Reflection programme during It Takes A City
It Takes a City presents the next generation of Brussels performing artists at a new festival. Four Dutch-speaking and four French-speaking organisations are coming together to showcase new and young talent across linguistic, cultural and regional boundaries.
Flanders Arts Institute organises the accompanying reflection programme for the first edition of the new city festival It Takes a City.
TALK 1 – To school or not to school: the position of art education today
keynote & panel discussion
Saturday 10.02 – 14.00-16.00pm
Beursschouwburg Café
Free, yet limited capacity – register through this form
language: English
Within this talk we examine today’s position and influence of the higher art education in relation to the further development of a career in the performing arts. Does the value system of these institutions still correspond to the current practices in the field? Are the ways of teaching, the curriculum and the possibilities within still relevant with present expectations of the art field? Are these school programs necessary to make the bridge to a professional career, and where does that position the autodidact within our sector? Through the voices of different guests we try to look at these questions from a local to an international perspective.
Speakers: Haider Al Timimi (artist & artistic director Antigone, Kortrijk), Carolina Maciel de França (artist, author & teacher KASK, Gent), Tundé Adefioye (researcher, dramaturge & teacher Sint Lucas, Antwerpen), Ingrid Vranke (artist, dramaturge, producer & director, DasTheatre, Amsterdam), Loucka E. Fiagan (artist, Brussels) and Krystel Khoury (dramaturge, researcher & coordinator ISAC, Brussels).
- Are you an artist or art worker? Then you can also register for the networking lunch (12.30-13.45pm): please send an email to julia.reist@kunsten.be.
TALK 2 – Value and judgement: (invisible) operating systems within the performing arts
keynote & panel discussion
Saturday 17.02 -14.00-16.00pm
Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek
Free, yet limited capacity – register through this form
language: English
What are the voices, narratives, bodies that are programmed or still excluded today – in Belgium as much as the neighbouring countries? In spite of a growing consciousness around inclusion and diversity, decisions in the performing arts are often still rooted in an eurocentric value system & perspective. This concerns not only the way our field operates day to day, but as much the choices within artistic programming, artistic practices or the 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.
Speakers: Khadija El Kharraz, Sylvia Botella, Lea Drouet and more to be confirmed.
- Are you an artist or art worker? Then you can also register for the networking lunch (12.30-13.45pm): please send an email to julia.reist@kunsten.be.
About It Takes A City
The new biennial festival, in which Atelier 210, La Balsamine, Beursschouwburg, Charleroi danse / La Raffinerie, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Kaaitheater, Kunstenwerkplaats and workspacebrussels join forces, presents the next generation of Brussels performing artists.
This first edition brings dance, theatre and performance by Benjamin Khan, buren, Carolina Mendonça, Castélie Yalombo Lilonge, Jonas Chéreau, Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Lila Magnin, Lisa Vereertbrugghen, Marthe Degaille, Milø Slayers, Némo Camus & Robson Ledesma, Rosie Sommers & Micha Goldberg and Sophia Rodriguez.
