Le where offers workshops ahead of the festival, focusing on one question:
What is the audience?
How do we define the audience? How does the audience define itself?
What other words and realities should and can we put behind this word?

In 2025, the theme of the festival is food. We have been working on: how do we define the audience's taste? What about the possibility of being satiated when you are part of the audience,
or of being left hungry? Who cooks for whom? Is it simply the audience that is fed?

The workshops are free of charge. For further information, please email:
where@famefestival.be
Workshops led by Aliette Griz.

Le where works with an associate artist who offers a participatory experience related to the theme of the year, in order to move towards the festival together and bring everyone's words, desires and actions to the fore.

2025 Karma Kitchen, with Kaliane Meret

"Karma Kitchen is a performance in which I explore with the audience the link between smells, memory, memories and cooking. Smells penetrate us and evoke surprising reminiscences, unique to each individual and their experiences. Cooking, meanwhile, is a way of creating community, as well as being synonymous with joyful moments and intergenerational connection between parents, children and grandparents. It also allows us to explore our emotions and activate unexpected areas of our memory. In a sense, cooking is intimately linked to our microbiota and has a strong symbolic, meaningful and poetic dimension." Kaliane Meret

The writings from the workshops entitled ‘What is the audience?’, the words from the Karma Kitchen workshops, and an invitation to the artists featured in the programme will be recorded in a ‘Recipe Fanzine’ designed and printed by Romane Armand, which will be distributed during Amuse bouche, the festival's opening event on 11 September 2025 at the Centre Tour à Plomb.

• The Nativitas social restaurant,

The non-profit organisation founded by Monica Nève in 1975 aims to listen to and help people in difficult situations. Culture is at the heart of Monica's project, as an element of personal development and a means of integration into society.

Today, with a team of more than 100 volunteers, supervised by two qualified managers, the non-profit organisation has set itself a dynamic goal focused on the reintegration of disadvantaged, isolated and vulnerable people. Its programme is summarised by the AGIR plan (Global Approach for Successful Integration), which is based on three pillars:
— Meeting basic needs: social restaurant, food parcels, showers, social cloakroom, hairdresser, etc.
— Helping people out of dead ends: social assistance and support, legal aid, public writer, transitional housing, etc.
— Offering opportunities for personal development through access to culture: language courses, cultural and artistic activities.

www.nativitas.be

• The Other ‘Place’ – R.A.P.A. (Research-Action on Psychiatry and Alternatives),

Founded in 1980, based on the values of the International Network for Alternatives to Psychiatry, the association functions as a place of passage, intrusion, and circulation** where people interested in or affected by mental health issues come together on a daily basis.

Together, they attempt to provide a form of care – because caring can be done in connection with many things that have a completely different name than ‘care’ (in the sense of treatment); it means creating, living with, carrying, resisting, accompanying, letting oneself be carried...

Both a welcoming place and a place of experimentation, the association develops various forms of housing, support and accompaniment in living environments; it carries out information and awareness-raising activities and, together with its members, produces other types of knowledge, practices and content intended to be disseminated far and wide.

www.autrelieu.be

• Fra Angelico College

Fra Angelico College is part of a new educational movement, led by several schools recently established in Brussels over the last 10 years, all of which aim to promote 21st century education.

At the heart of our school is a series of projects that place students at the centre of learning and enable them to bring the school to life, grow in confidence and act conscientiously...

To achieve this, the school strives to be socially responsible, sustainable and ambitious in the knowledge it imparts.
The school is based on certain pillars and values that we believe are essential for the development of today's young people: reading, citizenship, ecology, sport and knowledge.

www.college-fra-angelico.be

Where is connected to:

· AMCP, the association of professional cultural mediators.
Networking events provide an opportunity to reflect together on how to work and define what mediation is.
In 2025, two events were organised:

At Atelier 210, a day of co-construction with teachers to develop a tool for students to help them develop their critical thinking skills when viewing works of art.

An afternoon training session with Poisson sans bicyclette on the issue of accessibility, the presentation text for which can be found here.

"If we have to think about making something accessible, it means that the default state is inaccessibility. Inaccessibility is the failure to consider certain individuals and/or groups of people as part of the public sphere and society. So, thinking about accessibility means thinking of every individual as a potential participant from the outset, in all aspects: space, equipment, organisation, language, cultural references, etc."
Speaker: ASBL Le Poisson sans bicyclette. A recognised feminist association in continuing education.
In 2021, this association embarked on research into the accessibility of activist and cultural spaces with a view to improving the welcome given to people with all types of disabilities, bodies and realities.

· Exile and Creation*
FAME participated in an afternoon of reflection on the ethical issues surrounding mediation projects with undocumented migrants on 13 June 2025 at Kanal Pompidou. Aliette Griz led one of the round tables, where the need for political mediation was discussed.
*The steering committee of Exile·s & Creation·s is composed of members of the Voice of Undocumented Migrants in Brussels (VSP BXL), the Voice of Undocumented Migrants in Liège, the Committee of Undocumented Women, the Baraka Grafika collective, the Saint-Luc & ERG Higher Schools of Art, and artists with and without papers.

Exil·s & Création·s was created to define, in the words of exiles, an ethic of collaboration. They invite the socio-cultural and artistic sector to reflect on working methods and the potential issues of dependence or empowerment.
What narratives are there by and for undocumented migrants? What perspectives serve their struggle? What are the limits of testimony and what fictions are possible? What else can be said about migration phenomena and their consequences, according to what aesthetics, what production and dissemination processes? What labour rights and what room for manoeuvre do undocumented migrants have, and what effective solidarity is there from institutions in this regard? These are just some of the questions that can be addressed through an anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-classist lens.

www.kanal.brussels.fr