Description
**Screening of the film "LE CADEAU" followed by a round-table discussion: "How does little history meet big history? Diasporas, cultural circulation and the memory of migration, as seen by artists "**
Echoing the "Au-delà de toutes les mers" exhibition, co-conceived by Condition Publique and le Cube - independent art room (Rabat, Morocco). As part of the Mediterranean 2026 season organized by the Institut Français.
**16:00 | Club Alim - Screening of "LE CADEAU "**, a film by Myriam Van den Brande
**A film by Myriam Van Imschoot**
With the Brussels YouYou Group
Portraits by/with Anissa Rouas, Fatiha El Mrabet, Malika Mderreg, Sarah Léo
48? color, French, Arabic
Subtitles: French
Le Cadeau is a medium-length film revolving around the 4 portraits of Malika, Anissa, Fatiha and Sarah. Through songs, demonstrations and stories, they talk about their relationship with their voices, and more specifically with the 'youyou' or (in Arabic) 'les zaghareed', a trill that originated in African and Middle Eastern countries and is used by women to express joy or other intense emotions.
At first, the portraits seem unconnected, but gradually the lines appear and weave a web. We follow the paths of migration and diaspora, the lines of desire and revolt, and above all solidarity. Things conspire until a collective cry vibrates from the rooftops of Brussels to the city. A poetic declaration.
**17:00 | Club Alim - Round-table discussion: "How does little history meet big history? Diasporas, cultural circulation and the memory of migration, as seen by artists "**
Based on the themes developed in the film Le Cadeau and a selection of works from the group exhibition "Au delà de toutes les mers", we invite you to discuss the notion of cultural circulation as it relates to diasporas: how do singular stories and personal trajectories enable us to observe what is at stake in the collective displacement of populations and the cultural circulations they engender?
How does each artist transform fragmentary or absent traces, be they objects, landscapes, archives or testimonies, into sensitive, visible narratives, revealing the often silent memory of migration?
**With:**
Myriam Van Imschoot, artist, performer and director, member of the Youyou Group
Sarah Leò, Youyou Group member
Badr El Hammami, artist
Sarah Van Melick, artist
**Elisabeth Piskernik, co-founder and director of Cube ? Independent Art Room, Rabat, Morocco.
