Newsletter September

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Summer is still here in Netwerk Aalst! We show films in open air until 18 September and wave goodbye to summer on 19 September together with the residents of Gardens of Netwerk, Inside Out and Kunstoevers.

Meanwhile there is more to experience from September onwards. On Saturday 11 September we open a new exhibition, If I Could Wish for Something by Dora García. From 21 September, we will again be playing the best films in our cinema. Read on to find out what else is happening.

IF I COULD WISH FOR SOMETHING

EXHIBTION – The exhibition If I Could Wish For Something brings together two recent films by Dora Garcia, Love With Obstacles and If I Could Wish For Something. Both films are part of Amor Rojo, a work-in-progress that studies Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952). Alexandra Kollontai was a Marxist theoretician and figure of the October Revolution, a defender of the rights of women and sexual activist. Her insights seemed written for a future world and are more relevant today than [removed];
Come to the opening on 11 September >
More info >

READINGLetters of disappointment by Dora García.
In recent years, García has been studying a great amount of historical letters, written by remarkable women to their lovers, their comrades, their political allies or their enemies, or to themselves in the form of a diary. In all of them there is a moment of deep disappointment, of disenchantment, the depth of the sorrow in direct proportion to the enthusiasm that their amorous or political engagement had awakened in them.
Thursday 30 September, 18:30

SUMMER

SUMMER – Netwerk Aalst celebrates this year’s summer with you! Until 19 September we present a summer program full of activities at the Houtkaai. For the neighborhood and by the neighborhood.

On Saturday 11 September, from 2 pm to 6 pm, the residents of Gardens of Netwerk open the doors of their studios for a studio [removed];

On Sunday 19 September, we wave goodbye to summer together with the residents, Inside Out and Kunstoevers. The residents organize the exhibition A day in the park.
More info (NL) > 

OUTDOOR CINEMA

FILM – Every Friday and Saturday until 18 September, from sunset onwards, we show open-air films. Are you choosing the last Friday film? Or do you rather discover the choice of Malin Sarah Gozin or Michaël R. Roskam on Saturday? They are part of our [removed];
More info (NL) >

FILM

FILM – From 21 September onwards, the doors of our cinema are wide open again, this time without restrictions. Every Tuesday and Friday, you will be able to enjoy the best art-house films of the moment (Drunk, The Father, Nomadland…). When successful, we repeat the films so that you don’t have to miss a thing. New is that Film Fest Gent will drop by every 3rd Tuesday of the month with an avant-premiere. We open in style with Tout s’est bien passé by François Ozon, with a video introduction by film expert Patrick Duynslaegher.
More info >

TRANSMISSIONS

ONLINE – TRANSMISSIONS season 3 is back in September! Noor Abed, Noor Abuarafeh, Yazan Khalili, Dina Mimi en Amani Yaqoub show Place? What Place? I don’t see a Place here…
Episode 5 of Transmissions is curated by Yazan Khalili who lives and works in and out of Palestine. He is an architect, visual artist, educator, and cultural producer. He is co-founder of Radio [removed];

Season 3, episode 5 on 15 September at 10 pm or on 17 September at 11 am.
More info on TRANSMISSIONS >
Watch the episodes live on their website >

THE BODIES

The Bodies, a research group consisting of artists, a curator, an art historian, a writer… will gather in real time for the first time since the global health crisis. Their conversation will infiltrate Netwerk Aalst’s programme The Astronaut metaphor. With this programme Netwerk Aalst wants to understand what an integral support of artists can entail. You can follow their trail via regular reports by writer and journalist Agnieszka Gratzka
Read Agnieszka’s first article here >

MEDITATION WITH ANDY MERCAERT 
MEDITATION – Would you like to deepen your knowledge of meditation? Andy followed an intensive training in Thailand as Mindfulness & Meditation Trainer and guides your journey to balance and rest. Every Wednesday from 8 September to 10 November 2021 at 19:30.
Meer info (NL) >

OFFER FOR SCHOOLS
SCHOOLS – Welcome with the whole class in Netwerk Aalst to discover the world of contemporary art and film!
Check the complete offer on the site of the city of Aalst (NL) >

KUNST & ZWALM
NEARBY – BOEM vzw organizes Kunst & Zwalm, a biennial art event in Zwalm and its surroundings. The project invites artists to create a new in situ.
More info on the website of Kunst & Zwalm (NL) >

MC COLOR WHEELS BY MARTHE COOLS
NEARBY – Marthe Coolens (1992, BE) starts from photos that are circulating in our digital world. It became a collection of ‘displaced’ images that forms the basis for the creation of work within her oeuvre. The exhibition can be visited on 11 and 12 September in Garage Neven.
More info on the website of Garage Neven (NL) >

PROGRESS & PLEASURE
NEARBY – Group exhibition of Elisia Poelman, Maaike Van den Abbeele, Zacharia Testelmans & Luna Verleysen in DISKUS. The exhibition runs from 25 September till 10 October.
More info on the instagram account of DISKUS >

_WALS10_
NEARBY – wals10 is an exhibition with work of Trees De Mits, Robert Soroko and Marc Van Cauwenbergh. The exhibition runs from 18 September to 9 October in the Oude Pastorie in [removed];
More info on the facebook page of _wals_ >

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