### LILLE-DUNKERQUE CHAPTER
Featuring a host of local, Belgian and French giants, the famous giant kutch and the percussive rhythms of Salamba and Gnawa musicians, the bal hybride (Saturday) will bring the public together in a universe at the crossroads of a village festival and a free party, carrying them into a trance similar to that of ancient rituals
_Petticoat Government_ is a choral work and the image of a collective body initiated by seven people, Sophie Boiron, Valentin Bollaert, Simona Denicolai, Pauline Fockedey, Pierre Huyghebaert, Antoinette Jattiot and Ivo Provoost, who together form this multi-disciplinary collective. At the crossroads of art, curatorial practices, architecture, graphic design, typography and cartography, the collective seizes the potential of the Venice Biennale in a horizontal, collaborative mode to produce a work whose outcome is already to be found in the experimentation of its method
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**ALL WEEKEND**
\[CINEMA ROOM] - Continuous screening of the Petticoat Government film presented in the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, accompanied by a composition by Moha Ezatvar, played by Salamba and re-designed by Senjan Jansen, and a second sound piece by Laszlo Umbreit, composed from recordings of Petticoat Government's journey to Venice in March 2024.
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**SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
\[ESPLANADE\] - 12h > 14h - Building giants by communities
\[DÉAMBULATION\] - 2pm > 4pm - Giant walk around the Saint Sauveur wasteland, starting from the esplanade
\[HALLE B\] - 16h > 19h - Grand bal des géant.es de Petticoat Government
In the Great Hall, this hybrid ball, somewhere between a village fete and trance dancing, opens to the rhythm of percussion (a fusion between Salamba percussionists and Gnawa musicians from Molenbeek - Brussels), and continues to the sound of the music that resounded in the installation of the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024 (a composition by Moha Ezatvar, played by Salamba and re-designed by Senjan Jansen), then to the electronic music of the dj-ettes from Dancing Petticoats - who had been invited.es for the Pavillon opening party in Venezia
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See them at the Frac Grand Large - Hauts-de-France in Dunkirk from November 08, 2025 to January 04, 2026
Further information at [fiestalille3000.com](https://fiestalille3000.com/exposition/petticoat-government/)
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**For more details**
Visit the Petticoat Government website / catalog: [petticoatgovernment.party](https://petticoatgovernment.party/)
Social networks @petticoatgovernment.party
Featuring a host of local, Belgian and French giants, the famous giant kutch and the percussive rhythms of Salamba and Gnawa musicians, the bal hybride (Saturday) will bring the public together in a universe at the crossroads of a village festival and a free party, carrying them into a trance similar to that of ancient rituals
_Petticoat Government_ is a choral work and the image of a collective body initiated by seven people, Sophie Boiron, Valentin Bollaert, Simona Denicolai, Pauline Fockedey, Pierre Huyghebaert, Antoinette Jattiot and Ivo Provoost, who together form this multi-disciplinary collective. At the crossroads of art, curatorial practices, architecture, graphic design, typography and cartography, the collective seizes the potential of the Venice Biennale in a horizontal, collaborative mode to produce a work whose outcome is already to be found in the experimentation of its method
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**ALL WEEKEND**
\[CINEMA ROOM] - Continuous screening of the Petticoat Government film presented in the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, accompanied by a composition by Moha Ezatvar, played by Salamba and re-designed by Senjan Jansen, and a second sound piece by Laszlo Umbreit, composed from recordings of Petticoat Government's journey to Venice in March 2024.
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**SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
\[ESPLANADE\] - 12h > 14h - Building giants by communities
\[DÉAMBULATION\] - 2pm > 4pm - Giant walk around the Saint Sauveur wasteland, starting from the esplanade
\[HALLE B\] - 16h > 19h - Grand bal des géant.es de Petticoat Government
In the Great Hall, this hybrid ball, somewhere between a village fete and trance dancing, opens to the rhythm of percussion (a fusion between Salamba percussionists and Gnawa musicians from Molenbeek - Brussels), and continues to the sound of the music that resounded in the installation of the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024 (a composition by Moha Ezatvar, played by Salamba and re-designed by Senjan Jansen), then to the electronic music of the dj-ettes from Dancing Petticoats - who had been invited.es for the Pavillon opening party in Venezia
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See them at the Frac Grand Large - Hauts-de-France in Dunkirk from November 08, 2025 to January 04, 2026
Further information at [fiestalille3000.com](https://fiestalille3000.com/exposition/petticoat-government/)
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**For more details**
Visit the Petticoat Government website / catalog: [petticoatgovernment.party](https://petticoatgovernment.party/)
Social networks @petticoatgovernment.party
