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Welcome ArtsTalk Magazine Holland

Launched in June 2017, we are the sister publication of StageTalk Magazine in the UK and provide previews, reviews and information, in English, for theatres, art exhibitions, concerts, opera etc, concentrating on cities in south west Netherlands (Noord/Zuid Holland and Utrecht regions). Each venue, museum or gallery has its own page with information and a link to its website. The site is updated regularly and information is always coming in so there is always something new to discover or read about.

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Some Highlights This Month

The annual, excellent and free DELFT JAZZ FESTIVAL runs from 23rd to 26th August while a twenty-minute tram ride away the water-bourn JAZZ IN DER GRACHT takes place in The Hague 23rd – 25th. The Hooikade will again be adorned with sailing flatboats with jazz this year at the outdoor canal-based festival gets under way. Dozens of boats, barges and other floating stage both static and moving carry musicians of all creeds and colours united under the all-embracing banner of jazz.

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EXTRACURRICULAR

WAGNER OPERA AT ITS PINNACLE AT BAYREUTH

For Wagner lovers Bayreuth is their Mecca and its festival the high-spot of their year. ArtsTalk Magazine’s Yannik Eisenaecher has been at the Festspielhaus to see three of this year’s productions – PARSIFAL, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG and DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER. Read his article on this year’s Festspiele and his review of the three operas

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The ArtsTalk Podcast

THIS WEEK

Each week ArtsTalk Magazine editor Michael Hasted presents a podcast focusing on cultural events around The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

This week he talks to Bram Stoeken, jazz musician extraordinaire and organizer of the Delft Jazz Festival which takes place between 23rd and 25th August.

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INTERVIEW

BRAM STOEKEN on the DELFT JAZZ FESTIVAL

Bram Stoeken is the driving force behind the Delft Jazz Festival which this year runs over the weekend of 23rd – 25th August . . . There are about seventy bands, they come from all over the country and most of them are professional, but we do have a stage on Agathaplein for local amateurs.

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BOOKS & LITERARY EVENTS

BORDER SESSIONS

WOMEN, WHISTLE-BLOWING, WIKILEAKS: A CONVERSATION at Border Sessions Festival in The Hague.

The wonderfully alliterative name of this recently published book may be difficult to resist, but don’t let the title fool you. This slim volume has been written to further the fight on a number of epic fronts

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