تشویش Tashweesh is a multidisciplinary cultural project spanning multiple cities, aiming to create new feminist alliances while providing a space for artistic practices and interdisciplinary research in the field of intersectional feminism in Southeast Asia, North Africa, and Europe.
Tashweesh is the Arabic word for rustling, hubbub, and murmur. Many voices come together in the unintelligible murmur of a crowd. Tashweesh festival, which travels between Brussels, Tunis, and Vienna, will hear these murmurs come closer before taking the stage.
Audiences, artists, and speakers from Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Europe join a global conversation to imagine a feminist and connected society spanning across seas and borders.
Through performances, conversations, reading groups, screenings, concerts, and club nights, we seek common ground beyond perceived cultural boundaries. We talk about stereotypes, queer and trans utopias, gender, bodies, public space, activist strategies, and feminist revolutions.
The project builds upon the experience of Tashweesh (2018), a multidisciplinary arts festival inviting artists, activists, thinkers on feminism which took place in Brussels and Cairo (with satellite programmes in Beirut and Tunis) and is co-funded by Creative Europe and carried out by Beursschouwburg (Belgium), Tanzquartier Wien (Austria), Goethe-Institut Brüssel (Belgium) and L’Art Rue (Tunisia).
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