Opening

Event

We start with a book presentation, organised by Het Kwartier. Followed by the grand opening of the festival, featuring The State of a Playwright, speeches, performances, and music – weather permitting, outdoors in the renovated Vaartkom.

In collaboration with Sabam.

Programme

LAB FUTURE NARRATIVES #2: cultural organisations in times of climate crisis ENG

Since 2022, Leuven has been in the vanguard as a European mission city. The goal of the mission is 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030. The first Leuven Climate Contract contains an action plan towards climate neutrality in 2030, commitments by partners to implement the actions, and a financial model to pay for them. What are the roles that the cultural sector can play here? What expertise can we share?

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ZOÉ - An Immersive Science Fiction Poem - UniT (AT)

The music performance ZOE imagines a speculative future in which the stage becomes a living landscape and an active system of encounter. Electronic music, voice, bodies, and space form a nonlinear, multisensory web of human and more-than-human perspectives. ZOE is a science-fiction poem beyond the Anthropocene — a polyphonic narrative of the Earth’s ongoing becoming and the life forms it sustains.

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Nico Boon lecture performance - About Playwrighting

About Playwriting (A Lecture) was created as part of Nico Boon’s doctoral thesis at the Associated Faculty of the Arts (KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts). In this lecture, Boon approaches playwriting as a practice of continuous improvisation, in which chance, rhythmic intuitions, auditory awareness, bodily impulses, shapeshifting, and experimenting are more important than fixed narrative structures, or clear meanings, or distinct boundaries. He views playwriting as a transgressive enterprise that always refuses to choose a definitive form.

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PRISHTINA. The Premeditated Killing of a Dream - Qendra Multimedia (XK)

Today, illegal construction has reached catastrophic dimensions. “PRISHTINA. The Premeditated Killing of a Dream” addresses this institutionalized destruction, inviting us to rethink our responsibility for the city. Over the last 25 years, Prishtina has transformed into a massive construction site, overshadowed by a parallel ghost city that threatens the future.

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