KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS

28.05.2025

Listen back to the Fireflies Conversations

Held during the six-day Free School 2025 – The School of Fireflies, the Fireflies Conversations are free talks that combine poetic interludes, music, and insightful reflection. The Fireflies Conversations take us on a journey through a constellation of minor lights that shine against the singular glare of the present. You can listen to the lectures again on this page.

28.05.2025

An afternoon filled with sand, dance, and confusion (and also, a bit of wonder)

A contribution by Aya Ouday, communication student at Erasmus University College in Brussels. As part of her studies, she followed a group of young people at the festival to report on their experience. On 11th May, Aya accompanied a group from Cité des Jeunes youth centre in Sint-Gillis as they participated in a workshop and attended a performance at the festival under the NoFilter project.

Applause after Magec / The Desert by Radouan Mriziga

22.05.2025

The Reading Lamp is a Firefly: a reading list around the Free School programme

For the 30th edition of the festival, rile* returns with their pop-up bookshop at our festival centre in Beursschouwburg. We have carefully curated a selection of books from the rile* catalogue that complement this year's Free School — The School of Fireflies. Perfect for discovering before, during, and beyond the festival. We're delighted to share this collection of thought-provoking literature with you.

28.04.2025

Discover the Discovery Pass: 3 performances to guide you through the festival

11.04.2025

Call for Applications: New Artistic Direction for Kunstenfestivaldesarts (F/M/X)

01.04.2025

Cecilia Vicuña: The Blood of Plants

09.04.2025

A few tips to find your way around our programme

Craving exploration? Want to attend the festival but not sure which performance to choose? Our team created a special selection of must-see performances and recommendations. This selection is diverse, offering an option for anyone - accessible to everyone, regardless of any prior knowledge in performing arts.

28.02.2025

Discover the 2025 programme at the launch party

14.02.2025

Sneak peak: first names of the 2025 programme

12.02.2025

Open Call: pitch your new creation during Plat(e)form(e) at Kunstenfestivaldesarts

10.01.2025

Co-directors Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Dries Douibi announced that their last edition will be in 2026

Save the date: our 30th edition will take place from 9 to 31 May 2025

05.06.2024

Bedankt! Merci! Thank you!

26.06.2024

Around the kitchen table: a Free School podcast

IETM x KVS Sector Dialogue 2024

03.05.2024

A theatre itinerary exploring different worlds

25.04.2024

The art of remembering

18.04.2024

Dance flourishing in multiple forms

10.04.2024

Companion texts for the kitchen table

25.03.2024

The programme is out!

Otobong Nkanga: That Night We Ate

20.02.2024

Call for donations: Living Stipends for Palestine

29.02.2024

A new edition of the festival unveiled

21.02.2024

Parade seeks participants

23.01.2024

PLAYWATCH: Open call for Brussels theatre viewers with a curious mind

29.11.2023

29th November: Global reading of the Gaza Monologues. Let’s stand together in solidarity with the Palestinian People

08.06.2023

Thank you for this magical 28th edition

14.06.2023

Thank you for your contributions to the solidarity tickets

02.06.2023

Kunstenfestivaldesarts through the lens of a volunteer

01.06.2023

Final act and other celebrations

Stage So Near So Far - Reading and discussion around Pages Magazine special issue nr. 11

22.05.2023

Contemporary creation revisits its classics

15.05.2023

Poetic and political encounters

04.05.2023

The many faces of theatre

27.04.2023

Fragments of productivity

20.04.2023

The festival team is sharing its 'coups de cœur' with you

Dive into the programme – and behind the scenes at the same time! – through a series of 3 videos.

14.04.2023

Choosing a family

07.04.2023

An edition that questions the space between language and us

03.04.2023

Call for artists: Plat(e)form(e) 2023

Pitch your performance project during Kunstenfestivaldesarts

01.03.2023

Ready to discover the 2023 programme?

02.03.2023

We are looking for children to perform during the festival

07.02.2023

First names for the 28th edition of the festival

02.06.2022

Watch the 2022 aftermovie

The inspiration behind our posters

26.04.2022

An incredible variety of darkness

Three projects and a vitality that makes the local scene unique.

21.04.2022

A stage the size of the world

An international programme with artists presented for the first time in Europe.

14.04.2022

A walk in the unusual spaces of the festival

From the Senate, to a space hidden inside the Gare du Nord, to a bar.

11.04.2022

Being transported by music

Discover five creations of the festival.

06.04.2022

Ticket sales have now started!

Get your ticket online or in our box office at Kaaitheater.

29.03.2022

Teaser / Kunstenfestivaldesarts 07 — 28.05.2022

We are very excited to finally be able to share KFDA22 with you!

28.01.2022

Discover the first names

We started the new year with a desire of already sharing a couple of first names with you, whilst getting ready for the 27th edition of the festival!

03.01.2022

Producers' Academy 2022

Call for international performing arts producers to participate in this year's Producers Academy during the festival from 18 — 21 May. Registrations are now open!

25.06.2021

A timetable of 01 ー 08.07

July is approaching! We have one more festivalweek ahead of us. Discover all of the projects of the July programme in this overview.

14.07.2021

Aftermovie / Kunstenfestivaldesarts 07 — 30.05 + 01 — 08.07.2021

It's been a week since we've ended the second and final part, so let's look back on some of the incredible projects we had the pleasure to present in the city of Brussels.

11.04.2021

Looking for volunteers in July!

We are still in need of a few helping hands to complete our wonderful group of volunteers for this year’s festival edition in July.

13.06.2021

Aftermovie May 2021

Let's reminisce about the first part of the festival in May. Check out this great aftermovie filled with highlights, while we're getting ready to start the summer with you: one more week in July!

31.05.2021

Thank you for May, see you in July!

Save the date: 01 ー 08.07 will be filled with projects in open air, in theatres and even in a swimming pool.

08.05.2021

Stream of Thoughts : artist talks & encounters accessible worldwide

Stream of Thoughts is a programme of encounters that accompanies the festival. Due to the pandemic and the growing collective awareness of the issues and disparities affecting different parts of the world, it has become clear that the conversations to be must have a global reach while also considering the various local contexts.

29.05.2021

Dancing in a garden surrounded by flowers

The Japanese artist Ayaka Nakama welcomes us in a fictional garden

13.05.2021

Rossella Biscotti - The Journey

The only invisible performance at the festival, echoing the hidden nature of what is going on in the Mediterranean Sea.

07.05.2021

Frie Leysen Grant

We will start this year with an empty day: a day dedicated to Frie Leysen, who left us last autumn. Kunstenfestivaldesarts and deSingel - the arts center that founded Frie in 1980 - are jointly establishing a scholarship for emerging artists in her name: a tribute to Frie's commitment to always looking to the future rather than honouring the past.