BABELBÜHNE - BABEL FESTIVAL
Summer platform for multilingual encounter in Antwerp-North.
BabelBühne is a sustainable sculpture of terraces and water features, inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. BabelBühne is the follow-up story to the Toren van Babel co-building project, which in the summer of 2019 formed an impressive ode to multilingualism and confusion of tongues. Since the summer of 2020, BabelBühne has been a meeting place for all kinds of languages and is a true melting pot of all kinds of arts, sounds and tastes. In a green oasis, you can enjoy a literary afternoon, a multilingual children's story, live multilingual radio and cosy dinners with a dash of music. On stage, you can literally taste the multilingualism, because there are also worldly folk cuisines with delicious fresh meals. During the summer, BabelBühne likes to take you on a journey in your own city!
For more information and the current calendar, see the renewed website.
With the support of Archipel, City of Antwerp, District of Antwerp, Het Oude Badhuis, Burgerbegroting
WHERE?
Archipel site, opposite Lange Lobroekstraat 77, 2060 Antwerpen-Dam.
Public transport | tram 12, metro 2,3,5 and 6 >> stop Schijnpoort
PROGRAMME SUMMER 2022 (JULY-SEPT)
For more information and the current calendar, see the updated website.
BABELFABEL
Wednesdays on the Bühne for children aged 4-8.
On the BabelBühne children can enjoy stories in several languages, told with a kamishibai (Japanese storyteller).
With the inspiration of the story, which focuses on diversity or the theme of multilingualism, the children then get to work in a craft activity.
In collaboration with Bib Permeke.
>> On Wednesdays from 2 to 4 pm.
BABELTUNE
On Thursdays you can hear the most beautiful music on stage. There are also fresh wood oven pizzas.
>> On Thursdays from 8 pm to 11 pm.
BABELBAD
Poetry & Pizza: fortnightly on Thursday evenings you can enjoy pizza from the wood-fired clay oven and multilingual poetry happenings. A performance by a foreign-language poet with an original translation to another art discipline (dance, image, music), followed by an Open Poetry Stage with host Maud Vanhauwaert.
>> On Thursdays from 8 pm to 11 pm.
BABELPUTCH
Stage animals make the stage unsafe on Friday evening. Sitting still seems impossible. From metal to rap to afro beats. Talent from Antwerp and beyond. But of course first a good fondke lay with delicious folk cuisine, each time from a different region.
>> On Fridays from 19 to 23h.
>> Have you always wanted to stand on a stage with a poem or story in your own language? Then send an e-mail to babelbühne@gmail.com, or a private message on Facebook / Instagram. All languages, sub-languages and dialects are welcome!
ZWERFBIB
Reading a book hanging, sitting or lying down in the sun or in the shade of the hanging gardens of the Bühne? It is all possible. The library is always open and you can also take the books home.
>> On Wednesdays and Saturdays from 13-17h
The BabelBar opens one hour before curtain-up. (No bar during BabelFabel)
For more information and the current calendar, see the updated website.
>> Also follow the Facebook page of BabelBühne
>> and check the calendar here
CREDITS
The BabelBühne was built and supported by many hands, they are the true pillars of this wonderful structure.
