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MARCH 2019
Towards a new compass: North - South alliances in the art world w/ Kunstenpunt & Mondriaanfonds
16:00
debate
free
Small Talk on spirituality w/ Malika Hamidi
19:00
conversations
free
Breunion Boys
19:30
lecture, concert
free
APRIL 2019
Small Talk on identity w/ Sarah Chander
19:00
conversations
free
Opera Capture Clubbing
19:00
DRINKS, music, party
free
SEPTEMBER 2019
Heritage Days
14:00 - 18:00
guided tour
free
Heritage Days
14:00 - 18:00
guided tour
free
Reading Group on Paul B. Preciado
17:00
reading group
ticket
Paul B. Preciado On love
20:30
opening lecture, Q&A
ticket
Bledarte Days
13:00 - 05:00
music, film screening, talk, workshop
Bledarte Days
13:00
music, film screening, talk, workshop
OCTOBER 2019
Big Daddy's Book Club Americanah
17:00
reading group
ticket
Writing as a gesture of love Reading on writing
16:00
reading group
ticket
Love & The Earth with Grace Ndiritu A History of Community Resistance
17:00
reading group
ticket
Reading Group on bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody
17:00
reading group
ticket
NOVEMBER 2019
School of Love
17:00
presentation
free
Voice Male
20:30
open mic, stand up comedy, performance
free
Male identities
20:30
conversations
free
Male identities
20:30
conversations
free
Crossing Masculinity
19:00
talk
free
Male identities
20:30
conversations
free
Male identities
20:30
conversations
free
22.03.2019
16:00
free

Towards a new compass: North - South alliances in the art world w/ Kunstenpunt & Mondriaanfonds

debate
Curators from South-Africa and Zimbabwe come to explore the art scene in Belgium and the Netherlands with a view to engendering more collaboration and exchange.
27.03.2019
19:00
free

Small Talk on spirituality w/ Malika Hamidi

conversations
In a six-part series of discussions – Small Talks – we’ll be taking a closer look at the different perspectives that define our reality and our norms. Normal Schnormal!
28.03.2019
19:30
free

Breunion Boys

lecture, concert
As part of an evening full of music, debate, poetry and more, we’ll discuss the future of a European Union without quarrelsome Brits, asking how it could have come to this and thinking about relationship therapy. w/ deBuren
18.04.2019
19:00
free

Small Talk on identity w/ Sarah Chander

conversations
Sarah Chander works for the European Netwerk Against Racism (ENAR), in her practice she focuses on race and gender equality, securitisation and the rights of people of colour and migrants in Europe
18.04.2019
19:00
free

Opera Capture Clubbing

DRINKS, music, party
Ketjes take over Beursschouwburg and throw a party! 
14.09.2019
14:00

The Big Conversation on today's theatre in Vooruit, Ghent

conversations
w/ Het TheaterFestival, Etcetera & rekto:verso
14.09.2019
14:00-18:00
15.09.2019
14:00-18:00
free

Heritage Days

guided tour
Around the building’s awning you can see our name: Beursschouwburg. Or is it Bourscaubirg? What’s with all the different spellings? Who has liberated us from the constraints of official spelling? Find out on the Heritage Days.
20.09–20.12.2019

We Love You

performance, film, music, expo, conversations
Love. That’s what we’ll be talking about in autumn 2019. What exactly is the role and relevance of love in this individualistic, polarised, mediatised, competitive, post-colonial and climate-apocalyptic era?
21.09.2019
17:00

Reading Group on Paul B. Preciado

reading group
Together with Tessel Veneboer and Robin Brettar we dive into 'The Countersexual Manifesto' of writer, philosopher, curator, and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexual politics Paul B. Preciado.
21.09.2019
20:30
sold out

Paul B. Preciado On love

opening lecture, Q&A
The philosopher, who is the author of 'An Apartment on Uranus', 'Testo Junkie' & 'Manifiesto Contrasexual' presents a previously unpublished text on contemporary love. And discusses its place at the heart of our normative society. w/ Passa Porta
27–28.09 2019

Bledarte Days

music, film screening, talk, workshop
05.10.2019
17:00

Big Daddy's Book Club Americanah

reading group
Together with Kritikos Pandelis Mwansa we dive into Americanah, a powerful story of race and identity by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
12.10.2019
16:00

Writing as a gesture of love Reading on writing

reading group
A collective reading session of extracts of texts on the act of writing: the urge to write, the love of writing, the self-doubt or confidence aroused in expressing oneself. w/ Rebecca Jane Arthur & Eva Giolo  
12.10.2019
17:00

Love & The Earth with Grace Ndiritu A History of Community Resistance

reading group
Seminar-style discussion and meditation on intersections of hippie counterculture and radical leftist activism.
26.10.2019
17:00
sold out

Reading Group on bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody

reading group
Let’s explore the idea of love in conjuncture with feminism and politics through bell hooks’ “Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate politics”
09.11.2019
17:00
free

School of Love

presentation
27–30.11 2019

Re/defining Masculinities Week

talks, open mic, performance, SCREENINGS
Binaries, dichotomies and stereotypes, begone! w/ Finnish Cultural Institute & deBuren
27.11.2019
20:30
free

Voice Male

open mic, stand up comedy, performance
Stand-up, slam and performance dealing with multi-masculinity. w/ a.o. Jamie McDonald, Jaouad Alloul, Eric Niyibizi Cyuzuzo, Gijs Hablous & Jihan Imago.
27.11.2019
20:30
28.11.2019
20:30
29.11.2019
20:30
30.11.2019
20:30
free

Male identities

conversations
Redefining masculinity in conversation with others who identify as men.
29.11.2019
19:00
free

Crossing Masculinity

talk
We talk with speakers from an academic, sociocultural and artistic background on normativity and redefining masculinity. w/ a.o. word artist Kevin Groen, musician Kriticos Mwansa, crisis worker for young people Oscar Lehtinen and Koen Dedoncker from Men Engage Flanders.  
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