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

Deuxième scène · Act 4

Talk

Presentation of an academic study on the presence of women and inequality in performing arts.

Écarlate la Compagnie · Jacinthe Mazzocchetti · Mariam Diallo · Miriam Youssef

22.09.23 | 14h
FR
14+

Poetik Bazar Balade · To whom belongs the horizon?

Walk

A poetic walk in the heart of mega(necro)polis, Brussels. A capital of Europe organised into green spaces, restricted, renovated, trampled, policed, resistant, valiant… can poetry still serve as fallow land, a diversion, a horizon?

Lotte Dodion · Milady Renoir

22.09.23 | 7h28
FR, NL

Criticality

Discussion Panel

La Salve lends itself to facilitating encounters between enigmatic creatives, practitioners of the performing arts, writers, readers, and spectators.

La Salve : Anna Czapski · Mylène Lauzon · Arnaud Timmermans

18.09.23 | 15h
FR

Tea and ball

Dance, Workshop

Following the Hérit'âges et Transmissions meeting, we'll be dancing!

Amour et Sagesse · À Travers les Arts · Service Seniors de la Commune de Forest · Requin Sequin

20.09.23 | 16h

Le monde de Jahi

Workshop

Children's workshop on "Decolonizing the imaginary from early childhood".

Kinkajou · Le Monde de Jahi

24.09.23 | 14h

He fucked the girl out of me

Video game

A game about trauma and sex work.

Taylor McCue

The whole week
EN
18+

Révolution des féminismes musulmans

Discussion Panel, Talk

Presentation and discourse about research, books, and strategic tools for raising the visibility of feminist Muslims in Belgium.

Plurivers'Elles : Maryam Kolly · Malika Hamidi · Imane Benchaou

20.09.23 | 18h
FR

Wetsi Art Gallery · What is the place of black women artists and/or intellectuals in Belgium?

Discussion Panel, Talk

Hi! Let's play a game. Okay? Name 5 very talented artists. Name 5 female or non-binary artists. Name 5 black or afro-descendant female artists who aren't singers. Name 5 black artists working or living in Belgium.

Anne Wetsi Mpoma · Alesandra Seutin

19.09.23 | 18h
FR

Décoloniser les imaginaires dès l’enfance

Discussion Panel

Christelle Pandanzyla · Sarah Sangio · Kinkajou

24.09.23 | 14h

Transmissions Transatlantiques

Workshop

La Barakakings and Quebec company Pleurer Dans Douche join forces across the oceans for two drag workshops. The goal is to parade at the closing party!

Barakakings : Mama Tituba · Dicklan Pleurer Dans’ Douche : RV Métal · Rock Bière

21.09.23 · 14h
22.09.23 · 15h
FR

SLAM & BAM

Slam, Workshop

Writing workshop co-hosted by poetry slammers from the Voix des sans papiers de Bruxelles and allies.

Curated by la Voix des Sans Papiers de Bruxelles and le Comité des Femmes Sans Papiers.

24.09.23 | 16h
Français - Wolof - Soninké - Pulaar - Arabic - English…
For all ages and those with a voice to be heard.

Inclusive Language Conference

Discussion Panel

To name something is to give it life. Language gives materiality to the world and conveys power relations. The Médor media and the FAME festival have made it their duty to represent diversity, in particular by making women and gender minorities visible through and in their writing, and you can too.

Camille Circlude (Bye Bye Binary, Kidnap Your Designer) · Ludi Loiseau (Médor, Bye Bye Binary) · Céline Gautier (Médor) · Effir Libilbéhéty (FAME)

19.09.23 | 14h
FR

Exil·s & Création·s

Pro day, Workshop

Discussions and perspectives on the representation of migration and exile in art. Whose voices are heard, who is supported and who can support? What can be passed on, passed down? What needs to be archived for the future?

Featuring: Members of the steering committee of the Exil·s & Création·s project, members of the Voix des sans papiers de Bruxelles (VSP BXL) and the Voix des sans papiers de Liège, the Comité des femmes sans papiers, VSP Liège, the Baraka Grafika collective, the Ecoles Supérieures d'Arts Saint-Luc & ERG, undocumented and documented artists.

21.09.23 | 10h
FR

Hérit’âges and Transmissions

Discussion Panel

Amour et Sagesse magazine and the Service Seniors de la Commune de Forest invite you to an intimate and informal discussion, exploring the profound value of intergenerational cooperation in our society.

Amour & Sagesse (À travers les Arts ! asbl · Senior service of the commune of Forest)

20.09.23 | 14h
FR
Seniors

Intimate, Political Cinema · Les rivières, followed by Le Pacha, ma mère et moi

Encounter, Screening

Screening of two films : a family archaeology that is both intimate and universal and the struggle of a Kurdish relative in exile followed by a discussion with the director Nevine Gerits.

Mai Hua (Les rivières) · Nevine Gerits (Le Pacha, ma mère et moi)

21.09.23 | 19h
Multilingual
Adult

Les arbres comme joyeux compagnons (The trees as joyful companions)

Walk

An encounter with majestic trees in the Sonian Forest, a place where trees have been completely at home since the Ice Age.

Anaïs Berck

20.09.23 | 19h
FR/NL/EN
Adults
Meeting point : Parking Drève du Comte/Graafdreef, Tram 8 (Coccinelles/Lieveheersbeestjes)
On donation

Moudjahidate

Discussion Panel, Screening

Stories from former Algerian women fighters against French colonialism.

Alexandra Dols

20.09.23 | 20h30
FR
12+

Club Zaghareed

Voice, Workshop

An opportunity to share personal stories of cultural heritage and of vocal practices around a joyful cry from the Middle East and North Africa, the Youyou.

YouYou Group · Sarah Leo

20.09.23 | 16h
FR, EN, AR
16+
Non-mixed

Photos

Credits : Samy Soussi · samysoussi.be · @sam.photographe

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.

To those who feed both your minds and your eyes.

To those who have made FAME accessible and sustainable.

And to the spaces that have placed their trust in us.

Team

Alessandro Carlucci

they, she

Relations & Encounters

Amina Zoukani

she

Administration & Finances

Camille Khoury

she

Artistic Direction

Effir Libilbéhéty

they

Press & Communication

Judith Condé

she

Communication Intern

Joëlle Reyns

she

Technical Coordination

Laëtitia Miranda-Neri

she

Production Direction

Lola Thiebaut

she

Production Intern

Mélina Ghorafi

she

Relations & Encounters

Nadia Zoukani

she

Administration & Finances

Technical team

Caroline De Decker
Grib Borremans
Leopold De Nève
Maroussia Buysse
Malo
Nathalie Deroy
Samuel Dronet
Sandrine Nicaise

As well as

Webdesign :
Cobéa Coop

Graphic design :
Kidnap Your Designer

Translation :
Ludmila Kourline et Niall Plumb

Subtitles :
Babel subtitling

Press :
Lena Celnik & Stéphanie Gillard