ReadingTalk

Country Lesbians: the Story of the WomanShare Collective

29/11/2025

In the summer of 1973, looking to escape the masculine and patriarchal culture of the big city, Billie, Carol and Dian embarked on a road trip. Fuelled by a desire to reconnect with the land and find new ways of living together as women, they drove across the United States to southern Oregon. In this rural country, they found an independence and isolation that allowed them to fully assert themselves as feminists and lesbians. They bought a plot of land and founded WomanShare, a breakaway community to live, build, farm and write on their own terms.

Talk

North African Artistic Presence in Belgium

A collective labour

14/11/2025

Inspired by the 20th-century labour migrations between the Maghreb and Europe, Kanal convenes artists, curators and scholars who bring together diasporic and continental practices in conversation. Departing from an extractive and alienating modern history of labour, discussions will recentre the notion of "workforce" around community-oriented intellectual and artistic practices working on memory, reparation, solidarity and care. Nestled in a Brussels’ neighbourhood at the crossroads of migrating movements, Kanal's programme seeks to create an agora for the city of the 21st century.

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Exil.s & Création.s

13/06/2025 — 14/06/2025

During this two-day event, the Exil.s & Création.s platform encourages institutions, associations and individuals from the social, cultural and artistic sectors to come together and reflect on this theme. What stories are being told by and for undocumented people, and in whose interest? What perspectives reinforce their struggle? What are the constraints of testimonies and what forms of fiction are possible? How can people without papers get access to labour rights and copyrights? Starting from a series of pertinent questions, participants will reflect and brainstorm on these matters through an anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-classist lens and take joint action.

TalkPerformanceWorkshop

AFIELD Forum 2025

Transitional justice by Artists

27/05/2025 — 30/05/2025

After its first successful run in 2024, the AFIELD Forum returns to Brussels to explore the ways artists can help drive societal transformation. Following last year’s focus on systemic change, the 2025 forum invites participants to engage with the work and processes of transitional justice. This term refers to the processes that are used to address injustice and human rights violations, for instance after a war or the fall of a repressive regime. This can be achieved through court cases, truth commissions, reparations programmes, institutional reforms … and art.

ScreeningTalk

Cinema as Assembly

13/03/2025 — 15/03/2025

In a time of global crises, how can contemporary cinematic practices align with and support political imaginations striving for social justice and antifascist liberation? How do they help us rehearse these imaginations?
Cinema as Assembly is a three-day study circle that invites the public to come together – as an audience, as thinkers and as makers – to explore cinema’s potential as both a method and medium that can help rehearse collective organisation, militant imagination and liberatory transformation.

CommonsTalk

McKenzie Wark: The Uncommons

26/01/2025

In this talk, McKenzie Wark presents her views on the commons, developed over two decades of writing, activism and research. A renowned theorist, writer and educator, Wark has played an instrumental role in reimagining and advancing the concept of the commons through her critical engagement with culture, politics and media theory. The "Uncommons" serves as a counterpoint to the commons, focusing on what exists outside − and beyond − collective ownership and shared resources. It reflects her exploration of marginalised or disruptive spaces, identities and practices that challenge dominant structures, including capitalism, heteronormativity and traditional forms of cultural production.

CommonsTalk

A roundtable with Emanuel Almborg, Graziela Kunsch and Penny Wilson (Assemble Play) on alternative pedagogies

The Politics of Play

30/10/2024

Please join us for a roundtable discussion on how artists, architects and cultural organisations are experimenting with alternative child pedagogies. Emanuel Almborg will present his artistic research on various educational methods, including the anti-authoritarian approach of Summerhill School (Suffolk, 1921-present), the Marxist perspective on deaf-blind education at the Zagorsk school (Moscow, 1968-1979) and the exhibition A Child has 100 Languages on the Reggio Emilia Approach (Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1981).

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Partager nos mémoires. Un état des lieux de l'archive LGBTQIA+ en Belgique.

01/12/2024

Marian Lens is a sociologist and LGBTQIA+ pioneer who is currently in the process of donating her collection to the Archives of the City of Brussels. Bart Hellinckx has been the archivist for the Suzan Daniel collection since 1996. Lissa Choukrane researches the relationship between gender and archives and will soon take over a living Belgian archive. Together they look at the relationship between LGBTQIA+ archives and institutions, and the future of their transmission.

TalkCommons

Artists’ Libraries

01/12/2024

Join us for a conversation between Banu Cennetoğlu, Karol Radziszewski and aqui Thami, whose practices encompass artists’ libraries.

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Tu me fais me sentir (très très réel): Publi Fluor, une typographie orientée.

01/12/2024

Publi Fluor is the name given to the slanted letters cut out by Chrystel Crickx in her eponymous shop in Schaerbeek between 1975 and 2000. It is also the title of a book based on the research into these letters and their history by the Crickx research group.