The active memory of Cifas

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 nights this month

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

Guided tour to discover companies known for their Greenwashing strategies.

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 led 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

For the Day of the Blind, we invite you to the presentation of the publication by Stephan Goldrajch Promenade à l'aveugle.

SIGNAL is all about performing arts in public space. Debates, workshops and artistic actions address our relation to the city, changed by the terrorist attacks in March 2016.

n contemporary theater, the message we want to deliver is not necessarily the message said. In other words, the shown or said “things” on the physical stage has to lead the audience to see and hear other “things” on an imaginational stage: A stage beyond the physical stage. This makes us absolutely dependent on audience’s imagination.

Six researchers and well-known artists sketch an unpublished, hybrid image of the reality of Iran’s theatre scene.

A subjective map is 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.

Bring together a diversity of INDIVIDUALS creating one common body. Work on a fringe of LANGUAGE/VOICE, BODY/VOICE. Build a BABEL TOWER of languages, discourses and voices.

Lola Arias invites artists from different backgrounds (visual artists, musicians, writers, directors) to work on a personal research, a radical experience, a story that secretly obsesses them... under the form a performative lecture.

Agrupación Señor Serrano will be in Brussels in November for a multimedia theatre workshop

SIGNAL is back: In addition to offering debates and workshops around practices and experiences of living art in public space worldwide with its Summer University, it also features a programme of artistic actions addressing Brussels’ urban fabric.

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

Marlene Monteiro Freitas will be in Brussels to present 'de marfim e carne' at kunstenfestivaldesarts. We take this opportunity to invite her to lead a workshop in collaboration with KFDA and Charleroi Danses.

Steven Cohen has developed a concept of 'body scenography', using the body as a stage, working with mind, breath, movement, time, lighting and objects, props and costumes as an of extension of body.

This 10 days workshop is based on two parallel but overlapping directions: writing on stage on one hand, following a musical score of actions, gestures and words on the other.

Yves-Noël Genod will lead a 'workshop about love', quite simply.

Cifas proposes you to meet Agnès Limbos and Christian Carrignon 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.

'Euro-Neuro': workshop led by Pedro Penim et André e.Teodósio.

Nowadays, more and more artists invite the audience to take an active part in artistic projects.

Ricci/Forte, are two Italian dramaturges and directors. Their theatre explores the cruelty of contemporary world marked by obsessions of the new millenium and the quest for eternal youth.

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

Paradoxically, with an excess of politics today we live in highly depoliticized societies.

The stage is the magic of gesture. Not a perimeter, neither a convention but a manifestation of the self invented by the look. Movement creates space. The passer-by looking around or the audience sitting down is the continuation of the movement initiated by the actor.

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

Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol has been shaking the Mexican scene for some time with a political theatre thinking over the world and they do not hesitate to blur the line between fiction and reality to raise questions.

Cifas proposes a research and creation workshop led by Claudia Bosse, nourished by the collections and history of the Royal Museum of Central Africa and by a work in situ in Matonge's galerie d'Ixelles.

Motus in Latin means movement, transformation and it is exactly the idea of physical movement which characterises the work of the company founded in 1991 by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, later joined by Silvia Calderoni.

L'objectif de l'atelier est d'explorer les possibilités de la marionnette comme genre théâtral fort, en mettant un accent particulier sur le rôle du marionnettiste en tant qu’acteur à part entière.

Five days to establish, study and discuss the desire manifested by artists, cultural operators, artistic producers, cultural and policy makers: that art meets, irrigates and dialogue with the city.

Public and Private Performance

Cifas explores gender identity. Phia Ménard will discuss transgender identity from artistic perspectives

Biopolitical Mutations and Resistance - Body, Sex, Gender and Sexuality in the Pharmacopornographical Era

Le beau fixe

Public Movement in Brussels