#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#28: Make Contracts.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#54: What about disabled artists?|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#53: Immaterial support for artists is important.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#111: Do it together.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#28: Make Contracts.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#54: What about disabled artists?|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#53: Immaterial support for artists is important.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#111: Do it together.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|
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16.11.2021 19:00

Physical open meeting

Pay what you can

Open Meeting:
Engagement Gent

ENGAGEMENT GHENT

# PHYSICAL Open Meeting GHENT
Tuesday 16 November 19.00 - 21.00

At Kunsthal Gent, Lange Steenstraat 14, 9000 Gent

Engagement Gent hosts another meeting to discuss, share and document sexism, racism, (sexual) harassment and power abuse within the arts field in Gent.

To join the meeting, please sign up by sending an email to contact@engagementarts.be. To assure a space of trust, we ask you to arrive on time. Thank you for your understanding.

We want to be careful and to make everyone feel safe. Therefore we will limit the amount of people and we kindly ask you not to join if you have any covid-symptoms. Always welcome in the online meeting!

ENGAGEMENT

ENGAGEMENT is an artist-led movement tackling sexual harassment, sexism and abuse of power in the Belgian arts field.

The movement was formed in the wake of #MeToo (2017) after countless instances of sexual harassment came to light in the Belgian dance community. Since then, ENGAGEMENT has transformed into an organised platform active across all artistic disciplines, doing work in the professional as well as the educational sphere.

As a low-threshold, peer-to-peer initiative, ENGAGEMENT offers support to individuals and communities facing transgressive behaviour, discrimination and/or unfair practices in the arts. We are continuously in conversation with organisations wanting to create safer and more inclusive working environments.

ENGAGEMENT has also taken an active role in the initiative against harassment launched by the Flemish Department of Culture, Youth and Media in 2018.

In our work, we approach sexual harassment and gender-based violence through the lens of intersectional feminism. ENGAGEMENT stands in solidarity with everyone fighting sexism, racism, ableism, and discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and expression.

FOR ALL ENGAGEMENT EVENTS, CHECK OUT THE FB-PAGE and ONLINE AGENDA

You can sign the statement here.

ENGAGEMENT