Read the Room is the kick-off of a biennial collaboration between Mophradat and Kaaitheater. For three days you are invited for a programme around 'the mother'. On the first day of the festival, you can see the work of Mary Jirmanus Saba, Noor Abed, and Bint Mbareth.

يشكل «جس نبض» النسخة الأولى لمهرجان متعدد المجالات تنظمه «مفردات» بالتعاون مع «مسرح كاي» سيُجرى كل سنتين على مدى ثلاثة أيام. 

Paying tribute to the Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi, Iman Humaydan and Rosa Yassin Hassan will read from their own work and talk about their authorship against the background of revolution, censorship, and their shifting social positions.

For their first joint creation, dancer Femke and drummer Lander Gyselinck (STUFF.) decided to swap roles. Lander dances (musically), Femke plays music (dansant), until both become blurred and blend together. Their older brother Wannes, a dramaturg, keeps an eye on the whole work. It’s a family affair...

Syden means ‘South’ in all the Scandinavian languages. It evokes a Southern holiday destination: warm, cheap and with every amenity. The musician and composer Niko Hafkenscheid, the visual artist Hedvig Biong and the film-maker Pablo Castilla explore the mystery, authenticity and perversity of this parallel universe.

Brussels has always been a city that embraced exiles.The Price of the Ticket continues this tradition. The Fashion designer and activist Rachida Aziz is now inviting a new generation of refugees on stage. Expect an evening of music, dance, poetry and video.

On 30 November 2015, the Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi died. As an emancipated feminist and activist, she navigated effortlessly between East and West – always arriving at deep insights into the complex relationship between people, cultures and religions. The books Beyond the Veil and Islam and Democracy garnered her worldwide fame and both remain powerful reference works to this day.

The pianist and conductor Alain Franco is once again performing the 96 short compositions which together form one of Bach’s chief works: Das wohltemperierte Klavier. Franco masterfully links together the separate parts, which he views as novellas and which each have their own character, dynamic and time.

Lina Lapelyte uses re-enactment to question everyday life scenarios and glitches. In this performance-concert, she invites four women from a folkloristic orchestra that toured worldwide during the Sovjet-regime – evoking both the contemporary and the timeless.
 

The 96 short works in Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier each have a profile, an individual character, their own dynamics and an individual time sequence. Musician Alain Franco sees them as a series of ‘novellas’ which he connects to each other by applying editing principles and so arrives at ‘a form that hovers somewhere between opera and novel’.

Tuned City Brussels is a project researching this relation between sound and space. Its program includes lectures, performances, walks, interventions, installations and concerts by more than 40 international speakers and artists. The opening night - a radio performance by Felicity Ford & Valeria Merlini followed by a walk with David Helbich, sets the tone for what the festival will present.
 

In this concert Ictus transforms itself into a veritable rock band, with voice, clarinet/sax, electric guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. Special guest is the Berlin trio The New Silence. A select group of composers, musicians and performers, with whom Ictus has worked in the past, wrote and selected works with the length of a pop song. Rock meets new music!