‘Brussels City of Stories x Afropolitan Weekend’

Brussels, 2021. A city made of 184 sparkling nationalities, many more colourful languages and thousands of beautiful stories. Brussels City of Stories invites you to discover some of them on 11 July at Bozar. To mark the last day of this initiative, Bozar with some partners of the Afropolitan Weekend & Forum will propose a plateau of storytelling performances. Some extract lectures of the prominent writer Leonora Milano and works performed by Afropean project asbl. The freshly written tale Sous le Dologuahi will be performed by Oumar Sow & Nassim Bougotaya in collaboration with Ras El Hanout asbl. Kuumba asbl’s Next Generation Speaks young artists will recite some slam poetry pieces. Aline Yasmin (Espirito Mundo asbl) will present the poetic intervention "Para quem chega sem dizer adeus | For those who arrive without saying goodbye"  & "We are all Marielle".  Finally, an excerpt from the book 'Born in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong body?' wiil be performed by the author himself Ebale Zam Martino.

Brussels, City of stories was born from the common desire of seven cultural actors (Passa Porta, Muntpunt, Bozar, the Brussels Book Fair, 140, the City of Words in N-W and Picture Festival) to work together in a poetic and social way on the territory of Brussels.