Volksroom x Decoratelier — IT FOR NOW
24.04 — “Good spaces never die !”
Simplified : the legendary artist-run-space Volksroom brings 4 performances by 6 performers.
* a simple Monday but on a Wednesday
With Micha Goldberg, Helena Araujo, Loucka Fiagan, Luis Ramirez Munoz, Chiara Monteverde, Simon Van Schuylenbergh
26.04 — “Same thing but make it more !”
Multiplied: the 4 same performances multiplied by 10 performers.
With Micha Goldberg, Helena Araújo, Loucka Fiagan, Luis Ramirez Muñoz, Chiara Monteverde, Simon Van Schuylenbergh, Marivi Gazeta, Rojda Gülizar Karakuş , Nathaniel Moore and Marco Labellarte
Tickets via Decoratalier.
*combi-tickets available (24+26)
OPEN CALL /I Artistic Commission — GC Nekkersdal
As part of the community centre (GC) Nekkersdal construction project, the Flemish Community Commission (VGC) wishes to select an artist to realise an artistic commission. Read all about it here!
In the first phase, the KIO Core group offers artists the opportunity to send a concise response no later than 15 April 2024, focusing on the questions below, which will determine the selection.
MOTIVATION: What is your motivation for taking on this commission?
SEMI: What is your perspective on semi/semi-public?
BRUSSELS: What affinity do you have with an urban environment and with Brussels/Laeken in particular?
EXPERIENCE: Do you have experience in the field of (permanent) artistic commissions? And what is your artistic approach in open spaces?
Send your entry:
in Dutch.
max 1 A4 CV/portfolio
no later than 15 April 2024
to kunsten@vgc.be
with the subject: Open Call artistic commission — GC Nekkersdal
There is no fee for this submission.
Reflection day during It Takes a City at Kunstenwerkplaats / Pianofabriek
Value and Judgement: (Invisible) Operating Systems Within the Performing Arts
17 February — 14:00
Kunstenwerkplaats / Pianofabriek
In spite of a growing consciousness around inclusion and diversity, decisions in the performing arts are often still rooted in a Eurocentric value system and perspective. This concerns not only the way our field operates day to day, but also the choices within artistic programming, artistic practices or financial support. With growing far-right & conservative politics and the direct impact it enforces on our sector, not only who we choose, but also how we come to those choices is extremely relevant.
In this debate, we will look deeper into shared ownership of artistic programs within institutions and festivals and address the invisible barriers of gatekeeping and assimilation. A dismantling of the reality of “free” choice-making and who still has(owns) this possibility
Presented Kunstenpunt / Flanders Arts institute as part of It Takes a City!
Register here.
interview with Khadija El Kharraz in NRC
“For this performance, I don’t want to worry about labels that others put on me. Not to resist or have to justify myself. Staying soft. Explore that. Softness, love.”
- Khadija El Kharraz Alami, interview by Shira Keller for NRC.
Tonight, Khadija’s performance Ensemble piece exhume buried cries beauty love reanimate the dead will have its Dutch premiere at Theater Rotterdam.
Read the full interview here!
Picture by Hedayatullah Amid.
KWP artist Samah Hijawi is joining TANK TINK / ONE by Enkidu Khaled and Joachim Robbrecht!
In TANK TINK / ONE Enkidu & Joachim explore the devastating impact of war on the environment and brainstorm on possible countermeasures. They counter this horror with images of satire, despair and resistance, together with performers Ogutu Muraya & Caroline Ngorobi, writer Chris Keulemans and artist Samah Hijawi.
17.01.2024 I De Balie in collab with De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Tickets via De Balie.
KWP artists Marieke&Sophia performing Guilty of Love in KVS — extra date!
In Guilty of Love, Marie Schraepen, Sophia Bauer and Mats Vandroogenbroeck investigate the overload of sexual violence in our common cultural imagination.
The motive of the dead, raped women is especially prevalent: as a desire, as a monster, as a sacrifice. In constantly changing roles, the actors attempt to get a grip on the persistent nature of this image. Popular imaginations cross over each other. A testimony clashes with soap dialogue and YouTube re- enacting videos in the search for an adequate language that transcends the cliches of this theme.
January 17 and 18 in KVS. More info here!
The 22nd of February, Marieke&Sophia premiere at Monty in Antwerp with their newest creation, Motherbaby, in which they sing of the mother-child bond in all its contradictory facets. They take you into the twilight zone between love and aggression.
Recensie: FRICTION van Sophia Rodriguez door Dagmar Teurelinckx
Een interessante blik op FRICTION door Dagmar Teurelincx voor e‑tcetera, lees hier: e‑tcetera.be/friction-sophia-rodrigues
‘Sophia Rodriguez’s FRICTION departs from the hypothesis that friction between individuals is disappearing in our contemporary, capitalist society, because of the common association of friction with resistance and conflict. In attempting to ensure that everything runs smoothly, we trade proximity for coldness. FRICTION explores whether deliberately provoking friction between people is a way to rid them of psychological and cultural differences, which often get in the way of connecting with others. While Rodriguez’ ambitions are hyper relevant and important, the resulting performance is a watered-down version of them.’
Kunstendag voor Kinderen: Theater for Beginners
Marieke Schraepen en Seppe Decubber gaan op zoek naar jong theatertalent via workshops in aanloop naar de Kunstendag voor Kinderen. Basisschool De Balder, de Sint-Gillisschool en MABO zijn van de partij.
Alle andere activiteiten die in het kader van de Kunstendag voor Kinderen georganiseerd worden, kan je terugvinden op hun website: www.kunstendagvoorkinderen.be
‘Nu är jag Medea’: Khadija El Kharraz Alami in Sweden!
Khadija El Kharraz Alami started the tour of ‘Nu ben ik Medea’ in Sweden. In 2018, she won awards with her performance at Theater Aan Zee. Her personal retelling of Euripides’ tragedy has not escaped Riksteatern in Sweden either. Khadija is touring the Swedish country with the English-language version, ‘Nu är jag Medea’. This weekend, she performed at Sara Kulturhus!
‘Nu ben ik Medea’ is a personal retelling of Euripides’ tragedy, interweaving the story ofMedea with her own experiences of growing up between two worlds — and about the clash of forces within yourself. Alami explains how she has been shaped by the riches from the Western and Moroccan worlds: the many traditions, differences in culture, multilingualism, believing or not believing, music, food, freedom… Until these riches collide: she stands between them and tries with all her strength to hold onto both. So she grows up further, no longer with, but between two worlds.
Mindblowers 2023: Power invites Roel Heremans!
Tonight 12 October, transdisciplinary artist Roel Heremans will perform at Mindblowers 2023: Power, a collaboration between KVS and VUB. Starting from the idea that scientists and artists are the visionaries of society, KVS and VUB created this project to give these voices a stage.
In the context of his work The NeuroRight Arcades, Roel Heremans is invited to talk this evening about the power one might have over our brains in the near future. The retro game consoles will also be on display and in use at KVS for a month. With The NeuroRight Arcades, he points out the dangers that the battle for our minds represents for human integrity.
More info on the full programme via Mindblowers 2023: Power..
Read more via the article in Bruzz!
Tonight 11.10: Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis premiering in CAMPO
During their three weeks residency in the summer, Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis worked on the creation of their newest performance, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. Tonight they will have their première at CAMPO (Ghent)!
In this performance, Bosse & Ezra explore freedom and unfreedom in relation to technology, by staging Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem of the same name.
When?
11.10 — sold out
12.10
13.10
Tickets via CAMPO
29.08: Leïla Alice invites you to Maison (12) soleil — work.in.progress
Leïla Alice invites you to join her in Zabriskie (Pianofabriek) and get a glimpse of the project she’s been working on.
maison (12) soleil — work.in.progress
18′ performance
created by leïla alice
soundscape by pippin
scenography by skincity
styling by éléonore avrilleau
pictures by sidonie ronfard
where all my words echo
where all my flaw resound
where all my sensitivity bathes
everything i’d sometimes like to hide
29 august 2023 — 4pm
zabriskie point room (-1)
pianofabriek , rue du fort 35
22.08: Jonathan Franz & Audrey showing their newest performance (work-in-progress)
22.08 — 17u
Kunstenwerkplaats, zaal Elsenor
This afternoon, Jonathan Franz en Audrey Apers organise a showcase of their newest performance TROAST.
Akt II.
(Marschmusik/Cheerleadervibes)
children who are using
their intellectual power
to mirror each others’
deconstructed selves,
jerking me off virtually,
dressing me up digitally
in sexy-sexless, unisex
or ungendered unigender
sex clothes…
children who are using
their imagination
to make communication
faster than politics
non verbal communication
non violent communication
visual vocabulary
visceral vocabulary
very oral and immoral
what’s your art?
anti-art!
children who are using
their consumer power
to change each others
reconstructed selves,
I am anti-realism
I prefer materialism
some might call me exhibitionist
but I am essentialist
essentially a feminist
children who are using
technological power…
children who are using
their sexual power…
Twee stagiairs gezocht!
KWP zoekt 2 stagiairs!
Na de zomer maakt KWP twee nieuwe creaties en daarvoor zijn we op zoek naar twee enthousiastelingen die ons productieteam kunnen bijstaan!
Lees hier meer over de stage, het takenpakket én het profiel.
Is dit iets voor jou? Aarzel dan niet om te solliciteren!
Stuur je cv en motivatiebrief tegen 5 september naar kunstenwerkplaats@pianofabriek.be.
WIJ ZOEKEN: vrijwilligers die willen meewerken aan de captatie/livestream van A Marathon by Ne Mosquito Pas
NL
KUNSTENWERKPLAATS IS OP ZOEK NAAR
3 vrijwilligers voor de capatatie/livestream van A MARATHON by Ne Mosquito Pas!
WAT
In Ne Mosquito Pas komen podiumartiesten vanuit verschillende disciplines samen rond hun gefaalde en niet-gebruikte ideeën, die het vertrekpunt vormen voor een solo performance. “If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style”. Iedere avond tonen telkens 5 artiesten hun solo. Na 5 jaar van events en voorstellingen volgt nu de grote finale van Ne Mosquito Pas in Decoratelier: een 16u durende marathon van 53 solo’s!
Deze memorabele avond wordt gecapteerd en gelivestreamd door Beeldstorm en Moose-Stache, bekend voor hun expertise en ervaring binnen de registratie van podiumkunsten.
Meer info over Ne Mosquito Pas en A Marathon :
WIJ ZOEKEN
3 vrijwilligers met interesse en/of ervaring in audiovisuele kunsten, voor het bedienen van de camera’s voor de captatie/livestream.
Wanneer? 2 – 3/09/2023 (16u – 8u)
Waar? Decoratelier, Molenbeek
WIJ BIEDEN
Een memorabele en leerrijke avond/nacht onder begeleiding van ervaren audiovisuele bedrijven Moose-Stache en Beeldstorm
Lekker eten & drinken om de nacht door te komen
2 vrijwilligerscontracten (2x 8u) met vrijwilligersvergoeding
Interesse om deel uit te maken van dit project?
Stuur een mailtje voor 23 augustus 2023 naar volgende mailadressen:
lore.sommereyns@pianofabriek.be en eva.welkenhuyzen@pianofabriek.be
EN
KUNSTENWERKPLAATS IS LOOKING FOR
3 volunteers for the capatation/livestream of A MARATHON by Ne Mosquito Pas!
WHAT
In Ne mosquito pas, performance artists make a solo questioning their own relationship to success and failure by working with elements that they themselves perceive as ‘failures’ within their practice. “If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style”. Each night 5 artists show one solo. After five years & many events, Ne Mosquito Pas will have its grand finale in Decoratelier with a 16 hours’ marathon of 53 solos!
This memorable event will be captured by Beeldstorm and Moose-Stache, known for their expertise and experience within performing arts registration.
More info on Ne Mosquito Pas and A Marathon :
WE ARE LOOKING FOR
3 volunteers with an interest and/or experience within audio visual arts, to operate the cameras for the capture/livestream.
When? 2 — 3/09/2023 (4pm — 8am)
Where? Decoratelier, Molenbeek
WE OFFER
A memorable and educational evening/night accompanied by experienced audiovisual companies Moose-Stache and Beeldstorm
Tasty food & drinks to get you through the night
2 volunteer contracts (2x 8h) with a volunteer fee
Interested in being part of this project?
Send an email by 23 August 2023 to the following email addresses:
lore.sommereyns@pianofabriek.be and eva.welkenhuyzen@pianofabriek.be
WELCOME: OPEN REHEARSAL — Raphael Philipe Damasceno
Raphael Philipe Damasceno welcomes you to an open rehearsal of his new project ‘- the road, again’.
Through this ongoing project Raphael aims at creating spaces for citizens to come together and start an embodied exchange around decolonial literature — both as performances and/or open workshops, tables of discussions and reading groups.
The rehearsal will be in English and lasts around 30 minutes. Everyone is welcome to join the talk afterwards!
When?
Friday july 14th, 16:00
Where?
KWP, Pianofabriek
Fortstraat 35, 1060 Sint-Gillis
See you!
Globe Aroma invites Samah Hijawi for two writing workshops
Globe Aroma is an artistic work and meeting place in Brussels, offering support and a network to artists, creators and art lovers from newcomer backgrounds. Kunstenwerkplaats collaborates structurally with Globe Aroma.
KWP artist, chef and astrologer Samah Hijawi was invited to give two writing workshops this month: “The kitchen as a place of resistance” and “Ode to plants.” Globe Aroma is hosting a series of writing workshops in June and July, Writing to make it happen, around different writing practices, futurologist approaches, and socio-political topics.
With her long-term project Kitchen.Table, Samah explores diverse culinary histories and cultures to better understand how they influence our current food politics. Using the basic ingredients of the Mediterranean spice mixture Za’atar as a starting point, she delves into various food cultures, including our spiritual and mythological connections to food, and relates them to contemporary food cultures in cities.
Read the review of Rachid Laachir’s new performance!
“’A crock of bull at the crack of dawn’ takes you to the beginning and end of a night, a life, shared lives, in all its absurdity, of a violent tristesse.” — pzazz
Lotte Ogiers attended the premiere of ‘A crock of bull at the crack of dawn’ by Rachid Laachir and captured his performance in a beautifully written review!
You can read the review here.
Pic by Karolina Maruszak.
Milo Slayers wraps up his residency at La Bellone with a presentation on flow!
“Flow” and “bounce” are words often used in hip-hop culture, sometimes trying to bind usage to form, but what can these vague words generate? Can they have definitions? Can they give other readings to movement?
To conclude his residency at La Bellone, Milo Slayers brings a small presentation focusing on the practice around Flow from a dramaturgical perspective.
26.05 / 11u
La Bellone
Reservations can be made here!
Image by © Camille Poitevin
Soon in premiere: A crock of bull at the crack of dawn by Rachid Laachir!
In order to control life we try to name it, in order to control death we perform it.
In A crock of bull at the crack of dawn, playwright, performer and designer Rachid Laachir explores metamorphoses. Using body, voice, costumes and other objects, he creates characters at the intersection of the natural, the human, the magical and the mystical.
Thursday 16th of June, A crock of bull at the crack of dawn has its premiere at Kunstencentrum BUDA in Kortrijk. You can find tickets here!
Kicking off Plat(e)form(e)!
Today, we launched Plat(e)form(e) 2023, a three-day programme designed for (inter)national professionals attending Kunstenfestivaldesarts. This unique opportunity allows these visitors to explore the vibrant performing arts scene in Brussels, Flanders, and Wallonia.
The programme kicked off this morning at Kunstenwerkplaats, where attendees had the pleasure of meeting Ula Sickle, who presented a bit of her new creation Holding Present. This was followed by the mesmerizing eight-minute experience of Techno Meditations, a piece by Lisa Vereertbrugghen.
Are you interested in joining this day filled with performances and stimulating exchanges? You’re more than welcome to be part of this exciting event!
Programme 16.05 — Kunstenwerkplaats
10:00 Check In
Morning Coffee
Café Alcantara
10:30 Welcome
Introduction to the programma of Plat(e)form(e) 2023 followed by a presentation of the venue Kunstenwerkplaats by artistic director Karlien Vanhoonacker.
11:00 Warm Up
Techno Meditation with Lisa Vereertbrugghen.
Elsenor
11:30 Exchange
Who is visiting/presenting?
What is your working/artistic context?
Hopes & expectations on Plat(e)form(e) 2023?
Casablanca 3rd Floor
12:45 Input & discussion
Keynote on funding opportunities for international
programmers by Femke Hintjens (Flanders Art Institute)
followed by a thematic group discussion (needs, problems,
tips etc.)
Casablanca 3rd Floor
13:30 Lunch
Zabriskie
14:30 Sharings
Presentations by 5 selected artists:
14:30 Sanah Ghobbeh: The Ferris wheel turns when the wind blows
Elsenor 4th Floor
15:00 Arno Ferrera & Gilles Polet: Armour
Arenberg 1st Floor
15:30 Joshua Serafin: Pearls
Elsenor 4th Floor
16:00 Coffee Break
Café Alcantara
16:30 Jorre Vandenbusshe: Vitus — The Disease dances me
Arenberg 1st Floor
17:00 Oxana Sankova: The poem without a hero
Elsenor 4th Floor
17:30 Fade out
Apéro/exchange with the artists & the programmers
Café Alcantara
20:30 Evening show
Blind Runner — Amir Reza Koohestani / Mehr Theatre Group
Location: Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 75, 1000 Brussels
Visitors program Plat(e)form(e) during Kunstenfestivaldesarts
16.05 — 18.05
At multiple locations
16.05 at KWP
International programmers discover the unique performing arts scene of Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels. An initiative of Kunstenpunt/Flanders Arts Institute, Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse (WBTD) and Kunstenfestivaldesarts, in collaboration with several partners from the Brussels performing arts scene.
Plat(e)form(e) was born from a desire to support and highlight the local performing arts scene. By drawing on the presence of international professionals we hope to promote new networks and lasting exchanges.
Plat(e)form(e) presents performances, works in progress and pitches by artists. Through discussions and feedback sessions, we want to open a temporary space for mutual learning and reflection on what it means to create and present (inter)nationally today.
On 16.05 Plat(e)form(e) will take place here at KWP (Pianofabriek), showing five performances for an audience of professionals. Take a look at the website of Kunstenpunt for more info on the program.
OPEN CALL: 100% FREE SPACE
Space for beginning artists during the summer in the Brussels community centres: open call in collaboration with Kunstenwerkplaats (artistic workspace)
Are you a professional artist or do you have plans to move in that direction? Do you have a clear link to Brussels and are looking for space for your research or project? This summer, the Brussels community centres are once again making some rooms available to artists free of charge. All disciplines are welcome.
Interested? Click here for more information on the space and application.
Read Etcetera’s review of DEMONstratio here!
“The performance offers a sequence of fascinating movements, trying to show different dimensions of their battle within this square.”
Last Friday, “DEMONstratio” by Milø Slayers premiered at Charleroi Danse’s Legs Festival, and it did not escape Etcetera’s notice either. Rojda Karakuş wrote a nice review of the performance, which you can read here!
OPEN CALL: join the artistic team of Marco Mendonça’s performance “Blackface”
Alkantara is looking for video artists with technical skills such as directing, filming, editing and video editing to join the artistic team of Marco Mendonça’s performance Blackface.
You can still apply until 15 April, using this form.
Blackface is a musical conference based on the recurrent use of blackface in different social contexts, from popular traditions to television competitions, from comedy shows to theatre. Marco Mendonça questions the limits of common sense regarding the portrayal of black bodies in Portugal.
Interested? Take a look at Alkantara’s website for more info & details!
Kate McIntosh is looking for a TEST AUDIENCE, young & old are welcome!
Kate McIntosh is making a new performance called Lake Life… and she needs your help!
This call is for mixed age audiences — both adults and young people aged 10+ years.
Lake Life is an interactive landscape – no performers, just the audience trying out games, encounters and tasks together. To develop these games, we need to experiment them with curious test audiences, young and old. Find out more about Lake life.
We invite you to join in the studio for a couple of hours – we’ll play out some ideas together, and ask what you think about it. It will be fun… and it’s free…
Please join! Pass the invitation to friends!
Adults — come alone, or if you know people aged 10+ then come together as a team. Young people also welcome alone.
It will happen here:
Kunstenwerkplaats KWP
Rue du Fortstraat 35, 1060 St Gillis/Gilles, Brussels.
You can join on these dates:
Friday 14 April, 14:00 – 16:00 (English & Dutch)
Wednesday 19 April, 14:00 – 16:00 (English & Dutch)
Saturday 22 April, 14:00 – 16:00 (English & Dutch)
Please let us know when you are coming by signing up here: https://form.jotform.com/23053…
If you have questions (or need to cancel) please contact us at: lakelife.testaudience123@gmail.com
Lake Life begins from the story of the Changelings — an alien species who can wilfully transform into any animal, plant or mineral. Changelings have a name for species that don’t shapeshift : Solids. Probably they believe we are Solids… but are we?
Premiere of DEMONstratio!
Tomorrow the 31st of March, Milø Slayers’ highly anticipated performance premieres at the Legs Festival at La Raffinerie, presented by Charleroi danse and Kaaitheater.
For his performance, Milø was inspired by the recently discovered racist inscription on Kasimir Malevich’s famous painting Black Square (1915). Milø addresses the tension that even the most abstract art can never be free of politics. Within the clean lines of a perfectly lit square, he and his three performers seek an incantatory counterweight in the subconscious power of voice and movement. Light and dark, reason and feeling, certainty and uncertainty: sharp binary opposites are there to transcend them.
Right after the show, we will danse into the night at the Crazy Legs party, where Milø has been given carte blanche for an experimental and whimsical evening…
Friday March 10th: 2X KWP at bits of dance!
Leading up to its premiere on 31 March, Milø Slayers will perform a work-in-progress showing of DEMONstratio next Friday at 17:00 at the bits of dance festival in Bruges, presented by Dans in Brugge.
Later that evening, at 20:00 Lisa Vereertbrugghen is going to perform Disquiet — sensational aesthetics of a technokin.
Both performances can be perfectly combined. Don’t miss out on them!
More info on the festival and tickets via Dans in Brugge.
Onassis AiR Open Call 2023⁄24
Like any living organism, Onassis AiR constantly evolves in order to support the needs of its artistic community. Onassis AiR, invites artists, curators, designers, dancers, chefs, gardeners, activists, writers, educators, legal advocates, performers, economists, architects, filmmakers and other practitioners from any medium of expression or discipline, from anywhere in the world, to apply for a Tailor-made Residency running between September 2023 and July 2024 in Athens, Greece.
Submission deadline: 20.03.23
For more information about the application:
visit Onassis AiR
Accompany Class (morning training)
Accompany Class is a morning training offered for the freelance dance community in Brussels, between
30th of Jan until 3rd of March 2023. This round of training is a pilot proposal of this system.
We are a group of freelance dance artists coming together to do this thing called ‘morning class’. We are not quite sure what this is anymore… We no longer work through companies and we no longer have a clear idea of what to train. From this place of not knowing, we have come together and organized a rotational-system in which we will all facilitate ‘class/training’ for and with each other.
As the space was donated to us for this pilot proposal, attendance is free of charge. Registration is recommended and appreciated but not necessary. Help us to keep track of the amount of participants by sending an email to accompanyclass@gmail.com
When: 20.02.2023 — 24.02.2023 from 10am ‑12am
Where: Gemeenschapscentrum Pianofabriek vzw
Fortstraat 35
1060 Sint-Gillis