postbus 13239
3507 LE Utrecht
Netherlands
- Arts
Culture Connection is a Dutch nonprofit organization with an international focus and scope, founded in 2007. Culture Connection consists of a flexible team of professionals experienced in several fields od the creative and cultural sector and a supervisory board with expertise in the field of arts, law, finance, and international affairs. Culture Connection is founded in 2007 by Jeanneke den Boer (DB Consult), Paul Verweel (University of Utrecht) and Hayat Essaghir (Deloitte).
The intention of Culture Connection is to create an open space for encounter between people of diverse cultures, religions, and lifestyles. Culture Connection focuses on creating platforms for cultural exchange and artistic encounter. Culture Connection aims to create platforms for intercultural dialogue through education and arts programs.
Culture Connection focuses on creating platforms for cultural exchange and artistic encounter by organizing festivals, community arts programs and dialogue activities within Europe and cultural collaboration programs with Mediterranean countries.
Culture Connection organizes festivals, community arts and urban arts programs, performing arts productions, educational and dialogue activities.
From 2015, Cultuur Connection organizes international collaborations with young pioneering performing artists from North Africa and the Middle East such as Arabic Poetry Meets Kytopia en Arabic Crossroads – Music & Poetry. The projects consist of musical encounters, music sessions, concerts, workshops around Walid Ben Selim, Widad Broco, DJ DNA, Jaber Fayad, Mohamed Alsamna and many others.
From 2008 to 2013, Culture Connection organized the Cultural Caravan festival, to which people from different cultural and religious backgrounds made their artistic contributions. Cultural Caravan is a festival, which takes place in super diverse neighborhoods and cities, often birth ground of exciting new artistic expressions. The festival aims to create a platform for intercultural dialogue, cultural exchange, and talent development. One of the most successful festival programs was the vocal production Sacred Songs.
From 2016, Sacred Songs has been touring as an independent project with a vocal production with local choirs and side programs as lectures, workshops, artists meetings, films, etc. Every edition of Sacred Songs is created with a new group of local choirs and performers and organized with a solid group of local partners. Artistic director since the beginning is the phenomenal singer, Monica Akihary. We had successful presentations of Sacred Songs in Middelburg, Zierikzee, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam, The Hague, and Dordrecht.
From 2016, Culture Connection is the initiator of Festival Sacred Songs that takes place festival takes place once every two years in the city of The Hague.
From 2018, Culture Connection organizes the multidisciplinary production Women’s Voices focusing on poetry, philosophy and music of female free spirited frontrunners from the past and present.
We can contribute by giving lectures, workshops, training program and organizing performances sharing our expertise and experiences with other members of the network.
Culture Connection wants to collaborate with partners active in the field of the cultural and creative sector in NL and other ALF countries.