Over de rol van kunst in een globaliserende samenleving

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Cafe Congo

Gia Abrassart

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Gia Abrassart is an independent journalist and activist of decolonial culture. Her master’s degree in journalism focused on the invisibility of the African diasporas in the French-speaking media in Belgium (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB, 2010). In 2018, she opened Café Congo, a cultural Third Place at Studio CityGate (a post-industrial wasteland of 22 000 m2) dedicated to resistance, solidarity and multidisciplinary artistic creations. A third place for communities from African diasporas in Belgium and feminist & LGTB/Queer communities. It is therefore a circulation of artists, both racialized and queer, that vitalizes this spot.

In 2012, she co-founded the Warrior Poets collective in tribute to the masterful work of the African-American Poet Audre Lorde and co-directed, with Sarah Demart, the collective work ‘Créer en postcolonie 2010- 2015. Voix et dissidences belge-congolaises’ (Ed. Africalia/BOZAR, 2016). Her blog www.cafecongo.be also invites the public to rethink the Belgian-Congolese relations through artistic thought. Besides, Gia Abrassart is today also a member of the anti-racist women’s committee BAMKO-CRAN.


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Boekpresentatie: Being Imposed Upon
Een online gesprek met Gia Abrassart, Anne Wetsi Mpoma, onder leiding van Bambi Ceuppens

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