INVISIBLE VOICES: What do women want heard?

With the focus programme Invisible Voices, part of the new artistic line #artsandcare, NTGent opens up space for encounters with female voices that often go unheard. From a performance with young girls with anorexia to a play based on the stories of what the menopause does to a woman and her body. Each time, experts by experience join the stage. What do these women want heard?

Invisible Voices  is a celebration in various forms. An invitation to look beyond the conventions of theatre to find space for new perspectives, and time to heal and experience.

The programme includes four guest performances and a day of reflection:

♀️ The Omen  by Alexendra Broeder, a theatrical manifesto on the social and spiritual significance of anorexia (28 & 29 March)

♀️ My Body as a Commodity  by Anne-Laure Vandeputte,a festive liberation ritual for the female body, source of pleasure and trauma (1 & 2 April)

♀️ When the Bleeding Stops...  by Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, according to British newspaper The Guardian (****) ‘a play that makes life meaningful, about how much we still don't know and don't talk about menopause’ (4 & 5 April)

♀️ How To Be Many Mothers, a day of performances, workshops and lectures that breaks the stereotypical image of what a mother is, and what mothering is (5 April)

♀️ Voice Noise  by Jan Martens, a noisy and virtuoso ode to the versatile female voice (11 & 12 April)