Network day: A Day of Kinship

Name: Network day: A Day of Kinship
Start: 2025-05-09T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-09T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Hof te Nieuwenhove

OPENBARE WERKEN

Fri 09.05

10:00 - 17:00

Hof te Nieuwenhove

Moutstraat 29, 9500 Zarlardinge (Geraardsbergen)

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For artists, cultural workers and anybody who feels called

Openbare werken, the city festival organised by Tot in de Stad!, invites you to rediscover the city and more - where artists engage with public space, explore kinship and take root in public squares, from the margins of the marshes and with long tables full of food.

On Friday 9 May, we meet at an old manor farm in Geraardsbergen among the trees and chickens for a networking day, or the prélude to the festival. We invite you to spend a day slowing down and connecting with our surroundings, each other and yourself.

A number of artistic research practices invite you to explore the concept of kinship; one of the common threads of PUBLIC WORKS. We discover how connection and kinship can take shape, with the power of togetherness at the center.

Program (will be updated)

Homesick Tea Gathering by Kapinga Muele Kabeya & Eline De Clercq
Workshop grafting & videoinstallation by Laura Palau Barreda
Conversation on the Fair Kin Almanac by State of the Arts
Walk and talk on the Eavatea Mapping Tool by Jubilee
Isabel Burr Raty
een-twee
Asli Hatipoglu
Elien Ronse
manoeuvre
The Aunties Collective

Welcome and bring your colleagues, swimsuit, and hammock!

Part of

Openbare Werken 2025

The festival OPENBARE WERKEN is a gathering of years of collaboration between the diverse partners from the Tot in de Stad! network. From common needs and similar challenges, all kinds of threads were woven with, and between each other. Through this network, many things were created together. In small projects as well as larger initiatives, knowledge was exchanged, expertise shared, artists supported and joy shared. Thus an exciting and enriching web of interdependence, care and critical friendship emerged over the years.

Tot in de Stad! is a collaboration between VIERNULVIER, de Koer, Kunsthal Gent, Manoeuvre, CAMPUSatelier, Jong Gewei, KASK & Conservatorium School of Arts and LUCA School of Arts. Together, they support artistic practices that consciously engage in dialogue with residents and the environment, working bottom-up from what is already there and questioning the city in all its complexity.

With the support of the Flemish Government.