Edition 2023
2nd edition
18 — 24.09.2023
FAME is a performing arts festival which highlights art produced by women and gender minorities.
A space designed in direct discourse with feminist, queer and decolonial struggles.
It is theater, circus, dance, concerts, conferences, discussions, workshops, video games, films.
All intending to multiply the ways we can meet.
These are creations born in Belgium or abroad, featuring cultures with a S.
There's a theme every year, and this year it's
Legacy
What is transferred on by conscious or unconscious succession.
Transmission·s
What is transmitted/chosen, the act of passing something on to someone and the result of that act.
FAME loves rhizomes and directions that aren't all straight, which is why we've deconstructed Legacy and Transmission into 4 tracks along which to trot:
1 · Tales of struggle
The place of women and minorities (gender, racial, socio-economic) in the history of struggle.
2 · Re/construct the myths
Non-western mythologies and super-hero·ines and their communities both visible and invisible.
3 · Dis/inherit systems of oppression
What can be kept from a misogynistic, patriarchal, colonial, ableist, sexist, racist, bourgeois past?
4 · Minorities’ memories
Tales and archives of cultures and movements organised by members of the queer, gay, lesbian, sex worker, punk, drag, etc, communities.
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+
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.
À Travers les Arts | Agrupación Señor Serrano | Alexandra Dols | Aliette Griz | Amour & Sagesse | Anaïs Berck | Angela Washko | Anya Johanna DeNiro | Astrid Vandercamere | Aurélie Olivier | Bamko | Baraka Grafika | Barakaking | Bintou Touré | Blanket La Goulue | Bruxelles Nous Appartient BNA-BBOT | Bye Bye Binary | Cie Les Philosophes Barbares | Comité des Femmes Sans Papiers | Compagnie Les Tenaces | Collectif Mémoire Coloniale et Lutte Contre les Discriminations | Compagnie Espèces De… | Dicklan | Dulce de MalaLeche | Écarlate la Compagnie | Femmeboyant | Hot Bodies Of The Future | Jacinthe Mazzocchetti | Joëlle Sambi | Jordan Roger barré | Juliette Mogenet | King Baxter | La Morrigasme | La Salve | La Voix des Sans Papiers de Bruxelles | Le Monde de Jahi | Les Écoles Supérieures d’Arts Saint-Luc & ERG | Les Séniors du Manguier en Fleurs | Lisette Lombé | Lotte Dodion | Mai Hua | Maison Poème | Mariam Diallo | Médor | Mélina Ghorafi | Merhaba | Meriem Dziri | Milady Renoir | Miriam Youssef | Myriam Van Imschoot | Nevine Gerits | Olivia Molnár et Aldwin Raoul | Paula Roid | Pleurer Dans’ Douche | Plurivers’Elles | Poetik Bazaar | Raïssa Yowali | Réhab Mehal | Rose Gigot | Selim-a Attalah Chettaoui | Service Culture Cinématographique (SCC) asbl | Taylor McCue | Terata Mamé (τερατά μαμέ) | VSP Bruxelles | VSP Liège | Wetsi Art Gallery | Xéno- | Yasmine Wardi Akrimi | YouYou Group
To those who feed both your minds and your eyes.
Biblithèque des Riches-Claires | Bye Bye Binary | Candice Daoud | Cobéa | Drifosett | erg | ESA St Luc | Kidnap Your Designer | Kinkajou | Librairie Tulitu | Librairie Météores | Librairie Poëtini | Ludmila Kourline | Médor | MuntPunt | Niall Plumb | Samy Soussi | Super Fourchette
To those who have made FAME accessible and sustainable.
Access-I | Article 27 | Babel Subtitling | Bibliothèque des Riches-Claires | Esenca | Cyclo | Osmose
And to the spaces that have placed their trust in us.
Bellone | Beursschouwburg | CC Bruegel | Cinematek | C12 | Espace Magh | Maison du Roi - Brussels City Museum | Montagne Magique | Musée de la Mode et de la Dentelle| Riches-Claires | Tour à Plomb
Team