Together with Kunstloc Brabant, DutchCulture is organising a new DutchCulture on Tour: Brabant edition, on Tuesday 22 February. Artists, designers and cultural professionals from Brabant are welcome to learn more about international cultural collaboration. There will be advisors present from who you can get insights and knowlege on specific countries, European funding, mobility, heritage and […]

“La Melancolía y el Fin del Mundo” is a sensory journey to 15th century Spain through music. In this lecture, the artistic director of the ensemble Música Temprana, Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, the singer Luciana Cueto and the visual artist Patricia Werneck Ribas bring the sounds of the court of los Reyes Católicos to […]

From 23 February to 24 February, the Hungarian film Fever at Dawn (Hajnali láz) will be available online to all those who are interested and live in The Netherlands (the film has English subtitles). Fever at Dawn tells the true story of a love born in the strangest of circumstances between two long-suffering survivors of […]

A live, multimedia documentary about a small Belgian migrant community in Detroit. With LAND, radio maker Katharina Smets, video maker Ingrid Leonard & sound artist Inne Eysermans (together: The Space Between) focus on a small Belgian migrant community in Detroit. Their ancestors left Belgium in the hope of a better life. They play curls and […]

AiR Platform NL invites artists-in-residence organisers to join 25 February 2022 for a meeting at Gemaal op Zuid in Rotterdam. After the online programme Restructure and Connect that took place on 26 June 2021, we will now get together to deepen the discussion, exchange practices and get inspired. This meeting is focused on the future […]

In Dance of the Seven Veils, director Aïda Gabriëls invites musicians Colin H. Van Eeckhout (CHVE, Amenra), Pieter-Jan Van Assche (Innerwoud) and soprano Astrid Stockman to fiddle with the deeply human figure of Salomé, the biblical princes and femme fatale. Within a theatrical total work of art, dancer German Jauregui immerses into their ecstatic soundscape, […]

The children's theatre company Theater Stuiter presents an adaptation of the classic Spanish play 'Life is a dream' for children from four years old onwards. This version of the story introduces children and young people to the Golden Age of Spanish literature and in particular to one of the key writers of the time, Calderón […]

Inspiried by the ballet "L!apres midi d!un faun" originally choreographed by Nijinski in 1912, maker Giacomo Della Marina aims at giving life to a contemporary faun. Society struggles to accept non conformist bodies and personalities that choose different paths, whether they concern choices around gender and sex, shape, work, role, ethnicity, beliefs, age,… Not abiding […]

No blurred lines with a consent law? This year’s International Women’s Day Nordic Breakfast Discussion will focus on consent law. Most citizens today consider rape as “sex without consent”. Yet, for years the worldwide legislation did not match this public opinion – until now. In 2022, several Nordic countries have implemented consent laws in their […]

Following COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 we are bringing together students, staff and policy makers in the UK and the Netherlands for an international panel discussion. Join on us on Wednesday 09 March 2022 at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht for an interactive panel discussion. The event will serve as an opening to the dialogue between Dutch […]

In the work of Maria Stepanova (1972), war means, even more than the struggle for power and land, the struggle for language. The stake of that struggle is its possession and control; and thus by extension the collective consciousness of a community that shares that language. She finds that her language, and with it her […]

The first Salwa Gathering deals with the topics of belonging, identity and diasporic memory practices and offers space for discussions. What can we learn from sharing memories and how can we honor those who paved the way for us? What can you learn from your roots and career? The artists who will take part in […]

On Saturday 12 March, the annual Comenius Day will be held in the Grote Kerk in Naarden. This year's theme is War & Peace, Freedom and Security. The Comenius Prizes for 2020 and 2022 will be awarded during this Comenius Day. The Comenius Prize is an appreciation for a person, project or organization that has […]

The Instituto Cervantes Utrecht and Granada Wijnen bring a selection of wines from the southern half of Spain to the Netherlands. They organize two wine tastings (in spring and autumn) where you can taste the different wines and learn more about the wine region, the grape variety and the way the wine is made. The […]

This year's In Focus programme organised by the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival is all about Romani Stories by Romani (female) directors. On this occasion, the movie How Far the Stars by the great Hungarian talent Katalin Barsony will be screened at Filmhuis Den Haag. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director. […]

As part of the series of encounters "The writer as protagonist" the Spanish writer Juan Gómez Bárcena (Santander, 1984), one of the most promising young talents of Spanish literature, will come to Amsterdam. He is the author of the novel El cielo de Lima, published in Dutch under the title De hemel boven Lima. His […]

ENFF’s special programme highlights the new works from a small country with a great tradition of cinema. Nowadays, many new Slovenian cinema voices are being recognized at big European festivals like Venice, Cannes, and Locarno. From 20-24 April, ENFF will screen several award-winning shorts and new fiction feature films – among them Sanremo by Miroslav Mandic, the Slovenian candidate […]

The sequel to De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen is finally here. In the original performance, inspired by the book by Johan Daisne, a man and a woman come together in a restaurant. It's 2004: Harvey Weinstein is still a successful producer, the term mansplaining doesn't exist yet, coughing in public spaces is […]