The Holland Festival’s global focus
With the Holland Festival now well past its halfway point, two installation projects this week have delivered on its promise for engaging, politically urgent art. The Walking Forest This one took Shakespeare’s Macbeth as its starting point. In an interactive video and theater installation, creator Christiane Jatahy used video interviews of (..more)
Conscious living at the Scopophilia Art Festival
Scopophilia is a biannual arts festival with a focus on emerging artists, featuring the work of up-and-coming creatives in fashion, painting, sculpture, performance art, theater, spoken word, music, photography and dance. (..more)
The Holland Festival’s political mandate
Each spring, the Holland Festival looms large over the Amsterdam arts scene, and for good reason. The festival has become synonymous with cutting-edge Dutch arts programming. (..more)
Lie down at Pllek’s Raagmala Suite concert
Pllek’s latest musical project is its ‘Raagmala Suite Ligconcert’ series, which presents four concerts between now and December—one for each season. And as the name of the series suggests, the shows are not organized as one might expect. (..more)
Rethinking coffee at the Amsterdam Coffee Festival
The specialty coffee movement is gaining traction, and emblematic of this trend is the Amsterdam Coffee Festival. (..more)
Opera Forward Festival’s must-see musical lineup
In honour of their 50th anniversary, the Dutch National Opera is presenting the Opera Forward Festival, an 11-day series from March 15 to 25 about the future of opera. The festival is not only about presenting a lot of opera, but about presenting it like you’ve never seen it before. (..more)
The future of opera at OFF x De School
The first-ever Opera Forward Festival runs from March 15 to 25 this year and is full of inventive programming, but if you want a taste of what the festival is planning for the weeks ahead, you’ll want to head to De School this Sunday afternoon. (..more)
The Enigma of Arrival welcomes an emerging literary powerhouse
John Freeman is no stranger to the literary world. A prolific writer and book reviewer fresh from a stint as editor-in-chief at Granta magazine, Freeman has proven a driven, relentless presence on the international literary scene since the early years of his career, which is why the immediate success of his latest venture, the biannual anthology Freeman’s, comes as no surprise. (..more)
