NTTent DAY 4

Meet Alva Ishii

🎪 Installation
🎪 Free
🎪 Entrance hall Schouwburg (continuous)

Come meet Alva Ishii: a promising artist you’ve probably never heard of. Don’t worry, Alva is totally new to the scene. NTGent is developing a fully digital house artist who will give interviews, create plays and join the artistic board.

Alva Ishii's development is an exploration of new technologies on stage. An example of radical imagination, NTGent's new leitmotif, which at the same time forces to question new technologies. What does AI do to us? What critical questions are we not asking? And why do we leave the development of AI to entrepreneurs

One Day I Will Make The Onion Cry - Beyond the Spoken / Barbara Raes & Victoria Deluxe (from 9am)

🎪 Ritual & Installation
🎪 De Expeditie
🔥 PREMIERE 🔥

An installation that collects and archives tears. Because grief is forgotten too quickly. In One Day I Will Make the Onion Cry, Barbara Raes integrates her private practice into the theatre for the first time. Together with visual artist Manu Siebens, she creates a poetic landscape in which the connection between the overproduction of onions, solastalgia (a nostalgic feeling for what is about to get lost) and interpreting our tears becomes tangible.

During the day, you can experience a one-on-one ritual of Beyond the Spoken. In the evening, the installation is open to the public,. Hall De Expeditie (Dok Noord) becomes a place where one can embrace grief for what will one day disappear.

Zet U - Par Hasard (10am)

🎪 Performance 
🎪 Free after reservation 
🎪 Inside the tent

Par Hasard has been cruising through the world of podcasts for some time now. In six episodes, the collective gets to know people whose lives are marked by empathy: a fireman, an actor, a person in poverty,... Zet U  during NTTent is a theatrical morning of conversations about the elasticity of empathy based on excerpts from the podcast. Combined with live music by Ghent artist Simon Raman and an intervention by arts venue Manoeuvre.

Wie Oud Wordt... - Yves Degryse & Bart Baele / BERLIN (10:30am)

🎪Installation
🎪5 - 15 euros (pwyc)
🎪De Foyer (Schouwburg)

In Wie oud wordt... [Those who grow old... ], the audience takes part in an information meeting of the Association for the Rejuvenation of the European Continent. The board hopes to spread its ideas. An intense listening experience under the motto ‘Those who grow old have themselves to blame’. Or as Dutch leading newspaper NRC Handelsblad puts it: "In barely ten minutes, BERLIN creates a wonderful tragicomedy around old age."

125 years of KNS: Get to know the unique history of NTGent (11am, 2pm)

🎪 Guided tour
🎪 Free after reservation
🎪 Main Hall (Schouwburg)

Book your place for the tour at 11am
Book your place for the tour at 2pm

The KNS, the Royal National Theatre of Ghent, is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. Get to know the unique history of the building in the middle of the city centre during a guided tour.

The indefinite city - NTGent & Tomat / Ligo (12am)

🎪 Lunch and conversation
🎪 Free
🎪 In the tent and on Sint-Baafs square

Come cook together, have a delicious dinner and imagine the future of the NTTent together with the students of Ligo, Centre for Basic Education in the Rabot neighbourhood. Ligo launched the extraordinary Tomat project, which combines Dutch language lessons with vegetable gardening and preparing meals with self-grown products. The students thus share their wealth of knowledge and skills, memories and stories. Among others with the elderly in Sint-Antoniushof, where the class transformed an unsightly wasteland into a place that nourishes, strengthens and connects.

This groundwork is the inspiration to engage in conversation about similar public places in our city: undefined, often nameless spaces, frayed edges of the urban fabric, seemingly without function or meaning. But if we look more attentively, we can unearth unsuspected layers of meaning in these very places and discover special stories that deserve to be told loudly.