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For Brussels artists, art workers and bottom-up initiatives run by artists, architects, independent curators or other cultural practitioners. The BARN Core Team facilitates connections in this ecosystem, focusing on sharing information and knowledge, community building, research, and advocacy.

Brussels Artist-Run newsletter

The BARN Core Team sends out monthly newsletter that highlights public moments as well as non-event announcements by the broader network. It’s a compilation of the news in the shared agenda of this website, plus non-event announcements. There is a separate section for news and announcements by the BARN Core Team. Sign up here

Brussels Artist-Run Telegram group

Want to be part of the Telegram group? Here’s a link. This is a community platform with 24 thematic ’topics’ (events, space for work, space to live, materials shops & tools, jobs, protest, etc). There are almost 3000 users now, and it’s growing rapidly.

Work in progress

This website is still in development. Please note that this is a bottom-up initiative with very limited funding. If there are mistakes, please bear with us :) Would you like to contribute? Let us know by writing us an email on contact@brusselsartistrun.net

We´re looking for new BARN Core Team members

It would be nice to have some new vibes and new energies. Would you be interested? Being part of the BARN Core Team means...read more here

Have fun, on behalf of the ‘BARN Core Team’, Esth (Level Five), Mariana (Level Five), Jesse (Jubilee, Becue), Milan (Domesticity, Gilbard), Eszter (Artist Commons), Lars-Herman. Please join us if you like!

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PIKNIK PROTEST ELEKTRONIK
Saturday 26/09, 16:00 - 20:00h
At: Place Poelaert
Poelaertplein

For our 5th edition, we’re doing what we know best: gathering, sharing music, food, ideas and energy, while making our voices heard.
Music will be ON. Bring your picnic.
Come as you are, bring something to share, and most importantly, share your stories, your experiences and your ideas with us.
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This is our other way to protest.

This is not about being against other organisations, artists or events. It is about the way public space and cultural opportunities are being distributed, and about the progressive disappearance of independent initiatives from the ecosystem we helped build. Stop The Dangerous Monopoly.

WHEN CAUSES BECOME COMMUNICATION TOOLS 

We also want to question the growing use of pink feminism, safe-care narratives and association washing as communication tools. Feminism, safer spaces, inclusion and care are essential values. They should never become a shield against legitimate questions about access to public resources, programming power or conflicts of interest. Supporting these causes does not automatically make an organisation transparent, fair or independent. Real care also means accountability. Real feminism also means questioning power. Real inclusion also means leaving space for others. We believe these values deserve better than being used as branding.

#StopDangerousMonopoly
#ConflictOfInterest
#AssociationWashing
#AgainstMainstreamInvasion

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Next 7 days:


Thursday 24/09





Friday 25/09



Saturday 26/09