Burning Ice - Opening keynote by Marjolein Visser (ULB). Respondent: Bavo Verwimp (Bio farm De Kijfelaar).

Burning Ice - Flatbread Society is a public art project that brings together farmers, oven builders, astronomers, artists, soil scientists, bakers, anthropologists and others who share an interest in humankind’s long and complex relationship with grain.

WoWmen! - In Lifting Mountains with My Belly, or The Pregnancy Project, three heavily pregnant women talk about their experience of pregnancy. Three different views on what it’s like to have something in your belly, and what it’s like to be inside the belly of something bigger.

China and the European Union together produce more than a third of the world’s greenhouse gases. They both have a climate policy and are crucial to the aim of keeping climate change under control. Professor Qi Ye, who leads the Climate Policy Initiative at Qinghua University in Beijing, explains the advances China is making in its climate and energy policy. Jos Delbeke, Director-General of Climate Action in the European Commission, will unveil what the EU is doing on its side.

Dutch sociologist Willem Schinkel argues for a new politicisation and a critical nationalism that views the nation as a Utopian rather than a museological project. He opens up stagnated debates on economics, integration, culture, nation, law, religion and ecology and shows how we can move towards alternative forms of political thinking.

Mette Ingvartsen has created a series of four performances in which the question of ‘non-human actions’ in a choreography plays a central role. In The Artificial Nature Project the stage is filled with all kinds of objects and materials, set into motion by the dancers who are part of a swirling mass; a mass of objects that seem to be alive but are not human.

For the second time the Brussels Studies Institute will be bringing together several dozen researchers and thinkers to share their knowledge of Brussels with you. There will be incisive presentations and spirited discussions on controversial topics, larded with short performances by Brussels artists.

In our brand new series Me, Myself & We (performances and talks dealing with the tension between the individual and the collective) the first talk will be given by the American political theorist Benjamin Barber, who was once an adviser to Bill Clinton. He will be presenting his new book If Mayors Ruled the World. "If democracy can still work anywhere, it is in the city."

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 010 - On stage a stack of torn books, a screen spits out random images. What starts out as a discussion about pizzas can suddenly continue with a history lesson, switches from flamenco to post-punk, from reflections on love to comments on the relation between humiliation and the economy. The director Rodrigo García – last year at our Performatik festival – seems to ask: what are we to do, say what we think, withdraw, or take part? And what if our actions were in vain?

How can dance be reconstructed? Is it desirable? Can or should one update dance material or use it in a new context? These are some of the many questions asked at this colloquium.

A talk by Christel Stalpaert on Vaslav Nijinski (1890-1950), the Russian dancer and choreographer who created trail-blazing choreographic works to Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps and Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.