Festival Voix de Femmes

National Network
Belgium
Address

En Neuvice 46; 4000 Liège
4000 Liège
Belgium

Telephone
+32 4 223 18 27
Fax
+32 4 223 21 26
E-Mail
women.voices@skynet.be
E-Mail (2)
coordination@voixdefemmes.org
Mobile Phone
+32 497 12 06 70
Mobile Phone (other)
+32 474 27 69 59
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1991
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Gender
  3. International/Cultural relations
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".

Contact (1) Full Name
Brigitte Kaquet
Head of the organisation
Brigitte Kaquet
Contact (2) Full Name
Camille Lefèvre