Antigone in Molenbeek is Stefan Hertman's unrelenting tale of a young woman who goes in search of her dead brother. Birsen Taspinar will introduce the text, three actresses will read extracts, and Hertmans will discuss it with Johan Reyniers.

As an annual rendezvous for those working on a sustainable future, this latest Ecopolis starts out from the question ‘what can we do about the current ecological challenge, and by what means?’

ECOPOLIS is the perfect meeting place for anyone concerned with the transition to a socio-ecological society. The main focus is on inspired and inspiring books and documentaries, and dialogues on ecology, economics and society between writers, scientists and thinkers from civil society.

On the occasion of The Karaoke Dialogues, Daniel Linehan presents his book: A No Can Make Space. In the form of a lecture performance, Linehan will explain his working process whilst performing fragments from his choreo graphies and reporting on them. He dances, narrates, and observes. Simply a must-see for dance-lovers and bibliophiles.

The gap between rich and poor in Belgium has never been so big. One Belgian in five has difficulty making ends meet. One immigrant child in three grows up in poverty. This makes Belgium one of the worst pupils in the European class. But what is near the top of the political agenda? Criminality. Safety. Zero tolerance. Public nuisance. Loitering teenagers. But it should not be all one-sided. When they do not succeed in tackling the real problems, politicians always come back to the same thing: repression, as the political philosopher Bleri Lleshi says in De neoliberale strafstaat. On the basis of theoretical research and practical experience, Lleshi shows where thirty years of neoliberalism is rapidly leading us.

An architect talks about the city he has built. Gradually we realise that the city is imaginary. This is the story of Thing, a book and video film by artist Anouk De Clercq, about the memory of cities, about architectural ghosts of the past that infect the present, and about imaginary buildings.

In 2009 Jan Ritsema initiated AGORA, a project whose ambition is to reclaim for theatre the open, public quality it once possessed. It resulted in 3 theatre pieces of which the first one, Oidipous, my foot, premiered at the Kaaitheater in 2011. Now a book has been published: a collection of raw materials in preparation for a fourth act.

De Keisnijders (The Cobblestone-Cutters) is the first novel by the theatre-maker and philosopher Pieter De Buysser. It is a compelling and generous story about a utopian place and its occupants in the mid-21st century. A gripping and fascinating voyage of discovery to the heart of tomorrow’s Europe. Classic storytelling and challenging literature that raises fundamental questions.