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From the many valuable topics raised by the audience during our first live session on multilingualism (8.2.22), we chose the topic of "mother tongue" — a concept that was discussed and questioned remarkably much in February — for this second step. Here you find the summary of the second evening.

During Bye Bye Kaai, theatre maker Louis Janssens curated The Long Toast as a way of paying tribute to the old and new Kaaitheater. Different generations of artists, politicians and partner organizations rose their glasses and shared their diverse memories. This is the toast that Agnes Quackels (general and artistic coordinater at Kaaitheater) has brought.

The Kaaitheater renovations, commissioned by the Flemish government, will take off this summer. We are delighted to announce that multidisciplinary artist Elen Braga has been selected to create a work that will have a prominent place in the new building. This commission was prepared by Platform Kunst in Opdracht, Kaaitheater and Architectuuratelier Ambiorix and was assigned by the Flemish government.

Last year, as part of our long-term project How to Be Many?, Kaaitheater launched a 'Pay What You Can' experiment in ticket sales.
From the 2022-2023 season, this is no longer an experiment but policy.

This last session in our Series of More-Than-Human Encounters #2 was entirely devoted to oceanic storytelling in kinship with hydrofeminism. This form of feminism is particularly sensitive towards watery creatures and our solidarity with them. It is also inspired by music and song-making practice – songings –, believing them to be a means of interspecies community creation and resistance.

Read the interview with Markus Öhrn on Domestic Violence.

A Second Series of More-Than-Human Encounters #2: recent technological advancements have drastically altered (and accelerated) contemporary scientific insights into fungi. This lecture will uncover the dizzying multitude of relationships, opportunities and implications that fungi represent for life on our planet, and for our limited/growing body of knowledge on the intricate workings of the planet and the life it harbours.

The northern quarter of Brussels is undergoing huge transformations - yet it is very unclear for the inhabitants and social organisations of the neighbourhood what exactly is going to happen (when), and who is behind it. Wouter De Raeve and Lietje Bauwens attempted to give an overview (and interpretation) of all the public and private plans that are projected onto the area. On 10 sept 2021, they presented the booklet Le Quartier Nord, une collection d’histoires at Kaaitheater. Get a sneak peek or discover the online version.

The programme from January to June announces the last moments of our time together here in this house by Sainctelette square. For almost thirty years, Kaaitheater has been inhabiting this place with visions, movements and ideas on stage. Thirty years of history and yet in six months time, this building will be closed for major renovations and over the next season, most of what we will see will be torn-down walls, rubble and reinforced concrete structures.

But a construction site is also beautiful. It heralds new beginnings.

Kitchen Broadcast is an online radio broadcast curated by Joachim Ben Yakoub and Reem Shilleh. In the presence of Lara Khaldi en Rolando Vazquez this episode proposes to discuss Rolando’s new book ‘Vistas of Modernity. Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary.’ and Lara her recent curatorial work and reflections.