Femke Halsema is a Dutch politician and filmmaker. On 27 June 2018, she was appointed Mayor of Amsterdam and she began serving a six-year term on 12 July 2018. She is the first woman to hold the position on a non-interim basis. She previously was a member of the House of Representatives for the leftist green party, GroenLinks from 1998 to 2011, and served as the party's parliamentary leader from 2002 to 2010.
The Utrecht School for the Arts is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in City of Utrecht, Province of Utrecht, Netherlands. The school opened for student enrollment in September 1987.
Thekla Simona Gelsomina Reuten is a Dutch actress.
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp is an art academy located in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, painter to the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and Don Juan of Austria. Teniers was master of the Guild of St Luke—which embraced arts and some handicrafts—and petitioned Philip IV of Spain, then master of the Spanish Netherlands, to grant a royal charter to establish a Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp. It houses the Antwerp Fashion Academy.
Mohammed Azaay is a Moroccan-Dutch actor. Azaay graduated from arts college Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in 2000 as actor. Together with Karim El Guennouni he has a project called "De Varkensfabriek", named after their successful 2004 performance. He also played in "Het Nationale Toneel", "Het Toneel Speelt" and "Theaterhuis Alba". Aside from theatre, Azaay played in several films and TV series, most notably Offers.
Codarts University for the Arts is a Dutch vocational university in Rotterdam that teaches music, dance and circus. It was established in its present location in 2000.
Jan Nicolaas van Munster was a Dutch sculptor and installation artist whose work appears in many public places in the Netherlands and Germany.
Jehoshua Rozenman is a Dutch-Israeli sculptor.
The Dutch Game Garden was a video game studio incubator in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It was launched in 2008 using funding from the European Regional Development Fund, with the goal of investing in new Dutch studios. The organisation was the largest such program in the Netherlands, it incubated around 130 studios and housed around 150 over its lifetime. Changes to regional funding rules closed down the program in January 2025.
Peter Van Gheluwe is a Belgian artist, known for his paintings, drawings and spatial work. Works of Van Gheluwe are part of collections such as those of the Flemish Community, the National Bank of Belgium, Mu.ZEE Ostend and the city of Aalst, along with private collections in Belgium and abroad. He was married twice and has three sons. He currently lives and works in Scheldewindeke.
André Verroken was a Flemish and Belgian furniture designer and interior architect.
The Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts is a Dutch vocational university of the arts located in Tilburg, part of the Fontys Hogescholen. The School originated from the merging of various educational institutions that had existed in different capacity before being united under the Fontys group. Among the precursors of the School was the Brabants Conservatorium, one of the nine conservatoires in the Netherlands.
Annelys de Vet is a designer, educator and researcher. She runs her own design practice under the name DEVET. From 2009 until 2019 she headed the MA in Design 'Think tank for Visual strategies' at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, the master's course of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. There she initiated the temporary masters course Disarming Design, from 2020 until 2022.
Paradise Drifters is a 2020 Dutch film directed by Mees Peijnenburg. The film premiered at the 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Malle Maltis is an Estonian composer. She currently teaches composition and electronic music at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and has been a music director at the Estonian Drama Theatre since 2013. She is also a member of the Estonian Composers' Union.
Regina Engelina Maria (Giny) Vos is a Dutch visual and conceptual artist. She has made almost thirty monumental works of art for public spaces.
Mounira Al Solh is a Lebanese-Dutch visual artist.She is represented by Sfeir-Semler Gallery.
Twie Giok Tjoa is a Dutch organizational sociologist and feminist, specialising in diversity and inclusion at work and in society as a whole. Born and raised in a Peranakan Chinese family in Surabaya, Indonesia, she fled with her parents to Suriname in 1962 to escape the persecution of Chinese people in Indonesia. She studied organizational sociology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and, back in Suriname, became the first female director at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Youth Affairs.
NOVI University Of Applied Sciences, Dutch: NOVI, is a private Dutch HBO university of applied science located in Utrecht with a branch in Maastricht. NOVI is the oldest Dutch educational institution for research in Information technology. Its roots go back to 1958 when the nonprofit foundation Studiecentrum Administratieve Automatisering (SSAA) was established by several Dutch academics affiliated with the faculty of economics of the University of Amsterdam. The goal was to facilitate the automation of industry in the Netherlands. The SSAA created the first Dutch examination program in the field of administrative information management, the AMBI, in 1964. At the time of its creation, AMBI was the highest qualification possible in the field and the only one on HBO level. The SSAA adopted the name Studicentrum NOVI in 1971.
