Come and (re)discover Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, at the Jewish Museum of Belgium with your family on Sunday, December 10, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
While parents are guided by exhibition director Bruno Benvindo through the Erwin Blumenfeld exhibition, children will enjoy a special Hanukkah craft workshop with our cultural mediator!
We’ll then light the fourth Hanukkah candle together, telling you the story of the Maccabim revolt and the miracle that took place in Jerusalem’s temple in the second century BC.
11 a.m. Guided tour and children’s workshop – with Barbara Cuglietta and Audrey Elbaum
12pm Candle-lighting ceremony, Hanukkah songs
12:30 traditional doughnut tasting
Admission: 12 euros / adult, free for children.
Registration by e-mail to events@mjb-jmb.org
Image : ארכיון השומר הצעיר יד יערי – Hashomer Hatzair Archives Yad Yaari
…and then there was EVE is a one woman performative concert, embodied by Jeanna Criscitiello stems from a larger artistic practice that explores feminism and identity. A multi-voiced anti-hero EVE’s inner and outer voice are unfiltered and contradictory and become acts of resistance towards oversimplification of the human experience.
… and then there was EVE performs a collection of EVE heroes from multiple perspectives through invited participants asked to name a personal heroine and identify an object — book, work of art, photograph, and so on — representative of that figure.
New narratives were created by mixing hard fact, intimate confession and the poetics of story-telling. Reinvention, metamorphosis and transmission are reoccurring themes that play a central role in the creation of a feminine archetype with multiple voices – EVE.
In the framework of the exhibition Four Sisters at The Jewish Museum of Belgium, Jeanna Criscitiello will perform a thirty minute selection of her EVE heroes with a highlight on Chantal Akerman’s, Jeanne Dielman. A detailed study of Dielman’s hand gestures that span the three hour opus has been condensed into a seven minute fragment performed on stage and set against an original music composition which is as repetitive and physically exhausting as the endless loop of mundane chores that lead to Dielman’s catastrophic unraveling.
Jeanna Criscitiello’s fascination with facts and fictions that become woven realities is the basis of this performance.
Program :
3:30 pm: Doors open
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: “Four Sisters” guided tour with Yann Chateigné Tytelmans
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Performance EVE
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Talk with Jeanna Criscitiello and Barbara Cuglietta
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Drink
Price: 10 euros (+ free admission to the “Four Sisters” exhibition)
Jeanna Criscitiello is an American performing artist living in Brussels, Belgium working with voice, music and sound while exploring text based compositions formulated through performance.
Tribute to the victims of the SamudaripenOn August 2, 2023, the Jewish Museum of Belgium will pay homage to the victims of the Samudaripen genocide by the Nazis of Roma/Manouches/Sintis/Travellers in Europe.
In collaboration with the ESMA-Carrefour des cultures association, the Jewish Museum of Belgium is organizing a commemoration event on the occasion of the “European Day of Remembrance of the Roma Genocide”, on Wednesday August 2, 2023 at 2:30 p.m. Two conferences will take place: Génocide des Roms : des sources du racisme au génocide nazi by Olivier Bonny (Esma-Carrefour des cultures) and a presentation of research and collection of testimonies and interviews in Eastern countries – by Costel Nastasie of Dignité Rom. The commemoration will be followed with a concert of Balkan Roma style music by Eleonora Mustafovska (singing), Simeon Atanasov (composition, accordion) and Muhi (keyboards) (40 minutes)
Program :
Reception from 2 p.m.
Lectures at 2:30 p.m.
Concert from 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Farewell drink
Free of charge, reservation required via edu@mjb-jmb.org with mention Commemoration August 2
The Jewish Museum of Belgium invites you to discover a short film directed by Sarah Lederman, which draws its inspiration from the work of filmmaker Chantal Akerman, one of the artists featured in the “Four Sisters” exhibition.
Les Racines de l’eau (synopsis) : Two women, one Ashkenazi Jew from Poland and one Sephardic Jew from Algeria meet in Brussels with the same quest: to find out what their Jewish identity means to them. Their biggest desire is to undergo the water ritual called Mikveh. But they are not welcome in a bath house, being neither married nor orthodox. Nonetheless, they try to claim their heritage on a road trip and own their Judaism.
Price: 10 euros (+ free admission to the “Four Sisters” exhibition)
free for students
Biography of Sarah Lederman : Sarah Lederman (1994) was born and raised in Brussels, Belgium. She is a film maker and studied both Documentary and Fiction at the The Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound (RITCS) in Brussels. She finished her Film MFA at Sint-Lucas Brussels with her short film ‘Les Racines de l’Eau’. At UK Jewish Film Festival 2022 she won the Best Short Film award.
‘Licht’, a children’s documentary for KETNET and VRT, which premiered at DOK LEIPZIG, recently won the Ensor for Best Short Film 2023. She just finished her fiction short film ‘Friday, 1st of July’. Both projects were subsidized by VAF.
She specializes in visual intimate stories through fine story telling, honest and pure with a considerate attention for detail. She has a great sensibility for capturing unfolding unique moments. Documentary and fiction film both fascinate her.
“Mirror effect: I am all this, piece by piece. I go out through every pore. I am crossed, invaded, dispossessed. And yet, in this thin skin, I grow, I am alive.” (Marianne Berenhaut)
In Private Collection / Vie Privée, choreographer/performer Ula Sickle invites the audience to explore the exhibition “Four Sisters” through the materiality of the Poupées-Poubelles – transparent nylon tights filled with textiles and everyday objects – made by artist Marianne Berenhaut.
In 1969, a fall of more than four metres left Marianne Berenhaut bedridden for over a year. The accident became an opportunity to question and reinvent her artistic practice: no longer able to engage in large-scale physical productions, it was with the Poupées-Poubelles that she returned to a production that resonated with the demands of feminist thought to which she was close.
For this performance, Ula Sickle invited Sabrina Seifried and Joëlle Laederach to develop a series of wearable pieces in natural latex, a mutable material known for its healing, protective and sensual properties.
The performer Katja Dreyer personifies the Poupées-Poubelles, which she embodies by wearing these clothing creations in a choreography developed by Ula Sickle.
Program :
3:30 p.m.: Doors open
4:00 pm : Start of the performance
16h30 – 17h30 : Talk with Yann Chataigné, Marianne Berenhaut and Ula Sickle (EN)
5:30 pm : Performance
18h00 : Drink
Price: 10 euros (+ free access to the “Four Sisters” exhibition)
Ula Sickle is a Canadian choreographer and performer, living and working in Brussels. From a background in contemporary dance, she works across disciplines, frequently drawing from contemporary music and the visual arts. In 2017-18 she was artist in residence at Ujazdowski Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and WIELS Arts Center in Brussels. She is currently a PHD researcher at KU Leuven and Luca School of Art. Her performances have been presented across Europe in festivals and venues including the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Actoral (Marseille), MACBA (Barcelona) and the Serralves Museum (Porto), among others. Ula is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Flemish Authorities.
It is common knowledge that war photography is a profession often dominated by men. Julia Pirotte however, like many women photographers, has also worked in war zones. The Polish photographer of Jewish origin, documented the resistance in Marseille during World War II, Jewish families in the internment camp of Bompard and the Kielce Pogrom. Throughout these conflict territories, women often had access to families and children, Julia in particular made it a point to render these moving portraits. Her images played a decisive role in shaping war imagery. By highlighting Julia Pirotte’s photographs and journey, Bruna Lo Biundo, Caroline François and Maja Wolny tell us the specificity of female gaze on war and show us that women are as much transmitters of images as witnesses of war atrocities. The conference will also explore how other women she met along the way have contributed to her work.
The conference will be held in FR/EN The speakers are : Maja Wolny, Bruna Lo Biundo, Caroline François Program : Opening of the doors 18:00 Beginning of the conference 18h30 Drink at 19h30/20h
With the support of the Polish Institute in Brussels
Maja Wolny (* 1976 in Kielce) is a Polish writer, curator of international exhibitions, doctor of humanities.From 1998 to 2002 she was a journalist for the Polish weekly newspaper “Polityka”. She lived for many years in Belgium, where she directed the Eastern European cultural center Post Viadrina in Ghent.In 2016, her novel “Black Leaves” was published in Poland about the life of the Polish-Belgian-Jewish photographer Julia Pirotte and the pogrom in Kielce. The book was translated into Dutch and published by the Bezige Bij with a recommendation by Griet Op de Beeck. “Black Leaves” was included in 2017 in the list of the best novels of 2017 according to the newspaper De Standaard.Maja Wolny has been living in Poland since 2016, in Kazimierz Dolny, where she is involved in the city’s Jewish past. In 2016 and 2017, she traveled alone to Siberia to gather material for her latest novel, “Powrót z Północy” (“The Return from the North”).In 2018, the jury of the Hercule Poirot Prize awarded her the Fred Braeckman Prize for her novel “De boekenmoordenaar”.
Bruna Lo Biundo holds a doctorate in literature and history of French culture. She is a specialist in the representation of women in French culture between the wars. Since 2007, she has worked as a researcher and curator of historical and documentary exhibitions in Paris. She has notably worked for the Mémorial de la Shoah, La contemporaine and Génériques. In 2018, she co-founded the association Past/Not Past which promotes research in the field of cultural heritage. As cultural project manager for Génériques (2013-2018), a center for research and valorization of immigration heritage, she worked on immigrant and refugee women in France in the 20th century and participated in various international conferences on this theme. It was in the context of this work that she discovered the work and fate of Julia Pirotte and her sister Mindla Diament.
Caroline François is a historian, responsible for the temporary and travelling exhibitions of the Shoah Memorial in Paris. She is also an exhibition curator and author of several articles on the question of women in the Shoah. As a lecturer, she regularly participates in the Shoah Memorial’s training program on the following topics: discrimination, gender issues and sexual violence in the context of the genocidal process. In 2016, She curated a temporary exhibition for the Shoah Memorial on women, mainly Jewish, in the French Resistance. Among them were Julia Pirotte and her sister Mindla Diament.
During the Nocturnes, the Jewish Museum will be more than ever a space for encounter and dialogue. In addition to its permanent exhibition on Jewish religion and culture, the museum hosts two temporary exhibitions. Four sisters combines the works of Chantal Akerman, Marianne Berenhaut, Sarah Kaliski and Julia Pirotte, all four women, artists, Jews, and custodians of a memory. 236. Land(es)capes of the 20th Convoy offers, through the photographs of Jo Struyven and the paintings of Luc Tuymans, an artistic look at an exceptional episode in the history of the Second World War. On April 19, 1943, thanks to resistance actions, 236 deportees managed to jump from the train that was taking them to Auschwitz.
WORKSHOP Want to discover Judaism? What rituals and practices are part of Jewish family life? In this workshop on Jewish cultures, the aim is to build bridges, to show the commonalities between cultures and their enriching differences. The workshop is for all audiences, regardless of their background and beliefs.
→ 18:00 (NL) / 19:30 (FR) – Limited places Please send an e-mail to edu@mjb-jmb.org with your name, the number of people you wish to register, the language of the activity and name of the activity.
WORKSHOP The last survivors of the Holocaust share their personal stories with you, documented by the Museum’s archives. A unique and exceptional opportunity to get to know someone who survived the Holocaust and who will explain why bearing witness is still necessary today.
→ 17:30 (FR) / 19:30 (FR) –Limited places Please send an e-mail to edu@mjb-jmb.org with your name, the number of people you wish to register, the language of the activity and name of the activity.
On March 19, 2023 at 5:00 pm, the Union des Etudiants Juifs de Belgique, the MerKaz and the Musée Juif de Belgique will have the pleasure of receiving sociologist Illana Weizman on the occasion of the publication of her latest book “Des blancs comme les autres?” dealing with the blind spot that the fight against antisemitism represents within the anti-racist world.
A panel of speakers from Jewish and anti-racist associations will follow IIlana Weizman’s presentation to discuss her book. We will publish their names on the event in the next few days.
It is a fact that in today’s Jewish communities, there is a prevailing feeling that the fight against antisemitism is the most overlooked aspect of anti-racist campaigns. The loneliness that those involved in the fight against antisemitism too often face or, quite simply, the frequent lack of understanding of the antisemitic phenomenon in anti-racist circles are all elements that reinforce this feeling.
Faced with this observation, the speakers and the audience will discuss several major questions: Why is antisemitism sidelined in anti-racist struggles? How can we rehabilitate the fight against antisemitism and the inclusion of this fight in the anti-racist movement? How can we renew the collaboration between activist organizations and Jewish communities?
This event will be in French.
La frontière entre réalité et fiction est souvent floue. Les institutions démocratiques sont sous pression et les charges de travail grandissantes laissent peu de temps à la réflexion et à l’action. Ces préoccupations semblent contemporaines, mais il y a plus de 50 ans, Hannah Arendt écrivait déjà abondamment sur ce sujet. Aujourd’hui, les idées d’Arendt ont encore gagné en importance, voilà pourquoi nous organisons cette série de conférences avec d’éminents experts de la pensée de cette grande philosophe. A travers ce cycle, nous nous concentrerons sur un thème à la fois actuel et intemporel, et, osons-le dire, arendtien: l’identité.
Qu’est-ce que l’identité ? En quoi est-elle si importante ? Au cours de ces conférences, à travers échanges et conversations, le travail et la vision d’Arendt seront analysés et étudiés. Nous verrons comment intégrer sa pensée dans notre réalité actuelle et essayer ainsi de mieux comprendre le concept d’identité, et la réflexion qui l’entoure.
Hannah Arendt Lecture 1
Quel enseignement Hannah Arendt nous apporte-t-elle sur l’identité ? Comment concevait-elle son identité propre? sa judéité ? le fait qu’elle soit femme ? mais aussi comment voyait-elle le concept au sens plus large d’identité ?
La femme proche de Heidegger voyait sans doute l’identité différemment de celle qui fuyait les persécutions durant la guerre, ou encore de celle qui relatait le procès Eichmann à Jérusalem. Nous tenterons de faire cette distinction, de voir comment sa pensée évolue à travers les événements qui ont ponctué sa vie.
Intervenants : Geert Van Eekert (N) et Martine Leibovici (F) Modération : Tinneke Beeckman (N/F)
Informations pratiques
Date et heure : Mardi 19 avril 2022 de 19h00 à 20h30, suivi d’une réception.
Lieu : Musée juif de Belgique, Rue des Minimes 21, 1000 Bruxelles Tramways : 92, 8 – Bus : 27, 48, 95 – Métro : Louise – Train : Bruxelles-Central
Entrée : 10 euros, gratuit pour les étudiants et les personnes à faibles revenus.
Langue : Les intervenants s’expriment dans leur langue maternelle. La conversation alterne entre le néerlandais et le français. Il n’y a pas d’interprétation simultanée.
Vous avez entre 12 et 15 ans ? Vous souhaitez découvrir différentes cultures et croyances à Bruxelles ? Alors cette visite est faite pour vous. Le Musée Juif de Belgique se trouve sur ce parcours le jeudi 12 août. Au programme : découverte de soi, initiation au judaïsme, discussion sur les stéréotypes et visite d’une synagogue. Inscrivez-vous sur le site de Axcent.
Tout comme Golem, les familles et leur bulle sociale sont les bienvenues au Musée pendant les vacances de Pâques. Tous les jours (du mardi au dimanche), de 13h à 17h, un.e de nos guides vous accueillera (30 minutes par bulles familiales) pour partager avec vous ses connaissances et répondre à toutes vos questions.
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