Hans Eliens is vanaf 1 mei 2023 nieuw algemeen directeur-bestuurder van DOX. Eliens zal samen met artistiek directeur Hildegard Draaijer en artistiek directeur a.i. Melvin Fraenk de komende maanden het beleid voor de nieuwe kunstenplanperiode 2025-2028 vormgeven. Eliens was directeur van o.a. poppodia Mezz en Luxor Live. Sinds 1 januari 2018 werkt hij als zelfstandige, interim-manager en coach op cultureel…
In juni 2023 zijn de jaarlijkse DOX audities voor jongeren van 16 – 26 jaar die zich als performer verder willen ontwikkelen op het gebied van dans, theater, muziek, film en/of spoken word? Bij de DOX Club kan je een seizoen lang onderzoeken, creëren en leren met diverse makers van dit moment. Of je nu een vooropleiding hebt afgerond of…
Is kunst en cultuur van en voor iedereen? Is het er ook voor jongeren? Wat vinden zij belangrijk aan kunst, cultuur en media? Om antwoord te krijgen op deze vragen richt de Raad voor Cultuur een Jongerenplatform op. De raad is op zoek naar jongeren tussen de 15 en 20 jaar die hun mening willen delen over kunst, cultuur en…
Is er sprake van een verloren generatie jonge kunstenaars door de coronacrisis? Die vraag bekroop de Raad voor Cultuur begin dit jaar tijdens gesprekken met bijna 40 startende kunstenaars en creatieven over hun ervaringen in coronatijd. Het is bekend dat starten als kunstenaar ook zonder lockdowns al geen sinecure was. Maar: “Het beeld uit de gesprekken is heftiger en zorgelijker…
White balls are quite in the news, lately. For instance, they molest compatriots as a holiday pastime. Or they shout 'Snollebollekes' at a black champion. So the fact that white balls can also be fine is news. You can experience it at Festival Boulevard, where in a small, narrow tent, thousands of white Styrofoam balls, driven by huge fans, give you a fine massage shower,...
Formation of the Fasci di combattimento (the Black Shirts) Milan, Piazza San Sepolcro, 23 March 1919 We look out on Piazza San Sepolcro. Barely a hundred people. All men who don't count. We are few and we are dead. They are waiting for me to speak, but I have nothing to say. The stage is empty, awash with eleven million corpses,...
Theatre Festival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch will take place from Thursday 5 to Sunday 22 August 2021. The 37th festival edition features over 120 different performances, concerts, performances and installations in theatres, at unique locations and in the Zuiderpark. We also move into the night with Fomo Fatale, club nights with steaming sounds. The Zuiderpark serves as the new, spacious festival centre, including the...
The Amsterdam Museum will open its doors on Saturday 5 June after a closure of more than six months. From Saturday, visitors can revisit the museum at its primary location on Kalverstraat and the Amsterdam Museum wing of the Hermitage. On 1 July, Museum Willet-Holthuysen will also open after major maintenance. Visitors can visit the Amsterdam Museum in addition to its permanent offerings...
The art of slowing down in times of pandemic. Aceleratio is an interdisciplinary performance installation that aims to confront online and offline audiences with struggle, freedom, courage and comfort, from the need to embody these times. Artistic directors Dayna Martinez Morales & Vincent Verburg are the initiators of Movement Expo Aceleratio. Ten experienced and very different performers in...
Young people from Amsterdam East, led by theatre-makers Berith Danse and Isa van Dam, delved into the history of Amsterdam East and ARTIS at the time of World War II. Their research forms the basis for the livestream The lion's den. In Amsterdam Oost, the traces of the Second World War are indelible. Palpable in the trip-stones in the...
In the coming weeks, you can enjoy the following livestreams at Concordia: Storyteller, Shaffy, Next Generation, Most Beautiful Songs and Cameretten finalists. More information about the performances below. BOI AKIH - Storyteller Theatre programmer Ellen saw this band at Podium Witteman a while back and thought it was so cool that she immediately booked them. Especially for this evening, there will be a...
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...
The exhibition The Golden Coach opens at the Amsterdam Museum on Friday 18 June. After a restoration of more than five years, the Golden Coach is back on public display for the first time. The carriage will be on loan to the Amsterdam Museum until February 2022. With this, the carriage temporarily returns to the city that used it in...
People will not be eager (in large numbers) to go to packed halls again. Many 'old' culture visitors can be considered lost. The cultural sector faces a twofold challenge: to minimise this loss and to look for new audiences even more than usual.
Yesterday, I finally saw 'Away with Eddy Bellegueule', the theatre hit of the previous broken and devastated theatre season, and saw that its creators had effortlessly bridged the gap between youth and grown-up theatre. The show is a nineties grunge concert with brilliant actors and intense visual direction by rising star Eline Arbo.
With these five tips, we are sure to come up with a wonderful programme, in this bizarre summer we are facing, in which we will hopefully be allowed to hit the streets again at all. My fingers are crossed for both.
Moniek Merkx will step down as director of Maas Theatre&Dans on 3 February this year. She co-founded this Rotterdam company in 2013, which makes theatre for people from small to large. A forced merger with two other youth theatre houses from the Maas city developed under her leadership into one of the most successful and interesting theatre groups in our country. In our podcast, I talk to her for an hour about how that came to be.
My tip to the bonzes in Het Gooi: forget young people. Focus on the wandering forties and fifties, who yearn for disruption. This broadcast of VPRO's Mondo was unforgettable.
Uitgerekend corona-minister Hugo de Jonge, in 2017 nog wethouder in Rotterdam, was degene die schrijver Ernest van der Kwast op een nieuw spoor in zijn leven bracht. Een pad dat leidde naar zijn nieuwe roman Ilyas.
Three weeks back, the Plein Theatre started a petition, asking the City of Amsterdam, and in particular Alderman for Art and Culture Touria Meliani, to provide financial support to preserve the theatre. On Thursday 22 October, the petition with more than 1,600 signatures was handed over by director Berith Danse and chairman Bert Barten to alderman of Art and Culture Touria Meliani.
Since everyone advised him to just give it a try, he signed up with almost a thousand amateur painters to learn the ancient craft of painting in six months and under the watchful eye of Pieter Roelofs, head of Painting and Sculpture at the Rijksmuseum, among others.
A story about the rise and fall of a fledgling rock band - it is not a revolutionary new idea. But although Utopia Avenue is a more 'ordinary' novel than, say, his bestseller Cloud Atlas (2004), in the hands of David Mitchell (51) even an ordinary story never becomes ordinary.
Van oktober tot en met december zijn er zo’n 40 familievoorstellingen en voorstellingen voor jongeren en jongvolwassenen te zien in het Maaspodium. Om de veiligheid te waarborgen zijn er rondom de voorstellingen geen randprogramma’s.
Titled "Keep the theatre on the square!", PLEIN THEATER has launched a petition! And calls on culture lovers, visitors, local residents and anyone with a heart for PLEIN THEATER to sign for the survival of the theatre
Hoe krijg je jongeren weer (of meer) aan het lezen? Schrijver Bas Steman (49) slaagde erin een groep pubers zover te krijgen dat ze het écht leuk gingen vinden.
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