Guitarist and composer Reinier Baas wins the Boy Edgar Prize 2025, the most important award for Dutch jazz and improvised music. The jury praises him as an authentic innovator who brings together tradition and experiment and makes complex music accessible to a wide audience. With humour, lightness and depth, he builds bridges between genres and generations and dares to take risks time and again. The prize will be presented in March at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam.
The allocated funding for the Theatre work grant have been announced. Thanks to extra room in the budget this round, made possible by a bequest from Mr Wytze Visser, more theatre writers get the chance to create new work and further develop their practice.
Our new office is now fully in use. Would you like to visit us? You are very welcome at our new location at Spaarneplein 2 in The Hague, close to Den Haag HS station.
The six participants in the Italy work visit (6–11 March 2026) have been announced. Selected are Judith Faas, Rebecca Wijnruit, Keren Levi, Job Raaijmakers, Yung-Tuan Ku and Hannegijs Jonker. They will take part in the programme on youth theatre and youth dance for children aged 0–6 in Piacenza and Bologna. In the next newsletter, we will introduce the participants to you in more detail.
Theatre writer Lisanne van Aert wins the Translation Prize 2025 with her text Ocean Breeze. The jury calls it a text with international appeal and great potential for the German theatre circuit. The winning text will be presented in May 2026 in a staged reading during the Dramatiker:innenfestival in Graz.
