Culture and Theatre
Whenever AFC Ajax has a major win, they often go to the steps of the cities theater to be publicly applauded. The normal programme of events encompasses all sorts of theatrical forms, mostly by Dutch writers.
The Boekenbal (book ball) is traditionally held in the Stadsschouwburg and it marks the beginning of the annual Boekenweek (book week).
Read more about this topic: Stadsschouwburg (Amsterdam)
Famous quotes containing the words culture and, culture and/or theatre:
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“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
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Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
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