The videos and writings of Els Dietvorst explore themes such as social conflict and survival in the margins. Art-Coeur-Merci is a film installation about a young Cameroonian man trying to survive in Brussels, with the addition of a performance by Angélique Wilkie. They make us reflect on the essential things in life.

The Kaaitheater is playing host to the fourth session of The Green Book. Writers, academics and thinkers from Belgium and abroad meet to debate the transition to a socio-ecological society. The programme also includes interventions by theatre-makers. In the foyer you will find a choice selection of books and publications on ecological subjects.

JDX – A Public Enemy goes back to Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. Tg STAN created this production in 1993. A razor-sharp comedy of politics, corruption, the abuse of power and the role of the media that is still very relevant today.

Thirteen years after its premiere, Boris Charmatz dances (untitled) (2000), the last work that the British-German artist and Turner Prize candidate Tino Sehgal created for theatre before he moved on to visual art. The performance seems to sum up this transition between the two art forms. As in a museum of dance, 20th-century dance is exhibited in a theatrical way.

Three dancers on a metal tower, each at a different level, small platforms from which they can neither see nor touch one another. The dancers are naked except for a T-shirt. The audience walks around the tower and explores the dance from every possible angle. A radical piece of movement theatre! An early work by the leading choreographer Boris Charmatz, a radical piece of movement theatre!

Burning Ice - Assembly (Burning Ice #7) – Thing 001384 (Nohe) concerns a conflict about a stained glass artwork entitled Nohe, between Kim Taylor Reece, a professional photographer, and Marylee Colucci.

Burning Ice - Following her splendid Animalia during Burning Ice #6, we are inviting the Brussels theatre-maker Isabelle Dumont once again, this time with her new production Hortus Minor. With words, music and a superb collection of 'rarities', she tells the story of our relationship with plants.

Burning Ice - The right to food is a fundamental human right, yet more than 800 million people still suffer from hunger, that’s about 15% of the world’s population. Olivier De Schutter is a special observer on food for the United Nations. In his talk he will look in greater depth at the most important features of a balanced global food system.

Burning Ice - This documentary reveals the motivations and inner life of the cooperative. It shows people who in a time of economic and ecological crisis are doing something to counter the might of industrial agriculture: The strategy of bent cucumbers.

Burning Ice - Resilient food systems involve so much more than refraining from using genetic modification, chemical pesticides and artificial fertiliser. Come and discover some alternatives that already exist.

Burning Ice - Agrochemical companies have developed hybrid seeds and transgenetic variants in order to patent and market them. The negative consequences for biodiversity and small-scale agriculture are huge. The French lawyer Blanche Magarinos-Rey, adviser to the international organisation Kokopelli, is a specialist of the subject.