Overview projects Culture
Here you can find all of the projects we contributed to in 2008.
Community Involvement
Middelburg
As part of the project ‘Zeeuws Identity/Zeeuws Image’, a programme was devised in partnership with artists and designers, dedicated to identity, homesickness and a sense of longing, which entices audiences both inside and outside the region to look differently at their place in the global community.
Amsterdam
‘Brabants for Beginners’ is a theatre production offering a reverse integration course on the culture of Brabant, where identity and integration take centre stage.
Amsterdam
During the symposium ‘Will You Join Us?’ (‘Kom je ook?’) and in subsequent projects, cultural institutions are given tools to develop new media applications geared towards boosting public involvement.
Utrecht
‘Reporters from the West’ is a thirty-minute documentary on art and culture statements made by children from the Dutch Antilles, Aruba and Saint Maarten.
Utrecht
Memphis Film fleshed out the project ‘Reporters from the West’ with extra activities, actively contributing to the creation of a diverse and positive image of the Dutch Antilles and Aruba.
Den Haag
‘Rif Retour’ is a travelling exhibition on labour migration, which actively visits young Moroccans.
Holy Land Foundation
The programme ‘Open Your Mind’ promotes respect and understanding, and fosters ties through open dialogue on culture and religion. It pushes the boundaries of traditional museum practice by actively demanding that museums play a socially relevant role.
Amsterdam
‘Kuiven en Kraplappen’ is a travelling exhibition depicting the Women of Spakenburg in their traditional costume, demonstrating that tradition and progress can happily co-exist.
Amsterdam
The exhibition entitled ‘Anno’ showcases the history of the village of Veenhuizen and the relationship between local residents, guards and detainees.
Wageningen
The open-air restaurant ‘REST.’ is constructed from wood residue, and the remains of food, scraps and waste food are used in a creative way to prepare meals.
Kampen
Stedelijk Museum Kampen used a multi-media tour to make a connection between the collection and the city of Kampen, and in the process attract a wider audience.
Amsterdam
‘Face-lift’ consists of a series of exhibitions offering visitors a glimpse inside the world of three different ‘hidden’ target groups: girls in an asylum centre, boys in a juvenile correction centre and elderly patients with dementia in a nursing home.
Breda
‘Breda Photo’ is a bi-annual photography festival in which professional and amateur photographers capture their identity in present-day society, bringing themes such as integration and diversity to the attention of a wide audience.
Groningen
‘Stormbrain’ is a theatre production on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the impact of ADHD on everyday life.
Amsterdam
The exhibition ‘Het Behouden Huys’ addresses the changing attitude of the Dutch to multiculturalism in the Netherlands, and creates a support base for diversity in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam
The programme ‘Cielo e Terra’ presents international performing arts productions that take a different look at social developments around the world.
Amsterdam
The project ‘Them Today, Us Tomorrow’ comprises an exhibition and a book of photographic portraits and literary texts on the vitality of elderly patients in nursing homes.
Rotterdam
Each year, Motel Mozaïque organises a series of nine activities, in which art and social issues are interwoven.
Amsterdam
In the project ‘MIJNHUYS’, a laboratory is created in which alternating groups of young people offer their artistic interpretation on the boundaries between madness and normality.
Rotterdam
‘The land = ours’ is an art project based in Rotterdam, in which artists lend a different interpretation to the concept of urban greenery, and use public spaces to highlight the decay of the city.
Arnhem
‘Sonsbeek 2008’ is an international art manifestation in Arnhem, enabling local residents and artists to create works of art together.
Curaçao
‘Shame’ is a theatre production aimed at secondary school pupils in Curaçao on homosexuality, one of the island’s major taboos.
Den Bosch
‘AWAYAWA’ is a theatrical mobile artwork that shares the stories of asylum seekers and refugees with residents living in and around Tilburg.
Amsterdam
‘Football during the Second World War’ is an exhibition on the relevance and meaning of sport during the war years.
Cultural Participation
DOGTROEP (Theatre van de Verbeelding Foundation)
Amsterdam
‘Living on the Edge’ is a cross-border, location-based theatre production that showcases the stories of different residents living in the district of Amsterdam Noord.
IVAK, centre for art and culture
Delfzijl
‘FivelsGoud, a voyage of discovery through Fivelingo’ brings the cultural heritage of North-East Groningen to life, with the aim of awakening an interest in local culture, and encouraging cultural participation.
Youth Theatre School Curaçao (JTSC)
Curaçao
Organisational strengthening and professionalisation of Youth Theatre School Curaçao, offering classes to more children in an inspiring environment.
Artes Foundation
Den Haag
The project ‘Art-ID’ engages young people in a meaningful way with contemporary visual art, establishing a connection with new media, identity and lifestyle.
Beleven Foundation
Arnhem
‘Football is art’ brings together the worlds of theatre, dance and visual arts and football, to reach an untested audience and to establish a structured foundation for future visits.
Cinekid Foundation
Amsterdam
‘Create Media Yourself’ encourages children to participate in culture, promotes creativity, and unlocks the future potential of young talent.
Frysk Festival Foundation
Leeuwarden
With two productions, ‘Donna Giovanna’ (Opera Spanga) and ‘Hjir en dêr Friese Dorpsbakens’, the Frisian Frysk Festival introduces youngsters in the province of Friesland in an accessible way to visual arts and opera.
Grachtenfestival Foundation
Amsterdam
A primary school from the working-class area of De Baarsjes in Amsterdam produced the musical theatre production, ‘The Hackney Chronicles’, presented at the Grachtenfestival.
Graphic Design Festival Breda Foundation
Breda
The project ‘Look at my Neighbourhood’ introduces children living in Breda to design and styling.
Het Beleg van Zwolle Foundation
Zwolle
‘ZwArt’ is a summer arts festival held in the Dutch town of Zwolle, in which up-and-coming and established artists create art activities aimed at a wide audience in 24 sites around the town.
Youth Theatre 020 Foundation
Amsterdam
The programme ‘Solid Ground Movement’ of Youth Theatre 020 aims to strengthen the development of, and opportunities for young hip-hop and ‘crossover’ artists.
Kalebas Produkties Foundation
Haarlem
‘AnansiWorldWideWeb’ is a creative and interactive website that brings together children from the Netherlands, the Dutch Antilles and Suriname by encouraging them to share stories, which in turn produces new stories.
Kulsan Foundation
Amsterdam
The festival ‘Turkey Now’ 2008 brings a varied and high-quality programme of Turkish performances to a wide audience.
La Vie sur Terre Foundation
Amsterdam
‘Symphony Arabica NL’ is a symphony orchestra composed of top musicians from the Middle East, performing with a large orchestra of professional, classical musicians and children, students and Arab musicians based in the Netherlands.
Learning Orchestra Foundation
Amsterdam
In the Learning Orchestra, children who usually would not have an opportunity to engage in classical music, learn to play an instrument and perform in a symphony orchestra.
Multicultureel Podium Mozaïek Foundation
Amsterdam
Podium Mozaïek provides young people with a rich intercultural experience, and engages new audiences from the Amsterdam district of Bos and Lommer and surrounding area in cultural ventures.
New European Cultural Foundation
Amsterdam
The LiteSide Festival 2008 draws a diverse audience with a programme aimed at artistic innovation emanating from the cross-pollination between contemporary oriental and western culture.
Noordjes Kinderkunst Foundation
Amsterdam
‘Noordje op Wielen’ is a mobile exhibition bus for school children, offering guided tours for children and encouraging them to create art.
Oneira Art Foundation
Deventer
‘De Vuurvogel’ is an interactive installation for children, which offers an intensive listening and viewing experience in a museum context and travels throughout the Netherlands.
Opera Rotterdam Foundation
Rotterdam
‘Operadagen Rotterdam 2008’ presents various programme components that make opera accessible to a wide audience: opera presented in the living rooms of Rotterdam residents, street opera and workshops and sing-along activities in ‘From opera to tear-jerker’.
Pera Foundation
Amsterdam
Pera Foundation offers a stage to young people from a Turkish background to express contemporary art in the form of (pop) music, theatre, film and literature that are accessible to a wide audience.
Pink Sweater Productions Foundation
Nijmegen
‘Nijmegen Visueel’ creates an artwork in the form of a visual landscape characterising the 44 districts of Nijmegen and portraying an image of Nijmegen in 2008/2009.
Pleasure Culture Foundation
Den Haag
Pleasure Culture enables art institutions to attract new audiences at the ‘Pleasure Paas Party’, the biggest Caribbean dance event in the Netherlands.
Producties de Nieuwe Kerk Foundation
Amsterdam
‘Black is Beautiful’ is an exhibition celebrating the beauty of black people in Dutch art spanning seven centuries.
SOLOS Foundation
Den Bosch
‘Solos exhibition and event’ is a dynamic combination of art, lifestyle, youth participation and education on the daily life of young people.
Steiger Foundation
Venlo
Local residents of Venlo flesh out the creative details of the new Maasboulevard development.
Streetlab Foundation
Amsterdam
‘Streetlab Manifest’ is a mixture of exhibitions, fashion shows, performances and music on street art and fashion.
Theater/Conference Centre De Tamboer Foundation
Hoogeveen
DeTheaterbende XL actively engages young people in the programming of the Jazz Vibes festival.
Theaterfestival Boulevard Foundation
Den Bosch
Theaterfestival Boulevard presents various theatre productions in the neighbourhoods of Den Bosch that introduces theatre to audiences who rarely, if ever, visit the theatre.
Theatergroep NiznO Foundation
Havelte
NiznO is a college of learning and workplace that enables young people from the provinces of Drenthe, Friesland and Groningen to participate in a learning process to develop their talents as actors and theatre makers and showcase their work to a new audience.
Union by Fiction Foundation
Maastricht
‘Project X’ is an art project that encourages residents of the province of Limburg to participate with professionals in the creative arts.
Theatre and Production House Almere/BonteHond
Almere
‘Candyland’ is a theatre production starring children from a community that rarely comes into contact with the burgeoning cultural scene.
Theater Production House Zeelandia
Middelburg
‘No fish today’ is a location-based theatre production showcasing the stories of the residents of Zeeland.
World Music & Dance Center (WMDC)
Rotterdam
The project ‘Brass NL’ aims to improve the musical abilities of brass band musicians in the Netherlands, and to promote exchanges between the brass band and the HaFaBra circuits.
Culture and Economics
Venlo
‘Cradle to Cradle Community’ is an on-line platform initiated by artists to enable a wide audience to meet each other and establish contacts around the theme ‘Cradle to Cradle’.
Amsterdam
The Cultuurbal 2008 establishes contacts and stimulates exchanges between the cultural sector and the business community that benefits both worlds.
Zwolle
The Institute for Case Studies Foundation generates innovative solutions to social issues by deploying artists from the outset of the case study, creating and fleshing out new perspectives.
Leeuwarden
‘Homo Ludens, the playing human’ is an art-experience in a green setting, which contributes to product innovation and economic development of the region of Friesland. The artworks encourage exploration and movement.
Rotterdam
The programme ‘Creativity2Business’ utilises the knowledge and skills of artists and other creative individuals to address current issues affecting the business community.
Culture Miscalleneous
Rotterdam
‘Recycle X’ is a two-year programme in which the arts, science and technology communities lend a new twist to the concept of ‘urban sustainability’: a re-interpretation of urban development that incorporates environmental, economic and social aspects, as well as the role played by cities in addressing climate change.
Amsterdam
‘The World in a Shell/The Pollinferoused Container’ presents solutions to current social and ecological issues.
Utrecht
Casco gives artists the opportunity to create new urban plans using their imagination and based on social issues, thus shedding new light on society.
Amsterdam
‘Rock ’n Robbikz’ is a dance performance and a specially devised ‘full body work-out’ for rockers and other fans of heavy metal music.
Amsterdam
Coolpolitics engages a large group of youngsters in contemporary social issues.
Amsterdam
‘Creative Urbans’ is a training institute for young and creative talent in the disciplines of architecture and the visual arts.
Amsterdam
Strengthening the organisation of the dance theatre company Don’t Hit Mama, improving its artistic articulation.
Utrecht
Expodium presents two visual arts projects, responding to urban developments in Utrecht and contributing to the future plans of the city.
Utrecht
This travelling circus focuses on the power of thoughts and ideas to convey the possibilities of the human spirit and the generation of new thoughts and ideas in an entertaining way to a wide audience.
Amsterdam
Developments of policy and spending priorities in Amsterdam in the field of cultural diversity are mapped out for four consecutive cultural policy periods.
Amsterdam
The Office for Social Engineering fosters greater collaboration between academics, policy workers, students and artists to devise creative and innovative solutions to contemporary social issues in Amsterdam.
Talent Development
Curaçao
Follow-up to Instituto Buena Bista, a new institute for the visual arts, which raises the importance and standards of visual arts in the Dutch Antilles, offers preliminary training to talented youths and initiates community art projects.
Amsterdam
‘ITs Talent!’ programme was launched at the ITs International Theatreschool Festival, aimed at contributing to the development of young talent and promoting diversity in the professional theatre world.
Amsterdam
‘A Mother’s Cry’ is a small-scale and professional gospel musical showcasing the origins of black gospel music, in which young talented gospel artists perform with established gospel singers.
Veenhuizen
PeerJonG provides one-year courses in location-based theatre for talented young people living in the province of Drenthe.
Groningen
‘Shoot & Shout’ are talent development programmes encouraging young people to develop their organisational and social skills.
Rotterdam
The project ‘Beyond the Battle’ gives young urban dancers practical advice to make the transition to a professional sphere.
Marketing
Haarlem
De Karavaan adds a number of central locations to the theatre festival, introducing new visitors in an accessible way to the total festival programme.
Amsterdam
The Uitburo develops a national network of marketing organisations for art and culture, which brings together supply and demand and strengthens the position of art and culture within our society.