More than 16 years of activity

Launch of Feral Magazine n°4 with an intervention by Eden Tinto Collins

Cifas and La Bellone co-produce a seminar in the Dramaturgy Practices series: ‘Negotiating Between Conflict and Creative Freedom’ with Prisca Ratovonasy, for BIPOC only.

Co-learning programme for artists of all disciplines with a project in progress around performing arts in the city.

Performative practices with Ophélie Mac coco from FATSABBATS for BIPOC artists, priority for those outside art schools.

During Feral, a group of slow performers composed of professional dancers and Brussels’ inhabitants attempts to camouflage itself in Schaerbeek, Jette and Brussels’ public space.

Feral 2025 will be medieval: let’s explore the emancipatory power of the Middle Ages in contemporary artistic practice, and look at the ways in which this period serves as a vehicle for collective imagination, struggle and counter-narratives.

A workshop with Jordi Colomer on the transformation of the Bourse district, in collaboration with Kunstenfestivaldesarts.

A learning lab for international producers working with participatory projects and/or contextualized work.

Be the first to get your hands on the last issue of Feral Magazine: What do rituals do to art? What does art do to rituals?

Cifas is co-producing a seminar in the Dramaturgy Practices cycle proposed by La Bellone: “Lieux polyphoniques” (Polyphonic places) led by Vivi Focquet.

A conference by philosopher Joëlle Zask : public space, participation and art.

A nocturnal laboratory on participation in public space and a conference by Joëlle Zask.

Co-learning programme for artists of all disciplines with a project in progress around performing art in the city.

A series of collective book readings focusing on performing art in public space.

An elusive figure dressed in YELLOW rides through the streets of Brussels on an electric wheel. Don’t miss his apparition in your neighbourhood…

An insight on the research developed by the artists of Veldwerk III, a programme supporting projects taking place in rural contexts and questioning the city as the center of things.

Performative practices: Intimacy, Collectivity and Politics with Ophélie Mac coco from FATSABBATS for POC artists outside art schools.

This year Feral explores contemporary rituals as levers of collective strength.

Rituals, activism and other spells to ward off the end of the world during this Magick Desobedience workshop.

Back to Back Theatre is in Europe, and even better, in Brussels ! During Kunstenfestivaldesarts, they are presenting their new piece Multiple Bad Things at the Théâtre National. Following their week of shows, they are giving a workshop at Cifas called Territorial Business. An opportunity not to be missed…

An international group of producers gathers with peers for 4 days in Brussels during Kunstenfestivaldesarts.

Cifas and La Bellone are co-producing a seminar in the Dramaturgy Practices series. It is called ‘Public Space Dramaturgy’ and is lead by Danae Theodoridou.

Our partner IN SITU, European platform for artistic creation in public space, opens doors to the general public during its Open Day.

Performing the intimate, making political fiction through writing and performance.

Our co-learning programme for artists of all disciplines with a project in progress around performing art in the city.

In 2023-2024, the artists of Kunstenplatform PLAN B started exploring Village Dramaturgy, meeting the residents of Haren, a village-like enclave in the Brussels-Capital region, to begin researching issues of participation.

Feral 2023: 10 days of School of Nomadic Urbanism and 2 days of international encounters on the role of art in the urban fabric, for a sensitive city.

The Cifas has partenered with Alternatives théâtrales for its 148th issue dedicated to circus arts, puppetry and art in public space.

An international group of producers gathers with peers for 4 days in Brussels during Kunstenfestivaldesarts.

Together-mess. A loving take on undoing, ‘caretorship’ and collectivity.

La Bellone is organising cycle of dramaturgy seminars among which one is designed together with Cifas, and is oriented around questions of dramaturgy of the city and the public space, by inviting Pauline de la Boulaye.

Constellations is a co-learning programme for artists of all disciplines with a project around living art in the city.

An urban and artistic laboratory, Secondary Residence sets the residents of a neighbourhood in motion, bringing together the points of view of a trio made up of an artist, a local politician and an inhabitant.

During the last days of December, Chloé Schuiten and Clément Thiry dedicate a new monument to the pigeon, our once domesticated city neighbour who has now returned to the wild.

School of Love (SOL) is a project led by a collective of artists from different disciplines and backgrounds, who have come together around issues of love, school and art. The collective proposed to explore this triangulation with secondary school students during an immersive workshops.

A 3-day programme to observe, mingle and think together about the mutations of art in public space. This year, we invite the rural to the table.

For Cifas and Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Japanese artist Akira Takayama invites food deliverers to create unexpected rap performances in the city.

An international group of producers gathers with peers for 4 days in Brussels during Kunstenfestivaldesarts.

The Constellations project intends to gather 12 creators from various branches of the performing arts in order to support each other and reflect on their work during several sessions throughout the year.

Across and for the 19 communes of Brussels, a flotilla of 5 riders on electric scooters wearing light-suits will illuminate our December nights.

An international group of producers gathers with peers for 4 days in Brussels during Kunstenfestivaldesarts.

Pélagie Gbaguidi opens up a participative space in which visitors can deposit or take away objects, stories, drawings, secrets and letters.

Every day, during the opening hours of the McDonalds Bourse, access the recorded lectures, which you can combine with a burger and a coke.

Exploration, imaginination, alternatives to face climate changes

Visite guidée à la découverte d’entreprises réputées pour leurs stratégies de Greenwashing.

The “IN SITU ACT Days - Reclaim Public Space” will look back on the network’s activities in the frame of the cooperation project IN SITU ACT.

When fruits and vegetables become subversive…

An investigation throughout Europe about mutualisation strategies and values.

Towards The Good Life. Urban accupunctures, reflections and practices to reinvent a desire for the future.

Join us for walks with storytellers at Parc Josaphat.

Several artists proposed an artistic action/reflection based on our common situation of confinement.

Manu Tention defines himself as a city healer, street nurse, urban surgeon… He repairs the city where it is broken.

Cifas is partnering with the Montagne Magique Theatre to offer workshops to 16-20 years old people in order to reflect together on the notion of the invisible.

Mallika Taneja leads a workshop inspired by Women Walk at Midnight, an initiative taking place in New Delhi, India.

Artivism - An introduction to creative resistance strategies and tactics.

Two days of discussions and workshops around the imaginaries of ecology - Art and Activism in Times of Climate Change

Based on the letters collected in the Encyclopaedia of Migrants, Frédérique Lecomte gives voice to these letters with 18 actors, amateur or not

In this performance, 8 actors sing, chant and narrate patachitras, narrative art devices sung and drawn on a scroll

For a whole day on a long stretch of grass in the Royal Park, Dutch performer and visual artist Nick Steur creates fifty sculptures.

During one semester, Ophélie Mac meets young people from two secondary classes at Serge Creuz School (Molenbeek) and proposes to discuss performance. On 3 and 4 June, they perform in public space.

Sepake Angiama leans a futuristic writing workshop as part of the Free School, at the invitation of Cifas and Kunstenfestivaldesarts.

The fourth edition of the Producers’ Academy, training program focused on international production in the performing arts that took place in May 2019.

Russian collective Chto Delat leads a workshop on the place of emotions in our contemporary languages. Emojis and gifs included.

SIGNAL will be back in September for its seventh edition! Discussions, workshops and urban interventions address our relation to the city, and confront our views - whether we agree or not.

Nick Steur will gather 8 artists during 5 days in Brussels to create art, without any tools nor technology, only bodies, sensibility and creativity, in situ.

The Producers’ Academy is back for a third edition, with an international training program focused on entrepreneurship for European producers working in the performing arts.

L’Encylopédie de la parole will present their last creation at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in May, we take the oppotunity to invite Joris Lacoste and Elise Simonet to lead a workshop at Cifas.

Brussels seen by its inhabitants.

Take pieces of reality and pass them on.

The art of gathering

The Producers’ Academy is back for a second edition, with an international training program focused on entrepreneurship for European and international producers working in the performing arts.

Navegando la marea / Sailing the Tide

Le Quatuor du Nord-Ouest

We invite you to the presentation of the publication by Stephan Goldrajch Promenade à l’aveugle.

Debates, workshops and artistic actions address our relation to the city, changed by the terrorist attacks in March 2016.

On an imaginational stage: A stage beyond the physical stage.

Six researchers and well-known artists sketch an unpublished, hybrid image of the reality of Iran’s theatre scene.

A map created by a group of inhabitants, through workshops led by Catherine Jourdan, psychologist and documentary artist.

Workshops on international production and distribution in performing arts.

Bringing together a diversity of individuals creating one common body to build a babel tower of languages, discourses and voices.

Lola Arias invites artists from different backgrounds to work on a story that secretly obsesses them…

A hyper-media portrait of human migrations, movements of galaxies and golf swings.

Summer University mixing prqctices and experiences of performing art in public space.

A subjective map is a map created by a group of inhabitants, through workshops led by Catherine Jourdan, psychologist and documentary artist.

Embodiement of the Ninfa

Steven Cohen has developed a concept of ‘body scenography’, using the body as a stage.

Two parallel but overlapping directions: writing on stage and following a musical score of actions, gestures and words.

A workshop about love, quite simply.

A gathering around Theater with performing objects.

Present on stage is our freedom. We are free to do what we want.

SIGNAL, four days to explore and discuss the relationship between Living Art and the City with debates, meetings, workshops and urban interventions.

A space to face our European legagices.

A reflection on participatory, interactive and immersive theater.

An exploration on the cruelty of the contemporary world and the quest for eternal youth.

What would it be like to make a space for the quiet, the inarticulate, the unknown?

How to reintroduce the notion of politics in theater.

The importance in research is not to find, but to search. Finding is only an accident.

For the second time, Cifas dedicates its summer university to the relationship between Living Art and the City.

A confrontation of tales with History, to re-build the story of Belgium.

A research and creation workshop on the Royal Museum of Central Africa and in situ work in Matonge’s galerie d’Ixelles.

All that includes abandoning a country and the fact to adapt to an unknown territory, to a new home.

An exploration of the possibilities of the puppet as a powerful theatrical genre.

Five days to establish, study and discuss : that art meets, irrigates and dialogues with the city.

Public and Private Performance

During this workshop we will talk about transidentity : from a philosophical, biopolitical and artistic point of view.

Body, Sex, Gender and Sexuality in the Pharmacopornographical Era

Des débats sur la création artistique soi-disant « occidentale » et ses limites.

An embodied exploration of geopolitical Brussels