For its 25th anniversary, BNA-BBOT is toasting Brussels, its stories, its people, its history and its future. For the occasion, artists and DJs will take over our audio archives and transform them into installations or dance sessions. Together, on June 14 at the beursschouwburg, let's make Brussels sound!

Programme du 14 juin au beursschouwburg

21h : SAGAT (live)
SAGAT est le nom de plume du compositeur bruxellois et bidouilleur électronique Wiet Lengeler. En 2024, il a créé une installation pour BNA-BBOT qui explore les liens entre l'enregistrement, l'archivage, la mémoire et l'imagination, la géologie des médias et les processus stochastiques par le biais du jeu, de la synthèse vidéo et de l'intelligence artificielle. À partir des archives sonores de BNA-BBOT, il a ainsi distillé une métaphore de la manière dont l'I.A. contemporaine traite les données. A l’occasion des 25 ans de BN-BBOT, il transforme cette œuvre en une version live 2.0. 

22h : Les Microsondes (dj)
Quand les archives sonores de BNA-BBOT se glissent sur les platines des Microsondes... À l'occasion de ce grand anniversaire, le collectif de podcasteuses transforme les récits qu'elles ont glanés ces dernières années en un DJ set un pEu bAvaRd : préparez-vous à vous enjailler aux sons des mots de Bruxelles. Ça va ksaar vanavond !

23h : Roberta Miss (dj)
Roberta Miss, alias Nur/se, naviguera à travers des univers sonores aussi divers que la techno, la bass music, la voix et le field recording. En explorant des dynamiques d’écoute et des territoires narratifs variés, elle puisera dans les enregistrements de manifestations et de luttes de la Brussels Sound Map de BNA-BBOT pour convoquer sur le dancefloor des chants, des bruits de foule, des slogans, des fanfares mais aussi des moments de tension et de solidarité.

00h : Rokia Bamba (dj)

Puisant dans les archives sonores de BNA-BBOT, ce DJ set vibrant fait pulser l’amour à travers les voix et bruits de Bruxelles. Une performance où chaque beat devient une déclaration, entre mémoire urbaine et émotion collective.

01h : Où est-ce pe n’este? (dj)

Où est-ce pe n’este? (pronounce 'Wespennest') is a Brussels-based dj-duo (Flor Verdegem & Omar Hobo) serving stingy mixes of où a t’èveur deille file l’aïque playing. Driven by a nonsensical question with no answer, they are on a never ending quest through the local/global underground, mainstream & everything in between. They enjoy adapting their sets to the mood of the occasion (be it at a pub, a poetry festival or a rave), but always keep it playful and eclectic.

17h-17h30, 18h30-19h, 20h-20h30 : SHADOW AND DUST (peau d'archive/langzaam licht) / Troubled Archives

There is a rumble in archive land. Photographs are emanating sounds. Do these vibrations have transformative power?

TROUBLED ARCHIVES invites Moise Ilunga to interpret the sounds of colonial photography and resilience.

17h-02h (non stop) : UN ANNIVERSAIRE POTENTIEL / BNA-BBOT

Cette installation présente une esquisse visuelle et auditive de Bruxelles au travers d’une sélection de témoignages, de souvenirs et de sons collectés dans le cadre du projet Bruxelles Nous Appartient-Brussel Behoort Ons Toe au cours de la période 1999-2025.

 13/06/'25, doors: 8 PM, start: 9 PM
 45 min
 Unspoken
 FREE, mail - info@bna-bbot.be

VOICE WITH NOISE is the result of director and composer Leon Rogissart's residency at BNA-BBOT.

What does a city that listens look like? How do voices and sound waves come together in an unpredictable dance? In VOICE WITH NOISE, Leon explores the space between sound and silence, between chaos and harmony. He blends urban sounds with the human voice in an encounter that is both intimate and overwhelming.

With our archive of 27,000 sound fragments - bells, footsteps, echoes of voices, past stories - Leon dives into the hidden resonances of the city. Each fragment is a story waiting to be heard again. Without a preconceived plan, he lets himself be touched by what he discovers, fusing these sounds with a newly written aria. The human voice responds, resists, embraces - creating a composition that adapts to the city itself.

With VOICE WITH NOISE, Leon invites the public to hear the city with new ears: the vibrations of a park mingling with a voice, the rhythm of the Buda Bridge entering into dialogue with an aria. This work is an invitation not only to listen, but also to feel - the city as a living being that speaks to us and inspires us.

On June 13, we will perform VOICE WITH NOISE with Belgian mezzo-soprano Esther Elisabeth Rispens, South African bass Rueben Mbonambi and Belgian tenor Timo Tembuyser.

Book your free spot by sending an email to info@bna-bbot.be

05.06 - 20:00 @BNA-BBOT, 119 Rue de Laeken 1000 Bruxelles

In this listening session, curator Maud Seuntjens invites us to gather around unprocessed sounds that were recorded in the neighbourhood Anneessens as part of processes of collective history-making  that took place within social and cultural organizations and the public space during collaborative workshops, assemblees and dwellings in the period 2013-2017. Initiated by the neighbourhood’s inhabitants, workers and BNA-BBOT, the sessions were organized  to un-remember pre-dominant narratives about the neighbourhood, and instead amplify its plural histories through moments of collective storytelling . Taking the shape of group conversations, workshop excercises, monologues, shared memories, and field-recording, the listening session wants to explore how we can atune to the multiple scales of these collective improvisations, deeply anchored in the cities landscape, transmitting narratives of migration, hospitality, grief, gentrification, gender,labour,..

Maud Seuntjens (she/they) is an independent sound art curator, writer, historian and artist, currently part of the curatorial team of Sonic Acts. From 2013-2017, she was active at BNA-BBOT initiating ‘Anneessens Palace’ and ‘Imaginary Neighbourhoods’.

This event takes place as part of 25 years BNA-BBOT.

04.06.25 - 20:00

A listening tour of Brussels cafés

Every last Sunday of the month, from 5.30PM to 6.30PM, we meet in a café in one of Brussels’ communes for a themed audio listening session: personal accounts, neighbourhood stories, anecdotes and imaginations for the city’s future… 1000 Brussels residents tell the story of their city and create more US.

Listening Tour #3: OLEGARIO, Willem Tellstraat 2, 1060 Sint-Gillis.

Theme: Football.

Free admission, 1 free drink.

Menstruositées, an exhibition that tells and presents the stories, things and practices associated with menstruation.

The Menstruositées exhibition project aims to respond to the lack of visibility of the phenomenon of menstruation and to restore menstruation to its rightful place in our lives and in the public arena. The exhibition features the stories and everyday experiences of menstruating people, helping to raise awareness and empower people to take action. The content on display is the result of encounters and personal accounts, workshops and discussions.

• The exhibition can be viewed in the window every day from 4 to 27 March.
• Free admission to the exhibition from 4 to 27 March, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm (times may vary depending on the presence of the BNA-BBOT team).
• Writing workshops: Based on their menstrual experiences and some fun writing instructions, participants are invited to imagine real menstruation-related words and their definitions. These are the words we need, to express the experience as it is, to make the invisible visible.

Workshop #1 on Thursday 13 from 12pm to 2pm
Workshop #2 on Thursday 13 from 6pm to 8pm

Free, register by sending an email to alice@luc-lab.com

For both workshops, you are welcome to bring your own lunch, with drinks provided.

• Guided tours in the presence of the Menstruositées team on Friday 14 from 6pm to 9pm + festive aperitif to celebrate the exhibition as part of Women's Rights Week.
• Finissage on Thursday 27 March from 6pm to 10pm

With the support of the City of Brussels, as part of the Women's Rights Week 2025 call for projects.