Opening Night - Carolyn Steel follows the trail of our food, from countryside to city, via markets and supermarkets, kitchens and dining rooms, waste disposal and back. She asks herself how we can use food more effectively to better understand our cities, to improve their design, and to make them into more pleasant places to live. Carolyn Steel will present her work and join a conversation with Brigitte van der Sande, chief editor of the publication Food for the City. A Future for the Metropolis.

A documentary in which two stories cross: one about the birth of the atom bomb, the other about the German anthropologist Aby Warburg, who studied the Hopi Indians. The film is preceded by a lecture performance. Jerry Killick, one of the original Forced Entertainment actors, steps into Aby Warburg’s shoes and gives his lecture on the religious symbolism of the Hopi Indians.

As usual, the Kaaitheater will be introducing you to the world of several leading artists in a series of four lessons. Between the talk and the performance you will be served soup and bread. The talks are in Dutch.

We don’t hang around: every day there are about 209,000 more of us and
sometime in the next few weeks we shall be crossing the ‘7 billion
line’. Will there be peace on earth for all 7 billion people or will
things be slightly more difficult than that? Hania Zlotnik, the director
of the Population Division of the UN, and recognised internationally as
one of the greatest authorities on demographics, is coming to Belgium
for this lecture. Fred Pearce will talk to her.