34th Edition of Brussels Babel Festival
Categories: Festival
Date: 19/04/2019 to 20/04/2019
Time: All Day
Location: Jacques Franck Cultural Centre
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The 34th edition of the festival of art and artistic expressions for and by young people, ‘Brussels Babel’, was announced on Wednesday afternoon inside tram 51, from the Stib depot at Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. The title of this year’s theme is ‘What difference?’, and will attempt to deal with the problem of gender stereotypes. The show will take place on April 19 at 8:00 pm and April 20 at 3:00 pm at the Jacques Franck Cultural Center in Saint-Gilles.
In October, 150 young people between the ages of 12 and 21 began a creative process aimed at deconstructing the stereotypes typically involved in relations between boys and girls. The non-profit organization Tremplins, at the initiative of the festival, has also organized a creative weekend for this year’s festivities.
For the show, a tram will be imagined on stage. “The tram can deal with the phenomenon of street harassment, but also more positive things, such as meetings, sometimes people that we will see only once in his life,” said Assia Manah, project coordinator to the ASBL Tremplins. “The tram 51 crosses Brussels from side to side, it goes to Uccle, Brussels, Saint-Gilles. It’s the meeting of people from different neighborhoods.”
The poster of the festival was selected among 18 proposed by students of the Diderot Institute. The one chosen, which shows the chromosomes X and Y on a black background, was one of the few not to use significant amounts of pink and blue, colours commonly associated with the female and male sex respectively.
An exhibition on the history of the 34 year old of the festival will also be held from April 12 to 21. It will show photos, posters and films from past festivals.
A focus on the theme of relationships between girls and boys is also planned by students of the 6th Arts Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, the Cité des Jeunes in Saint-Gilles and the non-profit organization AxCESS.
For the vernissage on the evening of 11 April, anecdotes about gender stereotypes will be told in a ‘living library’, in which books are people. A performance of students from the 4th Dance of the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels is also planned.
