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Gelderland Culture and Heritage Monitor.
The province of Gelderland recently commissioned the second edition of the Gelderland Culture and Heritage Monitor. The purpose of the monitor is to assist in making and evaluating cultural policy at the provincial and local level. The monitor provides insight into developments in the social, economic and artistic value of culture and heritage in Gelderland,...
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North Holland wants more opportunities for cultural talent
North Holland wants to strengthen cooperation between municipalities in the field of culture and stimulate the development of cultural talents, according to the Culture Implementation Program - Widening & Connecting 2025 - 2028. The province will do more to strengthen regional networks and support municipalities, including by bringing municipalities together, the...
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Art Base
Schunck (Heerlen, Limburg), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (South Holland) and a newly established contemporary art venue in Terneuzen (Zeeland) have jointly launched a pilot to promote contemporary art in the region. The program bears the working title ArtBase. With ArtBase, the institutions want to explore over the next few years how they can improve the position, development and meaning...
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Province of Brabant: strengthening cultural entrepreneurship
Starting in 2025, the province of Brabant will open the "Strengthening Cultural Entrepreneurship" scheme.
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Wanted: Talented congregations
Earlier this year, artist collective SETUP and artists Cathalijne Smulders and Edwin Stolk called on municipalities to apply for the innovation project Wanted: Talented Municipalities. Municipalities could apply for an artist to think along with a (policy) process. The artists in turn could then select a municipality based on...
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Culture Monitor Brabant
Value of Culture is North Brabant's culture monitor and contains a summary overview of the most important developments in Brabant's cultural sector.
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Zeeland Culture Monitor
In July of this year, the first full edition of the Zeeland Cultural Monitor was published. This shows how the Zeeland cultural and creative sector is developing and how it compares to the rest of the Netherlands. The Province of Zeeland commissioned a baseline measurement in 2022 as a basis for the full Culture Monitor in 2024. The baseline measurement...
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Culture in provincial agreements
Platform 31 recently conducted a comprehensive analysis of provincial administrative agreements, in nine themes, one of which was culture. Below is a brief look at some of the findings on the culture theme.
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Compensation by municipalities not sufficient
A survey by the "Cultural and Creative Sector Task Force" early this year found that only a quarter of the municipalities surveyed had an energy compensation scheme for cultural institutions and that indexation of subsidies for the sector was, on average, quite low.
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Impulse funds Brabant stops
The Province of North Brabant will stop the impulse money program after 2023.
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Support for culture lingers
Starting this year, municipalities will receive 300 million euros in additional indexation from the cabinet to compensate social and cultural organizations for increased costs starting in 2022. However, this is hardly used yet, if at all, according to a tour of 20 large and medium-sized municipalities by the Taskforce Cultural and Creative Sector.
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Gelderland Culture Monitor
December 2022 saw the publication of the first edition of the Gelderland Culture Monitor. The monitor interprets the value of culture in Gelderland and shows both how the cultural sector in Gelderland is currently doing and changes over time. Furthermore, the monitor makes it possible to compare the figures of Gelderland with national figures and those...
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Rotterdam Council for Arts and Culture disbanded
As of Jan. 1, 2023, the Rotterdam Council for Arts and Culture is dissolved.
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Regional Culture Monitor
With the Regional Culture Monitor, the Boekman Foundation and Atlas Research unlock more than seventy indicators about cultural supply, participation and financial flows in the provinces. The monitor, with figures from 2019, makes it possible to compare provinces and shows where they stand out and where opportunities or challenges lie.
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New support center for visual artists and designers in Friesland
As a visual artist or designer in Friesland, do you have questions about your own practice? Would you like to connect with other artists? Or are you looking for interesting workshops to develop your own practice? Recently there is a Visual Arts Support Center at Keunstwurk to help you further. It offers support based on four pillars:...
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Zeeland Culture Monitor
The Province of Zeeland intends to set up a multi-year monitor to chart the cultural sector in the province. A first step towards its realization is a baseline measurement in which both existing knowledge needs and available data are inventoried. The baseline measurement was carried out by the Boekman Foundation.
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Culture and politics in Rotterdam
On the ups and downs of advisory body versus politics in Rotterdam
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Corona, culture and municipalities
Research firm Berenschot compiled a digital information guide in collaboration with the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG), among others: Corona, culture and municipalities part 2.
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Social safety in Rotterdam's cultural sector
The Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture (RRKC) published its advice 'Unheard of Noise' in early March, calling for attention to social safety in the Rotterdam cultural field.
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Groningen municipality extends support to cultural sector
The Municipal Executive of Groningen decided in mid-February to once again financially support cultural institutions, entrepreneurs, self-employed persons and amateur art. With over two million euros, the second support package Culture is extended until the first half of 2022.
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Groningen municipality extends support to cultural sector
The Municipal Executive of Groningen decided in mid-February to once again financially support cultural institutions, entrepreneurs, self-employed persons and amateur art. With over two million euros, the second support package Culture is extended until the first half of 2022.
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Evaluation of the realization of the Amsterdam Kunstenplan
Some conclusions and recommendations from the report 'Evaluation Arts Plan 21-24. Creation and integrality'.
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Restoration land art Flevoland
Provincial States of Flevoland makes 500,000 euros available for restoration of the four oldest landscape artworks in Flevoland: The Green Cathedral, Earth Sea, the area of the Observatory and Sea Level. The restoration work will start as soon as possible.
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Extra impulse funds in Brabant
The province of Brabant has increased the provincial Impulse funds on a one-time basis.
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Support for culture in North Holland
The province of North Holland and its municipalities support 46 cultural institutions in North Holland with over 4.4 million euros
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A social environment as a healthy living environment
The Council for Public Health & Society and the Chief Government Architect published an exploration in mid-July with initial building blocks to "make more space for encounter," ahead of a policy recommendation later this year.
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Covenants on urban cultural regions
In the run-up to the cultural period 2021-2024, fifteen urban regions were formed on the initiative of cities and provinces. They drew up profiles about their ambitions for cultural policy in their own region. The minister used these profiles in shaping cultural policy for the 2021-2024 period. The cooperation for the period 2021-2024 is fixed-...
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Impulse money North Brabant
The Province of Noord-Brabant is supporting 24 cultural initiatives from Brabant with a total of just under € 9.7 million. The funding comes from the impulse funding programme with which the province encourages initiatives to boost the sustainable development of Brabant's cultural system.
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advisory platform for art institutions
Amsterdamse Kunstraad and AFK launch financial advice platform for art institutions.
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Covenants with urban cultural regions
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has concluded covenants with 14 urban culture regions and Landsdeel Oost. The covenants contain agreements between OCW and the regions about joint policy priorities for the period 2021-2024. The national, provincial and municipal governments are jointly responsible for the cultural infrastructure in the Netherlands.
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Support for creators in some municipalities
In several Dutch municipalities corona measures have been taken to specifically support professional makers. We collected some examples.
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Rotterdam advice on corona & culture
The Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture (RRKC) issued an advisory report to the Municipal Executive and the Rotterdam cultural sector on Feb. 9 on the long- and short-term changes and interventions needed for the Rotterdam sector to emerge stronger from the corona crisis.
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