Bringing three generations of Congolese women to the stage here, in order to follow the thread of stories that explore the question of gender in Europe to Africa through Lebanon, defending freedoms along the way. Suddenly we want to wrestle, to get a massage, to probe other ways of giving voice to words and bodies. Here’s to a roaring MàD, to living freely!
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) Joëlle Sambi takes over this second weekend of MàD.
Joëlle Sambi is a poet, slammer, feminist, LGBTQIA+ activist. And an author associated with the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles. Winner of the 2021 Scam Prize for her literary career, she is said to be one of the most engaged and engaging figures of the current scene, between Brussels and Kinshasa.
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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.
A slam by two figures of the Congolese scene on issues of social justice and equality.
Belgium, the Congo, their little stories and History, it’s the Koko Slam Gang who present them as a popular festival with humor and audacity.
Inspired by the Peruvian Lucha Libro, the literary wrestling match offers struggling poets the opportunity to compete, face to face, in the ring.
A mix of music & stories to make you dance about what it’s like to be a black, racialized woman. Like a vast dance floor, rhythmic and engaged.
Theatrical and hybrid performances around texts written by exiled researchers and journalists.
Between sharing, deconstruction and creation, Badi will propose a journey through time and space to meet the other.
Author Claire Olirencia Deville invites children from 8 to 12 years old to write their own personal fairy tale.
The writters reveal to us some of their secrets, between melancholy, combat, tortured language and poetic politics.
Catholicism, gender and the sexualization of bodies, consumption, Aurélie Olivier dissects her rural childhood in a language specific to her environment of origin.
For his first solo performance, Hashem Hashem tells us a double story, that of the body in gender transition and that of the city, Beirut, in the midst of radical transformation.
Avoiding clichés, Liquides Lyriques is the beat of eroticism that revives desire, questioning normative representations and celebrating the diversity of bodies.
A trip, without any boundaries of genre, to the MENA regions where you’ll meet some amazing artists.
Four tales who spring from the colorful imagination of Claire Olirencia Deville.
Pour un temps sois peu is a story of a trans woman through the details, the dangerous, the cruel, but the real details.
Six queer feminist authors write the unpresentable, the explicit, the tender, the raw and the erotic.
An exhibition space that questions transnational adoption, the uprooting of identity and the collective history.
Corners full of surprises for all tastes and ages.
