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Samah Hijawi Chasing Za’atar: from Jordan to Belgium (Part II) (work in progress)

dinner performance
WE 29.09 19:00
TH 30.09 19:00
Samah Hijawi shares the layered histories around food to bring a deeper reflection of the politics of the food on our table.

OPEN CALL workshop by and with Jota Mombaça and Denise Ferreira da Silva

performance
OPERA INFINITA, CHAPTER A: THE RED EARTH

Sara Leghissa Will you marry me?

lecture performance
SU 19.09 15:00
SU 19.09 16:30
A site-specific and temporary public lecture that invites us to relate with the boundaries between what is legal and what is illegal.

Stanley Ollivier The Mirror Stand

dance
FR 17.09 20:30
SA 18.09 20:30
Ballroom and contemporary dancer Stanley Ollivier investigates the notion of identity with a mix of seriousness, exaggeration and foolishness.

opening weekend Are We There Yet?

music performance expo conversations
17 SEP — 19 SEP
This fall, we keep going, we speed up, we pause, and we continue to wander along the many branches of a question: Are We There Yet? Join us for the Opening Weekend with Sina Hensel, Sara Leghissa, Pega, Stakattak, That Might Be Right & Supafly.

WILL YOU MARRY ME? Artist’s Book

performance
Sara Leghissa's public performance WILL YOU MARRY ME? transformed into other things, including a book published by NERO Editions. This week for sale at Rile bookshop!

Hands Up festival

festival
7 JUL — 11 JUL
Young, multidisciplinary talent will occupy every possible corner of the Beursschouwburg. Better together y'all!

Quinsy Gario our playing mas...ses

performance premiere
WE 23.06 20:30
TH 24.06 20:30
Departing from Super 8 footage of the second and last Antilliean Carnival in the Dutch city of Utrecht in 1983, Quinsy Gario weaves historical fact and speculation together.

Writing workshop with Luanda Casella

workshop
SA 19.06 14:00 - 17:00
How to express ourselves about biases born from the power structures and systems of oppression?

Sorour Darabi Mowgli

KFDA online performance
TU 25.05 21:00
The jungle is a new and infinite territory, where the possible has another meaning, or perhaps none. From which side can we enter the jungle, to taste this dream?

Ébana Garín & Luis Guenel

residency
During their residency in Beurs’, the research “Bailar la ruina” (Dancing the ruin) turned to the particular relationship between the body of a woman and the body of a ruined house from southern Chile. 

Wedntknwyet Just Imagine

online videopodcast
Your host Jimmy Imagine explores the possible futures as well as the pasts of humanity we may have never heard of. w/ Black History Month 

Simon Asencio, Andrea Zavala Folache, Paula Almiron

residency
Three performers explore the discrete techniques of clairvoyance in their school of magic·k.

Gabriela Jiménez

residency
Gabriela is working on a new project that reflects the poetry of solitude, of collective desires, and of fallen dreams through embodied night dances.

Batârd 2021 Hello from the other side

online performance festival
3 FEB — 6 FEB
From the comfort of your own home, Bâtard Festival will once again introduce you to emerging artists practicing hybrid art forms.

Samah Hijawi

residency
In the Beurs' kitchen, Samah Hijawi works on the next chapter of her artistic research project on food, cooking practices, and their stories throughout history and geographies.

Parvin Saljuxxi & Nana Biluš Abaffy

residency
In their choreographic work mixing film and live performance, this artist duo draws inspiration from military parades, television propaganda, and twisted realities to take us on a roller coaster ride of life and death.

Joshua Serafin

residency
In the Philippines, transgender beauty pageants are big business. Joshua uses choreography to explore what this (sub)culture can teach us about gender, identity, beauty politics, and hidden colonial pasts.

Lisa Vereertbrugghen Feel Yourself, A Techno Meditation.

online a techno meditation
In anticipation of Lisa Vereertbrugghen’s new dance performance, here’s a little try-it-at-home teaser for you: set aside 15 minutes (as part of your morning routine, sunny weekend, whenever suits you best). Seek out a suitable place and align your chakras to 130 bpm.

Mallika Taneja Allegedly

online live performance
SA 12.12.2020 18:00
SU 13.12.2020 18:00
We’ll be livestreaming from India the performance “Allegedly” by Mallika Taneja, who will invite her tele-audience to take part in a discussion on sexual violence. All together on the warm, wide web.

Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere Pleasant Island [postponed]

performance coproduction
Documentary-theatre about the decay of a paradise-like island.

Luanda Casella Killjoy Quiz

performance
TH 10.06 20:30
FR 11.06 20:30
A good old TV quiz about the biases you didn’t even know you had. Everyone wins! Kind of.  

Carolina Mendonça & Catalina Insignares useless land

online reading sleepover
SA 14.11.2020 23:00 online event
Prepare a soft-surfaced island at your home, and connect to a collective terrain, a space where sleeping is a way of understanding the world. Where voices trickle gently into the ears, weaving stories. A wasteland.

Performativity workshop with Camilo Mejía

workshop
SA 24.10.2020 12:30 - 14:30
Camilo will be sharing his experience during the creation of 'The Sadness'.

A READING GROUP WITH JOANA TISCHKAU Being Pink Ain’t Easy

reading group
SA 17.10.2020 12:30
Joana Tischkau will share some texts and images she used during the research for her piece Being Pink Ain’t Easy with the participants.

A TALK WITH JOANA TISCHKAU Being Pink Ain’t Easy

talk
FR 16.10.2020 21:30
After a performance of Being Pink Ain’t Easy on Friday, Joana Tischkau will sit down with sociocultural programmer Eric Cyuzuzo to discuss the piece, as well as her past, current and future work

Joana Tischkau Being Pink Ain’t Easy

dance
TH 15.10.2020 20:30
FR 16.10.2020 20:30 + AFTERTALK
SA 17.10.2020 20:30 + READING GROUP AT 12:30
Dancing on hyper-masculinity, white fragility and cultural appropriation.

Rodrigo Batista The Furious Rodrigo Batista (Side A) + The B-Side

performance
FR 09.10.2020 20:30
SA 10.10.2020 20:30
Two solo performances by a furious Rodrigo Batista that seek out artistic attitudes capable of triggering real rebellion. 

Ula Sickle The Sadness

dance premiere
FR 02.10.2020 20:30
SA 03.10.2020 20:30
Sad Rap in a collective concert-performance.

Mirna Bamieh / Palestine Hosting Society Menu of Dis/appearance

PERFORMANCE @ PIANOFABRIEK
SA 26.09.2020 18:30
Presented by SoundImageCulture. As part of the programme Aesthetics of the Political curated by Sammah Hijawi