Literary aperitif: Lisette Lombé and Joëlle Sambi
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For our first literary aperitif, the Belgo-Congolese author, poet and slammer Lisette Lombé will invite Joëlle Sambi for a slam duo but also a frank discussion.
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After a spring spent withdrawn from the world, we invite you this summer to look at the world beyond the four walls that surround you. Throughout the summer, you can go backstage at Passa Porta and enjoy a drink while engaging in frank conversations about literature and the world of today.
Every Tuesday, towards the end of the day, we will invite a duo of authors to talk about and read from their work in a casual setting. Poets, slammers, novelists and non-fiction authors, established names and emerging talents in the Belgian literary landscape and beyond will take the floor to question contemporary society, always through the lens of literature.
Lisette Lombé and Joëlle Sambi
For our first literary aperitif, the Belgo-Congolese author, poet and slammer Lisette Lombé will invite Joëlle Sambi for a slam duo but also a frank discussion. As committed artists who are both active feminists and anti-racists, what do they have to tell us, a few weeks after a lockdown that closed down the entire arts sector, and after the consciences of people around the world were moved by the killing of George Floyd and the unprecedented demonstration that followed in Brussels? What is taking shape in Brussels today? What can the artists do? How can they use their activism serve in this context? Through the medium of slam – ‘the site of truth’, in Joëlle Sambi’s words – they will try to provide some answers to all these questions.
Lisette Lombé recently published Vénus poetica and Black words (L’arbre à paroles), but also Tenir and On ne s’excuse de rien (Maelström), the latter being the product of slam workshops she organizes with the collective she created, L-Slam.
Joëlle Sambi is an Afro-feminist lesbian activist. An author, poet and film-maker, she is currently working on her first documentary, Pinkshasa Diaspora, a political poem that sketches the world of the gay community in the Congolese diaspora. She is also working on her first production at the KVS and on a poetry collection to be published by L’arbre de Diane.
Picture Lisette Lombé © Gilles Fischer
Picture Joëlle Sambi © Lyse Ishimwe
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