Beguinage Sculpture

① memo 20190319 ~ Beguinage Sculpture ~ Church of Saint John the Baptist at the Béguinage earlier this month , Brussels.

Cartooned Cat Women’s Day Brussels

① memo 20190313 ~ Cartooned Cat Women’s Day Brussels ~ Alain Séchas’ La Cycliste (The Cyclist), sculpture dressed at International Women’s Day last week on the pavement near the Royal Galleries in Brussels

Artistic Activism Asylum

① memo 20190312 ~ Artistic Activism Asylum ~ Sculpture with barbed wire used in manifestation for regularisation of undocumented migrants found ‘resting’ last weekend in the Brussels Beguinage Church

Love Express

① memo 20190214 ~ Love Express ~ To love and be loved on the Benelux train

Push The Reset Button – Album Didier Jans

Singer Didier Jans and the author of his songs Béatrice Dethy together presented their latest album ‘Push The Reset Button’ (Remettre à zéro les compteurs) to Koenraad Tinel last Saturday , Feb. 9th 2019, in the Handelsbeurs theater in Gand , Belgium.

Koenraad Tinel
The extraordinary live performance of Koenraad Tinel last Saturday in the play As Long As He Does Not Know Himself was a great opportunity to watch Koenraad’s live work , and after the show to meet Koenraad and get the chance to personally present him their new album.

Liberated – tribute to the friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel
The album includes the chanson ‘Liberated’ (LIBERES) they made in tribute to the extraordinary friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel – inspired by the belgian documentary War Children (director Marianne Soetewey- VRT, 2012) and the book Liberated at Last (2013 ) that Simon and Koenraad together made on their friendship .

① memo 20190212 ~ Push The Reset Button – Album Didier Jans

Links :

Didier Jans
http://www.didierjans.com

Koenraad Tinel
http://www.koenraadtinel.be

Handelsbeurs theater in Gent / Gand , Belgium
https://www.handelsbeurs.be/en

Live performance – As Long As He Does Not Know Himself (Zolang Hij Niet Zichzelve Kent) https://www.lod.be/en/productions/zolang-hij-niet-zichzelve-kent

LIBERES chanson Liberated , Didier Jans
https://michelvanderburg.com/2018/11/20/liberes-chanson-didier-jans-2/

Finally liberated after 70 years
https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/03/13/finally-liberated-fr/

Liberated at Last – book presentation
https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/05/10/finally-liberatated-no-blame-no-victim-book-presentation-30-april-2013-in-brussels/mvdb20130430-165947_frames01/

Shoah Comics

Poster Kazerne Dossin museum exhibition (until 22 april 2019 – kazernedossin.eu) Shoah et Bande Dessinée (FR) Holocaust en Strips (NL) at the Gent Sint Pieter train station yesterday , Gent , Belgium. ① memo 20190211 ~ Shoah Comics

Dirty Water

① memo 20190210 ~ Dirty Water ~ Ceiling reflection in a cup at Koenraad Tinel’s drawing table last night , Saturday 9 February 2019, right after his live performance – drawing with ink, bistre and ‘dirty water’ with Josse De Pauw telling a on Narcissus based story, acccompanied by composer Frederik Neyrinck’s music performed by the Spectra Ensemble , and by Lieselot De Wilde singing the role of Echo in their play : AS LONG AS HE DOES NOT KNOW HIMSELF – Zolang Hij Niet Zichzelve Kent (a production of LOD muziektheater , SPECTRA , Concertgebouw Brugge) in the Handelsbeurs theater in Gent , Belgium