A survey by the "Cultural and Creative Sector Task Force" early this year found that only a quarter of the municipalities surveyed had an energy compensation scheme for cultural institutions and that indexation of subsidies for the sector was, on average, quite low.

As a visual artist or designer in Friesland, do you have questions about your own practice? Would you like to connect with other artists? Or are you looking for interesting workshops to develop your own practice? Recently there is a Visual Arts Support Center at Keunstwurk to help you further. It offers support based on four pillars:...

The Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture (RRKC) published its advice 'Unheard of Noise' in early March, calling for attention to social safety in the Rotterdam cultural field.

The province of Brabant has increased the provincial Impulse funds on a one-time basis.

The province of North Holland and its municipalities support 46 cultural institutions in North Holland with over 4.4 million euros

The Council for Public Health & Society and the Chief Government Architect published an exploration in mid-July with initial building blocks to "make more space for encounter," ahead of a policy recommendation later this year.

In the run-up to the cultural period 2021-2024, fifteen urban regions were formed on the initiative of cities and provinces. They drew up profiles about their ambitions for cultural policy in their own region. The minister used these profiles in shaping cultural policy for the 2021-2024 period. The cooperation for the period 2021-2024 is fixed-...

The Province of Noord-Brabant is supporting 24 cultural initiatives from Brabant with a total of just under € 9.7 million. The funding comes from the impulse funding programme with which the province encourages initiatives to boost the sustainable development of Brabant's cultural system.

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has concluded covenants with 14 urban culture regions and Landsdeel Oost. The covenants contain agreements between OCW and the regions about joint policy priorities for the period 2021-2024. The national, provincial and municipal governments are jointly responsible for the cultural infrastructure in the Netherlands.

At the beginning of February it became known that the announced budget cuts in the cultural sector in Brabant can count on a majority in the Provincial Council of North Brabant.

Since 2010, on the initiative of the Heritage Platform of Kunsten '92, a national prize has been awarded to the municipality with the best heritage policy: the BNG Bank Erfgoedprijs. The prize is an incentive for excellent heritage policy. The municipality of Noordenveld won the prize this year and received a cash prize of €25,000. The jury examined how the nominees...

Nineteen cultural institutions from Brabant will receive support from Noord-Brabant from the funds earmarked for Coronasteun. A total of 1.3 million euros in provincial subsidy will be given.

The province of North Holland announced at the beginning of October that it was making 100 million euros available to mitigate the economic and social effects of the corona crisis. Part of this will go to the cultural sector.

In many municipalities the recommendations for the four-year art and culture plans were published last spring (2021-2024). In this and upcoming editions of BK-informatie, we will be describing the part of several municipalities that relates to visual art institutions. In the previous edition, we discussed Rotterdam and The Hague; this time we are discussing Amsterdam and Groningen.