Stad van Makers
Tilburg is a City of Makers. Tilburg surprises and challenges. Stimulates the imagination. Raw and contrary. This makes Tilburg a breeding ground for creative talent. Also thanks to an excellent production climate, top museums and important venues. Tilburg is increasingly becoming a city where it happens. Here you will find all the information to make it as a maker and as art and culture lover we bring you the best of Tilburg's makers.
#stadvanmakers News
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Happy Bachdag Tilburg
On Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday on March 21, we will celebrate Happy Bach Day in Tilburg! This day the entire city will be dedicated to Bach, at more than 15 unexpected places and moments you can be surprised by Bach's music.
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Meet the Master: Painting like Van Gogh
Vincents Tekenlokaal recently launched a new Master program, 'Meet the Master'. A program of 5 different master classes involving meeting, making and developing talent and craftsmanship through meaningful Tilburg creators.
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Exhibition Laure Prouvost in De Pont Museum shows boundless imagination
This spring, De Pont presents an immersive and immersive exhibition by Laure Prouvost! Admire "IN THE MIST OF IT ALL, ABOVE FRONT TEARS" and find yourself to be guided through a dark and dystopian landscape to a bright, hopeful sky.
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Premiere Life of Gemma
Sunday, Feb. 4, at Pathé Tilburg Stappegoor is the premiere of Life of Gemma: The brand new comedy series created by Lonne Gosling and Twan van Bragt. Starting in March, the series can be seen on Youtube via Lonne's Movie Channel and Omroep Tilburg.
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Exhibition at PARK: Rewriting the Future
Discover art and time at "Rewriting the Future." Guest curator Niek Hendrix celebrates PARK's 10th anniversary with a unique exhibition. Be inspired by artists exploring the boundaries of time and imagination.
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These are the contenders for the Tilburgse Creatieprijs 2023
On Friday, December 15, the Tilburgse Creatieprijs will again be awarded to a Tilburg creator, person or organization whose creation has made a significant contribution to the city. These are the final three contenders for the Tilburgse Creatieprijs 2023!
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A conversation with Jeroen Opstelten about NONOISE
Those who are creative can experience obstacles. With the NONOISE initiative, Jeroen Opstelten and Tyas d'Hont want to remove noise in the creative process of young creators. We spoke with Jeroen about how he uses his experiences to help others.
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A conversation with Annemijn Rijk
Annemijn Rijk is a choreographer and philosopher. With her latest production, Yellow Horizon, she hopes to take the audience fully into an experience: "It's about celebrating the intangible."
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Frederike makes it in Tilburg
Frederike Luijten is a multidisciplinary maker, word artist and City Poet of Tilburg. This functional chaotic person meanders through then, now and later, from place to place and through dialects and languages. This is Frederike's story.
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Researching Contemporary Visual Culture: 'Catalog of Shadows II'
DansBrabant and PARK ar celebrating their tenth anniversary and that should be celebrated. Tilburg choreographer Kristel van Issum, filmmaker Martin Kers and composer Han Stubbe spent two years polishing life-size portraits of women.
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Tilburg-based Sandra Pham in race for Young Impact Award
Tilburg-based creator Sandra Pham (23) has a chance to win a Young Impact Award in the Diversity category! In her first theatrical performance "Binnenvetter," she talks about her Vietnamese-Dutch background through spoken word, music and theater.
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Anniversary edition 013 Cinecitta international film festival in Tilburg!
From October 17 to 22, Tilburg will once again be immersed in the enchanting world of the 013 Cinecitta International FilmFestival (013 CIFF), and this time already the fifth edition!
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Online PhotoMuseum Tilburg now open: A new focus on visual talent
The Online Photomusuem Tilburg has officially opened, a brand new online platform that combines the beauty of photography art and the rich heritage of our Tilburg region. So this museum can be visited online from any location.
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Murf/Murw Festival is back for a second edition
Murf/Murw is an interdisciplinary city festival for experimental culture. Once again, Murf/murw offers an exciting and colorful program on various stages in downtown Tilburg!
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This fall at De Pont: Thomas schütte and Stan Douglas
Starting September 16, De Pont museum presents two core artists with brand new work! Thomas Schütte shows his architectural models from the legendary Westkunst exhibition and Stan Douglas combines color photographs about cultural resistance.
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Park presents: anniversary exhibition X
Discover the past decade of art in one exhibition at PARK. 'X' celebrates a decade of diversity. Festive opening on Sept. 9 at 4 p.m. in Tilburg!
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A conversation with Wiesje Peels
Photographer Wiesje Peels traveled for seven weeks with her bicycle through the Brabant landscape to pay tribute to the historical work of Martien Coppens. Behind her bicycle she hung her own mobile darkroom: the DoKar.
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Guilherme and Heleen make it in Tilburg
A shared love of dance and movement is the driving force behind Guilherme Miotto and Heleen Volman. With their choreographic platform Corpo Máquina Society, they bring Tilburg children and youth in contact with dancers, freerunners and other creators.
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Unflatables create artwork for new City store
Art collective unflatables will create the artwork for the renovated City Store on Koningplein! "It will be a gigantic hanging work of art with surprising references to maker city Tilburg."
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Tilt Festival is back!
Tilt Festival is back! And how. On September 23 the literary festival returns to theater De Nieuwe Vorst. At this tenth edition you will meet the big names of tomorrow and see well-known writers as you have never seen them before.
Makers of Tilburg - Stories of Tilburg's makers
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Frederike makes it in Tilburg
Frederike Luijten is a multidisciplinary maker, word artist and City Poet of Tilburg. This functional chaotic person meanders through then, now and later, from place to place and through dialects and languages. This is Frederike's story.
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Guilherme and Heleen make it in Tilburg
A shared love of dance and movement is the driving force behind Guilherme Miotto and Heleen Volman. With their choreographic platform Corpo Máquina Society, they bring Tilburg children and youth in contact with dancers, freerunners and other creators.
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Jeroen and Boris make it in Tilburg
A father who draws and a son who writes. With this formula for success, Jeroen de Leijer and son Boris created the graphic novel "To Texas and Back. For Jeroen an attempt to get Boris out of bed and behind his phone.
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TeaTime Company makes it in Tilburg
Contemporary circus and dance collective TeaTime Company has dedicated its time to contemporary circus, serving up tasty performances like a slowly drawn cup of tea and giving audiences a taste of new flavors of acrobatics, object manipulation and dance.
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Lidi makes it in Tilburg
Lidi Toepoel sees Tilburg as the ideal setting for her films. The city offers an inspiring breeding ground with fascinating characters, stories, ideas and a valuable network. This is the story of a filmmaker making it in Tillywood.
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Nikè makes it in Tilburg
Black paint is made with yellow, red and blue. No matter how pitch-black the paint appears, colour can always be found in the darkness. Artist Nikè Marchand knows that darkness inside and out.
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Sidney makes it in Tilburg
Inspiration does not fall from the sky, it is in the street. Those who keep looking can pick it up in an instant and set something in motion. The living proof is Sidney Marte. As a living spark, he moves through Tilburg to light creative fires.
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Melik makes it in Tilburg
When Melik Alphan moved from Turkey to Tilburg eleven years ago for love, he set up his own shoe line: Melik Shoes. His shoes are now sold in the better specialist shops, he has his own clothing line and his own showrooms.
Practical information - for makers
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Facilities
Together, the basic facilities form the foundation of the cultural infrastructure; they are the city's cultural "main road network. They are a crucial link in the chain of creation, production, presentation and audience acquisition in the field of art and culture.
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Kunstenaarsinitiatieven
The Kunstenaarsinitiatieven program is for any initiative taken for and by artists. It is therefore not only about artists who produce, but also initiatives that support artists.
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Talent & Education
Tilburg is a vibrant city where cultural talents can thrive and develop. A crucial precondition for this, is broad cultural education accessible to every child.
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Makersfonds
The Tilburg Culture Plan 2021-2024 includes that the City of Tilburg establishes a grant entitled Makersfonds, to provide direct support to makers in arts and culture. This is in line with Tilburg's ambition to be a city of makers. The application period has now expired.
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Culture plan Tilburg
On November 20, 2023, the Culture Plan 2025-2028 was adopted by the Tilburg City Council. The plan and investments must contribute to making art and culture accessible to all Tilburgers. For this it is important that Tilburg is not only a #stadvanmakers, but also a #stadvoormakers. You can read the entire plan here.
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Ateliers Tilburg
Stichting Ateliers Tilburg (SAT) is a non-profit organization that works with the municipality of Tilburg, among others, to provide (professional) artists and creative entrepreneurs with affordable workspace in Tilburg.
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For makers in Brabant
In Brabant we do things together. Therefore, the Municipality of Tilburg works with its Brabant partners to create a strong art and cultural climate in the province. With the partners of Brabantstad they form a collective with a regional profile and jointly support Brabant cultural institutions and organizations.
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Professionele Kunsten
With the Professionele Kunsten program, the municipality of Tilburg supports institutions in their multi-year cultural activities. This enables these organizations to develop, produce and present cultural activities on a structural basis, whereby they commit themselves to the Tilburg and Brabant society and the social tasks that are topical.
MAKER OF THE MONTH 2024 - Every month a maker of Tilburg gets a stage on the socials of Stad van Makers
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