To be many is not easy.
It is challenging, exciting, and very much needed.

Agnes Quackels and Barbara Van Lindt came in as new artistic and general coordinators at Kaaitheater at the end of 2019. They brought a motto – or rather, a question: How to Be Many? A question that itself contains many questions. It is this question, with its many ramifications, that will guide Kaaitheater in the coming years.

Menstrual poverty, including the lack of menstrual products such as tampons, menstruation cups or sanitary towels, is a widespread but not very well-known problem in Belgium. Kaaitheater wants to help bring this issue to the attention of the public and offer free tampons and sanitary napkins to staff, visitors and performers by providing 'Need in Red' boxes.

When COVID hit Belgium and the cultural world locked its doors, Irina Lavrinovic and Asher Lev felt the need to use their artistic perspective to try to understand the very confusing reality unfolding in the world. In February 2021 they resided at the Kaaistudio’s in the framework of How to Live & Work Now to explore further possibilities within this new format.

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.