Never Grow Up! Wowing US Audiences With Dutch Culture for Kids
A recap of the Never Grow Up! programme with highlights from two years of Dutch arts for new generations.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
A recap of the Never Grow Up! programme with highlights from two years of Dutch arts for new generations.
The 'reality effect' peculiar to much Dutch painting has persuaded many viewers that this art registers how things are or how they were. But art historians have argued that things are not what they seem to the eye - they are devised with me...
On 28 October 2004 a series of books entitled ‘Dutch Culture in a European Perspective'was launched at DeBuren, the Flemish-Netherlands House in Brussels. The books in this series are not only highly informative, they also make for thorough...
The Dutch Foundation for Literature asked writers and illustrators of children’s books to make a one-minute video in which they present their work.
As a result of the efforts of the collaborative project Never Grow Up!, five Dutch groups find their way to Washington, USA, for a season-long focus.
The National Archives of the Netherlands created an online research guide on the subject of slavery in the former Dutch East Indies between 1820 and 1900.
The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands searched its collection for traces of slavery and colonial history.
About two groups of Americans interested in the culture of the Low Countries: the ‘immigrants' in several Dutch and Flemish clubs, and the dozens of American academics who have chosen the history, culture and language of the Low Countries a...
The literature of the Middle Ages is a truly European literature, probably much more so than the literature of today. Paradoxically, the main reason for this was the omnipresence of a language and a literature which were not a natural envir...
The Department of International Relations of the Ministry of Welfare, Health and Cultural Affairs in the Netherlands has published a series of booklets in English called 'Dutch Arts'. The aim of these publications is to give foreign readers...
With almost twice as many activities as in the two previous years during the corona pandemic, the international cultural participation of Dutch artists and organisations recovered in 2022.
How Dutch changes in a new environment.
Remarkable conclusions from the very first global study of the preservation of Dutch language, culture and identity.
In recent years a renaissance in the genre of the short animated film seems to have been taking place in the Netherlands. Never before have there been so many active producers of animation films. This is all to do with the digitisation of t...
Gert Oostindie spoke of the contemporary significance of the colonial past at the seminar 'Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future'.
The speech of festival director Viktorien van Hulst at the seminar ‘Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future’.
PhD Researcher Grace Leksana reflects on the speech by Gert Oostindie at the seminar 'Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future'.
Sojourner Truth, the United States' best-known African-American woman of the nineteenth century, grew up speaking Dutch. The narrative of Sojourner Truth is one example of how widespread the Dutch language and culture were among African-Ame...
About the WNT or Dictionary of the Dutch Language, the largest dictionary in the world, which will be finished in 1998. It is an impressive cultural monument, the fruit of 150 years of co-operation between Flanders and the Netherlands.
The Netherlands has a great deal to offer the United States in a number of fields. Design, architecture, contemporary music and fine art are disciplines in which the Netherlands play a leading international role and for which there are good...
Throughout the past decades, the Erasmus Huis has strengthened its role as a centre for cultural diplomacy for the Netherlands in Indonesia.
The cultural centre of the Netherlands in the Indonesian capital Jakarta reflects a dynamic relationship between the two countries.
In 2018 Dutch artists participated in more than 15,000 cultural activities in 108 different countries.
'Seeking a cross-border measuring tool', a study of the interconnectedness in the Flemish-Dutch theatre sector.
In 2020, the international activities of Dutch artists and cultural organizations dropped by 72% due to the corona pandemic.