Leeuwarden named UNESCO City of Literature
The news was announced yesterday, becoming only the second Dutch city to so-named Translated by Thomas Ansell “Awesome news”, said ...
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Leeuwarden’s Cultural Capital legacy plans starting to form
Funding for culture, and a wish to become a ‘UNESCO City of Literature’ are major components of the plan. Translation ...
Claudia Woolgar: a one-woman cultural tour de force
Born and raised in the UK, she’s run theatres, directed art festivals, and was one of the leading lights in ...
Argentine theatre group Fuerza Bruta coming to Leeuwarden
A two-week residency by the Argentine postmodern theatre group Fuerza Bruta in Leeuwarden in December is set to be the ...
LF2018 Royal de Luxe giant marionettes performance wins public event of the year
The three-day performance “Big Skate in the Ice” by the French street theatre company Royal de Luxe in August of ...
LF2018 generated 230 to 330 million euros for Friesland
Organisers of Leeuwarden-Friesland’s year as a European Capital of Culture say that they are satisfied with the economic impact of ...
YourPost Leeuwarden: a legacy of LF2018
YourPost.eu, a crowd sourced, multi-lingual news site, was launched as part of Leeuwarden-Friesland Capital of Culture. Its citizen journalists are ...
“This is 2018” reflects on Leeuwarden-Friesland Capital of Culture 2018 in pictures
As the mantle of European Capital of Culture is about to be taken up by Italy and Bulgaria, a limited ...
Friesland working on 2028 follow up to Capital of Culture year
LF2018 director Tjeerd van Bekkum says that the organisation is working on a year-long event on the tenth anniversary of ...
Delegation of 70 ambassadors visit Capital of Culture
A group of 70 ambassadors from around the world paid a visit to Friesland on Monday to learn more about ...