Nora Mahammed (Brussels, 1994) is the director of TheaterFestival Vlaanderen and a guest lecturer in cultural policy at the Erasmushogeschool Brussels for the Social Cultural Work program. She is an alumna of the Social Cultural Work program at Erasmushogeschool and holds a Master's degree in Cultural Agogics from the VUB. She worked as a program coordinator and coordinator of the Knowledge Hub at the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren, and also worked at Globe Aroma, where she developed participatory programming practices with the Art For All group.

In the social-artistic field, she co-coordinated the Beauty Verhalen Salon (FEMALE ECONOMY & Kaaitheater) & MUSLIM/HIPSTER (doyougetme.world). Nora is engaged as chair of the Cultural Council of the Flemish Community Commission and as a board member of Kunstenfestivaldesarts and the start-up MINT vzw. She serves on the ‘Literary Projects and Organizations’ committee of Literature Flanders and is also a freelance member of several juries, both artistic and recruitment-focused. Her previous board engagements include Kunstenpunt, Pilar, Globe Aroma, and RITCS.

Photo: Nisran

--- last updated: November 2024