The programme from January to June announces the last moments of our time together here in this house by Sainctelette square. For almost thirty years, Kaaitheater has been inhabiting this place with visions, movements and ideas on stage. Thirty years of history and yet in six months time, this building will be closed for major renovations and over the next season, most of what we will see will be torn-down walls, rubble and reinforced concrete structures.

But a construction site is also beautiful. It heralds new beginnings.

Kitchen Broadcast is an online radio broadcast curated by Joachim Ben Yakoub and Reem Shilleh. In the presence of Lara Khaldi en Rolando Vazquez this episode proposes to discuss Rolando’s new book ‘Vistas of Modernity. Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary.’ and Lara her recent curatorial work and reflections.

Read more about Journal d’un usager de l’espace in this interview with Benjamin Vandewalle and the two HYOID members Fabienne Seveillac & Andreas Halling.

Ben je tussen 14 en 20 jaar oud? Spreek je Frans, Nederlands of beide? Ben je geïnteresseerd in performance? Stel je je vragen over de plaats van het lichaam in een post-corona-wereld? Doe dan mee met deze sonische ervaring die de stemmen van jongeren in de schijnwerpers zet!

After completing a residency within the programme “How to Live and Work Now? In the Arts and Beyond” at Kaaitheater in Brussels in February 2021, Alberto García del Castillo and Fátima Ma wrote this epistolary composition about their collaboration in an experimental and collaborative artistic research project on queer collective approaches to harm reduction and the act of gathering.

A programme where to learn how to listen to the voice of youngsters, let go of our fears and surrender to the wisdom of the youth.

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...