23 May. Training How does discrimination work? From racial to gender discrimination and cross-discrimination Objectives: Through concrete examples and animations, learn to decipher racial and gender discrimination. Become aware of the imaginary and unconscious culture that disqualifies certain groups of people and the consequences of this disqualification. Discover various avenues and tools to put in […]

8 June. Lasso will host a second edition of Connect & Reflect, the bilingual inspiration and networking event. This year, we will be inspired by co-creative projects and go exploring in Jette. Connect & Reflect is for everyone working or wanting to work around cultural participation. During this activity, we bring together voices and insights […]

3 june. Coinciding with the launch of Queer Exhibition Histories, a new publication edited by KANAL curator Bas Hendrikx, this symposium examines the efforts of artists and curators from the LGBTQIA+ community to show their work in European museums and society at large over the past decades. While artistically oriented, the projects and events in […]

25 May. In his seminal lecture “Whose Heritage? Un-settling the ‘Heritage,’ Re-imagining the Post-nation” (1992), Stuart Hall called on diasporic communities to take over the foundational ground on which the process of heritage construction has proceeded. For this event, CIVA has brought curators, scholars, and cultural activists to discuss critical heritage practice in archives and […]

22 sept – 25 sept.   “The Matrimony Days shed light on the historical Brussels matrimony – architectural, sculptural, urbanistic, social. On the other hand, the Matrimony Days are also an opportunity to discover the current heritage – artistic, political and feminist. Beyond the discovery of Brussels’ matrimony, which is sometimes, and often even overshadowed, […]

  Heritage days 17 & 18 SEPT. 2022 TRACES OF COLONISATION   “Since 1989, the Heritage Days have been one of Belgium’s most keenly anticipated cultural events, drawing in thousands of visitors from Brussels, Wallonia, Flanders and beyond.” “This year’s theme concerns our relationship with colonisation and the direct and indirect links forged with the Congo […]

Saturday, 3 septembre, 2022 – 10:00 — 18:00 @ KANAL Centre Pompidou Talk – Projection   “A day of encounters, presentations and screenings on the historic & contemporary entanglements b/w architecture urban history & colonialism   While debates about the conflicted heritage of colonialism have gained momentum worldwide, this conference day confronts the fields of architectural history, […]

5days4ideas 6 > 10/09/2022 “5days4ideas is a space-time of meetings dedicated to the making and experimentation of ideas. 5days4ideas is about twenty guests, whose approaches cross theories, arts, and activism, and who, for five days, mix their alternatives to yours, to imagine and agitate the possible. 5days4ideas, is initiated and supported by La Bellone, house […]