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10 May

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Coucou!

Forget the blue glare of your screen(s) and get ready to climb the notorious Beursschouwburg staircase with your framily: THE ROOFTOP BAR IS RE-OPENING IN JUNE.

job vacancy technician

Beursschouwburg is looking for a new colleague with expertise in lighting!

That Might Be Right The Robbery of Nature

reading group
SA 27.02 15:00
SA 13.03 15:00
SA 27.03 15:00
SA 08.05 14:00
SA 22.05 14:00
SA 05.06 14:00
Let’s get on with it and continue to read, talk and think about our contemporary constellation and potential practices that might constitute new forms of life.

CONVERSATIONS ON NOT BEING THERE … YET

online conversations
WE 17.02 19:00
WE 24.02 19:00
WE 03.03 19:00
WE 10.03 19:00
WE 28.04 19:00
WE 05.05 19:00
WE 12.05 19:00

SAY HI TO Ève Chabanon

meet the artist

“Cultivating dialogue, challenging ideas, navigating between different artistic scenes… That is the kind of platform I want to uphold together with artists and audiences at Beursschouwburg.”

Meet visual and audiovisual arts programmer Sofia Dati!

Mental health and escapism through nightlife w/ Kiosk Radio

replay online conversations
Kiosk Radio’s Jim Becker leads experimental musician Valentino Mora (IDO) and psychologists and DJs Maurizio Ferrara (DJ Athome, Front de Cadeaux) and Zohra Lkasbi (DJ SAHЯA) into a conversation about the links between mental health and nightlife, especially in times of COVID.

Ève Chabanon Chapter 4: Sold

expo
23 APR — 4 SEP
Together with a collective of ‘non-producers’ Ève Chabanon raises questions surrounding the conditions of cultural labour.

Are we there yet?

focus
Are We There Yet? We hold on, we keep going, we’ll get there… but will we? Who is “we”, and where is “there”? Stuck between departure and arrival, things seem to last forever. 

CÉLINE GILLAIN — J O Y

playlist
"It's simply a playlist about the joy to be alive." — Céline Gillain

On the (re)appropriation of queer aesthetics in music and nightlife w/ VICE

online conversations
WE 12.05 19:00
From genderbending fashion to pinkwashing cishet artists, let’s have a conversation on the (re)appropriation of queer aesthetics in mainstream music.

together in the studio

Dear reader of this Beursschouwletter, We've built a cuddly studio at the heart of your schouwburg to invite artists, activists, and thinkers to take to the fluffy floor for discussions on art, nightlife, decolonization, intersectionality, and more. You can watch and re-watch all of these conversations online. The first videos have already been uploaded for your viewing pleasure. Keep an eye on cyberspace to stay tuned for who and what’s coming very soon. Spring greetings, live from the studio Your B

We Object — with Joëlle Sambi Nzeba & Ruth Grâce Paluku-Atoka

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UPDATE! Babs Gons can't make it and Ruth Grâce Paluku-Atoka will take her place! You’re invited to join Joëlle Sambi Nzeba, Babs Gons and their chosen objects for an intimate conversation about how colonialism exists in all of our everyday lives. 

We Object — with Loucka Fiagan & Lisette Ma Neza

replay online talk
You’re invited to join Lisette Ma Neza, Loucka Fiagan and their chosen objects for an intimate conversation about how colonialism exists in all of our everyday lives. 

We Object — with Camilo Mejía Cortés & Cherish Menzo

replay online talk
You’re invited to join Camilo Mejía Cortés, Cherish Menzo and their chosen objects for an intimate conversation about how colonialism exists in all of our everyday lives. 

on being a mother & a DJ w/ Bledarte

replay online conversations
Three grandes dames of Brussels’ nightlife scene talk about being a mom and a DJ and how the two relate.

on rethinking and creating safer spaces in nightlife w/ Mothers & Daughters

replay online conversations
Several collectives active in building community through nightlife come together to discuss and rethink the creation and maintenance of safer nightlife spaces.  

On the (re)appropriation of black aesthetics in music and nightlife w/ Black History Month & Vice

replay online conversations
How have elements of Black cultures been (re)appropriated in fashion and nightlife?

On navigating nightlife and festivals as Black People w/ Black History Month Belgium

replay online conversations

Farida Amadou

music walk BRUSSELS CENTRE
A wandering walk through guitar compositions, distorted bass compositions from her first solo album and field recording from the park someday in November.

Ugne & Maria

music walk Anderlecht
A multilayered mind map of the Brussels where Ugne & Maria came home.

Daisy Darkpark

music walk ixelles
Daisy Darkpark sends you, as a private detective, on a mission through the barracks of Ixelles. Best from dusk onwards.

Pak Yan Lau

music walk Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
A flowing line, almost straight, guides you through this musical meditation.

Vica Pacheco

associated artist
2020-2021

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 

VICA PACHECO music for an insomniac winter night

playlist

Being Imposed Upon a conversation about decolonization & feminism

replay online talk
A conversation between Melat Gebeyaw Nigussie, Anissa Boujdaini, Aline Bosuma W’okungu Bakili & Emmanuelle Nsunda.

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?

Luanda Casella KillJoy Quiz

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

Quinsy Gario our playing mas...ses

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

Amber Vanluffelen Lucky Charms

expo
16 JUN — 3 JUL