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16 december 2024
2pm – 8pm, at La Bellone

Symposium: Live performance archives at the forefront of the genre

La Bellone and the FAME festival (Festival where Arts Meet Empowerment) are co-organising a symposium to reflect collectively on the future of performing arts archives from a gender perspective.

The history of the performing arts is well documented in Belgium, and theatres and artists have centralised their archives in various places (Archives and Museums of Literature, Bellone, Municipal Archives, etc.), but as is often the case, making the history of women artists is proving more difficult than that of the great men of the theatre.

Over the course of the day, we will hear a number of contributions aimed at highlighting the difficulties that can be encountered when trying to establish the history of women artists, before moving on to a round table discussion during which we will look at the tools that could be put in place to make it easier to collect, promote and research women in the theatre in archives.

The afternoon will close with the public broadcast of the first episode of a podcast produced by Caroline Berliner in collaboration with the FAME festival and Ecarlate la Compagnie as part of their Herstories project, which retraces the history of theatre in Belgium from the second half of the 20th century to the present day through the eyes of women actors.