As some of you may have noticed I just posted the last 6 months worth of concerts. Well, I did say I was a horrible person to keep a blog in my first post…

I started this blog at the beginning of 2007 after taking on the role as STEIM’s curator. Since then we have organized more than 40 events with consistently growing audience. I have to thank all the STEIM staff members and our dedicated community for making this possible.

However, from 2009 the City of Amsterdam decided to cut our funding for organizing concerts. This is very sad news for Amsterdam’s cultural scene where only STEIM and DNK-Amsterdam are the organizations that host experimental music events on a regular basis. This decision by the City along with our recent drama with the Cultural Ministry and the loss of our former Director forces us to re-structure and re-strategize. We will be doing less concerts but continue to host events that will be a mixture of things.

So, this will be the last post on the STEIM Concert Blog. We plan to start a new blog that will include concert announcements and reports as well as other things related to what’s going on at STEIM. More things will be documented on our vimeo channel http://www.vimeo.com/steim.

STEIM is entering a new era and we have a lot of exciting things planned.
Stay tuned!

Photo by Brian Degger

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