Anna Lindh Foundation

Festival Voix de Femmes

National Network

Belgium

Address

En Neuvice 46; 4000 Liège 4000 Liège Belgium

Country

Belgium

City

4000 Liège

Street address 2

En Neuvice 46; 4000 Liège

Mobile Phone

+32 497 12 06 70

Telephone

+32 4 223 18 27

Telephone (other)

+32 474 27 69 59

E-Mail

women.voices@skynet.be

E-Mail (2)

coordination@voixdefemmes.org

Year of Establishment

1991

Contact Person1

Brigitte Kaquet

Contact Person 2

Camille Lefèvre

Organisation Type

Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation

Fields of Activity

Arts

General Information

1. Asbl recognized by the French Community of Belgium. General meeting: 36 people. Board of directors: 6 people. Team: 2 people. Co-organizer: "Of a certain cheerfulness the Circus Various" asbl. 2. Convention CFB 2006-2009: 92 000 EUR /an APE (coprod Certain cheerfulness) 3. Research at DGCD, European Foundations, Equal opportunity, cities, provinces, areas, sponsors... 4. Festival Voice of Women (biennial): concerts, spectacles, exchanges, meetings, workshops, exposures, publications. 5. Of a certain cheerfulness, the Circus various; Het Zuiderpershuis; Festival of Liege; Philharmonic Room Liege; MAMAC-Liege; Flagey - Brussels; associative network.

Mission and Objectives

The organization of an international festival, in matter artistic, teaching, critical and multicultural which relates to the role, the expression and the identity of the women in the world. Creation, production and reception of female works concerning the fields of the music, the theatre, the dance, the writing and the visual arts, with a view to exchange and cultural diversity. The widening of the artistic platform to the whole of the civil company for a dialogue between the cultures through associations of women, the intellectual ones, the journalists and representing them of various cultures. The Festival is biennial. The seventh edition was held in November 2005.

Main Projects / Activities

The Festival Voice of Women, biennial, is a scene of arts and cultures. It relates to the music, the theatre, the dance and is interested in the alive cultures. During ten days, accomodated in residence, artists, musicians, playwrights, actresses, choreographers, director, plasticians... of various cultures are invited to take part in workshops and meetings, and to give concerts and spectacles. The topic of the "Cultures in resistance" falls under cultural diversity and the safeguard of the immaterial inheritance. Articulated with this topic also created for itself the "world Network of solidarity of the mothers, wives, sisters, girls, close to removed and missing people".