Open House Brussels (May 17th to 19th 2012)
For the first time in Brussels 24 artistic laboratories and alternative management offices have joined together to show their practices and research in an Open House event dedicated to both public and professionals. Open House will propose two morning debates, completed with afternoon guided tours and artistic parcours offering the public a chance to get introduced to the structures’ working process and the artists who bind them together.
On
Saturday May 19th 2012 Vti, Kunstenloket and Îles organise
First Aid Sessions, open advice sessions for artists.
From 10:00 - 11:00 Liesbeth Dejonghe (OKo, the Flemish Federation of Employers in the performing arts and music sector) presents an overview of the recent developments in the status of artists within the Belgian social security, followed by time for questions.
From 11:00-13:00 collaborators of the VTI, Kunstenloket, Îles and the alternative management offices Mokum, Caravan Production and Margarita Production are available for free and personal information sessions to help artists with their questions about project development, artistic matters, subsidy applications, legal and social matters, networks and contacts, … Each organisation will do this from its specific field of experience.
Reservation for the information session on the artist status
is compulsory at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts box office, on the address above or by phone:
+32(0)70/22.21.99Address? The info and First Aid sessions will take place the Kunstenfestivaldesarts centre: Vanderborght building (1st floor), Schildknaapstraat 50 rue de l’Ecuyer, 1000 Brussels.
To ensure a smooth dispatching of questions/artists to the organisations staffing the helpdesk, we advise to deliver as many questions as possible in advance via
the contact form on the VTi website.
Open House Brussels is organised with the collaboration of Architecture Workroom Brussels, Atelier de Création sonore radiophonique (ascr), Atelier Graphoui, Atelier Jeunes Cinéastes (AJC!), Auguste Orts, Bains Connective, Caravan Production, Constant, Danscentrumjette, FoAM, iMAL, Komplot, L'Escaut, Maison d'Art Actuel des Chartreux (MAAC), Margarita Production, MediaRuimte, Mokum, nadine, OKNO, Passa Porta, Q-02, SoundImageCulture, workspacebrussels.