At Beursschouwburg, film, performance, music and debate come together for a closer look at the city and how it is shaped – and reshaped. The programme invites audiences into collective conversations on urban space and displacement, experimental cinema and live music that is driven by movement and exchange. It is filled with voices, bodies, and images that move through questions of inhabiting, resistance and the reimagining of shared space.
Here are some of the moments we’re looking forward to.
The Big Conversation on Our City
debate, 31.01.2026
Cities are constantly shifting, caught between stagnation and rapid change, closure and possibility. At a moment when policies are forcing cultural venues to shut their doors, The Big Conversation on Our City brings together 12 opinion-makers, activists, researchers, and artists to reflect on what is shaping urban spaces and where room for change can be found. From displacement to grassroots initiatives, the discussion asks who gets to imagine the future of the city and who turns those ideas into reality. The debate invites everyone to join small discussion tables and a shared communal space that encourages listening, exchange and collective thinking around strategies for the city’s future.
It Takes a City (ITAC)
festival, 05-07.02.2026 and 12-14.02.2026
In February 2026, It Takes a City returns as a shared moment across Brussels’ performing arts scene. Eight French and Dutch-speaking venues — atelier 210, la Balsamine, Beursschouwburg, Charleroi danse, KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Kaaitheater and workspacebrussels — join forces to shape a festival rooted in the city and its artists. Moving between languages, disciplines and perspectives, ITAC brings together works and voices that reflect Brussels as a place of coexistence, friction and exchange.
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Caillou
film, 06-07.03.2026
Caillou is a Brussels-based film festival engaging with territorial struggle in and around the city. During the first weekend of March, the festival takes over Beursschouwburg with films, conversations, a listening session and role-playing formats that explore and test strategies of territorial resistance. Using cinema as a starting point, Caillou invites audiences to engage with questions of space, displacement and who the city is built for, rather than observing from a distance.
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Nídia & Valentina Magaletti
music, 29.04.2026
Nídia and Valentina Magaletti meet ‘on the road’ as they shape a collaboration driven by rhythm, movement and exchange. They created a project that reflects a shared sonic adaptation to the urgency of different environments. Estradas — Portuguese for ‘roads’ — brings together Afro-Portuguese beats and inventive live percussion, celebrating music as a shared, universal language. Syncopated drum patterns, marimba lines and melodic interludes flow effortlessly between their different backgrounds. Dance music in constant motion, built as much for bodies as for close listening.
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When Facing Erasure — Victoire Karera Kampire
film/performance/lecture, 17-18.04.2026
Rwandan-Belgian director and sound designer Victoire Karera Kampire works at the edge of fiction and documentary, exploring memory, archives and the space between past and present. When Facing Erasure centres on the erasure of homes, voices and people, questioning the status of images and archives in times of a live-streamed genocide. Can storytelling resist forced erasure? Facing erasure here means looking directly at it rather than turning away.
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