ENACT Festival 2026 — Performing Research

OPENING EVENING

Wednesday, November 18, 17:00-21:30
Small auditorium (C-3.17) + bridge + cafeteria @ LUCA School of Arts, Schaarbeek

Doors at 17:00. Claim a seat in the small auditorium and settle in.
Wendy Morris & Kersti Grunditz Brennan kick things off around 17:30.
Sher Doruff takes the floor as ENACT 2026 master of ceremonies.
Performances by Guy Livingston and Mariske Broeckmeyer.
From 18:45 onwards, drinks and substantive snacks on the bridge.
Then we spill in to the cafeteria. Anna-Sophie Springer, ENACT 2025 writer-in-residence, shares her findings.
Carmine Grimaldi picks up the baton as archivist-in-residence of ENACT 2026.
Grief song performed by Maya al Khaldi.
We linger. Meet the performers, meet each other.
Out by 21:30.

LIVE/MEDIA DAY curated by Kersti Grunditz Brennan

Thursday, November 19, 09:30-16:30
B-2.13 @ LUCA School of Arts, Schaarbeek

Coffee, croissants, and chatter from 09:30 onwards.
Room B-2.13 opens at 10:00; everyone spills into the 'Space of Not Knowing'.
We stay there with Nico Boon, Katja Dreyer & Lisette Olsthoorn for 45 minutes.
Before Jon Stam & Castélie Yalombo take the floor more coffee is served. Vegetarian lunch at 12:45.
Performances by Sophia Kesting and Christian Hanssen, followed by a break with refreshments.
Christina Stuhlberger's performed research session 'On How to Say No'.
At 16:00, master of ceremonies Sher Doruff wraps up the second day of ENACT.

For LUCA’s doctoral researchers, the day continues with the PhD Forum, bringing them together to meet each other, exchange experiences, opportunities and shared concerns. Over dinner, new colleagues are welcomed, the new PhD representatives are introduced to gather questions and proposals for them to bring to LUCA’s doctoral and research committee.

LONG LUNCH DAY curated by Wendy Morris & Fiona Hallinan

Friday, November 20, 11:00-17:00
A-1.01 & A-1.02 @ LUCA School of Arts, Schaarbeek

Sher Doruff hosts the Long Lunch, both long in duration (11:00-15:00) and set at a long table.
Participating performers: Teresa Barbagallo; Nico Boon; Francesca Hawker; Paul Nieboer, Stijn Van Dorpe, Ciel Grommen, Fiona Hallinan, Ziya Lemin, Dragana Radanovic, Roel Kerkhofs & Nancy Vansieleghem.
After dismantling the table together, the space is ready for Juan Duque's 'Ecologies of Attention' workshop (15:00-17:00).

SOUNDS FROM BELOW

Saturday, November 21, 11:00-18:30
Atelier de l’enjoliveur + La Maison des Arts, Schaarbeek

Roel Kerkhofs (Atelier de l’enjoliveur) invites us to a walking tour and prepares street food starting at 11:00.
At 14:00, we reconvene at La Maison des Arts for a Listening Session of TRANSMIT, vol. III by Annelies Monseré.
At 15:15, coffee break at L'Estaminet.
Awkward Re-Enactment/Performed Fabulation is followed by 'The Coozening Age, OR, Many a sorrowfull sigh I fetch: A Ballad Workshop' by Annelies Monseré, Arianne Churchman and Benedict Drew.
Round up of ENACT 2026 with the master of ceremonies over dinner from 17:30.