Cultural 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.

To 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

Join Vendredi sur Mer for her first concert in Amsterdam with Pa'Dam Festival!

Since 'Premiers Emois' (2019), a disco-synth pop record that revealed her as a poetic and willingly Diva with tracks such as Ecoute Chéri or La Femme à la Peau Bleue, Vendredi sur Mer has indeed changed everything - or almost everything.

Playing with 80's references, Monochrome is more pop and provocative.

The Goethe-Institut are reviving Klub 470 - their cooperation with Subbacultcha - and have invited visual artist, composer and musician Rosa Anschütz for the upcoming edition on Saturday 11 March. Rosa forges futuristic yet nostalgic art-pop and darkwave that is catchy, industrial and stomping. The tempo is brisk, the sound heavy as a barrel. * […]

This is an online celebration of global LGBTQIA+ stories. Five Films For Freedom is a partnership between the British Council and BFI Flare in solidarity with #LGBTQIAplus communities, especially in places where freedom and equal rights are limited. Make sure you join us and share the love using #FiveFilmsforFreedom because Love is a Human Right. […]

Join Emma Peters for her first concert in Amsterdam with Pa'dam!

Spotted thanks to the success of her YouTube channel, Emma is already listened to all over the world-the remix of her cover of Clandestina has exceeded 50 million streams on Spotify. Now she writes her own songs with the same spontaneous freshness

The two performers, Pérez, on the timple, and Niz, on the guitar, will interpret a wide variety of music and genres, ranging from the purest roots of Canarian folklore to musical passages of Venezuelan, Argentinian and Cuban rhythms, as well as classic themes adapted to this small format. The timple, a traditional instrument from the […]

Join Pierre de Maere for his first concert in Amsterdam with Pa'dam!

Pierre de Maere, the new revelation from Belgium, continues his rise. The hostilities were launched in 2022 with the release of his first EP "Regrets Carried by a dazzling media and popular coverage and the success of his golden single "Un jour je marierai un ange"", Pierre de Maere is nominated at the 2023 Victoires de la musique in the categories "male revelation of the year" and "song of the year".

An evening of conversation between Thomas Strässle (editor) and Barbara Mariacher, about the recently published exchange of letters between the Austrian poet, Ingeborg Bachmann, and the Swiss playwright, Max Frisch. The published correspondence, "Wir haben es nicht gut gemacht" (We did not do it well) paints a surprising, new picture of the relationship between the […]

On 1 April 2023, a satellite edition of the ‘Out The Frame’ festival will take place in Amsterdam. 'Out The Frame' (a production by Belgian arts centre VIERNULVIER and All Eyes On Hip Hop) has been bringing the best of the underground to Ghent every year since 2018, ranging from mutated hip hop to experimental […]

Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere / CAMPO OUT OF THE BLUE "We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean." This statement is often heard when talking about the deep sea. Worldwide, only ten percent of the ocean floor has been mapped and explored. At a […]

An audiovisual work in which various bodies come together in and around ethical shrimp and prawn production: a playful, critical dramedy. Maturation Station is an audiovisual work by visual artist, actress and theatre-maker Melissa Mabesoone that slithers through themes including the blue economy, aquaculture, reproduction & sensuality, care, consumerism, animal suffering and the fish and […]

Since 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 April edition of Soirée Ciné will feature the film, […]