Tashweesh: Conversations and Alliances in Feminism
Categories: Festival
Date: 17/10/2018 to 27/10/2018
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Location: Beursschouwburg
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From the 17th until the 27th of October, 2018, the Goethe Institute in Brussels and Beursschouwburg will organize the multidisciplinary festival Tashweesh. For ten days, the festival will seek to give voice to the many feminist positions of the Near East, North Africa and Europe. In the program: performances, debates, reading groups, film screenings, concerts and hedonist evenings.
Tashweesh is an Arabic word, an onomatopoeia, referring to the sizzling on the phone or on the radio, the din of a crowd. In this din of divergent opinions, protests and noisy movements, the Tashweesh festival calls for calmness, and during ten days transforms Beursschouwburg into a lab, where different positions can meet and challenge each other.
Many questions will be at the center of the festival to encourage reflection and exchange of opinions. Through art and debate, the festival aims to change what is commonly accepted to be “the norm”.
With the participation, among others, of intellectuals Nikita Dhawan, Sonia Eismann, Mounir Samuel and artists Antonia Baehr, Boiband, Sorour Darabi, Mira Hamdi, Danya Hammoud, Monira Al Qadiri, Nadah El Shazly, Maryam Tafakory and Margo van de Linde.
Program:
Wednesday 17/10
20:00: Launch of “From Behind The Screen“, a series of scheduled movies by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Berlinale) showing geopolitical diversity feminism. Every day between 12pm and 10pm a loop movie will be shown in the Black Box from Beursschouwburg
20:30: Opening Lecture: Global Sisterhood by Nikita Dhawan and Sexism and power in the world of Belgian art by Engagement in the arts
Thursday 18/10
19:00: “Big Talk“. Round Table on Blinkers and Double Language in feminist debates. With Sonja Eismann, Salma El Tarzi, Malika Hamidi and Dina Makram Ebeid. Moderation: Johanna Keller (Goethe-Cairo Institute)
20:30: Audiovisual Lecture by Maryam Tafakory on the Representation of femininity in the absence of female voices in the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema
Friday 19/10
19:00: “Small Talk” with Sorour Darabi & Tucké Royale talk about post-binarity and artistic practice
20:30: Foundland Collective’s “Performance Reading“: Wish You Were Here! on the beginning of migration from the Middle East to the United States using texts, images and music
22:00: Concert BOIBAND
Saturday 20/10
17:00: Reading group with Sara Shaarawi and Amal Khoury
19:00: “Small Talk” with Just for the record and Bledarte Collective on feminist collectives
20:30: Performances by Sorour Darabi : Farci.e and Monira Al Qadiri: The Trans-Pacific Plant
22:00: Party with Souk Sessions: Glitter00 & DJ Dziri
Wednesday 24/10
19:00: “Small Talk” with Mona Moon and Hana Miletic on feminist artists practices
19.00: Workshop with Margo van de Linde: Improvised feminism
20.30: Slam Night with Samira Saleh, Mona Moon, Mira Hamdi, Jacinta Nandi, Margo van De Linde and Miss Elli
Thursday 25/10
19:00: “Small Talk” with Names Maybe and Leave the girls alone on feminist guerrilla activism
19.00: Workshop with Margo van de Linde: Improvised feminism
20:00: Concert by Nadah El Shazly
Friday 26/10
19:00: “Small Talk” with Mounir Samuel and Amira Hassan El-Dosoki on Muslim feminism
19:00: Workshop with Margo van de Linde: Improvised feminism
20:30: Danya Hammoud dance performances: O.T. & Amira Chebli : In my place.
22:00: Live Set: Deena Abdelwahed and Soumaya Phelineine
Saturday 27/10
12:00: Reading group with Saddie Choua
19:00: “Small Talk” with Nadje Al-Ali and Rachida Aziz on the feminist movements
19:00: Workshop with Margo van de Linde: Improvised feminism
20:30: Performance by Antonia Baehr: Exit
22:00: Closing night with Nur and Bosaina
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