The Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam commemorates Dante's 700th anniversary with a contemporary adaptation of the Divine Comedy: three Dutch actors bring the famous medieval allegory of world fiction in a video. The 18-episode anthology includes the highlights of the Divine Comedy, the undisputed masterpiece of Italian literature. Each video, lasting about 5 minutes, can […]

Have you already visited the Christmas Treasure exhibition at Nationaal Glasmuseum and are you still curious about learning more about the Czech glass tradition? You’re welcome to join us for the talk with Petr Nový (Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou), one of the exhibition's curators. He will introduce you to the […]

Passages en passant is an exhibition series in the hallway of the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, in which the works of two artists enter into a dialogue with each other. Passages en passant is intended to invite people to exchange ideas with the works on display and to talk to each other. In the third exhibition in […]

Czech Next Wave is a podcast produced jointly by the Czech Centres network and Radio Prague International. Its aim is to introduce listeners around the world to emerging, exciting and highly talented young Czechs in various areas of the arts and beyond. The latest episode is an interview with actress Martha Issová. You might know […]

Director: Ralf Lohr Piano: Guido van de Meent Co-Director: This Maag What happens when, due to the rise in sea level, 17 million orange-dressed climate refugees drive into Germany with their caravans? Are the Germans then ready to take in their beloved Dutch? The Orange Danger - The Dutch are coming is the first German […]

As part of the exhibition ALTERNE VISIONI, a project in Amsterdam that shows the work of two artists, the Francesco Candeloro (1974) and Marc Philip van Kempen (1979),the Istituto Italiano di Culture and Breed Art Studios are organising an artists' talk with Franceso Candelore. Francesco Candeloro was born in Venice in 1974. Light and colour, […]

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 […]