Never have Rotterdam and New York been so close together. They were the starting and finishing points of the famous Holland-America Line and they are both world ports.

"AREVIK" is going to represent Armenia at Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 for the first time ever on December 8th, 2007 in Rotterdam (Netherlands).

Artistic director Ton Simons is creating a dance production especially for performance in churches, entitled The Organ Dances. The Organ Dances continues the previous collaboration between Ton Simons and organist Reitze Smits on the celebrated production Mind and Matter.

The Great Indoors - an international, biennial, interior design award and accompanying activities - will be held for the first time from 16 through 18 November 2007 in Maastricht, at Netherlands Architecture Institute.

The first major survey of the work of the architect Pierre Cuypers will be on show at NAI Rotterdam and Maastricht from September 22 2007 to January 6 2008.

The official announcement was made on July 5th by the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce during the 5th World Chambers Congress

The exhibition A Better World - Another Power will present work by Santiago Cirugeda from Seville, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) from New York City, the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST) from Amsterdam, and Jeanne van Heeswijk and Dennis Kaspori from Rotterdam.

The NAI exhibition An Icon of Modernism - Van Doesburg's Aubette presents a picture of one of the few realized projects by the many-sided artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931).

The NAI/ Ballast Nedam Photography Commission is approaching its climax: the exhibition opening and prize award ceremony, in the NAI on Friday March 23. Elco Brinkman, Chairman of Bouwend Nederland, is to hand out three prizes to the winners of the NAI/Ballast Nedam Photography Commission Building Portraits on Friday March 23.