Nuits Sonores and European Lab Brussels @BOZAR

Categories: Festival
Date: 27/09/2018 to 30/09/2018
Time: 18 h 00
Location: Center for Fine Arts - BOZAR
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BOZAR and ARTY FARTY BRUSSELS will present the second edition of Nuits sonores Brussels from 27 to 30 September. For 4 days and 2 evenings the event creates room for debate ( European Lab ), exhibitions ( BOZAR Lab ), a program dedicated to electronic indie music ( 29.09 BOZAR Takeover ) and a free musical tour through Brussels ( 28.09 The Loop & 27-30.09 Extra! ) With partners such as Ancienne Belgique, Beursschouwburg, Ateliers Claus, Walter, LaVallée and many others.

Can Europe still be saved? Saved from the wave of nationalist populism that is sweeping through the continent, claiming victories in Hungary, Poland, Austria and now Italy? Saved from the excesses of liberalism that have turned the people of Europe against their own continent, and eroded confidence in its founding humanist ideals? Saved from itself: from its dated, impenetrable technocracy; from its lack of vision and narrative; from the absence of a shared project for the future?

And yet Europe now offers the only viable territorial and political arena in which to confront the threats to democracy in the twenty-first century. In which to tackle today’s social, migratory, environmental and geopolitical challenges. In which to harness the possibilities of the digital age, and to embrace metropolisation and territorial synergy, from the local to the continental, the universal to the unique. And in which to come together with a view to building new democratic methods and imagining the culture of tomorrow.
Europe may yet prove to be the only purpose capable of mobilizing the emerging generations of “European, crisis and digital natives” behind the common cause of their shared destiny. The great project around which they can and must invent new institutions, re-think models and reach consensus. Europe has the potential to be an unprecedented crucible of innovation, transformation and imagination; a platform on which to prototype the future.

Just a few months from the unpredictable European elections that look set to send political shockwaves around the continent, the European Lab Forum is returning to the heart of the European capital of Brussels, where it will once more give the floor to new generations of activists, demonstrators and project leaders, as well as cultural, media and democratic actors.

Taking place at the same time as the Nuits Sonores Brussels festival, and in partnership with BOZAR, European Lab Brussels will offer a weekend of interaction, inspiration and debate, providing cause for new hope and reasons to reject fatalism.

 

BOZAR Takeover on 29 September is the highlight of the festival with around twenty artists on no less than six different stages in an innovative setting at BOZAR. The boundless program presents a number of great figures from  electronic music and also explores geographical, cultural and artistic boundaries by opening up to  jazz, world music, urban and contemporary music.

Please find below the overview of the program:

 

 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Opening

Thursday, September 27, 2018, 18: 00-22: 30
BOZAR
Free

BOZAR LAB

From Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 September 2018
Thursday, Friday and Saturday: 10 am-10 pm. Sunday: 10 am-6 pm
BOZAR
Free

European Lab Brussels

Thursday, September 27, 2018: 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm
Friday, September 28, 2018: 15h-18h
BOZAR
Free

Night 1 / The Loop

Friday, September 28, 2018, 8:00 pm – 7:00 am
At 8 locations in Brussels
Free

Night 2 / BOZAR Takeover

Saturday 29 September 2018, 19h-04h
At 6 locations in the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels
Rue Ravenstein 23 – 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Presale  : 25 €

Additional

Friday 28 and Saturday, September 29, 2018
Everywhere in the city
Free

Afterparty

Sunday, September 30, 2018,  2:30 am to 8:00 am
C12
Presale  : 30 € (Night 2 included)

Closing Day

Sunday, September 30, 2018,  14h-22h
LaVallée
Free

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