‘# I am # I have a dream’

Measured words are powerful weapons. Every day speeches of ministers, presidents, journalists and actors move, anger or make us think. If you had the chance, what would you tell the world? Twenty young people from year 5 of the Koninklijk Atheneum E. Hiel in Schaerbeek are taking up the challenge. They are sharpening their pencils and clearing their throats as we speak. On the menu: their visions, their dreams and their place in the world and the Europe of the future. With the aid of filmmaker Leni Huyghe they strip existing speeches down to their bare bones and go in search of their own voice in the debate.  During a week of artistic work in Destelheide, they are assisted by slam poetry artist Samirah Saleh, choreographer Yentl de Werdt, camerawoman Juanita Onzaga, sound engineer Nina de Vroome and artist Bruno Herzeele in using appropriate forms to drive their words home. The end result: a poetic retort in the form of a video installation. LET’S SPEECH!

Artist: Leni Huyghe

Young participants: Koninklijk Atheneum E. Hiel, Schaerbeek

Collaboration: Bruno Herzeele, Yentl de Werdt and Samirah Saleh (artistic collaboration), Juanita Onzaga (camera), Nina de Vroome (sound), Julie Robinet and Marita De Neve (support), Destelheide & Hanenbos

Expert: Hendrik Vos

Theme: Rhetoric, speeches

Final output: Video installation