Theatre
18/4 Blowman’s Land (Tochtgat) (wordless performance) https://www.30cc.be/en/programma/item/blowmans-land-tochtgat-2024-2025
Peter Vandemeulebroecke and Jef Van gestel are using a dozen fans to create Blowman's Land: visual theatre like a moving painting whose frames are blown away.
29/4 Fi Fi File https://www.30cc.be/en/programma/item/fi-fi-file-2024-2025
FI FI FILE is a visual performance in which players, music, and a living scenography meet amid an eternal traffic jam.
5/4 Philosophy Festival > not 100% in English but there are some interesting lectures throughout the day
https://www.30cc.be/en/programma/item/philosophy-festival-2024-2025- 25/4 > 10/5 Passion of Voices > The first concert of the polyphony festival is sold out, but tickets for all the other concerts are still available.
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.