‘Bozar. On Top of That. | Week 3’

6 → 10
Sept.'23

A graffiti artwork, a creative writing academy, slam sessions and some live radio on our rooftop.

During Week 3, Brussels-based artist collective Farmprod will come to create a graffiti artwork on the palisade of the Palace on Rue Royale.
Literature and Poetry will be served by The Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) (AALFIE), deBuren and Lezarts Urbains. AALFIE is teaming up with the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers to present the programme 'Blurring the Borders': an hour of cross-genre prose, poetry about migration, sensuality and Brussels languages.

The panel will discuss the melancholy of travel and ask: how do movements between countries and cultures affect one’s creativity and art?
Canan Marasligil (author of the essay “Anne Carson in Sensual Gestures”), Marah Haj (dance)
In debate: Alara Adilow (Somalia-the Netherlands-Belgium), Alexander Skorobogatov (Russia-Belgium), and Haleh Chinikar (Iran-Belgium)
Short lectures by: Mohannad Bennana (Libyan who writes in Arabic, Tamazight, and English), Quỳnh Iris de Prelle (Vietnam-Belgium), Loucka Fiagan (Belgium-Togo), and Angel Patricks (a Nigerian writer, stage poet, and visual storyteller).

Flemish-Dutch house deBuren brings writers and wordsmiths from past writing residencies to our roof. They perform their own work and that of their literary heroes.

Tiemen Hiemstra made his debut this year with W., which has already been compared to Titaantjes. Is there anything to that? Sarah de Koning is a poet and bookseller who will explain how you can write when you are surrounded by potential inspiration. Dirty Girl, AKA Maya Mertens, likes to read contemporary writers because she is convinced that the classics already come to her via the collective reading memory. Azertyklavierwerke, AKA Alan Van Rompuy, provides the musical backdrop for her words. Sarah Vankersschaever, participant in the first edition of the writing residency and chief of De Standaard der Letteren, will interview them.

Finally, you can expect a Slam performance in collaboration with Lezarts Urbains, featuring Izombimpa Huguette, Efia Bae, Othniel and Robin Bonenfant. Poetry explodes or whispers, emotions flow and tongues loosen.
For the music, Bozar is giving carte blanche to Under my Garage, Nuits Sonores Brussels and Radio Vacarme, a non-profit organisation promoting female and queer artists in and around Belgium.

06.09.23

12:00-17:30 Creation of palisade fresco by Farmprod
18:00-19:00 Blurring The Borders, literature evening by Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile)
19:30-23:00 Carte Blanche Bozar Music: Under my Garage

07.09.23