Edition 2022
From the 19th to the 24th September 2022, FAME will host its very first event!
This occasion wouldn’t be complete without a theme. The first theme will be Ouverture(s) or Opening(s). In French, ouverture(s) also translates as openness. In the plural form, it references the opening of our programme in space and time, but also the notion of opening up the mind to the plurality of bodies, ages, subjectivities, narratives and imaginations.
The programme features both international and Belgian artists, French and Dutch-speaking companies, and consists in performances of emergent and established artists.
The concept of « openness » also represents the desire not to have distill the different perspectives on what is “real” to a single worldview, nor to limit others to one single subjectivity, or fixed and definitive identity. Opening is the multiplying of points of view, positions and opinions.
To open means not to force women and gender minorities to speak of their lives, experiences and identities, but to challenge oneself to understand the world through their eyes and their creations.
For this reason, FAME has created 5 different pathways along which one can meander and explore the festival. These pathways do not have boundaries, nor strict entry or exit points. They are flexible, interconnected and reflect the paths you can walk to arrive at the shows, workshops, conferences... These are:
1 | Arts and Female Heritage
2 | Arts and Bodies
3 | Arts and Systems of exploitation (Gender, society, colonialism)
4 | Arts and Non-human beings
5 | Arts and Queerness
In the spirit of the festival's ambition to bring the arts and feminism into dialogue, each of these tracks is inspired by questions that animate and agitate contemporary feminist currents: materialist, decolonial and queer feminisms, eco-feminism, pro-sex feminisms, transfeminism, and so on.
Program
Palabre · Social Identities, Power, and Language
23.09.23 | 18h
FR
18+
Hate speech: how language constructs identity and fuels oppression
23.09.23 | 16h
EN and AR
18+
Koko Slam Gang
18 and 19.09.23 | 20h
French, Lingala
No age restrictions
La fille du Sacrifice (The daughter of Sacrifice)
21 and 22.09.23 | 20h
FR
14+
Matrimoines: from Françoise d’Eaubonne to Alice Coffin
23.09.23 | 20h
24.09.23 | 12h and 18h
FR
10+
Sainte-Catherine
La recomposition des mondes (Worlds recomposed)
22.09.23 | 19h
23.09.23 | 16h
FR
12+
Mon corps de ferme (My fleshy farmhouse)
21.09.23 | 18h
FR
16+
Hot Bodies_Choirs
18.09.23 | 18h
Multilingual
A Bathroom Myth
The whole week
English
MUSOGYNIE · Museum of misogyny
18.09.23 | 16h
French and/or english
15+
Ciseaux (Scissors)
18 and 19.09.23 | 20h
FR
12+
Des roses et du pain (Roses and Bread)
20.09.23 | 20h
French, Twi, Spanish, Arabic
12+
Decolonial Guided Tour
23 and 24.09.23 | 14h
FR
18+
The Game: The Game
The whole week
EN
16+
Co-naître, accoucher d’enfants et de récits (Acts of communal birth: children, knowledge, and stories)
23.09.23 | 14h
FR
18+
I have dozens of moms: How fiction constructs family
21.09.23 | 18h
FR
16+
Les aliens sont des travelos (Aliens are crossdressers)
21.09.23 | 20h
FR
12+
Conference Transcripts
Four conferences took place in connection to the performing arts programme. These were held at La Bellone. You can find these transcripts below (in french):
Queer, art, politique : un lien évident ?
Gilles Jacinto
Comment penser des esthétiques décoloniales et féministes dans les arts de la scène ?
Aminata Demba · Marine Bachelot Nguyen · Lîlâ Bisiaux · Modération Aru Lee
Arts, écologie et féminisme
Barbara Métais-Chastanier · Le Crabe collectif
Pour un théâtre politique féministe et queer
Muriel Plana
FAME is not only a venue, but also a supporter of co-production.
The Manx Cat Project is a multi-faceted project that brought together 5 directors and 3 authors from Ecarlate la Cie in the 2022 edition of the festival. The question of gender inequality is nothing new. This is why the company shined a spotlight on 5 influential women who have been excluded from Belgian history.
With the help of archives, they produced a synthesis of a century of feminism in the form of 5 plays.
Milva was present at the project rehearsals to document it photographically. This documentation ended up in a 7-day exhibition during the festival.
More about the project: : Volets 123 · Volets 45
Photos credits : Milva Ghenda · Site web · @mimidynamite
The ones that matter
FAME, is of course a performing arts festival, but above all, it is a dialogue and an adelphity* representing the bridge between a multitude of people and projects. These people work all year round, are not always accommodated or considered, often work for long hours, are poorly paid… however, their work often leads to the betterment of society and individual lives; those of women, queer people, POC, those with disabilities, those of people in precarious situations, those on the margins of society.
We would like to extend our gratitude and thanks to these people for their work, for their daily contribution to society and for the trust that you have placed in FAME.
Thank you.
Adelphity*: The neutral synonym for sorority and fraternity.
To the collectives who work relentlessly every day.
AICT | Anotherlight asbl | Armée du salut | Article 27 | Comité des femmes sans papiers | Crabe Collective | Ding Ding Dong | Écarlate La Compagnie | L’Hospitalière | Osmose | Radio Panik | La Salve | Service Culture Cinématographique (SCC) asbl | Sisterhood | Syndicat des Immenses | Tulitu | Vulcana | QREw
To those who feed both your minds and your eyes.
Bij Ons | Cobéa | Kidnap Your Designer | Janine Brasserie · Boulangerie | Milva Ghenda | Murielle Lo | Niall Plumb | Nimuel Gamboa | Samy Soussi | Super Fourchette | Suzanne Clerdin
To those who have made FAME accessible and sustainable.
Babel subtitles | Bibliothèque des Riches-Claires | Cyclo | Groupe One | La Ligue des Familles | PAF
And to the spaces that have placed their trust in us.
Bellone | Bronks | Cinematek | C12 | KVS | Maison du Roi - Brussels City Museum | La Mercerie | Montagne Magique | Musée de la Mode et de la Dentelle | Riches-Claires | Tour à Plomb
Team