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At Festival Woest, young people figure out for themselves how they want to play life (Why you can't avoid Zwolle in early June)

Woest is a cultural education festival for and by young people and offers a place for experimentation outside education. Woest is a unique partnership between education, culture providers and young people. In fact, what makes Woest unique is that young people themselves come up with new things that can make education more fun and better. The pupil's voice is always the starting point. In recent months,... 

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Hoe erg is de zelfmoord van een opblaaspop? Chileense meiden spelen zich vrij in Paisajes para no colorear op het Holland Festival

‘Ik ben het afgelopen jaar op weg naar school twee keer lastiggevallen.’ De jonge actrice, krap 15, zegt het met flink wat woede in haar stem. Het is de ochtend na de Berlijnse première van het Chileense stuk Paisajes para no colorear, waarin ze meespeelt, met 8 leeftijdsgenoten. Die woede was er de voorgaande avond, tijdens de voorstelling die 14… 

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Nieuw publiek voor gesubsidieerd theater? Nederland werkt dat tegen.

Samen met twee 12-jarige kids ga ik naar een toneelvoorstelling. Naar een toneelvoorstelling met het label ‘volwassen voorstelling’. De kaarten kosten 25,- per stuk. Korting voor studenten. Korting voor CJP. Geen korting voor kinderen, excuus,  jongeren, want ja, die twee brugklassers zijn al 12. Is deze voorstelling gemaakt voor kinderen? Nee. Ze is gemaakt voor de nieuwsgierige, open kijker, voor… 

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Reading in times of Netflix: why books are a must for our minds, according to bestselling author Joël Dicker (33)

'During performances or book signings, people often come up to me and tell me: "I wasn't a reader, but your book made me experience the pleasure of reading and now I really enjoy reading." I don't say that because I think my books are now so good, but because it shows that once someone experiences... 

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Met een app ben je er niet. Waarom de minister het archiveren van alle kunsten verplicht moet stellen

De erfgoedsector is niet de meest sexy sector van de Nederlandse cultuurwereld. Ook al vliegen de bloottenstoonstellingen je dit seizoen om de oren, je denkt toch eerder aan duistere musea, monumenten, postzegelverzamelingen, oud spul. Zo kon het gebeuren dat de stichting Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland al bijna 25 jaar kon bestaan zonder dat iemand in de ‘populairdere’ kunsten (podium, film, literatuur)… 

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Why something needs to happen soon for amateur theatre in Utrecht

The Utrecht Centre for the Arts is bankrupt after a long ordeal. It was axed. There is no more room in the Netherlands' fourth city for a large, centrally organised music and culture school. Nor for pottery, painting and video filming. The city council has found a solution. For the soon-to-be homeless UCK students, the municipality thinks... 

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'There are far too many books being written and no one is earning from them anymore.' (But we do rank 1 in Japan.)

A good selling book earns an author an average of 10 to 15 per cent of the selling price. Bestsellers go towards 20 per cent. But how much does it really yield? KVB Boekwerk, the research arm of the Royal Booksellers' Association wanted to find out. Jurriaan Rammeloo presented the first preliminary results of his research on 27 November. Not something to be very happy... 

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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? Italian youngsters have something else on their minds - see Paolo Giordano's new novel.

Bestselling author Paolo Giordano (35) does not shy away from current themes in his new novel Devouring Heaven. Poverty, environmental problems, capitalism, (un)fertility - people in their twenties and thirties have a lot to wrap their heads around. 'I find the fixed life pattern we grow up with strangling.' Devouring the sky Young people who have to find their way in the world and learn to cope with pain, loss,... 

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DocLab 2018: verbeter de wereld, zet een VR bril op.

Langzaam maar zeker is het allernieuwste nieuwtje van virtual reality (VR) af en kunnen we gaan nadenken over wat je wilt laten zien, in plaats van hoe. Waar ik op het eerste VR festival nog gierende hoofdpijn kreeg van slechte brillen, kan ik me nu laten betoveren door de schoonheid van het Amazone gebied of prachtige animaties. Filmtheaters als Eye… 

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Fit during Significant Moments of NDT2

Vulnerable surrender for NDT2 in Significant Moments

Moving. Before Significant Moments begins, the brisk Fernando Hernando Magadan presents himself as the new artistic director of NDT2. Applause in the auditorium. But the reason he stands behind a lectern with a huge flower arrangement is to pay tribute to the retiring artistic director: Gerald Tibbs. Gerald Tibbs. The peerless dancer everyone could walk away from 

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Lukas Dhont on his acclaimed film Girl, about the trans girl who is an ordinary adolescent, and the love of dance

The trans-drama Girl, Belgium's Oscar entry, is on a veritable victory lap. Filmmaker Lukas Dhont on the struggles of trans girl Lara, who is mostly an ordinary adolescent. On his personal struggle with stereotypes, and on his love of dance. "A place on the Oscar shortlist would already be very nice," he says.

'Film works wonderfully motivating for children.' Booster for film education - on its way to a permanent place in the classroom

Until now, film education has mostly been a grab bag of initiatives. But now that the minister mentions it in her policy plan and extra money has been allocated, new steps can be taken. Towards a permanent place in the classroom? We ask Florine Wiebenga, head of education Eye, and Jeroen Stultiens, Film Teacher of the Year.

The Lower House has become youth art. This is how the first five million of the Culture Budget dissipates

Duizend scholieren per dag in de Tweede Kamer. Niet minder dan dat. Dat wil Cultuurminister Ingrid van Engelshoven. Kost 4,8 miljoen. Geld dat u feitelijk gaat betalen via uw theaterkaartje, het bibliotheekboek, de museumticket. Want van die 4,8 miljoen had ook echte kunst gemaakt gemaakt kunnen worden. Het is een grote vraag waarom het verplichte Tweedekamerbezoek bekostigd moet worden vanuit… 

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Zonder extra geld is diversiteit in onze cultuur onhaalbaar. Het woord is zondag 26 augustus aan de minister

Goed nieuws van de cultuurfondsen: ‘diversiteit’ wordt een serieuze voorwaarde bij de vraag of je subsidie krijgt voor je culturele ding of niet. Natuurlijk zal een en ander tot discussie leiden. Om te voorkomen dat mensen terugvallen op het Jeroen Pauw-argument (wij willen wel vrouwen in de uitzending, maar er zijn niet genoeg goeie die ook willen), stelt de groep… 

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Gisèle Vienne brengt op @hollandfestival een voorstelling over rave-cultuur: ‘Geweld en agressie zijn niet per se negatief.’

De Frans-Oostenrijkse theatermaakster Gisèle Vienne toont haar nieuwste werk Crowd op het Holland Festival. Vienne neemt de rave-party als uitgangspunt voor subtiele observaties over wat mensen beweegt tijdens een nachtje stappen. De voorstelling enscèneert naast het extatische plezier van dance en trance ook allerlei vormen van nachtelijk zelfverlies, onbeholpenheid, eenzaamheid en agressie. Acid De prachtige mix van acid, trance en… 

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Kunstraad has profile for new Stedelijk Museum board ready: an Amsterdam rascal (m/*/f).

The cultural sector is sometimes behind, but more often ahead. In the - otherwise very much to be welcomed in terms of content - advice issued by the Amsterdam Arts Council on the future of the local Stedelijk Museum, you can read that job security in the art sector is once again under pressure. Especially for young entrants from 'diverse' backgrounds: 'Preferably, the museum will make greater use of... 

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'Kata' shows at @hollandfestival how inspiring a peaceful fight can be (review)

What a grandiose invention to think of breakdance as martial arts dance! In a sense, of course, it has been so from the beginning. Young people in New York's poor neighbourhoods developed their spectacular dance techniques in the 1980s. These were a means for them to express themselves in their own unique way. This was a necessity of life in a society that... 

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Touching each other is taboo. Anne Nguyen brings breakdance and capoeira, vulnerable men and video games in Kata @hollandfestival

In Kata, the latest work by French breaker and choreographer Anne Nguyen, hip-hop men transcend the clichés of hip-hop. Toughness, untouchability and the usual frontal relationship with the audience are exchanged for indirect gestures, delayed effects, diagonals and laterals, double entendres and irony. Nguyen, herself an adept practitioner of capoeira, ming chun and breakdance, challenges her dancers to use their... 

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Why Italian women struggle with motherhood. Writer Silvia Avallone cuts taboos in new novel

She is young, beautiful and well-spoken. Writer Silvia Avallone, known for her bestseller Staal, does not shy away from sensitive themes in her compelling new novel Levenslichtde either, such as the economic crisis, infertility and unevenly divided parenthood. 'Claiming freedom for yourself is something terrifying for an Italian woman.' Rough edges Poverty, economic malaise, gender inequality...... 

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Zelfs het gespuis lijkt mooi in Romes ‘flower power’-tijd, en half Europa wilde het meemaken

Ging je naar Rome vóór de 17de eeuw dan was je een pelgrim. Ging je de eeuw daarna naar Rome dan was je een zoekende kunstenaar. Ging je vanaf de 19de eeuw naar Rome dan was je een eerzaam ‘Tourist’ op Grand Tour, op zoek naar inspiratie en morele verheffing. Ga je anno 2018 naar Rome dan ben je een… 

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Millennial Poets at Poetry International (@poetry_en) - Social Justice with Self-mockery and Laughing at Rape... Is it possible?

Poets Danez Smith and Patricia Lockwood once broke the internet with their virtuoso wordplay. Smith with a frothy tirade about ineradicable racism and police brutality in America (Dear White America) and Lockwood with a heartbreaking/funny poem about her rape (Rape Joke). Both have outgrown their hypes. They have secretly been doing a fantastic job for years, using Twitter, YouTube, paper and stage... 

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A wolf inside you: the rage of Kristien Hemmerechts

Wolf is Kristien Hemmerechts' first novel since her non-fiction book on breast cancer, and it is about rage. What it's like to be furious, the Belgian writer knows all about that. "When I had breast cancer, I experienced intense feelings of aggression." Why is it that some people who have experienced trauma or tragedy can give it a place,... 

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Dutch Reisopera 2018-19: We're waiting for the curtain to rise!

We're sitting in the opera house; We're waiting for the curtain to arise With wonders for our eyes; We're feeling pretty gay, [...] A feeling of expectancy, A certain kind of ecstasy, Expectancy and ecstasy... Sh's's's's. "Curtain!" With the above words, Charles Ives sang of the excitement of a child going to the opera for the first time. A similar enthusiasm shows... 

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ZEP takes on the sacred cows of love with comedy HABIB. (Why Rascal should just come and watch)

So certain words are taboo. Moroccan Said explains that his ideal woman has to be a virgin, chaste, and so should not let him ... well, that is. That word you are not allowed to say. The Turkish Evrim thinks that's big nonsense again. Why not call a spade a spade? In Habib, the latest performance by theatre group ZEP, it is all about... 

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