Youth

Spoffin offers its audience a compact and up-to-date impression of the best performances in the field of street theatre and site-specific theatre in Europe, with lots of attention for innovative forms of theatre. Spoffin aims at keeping its festival accessible and wants to be an extraordinary good host for both its visitors and its artists and international theatre professionals.

Kunstbende is a youth organization with the goal to stimulate the active cultural participation among youngsters. We organize several activities to reach this ambition. The most renown activity is our National competition for young creative talent, by which youngsters from 13 till 19 can participate in eight artistic categories. Beside the competition Kunstbende offers a versatile package of projects, including workshops for and coaching of talented youngsters, the best of Kunstbende Tour and the International exchange project

The Cultural Participation Fund (FCP) aims to promote participation in the arts and culture by encouraging people to take an active part in artistic and cultural activities. In achieving this, we work closely with local authorities and provinces, provide funding to institutions, stimulate debate, initiate research, and facilitate knowledge-sharing in the field of cultural education, the amateur arts, and popular culture.

De Stilte is the only professional dance company in the Southern region of The Netherlands, that focuses entirely on developing and producing performances for children. Established in 1994, De Stilte has thus far launched 24 performances and 12 special projects. Over a period of seventeen years (1994-2011) there have been 2,800 performances, attended by over 370,000 visitors. Irma Bouwman is a Assitant Managing Director

Ellen Blom ID / performing arts consultancy

started in the fall of 2010 and focuses on international and intercultural exchange in the performing arts.

Please contact me:
for advice, project organization, as a programmer or for concept development in the performing arts

if you have plans for touring in The Netherlands

if you are searching for the right Dutch partners to work with

to promote international exchange in general

to develop new partnerships in performing arts

for fundraising activities.