Hope needs action! 

The one-day festival ECOPOLIS 2024 is anything but a mayfly. In the words of Rebecca Solnit: It's not too late! ECOPOLIS turns concerns around climate into commitment. Through collective action and deep reflection, ECOPOLIS demonstrates practices that show things can be done differently. Because it is only if we imagine a better future together that we can realise it. In other words, Hope needs action!  

This year, there are once again a range of activities to choose from, at various locations, including a walk, lectures, panels - including The Art of Assembly - and workshops.

PROGRAMME
(READ THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE)

10.45 – 12.15 Walk Lobby tour (full)
With Hans van Scharen 
European Quarter ⎸ in FR

11.00 – 12.30 Panel Right Actions in Times of Ecological Disruption
With Mikaela Loach, Anuna de Wever, Charlotte Van Den Broeck and Ine Renson. With an opening by city poet Lisette Ma Neza
Cinema Palace ⎸ in EN

13.00 – 14.30 Reading and aftertalk How to keep democracy alive?
With Erica Benner, Hans van Scharen, moderator: Elze Vermaas
Muntpunt (Literair salon) ⎸ in EN

13.00 – 14.30 Panel De kracht van verzet
With Chris Keulemans, Nozizwe Dube, Hind Fraihi, Stefanie Parisius-Sewotaroeno, moderator: Eveline van Rijswijk
De Markten (spiegelzaal) ⎸ in NL

13.00 – 14.30 Panel Joyful and effective. When art and activism join hands
With Brigitte Herremans and Isabelle Fremeaux
Muntpunt (Mallemunt) ⎸ in EN

13.00 – 14.30 Workshop sur les assemblées de citoyen·nes pour le climat (FR) (sign up via servicemail)
With Merlijn de Rijcke
De Markten (zolder) ⎸ in FR

15.00 – 16.30 Workshop Klimaatburgerpanels (NL) (sign up via servicemail)
With Merlijn de Rijcke
De Markten (zolder) ⎸ in NL

15.00 – 16.30 Panel Bon appétit : des ingrédients pour le changement social
With Nora Bouazzouni
Espace Magh ⎸ in FR

15.00 – 16.30 Panel Is the energy transition a smokescreen?
With Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Jorrit Smit, Chloé Mikolajczak, moderator: Alice Hubbard
De Markten (spiegelzaal) ⎸ in EN

15.00 – 16.30 Boekpresentatie Enough
With the authors Lara Ferrante and Dirk Holemans
Muntpunt (Literair salon) ⎸ in EN

15.00 – 16.30 Participatory project La pratique de la démocratie / An Attempt to Devise a Democratic Assembly (sur la pratique de l’assemblée, 2023) (sign up via servicemail)
With Danae Theodoridou
Brucity ⎸ in FR

17.00 – 18.30 Panel The Art of Assembly
With Florian Malzacher, Anna Rispoli, Danae Theodoridou, moderator: Lara Staal
Brucity ⎸ in EN

17.00 – 18.30 Panel No climate solution without democratic innovations
With Sophie Howe, Eva Rovers and two participants of the Brussels Climate Citizens Panel, moderator: Tine Hens
De Markten (spiegelzaal) ⎸ in EN

17.00 – 18.30 Panel Resistance across generations
With Chris Keulemans, Isabelle Fremeaux, Harriët Bergman en Tess Okolie, moderator: Stefanie De Bock
Muntpunt (Literair salon) ⎸ in EN

17.00 – 19.00 Documentaire + nagesprek The Pickers
With Fairouz Gazdallah
Espace Magh ⎸ in EN (OV)/FR (subtitles and aftertalk)

ECOPOLIS creates a platform for forms of dialogue between authors, scientists, doers, activists and artists about responsibility and commitment, across generations and national borders.