Date: Thursday, February 27, 2020
Walk-in 19.30 pm | Start 20 hours
Location: 't Klooster, Afrikaanderplein 7
On Thursday evening February 27th Z-Files, Art and the City # 27 place in 't Klooster on the Afrikaanderplein. It will be an evening about activism as poetry and poetry as activism. With M'Hamed El Ouali, Norah Karrouche, Zaïre Krieger, Robin Vanbesien, Zoe Cocchia, Ibrahim Alaoui, Carina Fernandes and Demy Koetsier, poems by young people from the film The wasp and the weather talk about the current social and political climate of both Brussels and Rotterdam.
The film The wasp and the weather (2019) by Robin Vanbesien is about the history of the Rzoezie youth center in Mechelen (Belgium). The center was founded by and for young people of Moroccan and Amazigh descent. The young people in the film focused on self-education and self-organization: bottom up and from within. Rzoezie acted with a concern for achieving equal civil rights and was later reformed in 2006 under political pressure. The film takes the poetry of the young people in Rzoezie as a starting point and poses the question of how the poems sound today: in the current social and political climate of Belgium, Flanders, but also in that of Rotterdam and the Netherlands.