‘Van Gogh Drenthe Fietsroutes’ is gekozen tot Fietsroute van het Jaar 2024. Dit maakte de jury bekend op de eerste dag van de Fiets en Wandelbeurs in Jaarbeurs Utrecht.

Staatssecretaris Fleur Gräper - van Koolwijk en Touria Meliani, wethouder van de gemeente Amsterdam, hebben de Raad voor Cultuur en de Amsterdamse Kunstraad gevraagd om advies te geven over 'Vertel het hele verhaal'.

Chances are that you have heard about NFTs the last couple of years. People were restricted to their homes looking for leisure in new places. The pandemic gave us all infinite time behind our laptops. We started to appreciate digital experiences as it was the only alternative. NFT activity grew as CryptoKitties, CryptoPunks and NBA Top Shots were minted, traded and sold. Interest soared to a full-fledged hype in March 2021 when practically all media outlets worldwide reported on the sale of The First 5,000 Days. Mike Winkelman, better known by his artist’s name Beeple, sold this artwork as an NFT for 69 million dollars. Soon after Yugalabs minted their Bored Ape Yacht Club collection of 10,000 unique illustrations of monkeys. They promised to “shape the future of web3 through storytelling, experiences and community.” More skeptical people thought they were just overpriced ‘jpegs’ of monkey cartoons.

How many people would never experience live music in their entire lives? How many would never be touched by being connected to a performing artist? Or, to cite the British sociomusicologist Simon Frith, “who [would say] they loved particular performers but had no desire to see them live?” (Frith, 2007). Obviously, live music is of great importance in the lives of many.

The joint industry associations in the cultural and creative sector presented the Diversity & Inclusion Code (CODEDI) on 1 November 2019, a broadened version of the Diversity Code developed in 2011. The content of the CODEDI is in line with the Culture Governance Code and the Fair Practice Code, the two other codes of conduct as instruments for self-regulation within the cultural and creative sector. These three codes of conduct reinforce each other.

Complex issues in society require a different logic than the logic and methods used so far. Is it really the experts, policy-makers and trusted institutions from whom we can expect this different logic? At least in project ‘De Ader’, (The Vain) those involved did not wait for this answer. They wanted it to be different and they did do things differently.

The expert perspectives from Madelon Gilaude, Rutger de Wit and Simone Kramer on the future of leisure.

Experience has long been at the centre of cultural and leisure offerings. In the 1990s, it was firmly put on the agenda by Pine and Gilmore. Recently, there has been increasing talk of the transition from the “Experience Economy” to a “Transformation Economy”. That’s quite significant, from experience to impact, because as we will argue later, transformation is seen in the literature as the strongest form of impact. The concept of impact is high on the research agenda in the cultural sector. In this article, we describe some theoretical principles and explain how to measure experience and impact. We do this on the basis of a study we are currently conducting for the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem.

Carbidschieten is een intrinsiek onderdeel van het Nederlandse immateriële culturele erfgoed. Deze traditie, diepgeworteld in de Drentse dorpen, verenigt gemeenschappen tijdens de koude oudejaarsdagen. Deze eeuwenoude praktijk, de ogenschijnlijk simpele actie van het lanceren van een bal uit een met carbid gevulde melkbus, belichaamt in werkelijkheid een rijke traditie en een sterk gemeenschapsgevoel.