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A jury of experts has selected ten young video makers from Flanders and the Netherlands for 'Bewogen Verzen' (Moving Verses), the video poetry project of Ons Erfdeel vzw and Poëziecentrum.

This Easter weekend our video poetry project 'Bewogen Verzen' kicked off with an inspiration session in Amsterdam.

In recent years Ostend has been a magnet for refugees trying to cross the Channel to England illegally, in search of a better life. However the gate to the promised land is heavily barred. Our reporter talks to some of these people.

In her debut novel 'Ook bomen slapen', Annemarie Peeters intertwines the lives of former opera director Corneille and young opera singer Ofelia. With success.

A selection of recent university press publications about the Low Countries in English.

The Amsterdam Museum ditches ‘Golden Age’ in favour of inclusive ’17th century’.

Large-scale research shows that the Dutch are unanimous about what makes the Netherlands the Netherlands, despite sharp contradictions in the public debate.

Why not read a novel by a Dutch or Flemish author this summer? Take a look at our selection.

Our summer selection of Dutch-language poetry that has recently been translated into English.

Barbara Van Lindt and Agnes Quackels form the new artistic and general management of the Brussels arts centre Kaaitheater.

The Dutch poet, novelist and travel writer will be granted his fourth honorary doctorate.

Nine youngsters from the Low Countries created poetic films based on their favourite Dutch-language poem.

A selection of recent university press publications about the Low Countries in English.

A travelling exhibition pays tribute to the forgotten black soldiers who helped to liberate the Netherlands during the Second World War.

The Western Australian Museum will make 3D scans to visualise the 17th century silverware that was found in the shipwreck of the ‘Batavia’.

Starting this month, Dutch literature will present itself under the title 'New Dutch Writing' at more than 70 festivals and events in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Kobe Fleerackers made a poetic film after the poem 'On Mrs P.’s Municipal Coffin' by Menno Wigman.

Reinier Kroese made a poetic film after the poem 'Lost' by Bart Moeyaert.

The images of the house are part of a new online exhibition that includes the only known video of the World War II diarist.

Ten trivia you probably didn't know about this typical Dutch snack.

Justine Cappelle made a poetic film after the poem 'I Love Icarus' by Tjitske Jansen.

Take a look at our selection of recently translated Dutch literature.

Bob van den Berg made a poetic film after the poem ‘Global Underground' by Annemarie Estor.

Ester Bosschaert Devroe made a poetic film after the poem ‘Perseverance’ by Lieke Marsman.

Younes Laaguidi made a poetic film after the poem ‘Houston we have a problem’ by Lotte Dodion.

Tess Steijvers made a poetic film after the poem 'A Girl' by Toon Tellegen.

Dutch writers Wessel te Gussinklo and Sjeng Scheijen have won the 2019 BookSpot Literature Prize.

The former cycling world champion Willy De Bruyn is the first trans person to get a street named after him in Brussels.

Brussels, the birthplace of Audrey Hepburn, celebrates the actress with an exhibition and a gold coin.

A selection of recent university press publications about the Low Countries in English.

Our spring selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

The United States of Belgium tells the story of the First Belgian Revolution before the creation of a language barrier between French and Dutch.

Discover the parallels between Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney's paintings at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Looking for a medieval mockery song or a twentieth-century love song from the Netherlands and Flanders? Check the Meertens Tune Collections.

How Dutch changes in a new environment.

This year, the Digital Library for Dutch Literature will celebrate its 20th anniversary.

The website www.straatpoezie.nl shows exactly where poetry is visible in public space in the Low Countries.

The Flemish author Bart Moeyaert has won the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The award that is also known in literary circles as the “Nobel Prize for Youth Literature”, was presented at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy.

At least five Dutch museums acquired precious work at the world's leading fine art and antiques fair in Maastricht.

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre acquired 'Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair'.

The exhibition Van Gogh and Britain reveals how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British artists.

Author Kathleen Vereecken and illustrator Charlotte Peys have won the Woutertje Pieterse Prize.

The ART Curator Prize for the best exhibition of 2018 in Austria goes to the curators of the world's first major monographic exhibition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.

It is the first time the role of Maori in the First World War has been recognised in this way in Europe.

The Fries Museum in Leeuwarden has bought a drawing by Alma-Tadema that was found at a flea market.

Tom Lanoye's adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear won in Cape Town in all categories she had been nominated for.

After about 10 years, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium have reopened the permanent wing with Dutch Masters.

The drawings include natural history scenes, portraiture, genre subjects, figure studies and historical and biblical subjects.

The Antwerp-based company took home the Opera Company of the Year award.

The English city of Norwich owed its prosperity in part to immigrated weavers from the Spanish Netherlands.

Ownership is old hat. Swapping, giving and sharing goods and services is the new way of trading. That, in essence, sums up the sharing economy – a movement that has been growing strongly in Belgium and the Netherlands, too, in recent years...

On 13 August 1914 the Gazette van Detroit for the first time addressed its readers, the Flemish immigrants in the United States and Canada. Despite a rather uncertain history, this weekly paper has kept its promise to its readers. In 2004 ‘...

Henriette Louwerse, Director of Dutch Studies and Senior Lecturer in Dutch at the University of Sheffield, argues for an open and inclusive approach towards the Dutch language.

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