Afropolitan Forum Series
Afropolitan Festival

‘Afropolitan’

14 June'12 →
30 June'23

Creative makeover in progress...

"... The Afropolitan must forge an identity through at least three dimensions: national, racial and cultural – with subtle tensions between these components. While our parents can claim one country as their home, we must define our relationship with the places where we live". Inspired by the words of artist Taiye Selasie in a groundbreaking article, Afropolitan presents and celebrates this hybrid and transnational culture in which African artists and artists of African origin freely tell their stories and (re)present themselves.

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The platform combines art, reflection and experimentation and offers a wide audience of events designed by BOZAR programmers and/or external partners. The programme of the Afropolitan Series and the Afropolitan Festival are two important building blocks of this. Far from the clichés of a static Africa, they invite you to discover the diversity and vibrancy of this creative scene - which is particularly lively in Belgium. 

Lisette Lombé, Congo Eza, 2018 © Njaheut Gilles Valler

Lisette Lombé, Congo Eza, 2018 © Njaheut Gilles Valler

Context

Talks & Debates

Festival

Society & Current affairs

Global Music

With the Kids and Teens

29 Feb. →
3 Mar.'24

Afropolitan Festival 2024

Educational Activities

More information about our educational programme →

Programme

Films

Talks & Debates

Global Music

24 Nov.'23
- 19:00

Meet the Artist: Baloji

Films

21 Nov.'23
- 19:00

Robinson Crusoe is a d*ck - Benjamin Deboosere

Films

1 Oct.'23
- 19:30

Le Spectre de Boko Haram - Cyrielle Raingou

Films

30 Sept.'23
- 19:00

Coconut Head Generation - Alain Kassanda

Films

22 June'23
- 20:30

Screening of African short-movies - In conversation with the artists

Concerts

Exhibitions

Talks & Debates

Festival

Society & Current affairs

Global Music

With the Kids and Teens

19 → 21
May'23

Afropolitan Festival 2023

Films

18 Jan.'23
- 19:00

Close-Up: Sarah Maldoror

Literature

Society & Current affairs

7 Nov.'22
- 20:00

Meet the Writer: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Films

8 Oct.'22
- 19:00

Taamaden - Seydou Cissé

Films

Performance

3 Oct.'22
- 19:30

Les Gestes de Saint Louis - Kita Bauchet

Literature

28 Sept.'22
- 19:30

Literature Talk: Poets from Black Europe

Performances

Concerts

Films

Talks & Debates

Society & Current affairs

Performance

Art Talk

26 → 29
May'22

Afropolitan Festival 2022

Talks & Debates

Society & Current affairs

Art Talk

3 Feb.'22
- 19:00

Brussels Talks: Place Poelaert 7 juin 2020, Black Lives Matter

Talks & Debates

Society & Current affairs

Art Talk

8 Dec.'21
- 19:30

Brussels Talk: Place Poelart 7 juin 2020, Black Lives Matter

Performance

20 + 21
Nov.'21

Salam Aleykoum Festival

Performances

Concerts

Films

Talks & Debates

Society & Current affairs

Performance

Art Talk

With the Kids and Teens

9 → 11
July'21

Afropolitan Weekend

2020-2021

BE Side Lectures with Dorrie Wilson

25 June'18 →
30 June'21

CULTURE AT WORK AFRICA

With the Kids and Teens

6 Feb. →
28 Apr.'21

Languages Through Music - Africa Special ONLINE

20 Jan. →
21 Mar.'21

Léonard Pongo: Primordial Earth

Performances

19 Mar.'21
- 20:00

Born in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong body?

Dance

9 → 13
Dec.'20

Lettres du continent

Performances

2 Dec.'20
- 21:00

WHEN I FINALLY WAKE UP

Performances

Literature

With the Kids and Teens

28 Feb. →
1 Mar.'20

AFROPOLITAN FESTIVAL 2020

1 Sept.'17 →
31 Jan.'20

DIS-OTHERING

4 Dec.'19
- 18:00

Bonnie Greer, OBE

Concerts

With the Kids and Teens

1 Dec.'19
- 13:30

Shama BONGO presents “Mosi”

18 Nov.'19
- 09:30

Exit ZWARTE PIET?

Concerts

11 Oct.'19
- 20:30

OLADÉ

28 June →
6 Oct.'19

Incarnations

5 Oct.'19
- 18:30

Art Talk: an Afrocentric idea of Art

5 Oct.'19
- 11:00

REIMAGINING WORLDS

4 Oct.'19
- 18:30

Conversation: African Art as Philosophy

6 Sept.'19
- 17:45

E Don Tey Wey We Dey

28 June'19
- 18:30

TALK “SOMETHING WE AFRICANS GOT”

13 May'19
- 20:00

KINSHASA BETA MBONDA - Marie Françoise Plissart

6 May'19
- 20:00

PREMIÈRE: THE MERCY OF THE JUNGLE - Joel Karekezi

24 Apr.'19
- 20:00

Hank Willis Thomas, Christine Eyene & Patrick Gaspard

1 Apr.'19
- 19:30

PREMIERE: Cold Case Hammarskjöld - Mads Brügger

20 Mar.'19
- 20:00

Anti-racism/discrimination strategies ahead of the EU elections

Architecture & Urbanism

14 → 16
Mar.'19

INTERNATIONAL FORUM

Performances

Dance

4 Mar.'19
- 20:00

Flandria

2018-2019

AFROPOLITAN FESTIVAL 2019

11 Dec.'18
- 16:00

Roundtable: Museums in convers(at)ion.

9 Dec.'18
- 19:30

PALIMPSEST OF THE AFRICA MUSEUM - Matthias De Groof & Mona Mpembele

9 Dec.'18
- 18:00

CE MAGNIFIQUE GÂTEAU ! - Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels

6 Dec.'18
- 20:00

COMMUNICATION WITH THE BEYOND

28 Nov.'18
- 20:00

THE FOREIGNER'S HOME - Rian Brown & Geoff Pingree

7 Nov.'18
- 19:00

Afrofeminism & Digital Arts

Literature

20 Oct.'18
- 20:00

Black Britain

16 Oct.'18
- 20:00

TRIPLE CONSCIOUSNESS

Performances

Dance

2 Oct.'18
- 20:30

Not another diva...

13 July →
7 Sept.'18

GEORGE HALLETT

7 + 8
July'18

FOCUS ON SOUTH AFRICA

8 July'18
- 19:00

ACTION KOMMANDANT - NADINE CLOETE

8 July'18
- 17:00

THE WOUND - JOHN TRENGOVE

7 July'18
- 19:00

WINNIE - PASCALE LAMCHE

16 June'18
- 16:00

AFROPOLITAN ART TALKS

Performances

4 June'18
- 20:15

Figure Studies: A Performative Installation bridging Art, Identity and Fashion

4 June'18
- 18:30

EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT DAYS

31 May'18
- 20:00

MAKALA - EMMANUEL GRAS

25 May'18
- 20:00

KEMTIYU, CHEIKH ANTA - OUSMANE WILLIAM MBAYE

World

18 May'18
- 22:30

Cubalandz invites Africa is/in the future

16 May'18
- 20:00

SLAVERY ROUTES film 3&4 - DANIEL CATTIER, JUAN GELAS & FANNY GLISSANT

4 May'18
- 20:00

Made in Bruxsel #10

2 May'18
- 20:00

UN AMOUR RÊVÉ - ARTHUR GILLET

18 Apr.'18
- 20:00

SLAVERY ROUTES - DANIEL CATTIER, JUAN GELAS & FANNY GLISSANT

Performances

23 → 25
Feb.'18

AFROPOLITAN Festival 2018

18 Feb.'18
- 11:00

OJ: MADE IN AMERICA - EZRA EDELMAN

14 Feb.'18
- 20:00

BLACK PANTHER - RYAN COOGLER

Performances

29 Jan.'18
- 20:00

THE CONGO TRIBUNAL - MILO RAU

Literature

18 Jan.'18
- 20:00

Alain Mabanckou

17 Dec.'17
- 17:00

Guerrilla - screening and debate

Concerts

World

26 Nov.'17
- 19:00

CANCELLED: Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté

Literature

13 Nov.'17
- 20:00

L'Occident Ambigu

11 Nov.'17
- 20:00

A DIFFERENT LOOK AT MIGRATION IN BELGIUM

Concerts

Electronic Music

World

22 Oct.'17
- 17:00

KasaÏ Allstars + intro by Pie Tshibanda + aftershow by MJ30

Concerts

World

18 Oct.'17
- 20:00

Solo & Indré

Literature

9 Oct.'17
- 20:00

Black USA

Arts, Science & Technology

26 Sept.'17
- 19:00

Generation Afropreneurs

29 June'17
- 17:00

Mood Indigo

Literature

15 June'17
- 20:00

Fatou Diome

Architecture & Urbanism

8 June'17
- 18:00

‘Cultural Mapping‘ - On Culture, Conflict, and the contemporary African city

7 June'17
- 19:00

AFROTOPIA : UTOPIA TO ENGENDER A FUTURE

7 June'17
- 09:00

Investing in Creativity - the Future is now

25 May'17
- 16:30

Premiere: Shashamane - Giulia Amati

25 May'17
- 18:00

The Pan-African Return experience: from the Caribbean to Ethiopia

1 May'17
- 14:00

I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck

29 + 30
Apr.'17

Autour de Félicité

29 Apr.'17
- 20:00

Premiere: Félicité - Alain Gomis

Concerts

World

27 Apr.'17
- 20:00

Oumou Sangaré (Mali)

Concerts

World

23 Apr.'17
- 17:00

Papa Wemba, one year already!

Hosted Events

Education

Secondary Education

7 Mar.'17
- 10:00

The Invisible City (Kakuma)

Performances

3 → 5
Feb.'17

AFROPOLITAN Festival 2017

Contemporary Art

7 Oct.'16 →
22 Jan.'17

Congo Art Works

Concerts

World

14 Oct.'16
- 20:00

Trio Da Kali

11 Oct.'16
- 20:00

Rwanda, my story - Johan Swinnen

Photography

17 June →
4 Sept.'16

Colin Delfosse

Contemporary Art

Photography

17 June →
4 Sept.'16

Dey your Lane !

30 June'16
- 19:00

Urban Now: City life in Congo

18 June'16
- 20:00

Taxi Driver (Oko Ashewo) – Daniel Emeke Oriahi

18 June'16
- 18:00

Faaji Agba - Remi Vaughan-Richards

17 June'16
- 21:00

Jimmy Goes to Nollywood - Rachid Dhibou & Jimmy Jean-Louis

17 June'16
- 20:00

Master class 'What is Nollywood?' by Serge Noukoue (Director Nollywood Week Paris)

16 June'16
- 17:00

Can Lagos Save Africa?

Hosted Events

16 June'16
- 14:45

BOZAR at European Development Days 2016

15 June'16
- 20:00

MEET THE ARTISTS

20 → 22
May'16

Afropolitan Chronicles 2016

Literature

10 May'16
- 20:00

Nuruddin Farah

World

4 May'16
- 20:00

A TRIBUTE TO PAPA WEMBA

Concerts

World

23 Apr.'16
- 20:00

A tribute to Doudou N'Diaye Rose

5 → 16
Mar.'16

Ethiopia

Performances

30 Jan.'16
- 20:00

Afropéennes

BOZAR

30 Jan.'16
- 18:00

Decolonizing Knowledge

Performances

1 Dec.'15
- 12:40

M’appelle Mohamed Ali

Literature

15 Oct.'15
- 20:00

Writers of the Congo River

1 Oct.'15
- 20:00

Black Girl (La noire de…) – Ousmane Sembene

Exhibitions

19 Dec.'14 →
5 Mar.'15

TiMBUKTU Renaissance

Literature

Special Screening

Interview

4 Mar.'15
- 00:00

Ben Okri

Exhibitions

27 Feb.'15
- 00:00

African Arabic manuscripts, from Timbuktu to Cape Town

Literature

Interview

5 Feb.'15
- 00:00

André Brink

World

17 Jan.'15

Congolisation : Nzimbu - Pegguy Tabu chante Rochereau

World

17 Jan.'15
- 00:00

Alpha Blondy

World

17 Jan.'15
- 00:00

Sekouba Bambino

Performances

Exhibitions

Literature

World

Theatre

Installation

17 Jan.'15
- 00:00

AFROPEAN+

World

17 Jan.'15

Brussels Talent Show

Practical information

Dates

Saturday 20 November, 17:00 → 18:00

Saturday 20 November, 19:00 → 19:00

Sunday 21 November, 14:00 → 18:00

Sunday 21 November, 16:00 → 17:00

Contacts​​​​​​​​​​​​

​​​​​​​​​​​Elena Ndidi Akilo ​​​​​​​

elena.akilo@bozar.be ​​​​​​​

 

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