Benjamin Verdonck / Toneelhuis
De Brakke Grond Nes 45, AmsterdamAfter notallwhowanderarelost (2014) and Liedje voor Gigi (2018), Benjamin Verdonck has created a choreography for life-sized figures, an unusual planetarium made out of adhesive tape, strings and cardboard. ‘Things’ have played an important role in Benjamin Verdonck’s theatre work for some time now. But while he previously acted as a sceneshifter who manipulated these objects, […]
Christmas Concert
Kloosterkerk, The Hague Lange Voorhout 4, The HagueThe Christmas concert is an annual event organised by the Czech Centre Rotterdam. This year´s edition marks the end of the Czech EU presidency and the programme is highlighted by a string quartet featuring: Natálie Kulina – violin, Francisca Portugal – violin, May Bardsley – viola and Emma Warmelink – cello. It will take place […]
“Movie Night: Arthur Rambo” + Q&A
Cinema Het Ketelhuis Pazzanistraat 4, AmsterdamSince September 2021, the Alliance Française in Amsterdam and Het Ketelhuis have been presenting Soirée ciné, a programme of French films that have not been released in the Netherlands, but which are very much worthy of being viewed. Every month, a new title is screened. The December edition of Soirée Ciné will feature the film, […]
The phenomenon of music in South American Jesuit missions
Cervantes Institute Utrecht Domplein 3, UtrechtAdrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, conductor of the ensemble Música Temprana, offers a musical lecture, with a visual presentation, sound clips and a live performance of the music composed by the indigenous people and the Jesuits in the missions in Bolivia and Paraguay during the reigns of Charles II and Charles IV. The reforms of […]
Conférence Oh! Art nouveau
OnlineAttend a free webinar on Art Nouveau with Alliance Française lecturer, Giulia Francheschini, to learn more about this fascinating movement which dominated European arts throughout the 19th and 20th century. The webinar has been organised by the Alliances Françaises of Portugal, Spain, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Accueil de la Haye. You can reserve […]
RAN Festival
De Brakke Grond Nes 45, AmsterdamOn December 16 and 17, de Brakke Grond presents RIGHTABOUTNOW INC. the RIGHTABOUTNOW INC. Festival 2022. The opening of the festival on December 15 will take place in Bar Bario. The RIGHTABOUTNOW Festival is a platform for remarkable new artists from different disciplines that reflect the polyphony of the city. In these times of enormous […]
Hache Collective: Hache Goes Cumbia
Goethe-Institut Rotterdam Westersingel 9, RotterdamThe Hache Collective, whose members live in the Netherlands, Chile and Spain, has explored themes such as decentralised approaches to composition, the musicality of movement and methods of ensemble work focused on the individual since 2018. Hache perceives itself as a group of individuals who work together and look for methods of co-creation in which […]
Jef Van gestel & Peter Vandemeulebroecke: Deeg
De Brakke Grond Nes 45, AmsterdamIn an almost empty world, two men stand, surrounded only by a few inanimate objects: a bucket, flour, a branch, a chair, a garden hose. Apocalyptic, futuristic, ritualistic, comical, cosmic and prehistoric images emerge. We watch two men trying to make something out of nothing. A reflection on how man is constantly trying to shape […]
Workshop: Fiscale regels en fair pay in internationale culturele samenwerking
DutchCulture Herengracht 474, AmsterdamWerk jij financieel samen met organisaties, culturele instellingen of makers in het buitenland en wil je meer weten over fiscale regelgeving en fair pay?
Conference: Oh! l’Art Nouveau à La Haye
Alliance Française La Haye Emmapark 6, The HagueEvery month, the Alliances Françaises of Portugal, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as the Accueil de La Haye, present you an Oh! on French and Dutch cultures. In January, discover a new Dutch heritage monument during a city tour of The Hague, led by Giulia Franceschini. Discover The Hague through the prism of […]
Ciné-Club – L’Atalante
Cafe Brecht Weteringschans 157, AmsterdamThe Alliance française Amsterdam is happy to invite you to the Ciné-Club #11 in partnership with Institut Français and IF Cinéma, with the screening of the movie L'Atalante (1934), directed by Jean Vigo. The film is in French with English subtitles: Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they […]
Saura Cycle, Goya de Honor 2023
Cervantes Institute Utrecht Domplein 3, UtrechtOn the occasion of the presentation of the Goya Award of Honour to Carlos Saura in February 2023, the Cervantes Institute wanted to pay tribute to the Spanish filmmaker with the screening of a selection of his best films at our centre in Utrecht.
This cycle has the support of the Filmoteca of AECID and has been organised in collaboration with Daniel Mourenza, professor of the Department of Hispanic Cultures at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, who will be in charge of introducing the four feature films screened at the beginning of each screening, as well as moderating the subsequent debate.
Wat doet de taalprofessional van morgen?’ / ‘What will the language professional of tomorrow do?
OnlineLanguage technology plays an increasingly important role in the multilingual European societies we live in, a development that affects the entire language sector. Will the language specialist therefore be replaced by the data scientist or will expert knowledge of languages stay a key competence on the job market? In cooperation with Drongo, the translation service of the European Commission is organizing a panel discussion between trainers, students, companies, researchers and language professionals about the job market for language experts. The discussion will take place on the occasion of our publication of OTTO: an inventory of training programmes in the field of language and technology in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The event will be multilingual: participants can speak in Dutch, English and French.
The Grapes of Reason
De Singel Hoogstraat 12, AntwerpenFrom Saara Turunen’s website: “The Grapes of Reason is the third and the last part of the stage trilogy by Turunen. It deals with the contradiction between rationality and corporality. The title of the work refers to John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath. While Steinbeck examines the earth, its destruction and what kind of effects capitalism has on people, The Grapes of Reason focuses above all on the difficult coexistence of the body and reason, on what follows from the denial of corporality. What happens if the importance of the body is denied? Where the pleasure then resides or does it reside anywhere?” - Saara Turunen
DutchCulture on Tour: Editie Flevoland
Kunst is Leuk Schutterstraat 7, AlmereCultural makers and organisations from Flevoland province beware! Do you have questions about international cultural cooperation? For example, how do you find professional partners in Belgium or Germany? What is the Creative Europe programme and which subsidy schemes best suit your project? And how can a residency help expand your foreign network?
During DutchCulture on Tour: Edition Flevoland, we answer all your questions about international cultural cooperation. You can attend info sessions on specific programmes and funding opportunities, but you can also schedule an additional consultation with one of our advisers from DutchCulture's focus country desk, Creative Europe, Europa + Erfgoed, TransArtists, Mondriaan Fund and Cultuurfonds Almere.
Nuit des Idées 2023
OBA Oosterdok Oosterdokskade 143, AmsterdamTo ask the question "more?" is to question the constraints we face in the Anthropocene era, with the need, in many areas, to do more with less. The idea of an "inversion of the poles", which would take up the Less is more mantra of the masters of the Bauhaus movement, can be frightening (degrowth, great resignation...). But this dialectic of plus and minus allows us to invoke new imaginaries of progress, no longer solely in a search for productivity and efficiency, but in a quest for meaning, an urgency to (re)build the link with the living.
The health crisis seems to have amplified a movement that began well before 2020 and is based on two questions specific to post-industrial societies: what is the meaning of my work, how can I regain control of my life? What to do with my life? The inability to grasp the working of machines, the obsolescence of jobs we still train for, the blurring of boundaries between professional and private life and the necessity to halt climate breakdown are all causes of the upheaval that is transforming our relationship to time and work.
The Nuit des Idées 2023 in Amsterdam will focus on the way in which mankind can seize future opportunities, including technological ones, to regain control of its destiny. Should we always try to go "faster" – although the faster we go, the less time we have! – or can we try to redefine our relationship with time? How can we combine our relationship with work and technology in a "culture of the living", particularly through the movement to "renaturate cities" and the creation of intermediate spaces (third places, fablabs, makersplaces, etc.) that enable us to make different human activities cohabit in a more harmonious way and generate social links?
Margot Dijkgraaf (moderator)
Lynn Berger
Jan Willem Duyvendak
Camille Etienne
Lena Hartog
Céline Marty
Olga Mink
Timothée Parrique
Stephan Petermann
Agnès Sinai
INVESTIGATING WAITING – Mueseumnacht010
Goethe-Institut Rotterdam Westersingel 9, RotterdamWhat are you waiting for? During Museumnacht010 the Institute of Waiting opens its doors at Westersingel 9. Artist Merel Smitt welcomes you to her temporary laundromat where you can have a unique waiting experience every hour (20:15, 21:15, 22:15, 23:15 and 0:15). We wash and wait. The Institute of Waiting is exploring different experiences and […]
Open Call: SALWA’s Internet Café Residency programme in the Netherlands
OnlineIntroducing SIC, SALWA’s Internet Cafè residency programme that explores the early internet infrastructures that shaped the visual language of creatives from areas that didn’t get much internet access. The SALWA platform's Internet Café is an open call for Netherlands-based artists, that aims to foster, acknowledge and support the migrant experience on the internet’s infrastructure. Read […]
International Women’s Day: Women On The Move
OBA Amsterdam Oosterdok 143, AmsterdamAs part of the celebration of International Women's Day, EUNIC Netherlands is proud to announce a programme of debate and dance, by and for all women and allies. The event will take place at OBA Amsterdam on March 7th, from 17:30 - 19:45. Under the slogan 'Women on the move. Women and dance', EUNIC Netherlands […]
TAKING THE STAGE: Gender equality in the performing arts. International Women’s Day Nordic Breakfast Discussion
Permanent Representation of Sweden to the EU Square de Meeûs 30, BrusselsThis year, our International Women’s Day Breakfast Discussion with the Nordic diplomatic representations and the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux focuses on Gender Equality in the Performing Arts. The Nordic panel will explore a range of topics, from visibility and representation in the industry to creating space for intersectionality and understanding masculinity in the […]
