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Escape from Guatemala's hidden war for a while

by Madeleine Red
10 June 201330 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

'Hidden War', the theatrical exchange between actors from the Netherlands and Guatemala, is nearing performance. The Guatemalan actors of the company Caja Lúdica have been in the country for a few weeks now. Together with the Dutch actors, they are rehearsing at Fort Nieuwersluis (near Breukelen), where the performance can also be seen from 20 June. Alan Hack (18) is one of the Guatemalans playing in the show. He experiences his stay in the Netherlands as a paradise encounter with freedom[/heading].

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Rutte 2: No real recovery holes, but different tone

by one of our members
29 October 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

There it is: the coalition agreement of the new cabinet of the man who previously managed to associate the terms 'subisidy slave' and 'empty halls' with the fine arts. The tone is different now, and we owe that to the input of the PvdA, just as earlier we apparently owed the sneering tone to Martin Bosma's PVV.

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Baldwin Live

by one of our members
31 July 201230 March 2022
18 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

On Wednesday 1 August 2012, the Performing Arts Fund will announce the results of the lottery that granting arts subsidies has now become. Huge cuts are looming: companies and makers that by now seemed to be a permanent part of the Dutch arts landscape will disappear. So what exactly it will look like, we will officially only know from 12:00 on Wednesday 1 August. To leak things in advance makes no sense, things are too dramatic for that.
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'Community Art is Slow Art': Margreet Bouwman and Eugene van Erven on the Community Arts Festival 2013 #vvu

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 May 201230 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Young people from Guatemala, nightingales from Northern Ireland and theatre-makers from the interior of Peru. Just some of the guests at the Community Arts Festival held in Utrecht in June 2013. Music, film and theatre with ordinary people behind and in front of the scenes, accompanied by professional artists. What else do they have in common? They all make art in an environment where murder, manslaughter and war are more natural than peace.
This 'How to survive a war' theme is a...

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Henk Pröpper: 'Writers Unlimited has always opposed panting and short-term ambition.'

by one of our members
20 January 20128 July 2016
7 min read
SPECIALS

He is now a publisher, and the man who was director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature until last year will be quite happy with that. As director of the Bezige Bij, one of the country's largest publishing houses, he will surely never again have to submissively toast the sarcastic State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra. At least the relief was audible in Pröpper's...

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'Cultural Diversity' disappeared into the dustbin faster than drafters could write 'Code'

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 December 20118 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

Thursday 15 December saw a conference in The Hague. A festive intended gathering with workshops celebrated the creation of the 'Code of Cultural Diversity'. In the final debate, the same code was openly buried. View the story "'Cultural Diversity' disappeared into the dustbin faster than drafters 'Code' could write" on Storify] The code can be found here:

Halbe Zijlstra wanted to know what quality was, and got back 22 pages of vagueness.

by one of our members
12 November 201130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Quality. It is such a nice civil service-political magic word. Sounds good and nobody can be against it. So shout as a politician that you want more quality and all heads start nodding busily. State Secretary for Cultural Affairs Zijlstra also likes quality. Says he. For instance, when it comes to cultural education. In his memorandum More than quality, he says he wants to make work of the...

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Director of Dance Days Maastricht: "I really feel supported by Mayor Onno Hoes."

by Fransien van der Putt
14 October 20118 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

The Dutch Dance Days are not yet a mad hive of dance, but for Maastricht they are increasingly a fun tourist attraction. Day trippers and weekend tourists come from all over the country to combine the delights of the South with those of the art of dance. For that matter, all of Maastricht seems to float on VVV leaflets. In this sphere of promotion, is there still room for...

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Sarah Moeremans camps out at the theatre and shows young actors all over it during #dekeuze

by Fransien van der Putt
1 October 20118 July 2016
5 min read
SPECIALS

Director, actress and theatre designer Sarah Moeremans is holding office in the lobby of the Rotterdam Schouwburg for a year. Titled "My First Camp", she has moved into the front hall to be more in touch with the various users and visitors in the building and the world around it. Has the public space become a wilderness, which...

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Jacob Derwig and Elsie de Brauw receive 2011's top drama awards

by one of our members
11 September 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

On Sunday evening 11 September, the VSCD Drama Awards, the VSCD Mime Prize, the VSCD Youth Theatre Awards and the AVRO Toneel Publieksprijs 2011 were presented at the Gala van het Nederlands Theater. And that you then know that VSCD stands for the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors and AVRO for General Free Radio Broadcasting. The award for the best male lead of the past...

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