In celebration of the anniversary of the Hanze University and Academy Minerva in the year 2013, the research group Popular culture, Sustainability and Innovation (Centre of Applied Research and Innovation Art & Society) and Academy Minerva presented the first edition of the Energize Festival for sustainable …

“In-Between” is the title of this conference. If I am right, it focuses on the role of the artist as a middle-man, or middle-woman, between art and learner. It focuses, maybe, on the way artists are capable to transfer knowledge, skills, attitudes, insights, emotions of an artistic nature. And it focuses, …

Author version of opiniating article (Dutch) in national newspaper Trouw, appeared under the title 'Zingen, dat is beter dan muziekonderwijs'. Plea for singing in primary schools.

The divide between us and the rest of nature has been attributed to various root causes: the growing disenchantment of the world, the loss of direct experience and lately the replacement of the real with simulations of it. Modernity's move away from the natural world has also generated countervailing …

Conference report ´The Musician as Creative Entrepreneur´, Polifonia 3, The Hague (NL), 19-20/9/2014.

Spoken Column – Opening of the Academic Year 2014-15 of Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, September 1 2014.

Bundel bij het achtjarig bestaan van het lectoraat Integraal Jeugdbeleid. Overzicht van a) de opbrengsten b) toelichting op de onderzoeksthema’s Leren & Gedrag, Kind, Taal & Ontwikkeling; toekomstig talent, leefwerelden verbinden en Gezonde & Actieve leefstijl. c) prikkelende columns van onderzoekers …

Article (Dutch) in newspaper Friesch Dagblad on the relationship between musicians and their audiences.

Tijdens dit ronde tafel gesprek werd de werkwijze van Cupudo besproken

What’s up in town this week? Which live music is available for the inhabitants of the city of Groningen/Utrecht in two ‘ordinary’ weeks?