Put a touch of climate and social justice here, a bit of sisterhood there, add a story of beasts against the background of biodiversity. Suddenly you want to wander around in stations, singing at the top of your lungs and dancing on the tips of your toes to the instrumental and electroacoustic music. Here’s to an enthralling MàD, with planets and stars in your eyes!
A new festival which, for this first edition, takes place over two long weekends with the word as keystone. A literary, hybrid, poetic and engaged event which will find a home on the stage. Echoing the question Pourquoi nous battons-nous? (Why we fight) Caroline Lamarche is the guest speaker at this first weekend of the MàD.
Caroline Lamarche is a novelist, short-story writer, poet and columnist. And an author associated with the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles. She won the 2019 Prix Goncourt for short stories for her collection Nous sommes à la lisière, she is said to be quietly subversive.
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A partnership with Master en Arts du Spectacle vivant / Université Libre de Bruxelles ; ULB Culture ; Master en Interprétation du Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles ; DramaCité ; média Latitudes ; Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH-ULB); Institut des Hautes Etudes de Belgique (IHEB) ; Passa Porta ; ICORN (International Cities Of Refuge Network) ; Midis de la Poésie ; Tulitu ; L’Arbre de Diane ; Librairie Météores ; Théâtre de Liège - Centre européen de création théâtrale et chorégraphique ; Café Congo.
With the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
* Subscriptions are nominative. They are valid for both weekends except for Les Cartographies de l'avenir, Liquides Lyriques + Spoken words & Queer and some workshops.
An overture in the form of a manifesto that rearticulates the chilling assessment of the mounting perils and the volcanic force of a collective response.
Here, it is no longer actors giving substance to the disappeared voices, but the individuals themselves who return from the past to speak to us with their voices, their melody, their timbre and their breath.
A delightful tour in the form of an address to Vié Didier, a big brother as a writer and a lifelong friend.
Here, you’ll find no Tarot de Marseille or premonitions. It's all about collective empathy and a sensitive, philosophical and performative meeting place!
Reflecting the delicate alliances between wildlife and the human world, this parable of joint emancipation astonishes, disconcerts and touches.
In Patua Nou, Dominique Roodthooft adopts the pictorial narrative in the form of a meander through several stations to draw new stories related to exile.
A live radio performance of the podcast De pierres en étoiles, between observation of the stars and poetry, adapted from the collection Devant l'immense* by Rebecca Elson and translated by Sika Fakambi.
To remember the terrible floods of July 2021 in the Liège region, a reading with two voices: those of David Van Reybrouck and Caroline Lamarche.
With her legendary finesse, her trucker's voice and her 10cm heels, Peggy Lee Cooper is going to attempt a perilous exercise: bringing together in a recital authors that couldn’t be more disparate.
Between lucidity and fantasy, radicalism and compassion, the self-portrait as a mental patient of visual artist and poet Unica Zürn.
In the course of three investigations, three writings and three eras, the sisterhood is overwhelming and enlightening, as it provides weapons to fight against inequalities today.
With audio and visual material taken on the spot and up close and personal with their subjects, it renders visible in the form of a slide show with voice narration, the daily life of the survivors of the floods of July 2021 in Belgium.
With their film Why We Fight? Alain Platel and Mirjam Devriendt pay tribute to the arts, but also to humanity, that always seems to balance between creating something spectacularly beautiful or horribly cruel.
