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The Back Door, publicity image. Photo: Jan Dirk van der Burg

'Return Turkey': brave confession from a gutmensch on #tfboulevard

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 August 201629 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Boulevard, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

The world is changing quite a bit and it's nice when artists do something with it. Festival Boulevard gives Lizzy Timmers the opportunity to make an attempt. That attempt, performed in a somewhat run-down cultural centre in a real Bossche power district, is quite something. Backurk is the name of this semi-documentary performance. Timmers has immersed herself in young, well-educated, well-integrated Turks who have come to the Netherlands to...

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Opening night Poetry International showcases sprightly poetry #PIFR

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 June 201613 February 2019
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, LITERARY, SPECIALS

Perhaps the first words man ever uttered were poems. In any case, man will have sung first, before using words. If we can at least describe the primal sound expressed at the time to indicate that that dove is really yours after all as singing. The fact remains, Poetry International the festival that had a wonderful opening night yesterday, is dedicated to one of the oldest art forms in the world: poetry. But just how sprightly is that art?

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DJ Eddy De Clercq: From 'Nichtenherrie' to Neerlands Export product

by Daniel Bertina
14 October 201514 October 2015
8 min read
LITERARY, MUSIC

Eddy De Clercq, the Godfather of Dutch house and dance culture, wrote his autobiography, Let the Night Never End, together with Martijn Haas. A story about the birth of the DJ scene in the Low Countries, the rise of house music and nightlife with raging parties full of sex, dance, art, booze, swag and snuff. Against the backdrop of the advancing...

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Architecture Film Festival: Raw concrete on the big screen

by George Vermij
7 October 20157 October 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

From confrontational brutalism to the flowing lines of Frank Gehry and from timeless London to the Paris of Eric Rohmer. Some of the selections from the Architecture film festival that starts on 8 October in Rotterdam. We take a dive into the programme in advance. In its existence, the AFFR has managed to hold its own against other thematic...

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Anton Corbijn at the Gemeentemuseum (author photo)

Anton Corbijn in The Hague: Iconic portraits, dated musicians

by Frans van Hilten
20 March 201529 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, VISUAL, MUSIC

In the halls of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Mark Rothko has made way for photographer Anton Corbijn. A bigger difference hardly seems conceivable, but an exhibition with lots of pop photographs fits seamlessly into the museum's mission to bring 20th-century avant-garde art, stresses director Benno Tempel. Corbijn, who celebrates his 60th birthday this year, will be honoured with a double exhibition; besides...

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The Great War Machine and Swamp Club: contemporary activist theatre

by Fransien van der Putt
12 March 201529 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL, DANS, THEATER

In early March, The Great War Machine, director Joachim Robbrecht's new play, premiered at Theater Frascati. A week earlier, the Rotterdam Schouwburg showed Swamp Club, by French director Philippe Quesne. Both performances address the current political climate. Whereas Swamp Club is explicitly silent about the world it calls into question, The Great War Machine is instead a rhetorical spectacle, constructed from quotes from TEDtalks. Both performances show mech...

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Celtic & Balfolk festival: folk back on the big stage at Rotterdam's Doelen

by one of our members
19 February 201519 February 2015
5 min read
MUSIC

Barcelona, the old medieval Barriò at midnight, in the square where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella welcomed Columbus after his return from his travels to America. In the Netherlands at the time, it was Queen's Day 2010. Four generations of people were dancing to the cheerful notes of a clarinet, a whistle, a violin and a simple drum. Until the wee hours of the morning, a...

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4 Reasons why folk is back from never being gone (and one why nobody knows)

by one of our members
18 February 201519 February 2015
4 min read
MUSIC

Some people default to shooting banjos, others want to attack the music with booms and pitchforks. The fact remains that hipsters are running away with it. What is it about 'folk' and why does it keep coming back? 1-Folk is the basis of all Folk, Irish and Scottish but also American, was from the 1960s to sometime in the mid-80s....

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John Jansen's jihad - Zeitgeists Publishing

by Daniel Bertina
20 August 201411 July 2016
4 min read
VISUAL, MUSIC

John Jansen is squatting in front of his immense printer. Holding his breath, he very carefully places a piece of paper in just the right place. The inlay for the black metal band's new cassette Northward. Black typography on black board. Monk's work. He sighs with relief. "And so I have to do 88 of those. All by hand. Do you understand how many hours go into a tape like that?"

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For the most convenient overview of our art, visit Schiedam

by Niek Hendrix
16 October 201329 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, VISUAL

I see a lot, but an exhibition that gives access to that contemporary art for outsiders is rarely among them. You have the Rijksmuseum with a nice overview of culture through the ages, but from 1900 onwards, the space for it becomes very small. So you don't know what's going on now. For that, you can go to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, which shows the world's best. However, if you want a handy overview of what Dutch artists have created, the best place to go is Schi...

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Faustin Linyekula stages the "fundamental resemblance between Negroes and ballerinas" with "La Création du Monde" (Fernand Léger, Darius Milhaud), #HF12.

by Fransien van der Putt
13 June 201226 January 2018
4 min read
DANS, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

The 1923 Afro-Cubist dance classic can be seen at Music Theatre today and tomorrow, commented on by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula. "Europeans have no idea that they are denying the shared history of Africa and Europe. Belgium is part of everyday life in Congo, but Belgians hardly know anything about Congo, or it is the clichés about poverty

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Too much humour and not enough shuddering at De Warme Winkel's 'Poets and bandits' at Theatre Festival The International Choice #dekeuze

by one of our members
12 September 201029 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Snow has fallen, a thick layer of fresh snow. Fake snow admittedly, but real enough to imagine yourself in the middle of Russia. There, in the city of Sverdlovsk, or Yekaterinburg, once lived the man about whom the performance 'Poets and bandits' is about. Boris Ryzhy (1974-2001) turned the raw reality of his hometown into poetry. He left more than a thousand poems to the world. His breakthrough came at the Poetry International festival in Rotterdam, in the year 2000. A year later, he was dead. ...

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