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
RUUPTUUR Workshop
25.09.24 · 10h00
Language : FR
All audiences
Regularisation, The Only Solution. For a Borderless Future
27.09.24 · 20h00
Language : FR
All audiences
TW : Mentioning and sharing experiences of institutional violence, racism, sexism and classism
Multiple identities and the journeys of migrant women. Edge of the scene “Lordless Ladies”
23.09.24 · 21h00
Language : EN
14+
TW : Racism, Migration
FAME22 illustrated retrospective, drawing report
20.09.24 - 28.09.24 · Open from 5pm to 9pm
All public
Free event, no reservation required
State of the World.
27.09.24 · 19h30
Language : FR
Target groups: teenagers and adults
Meet the author Alana S.Portero
27.09.24 · 20h00
Languages : EN
Target Audience : Adults
TW : Transphobia, violence and drug use
Club de Lecture “La Mauvaise Habitude”
24.09.24 · 18h
Languages : ES/FR
Target audience: Adults
TW : Theme of transphobia, violence and drug use
“Bad Habits” Book Club
25.09.24 · 18h
Languages : EN
Target audience: Adults
TW : Transphobia, violence, use of drugs
Leesclub: “Slechte gewoontes”
25.09.24 · 18h
Languages : NL
Target audience: adults
TW : Themes in transphobia, violence and drugs
Re-membering bodies · Only open to POC*· Soothing the effects of trauma through movement and breathwork.
22.09.24 · 14h
Language : EN
POC (Person Of Colour), 15+
Brussels’ futures fiction for and by young Brusselèirs
22.09.24 · 18h
Language : EN
Let’s talk about sexual utopia
22.09.24 · 10h00
language : FR
To anyone looking to reinvent themselves and break free from heteronormative practices
And then we stopped scrolling · A Walk
25.09.24 · 15h
Languages : FR
All audiences
No reservation required
And then we stopped scrolling · Workshop
25.09.24 · 17h
Language : FR
All audiences
And then we stopped scrolling · Public reading
25.09.24 · 19h
Langues : FR
Tout public
Lordless Ladies
23.09.24 + 24.09.24 · 20h
Languages : Levantine Arabic (subtitles NL/EN/FR)
14+
TW : Stroboscopic lights, mentions of sexual assault, use of alcohol, child loss and kidnapping.
Horizon 2060 · Futuristic and decolonial storytelling walk
25.09.24 · 14h (All audiences)
Language : FR
From 8 years + with guidance
Horizon 2060 · Tour open to POC* with a futuristic and decolonial tale
28.09.24 · 14h
Languages : FR
Tour open to POC*Person Of Color · 8 years+
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