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Rise Up: Poetic Memorial 2022

Marie Darah / KVS
Thu 31.03.2022 18:30 - 19:30
Brussel, Brussel
Muntpunt
Past event
31.03.2022
18:30 - 19:30
Past event

The interactive poetry project Rise Up started out with a question in the lead-up to the first anniversary of the Brussels terrorist attacks: can poetry play a part in discussing what has happened, and in healing together? It became a story of many layers, that we gladly keep writing year on year. Poem by poem we are building a Poetic Memorial in which a multitude of voices resound. Poetry – simultaneously vulnerable and powerful – as a means of dialogue between people who inhabit the same city, but seldom come into true contact with one another.

Rise Up stands for the city’s resilience, strengthened by encounters. After a trajectory of pre-workshops in various neighbourhoods, organisations and associations, participants from all sorts of backgrounds unite for a weekend-long multilingual poetry workshop, led this year by slam poetess Marie Darrah. The results of the workshops can be witnessed on 31 March in Muntpunt. 

Marie Darah (they/them) is a rising star in the Brussels slam constellation. During the last edition of Rise Up, they coached the participants on their way to the stage. Marie is a multidisciplinary artist who sings, acts, writes and slams, and is genderfluid and vegan. They published a booklet at Maelström entitled Depuis que tu n’as pas tiré, balancing between story and slam. In their artistic activities, Marie regularly questions the notions of open-mindedness and equality in order to reach a new equilibrium and forge their own path in life, only to find that the road leads straight to a roundabout of intersectionality. 

Credits

CONCEPT & DRAMATURGIE / CONCEPT & DRAMATURGY Kristin Rogghe PUBLIEKSWERKING / MÉDIATION CULTURELLE / CULTURAL MEDIATION Delphine Somers PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION KVS