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Groningen

Art for all: €3 per person, per month

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 October 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The discussion was and is endless, but now we have figures. Thanks to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science's new 'key figures', we now know how much the state (all of us) are spending for the opportunity to experience art: per inhabitant, the state spends 38.90 per year on subsidies for dance, theatre, museums, youth theatre, opera and orchestras. So that's just over 3 euros a month. Indeed something to get into each other's hair about, we think.

In this climate, where this 3 euro pe...

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Halbe Zijlstra: 'nothing to do with local arts policy'

by one of our members
27 August 20128 July 2016
10 min read
ACTUAL

Halbe Zijlstra is proud of his policy, and keen to come and tell it in front of the entire cultural sector. So on Sunday 26 August, he appeared on stage during the annual 'Paradiso Debate' to reiterate how well things had gone with the 200 million cut in the arts sector. He praised the resilience of the affected art world, and would be happy to do the same again.

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Volkskrant fails: not 'region' but Randstad suffers

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 August 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

This one I'd like to share with you. Quote from this morning's Volkskrant, where editor Harmen Bockma makes a valiant attempt to list all the figures of the cultural carnage, but fails a bit. It also remains difficult to add up the dropout in basic infrastructure to the dropout in the fund, but it turns out to be even more difficult to distinguish exactly what are 'regions' and what are 'cities'. At least, I can't figure it out.

I quote:
"By emphasising topin...

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'Sometimes the desire not to be seen turns into an excess of exhibitionism.' - Yasmeen Godder on The Toxic Exotic Disappearance Act

by Daniel Bertina
11 April 201230 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

She has been busy. Highly pregnant, Yasmeen Godder (Jerusalem, 1973) worked on her first choreography for Batsheva Dance Company. In a month, she stomped out her new performance The Toxic Exotic Disappearance Act under the wings of Batsheva, and in between gave birth to a healthy daughter. scenefoto For the third time, Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder is presenting her...

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'Theatres get their marketing wrong': Groningen PhD research tries to reinvent wheel

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 January 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

A wheel cannot be invented often enough. After all, someday something truly new will emerge. In marketing land, this is pretty much the constitution. That is why it is so moving to see how at the University of Groningen, a young researcher has presented a wheel on arts marketing that is, entirely as expected, a lot rounder than the already bullet-round wheels that have been invented in that field. We have not read the entire study at this time, and must limit ourselves to...

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Benefit Giving Act, cultural budgets, Brabant, Amsterdam, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Goes, Utrecht et al.

by one of our members
2 December 201130 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Tax benefits to be gained this year (...) With effect from 2012, under the new Giving Act, there is an additional tax facility for donations (incidental or via periodic donations) to charitable institutions (non-profit organisations) designated as cultural institutions. Those cultural donations may be multiplied by a factor of 125 per cent for the gift deduction. This...

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Culture day: not a penny for Oriëntalis, no brake on Amsterdam cutbacks and Vlissinger library unsaleable

by one of our members
24 November 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

PVV provincial councillor Faber earlier this year on the former Biblical Museum, now Orientalis: "I don't need 20 million euros to talk to a Muslim. Nor to talk to a Jew or Christian for that matter. The PVV already hates subsidies, but if it has anything to do with Islam we won't give anything." State secretary gives museum park...

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IDFA 2011: Ramon Gieling, Frank Scheffer and the magic of music

by Leo Bankersen
20 November 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Coincidence? The two Dutch documentaries in the main competition of the IDFA documentary festival both explore what music can mean to people. Two films that also complement each other perfectly - one starts from the perspective of the listener, the other from the musician. In About Canto, Ramon Gieling outlines the profound influence that Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato...

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Region review: chain letters in Rotterdam, only 1 year right to renewal in Zierikzee, and Eindhoven not happy with Chamber Choir

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

Groningen municipality cuts back on Gezinsbode The municipality is going to cut back 150,000 euros on publishing city notices in the Groninger Gezinsbode. The City Council wants to publish decisions and permits electronically from now on, for example on the municipality's website. (...) The number of pages in the Gezinsbode will be halved. (...) source: OogTV 10 Nov 11 Most councillors expect subsidies to be cut...

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Sculpted Ovation for 'ingenious' conductor Iván Fischer

by one of our members
17 October 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"Programmatic ingenuity goes hand in hand with Fischer's ebullient and finely crafted performances". So when someone says that about you, you have earned a prize. So that is what the jury of formerly the Classical Music Prize thought of Iván Fischer, the Hungarian-born conductor who was therefore awarded the 'Ovation' on Monday 17 October 2011. And so then the 'Ovation'...

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New Culture Council president? 'Van Klink creates a crisis himself so he can then solve it'

by one of our members
7 September 201129 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Pim van Klink is his name. He has been popping up everywhere lately. Especially when the malicious subsidy orientation of the cultural sector needs to be pointed out, every medium calls Van Klink first. Last week, he once again threw his hobbyhorse into the henhouse in the NRC and was invited to join Buitenhof. And according to our trench-coat-clad...

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Argentine lives inexorably turn to destruction at Mariano Pensotti's hands

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 August 201130 March 2022
3 min read
SPECIALS

Turntables and theatre have something in common. Especially in recent years, theatre-goers increasingly run the risk of facing a so-called rotating stage. After Johan Simons made use of this technical style figure in his direction of Hiob at the Munich Kammerspiele and Christoph Schlingensief made the stage turn spectacularly in his swan song Mea Culpa, it is now...

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Prize winners Go Short: Swedish Incident by a Bank best short fiction

by Leo Bankersen
20 March 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

The festival for short film Go Short in Nijmegen is not quite over yet, but last night the winners of the various competitions were announced at the Award Show in LUX. The award for best short fiction went to Incident by a Bank by Swedish director Ruben Östlund. He took a failed 2006 bank robbery as the starting point for...

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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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Peter Van Straaten wins Inktspot Prize 2010 with strikingly placed crucifix.

by one of our members
11 January 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

'The drawing is literally and figuratively striking, painfully comic and wry: it brings tears and laughter at the same time. The combination of the boy's peaceful pose with the cruel assault on his body lingers in your mind. The print needs no text; it could appear in any European, even global newspaper, so powerful and universal is it

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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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NNT's 11 minutes not only makes you lose the desire to laugh, but all lust. My wife regrets that. #tf2010

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 September 20108 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS

Ola Mafaalani. That's a very fierce one. So you can never ignore that. The human is so full of passion and emotion that all her stage work, because she is a director, cannot possibly leave you cold. At least, so it was until recently, with me personally finding her last play at Toneelgroep Amsterdam 'Hemel boven Berlijn' the most beautiful, because it was also the most...

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