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WELCOME

GETTING INVOLVED

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has regularly used the public forum to make political statements. As a musician he still encounters opposition in the Middle-East. In September Iran forbade him from coming and performing with his Berlin orchestra on account of his Israeli nationality.

As a matter of fact, Barenboim is not just Israeli, he can also lay claim to Palestinian, Argentinian and Spanish citizenship. That’s a statement in itself. At BOZAR you will become acquainted with numerous socially and politically engaged artists: Palestinian writers in exile, the Lebanese composer and oud player Marcel Khalifé and the musical amalgam that is Aka Balkan Moon, to name but a few.

More than ever before, our favoured cultural partner for the Arab world is Moussem, the nomadic arts centre that has been officially housed in BOZAR since 1 September. Sadly, one artist who can’t be with us in November is Dawit Isaak. Since 2001 this Swedish writer-journalist has been imprisoned in Eritrea for his beliefs.

Nobody knows with certainty whether or not he is alive. During the European Brussels Days and the international Day of the Imprisoned Writer we are inviting policy makers and visitors to come and show us their commitment.

Freedom of expression shouldn’t be a luxury!

Paul Dujardin, CEO & Artistic Director

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‘Get involved’ is the name of the book that visual artist Michelangelo Pistoletto and philosopher Edgar Morin brought out this summer. The French title is a reference to Stéphane Hessel’s Indignez-vous (‘Time for Outrage!’), the 2010 pamphlet that was at the origin of the Los Indignados and Occupy Wall Street movements.

There was mass opposition and this soon went worldwide, but it was not clear what the counter-movement was actually for. An occupation remains a strong distress signal, which is, by definition, temporary. Getting involved is about more than indignation. You are not shouting from the sidelines but jumping onto the pitch with them, in the hope of giving a decisive assist or scoring. Pistoletto is in favour of art which brings about an ethical change.

Artists are involved, sometimes against their better judgement, which is why we don’t expect them to jump on the

barricades with every book and work of art, composition or performance.

Artists don’t have to do much, apart from producing work that meets the same imposed quality standards. Not expressing yourself in this information society is a conscious choice known as ‘freedom of expression’. It is, at any rate, the prevalent train of thought in Western Europe. Artists in other parts of the world benefit from much less freedom of expression, if any – because they work in a war situation, because they have to flee, because they live under a dictatorship… Current affairs catch up with them. Whatever they do for art, their life and work is still politically loaded.

In November BOZAR gives the floor to Palestinian art and the inspiring figure that is Mahmoud Darwish.

These days the poet is an icon, a symbolic figure who represents abstraction and exile. Alongside Arafat he is the only Palestinian to have been given a state funeral.

Darwish was politically active for a time, as a communist and until 1993 as a member of the PLO (The Palestine Liberation Organisation), which explains why he didn’t write any political poetry. His lyrics speak with the voice of a peace-loving humanist.

Daniel Barenboim is not being particularly political when he interprets Schubert on the piano or conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and this in spite of the fact that Barenboim

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CONTENTS

WELCOME

RISING STARS

Getting Involved 3

BOZAR’s Got Talent 2015-’16 22

MIDDLE-EAST

Multicultural encounters 6

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DANIEL BARENBOIM

A phenomenal career 11 COLUMN BY ALAIN BERENBOOM

A COLOURED VIEW

Director of Marketing, Communication & Sales: Filip Stuer Editorial Coordination: Frederic Eelbode Advisor Artistic Policy: Kurt De Boodt Contributors: Tarquin Billiet, Olivier Boruchowitch, Kurt De Boodt, Frederic Eelbode, Alexander Jocqué, Marianne Van Boxelaere, Xavier Verbeke & Luc Vermeulen Graphic Designers: Koenraad Impens, Olivier Rouxhet & Sophie Van den Berghe Corporate Development: Katrien Desrumaux, Barbara Lefebure, Peter Schoonjans & Olivia van der Ghinst

Cousin Daniel 13

Television becomes art 26 A CULTURAL UNION

Europe’s last chance 30 WHAT DID YOU THINK OF IT?

Sounds from all over the world 14

BOZAR Opening Night & BOZAR Electronic Arts Festival 33

STRINGED INSTRUMENTS

SNAPSHOT

150 YEARS OF POPULAR CONCERTS (PART II)

FROM EAST AND WEST

Passionate strings 16 INTERVIEW WITH BIEKE DEPOORTER

What goes on behind closed doors in Istanbul 18

Sol Gabetta 35 HIGHLIGHTS

37 Partners and practical information 42

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This is a publication of the Communication and Marketing department of BOZAR.

ARE YOU SERIES?

MIDDLE-EAST

Think of the Middle East and images of conflict immediately spring to mind.

You quickly forget that this is also a fascinating region where cultures have been coming together and influencing one another since time immemorial. BOZAR has been focusing on the cultures from the Mediterranean region for years now. These intercultural encounters will help you get to know and understand ‘the other’ better.

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Love the Difference – Last year Mar Mediterraneo

by Michelangelo Pistoletto came to BOZAR for our Focus on Italy. © Archivio Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto 02 Mohammed Assaf. © Ibrahim Alalami 03 Marcel Khalifé. © GR

It would be true to say that the Middle East is a complex region.

Geographically speaking the region lies at the crossroads of three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa.

In spite of the numerous political conflicts the Middle East has an important cultural and economic bridging function.

A COLOURED VIEW

As a cultural centre BOZAR strives for intercultural exchange and that is why it has been focusing on the Mediterranean region and the Middle East in particular, for some time now. The Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto movingly summed it up in 2014 with a powerful image in the BOZAR STREET. Love Difference – Mar Mediterraneo was a mirrored table in the form of the Mediterranean with chairs from the region placed around it. The artwork is an invitation to sit together around the table and keep the intercultural dialogue going. Artists and intellectuals from over there and the ‘new’ Europeans who have made a home amongst us, are central to our programming. This season you will once again be given the opportunity to find out more about cultural, ethnic and religious trends from the Middle East as you enjoy exhibitions, music, film, theatre, debates and colloquiums.

Fascination with the East

A great example of cultural crosspollination is Cyprus. In BOZAR’s 2012 exhibition Mapping Cyprus: Crusaders, Traders and Explorers, you saw how Frankish, Byzantine and Venetian art came together on that island before interweaving and going on to influence the rest of Europe. More than displaying historical heritage, BOZAR also examines the image cultures obtain from one another. Last spring in

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the Sultan’s World. The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art you saw how the ‘Turk’ is often represented in European iconography as a brutal and bloodthirsty individual. At the same time Western artists had a particular fascination with Istanbul and the refined Ottoman culture.

More current issues are also dealt with at BOZAR. The 2012 SYRIAN CINEMA DAYS festival was an homage to dissident filmmakers under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. In May of this year we played host to the Egyptian writer Alaa al-Aswani, author of The Yacoubian and the collection of columns About Egypt.

He gave us more insight into the Egyptian revolution of 2011, which he himself took part in, and spoke about the situation his country finds itself in today.

A coloured view

The A Coloured View lecture series gives us a good idea of the diversity in the Arab-Islamic world. Last season the British historian Tariq Ali and Professor Kenan Malik of Imperial College London differentiated between the concept of ‘monocultural’ Europe versus the Middle East.

This season we are continuing the lecture series.

During the Sufi Night we focus on the mystical tradition of Islam and encourage dialogue between religious and non-religious thinkers from the Arab world. They examine the notion of humanism in the Muslim world and in Europe.

In the course of the season we invite more representatives from Islamic regions. On 5 December it’s the turn of Tariq Ramadan, professor at Oxford University and a controversial opinion maker who isn’t afraid to talk about the place of Islam in Europe and increasing fundamentalism in the Muslim World. Ramadan comes to speak about the political, economic and cultural crisis in the Middle East and after the lecture he will be in conversation with Johan Leman, the former director of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism and president of the non-profit organisation Foyer.

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Multicultural cities

It’s not just the Middle East’s histo­ rical culture that is extremely rich; its contemporary art is just as noteworthy. It reflects the social and current political situation of the region and of our cities in the West. Their sociological structure has considerably changed and the population is far

more diverse. Cultures also nourish one another through encounters between inhabitants of cities and the ethnic, religious and philosophical groups which live in these cities. This is one of the reasons why this year BOZAR opted for ‘urban vibes’ as the theme for its music season.

Migrants have turned Europe into a multicultural community. BOZAR wants to bring these ‘new’ cultures into contact with the ‘old’. The ‘new communities’ make fundamental contributions to society, as the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said knows all too well. In Reflections on Exile he wrote the following about borders: “Exile can cause resentment and sorrow, but it can also intensify the world view. What people have left behind them can be a source of inspiration for melancholy but also for a new approach.

Because, almost by definition, exile and memories are two concepts which are interlinked, it is what you remember and the way you remember things which determines the way you look at the future.”

BOZAR, the UCL and the ULB have established the Mahmud Darwish cultural chair in response to an initiative by the French-speaking community. The chair is a tribute to the work of the famous Palestinian poet and to Arab-Islamic culture in general. In conjunction with this, on 21 November we will be welcoming three Palestinian artists who are resident in Belgium. The visual artist Samah Hijawi will present a video performance which examines the importance of the feeling of belonging somewhere and of a collective memory and identity. Nisma Al-Aklouk and Fatena Al-Ghorra will read from their work.

Arab icon

Also on 21 November we will be welcoming Mohammed Assaf. In 2013 he won Arab Idol and became an icon. The Palestinian singer is extremely popular in the Middle East and far beyond. During the MTV Europe Music Awards he was named best act from the Middle East. He has also been appointed goodwill ambassador of the UNRWA, the United Nations agency which provides aid to the Palestinian refugees. In the Centre for Fine Arts the UNRWA will be presenting The Long Journey, an exhibition about the Palestinian refugee camps. Photos and videos give you an overview of the history of the refugees and the circumstances in which they live.

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The 12th century Islamic lawyer, doctor and philosopher Averroes and other major Arab thinkers such as al-Farabi and Ibn Sina Avicenna, were fascinated by Greek thought and tried to reconcile it with Islam. There was mutual exchange of ideas. The East had always had a major power of attraction over Western philosophers and artists. That is the research domain of French author Mathias Enard, a real connoisseur of the Middle East who depicted the region in his recently published novel, Boussole (Compass). On 15 December he will be sharing his passion and insatiable curiosity about the culture of the other, focusing on the splendour of the East and the considerable influence it had on European artists.

This season BOZAR strengthens its links with the nomadic arts centre Moussem.

We are joining forces to organise the music festival Moussem Sounds and the Sufi Night, an extensive programme in which Arab culture has a central role. Each year we focus on an Arab city, with music, theatre and debates. In January 2016 it’s the turn of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. In addition, BOZAR is setting up a long-term collaboration with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC). Together we organise the Aga Khan Award for Architecture which is awarded every three years to innovative projects in Islamic architecture and landscape gardening.

04 An UNRWA girls’ school in the Qabr Essit refugee camp in Damascus in Syria. © 1983 UNRWA Archives/ Munir Nasr 05 Mathias Enard. © Marc Melki

BOZAR is also playing host to the Lebanese oud player and composer Marcel Khalifé. In 2005 he was named UNESCO artist for peace.

He has put numerous Arab poets to music, including texts by Darwish.

On 4 December he will be in concert with his own compositions in the company of the National Orchestra of Belgium.

Embracing People and Cultures

In spite of the often negative news from the Middle East, BOZAR embraces cultures and individuals, encourages discoveries and exchange, gives the people a voice and encourages dialogue in a region which is deadlocked by anguish and violence.

Cultural diversity doesn’t just bring the uniqueness of every culture to the fore, but also what we have in common.

A COLOURED VIEW

It is only through the recognition of cultural similarities and differences that a real encounter and exchange can come about. Other cultural backgrounds invite you to put yourself in perspective, to get to know yourself better, to enrich and accentuate your imagination by way of the constant dialogue which becomes possible through the discovery of the other person’s culture. Or as Mahmud Darwish put it: “We will be a nation, if that’s what we want, when we know that we are no angels, that evil is not just the trade of others.”

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ARCHITECTURE 15.10.2015 > 17.01.2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture EVENT 21.11.2015 Tribute to Palestinian culture Samah Hijawi, Nisma al-Aklouk & Fatena Al-Gorra MUSIC Mohammed Assaf EXPO 21.11 > 16.12.2015 The Long Journey MUSIC 04.12.2015 Marcel Khalifé and the National Orchestra of Belgium AGORA - A COLOURED VIEW 05.12.2015 Tariq Ramadan & Johan Leman LITERATURE 15.12.2015 Mathias Enard

DANIEL BARENBOIM

A PHENOMENAL CAREER

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you, the pianist, the opportunity to mix the sounds as you wish, and not as the instrument dictates. I fell in love with this piano from Chris Maene’s workshop and now I want to play it as often as possible.”

Dove of peace

As well as being one of the most influential figures in contemporary music Barenboim is also a vigorous defender of Palestinian rights. He harshly criticises the Israeli settlement policy and Israeli governments since Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995).

In 2001 he caused controversy by playing Richard Wagner in Israel. The composer was on the black list as a result of his anti-Semitism. In 1999 he joined forces with the AmericanPalestinian author Edward Said to establish the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with young Arab and Israeli musicians.

MUSIC 06.12.2015 Daniel Barenboim, 60 years on

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Daniel Barenboim, is treating us to an anniversary concert. On 6 December it will be 60 years since he first performed in the Centre for Fine Arts. The world famous pianist will be performing on an instrument that Maene Pianos designed to his specifications. Barenboim also sees music as a means of promoting peace in the Middle East.

The Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor of Russian origin was born in Buenos Aires in 1942. He began as a seven year old with Beethoven’s sonatas and at fourteen years of age he gave his first concert in the ‘Henry Le Bœuf’ Great Hall. In the concert programme from that day the legendary conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is quoted as saying.

“Daniel Barenboim is a phenomenon: his musical ability and technique are astonishing.”

Furtwängler’s words were prophetic.

Barenboim is a living legend. In 1966 he became the conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra and in 1975 that of the Orchestre de Paris.

In the 1980s he was artistic and musical director of the new Opéra de la Bastille in Paris. From 1991 to 2006 he conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and in 1992 he became the artistic director of the Berlin State Opera. He mainly concentrates on the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and contemporary composers such as John Corigliano.

As a pianist Barenboim always strives for a pure yet warm sound. In 2011 he was invited to Siena to perform on a restored grand piano that had belonged to Franz Liszt. He was struck by a fundamental difference in sound between this straight strung piano and contemporary cross-strung pianos.

Since then he has come up with a new instrument that combines the best of past and present. Steinway & Sons put him in touch with Belgian piano maker Chris Maene who created the instrument for him. According to the maestro it offers a fantastic sound alternative. “Its clarity gives

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Photo-souvenir: Daniel Buren D’une arche aux autres, travail in situ, Jardins du Sacré-Coeur, Casablanca, April 2015. Detail. © DB-ADAGP Paris Theo van Doesburg, The construction of space-time III, 1924, Private Collection.

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COLUMN

BY ALAIN BERENBOOM

COUSIN DANIEL

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I’ve been asked on so many occasions: ‘Berenboom?

What? Are you related to the conductor?’ that I have ended up adopting Daniel as a cousin. He comes somewhere between my grandmother, Frania Birnbaum, a much more uncompromising and domineering head of the family than cousin Daniel at the head of his orchestra, and Groucho Marx who I have always seen as a distant uncle. When you are an only child and only have a few family members spread all over the world, you end up compiling a genealogical patchwork of people whose genes you would have liked to share.

To be honest, I put up a fight at first. To all those people who went on at me about my cousin, I simply said Berenboom and Barenboim are not the same thing. But it was no use. My father’s name was Berenbaum before he was ‘Belgicised’, and my Polish grandfather’s name varied in accordance with the year and the occupier, Birbaum, Barenbaum, which was written Barenboim by the clerks of the American immigration department, because that’s how they said it in Yiddish.

‘But it has to be said you do look remarkably similar!’ is what I heard from friends who were evidently at war with their optician or enjoyed Cousin Daniel’s music with their eyes firmly shut. I would have forgotten the whole story and stopped correcting journalists who had the habit of taking to the microphone and introducing me as Daniel Berenboom, if it weren’t for the fact that cousin Daniel had unexpectedly resurfaced. One day I received a phone call from La Baule town hall. They were inviting me to spend a weekend at the seaside resort, with interviews, a signing session etc. I had recently brought out a novel, so I didn’t find it particularly strange and, flattered by the invitation, I set off. Once I arrived in La Baule I was somewhat surprised by the questions of the half dozen journalists who were waiting there for me. Relations between Israel and the Palestinians. Why not? Even if my book was set

in China. Another questioned me about my predilection for Mendelssohn and his struggle for a rational Judaism. I was somewhat taken aback, but not overly so. My publisher had warned me that French journalists never read their guests’ books. It was only when I made it to the bookshop that the misunderstanding hit me. The terrible misunderstanding. The bookseller was waiting for me with drinks and the warmest words of welcome, and the mayor’s representative accompanied me to the table where my works were on display – or rather, three large piles of Cousin Daniel’s latest book.

My first reaction was to sit and sign as if there was nothing wrong. So as not to disappoint all the people who had put themselves out.

After all, I like music and I was prepared to talk about Prokofiev and Shostakovich, or at a push, Wagner and the Nazis. And when you sign your name ‘Barenboim’ you can’t exactly be accused of identity fraud. Unfortunately, the poor bookseller had immediately picked up on the case of mistaken identity. And I had to comfort her.

And that’s how I’ve never become Daniel Barenboim…

Alain Berenboom. © Reporters

BOZAR gives artists a voice In this column you can read about what keeps them busy. In this edition we give the floor to French-speaking author Alain Berenboom (Schaarbeek, 1947). He wrote this text for The Space Between the Notes, a project from BOZAR’s literature department. Eleven authors were inspired by the new music season. They wrote a literary homage to a composer, musician, conductor or composition with which they feel a special bond. You can read their texts in the concert programmes and in the collection which is on sale in the BOZAR Boutik as of mid-December.

MUSIC 06.12.2015 Barenboim, 60 years on

POPULAR CONCERTS (PART II)

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BOZAR is about a lot more than classical music.

Since the Centre for Fine Arts opened its doors in 1928 the biggest names from the world of jazz have always been welcome. Along the way class acts from electronic and world music have also graced our stage. BOZAR is paying tribute to this heritage as over the coming weeks you can enjoy music from the likes of jazz legend Keith Jarrett, the Lebanese oud player Marcel Khalifé and Aka Balkan Moon.

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There was more than just jazz on the programme. Since 1950 the Association pour la Diffusion des Arts et de la Culture (ADAC) has been housed in the Centre for Fine Arts. This partnership has brought spectacular productions from all over the world to Brussels: folklore ballet from Russia, Kabuki theatre from Japan, opera from Peking and plenty more besides. In 1968 the Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar performed in the ‘Henry Le Bœuf’ Great Hall.

A 150-year tradition

In the first years of the Société des Concerts populaires, the forerunner of BOZAR’s music department, the range on offer was limited to romantic chef d’oeuvres. In the 1920s and in particular with the arrival of the Philharmonic Society in 1927, the repertoire expanded. From this point on works by modern composers such as Prokofiev and Ravel also featured on the programme.

On 4 May 1928 the Centre for Fine Arts was inaugurated with a “dazzling gala” by Sergej Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with music by Stravinski and Rimski-Korsakov.

In November of the same year the Chamber Music Hall also opened and music rang out from contemporary composers such as Bartók, Hindemith and the Belgian Albert Huybrechts. That was the beginning of an increase in diversity.

Music from all over the world

In the 1930s, Brussels and its Centre for Fine Arts found themselves at the centre of European cultural life. Toscanini conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and introduced audiences to jazz, which was all the rage in America. In 1934 it was the turn of Cab Calloway accompanied by “the most famous Negro orchestra in New York” and Louis Armstrong. The art-deco halls formed the backdrop to the sounds of Django Reinhardt and his Manouche jazz, Dizzy Gillespie and the bebop, Gerry Mulligan and the West Coast jazz, free jazz and fusion. The list of phenomenal artists who have performed here is long and impressive.

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In the 1950s you could hear electronic music genres in the Centre for Fine Arts for the first time. Twenty years later they had become part of a cycle which also included world music and free jazz. Once a month artists such as Phill Niblock or the Taj Mahal Travellers experimented freely in the monumental Horta Hall.

In 1981 a festival for digital arts came into being which was the precursor of the BOZAR Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF). Since 2011 this has become the annual appointment for fans of digital arts.

Season after season BOZAR continues to build on a wide range of performers. In addition to the best of classical music you can also discover outstanding jazz, world music and electronic music. Keith Jarrett (13.11) gets this jazz season going.

He performed at the Centre for Fine Arts back in 1975 and at the time we described him as follows: “He goes and sits at a Steinway and dreams of the history of music. […] From fugue to folksongs he has a total mastery of the keys.” BOZAR is one of the four stops on his concert tour through Europe. This master of improvisation is turning 70 this year and only rarely performs; this might well be your last chance to see him at work…

Sounds from a very different world come from Aka Balkan Moon (28.11), with a subtle mix of jazz and lively rhythms from South East Europe.

This concert is part of Europalia Turkey. Burhan Öçal & Trakya All Stars will be performing the same evening. The Turkish percussionist pays tribute to his native region, in the company of a group of masterful Roma musicians who also come from Thrace, the European part of Turkey.

Another highlight of Europalia is the presence of Arto Tunçboyaciyan & Quartet (17.12). This Turkish-Armenian multi-instrumentalist has played with the likes of Chet Baker, Wayne Shorter and the diva of Turkish pop, Sezen Aksu (01.11) who will be stopping off at BOZAR as part of her anniversary tour.

Over the next two months you can see the great oud player Marcel Khalifé (04.12) at work. He will be performing his own compositions in the company of the National Orchestra of Belgium. The Georgian polyphonic songs of Suliko (03.11) and Huun Huur Tu (27.11), a Mongolian group which collaborated with Frank Zappa and Ry Cooder, are of a completely different calibre. In this edition you can read more about the festival for stringed instruments from Europe, Asia and the Middle East (12-14.11) and the concert that pays tribute to Palestine with one of its most popular singers, Mohammed Assaf (21.11).

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This season BOZAR is celebrating 150 years of popular concerts, classical music for everyone in the capital. A perfect opportunity to look back on a rich past.

A ‘series’ in the magazine takes a look at the 150th concert season from a different perspective each edition. In this one we are focusing on the diversity of what is on offer.

The theme for January-February is ‘music as a mirror of the city’. In March-April it’s the turn of ‘young talent’ and in May-June it’s time for ‘audience participation’. All of which is accompanied by photos from our rich archive collection.

When Europalia was established in 1969 it gave new impetus to the discovery of cultural treasures from all over the world. This marked the beginning of a long-term collaboration between Europalia and the Philharmonic Society. Since its establishment in 2003 BOZAR has also developed its own, interdisciplinary projects about, for example, India in 2006, Korea in 2008, etc. As of 1975 the Philharmonic Society – going under the name of ‘24 hours of commu­ nication’ – has brought us electronic music and ensembles from India and Africa. A decade later the non-profit organisation Paleis put international dance on the map with renowned ensembles such as the Batsheva Dance Company from Tel Aviv.

Vox Populi brought musicians from all over the world to the Centre for Fine Arts. In 1997 the Philharmonic Association and the non-profit organisation Paleis joined forces for a world music series (Vox Populi / Transmusica). A memorable highlight, just before the BOZAR transformation, was the festival based around the Silk Road with the benevolent support of Yo-Yo Ma. The Sufi Night and the Moussem Sounds festival, two events centred around Arab and North African music, are the result of a collaboration between BOZAR and Moussem, the nomadic arts centre.

The highlights for this autumn

STRINGED INSTRUMENTS FROM EAST AND WEST

PASSIONATE STRINGS A COLOURED VIEW

BOZAR takes an open-minded look at art and breaks down borders between disciplines, genres, styles and cultures.

In November you get to enjoy three evenings of classical music with stringed instruments from Europe and Asia. The music and the musicians performing it come from all four corners of the planet; their instruments share the same genealogy.

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Wu Man is the Ravi Shankar of Chinese music. She will be accompanying the Uighur singer Sanubar Tursun. The virtuoso pipa player can build bridges between musical and cultural worlds like no other.

Hossein Alizadeh comes from Iran and is presenting Meynoush, which means ‘cheers’, a reference to the theme of wine which is a constant in Iranian poetry. In addition to the tar and the setar he also brings along his shurangiz, an instrument that he developed himself. The Belgian sextet Luthomania concludes this triptych.

The musicians play the pipa, the Arabian oud, the Western lute and the theorbo. They are joined on stage by the Trio Cuerdas with a baroque harp, a zheng – which is a kind of Chinese citer – and a qanûn.

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• Has 4 strings and a pear-shaped resonance box.

•G ained its characteristic form during the Tang Dynasty, in the 7th and 8th century.

• The current virtuoso playing style was mainly developed in the 19th and 20th century.

• I n recent decades gained more notoriety through artists such as Wu Man, Min Xiaofen and Liu Fang, and Western composers such as Philip Glass, Lou Harrison and Terry Riley.

• T he name comes from the way the right hand plays: pi means ‘play forwards’ (a movement left and upwards) and pa means ‘play backwards’ (a movement right and downwards).

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• Popular in North Africa, Turkey and the Middle East.

• Is a double-course stringed instrument: the instrument is strung in pairs. The two strings of one course have the same pitch and are struck at the same time. The oud has four to seven courses.

• Is the King, Sultan or Emir of all the instruments in the Arab world.

• According to the myth surrounding its creation Lamak, a direct descendant of Cain, discovered the oud. Two learned Arabs from the fourteenth century believe the oud dates back to the third century, during the emergence of Manicheism. They attributed the discovery to the prophet Mani, the founder of this lost religion.

According to some theories the instrument is even older.

• Ziryab, the Kurdish composer, poet and oud player from the ninth century, played a key role in the development of the instrument, its playing technique and repertoire.

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• Tar is Persian for ‘string’. The dutar and setar are named after the number of strings the instruments have: do means ‘two’, and seh ‘three’.

• T he setar is the younger brother of the dutar. The neck of the dutar can be up to one metre in length.

This is the usual length of the entire setar. The setar has a softer, more intimate sound than the dutar.

• T he dutar is played with all the fingers of the right hand. The setar is an exception: it is only played with the index finger.

•O riginally the strings were made from animal gut just like a lot of stringed instruments. With the development of the Silk Road the strings were sometimes replaced with silk.

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• Consists of a trapezium-shaped resonance chamber, strung with around eighty strings.

•A tuning peg can be used to alter the pitch while you are playing.

• T he instrument was mentioned for the first time in the Arabian Nights.

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European lute • Came to Europe during the invasions of the Moors during the eighth century.

• has existed in its current form since 1500.

• Is directly related to the oud. The name of the two instruments is derived from the same Arab word al-‘ud, or “the wood”. They share their pear shapes and strings in courses. In contrast to the oud the lute has frets.

• The lute was described in detail for the first time in the 1511 work Musica getuscht und angezogen by the German composer and musicologist Sebastian Virdung.

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INTERVIEW WITH BIEKE DEPOORTER

A COLOURED VIEW

WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN ISTANBUL

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Europalia gave Ghent photographer Bieke Depoorter the chance to spend two weeks on location in Istanbul. She left the well-trodden tourist routes and set off for the working class districts. At nightfall she sought out residents and portrayed them in their intimacy, her trademark.

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A camera and a message on a scrap of paper, “I’m looking for somewhere to spend the night”. Bieke Depoorter (29) needs nothing more in order to find her way into households throughout the world. In 2009, for her thesis at the KASK in Ghent, she took the Trans-Siberian railway and stayed with perfect strangers. She took intimate yet powerful images and was rewarded with a Magnum Expression Award. In 2012 she was nominated by that world famous photography agency and last year she became an associated member. Next year she can become a fully-fledged member.

In the meantime she is travelling the world, to the United States, Norway and Egypt. In August she went to Istanbul for Europalia. “It was very disappointing at first. Istanbul is very touristy, wherever you look you can see people walking round with cameras. It felt like everything had been done already and I wondered what I could add to that.

That’s why I went to the working class districts. I wanted to know what was going on behind the closed doors of those magnificent old Ottoman houses.”

Do you take photos during the day?

BD. “I’m not a street photographer. Taking photos of people without their authorisation isn’t my cup of tea. Can you steal something from people just like that? It was as of the

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Is it easy going into the houses of complete strangers?

BD. “It’s crazy how many people let you in and what they let you do, even letting you photograph them in their nightclothes or naked. Nobody is under any obligation and I don’t press them either. If they say no straight away, I’m not going to waste my time taking photos which I won’t be able to use. First the people have to trust you and vice versa.”

Would you also be able to do this in your hometown of Ghent?

BD. “In my first year of photography I took photos in the working class district of Rabot and went to a lot of Turkish families. That was where it all began. That was when I took the first photograph I was really happy with, a portrait of a woman with a headscarf. Since then I have worked in a completely different way with images and my view of photography has changed.”

Do you stage things more now?

BD. “I don’t know if it really matters.

My work isn’t journalistic. I feel more like a painter, I immerse myself in reality in order to do my own thing with it, to make a painting of it, to reproduce an atmosphere.

“Also at Magnum there is the question of whether or not you can stage something. There’s a lot you can say about reality, even when it’s staged.

The New York Times wants to publish my photos from Istanbul. For me this is no place for captions, I don’t want to influence the audience. So they remain very limited.

“In the exhibition at BOZAR you only see my photos. I wouldn’t know what to say about them. Istanbul, 2015?

I’m scared of making visitors lazy, that they only read what is written under the photograph and no longer look at the photo itself.”

If you think of Istanbul and photography, then the former Magnum photographer Ara Güler immediately comes to mind. Is he a source of inspiration for you?

BD. “I really like his work. During my studies I was particularly fascinated by the work of another Magnum photographer: Alex Webb, and what he did in Istanbul. These days my work is totally different from his. I try not to think of other people’s work when I’m

taking photographs. I prefer to focus on the encounter with the people I’m photographing.

“Naturally my work evolves. I have become more critical and am a lot more conscious of what I want. In Istanbul that was really clear. When I went indoors I immediately took the photo in my head, I knew who it would be and where. Then it was a case of waiting until it was possible.

That used to take longer.”

Do you think you could express yourself as well in another medium?

BD. “I don’t think purely in terms of photography. You want to tell a tale and it doesn’t really matter how you do it. Maybe I’ll try another medium one day, I know it won’t be drawing or painting, I don’t have any talent for that; I’m not artistic (laughter).

Recently I have been really drawn to film, although I haven’t come out in the open with anything yet.

“Sometimes I get the feeling that photography has some shortcomings and I want to tell a tale using moving images. The beauty of photography is that a whole film can be summarised in one image. I really like that. My pictures are increasingly in the style of film stills, the ones from Istanbul really tell a tale.

“My work is evolving in two directions.

The first is about photographing reality and not changing anything, just like I did in Russia. While in parallel, these days I am doing more cinematic work and am much more likely to tell my own story. I use reality to do this, to create an atmosphere.

My time spent in Istanbul was a great example of how these two schools of thought can come together.”

Since the Arab Spring of five years ago you have been to Egypt quite a few times. What are your impressions?

BD. “The first time was a year after the revolution, my most recent visit was in May of last year and I’m going back again in October. You get a really strong sensation that the situation is evolving. The first time there was hope. That has gone. The country has become more dangerous and precar­ ious for photographers. Journalists are arrested and go missing. I had to respect the curfew and the locals thought that we were spies. I have had quite a few really scary moments.

“The Egyptian authorities create a climate of unrest. Trust is completely absent and that’s a good reason to continue with my project. That’s also why I stay over at people’s houses; I try to gain their trust in places

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In the meantime, staying with locals seems to have become your trademark.

BD. “I was looking for another way to discover Istanbul, places where I didn’t feel like a tourist. Away from the centre, in people’s homes, I found a city I had never seen images of and that’s how I was able to reveal this invisible world. In Istanbul I got help from a Turkish girl. She worked as an interpreter until we found a person or family that interested me. Then she left and I stayed until the evening, because it’s mainly at night that I feel the need to take photographs. For this project I didn’t spend the night, but I waited until the inhabitants had gone to bed.

I don’t always have to spend the night (laughter).”

moment I started spending the night at people’s places that I began to feel comfortable with photography. I find it a more honest approach, because you have asked permission.”

where all trust has gone. I find being allowed into people’s private lives really interesting but of course, just like in Istanbul, it isn’t difficult to get talking to people. It doesn’t take long before you’re through the door and drinking a cup of tea and before you know it you’ve been chatting for hours. Taking photographs is another story.”

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You spend large parts of the year abroad.

Do you have time to enjoy culture yourself, at BOZAR for example?

BD. “To be honest, I am not the type to go to lots of exhibitions. I am more into books than big exhibitions. And when you are so busy with art you don’t always want to see even more of it. You come out of it feeling saturated. Then you have a greater need for a mountain in the countryside (laughter).

“When I’m in Brussels and have some time on my hands I always try to drop by the BOZAR. For a long time I had the feeling that BOZAR was somehow inaccessible, but actually there are lots of really interesting side projects. Last year I was one of The Belgian Six, an exhibition presenting the work of six promising Belgian photographers. Last year, Titus Simoens, a good friend, won the Monography Series Award. It’s great that there are such exhibitions with work by young talent, even if I visit them far too infrequently.”

Istanbul in all its shapes and forms Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantium… for centuries now the city on the Bosphorus has been a catalyst for cultural processes and as a consequence an inexhaustible muse. In the Europalia exhibition ‘Imagine Istanbul’, the work of leading Turkish photographers is on display, with photographs by Ara Güler at the very heart of the exhibition. The photographer is known as ‘the eye of Istanbul’, and with good reason. His work is accompanied by old images and works by contemporary artists, photographs, but also music, film and literature. Bieke Depoorter’s work is on display in the Horta Hall.

Access is free.

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This season, in the Centre for Fine Arts, you can once again discover young talent from the world of classical music. The European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO), the network of prestigious European concert halls of which BOZAR is a member, has selected six new Rising Stars. They tell you a bit about themselves here.

Cathy Krier, piano Born in 1985 Nationality: Luxembourger Rising Star Philharmonie de Luxembourg On 12.10.2015 in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels

“I was lucky enough to grow up in a family that attached a lot of importance to art and culture. It was part of our daily life. Going to concerts and museums was something entirely normal. Now I realise that not every child is given these opportunities. I feel that it is somehow my duty to share my love of music with others and that’s also what I want to do. My objective is to remain as sincere and faithful as possible to the composer and to the audience.”

“Participating in Rising Stars is a great honour. The mere fact that you have been selected without having to apply, makes the project even more valuable. This nomination is a wonderful sign of recognition for my work and my career as a musician.”

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Established in 2010 — Based in Germany Rising Star Kölner Philharmonie On 19.10.2015 at BOZAR

“You don’t come across an ensemble like ours very often in classical music. The unusual combination of instruments presents us with different challenges from more homogenous ensembles. We have a very rich timbre and that’s also the reason why we decided to form Trio Catch.”

“This will be our first concert in the Centre for Fine Arts. We are really happy that BOZAR has given us so much freedom in compiling the programme. We like to perform a balanced mix of classic and modern works. By playing modern music, we develop a different take on classical music.”

“We try to reduce the distance between musicians and audience by creating an intimate atmosphere.

One of our objectives is to introduce our audience to new sounds.

In recent years we have tried out and developed a whole range of concert formulas. We have also learnt a lot from interaction with the public. With us you can expect the unexpected!”

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Trio Catch Boglárka Pecze, clarinet — Eva Boesch, cello Sun-Young Nam, piano

Benjamin Appl, Baritone Born in 1982 Nationality: German Place of Residence: England Rising Star Barbican Centre London On 04.11.2015 at BOZAR

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“The best musical experiences are when, during a concert, I feel that there is a dialogue with the public.

For me making music is about sharing and getting involved. And that goes for both the singer and the audience. I want to give the audience an experience which you rarely get outside the context of a concert.”

“I have always been influenced by composers such as Schubert. He didn’t make much of a name for himself during his lifetime, but he constantly thought of his audience.

He was always trying to work out how he could use his music to bring happiness. He gave a lot but rarely got anything back in return.”

“My inspiration comes from all sorts of things. I like to visit art galleries where I can spend time poring over the paintings. When I sing, I sometimes think of colours, or I see a painting before my eyes. That helps me create a particular atmosphere or to give a personal interpretation.”

Harriet Krijgh, cello

Born in 1991 Nationality: Dutch Rising Star Wiener Konzerthaus & Musikverein Wien On 26.01.2016 at BOZAR

“In my opinion the ultimate goal of music and art in general, is to touch the audience. At that moment something indescribable happens. Being given the opportunity to play in prestigious concert halls is extremely stimulating for a young musician.

I hope to have numerous musical and human experiences. I have not yet been to the Centre for Fine Arts, but I am well aware of its reputation. I am looking forward to discovering this fantastic venue!”

“Putting together a concert programme is very important. I really like it when it’s varied, but it must also be logical and there must be a common thread running through it.

At BOZAR I will be performing one of my favourites: Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus by Olivier Messiaen. He wrote this slow and particularly lyrical praise to the eternity of Jesus in a prisoner of war camp in 1941.”

Remy Van Kesteren, harp Born in 1989 Nationality: Dutch Rising Star Concertgebouw Amsterdam & BOZAR On 03.02.2016 at BOZAR

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“When I play, I try to create a story and to take the audience with me into my musical world. Thanks to Rising Stars, I can also indulge my passion for music in other countries.

I feel extremely honoured to be part of this project.” “I love all kinds of music, from Bach to jazz and electronic music. Composers such as Ravel ad Debussy have written works for harp which are really enjoyable to play. I am also a great admirer of the Russian composers from the 20th century, such as Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.” “Writing my own music was an important step in my career. Being able to perform my first composition in the impressive ‘Henry Le Bœuf’ Great Hall is a real milestone in my eyes.

I have already sat in the hall as part of the audience; I can’t wait to see the wings!”

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“The chemistry between our four musical personalities is something that can only be created by playing together every day. That way we build up a common work which we can draw on for working methods, inspiration, ideas… Every violin quartet knows that feeling. We get a lot of pleasure from our participation in Rising Stars. We are proud that we have been selected for this fantastic experience and that we get to play in the most beautiful concert halls in Europe. BOZAR has seen some really big names pass through its doors so we are really thrilled that we have been given the chance to perform here.” “What is our favourite repertoire? We like them all! This year we are bringing out our second CD which is completely devoted to Haydn; we have a real soft spot for his music. Of the works that we play at BOZAR, Béla Bartók’s fifth quartet is our favourite. It’s an incredibly well-balanced musical treasure: the construction is perfect and there is so much poetry in it.”

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BECOMES Welcome to the Golden Age of Television, an era in which TV series as an art form are taken just as seriously as films. Outstanding screenplays, powerful images and gripping storylines transform television series into masterpieces. BOZAR is screening them for free at the Are You Series? festival. At the European Film Forum you can find out how to write your own scripts and get to meet directors and movie makers.

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Are you serious? Television, in the Centre for Fine Arts? Of course.

“Cross-pollination between film and television has been growing in recent years”, says Pascale Valcke, co-programmer of Are You Series?

Indeed, in 2013 the BOZAR cinema department decided to organise an annual festival dedicated to television. The same is going on elsewhere: the film festivals in Berlin, Toronto and Cannes also have television series on the programme.

Focus on screenplays

During Are You Series? you can see the very best of the genre on the big screen with series such as The Knick. This raw hospital series

by Emmy and Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh takes you to a rundown part of New York at the start of the twentieth century. Clive Owen plays the crazy surgeon Dr. Thackery, who helps cocaine addicts with heroin.

You can also watch Lisa Cholodenko’s four-part mini-series Olive Kitteridge on the big screen. In this the director

of The Kids Are All Right paints the portrait of a maths teacher in an American dormitory town on the coast of Maine. She is just as strong for her husband and her teenage son as she is for her pupils. From Europe you get to see Deutschland 83 about a 24-year-old spy from the East German intelligence services, Stasi, who is sent to the West. Eric Rochant and Matthieu Kassovitz’s Le Bureau des Légendes takes you with it behind the scenes of ‘the most secret department of the secret services’. The Belgian director Vincent Lannoo presents his first series Trepalium in which it is the end of the twenty-first century and 80% of the population has no job. The unemployed are banished to ‘the zone’ and try to survive there.

New viewing habits

Binge-watching: in 2013 this was selected as word of the year in the United States. The arrival of DVDs, video on demand and streaming has seriously altered our viewing habits. The days when you had to wait a week for the next instalment are long gone. Nowadays you can watch them all one after the other.

A recent study carried out by Deloitte reveals that 63 percent of the 2,000 fourteen-year-old plus Americans questioned regularly watch series in marathon sessions, 31 percent binge watch at least once a week. Researchers at the University of Texas fear that marathon viewing encourages solitude and depression.

But this will not be the case during Are You Series? where you will get to watch television in the company of

Arthouse television

Film directors are also discovering the possibilities of series, including the likes of Martin Scorsese (Boardwalk Empire), Lars Von Trier (The Kingdom), Jane Campion (Top of the Lake), Olivier Assayas (Carlos), Gus Van Sant (Boss) and Steve McQueen (Epic). Arthouse film is being forced to make way for Hollywood blockbusters. As a consequence, some directors and actors are no longer satisfied with the cinema and have decided to make the move to television. Paying channels promise quality 27

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Favourite series are not necessarily simple feature films; they have their own character. Series such as the Danish drama Borgen challenge you and immerse you in Danish politics.

With the series format directors get the chance to spin out the tension and structure of the story to more than one episode. In contrast to film, directors can develop the mentality of characters in a series and include contemporary political or ethical questions in the plot. And that is an art in itself.

This year Are You Series? is focusing on scripts. BOZAR and BeTV are previewing all the episodes of the long-awaited series by David Simon, the talented scriptwriter of The Wire.

In Show me a Hero you follow a real life story that focuses on the social and racial tensions in a housing scheme in Yonkers, a suburb of New York, at the end of the 1980s.

rather than easy entertainment, just think of the slogan It’s not TV, it’s HBO. Now there’s a new genre on the scene: arthouse television.

The Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam has also experimented with the genre for HBO. In Buda Bridge Bitch you don’t just get to see a concise snapshot of Brussels. Roskam spends weeks focusing on an influx of crime and unheard of investigation techniques which sent the capital of Europe into a state of moral and political chaos. He takes you with him in an all-embracing world and shows you numerous aspects of Brussels.

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friends, family or acquaintances. Not only that, you will also discover less familiar series from countries such as Poland, Japan, Israel, Denmark and Canada.

Television as literature

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Binge watching is sometimes compared to not being able to put down a good book. The comparison with literature is not so far-fetched.

According to the Dutch author Joost de Vries, Mad Men has a literary feel about it. “You can never be entirely sure why the characters do something. Series such as Breaking Bad experiment with new forms, they don’t go from event a to b and c and d. You can call that literary too.”

Tom Van de Voorde, the literature programmer at BOZAR, adds: “You can follow a course in creative writing at every university in the United States. Every year hundreds of talented writers graduate and you never hear anything more about them. They work in the film or television-industry. In contrast to the traditional writer, they choose to write collectively or anonymously. These writers’ rooms ensure that the best series are often better written that your average novel.”

Screenwriting at BOZAR

On the second day of the Are You Series? festival we peel back the layers of the series format during the European Film Forum, which has received the backing of the DG Connect initiative, Creative Europe.

It is an opportunity to meet screenwriters from all over the world, listen to readings and follow round table discussions. In the first conversation we go into more depth about screenwriting as a team. In the second you find out how artistic ideas during recordings are turned into images. Before and after the round table discussions we focus on issues such as training opportunities for screenwriters, the distribution networks in Europe and the financial support for the creation of a series.

If you want to know what goes on behind the scenes in a writers’ room, then come along to the third day of the Are You Series? festival. To begin with academics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven will look more closely at the craftsmanship and skills of script writers and then it’s your turn to have a go. Get involved in practical writing sessions in the psychological elaboration of characters and how to alternate tension. You will be given the answer to questions such as “How do I build up tension in my story?” and “How can I write good dialogues?”

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BOZAR is increasingly emerging as a European arts centre.

We do that in the first instance by giving room to artists, cultural heritage and artistic exchange on different themes including that of the European continent. Europe is a lot more than an economic and political project. Now, more than ever before, the EU is in need of a new shared history that is open to its diversity and in order to achieve this BOZAR is playing its cultural card. In the heart of the capital of the European institutions we create an area for debate where artists, thinkers, entrepreneurs and politicians can meet together and inspire one another.

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new generation enthusiastic about participating in the construction of a new Europe.

Brussels Days

On 18 and 19 November the ‘new generation’ will occupy the Centre for Fine Arts for the very first time for a series of round table discussions.

These dates are no coincidence.

On these two days the ‘Brussels Days’ take place, an annual event organised by L’Obs and BOZAR in which European politicians enter into dialogue with citizens and philo­ sophers, opinion makers and artists.

The title of this third edition leaves nothing to the imagination: The Final Chance for Europe. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker sets the ball rolling. He will not just be given a grilling by the editors in chief of De Standaard, Le Soir and L’Obs, but also by the members of the audience in our ‘Henry Le Bœuf’ Great Hall. Without partners such as the European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Evens Foundation and the European Culture Foundation this event would not have been possible. Burning issues will be under discussion: immigration, the Greek crisis, the relationship with Russia, nationalism, European leadership…

The British economist and man behind the inequality study, Tony Atkinson, will also be present. BOZAR provides a solid cultural approach. Under the heading ‘No Culture, No Europe’, borrowed from a book by cultural

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In 2014, spurred on by the former President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso, this common desire to rediscover Europe led to a joint declaration by a series of prominent cultural figures. Together they gave shape to the New Narrative for Europe project. The group met under the leadership of Paul Dujardin, CEO and artistic director of BOZAR. Artists such as György Konrad, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Olafur Eliasson and Rem Koolhaas are all part of the group. The upshot of their frequent meetings is the book The Mind and Body of Europe: A New Narrative. For the first time artists and scientists were getting actively involved in discussions about the future of Europe. The next step will be an exhibition in which artists share their views on the chall­ enges facing Europe. Out of the conviction that Europe’s shared history should also be written by the citizens, BOZAR – with the support of the InBev BailletLatour foundation – is setting up an ambitious educational project: Next generation, Please. Over a year pupils and students from thirteen schools and youth organisations will be discussing the crises, values and challenges of Europe, each time under the supervision of an artist and a politician. Herman Van Rompuy, the first elected President of the European Council, has accepted to be the patron of Next Generation, Please.

The final result will consist of two large exhibitions in which the young people give an artistic form to their conclusions. As of June one exhibition will be on display in the Centre for Fine Arts, the other will be presented in Place de la Monnaie. The project is a new way of getting young citizens – with the input of politicians and artists – thinking about Europe. The fact that the refugee crisis is such a popular topic of discussion is no surprise. But the project is about more than current affairs. The goal is to get a

sociologist Pascal Gielen, artists and politicians join in the debate about the cultural dimension of the European Union. Judging from European politicians’ interest in art and culture, we still have a long way to go. The Dutch artist Renzo Martens is also getting involved in the debate. He is coming to talk about his unique cocoa plantation in Congo which brings in 7000 times more money for the farmers than they would normally earn. The German artist Thomas Kilpper will also be here to present his lighthouse for Lampedusa. The third edition of ‘Brussels Days’ once again promises to be a real hit. The Maison de l’Europe in Paris named the initiative the best European event. The definitive programme can be found on our website.

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Dawit Isaak During the ‘Brussels Days’ we ask you to spare a thought for Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean author who has been imprisoned in Eritrea – without a trial – since 2001. Amnesty International considers Isaak to be the only EuropeanEritrean ‘prisoner of conscience’, in other words someone who is in prison because he thinks differently to the regime. A real dictatorship reigns under President Isaias Afewerki and at an estimate 2000 refugees leave Eritrea every month. You can show your solidarity by occupying a similar cell to Dawit’s in the Centre for Fine Arts.

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WHAT DID YOU THINK OF IT?

BOZAR OPENING NIGHT & BEAF* *

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“It’s our first time in BOZAR, but definitely not our last.

We are real fans of the architecture of the Centre for Fine Arts. When we heard about the event on Facebook, we were immediately attracted to the mix of musical styles”, says Salvatore. He is a fan of contemporary genres, but also of classical music. “I like listening to electronic music, but also to singer-songwriters”, says Sam. “for us it doesn’t always have to be clear-cut. I’m a sportsman, but I like philosophy and literature too.”

Salvatore keeps himself “artistically busy with haircuts”, says Salvatore, a “hair artist in other words” (winks).

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“We like wandering around. Here you can walk in and out of the spaces all the while discovering new musical styles.

That’s what makes it so exciting”, says Caterina. “We are both fans of electro, rock, jazz, classical, not to mention sound experiments and instrumental music”, says Federico.

I was at the BOZAR Night in April. That was also a lot of fun. But we’re not just here for the music. The exhibition Visionary Structures. From Johansons to Johansons with art from Latvia really touched a chord”, says Federico.

“The structures appealed to my imagination.”

MUSIC + EXPO 10.11.2015 BOZAR Night

Did you miss the BOZAR Opening Night? Not to worry. At the BOZAR Night you will get another chance to live it up to the best beats of the moment or to wander around the exhibitions right into the early hours.

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“We are looking forward to Zukunft, the clubbing concept which will transform the Horta Hall into a club at midnight – at which point we will celebrate my mother’s 60th birthday”, explains Leo. “I saw DJ Umami at a fusion festival in Germany; he is one of Berlin’s best DJs. I am also here for DJ Fady One; yesterday we became Facebook friends, what an honour.”

Party animal Ludovica is also in her element.

“The atmosphere here is fantastic! Alongside classical music you can listen to experimental genres and DJ performances. I’m a big fan of electronic music. I got into it thanks to my son who was always listening to it in his bedroom.”

During the BOZAR Opening Night we spoke to a few visitors who were enjoying the mini festival full of intriguing, challenging and experimental events that took place on 19 September.

There was a real enthusiasm that could also be felt amongst visitors to the BOZAR Electronic Arts Festival.

Une symphonie de fruits.

Een symfonie van fruit.

Les pastilles Grether’s – au goût délicieusement fruité et à la consistance incomparable.

Grether’s pastilles – met een heerlijk fruitige smaak en unieke consistentie.

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BIEN PLUS QU’UN DÉLICE. MEER DAN LEKKER.

SNAPSHOT Sol Gabetta. © Marco Borggreve

The Orchestre de Paris will be at BOZAR on 14 November with a programme which includes French classics and a work by the contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Sol Gabetta will be performing as a soloist. Here is her ‘portrait’.

GABETTA Where were you born?

Córdoba, in the heart of Argentina.

Where do you live?

In Switzerland, not far from Basle.

Which instrument do you play?

For the past ten years I’ve been playing the same instrument, a magnificent cello from the 18th century Italian stringed instrument maker Guadagnini. It has a pure and clear sound with a lot of depth in the basses. It’s my baby.

How do you get ready for a concert?

If I don’t feel good physically then I can’t feel mentally good either. That’s why I take good care of myself on the day of the concert. I always sleep for two hours in the afternoon and focus

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100 percent on the concert and the place where it is being held. I try to clear my head and summon up all my energy.

Which artists have you enjoyed working with? Who would you like to perform with?

That depends on the repertoire and the point in your life when you meet them. The pianist András Schiff is someone I really admire for his vision of music. I haven’t yet had the chance to perform with him but when I’ve been in the audience at his recitals it feels as though the outside world no longer exists. I have performed with the violinist Isabelle Faust on numerous occasions. She is a very important figure in my musical life; we have already shared a lot of experiences.

And Brussels?

BOZAR has a fantastic concert hall!

There aren’t many which are suited to the cello. The majority are too large or the acoustics are too dull. The ‘Henry Le Bœuf’ Great Hall can take the sound of the cello. It sounds really rich and warm there, and at the same time immediate. A musician shouldn’t need to make any effort to project his sound in the hall. That’s not always easy; especially not for a cellist.

Do you enjoy other forms of art, besides music?

I’m crazy about ballet. Like a lot of little girls, in the past there was nothing I liked more than to dance.

That’s all behind me now, but I still love being in the audience.

MUSIC 14.11.2015 European Gala with the Orchestre de Paris and Sol Gabetta

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The central theme of our new music season is Urban Vibes. Which cities do you like performing in?

Vienna, Buenos Aires, Paris, New York, Berlin and lots of wonderful theatres in Italy; the acoustics are sometimes a bit dry, but there is always a special atmosphere.

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07.10.2015 > 24.01.2016 Happy Birthday EUROPALIA!

HIGHLIGHTS

EXPO EUROPALIA TURKEY 07.10.2015 > 17.01.2016 Anatolia. Home of Eternity A cultural cross-pollination has been going on between Europa and Asia for centuries now. That is a logical consequence of a sizable chunk of shared history. For this exhibition 200 masterpieces from 30 Turkish museums are making the journey to Brussels for the very first time. There is no better way to find out about Turkish heritage.

AGA KHAN AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE

This year Europalia has two reasons to celebrate. The arts festival has been around for 45 years and is in its 25th edition. A small retrospective in the BOZAR Street looks back on the past 25 years. Video artists talk about the place in which they live, create and inspire one another.

FOCUS ON LUXEMBOURG 26.09.2015 > 07.02.2016 Tina Gillen – ECHO The Luxembourg artist Tina Gillen has been painting since the 1990s. She uses the architecture which surrounds us every day as her point of departure. ECHO is a monumental installation for the BOZAR Board Room. Gillen combines paintings, a mural and a sculptural construction.

13.11.2015 > 03.01.2016 Steichen! Making Meaning of a Legacy Edward Steichen was born in Luxemburg in 1879 and emigrated to New York as a child. He has photographed Greta Garbo, Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Marlène Dietrich and Franklin Roosevelt.

He was not just a pioneer of innovative photography; he was also a creative genius and museum curator of the MoMA. In Steichen! Making Meaning of a Legacy you can see his work alongside that of four laureates from the internationally renowned Edward Steichen Award.

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The Aga Khan Award for architecture is awarded every three years to projects which enable a fresh, innovative wind to blow through the Muslim world.

The sketches and models of these fifteen finalists and five laureates are surprisingly original and diverse.

FILM 04.11.2015

SUFFRAGETTE – SARAHPremiere GAVRON Suffragette tells the tale of the first feminists. They fight for equal rights and for the ideal for which they are prepared to sacrifice everything. The film is a moving, vibrant homage to these women and a reminder that the combat is far from over.

10 & 11.11.2015

LUX FILM PRIZE During the LUX FILM PRIZE three films are being screened in the 28 European member states. Afterwards there is a debate and a film is crowned the winner.

Every year the European Parliament awards this prize to a film which helps shape European identity. You can vote on the website www.luxprize.eu.

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Istanbul attracts all different kinds of artists. The city breathes culture from all its pores. Immerse yourself in this exceptionally rich patrimony. Travel back to nineteenth century Constantinople with photographs from the Koç collection which are on show for the very first time and take a look at the city through the eyes of a few contemporary photographers. With photography, film, literature and music – it’s a feast for eyes and ears.

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10.11.2015 Special Screening Urok (The Lesson) – Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov 02

Urok is set inside a school and shows how sudden financial misfortune can change the course of a person’s life.

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15.10.2015 > 24.01.2016 Imagine Istanbul

15.10.2015 > 17.01.2016

THEATRE

11.11.2015 Premiere Mediterranea – Jonas Carpignano In the presence of Jonas Carpignano

20 > 21.11.2015

PAIN IS YOUTH

Every year ten thousand migrants risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in the hope of a better life. A film about a highly sensitive subject.

Royal District Theatre Tbilisi

Mustang – Deniz Gamze Ergüven Special Screening In Mustang Deniz Gamze Ergüven sheds light on the life of young girls who are trapped in a traditional society ruled by men.

02 > 06.12.2015

ARE YOU SERIES? A festival about contemporary TV series. During the previews, scoops, lectures, debates and workshops the emphasis is placed on the outstanding scripts and remarkable quality of the series.

06.12.2015

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CLIMATES – NURI BILGE CEYLAN Special Screening, in the presence of Nuri Bilge Ceylan Two lonely souls in search of happiness. Isa and Bahar’s relationship is not what it was. Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes expert use of depth of field in order to depict the growing rift between his main characters.

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28.11.2015

AKA BALKAN MOON Aka Moon is a melting pot of the most diverse musical traditions. Jazz and traditional music with funk and rock accents was the company’s trademark from the very beginning. At BOZAR they are presenting their new project Aka Balkan Moon. The name of the project speaks for itself.

12.12.2015

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Six students and a maid share a house in Vienna in the period between the two world wars. Each student represents a rung on the social ladder of a society in decline. Last season the Georgian director, Data Tavadze, was at BOZAR with Women of Troy and now he’s back with this performance about a disillusioned post-war generation. It is a good description of the youth of today!

DASTAN ENSEMBLE & MAHDIEH MOHAMMAD KHANI

WORLD MUSIC 21.11.2015

MOUSSEM SOUNDS: PALESTINIAN CULTURE In 2013 Mohammed Assaf won Arab Idol and soon after his victory was appointed by the UN as youth ambassador of the UNRWA, the United Nation’s refugee programme. The Palestinian singer is an honorary guest at the Moussem Sounds festival, where Middle Eastern urban music booms out of the loudspeakers.

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The internationally renowned Dastan Ensemble from Iran performs Persian classical music, in the company of singer Mahdieh Mohammadkhani. So much refinement will leave nobody unmoved.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

23.11.2015

WILLIAM CHRISTIE & LES ARTS FLORISSANTS

05.11.2015

NELSON FREIRE With the Concert for piano and orchestra no. 2 Johannes Brahms wrote a fantastic ode to Romanticism.

Nelson Freire, the famous, Brazilian pianist, is accompanied by the Brussels Philharmonic. To complete the programme, the orchestra performs two more masterpieces from the 20th century: Tod und Verklärung by Richard Strauss and The Firebird by Stravinski.

MITSUKO UCHIDA & THE QUATUOR ÉBÈNE

William Christie is the most French of American orchestra conductors. This year he is treating us to works by Lully, Couperin and Delalande, composers at the French court at the time of Louis XIV. 25.11.2015

HAGEN QUARTETT

14.11.2015

THE ORCHESTRE DE PARIS & SOL GABETTA The Orchestre de Paris is finally returning to Brussels as part of the European Galas, a BOZAR – Festival of Flanders collaboration. This prestigious orchestra was established by Charles Münch and Estonian Paavo Järvi was appointed its musical director in 2010. Järvi is joined by the flamboyant cellist Sol Gabetta, who is in the spotlight this season with a special ‘portrait’ devoted to her.

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This season the French string quartet, Quatuor Ébène will be appearing at BOZAR three times. On this occasion you can expect fireworks as they are joined by the famous Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida. The evening will consist of string quartets by Haydn and Dutilleux and a piano quintet by Robert Schumann.

10 > 13.12.2015

Credit where credit’s due. At the request of BOZAR and the National Orchestra of Belgium a few of the best international musicians are paying tribute to the Russian composer. Julia Fisher and the NOB are performing two concertos for violin while the cellist Sol Gabetta and pianists Bertrand Chamayou and Severin von Eckardstein promise you a spectacular evening of chamber music.

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When it comes to string quartets, you’d do well to beat the Hagen Quartet. Over the centuries Haydn, Wolf and Bartók have left their virtuoso mark on this genre. All three are on the programme.

16.12.2015

CECILIA BARTOLI

06.12.2015

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It is barely twenty years since the violinist Nikolaj Znaider won the Queen Elisabeth Competition and since then he has been a regular at BOZAR. From Beethoven to Shostakovich, this recital will take you on an unforgettable journey through time.

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DANIEL BARENBOIM 60 years ago the famous Israeli composer and pianist Daniel Barenboim performed at BOZAR for the first time ever and it’s something he has never forgotten. He is hoping for a befitting follow up to that concert and will be performing works by Schubert and Debussy, composers who are close to his heart.

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This year the opera diva is singing Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini, four composers who have left their mark on music history. Bartoli is accompanied by the Orchestra la Scintilla, of the Zurich Opera, and is joined on stage by the promising South African tenor Sunnyboy Dladla.

NOV.—DEC. 2015

PROKOFIEV FESTIVAL

19.11.2015

NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER

09.12.2015

20.12.2015

CHRISTMAS WITH THE NOB In keeping with tradition BOZAR takes you into the festive season with the National Orchestra of Belgium. As is customary, Dirk Brossé once again serves up a varied musical Christmas menu with classical music, traditional songs and soundtracks.

LITERATURE VISUAL VOICES 15.12.2015 LONG LIVE LOVE! (5+) MATHIAS ENARD 22.11.2015

Boussole, the latest novel by French author Mathias Enard, is the tale of a Viennese musicologist’s sleepless night. He will be at BOZAR to present his book in the form of a lively debate with the Belgian author Grégoire Polet – a must for anyone who wants a better understanding of the complex relationship between the West and the Middle East.

FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

November 2015

SIT WITH DAWIT

08.11.2015

BIG BANG FESTIVAL (4+)

Dawit Isaak is a Swedish-Eritrean journalist and author who returned to his fatherland in order to fight for the freedom of the press. He has been imprisoned since 2001, without any official charge. There is a replica of his tiny cell in the Centre for Fine Arts, which you can go and sit in for a while as a mark of solidarity.

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Five short films about love and trust amongst children, their (grand) parents and their friends. Feelings which oscillate between sorrow and joy are presented and a musician provides a musical accompaniment which echoes the emotions portrayed in the films.

Long Live Love sharpens the senses of the whole family.

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Children get to have their say at the annual BIG BANG Festival! Contemporary classic, jazz, world music – so many fantastic, new sounds will have young and old prick their ears up.

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