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REFLECTION


Manoeuvre & Palestine Café: Onzichtbaar Werk

Reflection


Basel Zaraa 'Dear Laila'

Memories of a Home: An Intimate Journey Through Loss and Resistance of a Palestinian Family


[cancelled] BREAKFASTCLUB #6

REFLECTIE


WERKER COLLECTIVE: Study Group AGAINST WORK

REFLECTION 'On Artistic Strategies of Unproductivity'


Sana Ghobbeh 'This Wall Grows At Its Root'

Performance


POC POC Manifesto

Reflection: talks and interventions


Tot in de stad! Work in Progress

Reflection: open studios, dinner conversation, performance, whine & wine


Playtime

reflectie


Endless Exhibition

Slowly changing exhibition without end date questions the autonomy of individual artworks


Tarek Atoui 'the Shore / a place I'd like to be'

exhibition


Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat 'Là'

exhibition


Building Castles in the Sky

Art trail: Ghent is transformed through the imagination of its youth


Frederico Araujo & Julie Mughunda 'SHARK'


Abattoir Fermé & Compagnie Cecilia 'GENESIS'

A turbulent and baroque spectacle


Pascal Gielen 'Vertrouwen'

Reflection


DEEWEE, LIPPSTICK DJ's, Lieselot Siddiki & Pol Heyvaert 'Countdown'

Dancing all night with a countdown clock as the master of ceremonies


Lisa Vereertbrugghen 'While We Are Here'

Powerful crossover between techno and folk dance


Katy Baird 'Get off'

A raw and unfiltered glimpse into the human desire for connection


Benny Claessens 'White Flag'

Surrender as a form of resistance


Laurence Roothooft, Suze Milius 'SHE'

The role of a lifetime


Anna Vercammen & Joeri Cnapelinckx 'The Pale Baron'

Felix and Felka’s revolutionary Singalong 😉 Bingbong!


Rosie Sommers & Micha Goldberg 'GERMAN STAATSTHEATER'

Slapstick and self-mockery versus overstressed bodies and burn-outs


CANCELLED: Mette Ingvartsen 'Skatepark'

Contemporary dance on wheels


Brian Lobel with Gweneth-Ann Rand '24 Italian Songs & Arias'

A hilarious opera recital to celebrate failure


Milo Rau 'Medea's Children'

The blood-drenched tragedies of adult life seen through the eyes of children


Double bill: Francesca Grilli 'Record' & Sesa 'Spoken Word'

Performance on adolescence, between courage and isolation & spoken word performance


POC POC Manifesto

Reflection: talks and interventions

DSF4841
  • Fri 19.04 – 13:00 – Kunsthal Gent
    Gratis
  • Fri 19.04 – 20:00 – Kunsthal Gent
    Gratis

The Constant Now devel­ops the POC POC Manifesto, a tool to sup­port artists of color in navi­ga­ting the art world. During GIF, we will orga­ni­ze panel dis­cus­si­ons in the after­noon and eve­ning around this mani­fes­to, and show­ca­se the work of artists par­ti­ci­pa­ting in the POC POC men­to­ring pro­gram­me.

POC POC mani­fes­to: Free Lunch Talk
Friday 19 April, 13.00 — 15.00
Spoken Language: English
Join us for a lunch talk cen­te­red around the POC POC Manifesto, a tool that empo­wers and sup­ports artists of color in navi­ga­ting the art world. In col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with The Constant Now.

RSVP via The Constant Now


POC POC mani­fes­to: Evening Talk
Friday 19 April, 20.00 — 22.00
Spoken lan­gu­a­ge: English
POC POC is the men­tor­ship pro­gram­me of The Constant Now that con­nects young artists of color with art pro­fes­si­o­nals. Through exhi­bi­ti­ons, pro­jects, and talks, par­ti­ci­pants gain tools and insights to navi­ga­te the art world. Leading up to the POC POC Manifesto, which empo­wers peo­p­le of color (POC) in the arts, the col­lec­ti­ve has invi­ted expe­rien­ced POC artists and cura­tors to sha­re their sto­ries and expe­rien­ces with them. The event is an ani­ma­ted live con­ver­sa­ti­on and a show intro­du­cing the work of the POC POC artists.

RSVP via The Constant Now

POC POC con­sists of Günbike Erdemir, Souhaila Maalem, Diego Herman, Fatemeh Towhidloo, Brahim Tall, Diane Marie, Shen Ozdemir, Fareed Aziz, and Kapinga Muela Kabeya. The POC POC Manifesto is sup­por­ted by the devel­op­ment pro­gram of Kunsthal Gent.