Smart culture for high yield
November. In an environment that breathes innovation and where we get high on tech, but where cultural organisations and individuals also struggle with a different reality. Because politics forces us to make compromises, culture comes to a standstill or work is denied. As if the value of culture can be measured in returns.
This month’s agenda proves loud and clear that culture is alive and indispensable. From the powerful stories on the stages and in rooms, to the nominations for the Eindhoven Culture Prize with which Hildegard Hick, Tarek Bestha, Bart van Dongen, Basta, Kelderman and Van Noort, Frino, Oortwolk, Queer040 and the visual mastery of Studio Giftig make the power of creative expression felt. So, What’s Next and TROMP provide international allure and at the TU/e Havelok uses percussion to show how music and technology can reinforce each other. We celebrate cultural diversity with Merhaba Eindhoven, where Turkish culture is central, and enjoy when Dimitri Verhulst disc