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    • Open Call Open Call #2 for collective research residency
      20 August 2024
      posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
    • a.pass
    • 20 August 2024
    • 13 October 2024
    • Open Call

       

      What could be LEARNING GROUND or GROUND lying fallow  WITHin the COLLECTIVE arts ?

       

              This is the second call for a 2 months paid artistic research residency for collectives, existing or newly established on the occasion of this call, ideally 5 persons (min.3 max. 10 - NOT for individuals nor duo’s).

       

      CONTEXT ? 

      “In a world in constant motion there is an ecological imperative to embrace the value of idleness” Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo in Lying fallow: the value of idleness

       

              By the end of 2023 a.pass (‘advanced performance and scenography studies’) entered a period of (self-)reflection and reimagination, a period of lying fallow: a field when it lies fallow - seemingly 'doing nothing' but in fact engaging in a deep process of rejuvenation and enriching as Rajni Shah says, a space for attention and transformation. Due to the ministry’s decision to end their financial support (based on radical savings and political choices) we were forced to end both of our educational programs: the Postgraduate Program as well as the Research Center that were at the heart of our co-learning environment for research-based practices came to an end, and by this also the educational institution a.pass has been for 15 years. The organisation entered a transition process, and an integral aspect of this process involves opening it up by inviting others to participate, to think together, to be together, to re-imagine a sustainable way forward for artistic research practices and their pedagogical aspects. Therefore, we are extending invitations to three collectives for a two-month paid residency to reimagine our fallow land and its implications for collective artistic research practices, methodologies, and sustainable harvesting. The first collective, One Field Fallow, has been selected in the first round in July and they will start their residency in September 2024. This call is to invite a second collective into this process.


       

      CONDITIONS ? FRAMEWORK ? EXPECTATIONS

       

              This call invites a second group for a collective research residency that serves as a reflection period on institutional frameworks within the field of artistic research, acting as an experimental pedagogical platform where collectives can propose new models, methodologies, and ways of exchanging knowledge and practices. 

       

              The selected collective will be tasked with developing a reimagination of a possible institutional framework grounded in their own research focus and interests, while taking into consideration the concept of lying fallow. What kind of container, institutional framework, is necessary for artistic research, both as a practice and a field, and how can it be facilitated in a sustainably radical way? The collective research residency should consider the following two questions:

       

      • How does your collective include artistic research within your (collective) practice? Which methods do you use or do you want to explore during this residency to organise (collective) artistic research? 

       

      • How does your collective share the process of artistic searching to inspire others? What kind of methods does your collective want to explore during this residency in order to be able to share artistic research with others? How to learn from each other?

       

      “I do not mean to phrase this as some kind of utopian ideal, but to begin an attempt at articulating the ways in which the work of lying fallow lay in relationship to the world around it, without assuming the nature or texture of that relationship.” Rajni Shah on Lying Fallow

       

      WHAT DO WE OFFER ?

      • PERIOD: 2 months (or 8 and a half weeks) spread over a maximum of 5 months (December 2024-May 2025). Please indicate which period(s) would be most convenient for your group within the timeline. There will also be 2 return moments after the residency (to be organised later). 
      • SALARY: 3 to 5 persons: €10.000 per person for the whole residency (2 months or 8,5 weeks, all costs and VAT included). In case of 6 to 10 persons: the total salary budget (€50.000 in total for the whole residency, all costs and VAT included) as well as the working time (8,5 weeks) will be divided, making sure people are paid correctly for the time they invest.
      • TRAVEL + ACCOMMODATION COSTS: for people coming from outside of Belgium to Brussels, 3 to 5 persons: a maximum of €2.000 per person for the whole residency will be available for travel and accommodation (refund based on receipts). In case of 6 to 10 persons coming from outside of Belgium: the whole travel budget (€10.000) will be divided. ATTENTION: we don't have any accommodation to stay, we only provide collective workspace.
      • PRODUCTION BUDGET: €2.000 for the whole residency (on top of the salaries). Basic technical equipment is available. You will have access to the a.pass library and access to the archive and an update about earlier steps made in this transition process.
      • SUPPORT: a conversation partner/dedicated mentor will be in touch with the collective for at least 3 moments during the residency and will also be in dialogue with a.pass (board and General Assembly). Our general coordinator is also present in Brussels to give administrative and productional support.
      • SPACE FOR THE RESIDENCY: the residency will take place in Brussels, but since the nomadic character of the organisation at the very moment, now a.pass no longer exists as an educational institution, this place might change. Collaboration with other organisations, to create intersection with other worlds, other realities is possible too. You can also indicate in your application what specific conditions this workspace must meet for your residency. 
      • PERSONAL NEEDS: in case you have questions regarding specific personal needs (family, accessibility,...) please contact our general coordinator.


       

      WHO CAN APPLY ?

      • COLLECTIVES: the residency programme is aimed at collectives from ideally 5 persons (minimal 3 - maximal 10) ( ATTENTION: this call is NOT for individuals, NOT for duo’s) preferably having experience with artistic research, or with reflecting on institutions, or pedagogical or anthropological experience, all disciplines are welcomed though. You can either work with an already constituted collective or with a newly and for this occasion only formed collective.
      • VOICES LESS HEARD: During the selection process of the 1st call we noticed a tendency to focus on local collectives from Brussels/Belgium. With this 2nd call we want to encourage collectives from the Global South to apply for this residency, since we are very open and interested in hearing non-European voices on this topic. We warmly invite you to make your group a multitude of voices, with different perspectives and different disciplines and different expertises gathered around the table.
      • TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH: creating intersections with other worlds, other communities, other realities (social practices, farming or cooking, or other fields like the political, ecological, economical, juridical, urbanistic, subcultures, etc…). 

       

      FOR WHICH PERIOD CAN YOU APPLY ?

              The period for the 2nd residency will be December 2024-May 2025 

       

      DEADLINE ?

              The deadline for the application for the 2nd group (period December 2024 -May 2025) is Sunday October 13th 2024 (23:59 CEST)

       

      HOW TO APPLY ?

              You can only apply by filling in the APPLICATION FORM here below (emails will not be accepted as application).  We request you to upload 4 PDF’s (or combined in 1 PDF - please name each PDF or chapter clearly) : 

       

      1. APPLICATION LETTER: (max 5 pages or 15 min of recording) this can be in writing or via an audio or video recording. We would like to know how you would take care of the fallow ground? Which methods would you like to explore to do artistic research and to share your experiences with others? What would be a desirable outcome for your group? What is your motivation, how do you imagine working together and why would you make a good group? Who is part of the group, have you worked together before, and in what fields is each of you active? Also good to mention briefly the collective and individual need in (artistic) research and your relation to it, as well as your relation to a.pass and/or Brussels. 
      2. TIMELINE: (max 1 page) indicate your favourite periods (2 months or 8,5 weeks spread over max 5 months) and give us a more detailed planning or timeline of your residency.
      3. BIO’s + CV’s: (max 2 pages per person) of all the people involved in the group
      4. PORTFOLIO: portfolio of the collective or per person, extra info, website, other links

      APPLICATION FORM

       

       

      SELECTION ?

              The selection will be made by 3 members of the board and the General Assembly of a.pass and 3 external jury members. Please be aware that our advisory committee always reflects a diversity of fields, gender identity, and geographical knowledge.

       

      • PROCEDURE:

      1) a first selection will be made by the general coordinator, based on the following very basic criteria:

            - is all the information requested in the form present? 

            - is it a collective (3-10 pers.) applying or not ? (individuals and duo’s will not be selected)

            - is it a research application or not? (project and production applications will not be accepted)

       

      2) a second selection will be made by the jury: each eligible application will be read by at least 2 jury members (each time a duo consisting of an a.pass member and an external jury member), they will look into the following criteria:

            - how the notion of artistic research has been dealt within the proposal

            - the pedagogical aspects of the proposal

            - the proposed methodologies

            - diversity of backgrounds, gender identities, and/or expertise within the groups

            - the recognition of today’s challenges

       

      3) a third selection will be made by all jury members: maximum 5 groups will be selected and invited for an online talk with the jury to elaborate on their application before a final selection is made.

       

      4) a final selection will be made after the talk with the 5 groups, the jury will discuss the group they selected with the board and General Assembly of a.pass

       

             All groups applying for this 2nd call will receive a reply by mid-November 2024

             Upon final selection, an agreement will be signed between the group and a.pass. In case of any changes in the composition of the group members (like the withdrawal or replacement of one of its members) a.pass must be informed and has to agree before the project can continue.

       

      QUESTIONS ? AND MORE INFO ?

              Check out our website or send an email to the general coordinator at kristof@apass.be

       

              Every application will be offered a copy of the a.pass publication In These Circumstances: a collection of methodologies, insights, experiences, ideas, researches from 15 years of a.pass. In case you want it sooner, to get inspired to write your application, you can ask for the PDF or order a physical copy of the book (€15, shipping within Europe included). Just send us an email.

       

       

      The research is an artistic practice, the practice is an artistic research. The research is guided by the questions arising in the artistic practice and, at the same time, the formulations of the research, its theories and methodologies, are feeding back into the practice which will return with new questions to the research.” Veridiana Zurita in In These Circumstances


    • WHAT COULD BE LYING FALLOW IN THE ARTS?


      “In a world in constant motion there is an ecological imperative to embrace the value of idleness” Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo in Lying fallow: the value of idleness

      a.pass has been inviting collectives, existing or newly established ones on the occasion of this call, for a 2-month paid collective research residency. In total there will be three rounds, for this first round, with deadline June 9, we have made the selection of the first group!

      In total we received 55 applications, our jury went through all the applications and selected 4 collectives with whom they had a conversation. Eventually, after listening to all 4 collectives, the jury (Heike Langsdorf, Lilia Mestre, Hendrik De Smedt, together with the 2 external jury members Ash Bulayev and Kopano Maroga) has unanimously decided to give the opportunity for this 1st call to the collective One Field Fallow (OFF), an already existing collective housing in a former night shop in Brussels.

      During reading all the 55 application letters we received, it came clear that for us that this first round of residencies will focus on local collectives (based in Belgium or connected to in a concrete way). We believe that One Field Fallow has the greatest capacity to offer a radical experimentation of a collective re-imagining of institutional status quo, through the lens of lying fallow proposed by the Open Call. OFF is a Brussel based collective that already has a project-space ( a former night shop) type of collective space, and is already offering an alternative to the institutional status quo, through their ongoing activities (permaculture, public space commoning, an inclusive approach to their activities, open space and self-organization methods, etc.). Because of this we believe that this collective could benefit from the additional support and malleable infrastructure offered by our Open Call, in order to expand and focus (even if temporary during the timeline of the Open Call) their experimentation and institutional reimagining enabled by the financial and other resources offered by the Open Call. They will start in September and will spread the residency over 5 months. Soon we will give more info about their residency program, in the meantime, find out who they are by following this link.

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    • SUMMER DRINK with a.pass and nadine
      19 June 2024
      posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
    • rue Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek
    • 07 July 2024
    • SUMMER DRINK

      work in progress by Diego Echegoyen (sound performance) & Davide Tidoni (film)

      July 7 at 18h30
      rue de Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek

       

      Let's celebrate SUMMER ! After the Spring Drink nadine and a.pass are very happy to invite you for their Summer Drink ! This time with work in progress (performance, sound and film) by Diego Echegoyen and Davide Tidoni. 

      Join us, together with our friends of nadine, for a free drink and 2 presentations!

       

      PROGRAM:

         – 18:30 - doors open + drink
         – 19:00 - Invisible Cities by Diego Echegoyen 
         – 20:15 - The Birth of a Song/Come nasce una canzone by Davide Tidoni

       

       

      *** Invisible Cities by Diego Echegoyen (work in progress, 50 min)

      Invisible Cities is the new performative project by Diego Echegoyen. This sound performance delves into how, when and under which conditions the cities and memories overlap, how they dislocate, appearing somewhere else and coexisting with different landscapes. During his residency at a.pass, Diego explored the transition from sound installation to performative forms, incorporating elements and techniques from sound art, theatre and expanded choreography. The installation shifts to a performative sound piece by unleashing a choreography of shadows and lights as a glimpse of an ever-murmuring fictive city. Is it a matter of memories or perception, or is it about Migration? How can it be that a place reappears in another and then they stick together? How does it speak about the presence/absence? In any case, they all serve as backdrops and catalysts for Diego’s creative process. His relation to Brussels, where he currently resides, and Buenos Aires marks the pace of his work as the memories bridge one city to the other.

       

      *** The Birth of a Song/Come nasce una canzone by Davide Tidoni (work in progress, 75min + aftertalk)

      The video The Birth of a Song continues Davide's research on voice, protest songs, and the NoTAV movement (more info)The work shows the clashes between police and NoTAV, which occurred in Valsusa on July 4, 2011, and links them to the song, Il furbo celerino (The Sneaky Riot Cop)created by the NoTAV movement itself a few months after the clashes. The work reflects on protest songs as situated and relational gestures, actions intervening within a specific temporal contexts, expressing force and meaning in response to contingent situations.

       

       

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    • Spring Drink & Films with a.pass and nadine
      02 April 2024
      posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
    • 09 April 2024
    • Spring Drink & Films

      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

       

      *** Memories of a Camera Perspective by Anna Lugmeier (29 min)

      Memories of a Camera Perspective is an audio-visual poem dedicated to the process of film editing as a space of intimacy with sound and image material. It disguises as a home movie that is looking into femme strategies of appropriation of the camera by turning the phallic attributes of the lens inside out and looking into the oystershell as a vessel for a filmic Séance. The film is summoning visions of early feminist filmmakers, seeking for new frameworks of kinship and care in collaboration with the camera. In this DIY-examination of the tragic-comedy we are looking into exhausted images, the role of the female film maker and a desperate love-letter to a camera perspective, yet to come. Memories of  a Camera Perspective  was part of Anna Lugmeier's End Presentation at a.pass in January 2023.


      *** Show Girl by Amari (14 min)

      A short-film documentary about Michelle, a pole performer from Paris. The film centers an event where she performs for a cabaret night. Amari is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Unlimited Strip Club, using the symbolic fascination of strip clubs as a medium for film-making, installations and performances. Show Girl was part of Amari's End Presentation at a.pass in September 2023


      *** shemortelle by Shelbatra Jashari (15 min)

      A sensitive vampire decides to leave eternal life behind by actively undergoing euthanasia. She is assisted through a mercy killing ritual, performed by a vampire matriarchy in Brussels. Taking on human form for just a flash of time after years of immortal existence, she talks about her death, life and choice to change. Shelbatra has been active in Brussels since a while - known for the Brûlesk dance events in the past - a project around cabaret and burlesque. She has been using her body, voice and boxing (among others) as a foundation to develop her vision on the history of representations. With shemortelle she tempted into a form where concept, performance, film and narration were put to use to make a contemporary form of a “weeping song” - referring to “pleureuses” practices such as those singing songs of grief in the tradition of Albanian songs. Her research into this practice was accompanied by a performance that has been integrated in the short film.

    • From now on the a.pass archive is part of the AMVB collection, which has many archives by Flemish cultural institutions in Brussels in their collection. In this way the a.pass archive, with the many publications made during more then 14 years, will be publicly accessible and preserved for future generations.

      You can find AMVB here: Arduinkaai 28, 1000 Brussels or www.amvb.be

    • On the 21st of March, the day of Spring and the International Day against racism a.pass joined the TOWARDS APARTHEID FREE ZONES - Cultural Solidarity with Palestine campaign. By doing this we want to express, as an organisation, once more our solidarity with Palestine. We say NO to any form of discrimination, racism, violence and violation of human rights and international law. We say NO to anti-semitism, we say NO to islamophobia. And we say NO to any form of terrorism, including organised state terror like apartheid. 

      Together with many other organisations in the cultural field from both sides of the language border, we have decided to start our trajectory TOWARDS APARTHEID FREE ZONES. This means that we will do everything we can as an organisation to avoid any complicity with apartheid states and regimes, by choosing not to collaborate with these states, and choosing for companies and service providers that do not invest in these states and regimes, starting with a boycott of Israël. Becoming an Apartheid Free Zone is a step further in our decolonising process and a step further in defending the freedom of speech, defending the universal declaration of human rights and in connecting people without dehumanising any of them. We invite you to take this step together and walk TOWARDS APARTHEID FREE ZONES with us. We have put a sticker on our windows and doors; we have posted this message on our pages, in order to make our joint action visible. We stand in solidarity with Palestine and we say: enough! Ceasefire now!

    • While a.pass was having a winter sleep we have been working behind the scenes: cleaning out the old spaces, archiving what has been and moving to other places. From now on, until September, you can find a.pass on 3 different locations:   

      • the office and meeting place has moved to GC Nekkersdal, Blvd Emile Bockstaellaan 107 in Laken, where we share the working studio with other artists (Nicolas Galeazzi, Einat Tuchman, Gosie Vervloessem and others...)
      • the library and a new (collective) workspace has just been installed at the first floor above Decoratelier, rue Manchesterstraat 17 in Molenbeek
      • and the a.pass storage and technical library is still at Bottelarij, rue Delaunoystraat 58-60, Molenbeek. And very soon the a.pass archive will be publicly available at AMVB. More info soon.

      At the same time we are also working on an open call for collective residencies. More news will follow very soon. Once we are ready, we'll be happy to invite you for the a.pass' Spring Drink at our new workspace in Molenbeek. Stay tuned!

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    • AM I EVIL ? Open Call for writers
      29 February 2024
      posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
    • 24 March 2024
    • AM I EVIL ?

      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.

      The figure of Mrs. Walschot works efficiently as a site to explore the way Western European culture desires the Other, and the Unknown. With the research of Gloria Wekker, Audre Lorde, bell hooks and Robin diAngelo in mind, this exploration might reveal for instance how whiteness is constructed (culturally, socially, historically) through the look and the touch on the Other.

      The process of text writing and re-writing will take place between the end of April and July 2024, both in collective meetings in person and individual sessions at home.

      The texts created during this collective journey will be shared with the audience through a printed publication and will have a first presentation moment during the Art Book Fair at Wiels and at nadine, in October 2024.

      The Brussels edition of Am I Evil? welcomes as special guests the writers Gabriela Wiener and Cristina Ubah Ali Farah plus other artists to be confirmed.

      More info and how to apply click here.

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    • The last one turns off the light... 08 January 2024
      posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
    • 31 December 2023
    • The last one turns off the light...

      With us an end
      by caterina daniela mora jara
      (excerpt from The Annex, Research Center Cycle IV)

      “It is of the nature of the rule to desire the death of exception.” Jean-Luc Godard

      From May 20 to July 26, 2023
      Rotterdam, PAF, Brussels and Stockholm

      Dear you:

      These words are written with the knowledge the a.pass program will no longer exist. The end for the research program that a.pass was running for 15 years has come, and in your hands, you hold part of this end. It is the last annex of the Research Center, even though The Annex is not the end. It may seem dramatic, but do not forget that I grew up watching telenovelas in Fiske Menuco and Villarica, in the Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia, where I come from.

      This letter is a sort of farewell to the Research Center Cycle IV and to a.pass, to which I’m part of, to where I belong. Therefore, the need for a farewell. But what is a farewell? Is it a space where we say, “Oh, goodbye, you have been so critical and helpful; we will miss you”? No, that’s silly on my part. I prefer to say: “With us an end.” A farewell in this case means that some people will lose their jobs, some books will no longer have a shelf, the rooms and offices that a.pass occupied will be empty. It’s crumbling around me right now, it is collapsing around us right now. Yet, we have to give an end to the format. It is not only sad, it is very exhausting and stressful. It is not only a pity, it is hard, it is a fuck you gesture with my finger on this paper, it is a wound because we are losing a space of discussion, a place that stores things of artists, personal stuff and professional stuff, an institution where credits are not determined by how much you read and how much you have demonstrated what you have learned. We lose an educational context in which there is no validation through grades, nor pass/fail course approval.

      I have worked in educational institutions for the last 14 years, and I am very aware of how difficult it is to change the curricula and challenge the environmental conditions for promoting knowledge. Therefore, I was deeply amazed by the fact that in the context of a.pass (the postgraduate and the Research Center) the curricula is proposed by the participants and/or being transformed every four months.

      Do I have the impression of collapsing with a.pass because I did not expect things to end in Europe? Was a modern imaginary of linear time, progression, expansion and improvement operating somehow with European expectations? Possibly. I am from Argentina and I lived in Buenos Aires for 9 years before coming to Brussels five and a half years ago. In Argentina, I often saw institutions, venues, cultural centers and theaters close and reopen, so I thought I was used to endings. I suppose the difference is that I never expected an educational institution in Europe to lose funds.

      In a.pass, I entered with a key, I knew the alarm codes, and I could set up and rearrange the space as my practice required. I moved the dance floor so many times and cleaned it that many times. Through a.pass, I have encountered a network of people that has expanded in various ways in my short life in this part of the world, providing me with a context of travel and/or visibility and/or jobs more than once.

      This will end.

      I remember when I started the postgraduate program I was very surprised by the fact that, as part of my education, I had to share food, even make the food together, share space, even design the space together, share material resources, and even build my material resources. I remember why I chose to participate in the Research Center: it was because I knew it was coming to an end in its current format, so it was the last opportunity for me to return to this strange and luxurious context where answers are suspended.

      Don’t cry for me. (...)

      I experienced a.pass as a place where we could hold questions and come back later during dinner time, a context that could embrace the fragility of (my) individual research, which is sometimes full of expectations, fears and anxieties. I do not want to romanticize. It was not all rosy. RC is demanding and confronting, and perhaps even more so given that we knew a.pass would end.

      Outside of the Bologna logic of BA; MA or PhD, and outside of titles and diploma requirements, a.pass looks for the criticism of the doing of the practice.

      Inside the capital of the European Union, a.pass has a fee for the Postgraduate program potentially accessible to countries whose currencies are not in euros. I am referring here to the fact that the South and Central-American community that I have met in a.pass is numerous and grandiloquent: I’ve met people from Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador. There is no fee for the Research Center.

      Inside Brussels, a.pass is as diverse as the city which hosts it.

      Inside of a bilingual city, a.pass doesn’t speak the official languages of the city nor the country which hosts it. I was so afraid of not knowing how to speak English. As a non-English speaker, imagine an institution which doesn’t care about your level of English.

      In the last floor of a building in Molenbeek, a.pass assumes its role as a confronting institution, it engages with conflict and with interdependence.

      a.pass for me embodies the exception.

      For more suspended questions, fucking ends, ends fucking and shared spaces,

      Con amor,

      cate

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    • THANK YOU!!!! 07 January 2024
      posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
    • 22 December 2023
    • THANK YOU!!!!

      THANK YOU ALL for being present at a.pass Clearance Sale on December 9.
      It was a tremendous pleasure to see all of you and to celebrate together the ending of an era. The end of a.pass as we all know it. The auction was for us a very pleasant moment, a ritual to say goodbye, but also a moment to gather and to support the people in Palestine. As we mentioned before, all proceeds from the liquidation will be donated to aid relief efforts in Gaza. And we are very happy to announce that we collected €4.677,50 !!!
      The money has already be transferred to the Cultural Emergency Fund of HOPE foundation, this fund offers many local artists and teachers the opportunity to support children who are suffering the consequences of war and destruction. More info: HOPE foundation 

      This wouldn't have been possible of course without our excellent auction master Gary Farrelly, our special guest Elke Van Campenhout and the concept and scenography by Steven Jouwersma. And of course it wouldn't have been possible without your presence and playing the auction game! THANK YOU!!

    • a.pass is at the moment in a transition fase, entering a period of reevaluation, reimagination, and ultimately reorganisation. At this moment we are using temporary spaces until September 2024. From September on we hope to find a new space. In case there are other organsiations looking for spaces, we would be happy to share space. All ideas are welcome!

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    • Clearance Sale in support of Gaza relief, hosted by Gary Farrelly and special guest Elke Van Campenhout
      28 November 2023
      posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
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    • a.pass
    • 09 December 2023
    • Clearance Sale

      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 
       



       

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    • A global reading of the Gaza Monologues International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
      10 November 2023
      posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
    • a.pass, Moussem, SOTA, Lagrange Points
    • The Whirling Ear - Kunstberg, 1000 Brussels
    • 29 November 2023
    • A global reading of the Gaza Monologues

      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





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