Young, multidisciplinary talent will occupy every possible corner of the Beursschouwburg. Better together y'all!

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.

How to express ourselves about biases born from the power structures and systems of oppression?

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?

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. 

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 

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

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

From the comfort of your own home, Bâtard Festival will once again introduce you to emerging artists practicing hybrid art forms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A good old TV quiz about the biases you didn’t even know you had. Everyone wins! Kind of.  

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.

Camilo will be sharing his experience during the creation of 'The Sadness'.

Joana Tischkau will share some texts and images she used during the research for her piece Being Pink Ain’t Easy with the participants.

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

Dancing on hyper-masculinity, white fragility and cultural appropriation.

Two solo performances by a furious Rodrigo Batista that seek out artistic attitudes capable of triggering real rebellion. 

Sad Rap in a collective concert-performance.

Presented by SoundImageCulture. As part of the programme Aesthetics of the Political curated by Sammah Hijawi

A programme of different encounters that takes time to look closely at the critical language, and forms of resistance in artistic work. w/ SoundImageCulture

Artist talk with Ogutu Muraya (via Skype) and Quinsy Gario, after Quinsy’s reading-performance of Ogutu’s 'On Thin Ice'.

Quinsy Gario reads excerpts from Ogutu Muraya’s book on his diasporic experience.

Flow back to beurs!

After the performance on Saturday, we'll invite you to a conversation with Brussels-based South African-born dancer, choreographer and artist Moya Michael and her friend, peer and former schoolmate Mamela Nyamza. They will discuss their herstories, their practices, and how their experiences have been and are shaped by the intersections of their Womanhood and Blackness.