Pain takes away all the words.' Wytske Versteeg wrote about that which is always silenced
Schreef en publiceerde ze eindelijk het boek waar ze al járen mee rondliep, sneeuwde het aanvankelijk onder door corona en haar eerdere roman over een pandemie. Gelukkig heeft Verdwijnpunt van Wytske Versteeg inmiddels de weg naar de lezer gevonden. Het is een beklemmend boek over seksueel geweld. ‘Het dilemma met schrijven over pijn, is dat pijn je alle woorden ontneemt.’…
We can learn this from Conny Braam's new war novel: 'Racism is a silent, destructive force.'
South African soldiers thought that by fighting along during World War II they would gain the right to vote and independence, as they were promised. But after the war, not freedom but Apartheid awaited them. With We are the Avengers of it all, writer Conny Braam sheds light on this painful history. Four years ago, Conny Braam (72) published the successful novel Ik ben Hendrik...
'My dreams were always about death.' Alfred Birney on his new novel 'On hold'
Shortly after Alfred Birney was awarded the Libris Literature Prize in 2017 for The Interpreter of Java, he ended up in hospital with a heart attack. In his new novel On Hold, Birney's alter ego Alan Noland is in hospital waiting for open-heart surgery. He was just starting to feel fit again after his five-way bypass surgery and two years of patching up...
Three well-known dance companies get nothing more in The Hague's new arts plan
The Advisory Multi-Year Policy Plan Arts and Culture 2021-2024 for The Hague was presented online on Friday 24 April. What stands out for dance in this City of Dance? Inclusion and diversity What at least stands out is that in the plan, the word 'inclusion' appears 110 times and 'diversity' 96 times. Then you know what time it is. Yet the Advisory Committee also gives...
Cultuurperscoronapodcast (19): Willemijn Mooij moest de Mattheus Passie annuleren: ‘Leidinggeven op afstand valt me zwaar.’
‘Afgelopen (Stille, red.) zaterdag waagden we het weer eens om bij vrienden te gaan eten, mijn man en ik. We waren het zat om het alleen maar over Corona te hebben. Toen hebben we afgesproken om een muziekavond te houden. We werken allemaal in de klassieke muziek, maar spraken af om juist géén klassieke muziek te luisteren. Het werd een…
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