Opening(s)
For the festival’s opening, the FAME team invites you to the #where, the centre of the festival, which serves both as a convivial place and as a place for events (cartes blanches, talks, concerts).
FAME team | Sing Out Brussel
Monday 19 Sept | 5pm
Monday 19 Sept | 9:30pm
Enhance Matrimony in theater
The Manx Cat Project is several shows, but not only.
Elsa Poisot | Miriam Youssef
Monday 19 Sept | 6pm | FR
Necropolitics, damage and double standards : everyone involved
"Minorities" are suffering from their non-conformity to the "norm", each of them in a specific way.
Syndicat des Immenses
Monday 19 Sept | 7pm | FR
The Manx Cat Project | Episodes 1·2·3
The Manx Cat Project is developed at Écarlate la Cie. This is the 5th act of the multi-faceted project “La Deuxième Scène”. It was conceived to create access to a repertoire that promotes the notion of Matrimoine (women’s heritage) and to fight against inequality in the field of performing arts.
Écarlate la Compagnie | Elsa Poisot | Sonia Boutitie
Monday 19 Sept | 7pm | FR
Saturday 24 Sept | 3pm | FR
The Manx Cat Project | Episodes 4·5
The Manx Cat Project is developed at Écarlate la Cie. This is the 5th act of the multi-faceted project “La Deuxième Scène”. It was conceived to create access to a repertoire that promotes the notion of Matrimoine (women’s heritage) and to fight against inequality in the field of performing arts.
Écarlate la Compagnie | Elsa Poisot | Sonia Boutitie
Tuesday 20 Sept | 7pm | FR
Saturday 24 Sept | 6pm | FR
Deep Time
To understand evolution and ourselves, we must think further our short lifetime. Deep Time explores the line between human, non-human; past and present, bats’ frequencies and marimba techno.
Virpi Pahkinen Dance Company
Monday 19 Sept | 8pm | No intermission
Tuesday 20 Sept | 8pm | No intermission
Tarot reading
Atelier Coyote joins the Crabe Collective for a Souriau Tarot reading. This is a non-divinatory practice focusing on our human circumstance and what both enables and provokes them. This reunion allows for collective, card-guided reflection around questions related to work in collective or community contexts.
Atelier Coyote | Crabe Collective
Tuesday 20 Sept | 10am | FR
How should decolonial and feminist aesthetics in performing arts be conceived?
Race, both a fashion and a result of modern colonial domination, has infiltrated all fields of global capitalist power. This open discussion will explore how decolonial and feminist performances can be created and perpetuated.
Aminata Demba | Marine Bachelot Nguyen | Lîlâ Bisiaux | Modération Aru Lee
Tuesday 20 Sept | 3pm | ENG and FR
It’s raining cats and dogz
Alice has a neurodevelopmental illness and she doesn't know how to deal with it. She is pissed off because doctors planned that she will end up as a vegetable.
Alice Rivières (collectif DingDingDong) | Christine Aventin
Tuesday 20 Sept | 5pm | FR
Maria Kakogianni on the release of her book: “Surgeons et autres pousses”
Maria Kakogianni on the release of her book: “Surgeons et autres pousses” published by Excès. This book was written and produced by several hands, including Marie Rouzin and Amalia Ramanankirahina. The book is a collection or rather a compendium of short texts and drawings of plants and the worlds that plants inhabit.
Mylène Lauzon | Emmanuelle Nizou | Équipe de La Bellone
Tuesday 20 Sept | 6:30pm | FR
Donna Haraway : Story telling for earthy survival
Donna Haraway, a distinguished philosopher, primatologist and feminist, shakes up the social sciences and contemporary philosophy and interconnects strongly theory and fiction.
Fabrizio Terranova
Tuesday 20 Sept | 7pm | ENG | Subtitles FR/NL
DiscoBiotes, magical symbiotic
An urban walk with wild plants, bacteria and their humans.
Pascale Barret
Wednesday 21 Sept | 2pm | FR
Walk-investigation in Brussels
Let's walk together in the city.
Barbara Métais-Chastanier
Wednesday 21 Sept | 2pm | FR
Queer theories, art, politics : an obvious connection ?
Relying on theory-practice connection, bringing our bodies-thoughts-emotions, we will question the supposedly obvious link between queer, art and politics.
Gilles Jacinto
Wednesday 21 Sept | 3pm | FR
Undocumented Women Committee
The Committee try to find solutions to make the lives of undocumented women deprived easier, to be able to survive for ourselves and especially for our children and hoping for them a better future.
Le Comité des Femmes Sans Papiers | Sisterhood
Wednesday 21 Sept | 5pm | FR
Betty devenue Boop, ou les Anordinaires
Betty the dog has seen both homelessness and soft green grass. Her anthropo-decentred perspective allows her reflects on the significance of friendship, alterity, and resilience.
Interstices & La Bulle Bleue | Barbara Métais-Chastanier | Marie Lamachère
Wednesday 21 Sept | 6pm | FR
Thursday 22 Sept | 11am | FR
Thursday 22 Sept | 3pm | FR
Soledad Kalza and Sina Kienou
Soledad Kalza and Sina Kienou are a duo rooted in their precious musical culture.
Soledad Kalza | Sina Kienou
Wednesday 21 sept | 9pm
Art, ecology, and feminism
How to overcome theatrical extractivism
Barbara Métais-Chastanier | Le Crabe collectif
Thursday 22 Sept | 3pm | FR
Archives and claims
A writing workshop to explore archives.
Marie Vaiana | Capucine Berthon | Marthe Degaille
Thursday 22 Sept | 5pm | FR
KillJoy Quiz
A killjoy is a person who deliberately spoils the enjoyment of others. In this creation, Luanda Casella uses Sara Ahmed's concept of the killjoy figure as someone who is ready to denounce violence, even when that requires creating discomfort.
Luanda Casella | NTGent
Thursday 22 Sept | 8pm | ENG
Friday 23 Sept | 8pm | ENG
Zohra’s Feestje
Yamina is eight years old and does not like birthday parties. When her grandmother Zohra turns 70, her mother Fadila organizes a surprise birthday party for her.
ZEBARBAR | De Studio
Friday 23 Sept | 10:30am | NL
Friday 23 Sept | 1:30pm | FR
Saturday 24 Sept | 4pm | FR
For a feminist and queer political theater
A research and creation journey in four acts.
Muriel Plana
Friday 23 Sept | 3pm | FR
Patshiva Cie
Between trance and festival, birth and morning, prayer and celebration, choral singing and dance, Cie is a choir directed by Dounia Depoorter.
Patshiva Cie
Friday 23 Sept | 8:45pm
Let’s talk about sex
Writing workshop about the show SexPlay: Our panthers our jewels, by Camille Husson.
Camille Husson
Saturday 24 Sept | 10am | FR
The Politics of Criticism
Does criticism take the power relations in operation behind the works that are observed into account?
Does this happen between the critic and the artist as well as in the creation process itself and the work and representations that are shown on stage?
Caroline Châtelet, Lucia van Heteren (AICT) | Marie Baudet (La Libre) | Mylène Lauzon, Anne Czapski (La Salve)
Saturday 24 Sept | 11am
