Radiant Nights #5
Composing Alternatives
Combi tickets for Friday are sold out, for the performance by Fallon Mayanja you can still buy separate tickets. Entrance to Ne Mosquito Pas, the Radiant Readings and the afterparty is free.
Four times a year, Radiant Nights is a space for creation and experimentation, free from conventions. For two whole days, artists take over a part of the building. Radiant Nights offers an insight into the arts landscape of today and tomorrow and features both large and small-scale work, ranging from the obscure, to the fragile, to the experimental. At its core are versatile artists who seek out the in-between space beyond binary thinking. The spaces in between different disciplines, themes, genres and bodies. Their work is diverse, radical, exciting and surprising. Radiant.
Radiant Nights #5: Composing Alternatives calls into question the unassailability of dominant stories and composes fresh alternatives. A myth, a telling of history, a culturally dominant story; often only a single version stands the test of time. What other histories, stories or myths have preceded this or been forgotten?
In THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF ANASTACIA theatre maker Carolina Maciel de França uncovers the many versions of the mythical heroine of her youth Anastacia. This figure symbolised resistance against colonial rule, but was later also appropriated by the coloniser. For Techno Poetics, sound and performance artist Fallon Mayanja collected activist and political speeches, songs, film and video fragments and weaves these into new stories and poetry about the black presence in Europe. In Songs for no one, theatre maker Nastaran Razawi Khorasani transports you into the invisible lives of a boy and a girl living in Iran. What does it mean to live in a dictatorship? With what thoughts and hope does the young generation sustain itself?
We welcome you to our festival centre on Saturday for a discussion on different forms of art appreciation. On both Friday and Saturday, there is a late night programme with Ne Mosquito Pas: a series of five solos in which performers work out their worst artistic ideas. The performances call into question standardised views on ‘taste’, ‘style’ and ‘craftsmanship’. On Saturday, poet Koleka Putuma will be filling in the Radiant Readings. Expect a delightful evening filled with astute poetry.
Friday 7 October
8 pm Carolina Maciel de França - THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF ANASTACIA (sold out!)
9.30 pm Fallon Mayanja - Techno Poetics - Black Narratives Composing Alternatives
10.30 pm Eli Steffen, Lydia Mcglinchey, Désirée Cerocien, Simon Van Schuylenbergh & Dahlia Pessemiers - Ne Mosquito Pas
Saturday 8 October
8 pm Carolina Maciel de França - THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF ANASTACIA (sold out!)
9.30 pm Nastaran Razawi Khorasani - Songs for no one
10.30 pm Radiant Readings: Koleka Putuma - Out of Con(text)
11.15 pm DJ-sets: De Hut Fam + Abeja Trax
03.00 am end
Four times a year, Radiant Nights is a space for creation and experimentation, free from conventions. For two whole days, artists take over a part of the building. Radiant Nights offers an insight into the arts landscape of today and tomorrow and features both large and small-scale work, ranging from the obscure, to the fragile, to the experimental. At its core are versatile artists who seek out the in-between space beyond binary thinking. The spaces in between different disciplines, themes, genres and bodies. Their work is diverse, radical, exciting and surprising. Radiant.
Radiant Nights #5: Composing Alternatives calls into question the unassailability of dominant stories and composes fresh alternatives. A myth, a telling of history, a culturally dominant story; often only a single version stands the test of time. What other histories, stories or myths have preceded this or been forgotten?
In THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF ANASTACIA theatre maker Carolina Maciel de França uncovers the many versions of the mythical heroine of her youth Anastacia. This figure symbolised resistance against colonial rule, but was later also appropriated by the coloniser. For Techno Poetics, sound and performance artist Fallon Mayanja collected activist and political speeches, songs, film and video fragments and weaves these into new stories and poetry about the black presence in Europe. In Songs for no one, theatre maker Nastaran Razawi Khorasani transports you into the invisible lives of a boy and a girl living in Iran. What does it mean to live in a dictatorship? With what thoughts and hope does the young generation sustain itself?
We welcome you to our festival centre on Saturday for a discussion on different forms of art appreciation. On both Friday and Saturday, there is a late night programme with Ne Mosquito Pas: a series of five solos in which performers work out their worst artistic ideas. The performances call into question standardised views on ‘taste’, ‘style’ and ‘craftsmanship’. On Saturday, poet Koleka Putuma will be filling in the Radiant Readings. Expect a delightful evening filled with astute poetry.
Friday 7 October
8 pm Carolina Maciel de França - THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF ANASTACIA (sold out!)
9.30 pm Fallon Mayanja - Techno Poetics - Black Narratives Composing Alternatives
10.30 pm Eli Steffen, Lydia Mcglinchey, Désirée Cerocien, Simon Van Schuylenbergh & Dahlia Pessemiers - Ne Mosquito Pas
Saturday 8 October
8 pm Carolina Maciel de França - THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF ANASTACIA (sold out!)
9.30 pm Nastaran Razawi Khorasani - Songs for no one
10.30 pm Radiant Readings: Koleka Putuma - Out of Con(text)
11.15 pm DJ-sets: De Hut Fam + Abeja Trax
03.00 am end