{"id":32944,"date":"2025-07-07T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/?p=32944"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:36:57","slug":"ecopolis-kortrijk-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/ecopolis-kortrijk-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecopolis Kortrijk 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the sixth year in a row, an edition of Ecopolis will take place in Kortrijk from 26 to 28 September. We present a three-day programme connecting literature, performance, activism and reflection. With Noon Collective and writer Astrid Haerens as co-curators, we imagine a fair(er) future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ecopolis is a place for dialogue between authors, scientists, doers, activists and artists about responsibility and engagement. How can performance practices offer new insights into thinking practices? How do we move forward with what remains? And what are the steps we need to take now?<\/p>\n<h2>On the programme:<\/h2>\n<h4>Friday 26 September<\/h4>\n<p>10:00 workshop Sara Manente (EN)<br \/>\n20:15 introduction by curators Astrid Haerens &amp; NOON collective<br \/>\n+ performance: <em>And now the beginning is somewhere else<\/em> \/ NOON collective<\/p>\n<h4>Saturday 27 September<\/h4>\n<p>10:00 the installation <em>And now the beginning is somewhere else<\/em> can be discovered<br \/>\n10:30 workshop Juan Duque (in english)<br \/>\n16:00 the book and zinefair are open<br \/>\n17:30 dance performance: <em>When Ashes Spiral<\/em> \/ Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek (no spoken language)<br \/>\n19:00 performance <em>The True Nature of<\/em> \/ Gosie Vervloessem (in english)<br \/>\n20:30 keynote Clarice Gargard (in english, with dutch translation on paper)<br \/>\n22:00 Dean Bowen reads poetry (in dutch)<br \/>\n23:00 nightly performance <em>Useless Land<\/em> \/ Carolina Mendon\u00e7a &amp; Catalina Insignares (in english)<\/p>\n<h4>Sunday 28 September<\/h4>\n<p>06:00 breakfast at sunset<br \/>\n10:30 Tijl Nuyts &amp; Letterzetter read to you (in dutch)<br \/>\n11:00 the installation, book and zinefair are open<br \/>\n11:00 Panel Ecologie &amp; Zorg, with Gert-Jan Vanaken, Nele Buyst &amp; Pierre Muylle (in dutch)<br \/>\n13:00 performance <em>Gist<\/em> \/ Huseyin Umaysiz<br \/>\n14:00 interview with Ga\u00ebl Faye (FR, we translate for each other)<br \/>\n15:30 performance <em>Sobremesa<\/em> \/ Iris Donders &amp; Stef assandri (in english)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schouwburgkortrijk.be\/programma\/ecopolis-25-fair-er-futures-t8sh\"><strong>Buy your tickets here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ecopolis Kortrijk is a collaboration between 11.11.11, Bibliotheek Kortrijk, Bolwerk, Durf, kunstencentrum BUDA, Lieve Zusjes Stoere Broers, Masereelfonds, Oikos, Schouwburg Kortrijk.<br \/>\nWith the support of Literatuur Vlaanderen, SoAP and vdk bank<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the sixth year in a row, an edition of Ecopolis will take place in Kortrijk from 26 to 28 September. We present a three-day programme connecting literature, performance, activism and reflection. With Noon Collective and writer Astrid Haerens as co-curators, we imagine a fair(er) future. Ecopolis is a place for dialogue between authors, scientists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32944"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33773,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944\/revisions\/33773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}