FESTIVAL «BRUSSELS, LAND OF ASYLUM!» until

«BRUSSELS, LAND OF ASYLUM!» returns for its 5th committed and festive edition.

For three days, Espace Magh becomes a place for encounters, creation, and dialogue between people "from here and elsewhere."

The program includes shows, concerts, documentaries, activities, exhibitions, debates, games, workshops, and guided tours to celebrate the richness of multiculturalism and understand the realities of migration.

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Espace Magh
Rue du Poinçon 17, 1000 Bruxelles

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Festival Passes

Choose your festival pass and enjoy the full programme of Brussels, Terre d'Asile! A pass gives you access to all free and ticketed events. Activities with limited capacity must be reserved separately as add-ons.

Festival pass - 3 Days

Festival pass - 3 Days

Festival Pass (includes 8 workshops, 4 shows, 4 films, 1 conference, and 3 concerts!)

Your all-access pass to experience the entire festival over all 3 days!

Important: During checkout, select the events and activities you wish to participate in to confirm your spot, as some activities have limited capacity. Without this selection, your place cannot be guaranteed.

Outdoor tours and meals are not included in the pass but can be booked separately.

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Festival Day Pass – Saturday

Festival Day Pass – Saturday

Your access to the entire Saturday program — for a day that's both festive and thought-provoking!

🎯 Important: When paying, select the events and activities you wish to participate in to confirm your spot, as some activities have limited spaces. Without this selection, your place cannot be guaranteed.

This pass is valid on Saturday, April 25, 2026 only.

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Festival Day Pass – Sunday

Festival Day Pass – Sunday

Your access to the entire Sunday program — for a day of meaningful engagement, rich in human connection and solidarity!

🎯 Important: During checkout, select the events and activities you wish to participate in to confirm your spot, as some activities have limited spaces. Without this selection, your place cannot be guaranteed.

This pass is valid on Sunday, April 26, 2026 only.

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Interactive Conference - Saturday

An interactive conference about food solidarity towards transiting migrants

Cooking Conference

Cooking Conference

25.04.26/12:30-13:50: Conference-workshop with Annabelle Locks (Paris-Nanterre) on food solidarity for exiled people in Brussels and Calais. Between ethnography, ethical dilemmas, and political engagement, reflection blends with practice: during the conference, participants will join forces with the "Solidarity Kitchen Helpers" to prepare a soup or a salad that will be shared that same evening with the entire festival audience!

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Intercultural artistic workshops - Saturday

Discover artistic practices from elsewhere by learning how to practice them, and make wonderful intercultural encounters!

Dounadance

Dounadance

25.04.26/14h-15h50: A blend of songs, dances and meditations drawing on Mandinka and Eastern traditions — to reconnect with your body, rebuild self-confidence after trauma, and find inner peace.

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Stories of pebbles

Stories of pebbles

25.04.26/16h-17h: Pick up a stone. It might be small or heavy, smooth or sharp-edged — much like the things we carry. This writing and storytelling workshop uses stones as a starting point to explore what weighs us down, what makes it hard to move forward, the burdens we haul around without always finding the words for them. Together, we shape all of this into a shared story — one that is human, alive, and held in common.

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Psycho-flamenco

Psycho-flamenco

25.04.26 – 5–6 pm: Workshop led by Lorena Ayala Rocabado, who offers a non verbal approach to releasing deeply rooted emotions, enabling each person to listen to themselves, unlock their personal potential, and encourage others to do the same, while appreciating the unique qualities everyone carries.

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Thematic Workshops - Saturday

Thematic workshops exploring migration, exile and solidarity through discussion and reflection.

Face à l'exil

Face à l'exil

25.04.26/14h-15h50: An immersive role-playing game putting you in the shoes of a person in exile: build your identity, choose your escape route, face life in a reception centre, navigate the asylum procedure — and present your story before a mock CGRA hearing. A powerful, hands-on way to understand the realities faced by people seeking refuge in Belgium.

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Guided Tours - Saturday

Outdoor guided tours exploring Brussels through the lens of migration. Only available with passes including outdoor activities.

Guided tour Alter Brussels

Guided tour Alter Brussels

25.04.26-10h30-12h30: Let yourself be guided through the maze and alleyways of the city center by a "cultural ambassador" guide from the Maison des femmes de Molenbeek- Move asbl, trained by Alter Brussels, who will be happy to introduce you to the migratory, historical, economic, colonial history, as well as the folklore and anecdotes of this city that has become her own...

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Concerts & Show - Saturday

Musical performances and choral concerts celebrating voices from around the world.

The Choir of the Invisibles

The Choir of the Invisibles

25.04.26/19h15-20h15: The Chorale des Invisibles brings together some sixty undocumented women who draw strength, joy and solidarity from collective singing. Caught in the bureaucratic maze of asylum policy, denied recognition and often exploited, they nonetheless build bridges with Belgian society and demand their integration with one clear call: regularisation. Come and sing — and stand with them.

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In the heart of Brussels

In the heart of Brussels

25.04.26/20h30-21h30: Dance, song and spoken word: residents of the Bordet Reception Centre — asylum seekers, recent arrivals and long-time Brusselers — take the stage to share their dreams, hopes and connection to the city. Through the intercultural approach of Transe-en-Danse, they have learned to know and care for one another. A show as rich and beautiful as the people who make it.

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Heart of Brussels and The Choir of the Invisibles  — Combined Ticket

Heart of Brussels and The Choir of the Invisibles — Combined Ticket

26.04.26/18h30-21h: Get access to both In the Heart of Brussels and The Choir of the Invisibles at a special combined price — cheaper than buying them separately!
Two shows celebrating the voices, struggles and dreams of those who call Brussels home.
Two voices. One city. One ticket.

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Documentary Films - Saturday

Documentary films followed by exchanges with filmmakers and participants. Each film can be purchased individually.

Film 4 women in exile

Film 4 women in exile

25.04.26/16h-17h: Documentary by Yves Dorme (2026, 25'). Nina, Fatima, Ivanete and Roxana: four women in exile in Brussels, four stories of courage in the face of exploitation, precarity and bureaucratic obstacles. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's protagonists and a debate on Belgium's current asylum policy with Pauline Wautie from CIRE.

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Film The Journal of Ulysses

Film The Journal of Ulysses

25.04.26/17h-18h: During Covid, a group of newly arrived migrants in Ixelles comes together to write a collective journal. Jacques Borzykowski's documentary, made with the Ulysse Mental Health Service, follows their creative journey and shows how writing can become a space for encounter and rebuilding.

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Concerts & Show - Sunday

Musical performances and choral concerts celebrating voices from around the world.

Choir "The voice of travelers"

Choir "The voice of travelers"

26.04.26/18h30: "Voix de Voyageurs" is the intercultural choir of Centre Breughel, directed by Lucy Grauman. Born from encounters with asylum seekers, the group collects, arranges and gives new life to songs brought by its members from their home cultures and languages — letting music keep crossing borders.

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At the crossroads

At the crossroads

26.04.26/20h: Having met in Burkina Faso and France, Céline Verdier, Tata Tassala Bamouni and Soumaïla Zoungrana weave together storytelling, song and violin to share the tales gathered along their journeys. With three voices, they tell — with tenderness, power and humour — the great passages of life: dreams, departure, difference, exile, the final journey. Stories of people on the move, beings in transformation.

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Choir "Voix des voyageurs" and A la croisée des chemins — Combined Ticket

Choir "Voix des voyageurs" and A la croisée des chemins — Combined Ticket

26.04.26/18h30: Get access to both "Voix des voyageurs" and "At the Crossroads" at a special combined price — cheaper than buying them separately!
Two shows woven from song, storytelling and journeys across borders — celebrating the richness of cultures on the move.
Two voices. Many roads. One ticket.

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Intercultural artistic Workshops - Sunday

Discover and practice a diversity of artistic languages, and make wonderful intercultural encounters!

Songs and rhythms of the world

Songs and rhythms of the world

26.04.26/16h45-17h45: With Erik Aliana, dive into the polyphonies and polyrhythms of Cameroon and beyond. A workshop to bring voices, bodies and hearts together: singing in harmony, embracing diversity, and celebrating each person's unique sonic identity.

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Thematic Workshops - Sunday

Thematic workshops exploring migration, exile and solidarity through discussion and reflection.

Intercultural dialogue and life stories

Intercultural dialogue and life stories

26.04.26/15h-16h30: How do we connect deeply with strangers — people of different cultures, identities and beliefs? Through movement, song, drawing and deep listening. Come and share your own life path, the experiences that have shaped who you are — and let yourself be moved by those of others.

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Guided Tours - Sunday

Outdoor guided tours exploring Brussels through the lens of migration. Only available with passes including outdoor activities.

Intercultural treasure hunt

Intercultural treasure hunt

26.04.26/11h-13h: Put on your detective hat and explore the Marolles! This interactive guided tour traces the waves of migration that have shaped the neighbourhood, and dives into its history of struggle: resident mobilisations, community solidarity and popular resistance. A playful exploration of how migration and collective action built the unique soul of the Marolles.

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Documentary Films - Sunday

Documentary films followed by exchanges with filmmakers and participants. Each film can be purchased individually.

Film All these stories that tell us

Film All these stories that tell us

26.04.26/13h30-14h45: Martha, a puppet-character, wanders through Saint-Josse — a working-class, multicultural neighbourhood where over 150 nationalities coexist — in search of storytellers and the warmth that oral tradition can spark. A documentary that asks a simple but essential question: what happens when we stop telling our stories? The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director and film participants. (59')

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Film Fatima, a life of activism

Film Fatima, a life of activism

26.04.26/16h45-17h45: Fatima Maher arrived in Belgium nearly sixty years ago and, in the face of discrimination and hardship, went on to pursue her studies, nurture her talents and become a tireless advocate for social justice. Through her association «Bouillon de Culture» in Schaerbeek, she shaped her neighbourhood as a cultural animator, activist and social entrepreneur. A documentary by Mohammed Dabani tracing an exceptional life. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director and Fatima Maher. (47')

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Food & solidarity

Sharing a meal is also a political act. The activities in this category combine food and solidarity: shared soups, affordable meals, and proceeds going directly to migrants in transit. Come and eat — and feed something larger than yourself.

Canteen workers in solidarity

Canteen workers in solidarity

25.04.26/18h-19h15: Sharing a meal is also a political act. The activities in this category combine food and solidarity: shared soups, affordable meals, and proceeds going directly to migrants in transit. Come and eat — and feed something larger than yourself.

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