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culture in focus

Playwrights and cultural exploration (2) Sophie Kassies: 'A pool of plays that don't find an audience is an erosion of the profession'

by Fleur Jansen
4 February 201829 March 2022
12 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

The previous cultural exploration among playwrights gives cause for further exploration. From the earlier article, we take away that further privatisation only partially captures public money and objectives. See also from elevation ideals to efficiency thinking. We also take away that a public as all-important leads to one-sided popular culture, entertainment and false competition with the free circuit. It all has very little...

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The Cultural Diversity Code is a great start, but remains a hollow phrase

by one of our members
6 December 201629 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, advertisement archive, For members only, BECOME A MEMBER

Tomorrow, Culture in View, the annual OCW conference for the cultural sector, is dedicated to diversity. Although the topic was already raised by Rick van der Ploeg in the late 1990s, diversity within the cultural sector anno 2016 still lags far behind the changing demographic composition of the population. Diversity should no longer remain just an agenda item. Under the motto: No...

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Respect yourself. 5 unique opportunities for art's image.

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 December 201510 January 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, PERSONAL

It will be the big task for companies and interest clubs in culture for 2016: how do we improve the image of 'the sector'? Next year - I predict - no expense will be spared to improve the culture sector's image. There will probably also be a study on how to improve that image. This...

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Provincial millions for HET Symphony Orchestra evaporated without results

by Henri Drost
2 June 20152 February 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

What happened to the five million Overijssel gave the orchestra in 2011 to 'get more money from the market'? This was also what councillor Van Abbema wondered, and the answers the province gave her mostly raise more questions. What is abundantly clear is that the province wants to keep the orchestra no matter what and of no merger

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Bussemaker gives Chamber incorrect figures HET Symfonieorkest

by Henri Drost
29 April 20152 February 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

The acute financial problems at HET Symfonieorkest prompted Jacques Monasch to put questions to minister Bussemaker. Yesterday came the answers Bussemaker. In summary: everything is not too bad. Only: the minister is giving the Chamber the wrong figures. The minister relies on figures from Culture in focus 2014 and reports "The percentage of own income of HET Symfonieorkest was...

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General Audit Office on budget cuts Jet Bussemaker

'73 million more cuts'. Court of auditors: arts plan Bussemaker based on air

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 February 201513 February 2015
3 min read
ACTUAL

The General Court of Auditors, a high college of state that independently audits government spending, is blowing the whistle on Culture Minister Bussemaker. Indeed, in an interim opinion, published on 12 February, the Court of Audit states that nothing at all is yet clear about the real consequences of the previous cabinet's cuts. That cabinet, with the widely beloved Halbe...

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City marketing makes a city of the Netherlands

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 January 201511 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

They were always a bit of the drain of marketing land: city promotion people or city marketers. Especially arts and culture marketers would rather see them go than come, because it only costs them money. So nice idea of Culture Press partner ACMC to bring them together for once. After all, Citymarketing now has the wind in its sails. City promotion is hot, and has discovered where its strength lies: outside the...

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Should Halbe Zijlstra apologise only to Overijssel?

by Henri Drost
17 December 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

Ten per cent fewer performances and ten per cent fewer visitors in Overijssel headlines RTV Oost. Bam! That chops it. Into the bin, that jubilant press release by Jet Bussemaker. And if there is one province that does not need to apologise to Halbe Zijlstra, it is Overijssel. Well, we reported earlier that apologies are not necessary anyway, but as a province...

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Reason 6 for no apology to Halbe: 'Premature, tendentious and damaging to the sector'

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 December 201430 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The distinguished part of the arts sector is also reacting furiously to the VVD's statements, chronicled by De Telegraaf this morning. This brings the number of reasons for the sector not to apologise to Halbe Zijlstra to six. Whereas we previously gave five reasons, the Dutch Association of Performing Arts now also declares that we are only in the course...

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In advance, 5 reasons why no one needs to apologise to Halbe Zijlstra.

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 December 201430 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

According to the VVD, all artists and art lovers in the Netherlands should say 'sorry' to Halbe Zijlstra. Because they were so angry with him when he abolished 30 per cent of art subsidies without any underlying idea. After all, according to the Ministry of Culture, things were going fan-tas-tically with the arts in the Netherlands. Anyone who reads the press release the ministry issued yesterday on that...

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"1 billion loss? There are other figures." Halbe Zijlstra refers Berenschot report to trash.

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 September 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

At the end of August came the figures. And what figures they were. Due to the stacking of extreme cuts by government, provinces and municipalities, the abolition of the successful Work and Income for Artists Act and the equally successful culture card, plus the VAT increase on the arts, the Netherlands' cultural sector would end up missing out on €1 billion in revenue. Berenschot had estimated that in...

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Ministry of OCW cuts a little more of the truth than we already proved on Friday

by one of our members
22 May 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Case in point: more people are against cuts than the ministry would have us believe. On page 32 of the now heavily controversial brochure 'Cultuur in Beeld', the ministry writes: "In the CDE, carried out at the end of 2010, citizens were asked to indicate from 17 policy fields whether they think the central government should spend (a lot) less or (a lot) more money on...

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For the first time, a secretary of state openly lies and gets away with it. Or does he?

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 May 201114 February 2018
7 min read
ACTUAL

How bad is it really? A few lied lines in a Ministry of Education, Culture and Science booklet? Pretty bad. Because it's an outright lie, and a government that lies is not to be had. Because: how can you trust them anymore?

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