Concept:

“When The Moon Waxed Red - Experiments with truth and reconciliation” is an art project by artists working together with single under-aged asylum-seekers through FEDASIL refugee centers in Belgium. It is an experiment with the truth, justice and reconciliation in the current global situation.


Performance: When the moon waxed red - Experiments with truth and reconciliation no.2

Act 1: A world at play

Scene 1: Nowhere to run
Scene 2: Walking through the clouds and crossing the fire
Scene 3: Moving shadows
Scene 4: Stations of crossing

Act 2: Dislocated and lost

Scene 1: All rain was dust
Scene 2: Global suicide-how many babies are loaded?
Scene 3: Children who cannot cry
Scene 4: The blanket of experience
Scene 5: Walking on the wounds
Scene 6: Dancing with the missing

Act 3: Distance runners – outsiders are inside

Scene 1: Are we connected and being together?
Scene 2: Cloud on cloud
Scene 3: The shadow of fears
Scene 4: The sun is theirs and the river of no return
Scene 5: She counts all her children as a shield against the pain
Scene 6: The ethical cement of collective life
Scene 7: The concept of re-silence

Act 4: Wind talkers

Scene 1: What can be asked
Scene 2: Humanism after the death of man
Scene 3: Bath public
Scene 4: Humiliated multitude
Scene 5: Between remembering and forgetting
Scene 6: Between the truth and reconciliation

Act 5: Crystal hopes

Scene 1: The birth of new in the darkness
Scene 2: I am a child again
Scene 3: Innate
Scene 4: The forces of life
Scene 5: A zone of differentiation
Scene 6: A polished universal dream


Co-operations:

Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap
'FEDASIL Klein Kasteeltje’ refugee center
‘FEDASIL kapellen’ refugee center
‘FEDASIL Broechem’ refugee center
Kaai theater
Idé
De Coker Document Facilities
Intersticker
Foto Grobet

Project assistant: Eddy Gabriel (B)
Director of FEDASIL Kapellen refugee center: Joan Ramaeckers (B)
Collaborator at FEDASIL Kapellen refugee center: Rudi de Bleser (B)
Coach of AMAS team at FEDASIL Kapellen; Steven Smits (B)
Technician of theatre at FEDASIL Kapellen: Michel Huybrechts (B)
Collaborator at Universal Embassy: Tristan Wibault (B)
Collaborator at FEDASIL Broechem: Fons Brepoels (B)
Collaborator at FEDASIL Klein Kasteeltje: Fabienne Bourgonjon (B)
Collaborator at FEDASIL Klein Kasteeltje: Franck Timbal (B)

Music composer of the video: Eddy Gabriel (B)
Filming and video editing: Shanglie Zhou (B)
Concept of the performance: Shanglie Zhou (B)

Performers from FEDASIL:

Roger Te-eh (Cameroon)
Bilor Barry (Liberia)
Boubacar Diallo (Guineé)
Irene Rafi Minassey Lawson (Togo)
Nasir Ahmadi (Afghanistan)
Therna Condé (Guineé)
Alexandra Mulumba Bitota (Congo)
Fatou Soumahoro (Côte d’Ivoire)
Khazem Shakuri (Iran)
Raphiou Balde (Guineé)
Sekander Abdurahman (Afghanistan)
Nazir Ahmad (Afghanistan)

Stage lights: Eddy Gabriel (B)
Stage technician: Michel Huybrechts (B)
Stage sound: Michel Huybrecht (B)
Stage setting: Shanglie Zhou (B) Eddy Gabriel (B)
Stage photographer: Jiang Jia Sheng (CH)
Stage filming: Shanglie Zhou (B) Jo De Visch (B) Thomas Thys (B)
Performers’ costume: Patries Wichers (NL) Shanglie Zhou (B)
Poster, folder and DVD cover designer: Eddy Gabriel (B)
Rehearsal assistants: Steven Smits (B) Eddy Gabriel (B) Michel Huybrecht (B) Jiang Jia Sheng (CH)
Rehearsals’ filming: Shanglie Zhou (B)
Poster distribution: Eddy Gabriel (B) Shanglie Zhou (B)

Thanks to: The minister of culture of the Flemish Community, FEDASIL, Rudi De Bleser, Steven Smits, Michel Huybrechts, Eddy Gabriel, Tristan Wibault, Alexandra Dementieva, Fons Brepoels, Fabienne Bourgonjon, Franck Timbal, Patries Wichers, Jiang Jia Sheng, Thomas Thys, Jo De Visch, Foto Grobet, Idé, De Coker Document Facilities, Intersticker, Vidi-Square, Portus Broechem, Universal Embassy, FEDASIL Kapellen, FEDASIL Klein Kasteeltje, Kaaitheater ...