Il y a un an, six femmes et personnes non binaires afro-descendantes se sont réunies pour travailler sur un projet à partir de leur identité commune. Aujourd’hui, un an plus tard, elles achèvent leur résidence dans le cadre du programme How to Live and Work Now. Dans cette discussion franche et directe, cinq des six résident·e·s* racontent comment ce projet a pris de l’ampleur et de la profondeur, à mesure que la crise du coronavirus leur laissait de plus en plus de temps.

A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters #3. Over the course of this evening, the intersections between animal liberation and disability liberation are explored. How do speciesism and ableism intersect and operate in relation to other -isms in a system of oppression?

With The Wounds of Multilingualism Kaaitheater and Passa Porta are launching a series that sheds light on the human, cultural and political complexities surrounding multilingualism. A series that immerses you, as it were, deep into the bath of multilingualism. Sulaiman Addonia and Ahilan Ratnamohan have a conversation around this. They bring with them exceptional stories about the impact of migration, learning new languages, a lost mother tongue, the privilege of language control...

We live in an age in which human activity has a profound impact on our physical and ecological surroundings. How can we create stories, aesthetics, and spaces of experience to deal with this situation reflexively and critically? What role can the performing arts play in the debate on climate crisis? First intended as a performative conference, On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors - 4. Grounding has been reworked into a series of radio contributions that was streamed in three parts from Kaaitheater.

This year, two young men have already lost their lives in a Brussels police station: Ibrahima Barrie and Ilyes Abbedou. When around 100 demonstrators took to the streets to protest against police impunity, 245 people were brutally arrested, many of them passers-by. And for the first time, a police union broke the culture of silence. On 28th February, Headquarters of the Mouvement, who have been in residency at Kaaistudio's since Summer 2020, invited several dancers and spoken word artists to give a voice to victims of police violence.

A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters. We are inviting researchers, activists and artists in a three-day-programme to explore the meaning and potential of justice in a multi-species post-imperialist world. Should we confer fundamental rights to animals and natural formations – such as lakes, the seas, rainforests and the soil? How are the worldwide decolonial struggles related to the global and local struggles for the live, safety and autonomy of non-human animals?

Kitchen Broadcast is an online radio broadcast curated by Joachim Ben Yakoub and Reem Shilleh. In the presence of Hela Yousfi, Mohamed Toukabri, and Nidhal Chamekh, this Kitchen Broadcast Dinner proposes to critically reflect on postcolonial critiques, and to push for historical transformations – somewhere in between the Maghreb, Paris and Brussels.

When the open call for Kaaitheater’s residency programme How to Live & Work Now? reached Nada Gambier, she saw the opportunity to continue the collective research practice she had started a few months before the outbreak of the corona virus with: Gosie Vervloessem, Michiel Reynaert, Ondine Cloez and Eszter Némethi. On the day before the last of their two-week residency, they reflect on the fruits of this period.

This lexicon is made as a tool for the Series of More-Than-Human Encounters. With each new talk, we filter out new terms to add here. 

How to develop better ways of working in the performing arts sector today – and in the future? As part of How to Live and Work Now?, we are inviting six artists, collectives and researchers to set up self-organized collective working groups. Read the research of State Of The Arts.

How to develop better ways of working in the performing arts sector today – and in the future? As part of How to Live and Work Now?, we are inviting six artists, collectives and researchers to set up self-organized collective working groups. Satchit Puranik, Pranav Patadiya en Eszter Némethi develop a theatre sample toolkit for the theatre experience for the children of the future.