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Antjie Krog and Andries Samuel drive a tractor over your heart #WU14

by Daniel Bertina
19 January 201420 February 2017
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

"Of course she can write!" seems the mother of the award-winning South African poet Antjie Krog ever having exclaimed. "Because I can do it too, right? There's nothing special about that."

Blood creeps, even for Krog. After a ten-year career as a successful architect - and secretly grinding on words - her own son debuted Andries Samuel with the crushing, heartbreaking collection of poetry Wanpraktyk (2011).

Writers Unlimited brought mother and son together on stage. Late at night. For the first time ever. And Wende sang to them. And god almighty how beautiful that was. By the way, you have to take it from us, because on pain of caning, pitch & feathers and fines from here to Siberia, it turned out that it was forbidden to film Wende singing (but we did, and the film was online for a while, but has now been removed from the internet).

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'Thanks to facebook I have time to spare': writers embrace the social network at Writers Unlimited

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 January 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Fouad Laroui does not do internet. The Moroccan-born author and professor does not even have a mobile phone. "I realise that this makes me part of a small elite," he declared during a debate at Writers Unlimited, "but I don't see the point of it." His tablemates did not share his opinion, which is quite remarkable. Just a few years ago, most of the international writing elite regarded social media as something with which they did not need to interfere.

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Sell! Sell! Sell!", says Gorilla. Four reasons why the culture index is a useless toy

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 December 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

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We have a culture index. Today it was presented by the Boekman Foundation, a cultural research agency. The culture index, actually an AEX for culture, is meant to give insight into the state of culture. Problem is, though, that the figures are a bit old. So thanks to the index, we now know that h...

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IDFA DocLab - Live Internet Cinema with Jonathan Harris

by Leo Bankersen
24 November 201329 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Watching the emotional pulse of the world live, designed as a screen full of dancing dots. That was possible last night at IDFA during the live cinema event, presented by internet artist Jonathan Harris.

Way back when fast food had just been invented

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Co-operation is co-operation: Culture Press after Lost-painters now joins forces with Bijlage.tv

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 November 201311 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

We were actually still missing a good video event, and the people behind Annex.tv, the online TV channel for XS4all subscribers was still missing a good online presence in the cultural sector. And so that's where we could help each other. We thought. So we try out what we can do together.

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Suddenly controversial photo project on Sotchi gets alternative opening in Moscow

by one of our members
16 October 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The photo documentary made by photographer Rob Hornstra on the preparations for the Sotchi Olympics will be shown in Moscow after all. At least we hope so, now that after an earlier sudden cancellation, a venue has been found at Moscow's Sakharov House. Next Friday, Dutch fans can attend the opening from Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg (bring your own beer). Unless the row with Moscow has gone so high that instead of Willem Alexander, we have a few straa...

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Bookseller continues to discourage ebooks

by one of our members
20 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Did we report here earlier how the patriotic booksellers do their best to chase you to the gates of hell if you 'purchase' an ebook, reading itself also turns out to be a minefield. One of our followers recently purchased an ebook from the Netherlands' biggest online bookseller (at least until that club came in from America). However, her brand-new Kobo reader proved to be no match for this book. Whereas with all other digital books, the device effortlessly refreshed the epaper, d...

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Peter Blok does a Don Draper

by one of our members
29 May 201329 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Tjitske Reidinga, our favourite actress, who is in the middle of her golden years, is coming up with a new summer comedy: 'An Ideal Woman'. The blonde who theatre people have known for a long time, but ordinary people only got to know through the TV series Gooise Vrouwen, gets to decide what she does at the New Delamartheatre for three years, and so she is now going for Mad Men....

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'Jeremiah Runnels expelled for stunt': hoax by Brussen&Co

by one of our members
25 January 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

UPDATE 17:45 Thanks to Dimitri van der Werf (in the comments) The composer in question does have to leave the country, but not because of this stunt, but because he did not fulfil his reporting obligation, which he

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Another necro. Sort of: Theatre Institute Netherlands to continue as TIN Foundation

by one of our members
13 December 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We are just reporting the press release in full. For your information. Every now and then, more news like this comes along. We don't post them all, because that would make the world very bleak. The world as many people knew it, and thought it was the pride of the Netherlands, is coming to a squeaking halt to make room for. Well. We will report on that in the years to come. Of what comes in its place.
Theatre Institute Netherlands to be dismantled from 31 December ...

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First post Culture Press at Press Group

by one of our members
9 December 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

Developing new models on the internet takes time. We have found that out with the Cultural Press Agency by now. With more than 7,500 followers on Twitter and 400 visitors a day to our website, we have now become a factor of importance in cultural journalism. But we are also very happy that four years after the first plans took shape and one year after the start-up subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science ended, our first publication can be read on the sites of De Persgroep, publisher of Trouw, Volkskrant and Parool.

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Nominate now for the Dance Audience Award

by one of our members
30 November 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Dance fans can submit their nominations for the most outstanding dance performance of 2012 online from 1 December. The winner will then be able to receive the Dans Publieksprijs early next year. New this year is the possibility to vote for both an individual dancer and a dance performance. The ten most nominated dancers and performances will be announced on 2 January. This will be followed by the voting round. The final award ceremony will take place in the weekend of 9 ...

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Ivo van Hove is God. According to New Yorkers.

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 November 201230 May 2022
23 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Anyway: while Amsterdam's city newspaper Parool was embarking on a campaign against the Dutch capital's city company at the behest of the Flemish publishing board, the same Toneelgroep Amsterdam was winning the hearts of New York audiences with a production of the already years-old 'Roman Tragedies', which a few here did not even like overall: http://www.wijbrandschaap.nl/2007/06/romeinse-tragedies-hf2007ta/

No sour sounds in America so far. This sam...

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Death Grips is 20 min of breathtaking frenzy

by Daniel Bertina
9 November 20128 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, MUSIC

The experimental hip-hop / noise band Death Grips plays frothy twang noise. But very exciting, interesting branch noise with paranoid, surreal lyrics. Live, it was a breath of fresh air. In their concert in Bittersweet (presented by Paradiso), vocalist MC Ride (Stefan Burnett) and drummer Zach Hill unleash a 20-minute hurricane of breathtaking fury.

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If you don't have Twitter in Egypt. Community Arts 'Mahatat' works from the bottom up. #vvu

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 October 20128 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

The government has made little effort in recent decades to create a cultural scene getting off the ground. There are no workspaces. No galleries. Only a very large library and a "cultural palace". Both of which opened only five years ago. There are also a few small independent initiatives. In public spaces.

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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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Edelkoort signals development of animation art better than she thinks

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 August 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

On 12 August 2012, during the worst watched Summer guests-broadcast of all time (343,000 viewers) told trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort about The Johnny Cash Project. A great example of what crowdsourcing can do for creativity: in 2010, everyone was invited to add a drawing to an animated music video to Johnny Cash's latest song. We now know what and who is behind this:

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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.
What we do want ...

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"The Life and Death of Marina Abramović": bumpy business with Antony as rock #HF12

by Fransien van der Putt
25 June 20128 July 2016
6 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Antony, Dafoe and Abramović together on one stage, directed by Robert Wilson - it promised to be the hit of the theatre season. But Abramović's private life does not really lend itself to a triumphant or compelling narrative.

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Talk to our reporters. Exclusive: spot in the #hf12 hangout for our most loyal followers

by one of our members
25 June 201230 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

There have been days when we had 1500 page views. You, 2500 of our most loyal visitors, came so far to provide 14000 views on dedodo.co.uk, and you stayed around for an average of three minutes. On average. We are proud of that. Apparently, we managed to attract and keep your attention. So those are good numbers for an online festival day newspaper like The Dodo, which has to make do with no screaming, no marketing budget but an overdose of enthusiasm and professional...

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Dodo Holland Festival journal becomes Dodo Holland Festival Hangout #HF12

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 June 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

We've already had one episode on it, and it was obviously a huge success, but right at the climax you have to start something new. That's why tonight at 22:30 we have a new thing: The Dodo Holland Festival Hangout. Live, interactive and online. Innovative, in other words, as you know it from us. You know them: those reporter trucks with metres of spaghetti...

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Dodo Holland Festival journal becomes Dodo Holland Festival Hangout #HF12

by one of our members
6 June 201213 February 2019
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

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Soul Seek is the world's first internet opera. With a nod to Mulholland Drive.

by Daniel Bertina
10 May 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"For me, opera is much more than just music," says Israeli director Sjaron Minailo. "It may sound a bit pompous, but my internet opera is completely in the tradition of Richard Wagner. Soul Seek is really a multimedia gesamtkunstwerk, in which fashion, web design and digital media, play, cinema, theatre, dance and experimental music merge into one. Without one element...

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The Cultural Press Bureau goes full steam ahead for ten days with The Dodo at Springdance

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 April 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

It may be a crisis and the cultural winds may also be blowing from the wrong right corner, but that doesn't stop The Dodo from flying. The festival day newspaper we launched two years ago as a new commercial product is ready for another 10 days of Springdance. We're going to review a lot of performances, and compare even more. And we're going to make a journal. It...

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Is Jan Willem de Vriend naive, or is he blatantly lying?

by Henri Drost
23 March 20128 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

We have already written at length about the Ajax situation in Enschede: orchestra and opera are at odds over an unexpected opera subsidy application by the orchestra. Startled by the ensuing commotion, some of those involved have since responded. It's just a damn shame that those reactions are not aligned.

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