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Thirty million euro for culture in Friesland
Six museums and twenty-seven art organisations in Friesland will be receiving subsidies over the next four years to give new impetus to their cultural offerings.
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Municipal and provincial financial emergency measures
Several municipalities and provinces have released budgets and instituted emergency measures for artists. Some of the schemes have already passed, because the budget was spent in the foreseeable future.
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Culture cutbacks in North Brabant
The new provincial coalition in North Brabant (VVD, Forum for Democracy, CDA and Lokaal Brabant) announced in early May the policy plans in the administrative agreement for the period 2020-2023: Together, Decisive and Smart: Our Brabant. In the agreement, culture is placed under Leisure and there will be a gradual reduction of its funding. Towards 2023...
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Quick service desk for Amsterdam artists
The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), together with the City of Amsterdam, is opening a 'quick desk' for Amsterdam-based art projects that are a response to the corona crisis.
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Amsterdam Kunstenplan
On Nov. 15, Amsterdam alderman for culture Touria Meliani presented Hoofdlijnen kunst en cultuur voor de nieuwe Kunstenplanperiode 2021-2024. Together with cultural institutions and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), Amsterdam's College of Mayor and Aldermen wants to move toward a "strong, open and inclusive city of culture" for that period. The AFK...
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Culture in Friesland 2021-2024
With the new policy paper Nij Poadium for the period 2021- 2024, the province of Friesland is focusing on a flourishing cultural life that provides movement in Frisian society, according to a press release from the province.
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New studio and incubator policy Amsterdam
Amsterdam's new Atelier and Incubator Policy was adopted by two motions in the Amsterdam City Council this summer.
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Themes Rotterdam cultural agenda
In early April, the RRKC (the Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture), presented the advisory report Reflections on Inclusiveness, Innovation and Interconnectivity.
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Regional profiles and visual arts
In her March 2018 policy letter Culture in an Open Society, Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) set the goal of providing more space for the diversity of stories, artistic expressions and a new generation of creators.
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Culture in new college agreements
At the end of October, LKCA - National Knowledge Institute for Cultural Education Amateur Art - published the results of a study on the importance given to culture in the coalition agreements of 26 small, 17 medium and 7 large municipalities.
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Culture in the province
Ahead of the March 20, 2019 provincial elections, all political parties in the provinces received a flyer.
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Evaluation provincial cultural policy Groningen
Recently, the interim evaluation of the cultural policy 2017-2020 of the province of Groningen took place. It concluded that the province's policy framework is supportive for the sector, but also that the policy implementation is sometimes perceived as cluttered, dirigiste and oppressive. Cultural organizations sometimes feel very instrumentally approached and there is little financial...
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AIR network Brabant
In September, a new partnership was launched in North Brabant under the name AIR network Brabant, an initiative of Witte Rook Breda, De Fabriek Endhoven, Van-Gogh AIR Zundert and TAC Endhoven.
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Cultural Policy 2021-2024. Urban and regional profiles
Administrators from 16 regions and Minister van Engelshoven (OCW) kicked off the administrative process for urban and regional culture profiles on June 14. The publication Cultural Policy 2021-2024.
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Value of culture
The publication Value of Culture, published on June 18, 2018, lists results of research on the Brabant cultural sector.
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Rotterdam cultural exploration 2017 and RRKC report
The Rotterdam Culture Outlook 2017, published early this year, looks back on the first year of the Culture Plan 2017-2020, but also on the Culture Plan period 2013-2016. The Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture (RRKC) also presented the report Dare to choose, toward a dynamic Rotterdam arts and culture policy, giving a number of recommendations to the...
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Manifesto Cultural Eindhoven
In the Manifesto Culture Eindhoven presented in February, cultural institutions call on the business community and politicians to draw up a long-term investment and action agenda.
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Provinces and municipalities: more regional approach State cultural policy
In early December 2017, IPO (Interprovincial Consultation) and VNG (Association of Netherlands Municipalities) sent a letter to Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) in which both organisations stressed the importance of regional distribution of art and culture.
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Advice from the Amsterdam Arts Council
On November 1, the Amsterdam Arts Council presented the Cultural Investment Account, a preview of the municipal elections in March 2018.
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Exploration - Regional cultural infrastructure: RIS
Regional Cultural Infrastructure: RIS In order to achieve clear policy goals, the Council for Culture advises Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW).
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Vision of the Rotterdam Collection
The Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture (RRKC) recently issued an advisory report on the vision for the Rotterdam Collection: The Power of Imagination. It concerns a recommendation on the draft versions of Treasures of Rotterdam - Vision of the Rotterdam Collection and the Implementation Agenda for the Museum Collection and BKOR.
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Amsterdam Arts Council advises: build on future, preserve past
On May 10, 2017, the Amsterdam Arts Council presented the advice The city is not finished. The advice was presented to Alderman Kajsa Ollongren, portfolio holder for Art & Culture and Economy and responsible for the theme City in Balance.
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New Rotterdam Impulse Program
In late April, the Rotterdam Council for Arts and Culture (RRKC) advised the Municipal Executive to establish a low-threshold impulse program for creators and new cultural initiatives to stimulate innovation in Rotterdam's cultural sector.
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Impulse money North Brabant
The province of Brabant will continue in the current administrative period with the impulse money scheme, which stimulates innovation and entrepreneurship in the cultural sector. This year, €1,650,000 is available for this purpose.
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Culture covenant East Netherlands and OCW
Landsdeel Oost wants to develop into a "breeding ground" for new forms of art and culture. This is stated in the culture covenant agreed upon by the Ministry of OCW, the provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel and the cities of Arnhem, Apeldoorn, Nijmegen, Ede, Deventer, Zwolle, Hengelo and Enschede.
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Brabant Cultural Atlas: professional arts monitor 2016
The Cultural Atlas Brabant focuses on financial and organizational data such as government and fund subsidies, revenue sources, staffing and expenses, and commitment to training and professionalization.
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Provincial Cultural Policy
In BK Information No. 5, 2016, we tried to list what the various provinces can do for visual artists and visual art based on provincial policy documents. The approaches of the policy documents are very different from one another, making comparison difficult.
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Provincial cultural policy
What the various provinces can do for visual artists and visual art?
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Culture Eindhoven: Concept Culture Letter 2017-2020
Outline for the cultural policy in Eindhoven in the period 2016-2020
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Framework note on culture 2017-2020 Groningen: City of talent
An overview of municipal cultural ambitions and strategies.
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Amsterdam Kunstenplan
Exploration and outline
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Culture cuts provinces
Counties cut an average of 40 percent from arts.