Grants for the small-scale or occasional programming of performances and concerts. The scheme aims to promote a diverse range of performing arts in the Netherlands. SKIP Category 1 is intended for small-scale venues that programme at least six performances per year.
Grants for programming pop festivals featuring Dutch bands are intended to contribute to the development of pop music in the Netherlands. The Pop Music Festival Programming Scheme will run until 30 June 2026. After that, this scheme will be merged with the SKIP scheme into a new scheme: the Programme and Presentation Contribution.
The Stage Grant supports Dutch venues in presenting a professional, high-quality and diverse range of performing arts and contributes to building an audience for this in their own environment. The subsidy is granted for a period of four years (1 July 2025 to 30 June 2029).
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The Rainy Day Fund is a revolving fund from which festival organisations that have incurred a deficit as a result of unforeseen weather conditions can receive a contribution. The scheme is an initiative of former Minister Bussemaker and is administered by the Performing Arts Fund.
The multi-year production scheme 2021-2024 offers creators, companies and ensembles the opportunity to invest in the development of contemporary and distinctive performing arts and to build an audience for them. The working practices of creators are central to this.
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The multi-year production scheme 2025-2028 offers creators, companies and ensembles the opportunity to invest in the development of contemporary and distinctive performing arts and to build an audience for them. The working practices of creators are central to this.
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The multi-year festival scheme 2021-2024 supports festival organisations in presenting and developing contemporary and distinctive performing arts throughout the Netherlands and connecting them with a wide audience. In this way, we offer space to a diversity of genres, generations and voices.
The multi-year festival scheme 2025-2028 supports festival organisations in presenting and developing contemporary and distinctive performing arts throughout the Netherlands and connecting them with a wide audience. In this way, we offer space to a diversity of genres, generations and voices.
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This grant is for Dutch groups or performers who give performances or concerts abroad and for Dutch composers, playwrights, librettists or choreographers who have been invited to attend a performance of their own work abroad.
This subsidy facilitates international co-productions and contributes to the internationalisation and professionalisation of the Dutch performing arts. The scheme replaces the scheme for international exchange projects.
With its international promotion programme, the Performing Arts Fund supports companies and ensembles that want to take the next step in their international positioning. The programme offers Dutch performing arts institutions with international ambitions the opportunity to work on the development and implementation of a strategic plan for market exploration and market expansion abroad.
This subsidy is for programming special foreign performances and concerts in the Netherlands. The aim is to stimulate international quality and diversity in the performing arts in the Netherlands and to contribute to building and reaching an audience for this.
