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paradise debate

'Jett Rebel, we heard you and the money for the cultural sector you are asking for is ready. In Brussels!'

by European Cultural Foundation
9 August 202130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FAITS DIVERS, PRESS

Young artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and other new thinkers are drowning in the effects of the Corona crisis, as a cry for help from Jett Rebel in de Volkskrant again showed. Assignments are falling away and there is little room for new initiatives. A whole generation of creative talents seems to be lost in jobs in the hospitality industry or at the GGD. The European Recovery Fund...

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With sound. Honours for Marga Klompé; Action Tomato finally buried during commemoration.

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 November 201930 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The myth just had to end. Nan van Houte, former director of Amsterdam's small theatre Frascati, has buried Action Tomato. During Requiem for Tomato, on 4 November 2019, she made it crystal clear that this legendary event has been measured too big by our theatre historians. In 1969, when a few tomatoes were sent to the al...

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Paradiso debate 2018: Optimistic arts sector wants less supply and better pay

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 August 201830 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODCAST

Less supply of subsidised art is good for the country. Antoinette Laan, culture spokeswoman for the governing VVD party, has thought so for at least eight years. Back in 2011, then still as alderman in Rotterdam, she stated that she did not understand why art institutions were open on weekdays. After all: everyone was at work then and so couldn't come and have a look anyway. Listen here...

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Without extra money, diversity in our culture is unfeasible. The floor will be given to the minister on Sunday, 26 August

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 August 201813 June 2023
4 min read
ACTUAL, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Good news from the cultural funds: 'diversity' is becoming a serious condition when deciding whether or not to get funding for your cultural thing. Of course, this will lead to discussion. To prevent people from falling back on the Jeroen Pauw argument (we want women on air, but there aren't enough good ones who want them too), the group suggests...

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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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Culture Council doesn't have plans ready yet

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 September 201712 September 2017
3 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART

This summer, all was well. In Theatererkrant, house organ of the performing arts, an article appeared, apparently also on behalf of the Council for Culture. It showed how a hitherto unknown company called The Transition Office had pretty much completed the new sector plan, employed by the Council for Culture. Many people had been spoken to and now there were still...

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Until the Night of Poetry: can we do something with the hashtag #poezieverbindt?

by Wijbrand Schaap
September 3, 201729 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, Literature House, SPECIALS

Art has been utterly politicised. It has been creeping, and faster than I thought. Artists now make political speeches, conduct rounds of public participation in the service of lobbying organisations. They discuss identity instead of telling the stories that take us beyond the delusion of the day. That cultural funds are now gently starting to talk about social connection too,...

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VVD: Cultural sector must do more for the same money. And hand in piggy bank.

by Henri Drost
8 October 20168 October 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

OK, it is still more than former tolerant partner PVV, which managed to cram the entire draft election programme onto a single A4 sheet. But in the half-page that the VVD, the country's largest party, spends on culture, it is actually worse. Here the Wilders and Zijlstra-inspired rancorous line against anything that even smells of Dutch culture is still abundantly clear....

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Art world says thanks for bike bell, but now wants pedal back too

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 September 201619 September 2017
5 min read
ACTUAL

That 10 million is officially in. The art world is doing its best to sound grateful. The employers in the performing arts, gathered in the NAPK, have sent Bussemaker a thank you. Because she is not cutting 300 million from culture, but only 290 million. The extra money raked together last year by various lobbyists and parties is now anchored in the...

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Vvd's Jeroen Hatenboer during paradise debate

VVD leader says sorry to art world during #paradise debate

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 August 201630 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

'At the time, under the influence of the populists, we perhaps went too far in our attack on art subsidies.' So declared Jeroen Hatenboer, VVD member and culture alderman of the municipality of Enschede, during the annual Paradiso debate at the end of the Uitmarkt 2016. In the context of the current cabinet's sorry campaign, quite an interesting footnote, and entirely appropriate in the upcoming...

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#Paradisode debate 2015: the tone has improved, now the content

by Wijbrand Schaap
31 August 201531 August 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL

Robbert Dijkgraaf, the exact scientist with the flux-de-bouche of a great orator, kicked off the traditional Paradiso debate on Sunday 30 August in an extremely cool Paradiso. The Amsterdam pop temple was packed with guests and press, and expectations were high: could the debate really become a conversation this time, instead of the now somewhat threadbare...

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Praise the arts, my soul! #Paradisode debate mostly confession of faith, but there is hope

by Wijbrand Schaap
September 1, 201429 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"Art is about personal development. It's not that Friday afternoon fiddling". Barbara Visser, artist and board member of the new Academy of Arts had an argument that was factual, and can be summarised briefly. We can attribute all sorts of things to art, but let's especially not. Learning about and experimenting with taste and creativity...

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Daan Roosegaarde for president? Alderman? Councillor?

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Jet Bussemaker believes in Daan Roosegaarde. She confessed this on Sunday 1 September during the traditional Paradiso debate. She admires his courage to imagine the unthinkable and his drive to come up not with opinions, but with proposals. Her message to the art sector, once again almost fully present in Paradiso, was clear: stop complaining, start doing something.

The political finale of this year's Uitmarkt was all about 'change'. Because that something needs to change is d...

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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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Rotterdam alderman shocks cultural sector over total lack of knowledge

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 August 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

'And why do all these art institutions have to open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and even Thursdays? I don't understand that. I'm far too busy working on those days.' Just a question during the Paradiso Debate, the annual closing event of Amsterdam's Uitmarkt. And normally, you can expect these kinds of questions from the audience after a couple of beers, but this question came from the Alderman of Culture of Rotterdam, a city of several hundred thousand inhabitants.

This...

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The only governing party with a coherent vision on culture is the PVV, reports the Green Left at the Paradiso Debate.

by one of our members
29 August 201029 March 2022
3 min read
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Sound recording available to listen to here!
You will hear successively Axel Rüger, director of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, responding to the assertion made by VVD member Mark Harbers that the art world is not entrepreneurial enough. This was followed by responses from former CDA culture spokesperson Nicolien van Vroonhoven (consistently called Nicolien van Vroemhoven by presenter Twan Huys) and former NNT actor Boris van der Ham, now culture spokesperson for D66. This was followed by an impassioned speech by ...

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The Dodo spreads its wings in dire times for subsidised art

by one of our members
25 August 201030 March 2022
2 min read
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Then you just have to have Twan Huys. The presenter of Nova who managed to kill all Job Cohen's election ambitions in a few schoolmaster questions. He will be able to play the same trick on Sunday 29 August with a few left-wing politicians and art bobos in the traditional Uitmarkt debate in Paradiso. This year, it is dominated by the cultural subsidies threatened with elimination by the new right-wing coalition. And that is something many people are worried about.

From the moment ...

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