MàD²
Joëlle Sambi
Bringing three generations of Congolese women to the stage here, in order to follow the thread of stories that explore the question of gender in Europe to Africa through Lebanon, defending freedoms along the way. Suddenly we want to wrestle, to get a massage, to probe other ways of giving voice to words and bodies. Here’s to a roaring MàD, to living freely!
A new festival which, for this first edition, takes place over two long weekends with the word as keystone. A literary, hybrid, poetic and engaged event which will find a home on the stage. Echoing the question Pourquoi nous battons-nous? (Why we fight) Joëlle Sambi takes over this second weekend of MàD.
Joëlle Sambi is a poet, slammer, feminist, LGBTQIA+ activist. And an author associated with the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles. Winner of the 2021 Scam Prize for her literary career, she is said to be one of the most engaged and engaging figures of the current scene, between Brussels and Kinshasa.
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A partnership with Master en Arts du Spectacle vivant / Université Libre de Bruxelles ; ULB Culture ; Master en Interprétation du Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles ; DramaCité ; média Latitudes ; Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH-ULB); Institut des Hautes Etudes de Belgique (IHEB) ; Passa Porta ; ICORN (International Cities Of Refuge Network) ; Midis de la Poésie ; Tulitu ; L’Arbre de Diane ; Librairie Météores ; Théâtre de Liège - Centre européen de création théâtrale et chorégraphique ; Café Congo.
With the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
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The festival Mots à Défendre offers six days of festival spread over two weekends. Opt for the Abo 3 or Abo 5 and create your own experience through a rich and hybrid program.
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* Subscriptions are nominative. They are valid for both weekends except for Les Cartographies de l'avenir, Liquides Lyriques + Spoken words & Queer and some workshops.
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17 March 2023Slam
Pourquoi nous battons-nous ? #2
Do Nsoseme
MicroMEGA Le VerbivoreA slam by two figures of the Congolese scene on issues of social justice and equality.
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17 March 2023Slam - Dance - Tales
Koko Slam Gang
Joëlle Sambi
Belgium, the Congo, their little stories and History, it’s the Koko Slam Gang who present them as a popular festival with humor and audacity.
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17 March 2023Words on a ring
Catch littéraire
Alice Coffin
Camille Pier
Marie Darah
Christine Aventin
King Baxter
Do Nsoseme
Sihame HaddiouiInspired by the Peruvian Lucha Libro, the literary wrestling match offers struggling poets the opportunity to compete, face to face, in the ring.
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17 March 2023DJ Set
Bona Lea
A mix of music & stories to make you dance about what it’s like to be a black, racialized woman. Like a vast dance floor, rhythmic and engaged.
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18 March 2023Performances – installations
Mots en exil
ULB
Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles
En-Gaje
Dramacité et LatitudesTheatrical and hybrid performances around texts written by exiled researchers and journalists.
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18 March 2023Workshop
D'où je viens, où je suis, où je vais
Badi
Between sharing, deconstruction and creation, Badi will propose a journey through time and space to meet the other.
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18 March 2023Writing workshop
Mon conte de fée
Claire Olirencia Deville
Author Claire Olirencia Deville invites children from 8 to 12 years old to write their own personal fairy tale.
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18 March 2023Meeting
Literary conversation table
Christine Aventin
Aurélie Olivier
Camille Pier
Lisette Lombé & Claire Courtois
Caroline LamarcheThe writters reveal to us some of their secrets, between melancholy, combat, tortured language and poetic politics.
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18 March 2023Poetic reading performance
Mon corps de ferme
Aurélie Olivier
Catholicism, gender and the sexualization of bodies, consumption, Aurélie Olivier dissects her rural childhood in a language specific to her environment of origin.
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18 March 2023Performance
Ni tout à fait le même, ni tout à fait un autre
I am the same, yet so differentHashem Hashem
Patricia NammourFor his first solo performance, Hashem Hashem tells us a double story, that of the body in gender transition and that of the city, Beirut, in the midst of radical transformation.
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18 March 2023Concert show – rap – video – performance
Liquides Lyriques + Spoken words & Queer
One evening en a thousand queer words
Avoiding clichés, Liquides Lyriques is the beat of eroticism that revives desire, questioning normative representations and celebrating the diversity of bodies.
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18 March 2023DJ Set
Monsieur
7awli
A trip, without any boundaries of genre, to the MENA regions where you’ll meet some amazing artists.
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19 March 2023Reading fairy tales
Contes défaits
Claire Olirencia Deville
Four tales who spring from the colorful imagination of Claire Olirencia Deville.
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19 March 2023Theatre
Pour un temps sois peu
Laurène Marx
Fanny SintèsPour un temps sois peu is a story of a trans woman through the details, the dangerous, the cruel, but the real details.
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19 March 2023Participatory theater ages
RER Q - La SEX PARTY dont tu es la·e héroïne
Wendy Delorme
Rébecca Chaillon
Claire Finch
Élodie Petit
etaïnn zwerSix queer feminist authors write the unpresentable, the explicit, the tender, the raw and the erotic.
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18 > 19 March 2023Exhibition – Installations – Conversations
Un retour
Consolate
An exhibition space that questions transnational adoption, the uprooting of identity and the collective history.
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17 > 19 March 2023
Ongoing activities
Corners full of surprises for all tastes and ages.
