Ten new projects supported by the Heritage Matching Fund

DutchCulture manages a Shared Cultural Heritage Matching Fund. The fund supports initiatives that increase visibility or coherence of shared heritage activities.

The projects that have been awarded in a recent meeting of our Shared Cultural Heritage Programme Council are:

• Photography project Dutch Diaspora: the invisible Dutch; Fact, Fiction or Legend by Geert Snoeijer. Countries involved are South Africa, Australia and Indonesia.
• Art project Co-existence of Man and Water on the shared, water related history between the Netherlands, the USA and Russia by Satelietgroep.
• A Tulipana publication on migration to Brazil by the Centre for Global Heritage and Development.
• The exhibition project Landverhuizers on migration to Brazil by Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam
• Art project Two Row Wampum by Renee Ridgway in Albany, USA
• A publication on the history of infrastructure in Suriname by LM Publishers
• A publication on art theft in the Dutch East Indies by Louis Zweers
• A workshop on the inner city of Semarang, Indonesia by The Missing Link
• A photography project on the widows of the massacre of Rawagede by Suzanne Liem and NIOD
• A television broadcast on Westfort Pretoria, South Africa by Tetteroo Media

More information on the projects will be made available at culturalheritageconnections.org

Matchingfund in 2016
The next deadline for submitting applications is 14 December 2015. In this round, we will give special attention to some specific events. For more information about the fund and the application procedure, please contact Veysel Yuce (DutchCulture | Heritage).

Dirk Hartog Year
In 2016, it will be 400 year ago that the Dutchmen Dirk Hartog landed in Australia, on his way to Indonesia. This will be commemorated throughout Australia and especially in the state Western-Australia.

Brazil
The Netherlands have a long and intertwined relationship with Brazil. We would love to see this bond celebrated in the year of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Kyushu, Japan
For years, the Netherlands was the only European trade partner of Japan. This historic connection is nowhere more visible than in the Kyushu region. In 2016, the Netherlands and the Kyushu region will celebrate their cultural and trade relations.