performance, project, workshop
Topote de Acahual Cultivating a Fandango
6 April-4 May 2025 / Birminghamstraat 30, 1080 Molenbeek
🌴🌴Cultivating a Fandango is an invitation to get to know each other, make verses and play music together. Closing moment on Sunday May 4th from 12h30 till 18h00. Everyone is invited to collaborate, cook, eat, dance, play. Bring your instrument!
🌴🌴🌴Grow verses and get to know each other.
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BARULLO de HOJAS
17 April-1 May 2025 / Birminghamstraat 30
Study Group by Topote de Acahual
Coming 3 Thursdays April 17& 24 and May 1st – from 11h00 till 13h00
Rue Birminghamstraat 30, 1080 Molenbeek
– Thursday April 17
– Thursday April 24
– Thursday May 1
Let’s put a bunch of leafs together and shake them 🍂
Short texts for Spanish-speaking people in Brussels (but open to everyone) who are interested in talking about ecology and rest. There will be fresh water and hammocks.
Send an ‘🌱’ by email to topotedeacahual [AT] gmail.com and receive info & pdf’s
information, project
Spring Drink
21 March 2025
with a.pass and nadine
March 21st at 18h30
rue de Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek
Let’s celebrate SPRING ! nadine and a.pass are very happy to invite you for another Spring Drink! This time our friends from nadine will launch a new cycle of WAB (Wandering Arts Bienniale) and they will celebrate with us the end of our time at Manchesterstraat 17.
PROGRAM
– 18:30: doors open
– 19:00: work in progress (performance) by Helena Dietrich
– 20:00: work in progress (installation) by Annika Katja Boll
– Launch of a new WAB cycle (Wandering Arts)
information, performative publishing, project, workshop
AM I EVIL ? – Brussels Edition
19 October 2024 / rue Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek
Public sharing moment
Am I Evil?* Brussels Edition
by Simone Basani and Alice Ciresola with Els Moors
Public sharing moment on Saturday October 19 from 16:30 on
Can erotic writing become a place for decolonial and feminist exploration?How could one embrace the tools of erotic writing to unveil, investigate and question power processes of colonisation, discrimination, nanoracism, marginalization, exoticization, abuse and seduction from diverse perspectives?
These questions are at the core of Am I Evil? process writers of all sorts are invited to embark upon.
On this journey the group of writers embrace erotic writing as a tool to investigate their own desire, and how this relates to the Other and the Unknown.
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information, project
Spring Drink & Films
9 April 2024
with a.pass and nadine
April 9 at 20h00
rue de Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek
Spring comes with a fresh new wind: a.pass installs a temporary place in Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek, where artists and alumni can organise gatherings and presentations in the coming months. For this spring event, a.pass invited nadine to host together an inauguration drink and an evening with screening of three short films by independent makers living in Brussels.
Join us, together with our friends of nadine, for a free drink and 3 short films!
FILM PROGRAM:
– Memories of a Camera Perspective by Anna Lugmeier
– Show Girl by Amari
– shemortelle by Shelbatra Jashari
information, performative publishing, project, workshop
AM I EVIL ?
Open Call for writers
Am I Evil?* Brussels Edition
by Simone Basani and Alice Ciresola with Els Moors
Can erotic writing become a place for decolonial and feminist exploration?How could one embrace the tools of erotic writing to unveil, investigate and question power processes of colonisation, discrimination, nanoracism, marginalization, exoticization, abuse and seduction from diverse perspectives?
These questions are at the core of Am I Evil? process writers of all sorts are invited to embark upon.
On this journey the group of writers embrace erotic writing as a tool to investigate their own desire, and how this relates to the Other and the Unknown.
For the duration of the whole journey they stay in dialogue through a peer-to-peer editing methodology. Actually such a methodology is not ‘just’ editing. It is rather an intimate and radical way of dialoguing through re-writing.
Am I Evil? starts off with a-lecture introduction by Basani and Ciresola open to everyone about the legacy of Jeanne Walschot, the first white female dealer and collector of African art we know, active in Brussels from 1920s.
information, project
a.pass Clearance Sale
9 December 2023 / a.pass
in support of Gaza relief, hosted by Gary Farrelly and special guest Elke Van Campenhout
December 9 – Doors open at 11:00 for viewing, auction sale starts at 13:00 – Delaunoystraat 58-60 ** There will be soup and drinks.
a.pass Clearance Sale
in support of Gaza relief
hosted by Gary Farrelly and special guest Elke Van Campenhout
a.pass is entering a period of reevaluation, reimagination, and ultimately reorganisation. As part of this process, the institution is liquidating an overwhelming abundance of materials accumulated over the years. Items available for purchase include furniture, fixtures, lighting, art, office supplies, props, cables, electronics, artifacts, curiosities, catering supplies, mystery materials, not to forget the dance floor and much more. The sale will take the form of a garage sale, with larger, high-value items going under the auction hammer. Gary Farrelly will oversee the sale together with special guest Elke Van Campenhout. All proceeds from the liquidation will be donated to aid relief efforts in Gaza. The Cultural Emergency Fund of HOPE foundation offers many local artists and teachers the opportunity to support children who are suffering the consequences of war and destruction. More info: HOPE foundation
information, performative publishing, project
In these circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices
14 years of a.pass
In these circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices is a publication about artistic research as it is practiced within the co-learning environment of a.pass. This book brings together an assemblage of curatorial, artistic and pedagogical approaches emblematic of an institution that fosters collaboration, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices.
information, lecture, performative publishing, project, reading session
a.pass, Moussem, SOTA, Lagrange Points A global reading of the Gaza Monologues
29 November 2023 / The Whirling Ear - Kunstberg, 1000 Brussels
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
The ASHTAR Theatre in Ramallah is calling on theatres and artistic organisations around the world to perform the Gaza Monologues on Wednesday 29 November and share images of the performances on social media. The play, produced by the Palestinian theatre company in 2010, consists of 31 testimonies from children and young people who lived through the war in Gaza in 2008 and 2009. In short monologues they recount what happened to them during those weeks. As the violence in Gaza has viciously erupted again, the text is as relevant today as it was 13 years ago.
The United Nations General Assembly has declared November 29 as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. That is why ASHTAR Theatre is calling for the text to be performed again on that day.
Several cultural houses and many artists in Flanders and Brussels are responding to this call, as well as organisations in 40 other countries. Together with SOTA, Moussem and Lagrange points, a.pass will organise a reading of these monologues in different langues in the public space: at the statue of Godfrey of Bouillon in the heart of Brussels.
In exchange for the use of the text, a financial contribution will be made to ASHTAR Theatre’s fund, which is dedicated to the psychosocial well-being of Palestinian children and trauma therapy.
By reading these monologues, we want to express our solidartity with the Palestian people. Reading can give a voice to those unheard, provide a platform to the voices that are currently being silenced. We have read, heard and seen many testimonies of the victims of the brutal terrorist attack on 7.10.2023. We got to see their faces in the newspapers; on television, we heard their stories and got to know their families. And that is undoubtedly how it should be.
When it comes to Palestinians, however, we only hear numbers: 5.000 killed, 10.000 killed, 15.000 killed. Reading these 31 monologues is a call for putting a face and a voice to the thousands and thousands people, children, who lost their lives. Those that simply can’t remain unheard and unseen.
Wednesday November 29
15h-17h at The Whirling Ear Fountain
between Koningsplein/place Royale & Kunstberg/Mont des Arts 1000 Brussels
postgraduate program, project
Where do we go from here – Block 2022 III
5 September-30 November 2022
a proposal by Martina Petrovic
Is a series of dinner encounters which aims to map and introduce four collectives from the Brussels scene to a.pass participants from the September block 2022. Collectives: Common Wallet, Helectolitre, BOSCH and JUBILEE/EMPTOR, are self-organized, or which have alternative approaches on commons, organization, finances and ways of living and working as artists.
Through a format of dinner we will explore how these collectives operate, what are the politics behind the modes of being and working together, where are the difficulties and what are exciting new possibilities of working with different structures. Participants of a.pass will come to the dinners of these four collectives, after these four encounters for the final dinner a.pass will take the role of the host.
Sept 20th, 7pm: Dinner with Hectolitre
Oct 7th, 7pm: Dinner with Common Wallet
Oct 27th, 4pm: Reading Room and dinner with Jubilee/Emptor
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project, workshop
Polyset 2022W4-7 a.pass, Brussels
24 January-11 February 2022 / a.pass
POLYSET HAS BEEN PROLONGED BY A WEEK, TO END ON FRI FEB 18TH
[disorganisation, mutable<>mutant, re-constitution, available space, usedesign, decoherence, constituent imagination, perpetual modeling, set / unset, cohab, sticky space, gel, semiset, accumulation, interim, tentative, fragile, actual, affine space, poligraphy, gathering, a walk in the dark with the flashlight pointing backwards, fugitive instituting, politecture, study, overflow, hangout]
a poliset is:
a practice of temporary research co-habitation, where the the researchers design their spaces of practice in one shared space
an indoor research hangout with available communal materials, tools, support structures and resources
a self-curated study, that works through an open network of invitations
consensual over-all-planning is an exception, while relational collaborative negotiations structure the space
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