11 — 13.05, 19.05, 20.05, 26.05, 27.05, 02.06, 03.06
Concerts & nightlife 2023
Free of charge, limited capacity
Like every year, the festival’s weekends will be animated by parties aimed at bringing people together around a unique nightlife programme. For this edition, we are shaking things up a little bit. First, we will kick things off with a soft launch, and then each nightlife party will feature live music, courtesy of artists of different genres: Sara Dziri, Porcelain ID, Floèmee, Bart Kobain, Nancy Khadra, Raivy and many more. Moreover, we will be taking over several locations, besides the Festival Centre (i.e. Les Brigittines). First, our opening and closing parties will be organised at Théâtre National to ensure that as many people can gather for our bigger celebrations. Then, our annual Pride After-Party will be spread over two locations simultaneously: Les Brigittines with Propaganda, and Le Reservoir Bar in collaboration with Bozar’s Afropolitan. Among this year’s other music & nightlife collaborators will be Nyege Nyege’s Anti-Mass Collective, Pages Magazine, and different actors from our Festival Centre’s neighbourhood. The DJs who will take you on a genre-bending world tour of sounds include local powerhitters such as Soumaya Phéline and Nina Champs, besides international guest stars such as Cheetah and DIDI.
11.05 – Take(-it-)off Thursday
Les Brigittines
LINE-UP
22:30, Nika B2B JuliEn
12.05 – Opening Party
Théâtre National
LINE-UP
- 23:00, Auncle Mymy
- 00:00, Blacksapho
- 01:00, Prince Kongo (LIVE)
- 01:30, ARAKAZA
ANTI-MASS:
- 02:30, Turkana
- 03:30, Nsasi Ug
- 04:30, Authentically Plastic
- 05:30, end
13.05 – Soundgasm Saturday
Les Brigittines
LINE-UP
- 22:45, Bushra C’toù
- 00:00, Sara Dziri & Valentina Bellanova (LIVE)
- 01:00, Soumaya Phéline
- 03:00, end
19.05 — The True Colors and Body Language of Soft Bwois
Les Brigittines
LINE-UP
- 22:30, Porcelain Id (LIVE)
- 23:00, Caesarr
- 00:00, DIDI
- 01:00, end
The night’s title, curation and line-up are inspired by the short films Soft Bwoi (2023) by Danny Bailey, Body Language (2022) by Odu Adamu, and True Colors (2022) by David J. Amado.
20.05 – DYSTOPIA, a Pride After-Party curated by PROPAGANDA
Les Brigittines
LINE-UP
Krasna, Belligerency, King Kovaci + guests Major Mathilde & Nina Champs
20.05 – Pride After-Party curated by Shoga Shoga
Kunstenfestivaldesarts x Afropolitan
Le Réservoir Bar
LINE-UP
- 22:00, AFRODESIA
- 23:00, STANLEY
- 00:00, Kali Kalité
- 01:00, Lola OndiKwa
- 02:00, Cheetah
- 03:00, Missy Da Kunt
- 04:00, Jonas Alexander
- 05:00, end
26.05 – Frenzy Friday
Les Brigittines
LINE-UP
- 22:30, Floèmee (LIVE)
- 23:00, Gem & I
- 00:00, Pode
- 01:00, end
27.05 – Saucy Saturday
Les Brigittines
LINE-UP
- 22:30, Bart Kobain (LIVE)
- 23:00, MAHINA (LIVE)
- 23:30, BadLilBitty (LIVE)
- 00:00, KARL
- 01:00, K4
- 03:00, end
02.06 – Freak 'em Friday
Les Brigittines
LINE-UP
- 22:30, Nancy Khadra (LIVE)
- 23:15, Raivy (LIVE) + The Girl FJ
- 00:00, renoiterrible
- 01:00, end
03.06 — Closing Night
Théâtre National
LINE-UP
- 23:00, Brahim Tall
- 00:30, Talia Goddess (LIVE)
- 01:00, IMSOBABY
- 02:00, Esengo
- 03:15, Hirma
- 04:30, Chinnamasta
- 05:30, end
11.05
- 22:30 → 00:30
- Take(-it-)off Thursday
12.05
- 23:00 → 05:30
- Opening Night
- Théâtre National
13.05
- 22:30 → 03:00
- Soundgasm Saturday
- Les Brigittines
19.05
- 22:30 → 01:00
- The True Colors and Body Language of Soft Bwois
- Les Brigittines
20.05
- 22:00 → 05:00
- Pride After-Party
- Reservoir Bar
- 22:30 → 03:00
- Pride After-Party
- Les Brigittines
26.05
- 22:30 → 03:00
- Frenzy Friday
27.05
- 22:30 → 03:00
- Saucy Saturday
02.06
- 22:30 → 01:00
- Freak 'em Friday
03.06
- 23:00 → 05:30
- Closing Night
- Théâtre National
SAFER SPACES
The parties of the festival aim to be safer spaces and do not tolerate any form of racism, queerphobia, ageism, ableism, fatphobia, xenophobia, sexism, misogyny or classism.
