Netherlands Toonkunstenaars Bond

The Netherlands Toonkunstenaars Bond (Ntb) is a trade union for musicians, actors, dancers and performers. The Ntb was in 1919 founded.

Although the union has been originally been connected with the NVV (forerunner of FNV ), the Ntb is now an independent (sector) union (ie, not affiliated with a trade union). More than half the membership of the association consists of self, which is the Ntb also makes a kind of trade organization, although musicians and actors just as individual member of the organization can be.

The Ntb is involved in include the collective agreements for the orchestras and art education, and (administrative) offices in legal foundations such as Sena , Norma Foundation (both co-founded by the Ntb) Lending Rights Foundation and the Foundation Thuiskopie . In addition Ntb provides legal assistance to its members, for example in debt collection or (labor) disputes with clients or employers. Members may obtain information on everything related to the business side of the arts has to do.The Ntb also offers its members a beneficial insurance package tailored to the performing arts.

The Ntb Among other things, the magazine Music World (formerly the Netherlands Toonkunstenaarschblad) and publications such as the Ntb Studio Sterrengids and Ntb Booking Guide and organizes courses and workshops on the business side of the profession. In 1974 the Ntb took the initiative to institute an annual award from colleagues for colleagues: the Golden Nutcracker . After a break (2001 to 2006) the price is now issued by the aforementioned foundations Sena and Norma.

The Ntb is affiliated to include Platform Makers (co-founded by Ntb) and Arts 92 .

In 2011, Congress decided the Ntb establishing the Association of Composers and lyricists Ntb (the VCTN ), where Ntb members as a composer or lyricist working, since the formal establishment of the association in 2012, are connected automatically. The aim of the foundation was the interests of affiliated composers and lyricists to better represent and to exercise particular influence on the policy of Buma / Stemra, which recognize up to that point the author Ntb declined as interest group.