Lisette Ma Neza

Branden

Word Of Mouth

Thu 07.11

20:00 - 22:15

Minardschouwburg, Gent

Romain Deconinckplein 2

Past event

Tribute to the rootless woman

On 7 November, we will screen Lisette Ma Neza's short film 'Branden'. A collective poem about burning homelands, about the fire and smoke of armed conflict. A conversation with five women about leaving and (never really) arriving. An ode to the rootless woman.

Furthermore, Lisette Ma Neza invites four guests who give light with language: poet Babs Gons, actress Marah Haj, singer Meral Polat and creative entrepreneur Ama van Dantzig to host the evening. They are all tasked with drawing inspiration from her film/collective poem ‘Branden’, which will be screened before they enter into conversation with each other.

From the film, the creatives will engage with each other about the languages they live in and explore. The languages with which they break silences, the languages in which they literate, which they sing, name and criticise. It is also about how they do this individually in their own ways. During the conversation, they will bring artistic contributions: poems, songs and monologues. In this way, a second part of the film will emerge on the evening: ‘Branden’, on stage.

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"To me, 'Branden' represents a fire that never goes out. It reminds me of a line from a poem by Alfred Schaffer: ‘I was a dark body that you could blow out, but I burned anyway.’ I also see that constant burning in my mother and grandmother, who lived through the genocide in Rwanda: the burning of that great violence and trauma, but at the same time the love for a country being destroyed. You take on that light as a daughter, as the next generation. I tried to describe the feeling of the warmth of that."

- Lisette Ma Neza