Monthly 30CC Recommendations for Internationals

Every month our colleagues at 30CC send us their recommendations for the coming month. See below what they are most looking forward to with an emphasis on events that are in English, aren't language specific, or have an easy level of Dutch.

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International House Leuven
26 March 2025

Theatre

Music by a.o. Zefiro Torna, The Tallis Scholars and Cappella Pratensis.

https://www.30cc.be/en/programma/item/gaude-felix-padua-2024-2025

  • And last but not least: NEW! (Part of Warm Alarm Festival and HEAR HERE Festival and FREE)

    The conference of the trees 24/4 > 8/6

https://www.30cc.be/en/programma/item/christina-kubisch----the-conference-of-the-trees-2024-2025

https://www.30cc.be/nodes/warmalarm/en

Five bonsai trees are arranged on a round wooden table. Their narrow trunks are wrapped with yellow-green copper wires, referring to how young bonsai are usually formed in asian nurseries. The cables hang like roots over the edge of the table and stream across the floor.

This installation by German sound-art pioneer Christina Kubisch invites visitors to listen to the “hidden” sounds emitted by the bonsai. Through headphones, specially designed to capture sounds through the system of electromagnetic induction, you can hear how each bonsai reveals their secrets.

Kubisch created this historic work in 1988 as a critique of the ongoing NATO exercises in northern Germany, a year before the fall of the Wall. Those large-scale exercises at the time had a devastating effect on natural surrounds. In contrasting analogy with NATO conferences, the bonsai here hold a roundtable on the state of nature.

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