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Platform meeting #5 – 23 June

Platform meeting #5 – 23 June

June 11, 2025
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Space for rent for makers in Rijswijk

June 06, 2025
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Platform meeting #4 – 19 May

Platform meeting #4 – 19 May

May 10, 2025
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Interest-free loan for independent creative initiatives

May 08, 2025
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Platform meeting #3 – 14 APR

Platform meeting #3 – 14 APR

April 09, 2025
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Regulation of vacant properties from 2026

Regulation of vacant properties from 2026

April 02, 2025
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Platform Meeting #2 – 10 MAR 2025

Platform Meeting #2 – 10 MAR 2025

February 13, 2025
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Kick-off Den Haag Culturele Hoofdstad

Kick-off Den Haag Culturele Hoofdstad

February 12, 2025
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WhatsApp Community Group

WhatsApp Community Group

January 20, 2025
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The tax authorities check for false self-employment

The tax authorities check for false self-employment

January 18, 2025
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Platform Meeting #1 – 27 JAN 2025

Platform Meeting #1 – 27 JAN 2025

January 11, 2025
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December Recap

December Recap

December 20, 2024
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Open Letter: Art & Culture Binckhorst

Open Letter: Art & Culture Binckhorst

December 09, 2024
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End of the Year Borrel 16 DEC

End of the Year Borrel 16 DEC

November 20, 2024
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De Beatrijs: New workspace for makers

De Beatrijs: New workspace for makers

November 20, 2024
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Internal Platform meeting

Internal Platform meeting

October 15, 2024
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The Hague Real Estate Circle Visit

The Hague Real Estate Circle Visit

October 14, 2024
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Code of Conduct for The Hague’s initiatives

Code of Conduct for The Hague’s initiatives

October 14, 2024
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New breeding ground policy 2025 & beyond

October 11, 2024
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Subsidy Regiodeal Cultuur

Subsidy Regiodeal Cultuur

September 05, 2024
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Marjolein leaves the position of Broedplaatsmakelaar

September 05, 2024
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Platform Meeting 26 Sep

Platform Meeting 26 Sep

July 12, 2024
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Broedplaatsen subsidies info 2025

Broedplaatsen subsidies info 2025

June 20, 2024
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New broedplaats policy in development

New broedplaats policy in development

May 01, 2024
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Municipality of The Hague and Voordekunst

Municipality of The Hague and Voordekunst

April 25, 2024
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Program promotion on denhaag.com

April 18, 2024
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Introducing Ria: interim broedplaats­makelaar

Introducing Ria: interim broedplaats­makelaar

February 16, 2024
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Visit Megastores

Visit Megastores

March 10, 2023
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Broedplaatsmakelaar – Marjolein van Alfen

Broedplaatsmakelaar – Marjolein van Alfen

March 10, 2023
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Welcome to the website of The Hague’s cultural initiatives!

The Hague Broedplaatsen are collaborative and creative initiatives led by the professionals from arts and culture working in The Hague. The initiatives take many forms – from location-based studio and gallery spaces to online and nomadic platforms. Always with the aim of creating space for experimentation, exploration, exchange and play, the initiates bring together makers from different disciplines such as visual arts, photography, design, music, dance, theatre.

The initiatives and their makers work locally and (inter)nationally. This is reflected in artists in residence places, international programs, public events, workshops, etc. The Hague has more than 40 initiatives (2024), some with a long history and some recently founded by alumni of the KABK. Initiatives evolve and change over time in their focus and vision.

Cultural initiatives and the city

“A city that wants to seize opportunities for the future needs people with ideas, with a different view of the everyday and with different solutions, people who can add value to the existing. Other ideas, a different perspective or solution will be researched, development and experiment in advance (…) ”

 

This process of research, development and experimentation is also the essence of an 'incubator'.

 

This vision of a ‘broedplaats’, described by the Boekman Foundation, is close to our hearts. In The Hague, many creative and cultural makers are associated with breeding grounds in the city. On this site you will get to know these places and their makers. Please see all information as an invitation to get to know them better, to visit them and to follow and visit all the activities of these breeding grounds.

 

Haagse Broedplaatsen
De Blauwe Aanslag in 1987

History

The first ‘broedplaats’ in The Hague date from the 1980s. Squatters took over vacant buildings. De Blauwe Aanslag (“The Blue Bill”) is best known in The Hague. This former tax authorities building has been empty since 1978. In 1986, after acquiring the building, the municipality signed a management contract with the squatters. Some of the residents and workers from the Blauwe Aanslag then went to live and work in De Grote Pyr, a former educational building, in 1999.

The ‘broedplaatsen’ of the past had a different character than today. They were free places with a political and social stature where makers also lived and worked.

The first initiative as we know it today is the DCR on Constant Rebecqueplein. Based on the first Broedplaats Memorandum (2005), this cultural hotspot opened in 2006. The building is owned by the municipality of The Hague.

In 2024, The Hague has many maker initiatives that mainly work from municipal buildings. Some of them own the building (Maakhaven and De Besturing). In addition, many initiatives work from temporary locations that are used by corporations or developers.

Broedplaats policy has been in place since the first Broedplaats memorandum in 2005. Several updates to this policy have now been published. The most recent memorandum is from 2021 – Cultural broedplaatsen 2021-2024.

 

Haagse Broedplaatsen

Hoogtij (De Haagse Rondgang)

Hoogtij has been held in The Hague since 1998 (first as The Hague Tour). Four times a year, on Friday evening, 25 locations for contemporary art open their doors in The Hague. You can discover art in special places in The Hague in an accessible and hospitable way.

More programming and info at: https://www.hoogtij.net/

 

ICI – Independent Creative Initiatives

“We provide peer support, and representation to artistic practices and community based initiatives that generate public value, but which are not always easy to monetize. We foster creative processes usually hidden to the public.”

During the pandemic, a group of creative initiatives from The Hague came together and started a ICI The Hague platform. In 2021, with the aim of sharing the manifesto and fostering solidarity between the spaces, a new website platform was launched: https://ici-thehague.nl/.

 

 

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