See is for story - Tea is for telling

See is for story - Tea is for telling is a focus programme curated by a community of artists, art lovers and art workers that are active in and around the artistic working and meeting place Globe Aroma. 
From September 2023, Globe Aroma will bring together a temporary community of storytellers, listeners, translators and intermediaries around workshops, performative dinners, narrative tea sessions, try-outs and more. Over the first weekend of December, they will share these practices with a congenial audience* across all the spaces of the Kaaistudios.

The programme is built around some of the themes that the temporary community currently is working on (sometimes individually, sometimes collectively): 

rereading heritage - toy stories - intimate journals - dumpling tales - sewing your story - subjective mapping - sipping a narrative - the (im)possibility of translating 

PROGRAMME

Friday 1st of December

→ 2-5pm 🚪 What is a Door? @ Kaaistudios (Concertstudio) | book your free ticket
→ 6pm 🥟 Dumpling Tales: performatief diner @ Globe Aroma | buy your tickets (PWYC €12/14/18*/20/24)

Saturday 2nd December           

→ 2pm 🧵 Getting Softer with Espace Fxmme @ Kaaistudios (Dance studio) | book your free ticket
→ 2-4pm 🥟 Dumpling Tales: a workshop about food and stories with Mirra Markhaeva @ Kaaistudios | book your free ticket
→ 3pm-6pm 🍉 Learning Palestine Session by Learning Palestine Group @ Kaaistudios | fully booked
→ 4.30-5.30pm ☕ Tales from the First Floor @ Kaaistudios | book your free ticket
→ 6-8pm 🌶️ Comfort is found in a spicy sauce @ Kaaistudios | buy your tickets (PWYC €4/6*/8)
→ 8.30pm 👁️ Trying things out @ Kaaistudios  | buy your tickets (PWYC €0/5/8*/12)
→ 10pm-3am 💫 Party with Liaison Collective @ Globe Aroma | free

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY IN THE SPACE PERMANENTLY:

👁️ Art For All photo exhibit (related to What is a Door?) at the entrance
As part of the Art for All project, Globe Aroma visits many different cultural houses on a monthly basis for concerts, exhibitions, theatre, workshops,... Each time, we are faced with a door: sometimes open, sometimes closed or occasionally unclear which door to use. It brought us to the question of what a door should look like, if it wants to welcome us.
Over the past few weeks, the Art for All community went out with a photo camera to capture inspiring doors. Welcome to walk through our door collection during this 2-day focus programme and start a collective reflection on how cultural places are both physically and mentally accessible.

📹 Media Lab Station in the bar
A temporary meeting and working space for the youngsters we work with in the frame of the project Art for You(th). Every Wednesday afternoon, youngsters from reception centers such as Fedasil Schaarbeek and Bordet come and take possession of the space and equipment of Globe Aroma in an informal atmosphere. During See is for Story, Tea is for Telling, part of the bar at Kaaistudios will be turned into a media lab station hosted by Boly Mpany Mpongo. With video and sound equipment, the youngsters will interview artists and guests, and document the whole focus program, producing multiple narratives through their eyes and voices.

🎪TENT by Espace Fxmme in the dance studio
Every Thursday, a group of women meet at Globe Aroma as part of Espace Fxmme. They share stories with each other and exchange a variety of textile techniques. Over the past few years, the group has been working on a series of colourful patchworks, based on and inspired by stories carefully embroidered together. The themes meandering through the textile works range from motherhood, family, being at home to friendship and freedom. During the 2-day event at Kaaistudios, we will exhibit the finished patchworks in the form of a tent that serves as a safe shelter for stories.

programme by Nastasiya Kharitonova, Liaison Collective (Mariami Ochigava, Erekle Mgeladze Stela Namgaladze), Ali Almir, Mirra Markhaeva, Egoo Dallas, Kled Kapexhiu, Tatiana Zubieta, Habib Saher, Tamila, Tamara (ttamo) Mamulashvili, Anch1t, Giorgi Elizbarashvili, Henri Keller, Karl Joonas Alamaa, Salome Grdzelischvili, Shilemeza Prins, Ifrah Yusuf, Sepideh AlaghaSmaia Abdul, Oyuna (Oyunchimeg) Bayanjargal,Hafiza Azimi, Gueladio Ba, Alice Ciresola, Fadia Fraide, Gaëlle Khalife, Marjoleine Maes, Amina Saâdi, Brecht Theunis, An Vandermeulen, Raf Muylle, Sara Pasternacki Pereira, Boly Mpany Mpongo, WA, New South, The Kitchen (Reem Shilleh, Mohanad Yaqubi, Joachim Ben Yakoub, Yazan Khalili, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Christopher Daley), Looops, Terra Nova, Pigment, etcetera | concept, production, support Globe Aroma | co-productionKaaitheater | thanks Monty, Europalia, VGC, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, De Nationale Loterij, Welzijnszorg, Instituut voor de gelijkheid van vrouwen en mannen