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Lees het originele advies in het Nederlands: TimeWindow_ongevraagd_advies_2022

Dear members of the ZWCS Committee,

Soon there will be a new cultural policy that largely relies on the previously formulated 3 I’s – interconnectivity, inclusivity and innovation. To reverse the effects of corona and the economic recession, we recommend an additional focus that contributes to the city’s resilience and agility.

Our advice: put creators first and support the arts at the source.

Enhance the functioning of creative practices in the city by:

• enabling for talent development through a variety of trajectories;
• facilitating innovation, research and experimentation (artistic and entrepreneurial);
• offering space within urban development;
• providing resources to (collective) initiatives from artists;
• focusing on the assessment of performance first, not quantity and end result;
• embracing quality and alternative value systems;
• integrating artists’ expertise and experience into new policies;
• making the Creatieve Coalitie complementary to the current representation of artists in the city.

Why you should take our advice to heart

TimeWindow has built an innovative organisational environment based on the needs of artists. Since 2021, we are able to make more impact in the city thanks to talent development support from the Rotterdam Culture plan. In addition to sharing workspaces, facilitating a learning environment, contributing to urban development and organising public activities, we also make artists’ voices heard by giving unsolicited advice to politicians and city councils, such as the above.

What we do:

• The 50 TimeWindow creators are growing and professionalising thanks to our innovative and diverse programme of residencies, festivals, events and peer-to-peer artistic and entrepreneurial mentoring;
• TimeWindow combats precarity and empowers artists by investing 80% of our funding in their activities;
• We actively involve audiences in the early stages of the creation process of different art genres and reach young audiences who often haven’t found their way to theatres yet;
• The work developed at TimeWindow reaches an audience of 21,000 on average every year, in Rotterdam and The Netherlands;
• As a generator of ideas, TimeWindow creates artistic dynamism and attracts talent to the city.

Some achievements from within our community:

• Club Gewalt: included in the Rotterdam culture plan + receives multi-year subsidy from Fonds Podiumkunsten;
• HipSick, Teddy shouldn’t smoke, TC Macabre: all three develop their practice in the 2-year impulse scheme from Rotterdam;
• Didi Kreike, Roi Soleil: are both included in the 2-year ‘Nieuwe Makers’ scheme of Fonds Podiumkunsten.

On behalf of all the artists at TimeWindow.