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*Official*
Opening ceremony and reception
17h00-17h30 Start Registration - Entrance Hall AULA Complex, Volderstraat 9 (9000) Gent
17h30-17h50 Conference opening on behalf of the HRRN, by dr. Giselle Corradi, Coordinator HRRN, prof. dr. Ellen Desmet & prof. dr. Tine Destrooper, Co-Chairs HRRN.
17h50-18h00 Welcome by prof. dr. Mieke Van Herreweghe, Vicerector.
18h00-18h15 ‘Human Rights are the Cornerstone of our Democracy’, Keynote Speech by the Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo
18h15-19h00 ‘Taking off our blinders: we really do not all see human rights in the same way!’, Keynote Speech by prof. dr. Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Ghent University.
19h00-20h00 Reception
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AULA Complex, Volderstraat 9 (9000) Gent
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06-12-2023 17:00 - 20:00
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0.00
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4
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*Official*
Plenary session 2: Theater play ‘The Nearest Beach’ - De Centrale, Turbinezaal, Kraankindersstraat 2, Ghent
A day at a beach. A wooden bench at a bus stop. Several beach visitors return home after a hot day. While waiting for the next bus, they tell each other stories about their day at the beach. Their light and fun conversations seem to revolve around sun, sea, and love. Yet, silent, against the backdrop of the shore, another discussion looms in the room.
This bus stop is the starting point of the performance “The Nearest Beach”, the culmination of a participatory theatre project with nine Ukrainian students. For several months in 2023, nine Ukrainian students met weekly in a rehearsal space in Belgium. Supported by a team of theatre makers, one Belgian and one Ukrainian, the students collaborated to create scenes, images and texts - aware of the past, set in the present with a glance at the future.
In English and Ukrainian language
a performance created and performed by Dariia Blyznyuk, Karyna Bredun, Tetyana Dytyna, Anton Hebdovskyi, Svitlana Karmazyn, Anhelina Kovach, Anastasiia Kovalenko, Mariana Myrosh, Marharyta Shamshurina
direction Nele Vereecken & Roza Sarkisian research and dramaturgy Sofie de Smet direction-assistance Yulia Ostrohliad intern play & direction Lina Ghys
19h45 – 20h00: Doors open
20h00 – 21h00: Performance ‘The Nearest Beach’
21h00 – 21h30: Interview and Q&A by Eva Brems with the directors, dramaturge and the actors
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Cultural Centre ‘De Centrale’, Kraankindersstraat 2 (9000) Gent
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07-12-2023 19:45 - 21:30
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0.00
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97
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*Goodbye event*
Documentary screening: ‘De Jongens van Vila Cruzeiro' (60‘ - English subtitles) - with panel discussion
On the sense and nonsense of the 'War on Drugs' in Rio de Janeiro
Vila Cruzeiro is one of Rio de Janeiro's most notorious slums. People there live in poverty amid a drug war. After far-right president Jair Bolsonaro took office, shootings between police and traffickers are much more frequent. Violence in neighbourhoods is only increasing. Children are the biggest victims of this. Fabienne Haerinck and Roel Nollet portray the neighbourhood through the eyes of the children who live there and examine the sense and nonsense of the 'War on Drugs'.
'The boys of Vila Cruzeiro' is a haunting portrait of people who barely get a chance to tell their stories. It is impossible for most journalists to enter the neighbourhoods. In Flanders too, a war on drugs is being waged - on a smaller scale. In this film, the makers examine where such a thorough policy can lead and what we can learn from it.
After the film, we will have a discussion with a panel about the themes raised in the documentary, but applied to the European, Flemish and Ghent context.
The documentary is a production of international journalist collective 'The Redhorse Collective' and was made with the support of the Pascal Decroos Fund for Special Journalism, Equator vzw and the Belgian Development Cooperation.
This event is a collaboration between Stad Gent, Oxfam Wereldwinkel Gent, UGent Human Rights Research Network (HRRN) en Avansa regio Gent.
Trailer: https://www.redhorse.tv/vila-cruzeiro-project-page
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Sphinx Cinema, Sint-Michielshelling 3, Ghent
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08-12-2023 20:00 - 22:00
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0.00
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18
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