Rise Up: Poetic Memorial 2019
A new spring, a new Rise Up. This interactive poetry project 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. Sukina Douglas, who developed the first two editions of Rise Up, is passing the torch to Pitcho Womba Konga. The results of the workshops can be witnessed on 20 March in the intimate setting of our Brazza-bar.
Credits
BY AND WITH GLOBE AROMA, RAS EL-HANOUT, HET ANKER, NASCI, HOBO, PIGMENT, KATE GATES, RINALDY KANGUVU, JEANNE KAMGUE, SEBASTIEN STRYCHARSKI, INE FRANCEN, RIZLEN BOUNEKOUB, AHMED EL ZANKAWI, WILCO BOSEMS, SUHEILA AMERI, FATIMA OTHMANI, MARYAM MOULILA, ASMA EL BOUHLI, AYA BOUSLEM, YASMINA LEMSIAH, BAH BOUBABACAR, DEALLO LAMARANA, SAIDA MANAI, DAVID TREMBLA, SAIDOU, ALIALKRIZI, CHANTAL, SHILEMEZA, KARIMA STIOUT, HANANE SIRIJI, AIMÉE TCHAKOUTE TCHOUTCHA, KHADIJA ZEZOUR, SUZY NGAMGNE FOKAM, GAELLE RAISSA NGUIEMSAP, KADIDIATOU FUNDU DIAMOYE, CELESTINA EKANE, ASMA EL BOUHLI, CHAVELIE HEUGNO YONTCHOU, JEANNE D’ARC NGOUNOU, NADINE NZIO BONZU, MOUNYA CHADLI, VIVIANE NKOUATCHOU KWEDJEU, AMINATA GUEYE, ELYSSEE, FANTA SOUARE, ANNELIES TANGHE, AWOULATH ALOUGBIN, E.A.