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amateur art

'Fix it yourself.' Culture minister puts fate of amateur arts in hands of municipalities and citizens

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 June 201429 March 2022
2 min read
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In March this year, the Council for Culture sounded the alarm. Unique under the new leadership, which is usually extremely docile when it comes to culture cuts. But what happens to the music schools, children's drama schools, libraries and amateur orchestras is otherwise entirely up to the citizens themselves, and their local councils. This is the minister's response to the chamber.

In the letter, which landed in MPs' inboxes this weekend, the minister states, "I will maintain my commitment to the terrei...

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New choreographer award from BNG Culture Fund

by Maarten Baanders
10 March 201430 March 2022
6 min read
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The Netherlands has added a new award for young choreographic talent. The BNG Culture Fund, in collaboration with Korzo in The Hague, has established the BNG Bank Excellent Talent Dance Award, provisionally for a period of three years. Dance in the Netherlands is a thriving sector, in which many beautiful and surprising things happen. Due to budget cuts, much of this is in danger of being lost. One production house after another is dying or its very existence is threatened. The new award, which offers production e...

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Culture Council notes total destruction of amateur art. Minister worries.

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 March 201429 March 2022
3 min read
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Over 60 million has disappeared from the coffers of the Netherlands' amateur artists in recent years. That money from your daughter's dance class, the brass band and your son's hip-hop class has been spent by municipalities, which had to compensate for cuts elsewhere, and provinces that suddenly saw no point in amateurs. That the national government additionally took 200 million from professional arts institutions is added to that.

The Culture Council, in an advice to the minister, is now trying to see if there is movement ...

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5 lessons from a Tilburg riot: superficial newspaper determines superficial cultural politics

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 January 201430 March 2022
21 min read
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Regional newspapers hardly do any real cultural journalism anymore. We know this because it was the reason we once founded Culture Press. Just how bad things are now, five years later, with art in the region and the way newspapers deal with it, was evident this month in Tilburg. A local journalist from the Brabants Dagblad had written a piece on questions raised by a PVV MP in the province. In the news story, this former sports journalist qualified...

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Lower chamber talked about art. We followed the debate for you

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 November 201330 March 2022
14 min read
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We kept a liveblog. Nice and old-fashioned, from the days when every month there was uproar somewhere about the government's handling of art. Now there is peace in the tent, as the PVV sardonically points out, because 'The Left' is now the bearer of policies devised by the PVV. The PVV predicts a black future for 'The Left' once the PVV comes to power.

Below are our updates, which paint a picture of a room that still doesn't really know where it is in d eculture ...

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Culture Council hands out in second round

by one of our members
13 August 201229 March 2022
1 min read
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Yet money for the National Academy of Visual Arts, money for an orchestra merger in the south of the Netherlands and 4.7 million for a knowledge institute for amateur art. The clear-cutting of the Dutch cultural sector has become a little less extreme thanks to a second advice from the Council for Culture. Besides the aforementioned positive assessment, there is also money for a knowledge institute for the creative sector

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Austerity year review 2011. Or how the PVV cry 'Arts subsidies we abolish' was widely heard

by one of our members
28 December 20118 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

While 2010 was still the year of PVV positions on culture that were suddenly shared by other parties ("we are abolishing art subsidies"), the year 2011 fell under their implementation. What was striking was the ease with which regional and local administrators also wielded this same machete, as PVV spokesperson Bosma did not fail to testify. For instance, in the municipality of Almelo, 30 % went àff from...

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That could well be a big event next weekend

by one of our members
22 June 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

We are not big on copying press releases directly, but this one accidentally slipped in. For those who didn't know it yet, but tout art is going loopy on Sunday and Monday for the preservation of sanity in the Netherlands. Although that will have no effect on the architect of the cut, PVV member Martin Bosma. Even the cultural sector in Limburg (Geert...

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Rutteleaks 3: we now know how barren it will look in the coming years: decimate culture and libraries, spare regional broadcasters

by one of our members
14 February 20118 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

We had done the necessary research work ourselves, and then it turned out that something had also been sent to the House of Representatives, which contained many more figures. We asked for those figures and were shocked. After 2012, when the current arts plan expires and after a year of inaction and wait and see for the whole sector a...

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Anything to get amateurs into the stands: money for 'Dance Gardens', local residents and the Concert Hall

by one of our members
11 January 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

PR photo of Zina takes the District, performed last year in Groningen About 8 million Dutch people do something with art. They have music lessons, macramé plant pendants, paint plates or put together Christmas cards. But they also play theatre, sing in a choir, are part of a hip-hop crew or death metal band. That these practitioners of amateur art are not automatically also regular visitors

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Over three million for The best of both worlds

by one of our members
14 September 20108 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

The Fund for Cultural Participation has awarded grants to eight multi-year projects by professional arts organisations as part of the Best of Both Worlds programme. The total amount involved is €3,397,333. With the programme The best of two worlds, the Fund for Cultural Participation wants to give an impulse to the cooperation between professionals and amateurs in the field of culture. There are three...

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