Individual member: Neil van der Linden

National Network
Netherlands
Address

Anjeliersstraat 89 IIIa
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Telephone
31616612420
E-Mail
nvdl@xs4all.nl
Mobile Phone
31616612420
Organisation Type
Individual Person
Year of Establishment
1994
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Heritage
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Research
  5. Youth and education
General Information
I work as a general consultant and project organiser for cultural exchanges between the Netherlands and other parties in the EU and North Africa and the Middle-East. The area ranges from Morocco to Iran and from Turkey to Sudan and Oman. This includes music (the most part), theatre, visual arts, and sometimes film and sometimes literature and dance. It includes grassroots projects with local artists and arts students, community projects and small scale representations, up to projects like a performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestra of the XVIIIth Century and the Netherlands Chamber Choir Xmas 1999 just before 2000, the Bethlehem year and Bach’s commemoration year, at the Nativity Church in Bethlehem.
Mission and Objectives

Widening horizons on both sides and creating opportunities for people to enjoy arts and culture in all diversity and creating opportunities for arts and culture in all their diversity to continue.

Main Projects / Activities

Currently I work on a large international music festival, together with Ibrahim Tidjani, representative of the Tidjani Sufi Brotherhood from North-Africa, Ahmed Maghraby of the Mazaren organisation in Cairo, Toufic Kerbage musicologist in Lebanon, Mohammed Reza Beladi from Busheir in Iran, Nitin Hrsh from Jodhpur Rajastan India and Siddharto from the Sacred Music Festival in Bangalore India.
I am a also staff member and project researcher for Music in Me www.musicinme.net, a charity that reaches people who would otherwise be deprived of music due to war and poverty, in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, in the field of music education to schools and young professionals, music heritage, music therapy and relief work and support of aspiring professional institutions.
I am advisor to the Festival of Sacred Music in Fes, Morocco.

Contact (1) Full Name
Neil van der Linden