There is Nothing Wrong with People III: GRIEF 

There is Nothing Wrong with People (TiNWwP), but you cannot self-love your way out of systemic oppression is a cultural program of four chapters that looks at the intersection of mental health and social justice. While mainstream psychology too often individualizes and depoliticizes our mental health, TiNWwP explores the ways in which the personal is political, and the political is personal. It investigates the impact of patterns of oppression on our well-being through workshops, performances, and conversations. At the heart of each edition lie personal stories and healing practices of people who experience the consequences of systemic oppression, to counter the increasing invisibility of marginalized voices.  

The four editions of TiNWwP aim to connect bodies, minds, and souls and to collectivize the experience of our emotions; our anger, fear, grief, and joy. After collectively connecting to anger and fear previously, this Spring edition will be about GRIEF. What causes our grief? How could we be with our grief together? Could we turn our mourning into dancing? And ignite a fire of change, connection, and joy?  

You are throughout this program invited to participate actively in collective change and new codes of conduct, within and around yourselves. And last but not least: every single edition ends with a party where we dance while cultivating energy for joyful militancy!  

• This program is curated by Johanna Couvée and Bouchra Lamsyeh, and is a collaboration with CITYLAB Pianofabriek and many other inspiring partners! Bouchra Lamsyeh is co-responsible for the artistic programming of Bâtard Festival, next to being a cultural doula, multidisciplinary artist, actor, DJ, activist, and juridic advisor. Johanna Couvée is a curator, cultural space creator and workshop facilitator working for Citylab Pianofabriek. She is trained as a somatic psychologist and researches ways to build bridges between therapeutic embodied practices, collective action, and social justice.

DAY PROGRAMME (DAY PASS)

14:00 > 17:00 WORKSHOP
The Circle of Grieving Voices by Aziza François & Hoda Siahtiri
with registration | limited capacity | language: FR/EN
> Welcome to everyone with priority to women & non-binary people

14:00 > 21:00 PRIVATE SESSIONS AND RITUAL
Silent table. Ritual for the Unborn with Barbara Raes/Beyond the Spoken
with registration | limited capacity | language: NL/EN
> Welcome to everyone

17:00 > 18:00 BREAK
with food, drinks and surprises!

18:00 > 19:30 TALK
The Utopia that Grows from the Ashes
Guests and moderator: tbc
language: FR/EN
> Welcome to everyone

18:00 > 19:45 SOUNDSCAPES
Deliciously g_r_i_e_v_i_n_g with Stellium and Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí       
with registration | limited capacity | language: EN
> Welcome to all with Priority to Black people in all their diversity

PERFORMANCE & PARTY PROGRAMME (NIGHT PASS)
> Welcome to everyone

20:00 > 21:00 PERFORMANCE
Delfina: Almost There! by Désirée 0100 & Luis Miguel Ramirez Muñoz
language: in EN/ES     

21:00 > 22:30 Collective DINNER
with soul food by Kamal (dinner not included in programme ticket)

22:30 > 03:00 TiNWwP PARTY - the GRIEF edition
with DJ Saidou, DJ Adash Rinn and DJ RaqL

• As a creative incubator for art and artivism, Citylab Pianofabriek supports Brussels-based talents when developing and imagining their perspective on urban futures. In this creative process, self-formed artists define themselves, what art is, and develop an artistic voice to tell their own (vision on) herstories, hxstories, or histories. In July 2021, Kaaitheater and Citylab Pianofabriek worked together for the first time with the Inside Out festival, which functioned as an artistic mirror of life at the centers of BXL. 

"We are all parts of ecosystems and when those ecosystems are sick, we need collectively to think about how to heal that rather than only focus on ourselves." – Johanna Couvée and Bouchra Lamsyeh in BRUZZ