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UTRECHTSE PODIA HEROPEN EVEN FOR TRIAL EVENTS - EKKO, De Helling, TivoliVredenburg, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht and Podium Hoge Woerd will present eighteen 'pilots' for live audiences in April

by one of our members
7 April 202129 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, PRESS, SERVICE, TivoliVredenburg

From 19 to 24 April, Utrecht venues will finally - temporarily - open their doors to the public. Pilot events, 'pilots', are taking place all over the Netherlands this month. TivoliVredenburg, De Helling, EKKO, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht and Podium Hoge Woerd are also trying out how testing for access at coronaproof programmes works. Pilots will take place in the cultural sector in April

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Dear Mr Rutte: Why should music schools stay closed? Why so arbitrarily?

by Pepijn van Vilsteren
31 March 202130 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PERSONAL, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Dear outgoing Prime Minister Rutte, dear Mark, This is the first time I have turned to you, the first time at all for me to write such a letter. I have to get something off my chest, because I can no longer follow or understand it all. Before I point out what is bothering me, I will write to myself...

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TivoliVredenburg and Utrecht University look back on one year of corona in live talk show

by one of our members
10 March 202129 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, FAITS DIVERS, PRESS

Marion Koopmans, Cécile van Els, Maarten Keulemans et al on everything we now know about covid-19 What do we now know about the coronavirus? Are vaccines resistant to the prevailing mutations? What has the corona crisis done to Dutch trust in government and institutions? And what is the damage to the Dutch economy? In an interactive talk show on Monday 15...

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Yet another hassle around MusicalMakers: Fleischmann becomes director despite objection from Culture Council

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 February 202130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

News arrived this week that Andreas Fleischmann, the highly esteemed director of Amsterdam's DeLaMar Theatre, has now officially become director-director of Stichting MusicalMakers, the foundation he had set up last year, a day before the deadline for grant applications for four-year state funding. And that is not allowed.

Quizzing and dancing from the comfort of your own living room with The Home Show

by one of our members
17 December 202030 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, INTERNET, PRESS

With The Home Show, we want to provide our visitors with a cool programme no matter where or with whom they are. TivoliVredenburg is a place that connects people. If that's not possible in real life, we do it virtually. A moment like New Year's Eve, especially after a bizarre year like this, is then extra important'.

Leading starts with yourself. Learn more about that in this podcast on LinC-Artistics

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 December 202030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Featured, Leadership in Culture, PODCAST, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

In this podcast, I talk to Marjolein Verhallen and Paul Adriaanse from Public Administration, Nanna Verhoef from Media and Iris van der Tuin from Philosophy, and artistic directors Lars Ebert and Jente Hoogeveen about what that is: leadership. And we talk about how you can learn it.

TivoliVredenburg celebrates Christmas Eve with online midnight mass

by one of our members
16 December 202030 March 2022
2 min read
INTERNET, PRESS

For a while, corona seemed to throw a spanner in the works, but thanks to the flexibility of the makers, speakers and artists as well as the crew, we recorded the Night Mass coronaproof. With extra intimate footage and beautiful atmosphere, for the Night Mass feeling at home on the couch.

guarantees

by Ingmar Heytze
4 December 20204 December 2020
2 min read
Column, Ingmar Heytze, PERSONAL, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Since this week, I know the difference between a 12-year-old child and a 50-year-old man. That is, as far as I am concerned. When I was about 12, I demonstrated with my mother against the road through Amelisweerd. It was bliss to walk through town among all those people. A demonstration is a...

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Heading into the New Year's concert: 13 finalists still in the race.

by one of our members
4 December 202029 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART

Thirteen young composers have been selected for the Final of the Dutch Wind Ensemble's (NBE) composition competition Towards the New Year Concert. This Finale will take place on Sunday 20 December in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.

One of our finest singers (also a pianist) sings Schubert and Bannink in coronaproof living room setting at TivoliVredenburg...enjoy!

by Wenneke Savenije
29 November 202029 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

This video by Thomas Oliemans is really fun to watch, it lasts 1 hour and 14 min. That's how nice streaming can be. So much nicer when you are there!

TivoliVredenburg reopens: Utrecht music venue resumes Walk The Line success formula and confirms new programming

by one of our members
18 November 202030 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

After a two-week closure, TivoliVredenburg announces 100 new editions of the 'coronaproof' concert series Walk The Line in the months of November, December and January. Walk The Line is a unique tour of four venues in the Utrecht music venue.

Everything Must Be Wrong First

by Ingmar Heytze
18 November 202029 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, Column, Ingmar Heytze, LITERARY, TELEVISION, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

I started temp work at a time when you were somewhat of a dickhead if you were a student or had just studied, because the corps ball imitation of Jiskefet was so unprecedentedly popular. So a common greeting among regular employees who wanted to be nice was 'Hey dick! Fucked?'

Watch tip: When You Hear the Divine Call - How a political subject becomes poetic

by Leo Bankersen
3 November 20203 November 2020
4 min read
DOCUMENTARY, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Golden Calf winner Buladó is now our Oscar entry. That will satisfy advocates of more colour in Dutch cinema. And on Sunday, check out Festus Toll's When You Hear the Divine Call, a more modest but equally telling example of new light in Dutch cinema.

TivoliVredenburg hosts US election night in four venues

by one of our members
26 October 202030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS, BECOME A MEMBER

On Tuesday 3 November 2020, America will go to the polls. TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht presents a live programme around this exciting election. Current measures allow a maximum of 30 visitors in a room. Therefore, a live stream will be set up in four halls, so that as many people as possible can still enjoy it live.

Three actresses and a hijab. That's all Alum needs for chillingly beautiful Bakchanten

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 October 202010 October 2020
3 min read
PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Alum plays classics 'unplugged' once in a while. That means no fuss, just the story and the players. With Bakchanten, 2,500 years old but never surpassed in eloquence since, they have gold in their hands.

TWO FANTASTIC DAYS

by Ingmar Heytze
8 October 2020
3 min read
Column, Ingmar Heytze, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Insayno was city poet for two days - you involuntarily think of that commercial in which a temp says at his grand farewell party, "It was two fantastic days" - and in doing so probably set a record as the shortest-serving city poet in history, with one city poem to his name ("sister of the capital"). What was the problem?

TivoliVredenburg presents programme on US election night - Historic election live on 3 November

by one of our members
6 October 202029 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, INTERNET, MEDIA, PRESS

On Tuesday 3 November 2020, America goes to the polls. TivoliVredenburg in
Utrecht presents a live programme around these exciting elections. From
the Great Hall to monitor exit polls, enter scientists, journalists and
campaigners take the stage and call in several Americans. The programme will be
'coronaproof' produced.

THE STORY OF OTHERS: PREMIERE FRIDAY 9 OKTOBER - A new performance for 8+ by Ryan Djojokarso.

by one of our members
2 October 202030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, PRESS, PODIUM ART

'The story of Anders' (8+) is the new Dance Theatre AYA performance created by Ryan Djojokarso, new resident choreographer with the company. A performance full of dance, absurd humour and crazy twists. Sometimes you just have to look at things differently.

Netherlands Film Festival 2020 - Pushing boundaries with Directors' Forum

by Leo Bankersen
24 September 202024 September 2020
7 min read
FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The 40th edition of the Netherlands Film Festival pushes the boundaries. Corona makes everything go differently. Now in more than 100 theatres across the country, and also online. For groundbreaking work, there is the sixth instalment of the Directors' Forum.

Gaudeamus: as a 75-year-old younger than ever

by Thea Derks
13 September 202013 September 2020
5 min read
MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Anno 2020, Music Week is buzzing like never before. Even corona has barely caught on. How many 'Mozarts' have emerged by now I will leave open, but the rich and varied off- and online offerings create some choice stress. At 75, the organisation is younger than ever: Gaudeamus is the place to be.

Creation returns: Nederlands Blazers Ensemble and Bart Moeyaert on tour again

by one of our members
10 September 202030 March 2022
2 min read
MUSIC, PRESS, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

In October, the Blazers and Bart Moeyaert will tour again with De Schepping, the first part of this successful musical theatre trilogy. During this performance, Bart Moeyaert (winner of the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the 'Nobel Prize for children's literature') tells the story using a self-written text to this old, but never performed this way, music by Haydn.

I will leave it like this

by Ingmar Heytze
2 September 20202 September 2020
3 min read
Column, Ingmar Heytze, LITERARY, PODCAST, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

As a child, I played the piano moderately for years on a large, tattered Kaps from Dresden. The instrument eluded me when I went to college, as it proved impossible to get the thing up the stairs in my first independent home, one of the HAT units in the Boekhoven building on Breedstraat.

Greg Nottrot offers vision of a new future for theatre at the time of Corona with 'Graves'

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 August 202029 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Ok, the Mauerpark in the real Berlin is more grubby, but what they call the Berlinplein in Utrecht's new Leidsche Rijn centre has something in common with it. Of course, a frayed edge organised by the local government is a bit suspicious, with a megabios as its biggest attraction, but property developers, the biggest abusers of artistic frayed edges, can't do much else on...

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DBS

by Ingmar Heytze
3 August 202030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Column, Ingmar Heytze, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

In the second half of the 1980s, when Wim Deetman was still a cheese soufflé and many Utrechters of my age wore kletter vests with broken rifles, it was very easy to know what you were against. This was because of a few clear principles: anyone on the right was bad. Christians were stupid, hypocritical and scary. Anyone who rented real estate...

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'It's important for Shai to make something again.' Ka Yan Tang and Shailesh Bahoran on Illusionary Rockaz Company in times of Corona

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 July 202029 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, Utrecht, BECOME A MEMBER

Illusionary Rockaz Company was due to release a new work by Shailesh Bahoran this spring. A new production for the first time in two years, after a time in which the Utrecht-based choreographer was constantly winning awards. And then Corona broke out. For Shai, reason to pause for a while: 'For Shakti, the performance that is coming up now, we have to...

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